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Current Exhibitions

Cameo Performances: Masterpieces of Cameo Glass from the Chrysler’s Collection
Now through July 1, 2010
Highlighting the skills of master carvers and their sources of inspiration, Cameo Performances explores the history of cameo glass carving beginning with ancient Roman examples, focusing on the popular technique’s resurgence in England during the late 19th century.

Photography at the Chrysler: Recent Acquisitions
A selection of the most exciting historical and contemporary photographs added to the Museum’s collection in recent years. Artists represented include Berenice Abbott, August Sander, William Christenberry, and the Argentinean photographer, res.

Moses Myers, Maritime Merchant
Ongoing at the Moses Myers House
Supported by a generous gift from Mr. T. Parker Host, this permanent exhibition explores the business of maritime commerce through the life of Moses Myers.

Landscape Photographs by Eliot Porter
Now through April 4, 2010
Continuing our downstairs series highlighting great photography from the Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition focuses on the striking color landscapes and nature images of Eliot Porter (1901–1990).

The artist, chemist, physician, and naturalist was among the first adopt the newly developed dye transfer process. Beginning in 1939 Porter literally created a new way of presenting nature. His large-format prints in our Kaufman Theatre Lobby combine precise observation with rich and resonant color.

Action Painting in the Chrysler
Now through April 11, 2010 in the Waitzer Community Gallery
Experience the spontaneity and pure optical pleasure of paint dripped, flung, stroked, and slashed across large canvases by nine masters of gestural technique. Inspired by Freudian psychology and the actual process of creating art, Action Painting helped birth Abstract Expressionism and dominated progressive American painting well into the 1960s. As an enthusiastic collector, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. purchased many of these works directly from artists he befriended. This exhibition, drawn from our own vast storage vaults, complements his purchases of works by better-known contemporaries— Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline—which are regularly on display in our McKinnon Galleries of Modern Art.

Barton Myers: Norfolk Visionary
Ongoing at the Moses Myers House
Mayor Barton Myers transformed his city from a prosperous coastal town into a thriving modern metropolis. Thanks to a generous gift from T. Parker Host, the Moses Myers House honors this “first citizen of Norfolk” with a display of objects and images highlighting his extraordinary life.

Fifty Years Later: The Lessons of Massive Resistance
Ongoing at the Norfolk History Museum at the Willoughby-Baylor House
Held over from the Museum’s full exhibition last winter, this multimedia timeline highlights the desegregation of Norfolk’s public schools through the photographs, documents, and clippings of the people and places that forever changed public education in Norfolk.

 

Upcoming Exhibitions

Finalists from the Hampton Roads Student Gallery
Presented by The Art Institute of Virginia Beach
February 10–28, 2010
The Hampton Roads Student Gallery returns for a 37th year thanks to a community-wide effort to continue this longstanding tradition for high school artists. Joining the Chrysler Museum and the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia as sponsors for the first time are the d’Art Center, Norfolk Cultural Affairs, and the Chrysler Museum’s Docent Council. The generous support of The Art Institute of Virginia Beach makes presentation of this year’s Gallery possible.

Students in 11th and 12th grades from across the region will be invited to submit one work of art on Saturday, February 6 at the Selden Arcade in downtown Norfolk. That same day, judges will select the finalists for exhibition at the Chrysler Museum and honorable mentions for display at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia from February 10–28. And for the first time, the artwork of all participants will be displayed for two weeks, through February 20, at the Selden Arcade.

For more information, see Hampton Roads Student Gallery on Facebook. For art submission forms and a prospectus, click here.