Past Exhibitions

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art opened to the public in January 2002. It is named for collector and benefactor Harold F. Daum, MD, and contains 9 galleries devoted to the exhibition of art created since the mid-20th century. At its founding, the permanent collection comprised 300 artworks collected by Dr. Daum. Today, the collection includes …

Taiwanese ceramist Ah Leon (b. 1953) is internationally celebrated for his masterful transformation of clay into fool-the-eye replicas of tree trunks, branches, and other objects made of weathered wood. He is best known for a 70-foot-long installation of a realistic “wooden” bridge inspired by examples found in rural Taiwan. Ah Leon’s rendering of the texture, …

Artists have long used the serial format in order to maintain a sustained investigation of a particular subject over time. The goal might be to unfold a complex narrative, extrapolate compositional relationships, or describe a conceptual activity. Art in series presents the opportunity to engage in active looking: to compare, contrast, and make connections. Among …