Unboxed: Art beyond the Museum
Overview
This group exhibition launches the NCMA Winston-Salem downtown art space by bringing together artists who have contributed to the Museum’s Portable Gallery.
The North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem is pleased to announce Unboxed: Art beyond the Museum, the inaugural exhibition at our new art space in downtown Winston-Salem. An opening reception will be held Thursday, July 16 from 6pm to 8pm, with remarks at 6:30pm and a member preview from 5pm to 6pm. Registration is open.
Unboxed: Art beyond the Museum launches the NCMA Winston-Salem downtown art space by bringing together artists who have contributed to the Museum’s Portable Gallery. Developed as an education outreach initiative, the Portable Gallery provides students access to contemporary art by bringing original works by North Carolina artists directly into schools. Last year, more than 2,000 students across regional school districts experienced the Portable Gallery.
Unboxed presents artists at different career stages, each concerned with place, identity, and imagination. Some have come to North Carolina recently; others have made homes here for much of their lives. Their works reflect a range of subjects, materials, and techniques as diverse as North Carolina itself.
The Portable Gallery reimagines what a museum is and what it can do for its community. With every classroom visit, it reaffirms the importance of presence, representation, and exploration in the lives of students. We open our new art space with works from the artists who have made the Portable Gallery possible because we believe this new endeavor is born of the same idea: that everyone deserves access to great art.
Exhibiting artists include Nico Amortegui, Kevin Calhoun, Emily Clare, Owens Daniels, Ellen Heck, Eric Knoche, Andrew Mastriani, Caroline Paul, Travis Phillips, JP Jermaine Powell, Daniel Rich, Sloane Siobhan, and Mona Wu. Whereas typical museum exhibitions do not sell the art on display, many works in Unboxed will be available for purchase.
This exhibition is generously supported by Pinnacle Financial Partners and Fader Real Estate.
Generous support for NCMA Winston-Salem Downtown and programming is provided by Anna Reilly and Matthew Cullinan, Borden and Ann Hanes, Twin City Development Foundation, Skip Dunn and Mia Celano, Don and Robin Flow, Stuart Parks, Joe Logan, Randall and Clare Tuttle, and the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
NCMA Winston-Salem Downtown is located at 400 W Fourth Street, suite #130.
Header Image: Detail of Daniel Rich, “Ziggurat, Sacramento,” 2021. © 2021 Daniel Rich. Courtesy the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery New York, NY
