ARTISTS
2025
Experience more than four decades of Janet Echelman’s pathbreaking career in “Radical Softness,” now open at Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design.
Step into a world in which interconnectedness and resilience abound with “Janet Echelman: Radical Softness,” on view Nov. 16, 2025-April 26, 2026 at Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design.
Celebrate 100 years of sleek geometric shapes, bold linear designs and vibrant colors with “Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration,” on view Aug. 31, 2025-March 29, 2026 at Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design.
Reveling in the interplay of light, material, and space, Lillian Blades creates expansive and immersive installations that reflect on how we experience pattern and texture.
Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College (SAM) presents “Lillian Blades: Through the Veil,” on view now through Oct. 26. “Through the Veil” marks the artist’s first solo museum show and her most ambitious exhibition to date.
Technology, identity, heritage and Art Deco’s 100th anniversary center the 2025-2026 season exhibition offerings at Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design.
2024
The artist Joe Fig (b.1968) is renowned for his ongoing “Contemplation” series — small, intimate paintings of people looking at artworks in museums and galleries.
Joe Fig’s Vermeer Contemplations series captures museum attendees closely engaging with the Dutch master’s work.
Tammy Nguyen debuts new paintings, embroidered tapestries and an artist book in “Timaeus and the Nations,” on view through Jan. 19, 2025 at Sarasota Art Museum.
The highly anticipated Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration exhibition is set to be showcased at five leading art institutions across the Tampa Bay area this year.
Dramatically lit sculptures, galactic paintings and thousands of vibrant ribbons set against an orchestral composition escort visitors beyond Earth’s atmosphere in “The Truth of the Night Sky: Anne Patterson and Patrick Harlin.”
Does art play an active role in identifying and revealing the realities of contemporary life? Conversely, how do present-day challenges in the world affect the choices that artists make in their studios?
2023
Time and tide wait for none, they say. But art can direct those unrelenting forces to its own expressive purpose.
As residents along Florida’s coast endured the busiest months of hurricane season, a New York-based artist was preparing to transform Sarasota Art Museum’s galleries with a site-specific installation inspired by one of the state’s costliest natural disasters.
For Juana Valdés, her experience migrating to the United States in 1971 has significantly informed her thirty-year career.