Past Exhibitions: Pre-2017

2016

• Progressions, Permutations, Patterns and Probabilities: The Art of Vernon Pratt. Paintings by the late Durham artist inspired by math and physics. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Duke Energy Center, Raleigh.
• Object Lessons. Ceramic masterpieces from the permanent collection. North Carolina Pottery Center, Seagrove, NC.
• Dr. James Troyer Constructions. Sculptures made from recycled laboratory equipment.
• Summer Fun! Objects from the permanent collection on the theme of vacations.
• Life’s Little Dramas: Puppets, Proxies, and Spirits. Puppets and robots. D.H. Hill Library, Raleigh. .
• From the Permanent Collection. Industrial design, glass, culinary molds. Talley Student Center.

2015

• Smokes and Mirrors: Reflections of the Self in Photographs by John Menapace.
• Chris Hondros: Photographs of Conflict. David McCune International Art Gallery, Methodist University, Fayetteville. War photographs by the NC State alum killed in Libya.
• Remnants of the Floating World: Japanese Art from the Permanent Collection.
• Calling the Spirits: Kings, Chiefs, and Women of Power in Photographs by Phyllis Galembo. Frankie G. Weems Art Gallery, Meredith College, Raleigh.
• Theater of Belief: Afro-Atlantic Costuming and Masking in Photographs by Phyllis Galembo.

2014

• 80 Souvenirs. Accompanied theater production of “Around the World in 80 Days”.
• Till Death Do Us Part. Objects from the permanent collection relating to weddings and murders.
• Chicago. Objects from the 1920s to accompany the theater production of “Chicago”.
• And With This Shell, The Sea: The Ceramic Art of Siglinda Scarpa. Contemporary ceramic sculptures.

2013

• Measure of Earth: Textiles and Territory in West Africa. African textiles and garments from the permanent collection.
• Farfetched: Mad Science, Fringe Architecture and Visionary Engineering. Outsider and self-taught art and technology.
• Humanature: Photographs of the Unnatural World by Peter Goin.
• Circa 1912. Objects from the permanent collection to accompany a production at Thompson Theater.

2012

• Art Without Artists. Found objects and other items that could be considered art when displayed in a museum.
• STREAMING: New Art from Old Bottles. Installation made from recycled materials by 165 students organized by Bryant Holsenbeck.
• Spirit—Fire—Shake! Focal objects by Renée Stout, Kevin Sampson and Odinga Tyehimba. Altars, shrines, and centers of power.
• Amazing Maiziana. At the Raleigh Convention Center. Objects from the Mangelsdorf Corn Collection in the Gregg holdings.
• RED. Objects from the permanent collection that feature NC State’s official color.
• In Response: Weaving by Ann Roth and Vita Plume. New work made in response to objects in the permanent collection.
• Barkcloth, Bras, and Bulletproof Cotton: The Powers of Costume. How clothing determines fate, in examples from the permanent collection.
• Textiles of Exile. Textiles by refugees, migrants, and displaced peoples.
• Betelnut. Photographs and ethnographic objects from the Batcheller donation to the permanent collection.
• Jugtown. Ceramics by the Seagrove pottery from the permanent collection.

2011

• Necktie Tribute to Dr. Tom Stafford. Cravats, ties, and assorted neckwear from the permanent collection.
• Quilts from the Dr. Everette James Collection. At the Norwood Museum, Norwood NC. Quilts donated to the permanent collection.
• Earth With Meaning: The Photographs of Alan Cohen. Hardbound book, published by the Gregg.
• Then … Absence: After Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward. Color photographs by John Rosenthal.
• Renaldo in the Land of Rocaterrania. Drawings, paintings, and objects from the imaginary world of Raleigh outsider artist Renaldo Kuhler.
• The Pull of the Moon: Recent Work of Barbara Lee Smith. Painted and stitched non-woven textiles.
• Traces: Mapping a Journey in Textiles. Group exhibition of contemporary textiles.
• Purses. Handbags and accessories from the permanent collection.
• Art of Jim Lecce. Student-curated exhibition of carvings by the Raleigh artist.
• Animals. Student-curated exhibition of animal-themed objects from the permanent collection.

2010

• Drink Up! Drinking vessels and ceramics from the permanent collection.
• Shoes. Student-curated exhibition of footwear from the permanent collection.
• Masters of American Costume Jewelry. Student-curated exhibition.
• Ben Galata & Evan Lightner: Handcraft is Contemporary Design. Hand-forged steel and wooden furniture.
• Southern Roots of Mid-Century Modern. Furnishings, costumes, decorative arts and architecture from the mid-20th century.
• Sequence of Impressions: The Work of Douglas Gorsline. Paintings on canvas.
• With Lathe and Chisel: North Carolina Wood Turners and Carvers.
• Faces and Mazes: Lia Cook. Images on textiles created with Jacquard looms.
• Hold onto Your Hats. Headwear from the permanent collection.

2009

• Recent Gifts of Native American Art from the Collection of Drs. Norman and Gilda Greenberg. Katsinas, pottery, textiles, and other ethnographic artifacts.
• Undercover. Lingerie and sleepwear from the permanent collection.
• Inspired Design: Jacquard and Entrepreneurial Textiles. Artists and industrial weaving.
• Graphic Quilts at the Gregg. Quilts from the permanent collection.
• Silver of the Stars. Silverwork from the Incorporation of Goldsmiths, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Thomas Sayre: New Work. Earth-cast concrete sculptures and arc-welded 2D works.
• Norm Schulman: A Life in Clay Contemporary ceramics.

2008

• Let Me Call You Sweetheart: One Collector’s Vision. Sweetheart jewelry from the Rhoda L. Berkowitz collection.
• Frozen Music: Frank Gehry and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Architectural plans and drawings.
• From the Inside Looking Out: The Journals, Drawings and Prints of Charles Ritchie.
• Pamela and Vernon Owens, Potters of Jugtown.
• Randy Shull: Crossing Boundaries. Contemporary furniture.
• Recent Gifts: Eye to Eye, Object to Object. Objects from the permanent collection.

2007

• Tom Spleth: A Retrospective. Contemporary North Carolina ceramics.
• Sock Monkey Madness! Photographs by Michael Traister.
• Juror’s Work: The Photography of Joyce Tenneson.
• SPoT! 2007—Southeastern Photography Triennial.
• The Fourth Biennial BOOM Design Competition. Contemporary graphic design.
• It’s Not Your Mothers Yarn! Works by Diane Howard. Knitted garments.
• Disorderly Creatures. Insect embroideries by Janice Wright Cheney.
• Exquisite Entomology (The Beauty of Bugs). Exploration of pattern using an installation of insects.
• The Natural World. Handmade ceramics and paper.

2006

• Resplendent Reds: 19th Century Turkmen Textiles.
• Sid Oakley—Artist, Mentor, Friend. North Carolina ceramics.
• Tangles, Teeth & Touch: Sonya Clark. Beadwork constructions.
• Photographs by the Triangle Black and White Photography Group.
• Aleta Braun—Material Changes. Assemblages.
• With Hidden Noise: Photographs by John Menapace.
• More Than a Wrap: The Beauty and Culture of Saris. Indian textiles from the permanent collection.
• The Art of Enamel. Contemporary jewelry.
• Annie Hooper. Outsider art curated by students.
• Diener Circus. Miniature circus made by Frank Diener, of carved and painted wood.

2005

• Alexander Bogardy: Divine Aesthete. Paintings and drawings by a visionary artist and hairdresser.
• Rick Beck—Form. Molded glass.
• War in Shadows and Light—Chris Hondros. War photography by NC State alum, for Getty Images.
• Nikolai Muhkin: Contemporary Russian Artist. Paintings.
• AIGA’s BOOM! The Best Graphic Design of the Carolinas.
• Fashions from the Victorian Era 1901-1919. Objects from the permanent collection.
• Crazy Cotton Chintz: 47 Quilts from the Permanent Collection.
• Curv-iture. Contemporary studio furniture.

2004

• 20/20 Vision: An exhibition of new works donated to the collection in honor of the 20th anniversary of Friends of the Gallery. Objects from the permanent collection.
• Elizabeth Brim: Steel Magnolia. Contemporary metal.
• Treasures from Chinqua-Penn. Objects from the 1920s estate of Thomas Jefferson Penn and Margaret Beatrice Shoellkopf Penn, transferred to the Gregg.
• Nomads & Villagers: Woven Work from Around the World.
• Rings. Curated exhibition of artist-made rings.
• Boom! 2004. Contemporary graphic design.
• Mountain Made: Western North Carolina Crafts from the Collection of Robert S. Brunk.
• Four Women in Clay: Work by Jennie Bireline, Clara Couch, Virginia Scotchie and Lydia Thompson.
• Czech Glass: Old & New. Objects from the permanent collection.

2003

• SECAC/Tri State Members Juried Exhibition.
• A Vibrant Transparency: The Photography of Elizabeth Matheson.
• Antfarm: Decade. Art collective’s 10th anniversary exhibition.
• BOOM! 2002: The Best of North Carolina Graphic Design.
• Contemporary European Ceramics: From the Collection of John and Brita Tate.
• The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective of Forty Years. Works by the seminal North Carolina metalsmith.
• Common Ground. An exploration of cultural diversity using objects from the permanent collection.
• Extravagant Eveningwear. Costume from the permanent collection.

2002

• The Right Stuff. Studio-made furniture.
• Technology as a Catalyst: Textile Artists on the Cutting Edge.
• Patterns of the Past. Woven coverlets from the permanent collection.
• Fashion-Go-Round: Designs and Designers from the 1980s.
• Dior—The Master Designer. Costume from the permanent collection.
• Folk and Outsider Art. Objects from the permanent collection.
• Early American Modernism.
• North Carolina Clay: Past and Present.

2001

• Ceremonial Robes. Robes from Africa and Asia.
• Passionate Collectors: Sonia and Isaac Luski Collect. Contemporary glass.
• Daniel Jocz: Uncommon Sense. Contemporary jewelry.
• North Carolina Pottery Masters: C.R. Auman and C.B. Masten.
• The University Collects Photographs. Photographs from the permanent collection.
• Frank Diener’s Circus. Hand carved and painted circus figures.
• 140 Years of North Carolina Quilts: Selections from the A. Everette James, Jr.and Nancy Jane Farmer Collection.

2000

• Paul Jeremias: Arena Photographs. Photographs of Dorton Arena.
• Modernist Eye: The Art and Design of Nathan Lerner. Industrial design and photography. .
• From These Hands: Images of Works of Triangle Area Potters. Photographs of pottery.
• Juan Logan: Unconscious Bias. Painting and drawing.
• The Gelinas Collection: A Lady of Fashion. Couture from the 1940s—1980s.
• The New Heritage of North Carolina Pottery. Contemporary NC ceramics.
• Cultures Revealed: The Nell Sonnemann Collection. Applique from around the world.
• Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Permanent Collection. Mid-19th century prints by Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III).

1999

• With Beauty Before Us: The Navajo of Chil-chin-beto. Navajo material culture and photographs by Roger Manley.
• Cynthia Bringle: A Fiery Influence. Ceramics by the Penland School potter.
• Photographs from the Estate of Rick Horton. Photographs by, and collected by, artist Rick Horton.
• Friends of the Gallery Collect. Objects from Raleigh private collections selected by Jack Lindsey, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• Stephen Assael: Ordinary/Extraordinary Figures. Drawings.
• Buildings on a Small Scale. Small folk art houses.

1998

• Samuel Yellin Metalworkers: Three Generations. Architectural wrought iron by America’s greatest blacksmith.
• Mildred Davis: A Collector’s Eye. Historic textiles.
• Expressions of Generosity: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions.
• Sherri Wood: Quilts. Quilts with religious subtexts.
• The Little Black Dress: From Sorrow to Seduction. Costumes on a classic theme.

1997

• Coptic Textiles in the University’s Collection. Ancient Egyptian Christian textiles.
• For God’s Eyes: Plates and Vases. Work from Penland residency by Tom Spleth and Moshe Gershuni.
• Mark Hewitt, Potter. Contemporary wood-fired stoneware.
• Fabulous Furniture: Rosanne Somerson. with Jenna Goldberg and Eck Follen. Contemporary cabinetry.
• Simplicity, Order and Discipline: The Work of George Matsumoto. Drawings, models, and designs by the architect.
• The Work of Eduardo Catalano. Architecture.
• Yard of the Month. Contemporary landscape architecture.

1996

• Textiles: Tradition and Innovation. Bedouin, Israeli, Palestinian textiles.
• Ceramics Israel. Contemporary Israeli ceramics.
• Relative Visions: The Artistic Differences between a Mother and a Daughter. Jewelry by Mary Ann Scherr and Sydney Jo Scherr.
• Act Three: Current Obsessions. New works and old from the permanent collection.
• Act Two: Color and Texture.
• A Multitude of Memory: The Life Work of Annie Hooper. Driftwood and concrete Biblical sculptures by the late NC outsider artist.
• A Flutter of Fans. Objects from the permanent collection.
• The Poetry of Dress. Lace from the permanent collection.
• Maud Gatewood: Re-visions. Paintings, reliefs, and prints by the NC artist/educator.
• Maud and Friends. Works by contemporaries of Maud Gatewood.

1995

• West Africa: New Pots from an Old Tradition.
• Act One: Ways of Describing the World. First installation of Making A Collection: An Exhibition in Three Acts.
• Bob Trotman: A Retrospective of Furniture and Sculpture.
• Mark Leithauser: Paintings, Drawings and Prints.
• Burlon Craig: An Open Window Into the Past. Ceramics and face jugs from the great NC folk potter.
• Depression Documents: The Farm Security Administration in North Carolina. Photographs from the 1930s.
• New Furniture by Joerling, Kopf, Ulinski.
• Celebrating the Stitch. Contemporary embroidery.

1994

• Early Architectural Photography of NC by Johnston / Wooten. Images by two early female photographers.
• Contemporary Egyptian Tapestries. Objects from the permanent collection.
• Enduring Textile Traditions of West Africa: From the Spirit’s Mouth. Textiles from the permanent collection.
• The Haliwa-Saponi Tribe of North Carolina. Native American regalia and artifacts.
• Translating Value: North Carolina Cousins to the Crazy Quilt.
• Vernon Owens: Master Potter.

1993

• This is Not Tramp Art. Chip-carved folk art wood objects.
• Mathew Nowicki: Sketches and Visions. Architectural drawings and models.
• Photographs of Science.
• David N. Hyman: Photographs 1976-1992.
• Cathay: Chinese Objects of Desire. Chinese artifacts.
• Guatemalan Textiles: Color, Texture, Tradition.
• Joe Owen: The Shy Potter. North Carolina pottery.

1992

• North Carolina Clay 1992.
• Limbs: An Exhibition of Work by Randy Shull. Wood sculptures.
• The Art of Building in North Carolina: Photographs by Tim Buchman. Architectural photographs.
• The New Narrative: Contemporary Fiber Art.

1991

• Building A Visual Vocabulary. Work from the permanent collection.
• The University Collects: Works Acquired for NCSU Collections Since 1968.

1990

• Charles Hinman: A Recent Work. Paintings.
• The Continuous Process: The Artist as Teacher, The Teacher as Artist.

1989

• New Art/New Material. Artwork using nonwoven textile material Lutradur as a medium.
• Under an Urging Moon: Recent Works by Rick Horton. Paintings by the NC State alum.
• Photography on the Monterey Peninsula: The New Generation.

1988

• Walking on Heirs: An Exhibition of Fine Antique and New Persian Carpets.
• Finery: An Exhibition of Art to Wear.
• A Blessing from the Source: The Annie Hooper Bequest. Selected tableaux from the 3500 Biblical sculptures made by the NC Outer Banks self-taught artist.
• Iterations: glass by Christine Baukus, sculpture by Bryant Holsenbeck, photographs by Elizabeth Stein, assemblage by Jean Wierzalis-Ezell.

1987

• Trains: from the Collection of the Neuse River Valley Train Collectors.
• Seeing An Idea: Gifts and Acquisitions Since 1982.
• Vernacular Pottery of North Carolina: 1982-1986.
• Paintings by Jerry Cook.

1986

• SIGGRAPH ’85. Computer art.
• Souvenirs: Drawings by Melissa Harris and Edwin F. Harris.
• The Eastern Eye: Japanese Graphic Design. Traveling exhibition of graphic design.
• Color: The Spectrum of Expression.
• Spectacular Vernacular. Photographs of Asian and African architecture.

1985

• Houses of Justice. Photographs of court house architecture.
• Built for the People of the USA: Fifty Years of TVA Architecture. Photographs.
• America’s City Halls. Photographs of civic architecture.
• Night Web: Preparatory Drawings by Dale Eldred.
• The Bridges of Christian Menn: Photographs from Professor David Billington.
• West African Textiles: Traditional Patterns and Techniques.

1984

• The Unseen Landscape: Textiles by Susan Wilchins and Ann Roth. Photographs by Marc Wilchins.
• Southern Abstraction: Five Painters Work. Includes Herb Creecy, Tom Dimond, Herb Jackson, Richard Kevorkian and Whitney Leland.
• SIGGRAPH ’83. Computer art.
• Contemporary Printmakers.
• The Southeastern Spectrum Group Exhibition.
• Procession in Jerusalem. Paintings by Jack Levine.
• Ten Afro-American Quilters. Ten quilts by African-American quilters.
• Anglo-American Counterpoint. Ten quilts by Anglo-American quilters.

1983

• More Than Just Cloth. Fabric Collections by NC State Textile Design students.
• Children’s World Festivals and Celebrations.
• James McLean Retrospective: An Artist of the 30’s. Paintings by the major Raleigh artist.
• The Henley Southeastern Spectrum Group Exhibition.
• Philippe Halsman 79. Portrait photographs by a major fashion photographer.
• Seny Norasingh: Photographic Exhibition. Color work by the Lao American photographer.
• Folkroots: Images of Mississippi Black Folklife. Photographs.

1982

• Spaces and Places: Afro-American Values in Architecture.Photographs.
• The Fall Exhibition: Objects from the University’s Permanent Collections.
• Black Waters of the Carolinas. Photographs by Jerome Kohl.
• Reflections: Prints in the 1980s. Contemporary etchings, engravings, and serigraphs.
• The Works of Christof Drexel: Exhibition from the Goethe Institute. Paintings and drawings.

1981

• Six Photographers. Work by January Davis, Davis N. Hyman, Jerome Kohl, Marsha Presnell-Jennette, James Pressley and Susan Sherman.
• Fifty Award Winners/Artists Living in the Southeast Group Exhibition.
• Black History Month: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Work by Al Clark, Robert E. Hunter and Ron Williams.
• David Driskell: A Survey. Paintings.

1980

• Photographs by Marshall Clayton and David Hyman.
• Images of Earth from Space. Photographs.
• Buildings for Best Products. Traveling exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art.
• Chinese Brush Painting: Ellen Ma-Lin Ko.
• Delphine Hancock: Water Color.
• Annie May Andrews: Landscape Painting.
• Walter Davis: An Exhibition of Paintings.
• Photographs: Charles Springman/Benjamin Koonce.

1979

• The American Art Union: Early American Prints.
• Wake County Annual Artists Exhibition.