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Celebrating 250 Years: A Journey Through America with Robert Freimark

Celebrating 250 Years: A Journey Through America with Robert Freimark

International Arts & Artists is extremely pleased and honored to announce the touring exhibition, Celebrating 250 Years: A Journey Through America with Robert Freimark. The exhibition provides grand testimony to Robert Freimark’s inexhaustible creativity, integrity, work ethic, perpetual curiosity, and passion as an artist. It is also a comprehensive homage to the joys of printmaking—a visual ode honoring place and process.

Born in Michigan in 1922, artist Robert Freimark came of age during a time of remarkable creative ferment and experimentation, leading him to explore a range of artistic mediums, including painting, watercolor, drawing, print media, tapestry, and sculpture. His commitment to consistent practice and creative evolution, coupled with his insatiable curiosity, urged him to expand his artistic horizons into other, time-based mediums such as video and film.

For most of his career, Freimark would utilize the figurative references and profound impressions derived from his experience of various landscapes to inform an extensive body of work. He drew inspiration from his early life in Michigan and Ohio, the residency programs he participated in in Iowa and the Midwest, his extensive travels throughout Mexico, and his studio practice in California. Each of these experiences informed his unique approach to his artistic practice. 

Freimark’s ventures into serigraphy soon led him to visit all fifty American states, an ambitious artistic odyssey that injected his work with vivid firsthand experience, allowing him to connect the states’ geographical singularities with their deeper historical contexts. 

Celebrating 250 Years: A Journey Through America with Robert Freimark is made possible by Hohmann Fine Art, or HOHMANN, a second-generation contemporary art gallery in Palm Desert, California. Established in 1976 in Germany, the gallery has a rich history in both the European and American art scenes. HOHMANN features a curated selection of works by over sixty artists, promoting them through an active exhibition schedule, publications of books and catalogs, participation in art fairs, and collaborations with museums and other galleries.

Christian Hohmann, owner of Hohmann Fine Art, met Robert Freimark over twenty years ago, during the artist’s prolific Morgan Hill existence, when he became a beloved fixture of the Silicon Valley art and culture scene. Freimark’s charisma and incandescent passion for making and teaching art made a deep impression on the young gallery owner, sparking a long-term friendship. 

IA&A is extremely pleased to bring this exhibition and its artworks to our partners. Celebrating 250 Years: A Journey Through America with Robert Freimark will begin touring in Fall 2025and is now open for bookings.

 

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Dancing With Life: Mexican Masks

Dancing With Life: Mexican Masks

Dancing with Life: Mexican Masks invites audiences to explore the rich festival culture of Mexico through historic and contemporary masks from the collection of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.  The exhibition centers the work of the mask makers and dancers themselves through written and recorded interviews, including bilingual Spanish and English texts. This approach invites visitors to appreciate danzas as expressions of contemporary living culture, in which symbols and scripts from pop culture and religious narratives coalesce into explorations of spiritual matters, political issues, and community life.

International Arts & Artists is honored to be working with the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture and curator, Dr. Pavel Shlossberg. Commonly referred to as the “MAC,” the museum preserves and cultivates the heritage of the Inland Northwest people through collections, exhibitions, and programs that bring their stories to life. Dr. Shlossberg is the associate dean in the School of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University. As a young scholar, Pavel had the privilege to live with and learn from mask artists in Tocuaro, Michoacán, Mexico. His continuing collaboration with artists in Michoacán has shaped his work critiquing academic and museum approaches to framing and representing Mexican Indigenous masking practices in Mexico and internationally.

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Finding Queertopia: Self Realization and the Spaces that Shape Us

Finding Queertopia: Self-Realization and the Spaces that Shape Us

In a world that is constantly evolving, Finding Queertopia serves as a celebration of the diverse and resilient LGBTQ+ community, exploring the myriad of ways individuals navigate the path to self-realization within the context of their surroundings. The exhibition brings together work by more than 20 artists to collectively explore the multifaceted dimensions of queer identity, tracing the intersections of personal growth, societal acceptance, and the significance of physical and metaphorical spaces.

Home, once oppressive or transient, transforms into a site of radical self-discovery—a refuge for free expression and a hub for forging connections with chosen family. Beyond domestic realms, queer people find home in the spaces that provide safety, validation and a sense of belonging: queering a space by inhabiting it. 

Finding Queertopia: Self-Realization and the Spaces that Shape Us begins with an introspective exploration of the self, featuring thought-provoking artworks that encapsulate the essence of self-discovery. Visitors will encounter pieces that delve into the struggles, triumphs, and transformations that mark the journey of queer individuals as they navigate their identities, grapple with societal expectations, and ultimately embrace their true selves. Moving beyond the personal, the exhibition unfolds to showcase the dynamic interplay between queerness and the spaces we inhabit.

International Arts & Artists is honored to be working with curator, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, to bring this exhibition to life. Gemma Rolls-Bentley has been at the forefront of contemporary art for almost two decades, working passionately to champion diversity in the field. Curating exhibitions and building art collections internationally, her curatorial practice amplifies the work of female and queer artists as well as providing  a platform for art that explores LGBTQ+ identity. Finding Queertopia: Self-Realization and the Spaces that Shape Us will tour for four years, until Fall 2029, and is now open for bookings.

 

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Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe

Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe

International Arts & Artists is extremely pleased and honored to announce the touring exhibition, Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe. Originally curated by Nora S. Lambert at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art under the Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry, the exhibition brings together approximately 45 paintings, prints, sculptures, and ceramics from over fifteen collections and institutions throughout the United States. Passion, violence, and virtue emerge as fundamental, intertwined elements in the art of Renaissance Europe. The objects on view—created for enjoyment and edification in private homes—offer glimpses into the lives of artists and their audiences. 

Many of the works featured in Lust, Love, and Loss attest to the centuries-long popularity of certain narratives and themes throughout the European continent, while others represent more localized cultural traditions. Fifteenth-century Italy saw an explosion of artworks tied to familial rites of passage, including marriage and childbirth, yet their painted narratives were often not overtly festive. Meanwhile, the Northern European interplay between virtue and vice manifested in innumerable engravings and woodcuts showing even happy and passionate couples faced with the inexorable progression of time. Artists working and traveling north and south of the Alps produced vibrant canvases and complex print series that echoed these ideas in grander formats, purposefully highlighting the consequences of moral trespass or opportunities for redemption.

While this new version of the exhibition continues these same themes, it also offers a more explicit focus on women's experiences as makers, viewers, and owners of artworks. In addition to featuring objects created by female artists, Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe explores the experiences of female audiences through their engagement with the kinds of artworks on display, as well as with one another, through gift-giving and patronage.

Nora S. Lambert is the 2022-2024 Kress Foundation History of Art Institutional Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago, where she specializes in late medieval and early modern Italy. From 2021 - 2022, she was a Fullbright Fellow affiliated with the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities in Naples, Italy. She is also a member of the 2020 cohort of the Center for Curatorial Leadership's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice.

IA&A is extremely pleased to bring this exhibition and its artworks to our partners. Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe will begin touring in early 2027 and is now open for bookings.

 

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Kimono: Garment, Canvas, and Artistic Muse

Kimono: Garment, Canvas, and Artistic Muse

The Japanese kimono is one of the world’s most admired garments—an instantly recognizable robe with a tall “T” form. Worn in Japan by women and men for well over 1,000 years, the kimono has been a canvas for spectacular woven, dyed, painted, printed, and embroidered designs by Japan’s textile artists. After the late nineteenth century, when Japan opened to foreign diplomacy and trade, kimonos also became beloved in the West, as subjects for painters and inspiration for fashion designers. In recent decades, the influence of the kimono has even reached the work of contemporary artists around the world, who are creating kimono-inspired works in such diverse media as paper, fiber, metal, glass, and ceramic. This exhibition will explore the kimono as a garment in Japanese history and culture, present it as canvas for spectacular design and messaging, and showcase the extraordinary works of ten international contemporary artists whose works of painting, sculpture, and fiber art have all been inspired in fascinating ways by this iconic garment. 

Kimono: Garment, Canvas, and Artistic Muse is organized in three sections and and contains a total of 46 art works, including 20 kimonos, woodblocks prints, a woodblock printed book, and photographs, as well as 19 works of contemporary art made of paper, fiber, metal, ceramic and glass.

International Arts & Artists is honored to be working with curator and long-time partner, Meher McArthur, to bring this exhibition to life. Meher McArthur is an Asian art historian specializing in Japanese art, with degrees from Cambridge University and London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), along with 25 years experience curating exhibitions, publishing, and teaching about Asian art. Kimono: Garment, Canvas, and Artistic Muse will tour for four years, until Summer 2029, and is now open for bookings.

 

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Antiquity Unveiled: David Roberts’ Artistic Expedition, 1838-1839

Antiquity Unveiled: David Roberts' Artistic Expedition, 1838-1839

"The gladdest moments, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands."

—Sir Richard Burton.

International Arts & Artists and Hallie Ford Museum Director, John Olbrantz, are extremely proud to present the first touring exhibition of the work of David Roberts, which continues to resonate for its technical and aesthetic excellence, as well as for its profound impact on history and culture. David Roberts (1796–1864) was a self-taught Scottish painter who rose from poverty and obscurity in Edinburgh to become one of the most celebrated artists of his generation, a member of the Royal Academy, and a painter whose works can be found in some of the most distinguished public and private collections in Europe and America. A highly ambitious and motivated artist who loved to travel, he is best known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia- a travelog illustrated with 247 hand-colored and tinted lithographs of Egypt and the Holy Land that he produced with lithographer Louis Haghe from sketches he made during a nine-month trip to the region in 1838–39.

Antiquity Unveiled: David Roberts' Artistic Expedition, 1838 - 1839 features sixty-two prints of Spain, Egypt, Syria, and the areas known as Nubia, Idumea, Arabia, and the Holy Land. All the works are generously on loan from the collectors, Ken and Linda Sheppard. In addition to the works on display, the exhibition is accompanied by a text panel, chat panels, maps, annotated labels with excerpts from Roberts’s Eastern Journal and other correspondence, Arabic and Middle Eastern music, and a full-color, clothbound book written by Olbrantz, with an introduction by collector Ken Sheppard. 

IA&A is extremely pleased to bring this exhibition and its insight into David Roberts' artworks to our partners, Antiquity Unveiled: David Roberts' Artistic Expedition, 1838-1839 will tour for four years, until late 2029 and is now open for bookings.

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GATEWAYS: African American Art from the Key Collection

GATEWAYS: African American Art from the Key Collection

"Collecting art by African American artists has its conceptual beginning early in my development as a child.It began with the question, “Who am I?” I would always ask this question to myself in high school and as a young adult. This question nagged at me for many years as I gained a better understanding of the world around me and the absence of people with skin color like mine in it. Or, better yet, the negativity about people of color. It was not until later that many of my questions would be answered, and it was the arts, art history, and the history of people of African descent that began to give shape to my question."

- Eric Key, Collector

International Arts & Artists and Eric Key are pleased to present GATEWAYS: African American Art from the Key Collection. Eric Key is an arts administrator, curator, investor, and collector who, being immersed in the art world for decades, has closely observed its relationship with African American artists over the years. Key began collecting African American art in the early 90s, long before the arts industry, and society at large, granted it the increased, but still not full, recognition it has today.

Comprising of 88 works, the main focus of this exhibition is to present a robust survey of African American art and to offer a glimpse into the personal stories of the artists and collector. Enlisted to tell this story are some of the most recognizable contemporary black artists: Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, William Artis, Samella Lewis, and Renee Stout. Together, these artists work to dispel the many stereotypes and misunderstandings about African American art and people, but remain a kind of personal narrative. As Key states, the works in his collection are an extension of himself, a black man in a still mostly white art world; they are an extension of the country in which he lives and an extension of the artists who created them.

IA&A is extremely pleased to bring this exhibition and its insight into African American art to our partners. Gateways will tour for four years, until late 2027 and is now open for bookings.

Please contact TravelingExhibitions@ArtsandArtists.org for more information.

Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass

Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass

"The glass art created by American Indian artists not only is a personal expression of each artist but also is imbued with their cultural heritage.  These artists have melded the aesthetics and properties inherent in glass art with their cultural ways of knowing.  The result is the stunning collection of artworks presented here."

– Letitia Chambers, Curator

Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass is a first-of-its-kind, groundbreaking exhibition giving broader and overdue recognition to a wide range of contemporary Native American and indigenous, Pacific-Rim artists working in glass. This powerful, innovative, and majestic exhibition will be toured by International Arts & Artists through 2026.

Clearly Indigenous includes approximately 120 glass art objects created by twenty-nine Native American artists, four Pacific Rim artists from New Zealand and Australia, and leading glass artist Dale Chihuly, who first introduced glass art to Indian country. Dr. Letitia Chambers, former CEO of the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, curated the exhibition together with artist and museum consultant Cathy Short (Citizen Potawatomi Nation), and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which originated this seminal exhibition.

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Tools as Art: Work and Play

Tools as Art: Work and Play

“It’s not just an understanding of the humor and artistry of a particular piece but an appreciation of how the collection fits the general theme of tools in the workplace, tools in life, and tools as art.”

– John Hechinger

Tools transcend: their essential purpose crosses boundaries of all types; their essential forms and functions enduring across eras, geographies, and cultures. The universality and timelessness of tools have won them a special place in the human psyche as both icon and symbol, embedding them firmly in the foundation of human creativity.

The renowned art collection of the late hardware magnate John Hechinger exemplifies this practical and artistic universality. Over his long career, Hechinger devoted much of his energy, playfulness, and passion to this collection, seeking out works from numerous genres and artists of many backgrounds, all of them bound by a common theme: the democracy of the tool.

In Work and Play, curator Sarah Tanguy explores interlocking principles: tools as icons of labor; labor as a component of creativity; creativity as a form of play; and the art of tools as the most incisive expression of their interrelatedness. This exhibition celebrates the virtues inherent in the art of the tool and highlights the astounding breadth of the Hechinger Collection by illuminating this unique, but ubiquitous, idiom.

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Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper

Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper

“These nine contemporary Japanese artists are revisiting their nation’s traditional material and elevating it into a medium for expressive and often spectacular works of art.”
– Meher McArthur, Curator

Washi Transformed presents over thirty-five highly textured two-dimensional works, expressive sculptures, and dramatic installations that explore the astonishing potential of this traditional medium. In this exhibition, nine Japanese artists embrace the seemingly infinite possibilities of washi, underscoring the unique stature this ancient art form has earned in the realm of international contemporary art. The breathtaking creativity of these artistic visionaries deepens our understanding of how the past informs the present, and how it can build lasting cultural bridges out of something as seemingly simple and ephemeral as paper.

Washi Transformed features work by nine contemporary Japanese artists: Hina Aoyama, Eriko Horiki, Kyoko Ibe, Yoshio Ikezaki, Kakuko Ishii, Yuko Kimura, Yuko Nishimura, Takaaki Tanaka, and Ayomi Yoshida.

IA&A is proud to collaborate for a fourth time with Los Angeles-based historian of Japanese art Meher McArthur, curator of successful IA&A traveling exhibitions Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami (2012-2016) and Above the Fold: New Expressions in Contemporary Origami Art (2015-2020); and co-curator of Nature, Tradition and Innovation: Japanese Ceramics from the Gordon Brodfuehrer Collection (2016-2019).

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