Arts for the Parks
December 28, 2004 – February 13, 2005
Special Exhibition Gallery
Featured the top 11 works of art chosen at the annual art show that raises funds for the National Parks system.
Recent Paintings by Hubert Wackerman
December 7, 2004 – January 30, 2005
Borderlands Gallery
Featured paintings of Native Americans by West German-born artist Hubert Wackerman. For more than three decades Wackerman has traveled North America in search of new subjects. He paints in a wide variety of media.
Recent Sculptures by John Rutan
December 7, 2004 – January 30, 2005
Borderlands Gallery
Featured artwork by artist John Rutan, whose work is inspired by his Montana roots. Philosophically, Rutan’s work is about everyman’s struggle to survive, define who he is, and how he belongs in the world. Artistically, Rutan is concerned with the depth and exploration of color, and compositional balances.
Kids Cowboy Up! Exhibition
October 12 – December 5, 2004
Borderlands Gallery
Outreach program that featured artwork from members of the Cartersville Boys and Girls Club and Hands of Christ After School Program.
Selling the Sizzle: The Art of Movie Posters
October 7 – December 12, 2004
Special Exhibition Gallery
Featured a large number of Western movie posters from the Booth Museum’s collection, along with many of the original oil paintings from which the posters were made.
Recent Sculptures by Jim Ford
August 10 – October 10, 2004
Borderlands Gallery
Featured bronze sculptures by Colorado artist, Jim Ford. Ford’s work combines a love for the figure, prose, and ethnic diversity. Many of his subjects are Native American.
Polaroid Transfers by Jodie Sinclair
August 10 – October 10, 2004
Borderlands Gallery
Featured Polaroid transfers with Southwestern landscapes by Boston photographer, Jodie Sinclair. Using a Polaroid land camera and type 669 Polaroid film camera, she peels the paper back after a few seconds of exposure, then transfers the dyes to watercolor paper.
West by Southwest
August 5 – September 26, 2004
Special Exhibition Gallery
Featured 62 paintings from the Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Texas. The exhibition focused primarily on the art of the Taos Society of Artists including works by Oscar Berninghaus, Ernest Blumenschein, E. Irving Couse, W. Herbert “Buck” Dunton, Ernest Martin Hennings, William Victor Higgins, Bert Geer Phillips, Joseph Henry Sharp, and Walter Ufer.
The Other Side of the West: Re-creating New Icons of the West
March 16 – July 18, 2004
Special Exhibition Gallery
Featured fresh views of the West from contemporary artists such as Nelson Boren, Billy Schenck, David DeVary, J. E. Knauf, and others.
Recent Works by Steve Penley
March 12 – May 2, 2004
Borderlands Gallery
Featured the work of Atlanta artist Steve Penley including Presidents, cowboys, and Civil War figures. Penley’s style uses elements of pop-art, photo-realism, and abstraction to create dynamic and unique works of art in an unmistakable style that is entirely his own.
