The Baker Museum and Hayes Hall Galleries
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Current Exhibitions
Subject Matters
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Organized by Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum
Drawn from The Baker Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition addresses subject matters commonly found in visual arts, while exploring a wide array of formal characteristics and styles in modern and contemporary art. It also demonstrates differing artistic approaches taken by different individuals, reflecting their personal experiences and concerns, as well as the time and places in which they lived and have lived. Subject Matters is organized into nine sections: the Human Figure, Plants and Animals, Landscapes, (Sub)Urban Life, Still-Life, the Home, Artist and Studio, Narratives, and Nonfigurative Abstraction.
November 2020 – July 25, 2021
Located on the second floor of The Baker Museum
Magritte: Reflections of Another World
Paintings from the Van Parys Family
Organized by Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum
Magritte: Reflections of Another World comprises six paintings — five oils and one gouache — by Belgian artist René Magritte (1898-1967). Renowned for his witty Surrealist paintings of everyday objects in strange surroundings, Magritte preferred that his artworks remain mysterious and open to interpretation. These works are from the collection of Jean Van Parys, a collector of avant-garde art and a close friend of Magritte, and they are on a five-year loan to Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum from Van Parys’ daughter. The paintings have never previously been shown in North America, and none have exhibited publicly in over 48 years.
November 2020 – July 25, 2021
Located on the second floor of The Baker Museum
Florida Contemporary
Florida Contemporary, organized by Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum, aims to recognize great artistic talent springing from all corners of the state. This invitational exhibition features the work of three distinguished women artists worthy of national attention: Elisabeth Condon, Lilian Garcia-Roig and Carrie Sieh. The exhibition contextualizes their interpretations of artistic traditions using various materials and techniques within general contemporary artistic trends, and it also highlights their individual artistic concerns and merits.
December 2020 – July 25, 2021
Located in the Kohan, Newell, and Friends of Art Galleries of Hayes Hall
Blurring Boundaries
The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936-Present
Organized by The Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KY and the Ewing Gallery, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and is toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C.
More than eighty years after its founding, American Abstract Artists (AAA) continues to nurture and support a vibrant community of artists with diverse identities and wide-ranging approaches to abstraction. In celebration of this tradition, Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 – Present traces the extraordinary contributions of the female artists within AAA, from the founders to today’s practicing members. The exhibition is an awe-inspiring celebration of this intergenerational group of artists, highlighting the indelible ways in which the women of AAA have shifted and shaped the frontiers of American abstraction.
March 28, 2021 – July 25, 2021
Located on the third floor of The Baker Museum
Making a Mark
American Women Artists
Organized by Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum
Making a Mark: American Women Artists highlights the significant legacy and continuous contributions of women artists in the development of modern and contemporary art in America. The majority of the works on view, created between the 1920s and 1990s, are drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, and they are augmented by works on loan from Naples collectors. Conceived by Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum as a companion exhibition for the Blurring Boundaries exhibition, many of the selected works are either on view for the first time or have not been exhibited for nearly a decade.
March 28, 2021 – July 25, 2021
Located on the third floor of The Baker Museum
Marcus Jansen
Two Decades of Relevance
Organized by Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum
For Marcus Jansen (b. 1968), an internationally exhibited artist based in Fort Myers and New York, painting is an act of intense engagement with the world. His art offers critical commentary on global sociological, political and economic issues and visceral responses to the world events that have shaped his life. Visitors are invited to discover Jansen’s creative output, which has garnered numerous national and international accolades, in this first solo museum exhibition in Southwest Florida.
April 24, 2021 – July 25, 2021
Located on the first floor of The Baker Museum
Twelfth Annual Student Exhibition
Organized by Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum
The 12th Annual Student Exhibition includes approximately 200 works by local public, private and home school students, grades pre-kindergarten through 12. A broad array of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics and photography is represented in this showcase of outstanding artwork created by talented student artists.
May 1 – July 25, 2021
Located in The Blair Foundation Gallery (third floor)
and the John and Jeanne Rowe Performance and Learning Center (first floor)
Dawn's Forest
The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson
Organized by Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum
With the long-term reinstallation of Dawn’s Forest in Hayes Hall, we highlight one of the most iconic works in The Baker Museum’s permanent collection. Displayed in the Drackett Gallery, along with two of her small works that the museum owns, are additional works by Nevelson, on loan from Robert T. and Terry Edwards, as well as Barbara and Ron Balser.
Ongoing Exhibition
Located in the Drackett Gallery and throughout Hayes Hall
