Current Exhibitions
The Moon and Reverie: Works by Kathy Muehlemann
On view January 16 – March 28, 2026
Kathy Muehlemann and her husband, Jim, lived and worked as artists in New York City for twenty years in an intensive era of collaborative community among artists in lower Manhattan. In 1994, Kathy was invited to have a solo exhibition at the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College to open in the spring of 1995. Subsequently, she was asked to apply for a studio art faculty position. She would teach at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, and then Randolph College, for twenty-five years.
That 1995 exhibition, which first brought the Muehlemanns to campus, was staged in the same gallery where The Moon and Reverie: Works by Kathy Muehlemann will be displayed thirty years later.
Kathy’s gentle metamorphic abstractions fill the space with graciousness. Her delicate, whispery marks are simultaneously strong, wide, and enveloping, despite their modest dimensions. While not a true retrospective, the exhibition traces her kinship with the moon in twenty pieces over time, beginning in 1985. Almost half of the works were painted this year.
The exhibition The Moon and Reverie: Works by Kathy Muehlemann was made possible through the generosity of Sara Maier Rowe ’67.
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Image credit – Left: Kathy Muehlemann, Bright Promise, 2017, oil on panel, 7 x 5 in. Courtesy of the artist. Right: Kathy Muehlemann, Blue Moondog, 2025, oil on panel, 12 x 9 in. Courtesy of the artist.
The 114th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: The Audacity of Paint
On view October 19, 2025 – March 8, 2026
The Audacity of Paint features work by contemporary American artists whose primary medium is paint. The exhibition includes work by Sally Egbert, Julia Jo, Sue McNally, and Walter Price, celebrating the resiliency and power of paint as a medium in the context of the AI tsunami in which we live. Within this technological milieu, paint persists with its sensual qualities and malleable, human mark-making – audacious not only in its refusal to defer to digital modes, but also in its ability to express impractical joy. Audacious like Woody Guthrie’s guitar and like the artists themselves, who dare to paint “at a time like this.”
The 114th is a return to the origins of the Annual Exhibition. For the first 50 years of the series, exhibitions were made up almost entirely of paintings. Since then, exhibitions have highlighted the expanding breadth of media practiced by contemporary American artists. The Audacity of Paint is the first Annual in almost 30 years to focus exclusively on painting.
This exhibition was made possible through the generosity of Mary Gray Shockey ’69.
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Selections from the Permanent Collection
Ongoing
The Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College houses an outstanding collection of American art, chiefly paintings, works on paper, and photographs dating from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Explore this chronological exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection, including works by artists such as Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, and more. Explore works on view >>
Image: Edward Hopper, Mrs. Scott’s House, 1932, oil on canvas. Collection of the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College.
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