Selected Donations: Winter 2026
On the heels of our 2025 Year in Review, we want to take a look back at some of the donations we’ve already completed together in 2026.
Among the gifts formally accessioned by our museum members in the first quarter of the year are works by Latine artists such as Amy Bravo (American, b. 1997) and Mateo López (Colombian, b. 1978), whose practices explore personal narratives, cartographies, and journeys. Parallel feminist investigations of identity are present in newly acquired works from artists like Vadis Turner (American, b. 1977) and Melissa Joseph (Indian-American, b. 1980), which not-so-coincidentally intersect with craft vocabularies.
Other particularly resonant placements included the work of Yuichi Higashionna (Japanese, b. 1951), which found a home in the permanent collection of the Crow Museum of Asian Art of the University of Texas at Dallas, and a grouping of works from Marnie Weber (American, b. 1959) eagerly brought in by Laguna Art Museum, which exhibited a prior gift of Weber’s work received through Museum Exchange just last year.
We hope you’ll take a moment to celebrate these works that our museum network welcomed into their collections this winter!
Amy Bravo, Untitled, 2020, acrylic, graphite, and mixed media on canvas, 80 x 64 inches. Collection of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY; Gift of John Friedman / Easton Capital Collection.
Mateo López, Bolillo (Baton), 2016, ink on paper, 30 x 23 inches. Collection of Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR; Gift of Olivia Marciano.
Vadis Turner, Sekhmet, 2023, bedsheets, mineral wool (nontoxic), polyester fiberfill, steel, mixed media, 80 x 70 x 10 inches. Collection of Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; Gift in Honor of Rosemary Paschall.
Yuichi Higashionna, Untitled (Chandelier 14, 2010, fluorescent light, electric wires, aluminum, and ballast, edition 1 of 3 +1AP, 51 1/4 x 31 1/2 x 21 1/2. Collection of Crow Museum of Asian Art, Richardson, TX; Gift of the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation.
Kelley Walker, Aquafresh plus Crest with Whitener, 2003, print, 47 x 23 inches. Collection of Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Gift of John Friedman / Easton Capital Collection.
Richard C. Thompson, Horizon/Fields #18, 2010, oil on canvas, 67 x 73 x 1 inches. Collection of Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT; Gift of the Estate of Richard C. Thompson, Kymberli Contreras (artist’s widow), and William Campbell Gallery.
Marnie Weber, The Cavern of Untold Secrets, 2013; The Waterfall of Forevermore, 2013; The Goodnight Garden, 2012; collage and acrylic paint on panel, 66 x 36 x 2 1/2 inches (each). Collection of Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Gift of the Shaw Weber Family Trust.
Cory Arcangel, Fashion / Lakes, 2015, 1920x1080 H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 looped digital file (from 11 lossless TIFF masters), media player, 79 x 36 1/2 x 11 inches. Collection of Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY; Gift of Maurice Marciano.
