Exhibitions

CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

At the Crossroads with Benny Andrews, Flannery O’Connor, and Alice Walker, 
October 16 - May 18, 2023
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives & Rare Book Library
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
This exhibition features three artists whose archives are housed at Emory: Benny Andrews, Flannery O’Connor, and Alice Walker, all of whom grew up in middle Georgia. “Crossroads” uses rare archival photos, journals, letters, original manuscripts and artwork, and personal artifacts to understand their lives, and focuses on O’Connor’s short story, “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” which Andrews and Walker both engaged with and responded to in their own work.  

The Andrews Family Legacy
A new permanent exhibit opening October 29, 2023.
The Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA
This new permanent exhibition in Andrews’s native Morgan County, Georgia, showcases the artistic and literary contributions of members of the Andrews Family, including those of Benny Andrews, his brother, the author Raymond Andrews, Benny’s father, the artist George, ‘Dot Man’ Andrews, and his mother Viola.

Benjamin Wigfall & Communications Village
November 4, 2023 - March 24, 2024
Torggler Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
This exhibition is the first retrospective of work by Benjamin Wigfall, a native of Richmond, VA. It features Wigfall’s own work in addition to pieces belonging to artists like Andrews who worked at his community art space, Communications Village, in Kingston, New York. The exhibition includes Andrews’s 1973 painting Sexism Study #24.

Evergreen: Art from the Collection
Through December 31, 2025
San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
This collection, which highlights the SJMA’s permanent collection, includes Andrews’s 1966 painting Shadow Over the Land.