SARASOTA, FLA.- Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design will present a new season of exhibitions that bridge the past and the present, explore personal and cultural identity and highlight geometric abstraction. The upcoming slate of exhibitions will feature works by Louise Bourgeois, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, David Hockney, Sol LeWitt and others. The 2026 season also continues with a rare, intimate look at the work, career and artistic process of Janet Echelman and an exhibition celebrating Art Deco’s centennial.

Upcoming Exhibitions

“Maria A. Guzmán Capron: Penumbra”
April 19-Sept. 27

Maria A. Guzmán Capron explores the complexities of identity through her vibrant figurative textiles in a new solo exhibition. Born in Milan, Italy to Peruvian and Colombian parents and later relocating to Texas as a teenager, the California-based artist understands first-hand the challenges of toggling between different cultures and geographies. Capron channels these personal experiences into her artwork, creating layered portraits of exuberant, multi-faceted characters.

Through her use of various hand-dyed and painted fabrics, Capron asks viewers to consider the way our own identities have been stitched together over time — beautiful, ever-evolving collages of ancestry, culture and life experiences. Capron’s plush, flowing figures merge, embrace and spill into one another, inviting us to recognize ourselves in others, see others within ourselves and find comfort and beauty in being “in between.”

“Maria A. Guzmán Capron: Penumbra” is organized by Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design and curated by Lacie Barbour, associate curator of exhibitions at Sarasota Art Museum.


William Villalongo (American, born 1975). “Mother Tongue,” 2020. Acrylic, cut velour paper and pigment print collage, 40 x 40 in. (sheet); 44 ⅛ x 43 ⅜ in. (frame). Courtesy of ©Villalongo Studio LLC and Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC. In the collection of Stanton Storer, St. Petersburg, FL.

“Something Borrowed, Something New”
April 19-Sept. 27

Featuring works by such acclaimed modern and contemporary artists as Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Yoko Ono, David Hockney, Ai Weiwei and others, “Something Borrowed, Something New” offers a rare glimpse into private collections held throughout Southwest Florida. From paintings, sculptures and prints to photographs and video works, the exhibition showcases a diverse range of artworks produced by some of the most prominent artists of our time.

Complementing these borrowed selections, this show also features exciting new works and creates a dialogue between the works of late 20th-century trailblazers and today’s leading global artists. Together, this curation celebrates a passion for the visual arts.

“Something Borrowed, Something New” is organized by Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design and curated by Rangsook Yoon, senior curator at Sarasota Art Museum.


Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007), “Loopy Doopy, Blue/Red,” 2000, Oil-based woodcut, 20 5/8 × 28 5/8 in. (52.3 × 72.6 cm). New Britain Museum of American Art, Gift of Sol LeWitt © Estate of Sol LeWitt 2025

“Beautiful Ideas: The Prints of Sol LeWitt”
May 17-Oct. 25

Regarded as one of the founders of both minimalism and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) is best known for his large-scale wall drawings and modular structures. Alongside these works, LeWitt generated more than 350 print projects during his 40-year artistic career, including thousands of lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, aquatints, woodcuts and linocuts. Printmaking proved to be the perfect medium for LeWitt’s brand of conceptual art, in which the “idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”

“Beautiful Ideas: The Prints of Sol LeWitt” includes over 40 objects, consisting of single prints and print series, for a total of over 100 prints. The exhibition explores the artist’s extensive body of prints, beginning with his earliest works and extending through his mature expressions in abstraction. Organized in four thematic sections — “Lines, Arcs, Circles and Grids,” “Bands and Colors,” “From Geometric Figures to Complex Forms” and “Wavy, Curvy, Loopy Doopy and in All Directions” — the exhibition reflects the bold geometric shapes and precise lines that defined LeWitt’s artistic style.

“Beautiful Ideas: The Prints of Sol LeWitt” is organized by the New Britain Museum of American Art and curated by David S. Areford, professor of art history at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Exhibitions Currently on View


Installation view of “Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration” at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

“Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration”
Through March 29, 2026

“Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration” celebrates the centennial of Art Deco as an artistic style and its influence on illustration, typography and the art of printed graphics. The exhibition showcases 70 rare posters from the Crouse collection created by some of the world’s earliest master graphic designers during the 1920s and 1930s. The imagery celebrates modernity, dynamism and luxury, with subjects such as automobiles, airlines, ocean liners, drinks and tobacco, revealing the dreams and desires of the turbulent early 20th century. The exhibition also nods to the era’s design aesthetic with selected sculptural works and cocktail shakers from the Crouse collection and Art Deco furniture on loan from the Wolfsonian Museum at Florida International University in Miami.

“Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration” is organized by Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design and curated by Rangsook Yoon, senior curator at Sarasota Art Museum.


Installation view of “Selina Román: Abstract Corpulence” at Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 2025. Photo: Ryan Gamma.

“Selina Román: Abstract Corpulence”
Through March 29, 2026

New works by Selina Román blend photography, abstraction and self-portraiture to explore themes of beauty and the politics of size. “Abstract Corpulence” features photographs that transform the human body into gently rolling landscapes and modernist-inspired compositions. Roman’s photographs feature tightly cropped images of the artist’s own body, boldly occupying the full composition and extending past the boundaries of each frame. Pastel bodysuits and tights transform the artist’s flesh into amorphous shapes; her stomach, thighs and hips becoming formal studies of line, shape and color. The softly hued palette lends itself to the narratives of feminine beauty and invites viewers to consider the human form from a point of true abstraction.

“Selina Román: Abstract Corpulence” is organized by Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design and curated by Rangsook Yoon, senior curator at Sarasota Art Museum.

“Janet Echelman: Radical Softness”
Through April 26, 2026

Janet Echelman’s work defies categorization. Sculpting at the scale of buildings and city blocks, her practice intersects contemporary art, architecture, engineering, dance and landscape architecture.. “Radical Softness” offers a rare look into Echelman’s artistic evolution across four decades, from early explorations in drawing, painting and textile methods to the iconic, ethereal netted sculptures that have redefined public spaces around the world. The exhibition reveals the influences and processes that have driven the artist’s career and highlights her use of softness as a powerful material and philosophical tool. “Radical Softness” demonstrates how an artist’s work can bring people together and carve out space for reflection in an ever-changing world.

“Janet Echelman: Radical Softness” is organized by Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design and curated by Lacie Barbour, associate curator of exhibitions at Sarasota Art Museum.