Tacoma Art Museum presents three captivating exhibitions this fall, Haunted and Cable Griffith: Uncanny Twilight, each offering a unique exploration of art and memory ,while the Benaroya Wing showcases are fresh with the museum’s Studio Art Glass collection.
The Haunted exhibition explores cinema as spectral memory, temporal disruption, and the protean meaning of being haunted. Sited at the intersection between cultural memory and lost futures, Haunte dcrosses sensory and disciplinary thresholds, examining the ways in which the past—both real and imagined—inform our present and future. Haunted contains moving image, installation, sculptural, and photographic works conjured from architecture, technology, pop culture, heritage, and nature. These works dissolve the separation between now and then, visitations to that which is present yet not real .Elements: Material and Process in the Moving Image are available at the monthly TAM Cinemaseries held ( November,January-May 2026) of moving-image works presented in conversation with the exhibition, Haunted.Curated by David Dinnell and Jay Kuehner.
Cable Griffith’s solo exhibition, Uncanny Twilight, explores the mysterious in-between state or place that his paintings seem to straddle. Between real and imagined, tangible and ethereal, interior and exterior, or digital and analog, Griffith’s work speaks to the enigmatic spaces that exist in our perception and reality. As Griffith explains, “As a kidg rowing up through the early 1980s, my sensibility of landscape space was heavily influenced by early video games and cartoons, long before I became exposed to painting as a history and practice. Now, landscape space is as much a mental space, as it is an illusionistic one. The idea of a wilderness feels inherently expansive and mysterious.”
Studio Art Glass at Tacoma Art Museum(Ongoing). Explore the new installation featuring visitor favorites alongside recent acquisitions and lesser seen works from the museum’s Studio Art Glass collection. This exhibition showcases the beauty and innovation of studio art glass, highlighting the diverse and captivating pieces that have become beloved by our visitors .Curated by Ellen Ito and Jessica Wilks.
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