New Realism, July 2025 – November 20, 2025

Daniel Gerhartz (b. 1965, West Bend, WI), Follow Me, 1995. Oil on canvas, 60.25 x 60 in. Museum Purchase in memory of Betty Monroe, 1996,11

Benjamin Shamback (b. 1974, Hartford, CT) Ford Lilies on Blue, 2014. Oil on copper, 30 x 20 in. Museum Purchase in Memory of Linda Berry and Anita Kimbrough, Funds Provided by the Dr. John Rison Jones, Jr. Acquisition Fund and the Susy and Robert Thurber Acquisition Fund, 2017,06

New Realism explores the enduring relevance of representational art in an age often defined by abstraction and conceptualism. This compelling exhibition highlights a diverse group of American artists who have embraced realism not as nostalgia, but as a powerful and evolving language.

Featuring works from the Huntsville Museum of Art’s permanent collection, the exhibition reveals how these painters have revitalized traditional genres landscape, portraiture, still life—with a contemporary sensibility and astonishing technical skill.