Portrait of a Movement:

A New Approach to the Bloomsbury Group

June 7 – August 31, 2025 at Rollins Museum of Art

Roger Fry (British, 1866-1934), Summer in the Garden, 1911, oil on panel, 19 x 23 1/8 in.

In December 1910, Virginia Woolf famously remarked that human character changed—an observation tied to the groundbreaking Post-Impressionist exhibitions organized by Roger Fry, which introduced modernist ideas to London. The Bloomsbury Group, including Fry, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and others, emerged from this moment, redefining the boundaries between art, literature, and critical thought.

The Rollins Museum of Art highlights this influential collective in Portrait of a Movement: A New Approach to the Bloomsbury Group. Rather than focusing on personal biographies, the exhibition emphasizes the group’s intellectual exchange and their engagement with modernist themes such as gender, domestic life, and European artistic movements.

Masks and Mirrors:

Reflections of Femininity in Photography

June 7 – August 31, 2025 at Rollins Museum of Art

Masks and Mirrors explores the performative nature of femininity through photography, beginning with Gillian Wearing’s 1992 self-portrait Me:Me, which examines how gender is constructed and displayed both publicly and privately. In an era shaped by social media and shifting beauty standards, the exhibition considers how photography—often seen as a tool of documentation—also invites artifice, with subjects deliberately posed, styled, and costumed. Drawing from the museum’s permanent collection, the show traces the evolving relationship between gender and technology from early photography to the rise of the Internet. Curated by Stella Morris ’26, Fred W. Hicks Curatorial Fellow.

Image: Derrick Adams, Floater 17, 2016, acrylic paint and fabric collage on paper, 50 x 50 inches. Pizzuti Collection © 2025 Derrick Adams