The Menil Collection will present "Abstraction after Modernism: Recent Acquisitions," which highlights work made by artists who have forged new paths in their approaches to non-representational art.

The Menil has actively grown its collection through acquisitions, promised gifts, and bequests, acquiring significant works by women and artists of color. Bringing together acquisitions made by the Menil over the past fifteen years, the display includes work by Agnes Denes, Suzan Frecon, Sam Gilliam, Leslie Hewitt, Dorothy Hood, Ellsworth Kelly, Rick Lowe, and Richard Serra, among others.

The show opens with four mixed media works from Sam Gilliam's Jail Jungle series of the late 1960s. The series - three-dimensional assemblages that reference self-portraiture and are uniquely positioned among Gilliam's oeuvre - were created from found objects and ephemera that surrounded Gilliam's studio practice and highlight his penchant for exploration. Gilliam belonged to a generation of Black artists who ignited impactful conversations around race and abstraction, and his work was included in "The De Luxe Show," a breakthrough 1971 Houston presentation underwritten by the Menil Foundation.

The exhibition will remain on display through August 25.