Academic Museums and Galleries
Heidi Hogden: Uncertain Terrain
Heidi Hogden: Uncertain Terrain consists of graphite drawings and paper sculptures created by Hogden while she was the Artist-in-Resident at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Through these works, Hogden explores the physical frailty of the natural world and the relationship between place and identity on a symbolic level. This work represents moments of transformation;…
Read MoreThe Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, considered the father of modern neuroscience, was also an exceptional artist. He drew the brain in a way that provided a clarity exceeding that achieved by photographs. Combining scientific and artistic skills to produce drawings with extraordinary scientific and aesthetic qualities, his theory that the brain is composed of individual cells…
Read MoreLynette McCarthy “Life after Death” MFA exhibition
This series provides an extended look at the physical and psychological shifts that occur when negotiating the role of widower. My work chronicles one of the eldest members of my family, documenting the everyday while providing a critique on the quiet and isolating conditions of his current stage of life. I am primarily concerned with…
Read MoreWE CAN MAKE IT The Prints of Corita Kent
Corita Kent was a fine art printmaker and educator. In her teaching and her art, Corita Kent emphasized the importance of words. Individual letters were used as sources for shape and form, and graphically rearranged to make a visual impact. The content of the words was of equal importance. She drew inspiration from poetry, literature…
Read More“Beauty and the Beast: Herman Mhire”
The College of the Arts will honor the SPARK Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Herman Mhire, with an exhibition of 80 of his framed photographs. The exhibit opens March 5 and continues through March 24, 2017 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Herman Mhire “Green Leaves Falling” – 7 x 5 Herman Mhire “Demon 5” -…
Read MoreTodd Stewart “Photographs from A Narrative Atlas of the Great Basin”
Landscapes are constructs. They are derived from the complex layering of a particular physical geography with the cultural, political, and other ideological concerns of those that inhabit them. Because they represent an accumulation of human activity over time, their meaning is contingent upon, and reflective of, both historical and contemporary values. A Narrative Atlas of…
Read MoreINVASIVE: Photographs by David Luke
David Luke’s body of work, Invasive, combines photographic imagery of northern Minnesota’s boreal forest with the state’s southern and central prairies. These collaged images visualize imminent transformations to the state’s land and water due to climate change and invasive species. David Luke “Big Lake, Boundary Waters” Archival Inkjet Print David Luke: “Big Moose Lake, Boundary…
Read MoreOSÉ GUADALUPE POSADA and the Mexican Penny Press
José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) was one of Mexico’s most influential political printmakers and cartoonists. Posada produced an extensive body of imagery, from illustrations for children’s games to sensationalistic news stories. He is best known, however, for his popular and satirical representations of calaveras (skeletons) in lively guises, who have become associated with the Día de…
Read MoreThere was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman at the Smart Museum of Art
An extraordinary collection of 830 photographic works spanning from 1844 to 2012, given as a bequest to the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, forms the basis of “There was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman” exhibition. There was a whole collection made mines the Estate of Lester and…
Read MoreODESSA / ОДЕ?ССА ‐ Babel, Ladyzhensky, and the Soul of a City at Yeshiva University Museum
Through the pairing and perspectives of two artists – the writer Isaac Babel and the painter Yefim Ladyzhensky – ODESSA / ОДЕ?ССА: BABEL, LADYZHENSKY AND THE SOUL OF A CITY offers an enriching dialogue between two masters across different media, bringing to life a city in the midst of revolution. The original exhibition immerses visitors…
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