Past Exhibits

Gallery Exhibits

Gregory Schreck: All Are Welcome
August 28th – October 4th
Details on Schreck Exhibit

Jessica Henderson: "Look, Look. There is something."
October 17th – November 14th
Details on Henderson Exhibit

Cherith Lundin: The Garden, The Wall, The Light
January 30 – February 27th
Details on Lundin Exhibit

Student Gallery Exhibits

Unless otherwise noted, these exhibits will be in the Walford Galleries.

• Fall Graduate Senior Show
  Reception: Friday, November 15th, 5:00pm
  Open: November 14th – December 13th
  Fireside Room, Lower Beamer
• 12x12x12x12
  Reception: Thursday, December 5^th, 4:00pm
  Open: December 2nd – January 16th
• Senior Shows Round I
  Reception: Friday, March 21st, 5:00pm
  Open: March 20th – April 1st
• Senior Shows Round II
  Reception: Friday, April 11th, 5:00pm
  Open: April 10 – 22nd
• Commencement Show
  Reception: May 11th, 5:00pm
  Open: May 1st– 11th

HARD EDGES / SOFT FOCUS
Kaye Lee Patton, Melanie Pankau, and Heather Jones
January 11 - February 2, 2024
Curated by Michelle Westmark Wingard, this exhibition featured installation, painting, and textile work by Kaye Lee Patton, Melanie Pankau, and Heather Jones. It explored themes of abstraction as they relate to ideas of identity/belonging, physicality/presence, and matrilineal connections to the history/culture of painting.

The Architecture of Prayer
February 8 – March 1, 2024
Curated by Amanda Iglesias '14, The Architecture of Prayer is an international survey of the contemporary church. The exhibition showcased drawings and travel photography of historic church buildings in dialogue with new projects built between 1999 and the present, contributed by over 20 global and local architecture firms. This exhibition was featured in Walford Galleries and Marj Meade Gallery and included site-specific sketches of Armerding. More about The Architecture of Prayer can be found here, and an interview between Matthew Milliner and Amanda Iglesias ’14 can be found here. Photos are by Marissa Iglesias ’16.

Rainbow Lexicon: Experiments in Light & Color
Mara Baker
August 23 – September 22, 2023
Rainbow Lexicon showcased a new site-specific light installation as well as a selection of paintings, animations, collages, and photographs focused on Baker’s ongoing experiments with light and color. The works in the exhibition highlighted the interplay between synthetic high-contrast colors of the urban environment and the more nuanced color of naturally derived inks made from weeds, wildflowers, bark, and insects. Through Mara Baker's thoughtful and cross-disciplinary interventions, the exhibition highlighted the myriad of ways we experience color.

The Sound of Her Exhale
Justine Chang
September 28 – October 27, 2023
Justine Chang, an artist interested in the gaps between history and memory, showcased her latest project, which began with her grandmother's death and the increase in anti-Asian violence at the height of the pandemic. She sifted through her photographic archive, searching for her grandmother and the women she had overlooked in the past. The work was printed on hanji—Korean paper made from the fibers of the paper mulberry tree.

Unbridled Encounters
Nnenna Okore
November 3 – October 27, 2023
Nnenna Okore's works focused on ecological concerns related to waste, carbon emissions, and energy consumption. Using plant-based materials, she created bioplastics made into large sculptural forms and art installations. Okore’s use of biodegradable materials not only aestheticized ecological issues but also contributed to their solution by producing less waste and posing little risk to the environment.

Hold Your Breath

Joonhee Park

Adams Hall: Walford Galleries
Nov 3 – Dec 9, 2022

Nonword and Upward Juried Student Exhibition

Adams Hall: Walford Galleries
Jan 12–30, 2023

Rituals

Brenton Good, Mandy Cano Villalobos, Marissa Voytenko
Feb 9 – Mar 4, 2022

Winter's Spring: an Ältere Garten

Leslie Iwai
Jan 10 – Feb 2, 2022

What We Do in the Shadows

Alyssa Smith, Cherith Lundin, HwaHyun Kim, Kaye Lee Patton, Leah Samuelson, Maya Shoshani, SoYoung Park
Curated by Kaye Lee Patton

November 22nd – December 16th

Wait. Repeat

Krista Brand and David JP Hooker

September 29th – October 26th

Stranger Fruit

Jon Henry

August 25th – September 23rd

State of the DysUnion II

Joyce Yu-Jean Lee

September 30th – October 29th, 2020

VIDEO: State of the DysUnion II Gallery Walkthrough

On Building and Rebuilding

Kelly Kristin Jones

August 26th – September 17th, 2020

Night Desert Garden

Matt Doll

December 12th - January 31st 2020

Blood and Milk

Joonhee Elliot Park

October 3rd - November 1st

Sargasso

Kenneth Steinbach

August 29th - September 26th

How the Light Gets In

Cherith Lundin

January 8th - February 9th

Original Blessing

Greg Halvorsen Schreck

August 29th - September 28th

Art of Protest / Art of Dreams

January 8th - February 9th

Breath/e

Elicia Castle

January 9th - February 9th

Close Contact

Marina Kuchinski

August 21st - September 15th

GAME

Stephen Signa-Avilés

August 21st - September 15th

Land Gap Junction

Leah Samuelson

October 19th - November 17th

Boats and Bridges

Marissa Voytenko

November 20th - December 23rd

Made in Chicago

Gallery of Contemporary Mosaics - Group Show

January 8th - February 11th

Floorplans, Models, Souvenirs

Work by the Weaving Mill

August 22nd - September 23rd

Vigil

David JP Hooker and Joel Sheesley

November 11th - December 21st

The House We ___

Will Carpenter

January 7th - February 12th

Master Printer: Artist and Collaborator

Timothy Sheesley

August 17th - September 24th

Braids & Nails

Sarah Beth Woods

October 12th - November 6th

Bodies in a River - Tracing the Moments of an Iconic Mission

Brad Johnson

November 11th - December 16th

Group Show

Cherith Lundin, Elizabeth R. Curtis, Emily Schroeder Willis

January 13th - February 14th

Ordinary Objects for Ordinary Time: Porcelain Sculpture

Ginger Henry Geyer

August 25th - September 26th

Cola Culture in Tea Time

WangLing Chou

August 25th - September 26th

Uncommon Ground

Joel Sheesley

November 11th - December 18th

Berhampore to Kolkata

Greg Halvorsen Schreck

November 11th - December 18th

Figurative Paintings, 1980 - 2012

Douglas R. Giebel

August 22nd - October 3rd

Bee in Hand

Jeremy Botts

November - December

On the Fly

Judith Raphael

January 25th - February 29th

Self Portrait / Personal Apocalypse

Joel Sheesley

May 9th - June 8th

The Unreality of Objects

David JP Hooker

August - September

Italian Light

Douglas R. Gilbert

October - November

Caught on Tape

Susanna Vagt

November 8th - December 20th

Exposed: undercover

Maggie Meiners

October 20th - November 22nd

Charis: Boundary Crossings

Group Show

August 22nd - September 23rd