Current Lobby Exhibition
Student works from The Book As Art, an artists’ books course offered by the Department of English/Creative Writing and the Department of Studio Arts, Spring 2014
Working individually and in small groups students created artists’ books using their own texts and images. Each group conceptualized, created text and images for, and designed an artist’s book. The student collaborative groups created an edition of three or a set of related books. On view until January 2015 are a sampling of the collaborative works.
Previous Lobby Exhibitions
MARTIN CREED: more and less
Martin Creed's piece "All the sculpture in the collection" extends through the University Art Gallery as well as the front lobby of the Frick Fine Arts building. First exhibited at Southampton City Art Gallery, England, in 2000, Work No. 228 is here applied to the permanent collection of the University Art Gallery. This installation broadly conceptualizes the category of “sculpture,” to include all three-dimensional, sculptural objects that are currently accessioned to the University’s collection. The unconventional installation emphasizes the set of objects over and above any individual piece and, as such, it reveals a democratic sensibility that dismantles traditional hierarchies that often emerge in museum displays. Creed’s playful approach prompts viewers to address the University’s collection with fresh eyes. In effect, it makes a sculpture of the University’s collecting habits.
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Art of the Arctic
The University Art Gallery owns a collection of Inuit prints and carvings, donated in 2002 by Donald L. Nevins. A selection is currently displayed in the lobby of the Frick Fine Arts Building, curated by Isabelle Chartier, and shows works by influential artists of the Canadian Arctic, such as Johnny and Daniel Inukpuk, Takealook Temela, Joe Talirunili and Kananginak Pootoogook.
The Prints of Jaques Callot
The University Art Gallery is happy to present some of the conclusions resulting from the 2010 inventory of the Callot prints from the permanent collection.
Last year, 667 seventeenth-century prints were examined by Graduate student Rachel Miller and Undergraduate students Shana Cooperstein and Lauren Taylor, under the supervision of Isabelle Chartier. Half of this corpus of prints are by the famous French etcher Jacques Callot (1592-1635), while the others, until now considered as copies, were identified to be by well-known printmakers working in the manner of the great etching master.
Through a selection of prints by Jacques Callot, Stefano della Bella, Nicholas Cochin, Melchior and Johanna Sibylla Küsel, a small exhibition in the lobby of the Frick Fine Arts Building examines some aspects of reproductive printmaking and raises questions about copies and imitations, and how printmakers shared and borrowed styles and artistic motifs.