Friday, April 19 | 4:30 p.m.
Wriston Art Center
Artist Robin Jebavy will discuss her practice and the large scale paintings in her exhibition, Expanding Fields. https://robinjebavy.com/
Everyone is welcome! Reception with refreshments to follow.
Monday, March 4 | 4:30 p.m.
Wriston Art Galleries
Poetry reading featuring Dasha Kelly Hamilton, former Poet Laureate for the City of Milwaukee and the 2020-2022 Poet Laureate for the State of Wisconsin. Part of Black Feminist Fortnight programs.
Read more about Dasha here: https://poets.org/poet/dasha-kelly-hamilton
Part of Black Feminist Fortnight programs, generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges.
Wednesday, Feb. 28 | 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Wriston Art Galleries
Come relax and listen to N.K. Jemisin short fiction from “How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?” The first 30 folks will receive a paperback copy of the book.
Part of the Black Feminist Fortnight Programs. Generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges.
Thursday, Feb. 22 | 4:30 p.m.
Wriston Art Center
Also a showing of The Donnor Party, a creative commentary on colonization
Reception with refreshments to follow.
Part of Black Feminist Fortnight programs, generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges.
January 12 – March 8
What is an identity, but a story of self? As an artist with cultural ties to multiple empires, I am unwinding the mythologies of United States and Japanese nationalism that I’ve been taught, and am weaving new stories to tell about myself and my people. In the diaspora, I both yearn towards the past, longing for a stronger connection to my ancestors, and towards the future, desperately envisioning a future where me and my communities are rooted deeply enough in order to withstand the coming climate hardship. In this tension between past and future, I paint yōkai, the strange spirit creatures of Japanese myth.
Yōkai are not exactly ghost, or monster, or spirit, but a wide umbrella category holding all of these and more. I am drawn to these creatures’ tendency to inhabit in between space, and I paint them to help me release rage, evoke cycles, channel joy, and remember what’s been lost.
These paintings were originally commissioned as a set of 16 chapter headers for my sister Jami Nakamura Lin’s debut memoir The Night Parade (2023), published by Mariner HarperCollins. My goal in illustrating The Night Parade was to depict yōkai that had escaped the idealized, frozen concept of ancient Japan, and had re-rooted in the complexities of my second-and-fourth-generation Taiwanese, Japanese, and Okinawan American experience. Cori Nakamura Lin – Artist Statement
The End of Somewhere uses San Francisco as a vehicle to explore multiplicities of identity, memory, and history; Kayla Bauer works with photography, text, and found imagery to create fragmentary narratives that may or may not be rooted in reality. Bauer is currently completing a Ph.D at UW-Madison and her MFA thesis exhibition, I Left My Heart…, was awarded the 2022 Russell and Paula Panczenko Prize.
An exhibition of sculptural works curated around Senga Nengudi’s multi-part A.C.Q. (Air Conditioning Queen), on loan from the Art Bridges Foundation. A.C.Q. is a mixed-media installation, composed of found metal refrigerator parts and donated second-hand nylon pantyhose. This juxtaposition of the rigid-industrial-abstract and the elastic-intimate-human give us a means to think through ideas about gender and resilience. Sculpture and installation pieces by Monty Little, Anna Campbell, and Callie Kiesow present similarly startling juxtapositions, with isolated elements of the human body paired with and disrupted by pattern and abstraction; they also offer expansive ways of thinking about how these formal cues signal larger ideas about identity and survival.
Friday, May 26 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. – Opening reception with refreshments
An exhibition of works by Lawrence University’s 2023 senior studio art majors:
Jordan Barber
Mason Brandon
Bettina Coker
Maisie Conrad-Poor
Emma Goodman
Ethan Harnisch
Mara Logan
Astra Medeiros
Nolan Pudoff
Leila Raymond
Marifé Entenza Sierra
Charlie Wetzel
Jingquan Xiong
Bowen Zheng
May 26 – June 25, 2023 – Wriston Art Galleries
Open Tuesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
& Saturday–Sunday, Noon–4 p.m.
Thursday, April 6 at 4:30 p.m.
Wriston Art Center
Join us for a talk by artist David Najib Kasir on his exhibition, Addition of Tremors by Remainder of Years of Fire, and his painting practice. Opening reception with refreshments to follow.
Find more information on the Facebook Event and more about the Spring 2023 exhibitions on the LU website.
Celebrate the opening of the Winter 2023 exhibitions – including the Studio Art Faculty Exhibition! Reception with refreshments
Friday, Jan. 13, 4:30 – 6:30 pm, Wriston Art Galleries
Winter 2023 Exhibitions:
– Louise Bourgeois: What Is the Shape of This Problem?
– Fortnight: Celebrating Black History and Women’s History Months
– Suzanne Duchamp: The Last Decade
– Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
More about the 2022-23 exhibitions here.
Participate in interdisciplinary conversations with LU faculty and handle Ancient and Medieval coins from the Ottilia M. Buerger ’38 Coin Collection.
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 3:30-5 pm – Wriston 227 Print Study Room
Free and open to the public! FB event here.
If you are preparing to move buildings or change offices, please let the Wriston Art Galleries staff know if you are taking any artwork from the LU collection to your new space. It helps us keep track of artworks for inventory and insurance.
If you do not want to move the artwork in your current office, we are happy to come and pick it up – same if you arrive in your new space and there are things you don’t want on the walls. If you aren’t sure if something is part of the collection, we can come check it out, too. Just please don’t stash it in a closet.
Send a note to: wriston-gallery@lawrence.edu and Beth Zinsli or Madison Pierson will be in touch.
Thank you for helping us avoid artworks going missing (like this painting!) and keeping the art collection available for future Lawrentians.
