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Email: davisgallery@hws.edu
Phone: (315) 781-3487
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Dr. Anna Wager
Visual Arts Curator
Department of Art and Architecture
wager@hws.edu
(315) 781-3483
HWS Art Collections and Institutional Faces
February 4-March 4, 2022 | Davis Gallery
This exhibition, drawn from the HWS Art Collections, will examine the artistic genre of portraiture. Images of humans are never just about replicating features: these images are about controlling a narrative, unequal systems of power, questions of immortality, and a marker of admiration. The fall 2021 curatorial students will be examining the fraught and powerful nature of portraiture through the lens of institutional critique, and applying this to the Collections at HWS. This exhibition will coincide with the Hobart Bicentennial, so we will also be examining and including portraits of HWS’s own—who is represented, who is not, and why.
Image: Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), Mimi, 2007, linocut
October 15-December 1, 2021 | Davis Gallery
Afrofutures: Before & Beyond is an exhibition of art that communicates the philosophies, politics, and aesthetics of Afrofuturism. The Afrofuturist art included imagines a place and time wherein Black identity and experience are defined absent of colonial ideologies. Like much Afrofuturist art, it is hybrid, diasporic, technocritical, and malleable. It figures bodies and ways of being that are neither necessarily utopic nor apocalyptic. In short: It builds other worlds. Afrofutures: Before and Beyond will feature a variety of media including digital collage, sculpture, installation, graphic arts, music and film. Artists include Kimberly Ashby, Tania Balan-Gaubert, and Stacey Robinson. Exhibition is organized by Christine Goding-Doty, James McCorkle, Robinson Murphy, Angelique Szymanek, and Anna Wager.
Image: Stacey Robinson, Afrotopia 1, 2016, digital collage print
April 29-May 22, 2022 | Davis and Solarium Galleries
The annual Student Art and Architecture Exhibition presents the work of students taking classes in the Department of Art and Architecture. Faculty select work for the show that reflects a high level of creativity, critical engagement and technical accomplishment. Students in art history courses assist in the curation and design of the show. Ranging broadly in concept, media, and materials, the selected work showcases a variety of responses to the worlds of contemporary fine art and architecture. Please join us for this dynamic exhibition!
Image: Isabella Pardales ’21, Seneca Meadows, Mended, detail, 2020, thread and paper