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Exhibition Archive

  • War Work: Artists Address Iraq and other Wars
    • Featuring works from Combat Paper, Sandow Birk, Daniel Heyman, John Risseeuw, Ehren Tool & Megan Vossler
    • 22 October 2009 — 18 November 2009
  • In Between: Kelly Connole and Beth Lo
    • Connole and Lo, both ceramic artists, delight in story-telling and artistic experimentation. Connole creates hybrid beasts that capture traits between species. Cast metal and assemblage, in addition to ceramics, enrich her artmaking toolbox. Lo, who has lately illustrated several children’s books, explores her Chinese American heritage through installations of tiny ceramic figures and through mixed-media collages.
    • 18 September 2009 — 17 October 2009
  • Senior Show 2009
    • Exhibition of the Studio Arts major's Integrative Exercise (comps). Opening reception in the Art Gallery Friday, May 15.
    • 15 May 2009 — 12 June 2009
  • Natural Resourcery: Studio Faculty Go Outdoors

    • Dan Bruggeman, Kelly Connole, Fred Hagstrom, David Lefkowitz, Stephen Mohring and Linda Rossi—artists who teach studio art at Carleton College—each address nature and culture in their work. Western culture romanticizes nature and exploits its resources. Americans love to “escape” to the woods, but hate bears, bugs, weeds and other “pests.” Natural Resourcery presents drawings, painting, photographs, sculpture, and other works that confront our paradoxical relationship to the natural world.

      Opening Reception in the Art Gallery Friday, April 3, 7-9 p.m. (Remarks by the artists at 7:30).

    • 3 April 2009 — 10 May 2009
  • Modernizing Melodrama
    • Modernizing Melodrama, an interdisciplinary investigation of film, theatre, art, media, investigates how melodrama modernizes itself in contemporary popular visual media and art. Using specific films and themes in cinema history as frames, this exhibition will present images and objects that embody the ongoing power and persistence of melodrama as an expressive practice.
      Image: Thomas Allen, "Reflex", c-print, 20x24 inches
    • 9 January 2009 — 12 March 2009
  • World Ceramics: Transforming Women's Traditions
    • This exhibition highlights ceramists and ceramics from points around the world where the makers are traditionally female, and explores innovative work based on transformations of older forms and designs. From Ecuador to Indonesia, Africa and the US and UK, this show features work by women who maintain strong links with their indigenous identity and lifestyle but shape their ceramics in response to new markets and audiences. "World Ceramics" also presents artists raised and educated in the First World who effectively reinvent traditions to which they are connected by ethnicity or ancestry. "World Ceramics: Transforming Women’s Traditions" is jointly sponsored by the Carleton College Art Gallery in Northfield and the Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis. (Image: work of Helga Gamboa)
    • 19 September 2008 — 19 November 2008
  • Senior Show 2008
    • The annual finale of the Studio Arts major's Integrative Exercise (comps). Opening reception in the Art Gallery Friday, May 16.
    • 16 May 2008 — 13 June 2008
  • Whistler Circles
    • James McNeil Whistler (1834-1903) was a gifted painter and forceful spokesman for artistic reform in the 19th century. Also a consummate printmaker, he created subtle and original images in etching and lithography. Whistler Circles celebrates the artist's influence and achievements by presenting prints by Whistler, and by the American, English and European artists in his artistic orbit. This exhibition will be curated by a team of Carleton students over winter term, in collaboration with Laurel Bradley, Director of Exhibitions. (Image: Joseph Pennell's etching, "St. Paul's Pavement", 1905)
    • 4 April 2008 — 11 May 2008
  • Functional Sculpture: Furniture from the Upper Midwest
    • When does furniture become art? To answer this question, Carleton's winter exhibition presents chairs, tables, cabinets and other types of furniture by fifteen Upper Midwest furniture makers, sculptors, and industrial designers. The objects in Functional Sculpture range from exquisitely crafted one-of-a-kind studio furniture to multiples designed for mass production. The artists, from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, are united in their entrepreneurial attitudes and individualistic spirits.
    • 11 January 2008 — 10 March 2008
  • Vantage Points II: Picturing Students
    • Three Minnesota-based photographers interpret Carleton College through its students and their particular rituals and organizations. Wing Young Huie, Angela Strassheim, and Xavier Tavera each brought their own unique sensibilities to bear on Vantage Points II, a project to photographically render an institution. In 2001-02 Chris Faust, Beth Dow and Alec Soth, charged with photographically defining "campus as place," contributed to the first Vantage Points, which was oriented toward landscape.
    • 19 October 2007 — 14 November 2007
  • The Buckthorn Menace
    • The Buckthorn Menace, a large-scale sculpture installation by artist Jim Proctor, pursues a novel alliance between art and environmental restoration by rendering the wood and roots of the invasive plant species buckthorn into forms resembling gargantuan dandelions in full seed.
    • 13 October 2007 — 31 October 2008
  • Seeing is Knowing: The Body
    • Seeing is Knowing: the Body will present six contemporary artists who interpret the human condition through the body, using techniques from printmaking and painting to video projection. For context, the exhibition also presents lavishly illustrated historical medical atlases on loan from Carleton's Gould Library and the Bakken Library & Museum, Minneapolis.
    • 14 September 2007 — 14 October 2007
  • Senior Show 2007
    • 11 May 2007 — 9 June 2007
  • Gender Stitchery
    • Gender Stitchery brings together nine artists from New York, Chicago, Arizona and points in between who knit and sew art. Stitchery, only recently deemed a legitimate artistic medium, is showing up in surprising and varied works by long-established and emergent artists.
    • 30 March 2007 — 6 May 2007
  • Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints
    • Japanese woodblock prints by Chikanobu, a leading master from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, chart changes in artistic style and transformations in Japanese culture.
    • 12 January 2007 — 4 March 2007
  • Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography
    • Two contemporary artists - one based in New York and the other in Beirut, create installations exploring how photographic portraiture operated in the Middle East over the last century.
    • 13 October 2006 — 15 November 2006
  • New Art, New Ideas: Students Curate the Collection
    • This show, curated by six Carleton students, will open the doors to the little-known Carleton art collection by highlighting works obtained over the past ten years.
    • 16 September 2006 — 4 October 2006
  • Senior Show 2006
    • Senior Studio Art majors present their work
    • 12 May 2006 — 9 June 2006
  • Linda Rossi: Sound Suspended
    • 7 April 2006 — 7 May 2006
  • The Record Show Poster Show
    • Organized by Richard Shelton, LP collector and teacher at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
    • 18 February 2006 — 10 March 2006
  • Dafatir: Contemporary Book Art by Iraqi Artists
    • "Dafatir" means notebook in Arabic. Dafatir, the exhibition, highlights the flourishing book arts in modern day Iraq and celebrates the persistence of the artistic impulse in a nation troubled by tyranny and war.
    • 6 January 2006 — 12 February 2006
  • Sue Johnson: Alternate Encyclopedia
    • Paintings, prints, drawings of specimens from nature, inflected with surrealist humor. Installed as a three-dimensional "encyclopedia" complete with "real" specimens.
    • 16 September 2005 — 13 November 2005
  • Senior Art Exhibit 2005: Better Living Through Art
    • Senior studio art majors present their comps projects in the Art Gallery
    • 13 May 2005 — 10 June 2005
  • Mirror of the Wood: A Century of the Woodcut Print in Finland
    • Curated by Karen Kunc and Jukka Partanen. Organized by the Department of Art and Art History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    • 8 April 2005 — 8 May 2005
  • Rising Waters: Ed Burtynsky and Lois Conner
    • Photographing China's Three Gorges Dam Region
    • 11 February 2005 — 10 March 2005
  • "Topics for Further Discussion" David Lefkowitz, Stephen Mohring
    • Lefkowitz, painter, and Mohring, sculptor, share the fruits of their recent art-making sabbaticals.
    • 7 January 2005 — 6 February 2005
  • Perils and Pleasures: Tales from Masami Teraoka 1976-2003
    • Using a pop sensibility and a wicked sense of humor, Teraoka adapts the visual world of Japanese prints to comment on East/West encounters.
    • 17 September 2004 — 17 November 2004
  • Thinskinned
    • Projections and Prints by Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault
    • 8 April 2004 — 9 May 2004
  • Kettles: Japanese Artistry and American Artists
    • 16 January 2004 — 10 March 2004
  • Successions
    • Prints by African American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele collection
    • 19 September 2003 — 26 October 2003
  • American Scenes Beween The Wars: The Fine Print
    • Prints by Rockwell Kent, Gene Kloss, John Sloan, Wanda Gag, Thomas Hart Benton, Paul Cadmus, Grant Wood, and more
    • 10 April 2003 — 14 June 2003
  • Charles Matson Lume
    • 4 April 2003 — 11 May 2003
  • Antarctic Visions and Voices
    • Stuart Klipper, photographer; Douglas Quin, sound recordist; and David Rosenthal, painter
    • 17 January 2003 — 11 March 2003
  • Twigonometry
    • A sculpture by Patrick Dougherty on the Bald Spot, Carleton College
    • 25 September 2002 — 13 October 2002
  • Stickman
    • Photography and video of the creation of Patrick Dougherty's project Twigonometry.
    • 25 September 2002 — 13 October 2002
  • 2002 Senior Art Show
    • Senior studio art majors present their comps projects in the Art Gallery.
    • 17 May 2002 — 15 June 2002
  • Art and Life in Burkina Faso, Land of Upright People
    • In Burkina Faso, art is not just something to look at, but also serves life-sustaining purposes, vital to the well-being of individuals and the larger society.
    • 3 April 2002 — 8 May 2002
  • Vantage Points: Campus as Place
    • Beth Dow, Chris Faust, and Alec Soth were commissioned to photograph their experiences of Carleton as a unique place.
    • 15 February 2002 — 10 March 2002
  • Prarie: Artistic Topographies
    • Linda Gammell, Linda Horn, Keith Jacobshagen, and Mark Knierim process their prarie perceptions through photography, painting, and mixed media.
    • 11 January 2002 — 10 February 2002
  • This Is Not A Photograph
    • Fifteen contemporary artists explore light, shadow, and light-sensitive mediums to create works that dispense with conventional assumptions about the photographic image, its appearance and production.
    • 19 October 2001 — 16 November 2001
  • The Fine Art of Faculty Art
    • 14 September 2001 — 14 October 2001

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