Latent Emissions, Chakaia Booker
May 9–June 20, 2010
SNITE Museum of Art
This small selection of recent additions to the photography collection included work by Mexican photographer and recent guest professor Antonio Turok, Brazilian-American artist Vik Muniz, photographs of tattooed people by Jeff Crisman, and others.
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May 23—June 20, 2010
SNITE Museum of Art
Benefactor Joseph Bisignano ’58 has generously given the Museum another suite of prints by acclaimed, Argentina-born, American printmaker Mauricio Lasansky. The Kaddish suite displays Lasansky's renowned technical mastery of printmaking techniques, and its subject is the Jewish prayer of the same name, utilized here in memory of victims of...
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Aug. 15–Nov. 14, 2010
SNITE Museum of Art
This exhibition consisted of selections from a recent and very generous gift of forty-nine contemporary photographs from the collection of Dr. William, ND ’65, and Ann Marie McGraw of Indianapolis. The donation includes examples by some of the most important artists of the recent period, including Sally Mann, Shelby Lee...
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August 29–November 14, 2010
SNITE Museum of Art
Since the mid-1970s, Pau-Llosa has used tropes to generate an original model of art criticism that maintains that Latin American modernist painting and sculpture is distinct from parallel currents in Europe and the United States precisely because of the high presence of metaphor, metonymy, and synecdoche in its images. ...
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September 5–October 31, 2010
SNITE Museum of Art
Heavily represented in collections of nineteenth-century photographs, architectural photography provides insights into major themes of the period: industry, technology, exploration, exoticism, documentation, preservation, history, nationalism, etc. Architecture lent itself to the long exposure times required by the early photographic processes and was a subject used extensively by the...
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August 15–November 7, 2010
SNITE Museum of Art
Emilio Sanchez was born in Camagüey, Cuba, in 1921. He began his artistic training at the Art Students League in 1944 when he moved to New York City, where he lived until he died in 1999. However, it was in Cuba that he became fascinated with the play of light...
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November 28, 2010–January 23, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
This exhibition will be drawn from the group of twenty etchings by Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828) in the museum's permanent collection. They are from the following four series by Goya: Los Caprichos, Disperates, Los Desastres de la Guerra,and La Tauromaquia.
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December 19, 2010–February 13, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
Serving as guest curators, university students enrolled in the Native North American Art History course taught by Dr. Joanne Mack, curator of Native American Art and associate professor of anthropology, chose pieces from the permanent collection to show the diversity of this art. Because an important issue in Native American...
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