Latent Emissions, Chakaia Booker
January 9–March 6, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
This exhibition of paintings and sculptures inspired by trees and birds was the result of a trip to Sequoia National Forest in California made by Indianapolis artist James Wille Faust and funded by a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship Grant awarded by the Arts Council of Indianapolis. Faust earned his Bachelor of...
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January 23–March 6, 2011
SNITE Museum of
Artist John Bisbee created a site-specific sculptural installation for the Mestrovic Studio Gallery. It featured two, new, large wall reliefs, Floresco (2011) andClematis (2011) meant to evoke stained glass windows as well as some smaller wall pieces and a free-standing “spool” composed of nails created during the last few years. Typical of...
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February 13–March 27, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
From the frozen waters of Niagara Falls to the sultry jungles of Brazil, photographers of the nineteenth century in the Americas focused their lenses on the landscapes around them, capturing a still frame of breathtaking views of nature or sweeping cityscapes of a budding metropolis. But what caused these photographers...
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April 3—May 22, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
This exhibition featured the thesis art projects created by the May 2011 degree candidates of the art studio program. The artworks ranged from industrial and graphic design projects to complex multi-media installations, to more traditional art forms, such as painting, printmaking, photography, ceramic, and sculpture.
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April 3–May 15, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
Seminar students of Associate Professor, Art, Art History and Design, Robert Randolf Coleman organized this exhibition of old master drawings selected from the Museum’s collection. Thanks to the benevolence of Mr. John D. Reilly ’63, the collection of old master drawings has grown to over 540 studies, sketches, and finished works...
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June 5–July 31, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
This traveling exhibition organized by the Royal Institute of British Architects in association with the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza, offered a rare opportunity to see thirty-one drawings by the famous sixteenth-century architect, Andrea Palladio, along with seven books, fifteen models of related buildings, and eight...
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June 5–August 7, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
Selected works from this print suite generously given by Mr. and Mrs. James D. Griffin '45 were exhibited to illustrate Bauhaus-trained artist Josef Albers's stunning achievements. The suite summarizes Albers forty-year investigation of color, form, and perception while teaching at Black Mountain College, Harvard University and the Department of Design...
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September 18–November 13, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
The Snite Museum of Art celebrated the November 2011 residency of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Notre Dame with an exhibition dedicated to the work of Andy Warhol. Warhol was an important figure in the generation of post-war visual artists who challenged the division of fine art and popular...
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August 28–October 9, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
Organized from the rich holdings of the Snite Museum's permanent collection, this exhibition presented about sixty works illustrating the history of French drawing from before the foundation of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1648, through the French Revolution of 1789 and its subsequent reforms of the 1800s. ...
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September 4–November 13, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
This exhibition showcased 65 paintings by 26 painters represented in Cheech Marin's noted collection of Chicano art. Marin's most recent passion is collecting small paintings at least 16" square and smaller in size. In contrast to other works in his collection representing and promoting the Chicano art movement of the...
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September 4–December 4, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
Nandita Raman created this suite of fourteen black and white photographs of historic Indian movie theaters in 2009. Writing about the series, Raman states, "My mother's family owned the first talkies cinema in my hometown, Varanasi, India…In the 1990s home video became popular in India and movie theaters struggled for...
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November 6–December 18, 2011
SNITE Museum of Art
The large traditional African art collection of Owen D. Mort Jr. is in the process of being donated to the Snite Museum of Art. Wealth-Power-Society featured dazzling, high-status and royal costumes and beadwork, iron and brass weapons, symbols of authority and currency, as well as masks and other objects used to...
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