Latent Emissions, Chakaia Booker
November 1, 2013–January 12, 2014
Stairwell Gallery
One of the most remarkable American photographers of the 20th century, Ansel Adams transformed his medium through stirring images of nature. Born and raised in San Francisco, he first visited Yosemite at age 14, and later documented his family’s annual visits to the national park with his Kodak No. 1 camera. In 1919 Adams joined the Sierra Club,...
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October 27–December 22, 2013
Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery
The rise of humanism during the Renaissance led to an increased interest in the accurate depiction of the human figure. The idealized male nude became an emblem of beauty. An artist’s education was founded on the mastery of drawing the human form from life. This focus exhibition presented a selection...
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September 29–December 8, 2013
Milly and Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery
California artist, Jaime Guerrero, chose the title, Torpor, for this installation of handblown and sculpted glass artworks. The essay for the illustrated exhibition brochure written by Virginia Dofflemyer, associate professor of visual studies, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California, explains the title choice as follows: Torpor… describes the periodic hibernation pattern of the hummingbird that enables it to...
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August 25–November 24, 2013
O’Shaughnessy Galleries
Artist Terry Evans is known for her photography of different landscapes, particularly those centered on the prairies, people, and artifacts of the Midwest. A native of the Midwest, Evans was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She later lived in Salina, Kansas before moving to Chicago early in the 1990s. This traveling...
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August 25–October 13, 2013
Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery
José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1852–1913), was an important printmaker in pre-revolutionary Mexico. His bold, simplified, and direct manner of communicating his political views had a profound influence on the work and ideology of the artists who in 1937 formed the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Arts Workshop) in Mexico City, and...
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August 27–September 22, 2013
Stairwell Gallery
As part of campus-wide celebrations commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s visit to Notre Dame, the Snite Museum is displaying five photographs from the civil rights era. These photographs, taken by Charles Moore and Matt Herron, capture significant moments in the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther...
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June 9–September 1, 2013
Milly and Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery
Cuban-American artist Agustín Fernández (1928-2006) ranks as one of Surrealism's most discerning interpreters and is considered to be one of the masters of modern Cuban art. This exhibition, organized in collaboration with The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, and the Agustín Fernández Foundation, presents...
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May 31–August 31, 2013
Front lawn, Entrance Atrium, and Courtyard
This exhibition of eight sculptures is organized in memory of alum David Hayes (American,1931-April 2013). After graduating from Notre Dame in 1953 Hayes earned a MFA '55 from Indiana University, Bloomington, where he studied with the famous American sculptor David Smith. Throughout his sixty-year-artistic-career Hayes created sculptural forms abstracted from...
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June 30–July 14, 2013
The Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery
Each year twelve talented area high school artists are nominated by their art instructors, interviewed, and then selected based on their portfolio of work to spend two weeks at the Snite exploring, in depth, a single medium under the guidance of a practicing artist. In 2013 the instructor will once...
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April 2–June 23, 2013
Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery
The acknowledgment of drawing as fundamental to the creative process, in addition to its status as an independent aesthetic endeavor, has its origin in the Italian Renaissance. By the 1600s, drawings of all types had come to be fully appreciated and collected by artists and connoisseurs alike. While drawings are unique...
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April 7–May 19, 2013
O’Shaughnessy Galleries and the Milly and Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery
This annual exhibition of culminating works by ten seniors and six third-year graduate students in the Department of Art, Art History and Design demonstrates a broad awareness of the themes and processes of contemporary art, and is often provocative. The artworks range from industrial and graphic design projects and complex...
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January 20–March 17, 2013
Milly and Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio
Following the conclusion of the fall exhibition Father Lindesmith’s Collection: History into Art and Anthropology featuring nineteenth-century examples of art and craft, this presentation of contemporary Native American prints illustrates the nexus of traditional themes and modern society. Whether abstract or figural, the works on display reveal a depth of spirit and...
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January 20–March 17, 2013
Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery
A variety of perspectives come together in this single-work exhibition exploring Marcos Raya’s enigmatic painting Opportunistic Diagnosis (2004). Designed to highlight the many interpretive possibilities an object offers, this installation unites the diverse voices of faculty, staff, and visitors to create an open and ongoing understanding of Raya’s painting. Explore the in...
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January 13–March 10, 2013
O’Shaughnessy Galleries II and III
From 2006 to 2011, large-format photographer Jennifer Trausch took the refrigerator-sized 20 x 24 inch Polaroid camera from the predictable, comfortable confines of its studio home out onto the winding roads of the rural American South. Led from town to town by word of mouth, instinct, and caprice, Trausch worked steadily to understand some...
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January 13–March 10, 2013
O'Shaughnessy West
Considered a monument of twentieth-century printmaking, Georges Rouault’s Miserere, a series of 58 large-scale prints produced using innovative graphic techniques, presents visitors with one of the greatest modernist interpretations of religious iconography. Rouault responded to the ravages of World War I by creating aggressive, sparse, and grand compositions, which attain a...
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