2015 Exhibitions

Counter-Archives to the Narco City

Counter-Archives to the Narco City

August 16 through December 13, 2015

O’Shaughnessy Galleries

Counter-Archives to the Narco-City is a curatorial project on art and human rights, co-curated by Tatiana Reinoza and Luis Vargas-Santiago, that offers alternative views to the media spectacle of narco-violence in the Americas. Hosted at both the University of Notre Dame’s Snite Museum of Art and the Notre Dame Center...

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Transitory Waterscapes: Landscape Paintings and an Evaporation Pool by Danae Mattes

Transitory Waterscapes: Landscape Paintings and an Evaporation Pool by Danae Mattes

August 9 through December 6, 2015

Snite Museum of Art

The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, will feature landscape paintings and an evaporation pool by American artist Danae Mattes from August 9 to December 6, 2015. These beautiful landscapes are the artist’s personal “maps” of time spent within nature, formal equivalents to the experience of moving through...

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Rock-Paper . . .<br>Lithographs from the Permanent Collection, Part II

Rock-Paper . . .
Lithographs from the Permanent Collection, Part II

August 23 through November 22, 2015

Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery

The Snite Museum continues its exploration of lithography in the second of its two-part series by focusing on the maturation of the technique from 1900 through today. With examples by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Robert Indiana, this presentation charts the shift from European...

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2015 Thesis Exhibition by BFA and MFA Candidates

2015 Thesis Exhibition by BFA and MFA Candidates

April 10 through May 17, 2015

O’Shaughnessy Galleries

This annual exhibition is comprised of the culminating projects created by the students graduating with either a BFA or MFA degree from the ND Department of Art, Art History & Design. The works created for the exhibition usually demonstrate a broad awareness of contemporary art themes and techniques and are often provocative. They range...

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Natalia Goncharova’s Mystical Images of War, 1914

Natalia Goncharova’s Mystical Images of War, 1914

January 31-April 2 2015

Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery

This exhibition presents a dramatic portfolio of fourteen lithographs by the Russian avant-garde artist Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962) from the Hesburgh Libraries Collection. Published in the fall of 1914, the lithographs represent one of the earliest and most profound artistic responses to the outbreak of the Great War. They tell an...

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Mauricio and Tomás Lasansky:<br/> Father and Son

Mauricio and Tomás Lasansky:
Father and Son

January 17-March 15, 2015

O’Shaughnessy Gallery West

This exhibition organized by the Snite Museum of Art will feature the art of Tomás Lasansky and his deceased father, the renowned and influential American printmaker Mauricio Lasansky. Mauricio Lasansky (1914–2014) is one of the fathers of twentieth-century American printmaking, having taught printmaking at the University of Iowa for forty...

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Hour by Hour: Reconstructing a Medieval Breton Prayer Book

Hour by Hour: Reconstructing a Medieval Breton Prayer Book

January 17-March 15, 2015

O’Shaughnessy Galleries II & III

In conjunction with the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America in March, this exhibition focuses on reassembling a fifteenth-century book of hours that originated in Brittany, France. Of the 91 manuscript pages he has already recovered, David T. Gura, curator of ancient and medieval manuscripts at the University...

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Graphic Advocacy: International Posters For The Digital Age 2001–2012

Graphic Advocacy: International Posters For The Digital Age 2001–2012

January 17-March 8, 2015

Milly and Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery

This traveling exhibition is organized by Professor Elizabeth Resnick and Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston. It is the third exhibition in a trilogy focusing on socially conscious posters and features 100 works from 32 countries including Bolivia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Israel, Kuwait, Russia, and Singapore. As a medium for...

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