Archives - 1992-2008

Landscapes of the Mind

Alley, Mary Olson	Reflection, Stephanie Hunder

Bird, Alis Olsen	Oceanscape, Karen Klein

Artists Stephanie Hunder, Karen Klein, Alis Olsen and Mary Olson
take the concept of landscape and re-interpret it.

Artist Reception and
College Art Gallery Collaborative Fall Art Tour
5-8 P.M., Friday, October 5

Fall Art Tour
5-8 P.M., Friday, October 5

Free Shuttle buses will take visitors to Artist Receptions at Augsburg College, Bethel's 9th Street Entry Gallery, The College of St. Catherine, The College of Visual Arts, Concordia University, Macalester College and the University of St. Thomas.

Free and open to the public

For more information contact sefocke@stthomas.edu. A Fall Art Tour website with the college exhibitions and a shuttle schedule will be published in late August.

Sponsored by The College Art Gallery Collaborative with support from the Dean of Students Office and Family Weekend, the Art History and Exhibition Departments at the University of St. Thomas, Arts and Culture Partnership of St. Paul and The Twin Cities Fine Arts OrganizationExhibition

Art, music and refreshments at 7 local college galleries. Get a group of friends or meet new friends when you hop the free shuttles and visit the galleries at Augsburg, Bethel's 9th Street Entry Gallery, Concordia, CVA, Macalester, St. Kate's and St. Thomas. Free and open to the public. If you would like to help with the crawl please contact Sue Focke.

A Sense of Place
Chris Cinque - Barbara Hamilton - David Morrison - Toby Sisson - Kay Wagner

Sept. 15 - Oct. 25

Lobby Gallery, O'Shaughnessy-Educational Center
*Art Attack and opening reception
6-9 p.m., Saturday, October 8



Five Minnesota artists explore in their work the concept of "place" and what it signifies. Locations as near as the Mississippi River and as far as San Cristobal, Mexico, have inspired these artists. The exhibit features photography, collage, drawing, encaustic painting and acrylic painting.

Chris Cinque works with mixed media, reflecting interior spaces where memory, history and narrative are expressed in richly layered collages. She enhances them with watercolor and acrylic painting, telling superimposed stories.

Barbara Hamilton has explored the San Cristobal, Mexico area over the past 20 years, creating a vibrant and detailed photographic journal of the people, architecture and landscape of the area.

David Morrison began hiking and canoeing in the St. Croix River Valley as a teenager, and over the past 40 years the river has remained among his favorite subjects. His acrylic paintings in this exhibit feature its landscapes and oak savannas.

Toby Sisson, of African American, German and Native American descent, has traced the role of the Mississippi River in her family's history. Her drawings and encaustic paintings ("hot wax" paintings) convey the movement of water and the geological layers of the river's bluffs.

Kay Wagner, who has been an art teacher for many years, began exploring photography in a recent sabbatical. Electronic manipulation helps her to interpret her vision, superimposing landscapes, heightening color and conveying the nature of her native state as well as the emotion of her inner state.

Building the Impossible: Architecture in Motion

February 28 - May 28, 2005
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Lobby Gallery

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The University of St. Thomas Art History Department and Exhibitions Task Force are pleased to announce the exhibition and symposia, Building the Impossible: Architecture in Motion.

Milwaukee Art Museum with the sunshade up.

Throughout the history of the built environment designers have completed projects that seemed impossible. From the Egyptian pyramids to the Eiffel Tower to the tallest skyscrapers in Chicago and New York , architects and engineers have worked together to defy the laws of logic and human ability. Over the last thirty years, architectural designers have continued to test the boundaries of building ingenuity as they fashion kinetic architecture and create structures that move. Building the Impossible: Architecture in Motion will present a historical selection of important engineered buildings over time, while focusing on more recent works with movable components such as the brise soleil at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Building the Impossible: Architecture in Motion will be on display February 28 through April 4, 2005 in the O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Lobby and Room 102 of the O'Shaughnessy Frey Library, both located on the St. Paul campus of the university at Summit and Cleveland Avenues.

An architectural rendering of the Arizona Cardinals Stadium in Phoenix , Arizona (currently under construction).

The exhibition will be complemented by two symposia, a professional and academic symposium on Thursday, March 3, 2005 and a student symposium on Friday, March 4, 2005 . Anchoring these events will be a keynote talk from well-known architect and educator Dr. Peter Eisenman, a leader in American architectural design and designer of the highly innovative Arizona Cardinals Stadium in Phoenix , Arizona (currently under construction). The Arizona stadium is the first to feature a fully movable playing surface of natural grass that can be transported outside the building to help the grass grow (See image at right). Dr. Eisenman will speak on Wednesday evening, March 2, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. on the challenges he faced in designing this stadium. Dr. Eisenman will also meet with students on campus prior to his lecture for a brief question and answer session.

Dr. Peter Eisenman

Dr. Eisenman is one of the foremost architects practicing today. He began his career in the 1970s by focusing on the relationship between deconstruction theory and architecture. During the 1980s he began to build more and today his work is credited with numerous architectural awards. In addition to the Cardinals Stadium, his current work includes the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, which is halfway through to completion. He has also been the recipient of many fellowships and authored several books on his work.
(For more information on Dr. Eisenman, see http://www.eisenmanarchitects.com or http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/eisenman/ ).

Thank you to our sponsors:
UST Department of Art History
University of St. Thomas Art Exhibition Task Force
Graduate Program in Art History
UST Department of Philosophy
UST School of Engineering
Faculty Development
College of Arts and Sciences
Art Attack
Uni-Systems
Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians

Art Attack: A Five Campus Gallery Crawl

Click to view each campus' Art Attack

ST. THOMAS	ST. CATHERINE'S	AUGSBURG
CONCORDIA	MACALESTER

 

	Art Attack brings together the galleries of Augsburg College, the College of St. Catherine, Concordia University, Macalester College and the University of St. Thomas for an evening of exhibition openings. Thursday, Oct. 7 th from 7-10 p.m. enjoy meeting the artists, listening to music, and eating delicious food. Getting from gallery to gallery is easy  just hop on the free buses that will be traveling continuously between the campuses from 7-10 p.m. The bus stops will be marked and students will be at the stops to direct you to the galleries. Park your car at one of the campuses for free (no need to worry about a parking ticket) and take the bus to the openings. There is no charge for the bus or the openings.
How do I get around? Catch the bus at the following locations: Click to view ACTC Art Attack Bus Schedule	Augsburg - In front of James Lindell Library, 22nd Ave. S and 7th St. Concordia University - 1371 Marshall Ave., parking lot of the Art Building Macalester - South corner of Grand and Macalester St. St. Catherine's - Inside the college's Gate 2 entrance located at 2004 Randolph Ave. Near Derham and Caecilian Halls. St. Thomas - 2155 Summit Ave. - middle of the block on Summit Ave. (between the arches) between Cleveland and Cretin Avenues The event is open to the public -- we encourage our neighbors to attend this event, and see what your local galleries have to offer.  For more information on each exhibit and directions, you can check each gallery website or call (651) 962-5560.
University of St. Thomas Thor Lifts Cat (detail) 12 3/4" x 14" Lila Nelson Avian Adaption (detail) 5"x2"x15" Maren Anderson American Beauty (detail) 15"x11"x11" Nancy Eha	Redefining Delicacy: Non-Traditional Works in Traditional Media: Featuring Works by Maren Anderson, Nancy Eha and Lila Nelson Sept. 13 - Oct. 26 O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Lobby Gallery This exhibition brings together the work of three extraordinary artists, all of whom have taken traditional materials, motifs, or techniques, and looked at them in unique ways. They reflect many media, ages, and stages of artistic development, but all work in ways that are arresting, amusing, and thought-provoking. Maren Anderson, recent graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago's School of Art, prefers metal as a material. Her work ranges from delicate dioramas with whimsical scenes in silver, to armor -- traditionally a masculine endeavor -- for birds. Nancy Eha, who is as much a sculptor as a textile artist, works in beads. Her wall hangings and three dimensional pieces can be interpreted on many levels from the simply beautiful to deeply feminist. Lila Nelson had a long career as a traditional Scandinavian weaver before diving ever deeper into one of her great loves, the tapestry loom. The exhibition includes works from her entire production, including her newest tapestries, a completely new set of motifs that can interpreted as simple cartoon characters or maybe more. Reception with the Artists Thursday, Oct. 7 7-10 pm, O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Lobby Gallery The reception is in conjunction with Art Attack: A Five-Campus Gallery Crawl. Art Attact brings together the galleries of Augsburg College, the College of St. Catherine, Concordia University, Macalester College and the University of St. Thomas for an evening of exhibition openings.  Thursday, Oct. 7 th from 7-10 p.m. Enjoy meeting the artists, listening to music, and eating delicious food.   Getting from gallery to gallery is easy -- just hop on the free buses that will be traveling continuously between the campuses from 7-10 p.m. The bus stops will be marked and students will be at the stops to direct you to the galleries. Park your car at one of the campuses for free (no need to worry about a parking ticket) and take the bus to the openings.   There is no charge for the bus or the openings.   The event is open to the public ? we encourage our neighbors to attend this event, and see what your local galleries have to offer. University of St. Thomas Task Force Chair, Shelly Nordtorp-Madson Visiting Curator, Cathy Peters e-mail: sefocke@stthomas.edu O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Lobby Gallery http://www.stthomas.edu/arthistory/UndergradSite/events.htm For more information call: (651) 962-5560.

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John Jarpe, Continuity and Change

March 1 - May 31, 2004
Art Space Gallery
Terrence Murphy Hall

"Untitled" by John Jarpe

Reception with John Jarpe
Friday, March 19
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.,
Art Space Gallery
Terrence Murphy Hall

As both a graduate and staff member of the University of St. Thomas, John Jarpe has been one of the most constant supporters of art on campus. In his own work, he has gone through a slow evolution from huge, almost 3-dimensional pieces in a variety of unexpected media, to more flowing contained works, which show an introspective subtlety. This exhibit showcases his total mature work, from the twisting, politically-tinged statements such as those on display in Brady Education Center, to his recent works, which show a modulation of form and material, as well as an acknowledgement of a firmly- grounded adulthood.

For more information call: (651) 962-5560.

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Stream of Consciousness, by Susan Dupor, 2004

Images and Visions of a Culture by Deaf Artists
An exhibition of Art by Deaf Artists

April 3 - May 5
Artist's works appearing in the show include:

Iris Aranda, Loretta Bebeau, Morris Broderson, Susan Dupor, Marian Lucas, Tony McGregor, Orkid Sassouni, Ann Silver, Mary Silverstri, Rita Straubhaar, Mary Thornley, Cecily Whitworth, Charles Wildbank and Alex Wilhite.

Main exhibition at
aND Gallery
526 Selby Ave.
St. Paul, MN
(651) 222-1346

Satellite exhibition at
Brady Educational Center
University of St. Thomas,
St. Paul campus

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Exhibit of Works by Richard Amos, Artist

Jan 9 - Feb. 13, 2004
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Lobby Gallery
Reception with Richard Amos
Friday, Feb. 5, 2004
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.,
Luann Dummer Center for Women, Room 103
O'Shaughnessy Education Center

 

"Sister" by Richard Amos, 2000. 24 in. x30 in.

Richard Amos, An Artist

Magically realistic and hauntingly just out of reach, the work of Richard Amos reflects his journey of over 13 years of artistic production, and the exploration and acceptance of African American/African spirits which imbue his art with multiple layers of perception, understanding, and sight. Utilizing the mask theme, he chooses colors which themselves inspire spiritually. At the same time, he adopts a rather unusual technique of blue jean material gessoed onto the surface of the canvas, making the paintings simultaneously flat and 3- dimensional. At turns bright and approachable, at others darker and more primordial, these African American/African/Hip Hop-flavored works stop the viewer and ask him or her to react.

Also, by special request of the artist, a number of works by another artist, BILL JETER, are being included. Jeter is considered an elder of the community, a professional, working artist, and art teacher and mentor, and Richard Amos generously and wisely wanted to expose the UST community to the works of this gifted artist as well.

"My artistic journey has taken me to new heights as far as my growth with the ability to critique my art. In addition, I adjust my art to reflect my vision in the placement of light, shadows, themes, and colors. By applying this concept I am able to create an illusion for viewers to create their themes, and colors to envision the images/masks as their own. The colors I choose, and mask themes I use are many times mood/spirit inspirer. I use acrylics and blue jeans gessoed to canvas, which creates an optical illusion of a one-dimensional surface, but once the viewer is close enough to see the actual artwork the viewer will notice the three dimensional salient blue jean materials protruding from the canvas. Symbolically, this is art-reflecting life.

Therefore, nothing is truly as we perceive it to be, it all depends on many levels of perceptions, understanding, and sight. Far away the canvas appears flat (one dimensional), and does not represent what's behind each mask, but once the viewer is close enough to experience or touch the salient (three dimensional) mask of my art their misperception disappears.

Over time my artistic designs have grown to reflect the 13 years I have spent doing art and the African American/African spirits that journey through me onto my canvases to document my artistic talents. The ancestral voices haunt my spirit to remember the artistic primordial rituals of (Masks). Instead of modern rituals that leave us separate, but equal, wanting, and uneasy.

The journey I have made without internalizing spiritual hate of why for long. As a result I lose track of time/ space as I do art. I feel like a man frozen in a time zone where I feel knowledge, art, and spirit coming together to produce my African American/African/Hip Hop flavored creations. I thank the St. Thomas Community, for asking me to share my art with them."

- Richard Amos

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The Lyricism of Line: Drawings and Watercolors of Marian-Ortolf Bagley

September 29 - December 31, 2003
Art Space Gallery, Terrence Murphy Hall
1000 LaSalle Ave., Mpls., MN

Reception with Marian-Ortolf Bagley
Friday, November 7 - 4:30-7:30 p.m.

"Quince" an illustration by Marian-Ortold Bagley done in pencil heightened with watercolor (22" x 30", undated).

 

The Lyricism of Line: Drawings and Watercolors by Marian-Ortolf Bagley will feature a selection of works on paper representing themes that have fascinated this Minnesota artist for over two decades. Thematic groupings include marsh and fieldscapes, floral images and afterimages, Minnesota maize and Mediterranean townscapes. All of the works reflect the artist's interest in serial imagery as well as her study of color perception and color balance.

The drawings will provide an enjoyable respite for visitors as Minnesota enters the winter season. Closely observed depictions of flowers and plants and light-filled landscapes reflect the eye of a perceptive colorist and the artist's love of travel. A series of delicate quince branches evokes the tender colors of spring, while towering corn plants recall hot summer days.

The artist works from live flowers in each series, noting their individual cycle of growth, bloom and decay. The visual images from her travels are wide-ranging including townscapes from Turkey, southern France and Holland. Other landscapes capture the desaturated hues of Minnesota marshland and the brilliant colors of lavender fields in Provence.

Marian-Ortolf Bagley is Professor Emeritus of Design from the University of Minnesota, where she taught color theory and design from 1974-1995. She received a B.F.A. from Wayne State University and an M.A.T. from Indiana University. A recipient of seventeen awards for her work in juried national and regional exhibitions, she is represented in public, corporate and private collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Weisman Art Museum. She has participated in 20 solo shows and in 2002 was commissioned to create an image of a ladyslipper to represent the 20th Art in Bloom at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

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Permutatio: Historic Manuscripts with Recent Works by Robyn Beth Priestley

"Litteratus Libamen (inscribed letter)" by Robyn Priestley 2003

April 4 - May 30, 2003
Art Space Gallery
Terrence Murphy Hall
1000 LaSalle Avenue, Mpls. Campus

This exhibition looks at facsimilies of medieval manuscripts in the University of St. Thomas collections, as well as how this ancient art form still provides inspiration to contemporary book artist Robyn Beth Priestly.

 

 

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Defying the Invisible

Melinda Kordich
Mary Virginia Micka, CSJ

Oct. 2 - Dec. 13, 2002

Revealing the Invisible: Photographs by Bette Globus Goodman, Judy Olausen and Keri Pickett

Oct. 18  - Dec. 18, 2002
Lobby Gallery, O'Shaughnessy Educational Center

What's it All About, Alfie?  Recent Works by Susan Morrissey

March 1  -April 19, 2002
Art Space Gallery, Terrence Murphy Hall, Mpls.

Celebrating Women: Art by Beth Barron, Kimber, Susan Morrissey and Robyn Beth Priestley

March 1  - April 19, 2002
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center
Sponsored by the Art Exhibitions Committee and the Luann Dummer Center for Women

Remembering: Fiber Art Salutes the Past

February 16  -March 31, 2001
Art Space Gallery, Terrence Murphy Hall

Manifold: An Exhibition of Book Arts by the Bone Folders Artists Group

November 17  - December  29, 2000
Art Space Gallery, Terrence Murphy Hall

Inadequacy of Words: Katina Huston

September 15  - October 27, 2000
Art Space Gallery, Terrence Murphy Hall

Hmong Women Photo Journal

July  - November, 2000
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center

Approaching African Art: Objects from the St. Thomas Collection

April, 2000

Private Investigations

March 17 - April 26, 2000
Art Space Gallery, Terrence Murphy Hall

Frank Schreiber: Earth Process

March 1 - May 20, 2000
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

Work of Monastic Hands

March 1 - 31, 2000
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

Daily Life and Popular Devotion in the Andes: Paintings from Tigua, Ecuador

December 1 - February 29, 2000
Brady Educational Center

Hans Christian Andersen: His Life, Works and Travels in the 19th Century

December 1 - January 4, 2000
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

Pottery Across the World

November, 1999
Longfellow School

Prints and Drawings by Mary Griep:The French Cathedral Series (Sacred Arts)

November 1 - 17, 1999
St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity

Forty New Works by Eugene Larkin

October 1 - November 24, 1999
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center
Minneapolis Campus Art Space

Quilt Extravaganza

June - August, 1999
Minneapolis Campus Art Space

Bosnians in the Wake of War: Photographs by George Vass

April 29 - May 4, 1999
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

Coloring Our Worlds

February 15 - March 28, 1999
Minneapolis Campus Art Space

With Two Voices: Selections of Western and American Indian Art from the Harmsen Collection

December 5, 1998 - January 29, 1999
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

Colleagues of Calligraphy

October 1 - December 18, 1998
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

To Everything Turn, Poetry and Watercolors by Sister Mary Virginia Micka

April 23 - May 28, 1998
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

Considered History: Paintings and Drawings by Mary Sullivan Rickey

February 6 - March 13, 1998
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

Terrestrial Solidarity: An Introspective Photographs by Lorna Rockey

December, 1997
Brady Educational Center

Contemporary Quilts from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

September 19, - November 1, 1997
Minneapolis Campus

Bringing Home the Bride: Hovenden's Painting in the Context of its Time

March 17 - May 31, 1997
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

Minnesota Landscape Art of the 1990s

December 2, 1996 - February 28, 1997
Minneapolis Campus

Women in Print: Prints from 3M by Contemporary Women

September 26 - November 15, 1996
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

John Jarpe: Recent Paintings

March 19 - May 28, 1996
Brady Educational Center
Minneapolis Campus

Terri Hallman Recent Paintings

December 5, 1995 - February 29, 1996
Minneapolis Campus Art Space

Minnesota Gardens by Susan Price

November 30 - December 15, 1995

Susan Haas Morrissey

September 25 - November 22, 1995
Minneapolis Campus
Brady Educational Center

Contemporary Batiks: Judith Goetemann

March 15 - May 20, 1995
Brady Educational Center

Pottery of Keith Williams

March 21 - May 20, 1995
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

Advertising Art of the 1920s - 1950s: Collection of Bill Daily

February 8 - March 8, 1995
Brady Educational Center

Computer-Generated Art: Works by Roman Verostko

November 15, 1994 - January 31, 1995
Brady Educational Center

Icon: Image of the Invisible

An Exhibit of Contemporary Icons by Father Peter Wilke
October 29 - November 11, 1994
School of Divinity

Images of Modena: Photography of Beppe Zagalia

October 7 - November  3, 1994
Brady Educational Center
Minneapolis Campus

Music Hath Eyes: Historic Sheet Music Revisited

April 25 - September, 1994
Brady Educational Center

Imagining the Spirit in Tribal Art

April 11 - May 25, 1994
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

Student Self Portraits: Introduction To DrawingStudent Exhibit

April 11 - 24, 1994
Brady Educational Center

Village Without Mirrors

February 25 - April 3, 1994
Brady Educational Center

Found on the Volga

January 18 - April 4, 1994
Brady Educational Center

Conversations with Dancers: Paintings by Gary Welton

November 4 - December 10, 1993
Minneapolis Campus

The Silent Language of Quilts

March 8 - 19, 1993
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

The Age of Women: Exhibition of Minnesota Women Artists

March 2 - April 5, 1993
Minneapolis Campus

Works of the Spirit: Paintings by Matt Lamb

October 20 - November 13, 1992
Minneapolis Campus

Navajo Blankets: Hispanic and Indigenous Influences

November 18 - December 9, 1992
O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center

Afro-American Quilts from Private Collections

February 1 - 26, 1992
Brady Educational Center
Lobby Gallery, O'Shaughnessy Educational Center

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