Past Exhibits
Exhibition Archives
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1992-2005
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| Seeing Culture in the Eyes of Others Paul Tomczik, Paris, France Ann Hoffman with a reflection of Sacré Coeur (sic), a Cathedral in Paris 1990 1st Place: An Intercultural Experience |
A Lens on the World
Through the Eyes of St. Thomas Students Studying Abroad
January 14 - March 21, 2008
Reception
4 p.m., Feb. 14
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Landscapes of the Mind
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| Alley, Mary Olson | Reflection, Stephanie Hunder |
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| 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.
September 17-October 26
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Lobby Gallery
Artist Reception and
College Art Gallery Collaborative Fall Art Tour
5-8 P.M., Friday, October 5
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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
Familiar Image-Sacred Impression: The Reformation and Beyond
Prints from the Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art
Print Making from Dürer to Rembrandt: Technique & Meaning
Joanna Lindell and Lisa Dickinson Michaux
5 p.m., Friday, March 30
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Auditorium
A reception will follow the lecture in the lobby gallery
5 p.m., Friday, March 30
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Auditorium
A reception will follow the lecture in the lobby gallery
Exhibition
March 26-May 31
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| The Baptism of Christ Lucas van Leyden (Dutch, 1489-1533), engraving Courtesy of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans |
Viewing Hours
9 A.M. - 10 P.M. Monday-Saturday
Noon-10 P.M. Sunday
All events are free and open to the public.
Directions to O'Shaughnessy Educational Center
Original engravings, etchings and woodcuts by Dürer, Rembrandt, Goltzius and other masters of 16th and 17th century religious art will be on display at the University of St. Thomas.
Free and open to the public, “Familiar Image – Sacred Impression: The Reformation and Beyond,” an exhibit of 24 prints from the Thrivent Financial Collection of Religious Art, runs March 26 through May 31 in the lobby gallery of O’Shaughnessy Educational Center on the St. Paul campus.
Joanna Reiling Lindell, curator of the Thrivent collection and guest curator of this exhibit, and Dr. Lisa Dickinson Michaux, acting co-curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, will give a lecture, “Printmaking From Dürer to Rembrandt: Technique and Meaning,” at 5 p.m. Friday, March 30, in the auditorium of O’Shaughnessy Educational Center. The lecture precedes the exhibit’s opening reception in the adjacent lobby gallery. Both are free and open to the public.
With this exhibit Lindell, who has a B.A. from St. Thomas and is working on her master’s degree in art history there, underlines the impact of Guttenberg’s printing press on Reformation-era religious art. While printmaking had special significance as an artistic medium, Lindell said, it also was a primary medium for visual communication in the 16th century: “Prints were among the most influential and popular media because they were inexpensive to produce, collect and distribute, making them an ideal platform for political propaganda, humor and religious expression.”
Gradual shifts toward secular imagery and trends toward realism took hold as church decoration declined, but art was commissioned for a rising middle class. Portraits of Reformers such as Martin Luther took on the status of religious iconography, and Protestant emphasis on Scripture kept religious art alive and vibrant, Lindell said. “Biblical stories that had been depicted thousands of times were presented in this new form, with new meaning and new emphasis,” she said. “Examples are found in this exhibition, highlighting some of the stunning Dutch graphic contributions of the 16th and 17th centuries.”
In addition to works by Dürer, Rembrandt and Goltzius, the exhibit contains etchings, woodcuts and engravings by German artists Hans Sebald Beham, the Lucas Cranachs (younger and elder), Hans Baldung Grien, Lambert Hopfer; Dutch artists Ferdinand Bol, Cornelis Cort, Philip Galle, Lucas van Leyden, Jan Saenredam and Johannes Sadler; and Flemish artists Hieronymous Cock and Raphael Sadeler.
Dr. Michelle Nordtorp-Madson, chief curator at St. Thomas, expressed the university’s gratitude to Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, in whose Minneapolis corporate center the full Religious Art Collection is housed.
Dr. Julie Risser, adjunct instructor in St. Thomas’ Art History Department, is consulting curator for this exhibit.
For more information about this or other exhibits at St. Thomas, contact the university’s Art History Department, (651) 962-5560.
Support for the lecture is provided by the University Lectures Committee
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Rocks, Trees, and Moss:
North Shore Photographs by
Mark E. Jensen
January 16 - March 19
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center Lobby Gallery
Gallery Talk and Reception with the Artist
4-7 P.M., Friday, February 23
About the Artist and his workhttp://www.stthomas.edu/campusmaps/stpaul.asp
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Recipes in Bronze: Sculpture of Nicholas Legeros
September 18 - October 27, 2006
Lobby Gallery, O'Shaughnessy Educational Center
Artist Reception and * Art Attack Multi-Campus Gallery Crawl
4-8 p.m., Saturday, October
www.stkate.edu/artattack
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| Spell of the Sensuous |
Nicholas Legeros is a master of the ancient art of lost-wax (cire-perdu) bronze casting. While materials and methods of artistic production have changed over time, with the advent of acrylic paints and other modern advances, the process of lost-wax metal sculpture is not much altered in its over 3,000 year history. Nick studied both at the University of Minnesota and under Paul Granlund at Gustavus Adolphus College. He credits Granlund as a major force in his art, both as a mentor, teacher, and model of old-fashioned work ethic. He names a wide variety of other artists as additional influences, including Isamu Noguchi, George Nakashima, and Giorgio Morandi ? as well as a continuing fascination with architecture and art history of all periods. He is active in professional art organizations locally and regionally and is represented in numerous public collections, including the newly-installed Father Murphy statue in front of the McNeely School of Business at the University of St. Thomas.
Visit Nick's website for more information http://www.nikosculpture.com
More Than the Camera Can Capture
Featured Artists: Michael Frey, Pat Jerde, Virginia Keengan,
Eric Menzhuber, Dale Redpath and Cyd Wicker
April 3 - June 15, 2006
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center lobby gallery
Gallery Hours: 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Saturday, Noon to 10 p.m. Sunday
Opening Reception with Artists and Friends
7-9 p.m., Saturday, April 8
Lobby Gallery, O'Shaughnessy Educational CenterPanel Discussion with Featured Artists
7-9 p.m., Wednesday, April 26
O'Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium
Michael Frey, Pat Jerde, Eric Menzhuber, Dale Redpath and Cyd Wicker, all
artists trained in the classical Atelier tradition, will discuss the current
state of Realist painting in Minnesota. Claire Selkurt, exhibition curator,
will moderate.
Since 1969, when Richard Lack founded Atelier Lack in Minneapolis, the Twin Cities has developed into an important center for classical realism, a movement that has roots in the 19th-century French studio tradition. Atelier training uses classical figure drawing techniques. The exhibition includes portraiture, figure drawing, still life and landscapes by local artists trained within this tradition. All of the artists in the exhibit have trained at Twin Cities area schools such as the Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art, the Edina Art Center School of Realism and the Minnesota River School of Fine Art.
About the Artists
Michael Frey is education director of the Edina Art Center School of Realism, a program that teaches classical realist drawing and painting techniques. He studied under Wicker and Redpath at the Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art and has exhibited his work frequently at the Minnesota State Fair's fine arts exhibition.
Patricia Jerde is a 1973 graduate of St. Olaf College. She also studied with Annette LeSueur, a student of Richard Lack, at Atelier LeSueur. She and her husband founded the Minnesota School of Fine Art in Burnsville.
Virginia Keegan studied interior design at the University of Minnesota and studio art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She later studied with Wicker, George Herman and Annette LeSueuer and now has a studio in Minneapolis. Her work has been included in the Minnesota State Fair's fine arts exhibition since 2003.
Eric Menzhuber earned a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of St. Thomas in 1998, entered the St. Paul Seminary and left the seminary in 2000 to return to his study of art. He studied under Jerde and focuses on figurative work and portraiture. He has completed several commissions with sacred themes, including a new painting, "The Conversion of St. Paul," for the St. Paul Seminary.
Dale Redpath took her first art classes at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. In 1977 she began her training at Atelier Lack and has continued her studies in classical artistic methods throughout the United States and Europe. When Lack retired in 1992, she and Wicker took over his studio program as the Atelier Studio Program of Fine Art. Redpath's work is represented in collections in North America and Europe.
Cyd Wicker attended West Texas State University and later the Yale School of Music. She studied with Richard Lack between 1978 and 1983. Subjects of her commissioned portraits have included three U.S. presidents, Minnesota judges and corporate leaders, and, at St. Thomas, portraits of the School of Law founders, of the late Dr. Luann Dummer and of the late St. Thomas president, Monsignor Terrence Murphy.
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