Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
A year-round schedule of changing exhibitions is offered to the college and the public, presenting a variety of contemporary artists, collections, traveling exhibitions, and faculty and student artwork.
Exhibitions
Venues include the Rockwell Kent Gallery located in the Feinberg Library as well as the Burke Gallery and Myers Lobby Gallery located in the Myers Fine Arts building.
Rick Shaefer: The Refugee Trilogy
August 30 – December 10, 2021
Location: Burke Gallery
How does one deal with the onslaught of horrific imagery and news of countless waves
of refugees coming from the Middle East and elsewhere? The vast scale of the humanity
involved and the agony and desperation of those afflicted feels both epic and almost
biblical. When the stories and photos first started appearing the visual vocabulary
that instantly came to mind was such paintings as Rubens’ The Last Judgment and Massacre of the Innocents, Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa, Picasso’s Guernica, and Goya’s Disasters of War series, as well as the multitude of imagery of vast throngs fleeing war and oppression
from Exodus to the partition of India to our own native American “Trail of Tears.”
“Refugee Trilogy” is a suite of large-scale charcoal drawings that is a reaction to
this ongoing immigration crisis unfolding across the globe and reflects the three
thematic scenes that began to distill the journeys taken by refugees everywhere. The
three triptychs, each measuring 96” x 166”, are in a chronology suggested by news
reports. "Land Crossing", the first of the three, addresses the hazardous journeys
faced by refugees fleeing war, famine, drought, or other causes. The second work,
“Water Crossing”, portrays the perilous journeys across open water. The third work,
“Border Crossing”, addresses the conflicts and hostilities faced at borders. The three
works employ the vernacular of the Baroque (primarily incorporating various figurative
elements of a wide assortment of Rubens’ paintings) to express this contemporary debacle
in a language both familiar and historical: reminding us of the tenacious persistence
of this epic human tragedy.
Excerpt from Rick Shaefer’s website. Please visit RickShaefer.com for more information on The Refugee Trilogy or to see his other works.
Please Note: The reception for Rick Shaefer: Refugee Trilogy has been canceled.
North by Nuuk: Greenland Rockwell Kent
Spring 2021
Location: Burke Gallery
Projection: Rockwell Kent
Spring 2021
Location: Slatkin Gallery