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Opening Talk & Reception
Friday, January 20, 2017
4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Curated by Vandalog Editor-in-Chief and Haverford alumnus RJ Rushmore ’14 on the 50th anniversary of modern graffiti, ALL BIG LETTERS approaches the medium as fundamentally entangled with its tools. Details »
UNTITLED (CENSE, ET AL.) STEVE WEINIK, 2014. PHOTOGRAPH
Through December 11, 2016
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Curated by Jeanne Vaccaro with Stamatina Gregory, Bring Your Own Body: transgender between archives and aesthetics presents the work of transgender artists and archives, from the institutional and sexological to the personal and liminal. Details »
Zackary Drucker, Southern for Pussy (2015). Film still. Courtesy of the artist.
Through December 4, 2016
Atrium Gallery, Marshall Fine Arts Center
The Haverford College Photography Collection is one of the largest of any liberal arts college in the nation. This exhibition gathers 60 stellar works gifted to and purchased by the College over the last three years. Details »
Edward Weston, American (1886—1958), Boulder Dam [1941], Gelatin silver print; Purchase, Swann Gallery auction, April 2013.
English major Courtney Carter '17 curated an exhibition after creating a curatorial proposal as a final project for her sophomore year class “Theory and Practice of Exhibition: Objects, Images, Texts, Events.”
Consent to be Seen is on exhibit in Magill Library through January 27, 2017. Photo: Patrick Montero.
November 3, 2016–December 9, 2016
Alcove Gallery and Rufus Jones Study, Magill Library
Inspired by the Inquisition case of an F to M surgeon, Eleno de Céspedes (Toledo, 1587), Cabello / Carceller’s mixed media project (photos and video) reflects on the traces of a life recorded in the inquisitorial dossier. Details »
Artists' talk and opening in the Philips Wing, Magill Library on November 3 at 4:30 p.m. Image courtesy of the artist.
October 21, 2016–December 11, 2016
Morley Alcove, Magill Library
The Right Brain of Darkness is a series of watercolor drawings by Tuesday Smillie celebrating Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic sci-fi novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, claiming the book as a proto-transfeminist text. Details »
Four covers of The Left Hand of Darkness from the series The Right Brain of Darkness by Tuesday Smillie. Images courtesy of the artist.
October 28, 2016–January 27, 2017
Sharpless Gallery, Magill Library
Curated by Courtney Carter '17 and Kristin Lindgren, Riva Lehrer's Consent to be Seen borrows the concept of "informed consent" from biomedicine in order to pose questions about consent in the context of portraiture, especially portraiture involving subjects who are socially stigmatized. Details »
"66 Degrees, self portrait in response to my changing relationship to my body", 24" x 36" acrylic on wood panel by Riva Lehrer, 2016.
October 21, 2016–December 11, 2016
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Curated by Jeanne Vaccaro with Stamatina Gregory, Bring Your Own Body: transgender between archives and aesthetics presents the work of transgender artists and archives, from the institutional and sexological to the personal and liminal. Details »
Zackary Drucker, Southern for Pussy (2015). Film still. Courtesy of the artist.
Opening October 21, 2016
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
Curated by Jeanne Vaccaro with Stamatina Gregory, Bring Your Own Body: transgender between archives and aesthetics presents the work of transgender artists and archives, from the institutional and sexological to the personal and liminal. Details »
Zackary Drucker, Southern for Pussy (2015). Film still. Courtesy of the artist.
Through October 7, 2016
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery & Sharpless Gallery of Magill Library
Curated by Faye Hirsch, Geographies surveys the past four years of work by the Chinese-born Professor of Fine Arts Ying Li in a selection of more than 100 paintings and drawings on view at Haverford College, where she has taught since 1997. Details »
The Hudson River (detail), 2016, oil on panel, 16 x 16 in.
*We have a very tiny magic 8 ball.