Exhibitions
Collection Galleries
Exhibitions Archived in: 2006
One/Many: Western American Survey Photographs by Bell and O'Sullivan
February 2 – May 7, 2006
William Bell and Timothy H. O'Sullivan, two photographers who joined survey expeditions in the 1860s and 1870s, helped open the eyes of nineteenth-century Americans to the western frontier. Their sweeping and dramatic landscape photographs emerged from government-sponsored geological surveys documenting the western territories. These "Great Surveys" explored huge swaths... more »
GRAPHIKÉ: Writing/Drawing in the Ancient World
March 18 – June 11, 2006
In art of the ancient world, the physical form of words incorporated into works of art relates closely to the artistic design of the object. A painted, incised, or sculpted word may comment on the object in many different ways. It can name the figures represented, provide the artist's... more »
Revisions: Modernist Sculptures by Rodin, Lipchitz, and Moore
May 9 – November 5, 2006
Auguste Rodin, Jacques Lipchitz and Henry Moore each championed sculptural innovations in European modernism and challenged notions of representation that had informed Western art since the Renaissance. From the last quarter of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, they reinvigorated the figurative academic tradition. At the... more »
The Colors of Identity: Polish Art at Home and Abroad, 1890-1939
May 25 – September 17, 2006
By 1890, a century of occupation and several failed uprisings had impacted Polish culture profoundly, engendering a broad search for a national identity in the arts. Driven by the Mloda Polska (Young Poland) movement, Polish art, literature, architecture, and music flourished even as the country remained partitioned under the... more »
Mark Turbyfill: Works on Paper
June 17 – September 10, 2006
Although remembered today mainly for his contributions to the worlds of avant-garde poetry (in 1926 the vanguard magazine Poetry devoted an entire issue to his writings) and dance (in the 1920s and '30s, he was a principal dancer with Allied Artists and partnered with legendary Chicago choreographer Ruth Page),... more »
Adrian Piper: The Mythic Being
September 16 – December 10, 2006
In 1973, Adrian Piper created an alter-ego, the Mythic Being, who became the basis of a pioneering series of performances and photo-based works. Piper—a light-skinned woman of mixed racial heritage—transformed herself into the Mythic Being by donning an Afro wig, sunglasses, and mustache and adopting behavior conventionally identified as... more »
Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art
October 5 2006 – January 14, 2007
Since at least the Renaissance, drawing has been a familiar part of the creative process in Western art. Traditionally, printmakers, painters, and sculptors might dash off sketches to practice technique, keep notebooks as a way to gather and organize ideas, or draft formal renderings. Today, the styles, materials, and... more »
The Image as Homage: Portrait of the Artist
November 21, 2006 – April 8, 2007
In the nineteenth century, the Romantic myth of creative genius endowed artists—painters, sculptors, writers, and musicians—with almost godlike status. Portraits of such artists often amounted to hymns of praise that stood, like the artist's own work, as permanent sites of remembrance and veneration, even after the artist's death. At... more »
Robert Heinecken: Magazines
December 16, 2006 – March 11, 2007
For over four decades, the late Robert Heinecken was a trenchant observer of social and sexual politics. Although he rarely used the camera himself, he made innovative use of photography by combining found photojournalistic and advertising images into new works. In the 1960s, he put this strategy to provocative... more »
Upcoming Exhibitions
-
June 27 – August 25, 2013
The Land Beneath Our Feet: American Art at the Smart Museum -
February 13 – June 15, 2014
Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture
Archives
Copyright © 2013 The University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood Ave. Chicago, IL 60637 773.702.0200
Hours | Tuesday – Sunday 10 am – 5 pm | Open Thursdays until 8 pm | Admission is always free
Galleries closed Mondays and holidays | Café and Shop open daily