Pick Up Your Art Work!

Please stop by the gallery between 10-12 (study day) to pick up your work from the Undergraduate Exhibition.

Thank you

Get your Mosaic Submissions in!

Hello,

the due date for submitting your creative work to Mosaic, SMU's literary and arts magazine, is quickly approaching!  So, please act now!  Send your entries to MOSAIC@SMUMN.EDU.  Thanks and happy holidays from all of us on the Mosaic staff.

(If you need assistance photographing works of art, contact any art and design faculty. We would be happy to help.)

Annual Undergraduate Art Exhibition Opening and Award Winners

The Annual Undergraduate All Campus Student Exhibition will be on view through the end of the semester in the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries. Over 40 students from a wide variety of majors from Criminal Justice to Computer Science to Studio Art are exhibiting their work in the show. The work was juried by Brianna Nelson, and the award winning work is featured below. Congratulations to all of our student artists and award winners!

Anna Segner, First Place,  Evanescent Decay

Allison Swenson, Second Place, Fall Hunt

Macey Johnson, Third Place, Swans

Chelsea Pumper, Honorable Mention, Icarus

Cinthya Cazares, Honorable Mention, Pumpkin

Elizabeth Schmidt, Honorable Mention, Dash

Haolin Lin, Honorable Mention, Buddha Stamp

Jessica Schleich, Honorable Mention, Pitcher

Stop by and see the exhibit, open daily 9am to 8pm, through December 10th, 2013.

Undergraduate Art Show!

We had lots of students bring their drawings, paintings, and photos into the gallery for submission to this year's Undergraduate Student Art Show.

Thank You to all of the undergraduate students that brought their work to the Lillian Davis Hogan Gallery Monday and Tuesday.

Each student could have submitted up to three (3) works, any media. Artwork must have been completed as a college student (in or out of class).

Opening reception for the exhibit is Thursday, November 21st, 4:30 - 6pm.

Prizes for First, Second, and Third place winners will be announced at the opening.

Hope to see you there!

MOSAIC, SMU’s Literary & Arts Journal, needs a cover design!

If you have any visual art pieces that would make a striking cover, please send them to mosaic@smumn.edu with “Cover Design” as the subject. All cover designs submitted should relate in some way to MOSAIC, the title of journal. If you would like to see examples of past winners, older copies of MOSAIC are available for perusal in the English Dept Office, St. Mary's Room 231

Dog Days in Design class

The day after Halloween is always a hard day in class. Too much sugar. Out late walking the dark streets at night. Trying to get mascara off hard to reach places.

Solution: Easton the Dog.

Easton paid a visit to Rob McColl's morning Foundations I class to inspire, encourage, and generally slobber on the students.

Good dog. Sit. Cut. Paste.

Audio Guide For Excessibility

Visitors to the Lillian Davis Hogan galleries can now get a personal tour of the exhibit on display by Todd VonBastiaans and Bryan McCarthy, curators and artists of the exhibit.

Point your mobile device toward the QR code to access the audio file recorded during their recent visit for the opening reception.

Follow the small signs posted near the work in the gallery while they talk about their collection.

‘Excessibility’ Opening a Star-Studded Success

Las Vegas artist and 1994 Saint Mary’s alumnus Todd VonBastiaans — along with friend and colleague Bryan McCarthy — will curate the next Saint Mary’s University exhibit, “Excessibility.”

The show, which depicts luxury and celebrity accessibility is subtitled, “Access 2 Excess” and features works from 1939 to 2013, including Banksy, Ed Ruscha, Sol Lewitt and Andy Warhol. VonBastiaans and McCarthy will also display their new pancake pillows.

The exhibit opened two weeks ago will run Oct. 10 through Nov. 10 in the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries, located in the Toner Student Center.

There are many unique and eye catching pieces in this exhibit and everyone is welcome to come enjoy "Excessibility."

 Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, and the show is free and open to the public.

Alumnus Returns to SMU for exhibit titled 'Excessibility'

Las Vegas artist and 1994 Saint Mary’s alumnus Todd VonBastiaans — along with friend and colleague Bryan McCarthy — will curate the next Saint Mary’s University exhibit, “Excessibility.”

The show, which depicts luxury and celebrity accessibility is subtitled, “Access 2 Excess” and features works from 1939 to 2013, including Banksy, Ed Ruscha, Sol Lewitt and Andy Warhol. VonBastiaans and McCarthy will also display their new pancake pillows.

“Excessibility” will run Oct. 10 through Nov. 10 in the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries, located in the Toner Student Center.

A reception for the show will be held 4:30 to 6 on Thursday, Oct. 10. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, and the show is free and open to the public.

These pancake pillows are just some of the unusual pieces to be featured in "Excessibility."

Professor Preston Lawing to Exhibit at ArHaus in Decorah, Iowa

Preston Lawing, Associate Professor of Art and Design, likes the color changes and patina that comes with age. His current exhibition at the ArtHaus Gallery in Decorah, Iowa explores the way that weather and time change our world.

Venezia 3

“Elegant Decay” will present nine new works of pastel on board, produced after leading two student groups on travels through Italy this summer.

Lawing has captured the “history of place” in these works, rendering pastels that record water damage, construction changes, paint and stone deterioration throughout Venice.

Venezia 3

The exhibition opens October 4^th in Decorah, IA and will run through October, then opens in November at the Lyon Smith Gallery in Winona as part of the Downtown Art Party on the first Tuesday of each month.

For more information contact Preston Lawing at plawing@smumn.edu.

Attention all Art and Design Majors

The department is thinking of taking students to two upcoming events. Let us know if you are interested in either. To make room, you can't attend both, but they are so different you probably wouldn't want to anyway. If we have a lot of interest for any trip we may have to pick names by lottery.

The department will pay for travel and then entrance tickets. Food and any other items are your responsibility.

The first is called MNFashion, a series of events showcasing regional fashion designers, artists, and musicians.

With this event there are two event possibilities (we will probably only attend one of the following depending on interest and available drivers):

Envision happens this Friday and has it all: the runway, art, and music. Because it is three days from today, we are not sure who can drive to this event, but we are asking around. If this is something you are interested in, email me and we'll see if we can do it. Maximum number of students: 3, maybe 4.

The Shows happens on two different nights next week, Wednesday, Sept. 25, and Thursday, Sept. 26. Professor Truax would be willing to take a carload of students to this fashion event on either evening. If you are interested in, email me, stating which day fits best in your schedule.

The second event is FallCon Comic Book Party on Saturday, October 5th. This is kind of a regional ComiCon with big named designers, writers, dealers of mainstream and independent comics. You can go in costume if you want. Also, bring your sketchbook portfolio for a review with the big dogs.

If interested in this, email me.

Hope to hear from you!

Preston Lawing's Exhibition in Decorah, Iowa

Preston Lawing, Associate Professor of Art and Design, likes the color changes and patina that comes with age. His current exhibition at the ArtHaus Gallery in Decorah, Iowa explores the way that weather and time change our world.

“Elegant Decay” will present nine new works of pastel on board, produced after leading two student groups on travels through Italy this summer.

Lawing has captured the “history of place” in these works, rendering pastels that record water damage, construction changes, paint and stone deterioration throughout Venice.

The exhibition opens October 4^th in Decorah, IA and will run through October, then opens in November at the Lyon Smith Gallery in Winona as part of the Downtown Art Party on the first Tuesday of each month.

For more information contact Preston Lawing at plawing@smumn.edu.

New Academic Year: Art and Design Department Social

Recently the Art and Design department recently held a social and information session for majors, minors, interested students, and the art club.

Faculty and students at the social

Pizza and snacks were served, and prizes were given in a drawing as well. It was a great start to the school year in St. Joes Hall!

Cross/Purpose Exhibition - Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries

August 24th to September 30th over 40 pieces of art focusing on the image of the Cross are on display in Saint Mary's University Lillian Davis Hogan gallery.

The gallery is open daily from 9am to 8pm.

These works come to us as a traveling exhibition from CIVA, Christians in the Visual Arts.

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Russian/French

Christ in the Clock

9” X 7 7/8”

Lithograph

Fra Antonio Lorenzini (1665-1740) Italian

Decent from the Cross

23 1/8” X 14” (paper)

Engraving

Georges Rouault (1871-1958) French

Golgotha

12” X 8 6/8”

Color intaglio

Jacques Villon (1875-1963) French

Crucifixion

18 1/4” X 16 1/4”

Lithograph on gold leaf

From the exhibition notes:

The cross is the great symbol of our Christian faith because Christ’s Death and Resurrection are central to what we believe about the world. Since the Christian faith has been the great producer of images of the three monotheistic religions it is only natural to suspect that cross images might be recurrent in the art made by Christian societies. CROSS/PURPOSE is a sampling of some of the many forms the cross has taken over the centuries and the purposes for which it has been used.

Historically crosses have taken the form of rude sticks tied together and book covers of jewels and ivory. They have been worn as a talisman against evil and as a witness of the faithful in an evil world. The cross has been used on coinage and on banners leading armies into battle. It has been used to enshrine the glory of Christ’s claim on the world and to enshrine the Christian dead. Over the centuries both good and evil people have sensed a special power in the cross’s presence and have sought to use it or counter it for their personal ends. Constantine used the cross as a symbol of his placing the empire under the protection of the saving Grace of Christ. Hitler revived the pre-Christian crux gammata (swastika) probably as a substitution for and a mockery of the Christian cross. In so doing the Third Reich simply paid homage to its power.

The time frame for CROSS/PURPOSE begins with a sixth century AD coin from Constantinople, jumps to a small 15^th Century woodcut by an anonymous artist, winds through several works from the Catholic Reformation, runs head-long into the wars and outsider art of the 20^th Century, and ends with some remarkable contemporary pieces by living artists. Along the way one encounters figurative, abstract, expressionist, realist, and conceptual art by such masters as Jacques Callot, Marc Chagall, Georges Rouault, Bernard Buffet, Alfred Manessier, Jacques Villon, and Otto Dix

It is a show rich in variety and meaning. The small realist etching Man With a Crucifix by Robert Sargent Austin (1895-1973) holds its own against the huge color etching Man in the Shape of a T by the contemporary Spanish artist Julio Vaquero. Vaquero’s figuration contrasts brilliantly with the Picassoeque intaglio with color, Crucifixion by French sculpture Louis Cane. The Crucifixion by the young self-taught Michael Banks who grew up in a housing project in Alabama owes much to the sophisticated fantasy Christ in the Clock by Marc Chagall, yet remains fresh and new. The eloquent black Christ of Clementine Hunter works symbiotically with Jacques Villon’s cubist rendition of the Savior as her yellow background echoes the gold leaf ground of his lithograph. The extreme agony of war’s cruelty is called forth by such works as Luc-Albert Moreau’s The Christ of the Camps (1944) and Benitz’s crucifixion of a peasant.

The varied uses of the cross are seen in the three freestanding examples in the exhibition.  There is an

instructive devotional cross from Guatemala, a 19^th Century French grave marker, and a processional cross from Ethiopia.

It is hoped that CROSS/PURPOSE will allow us to reevaluate this instrument of agony and death. It is hoped that we may again see past its use as a fashion statement and once more embrace Christ’s Cross as the central symbol of our faith.

Saint Mary's University's Art Club took a weekend trip to Milwaukee to see some art. The grouped toured the Milwaukee and spent the night in a hip a hotel in the center of the city. The art club spent the next day wondering around the Milwaukee Museum of Art where they saw work from various artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and many other artists. Everyone had a great time and got to experience a new place!

Hello everyone! 

Today (April 13th) is the opening for Saint Mary’s University Senior Art show titled "Defining." The reception will be from 4:30 to 6 this evening in the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries, located in the Toner Student Center. Come to support your peers and the artists!

The student artists displaying work include Brianna Bloomquist, Jamie Cooper, Jennifer Daniels, Tommy Holme, De’Shanda Morley, Lisa-Marie Nihart, Amanda Rahman, Yuchen Ren, Jamie Stefely and Caroline Stringer. 

The show will be on display April 13 through May 11. The gallery is free and open to the public, and the gallery is open 9 a.m. to 8p.m. daily.

Upcoming Art Exhibit by Sculptor Matt Boonstra

The next exhibit coming to the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries is a solo exhibit, Running to Conclusions, by sculptor Matt Boonstra. The exhibit will run 3/2/13  - 4/6/13.

Matt is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University.

Running to Conclusions, Steel, 2012.

Following this exhibit, the annual Senior Art and Design Exhibit will be held.

Rockwell Kent and Aleksander Rodchenko

 Rockwell Kent: Prints from the Ralf Nemec Collection, and  works by graphic artists celebrating the 120th anniversary of Aleksander Rodchenko’s birth — will be on display at Saint Mary’s University until February 27th.

Example of a poster inspired by Rodchenko

Example of a poster inspired by Rodchenko

Stop by between 9:00 am 8:00 pm daily to see both shows in the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries in Saint Mary's University's Toner Student Center.