The Death of Painting Is Dead

Hite Galleries-Schneider Hall, University of Louisville
January 14 – February 14, 2010

Exhibition Catalogue (8.3 MB - PDF)

Installation Photography (13.6 MB - PDF)

As legend has it, the 19th-century French History painter Paul Delaroche declared, “From today, painting is dead,” when he encountered a daguerreotype, and saw the challenge photography posed to the role of the painter. 

This exhibition features ten contemporary painters from around the United States. Their work demonstrates that painting did not die, only the limited assumptions of what a painting was, or could be, and what the artist’s role is, or could be.

Artists include: Denise Burge (Cincinnati), Sean Garrison (Louisville), Darren Haper (Dayton, OH), Jake Heustis (Louisville), Steven L. Jones (Chicago), Mark Masyga (NYC), Kim Piotrowski (Chicago), Letitia Quesenberry (Louisville), Carole Silverstein (LA), & Joe Vajarsky (Chicago)

ReSOURCE

Artists who use collecting to create or inspire their work

Hite Galleries-Cressman Center, University of Louisville
January 16 - February 16, 2008

Exhibition Catalogue (27.3 MB - PDF)

Installation Photography (9.2 MB - PDF)

Writers must read, musicians listen, and artists must look.  In addition to visiting museums and galleries and leafing through art publications, many artists collect.

All of the works in this show would be difficult to imagine without the artist first being informed by their habits of collecting. Work by each artist is featured along with a selection of materials the artist collected to create or inspire their work.

Artists include: Don Baum (Chicago), Roger Brown (Chicago), Raymond Graf(Louisville), Niels Köhler (Prague, CZ), Kathleen Lolley (Louisville), Rennie Sparks (Albuquerque), Caroline Waite (Louisville), & Chris Ware (Chicago)

Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: Death, Reverence, & the Struggle for Equality in America

Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
December 17 - February 2, 1994

Exhibition Catalogue (24.8 MB - PDF)

Installation Photography (1.5 MB - PDF)

Honoring the dead, commemorating historic events, and creating heroes, has a history as old and as rich as the human race. And the United States has not been isolated from these natural outpourings.

Through a wide-spectrum of visual culture--from mass-produced commercial works, anonymous and folk art, to works by WPA artists and panels from the NAMES PROJECT QUILT—this exhibition shows the power contained in the insistence that “these dead shall not have died in vain.”

Artists include: Ben Shahn, Robert Rauschenberg, John Stuart Curry, Elizabeth Catlett, Archibald J. Motely Jr., Howard Finster, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Brian Calvin, Drossos P. Skyllas, Lou Cabeen, Carlos Cortez Koyokuikatl, Howard Seth Miller, Bruce Thayer, & many more.