Past Exhibits

2019

• A Teaspoon and a Bit of String: The Illustrations of Denise Gallagher

  June 14, 2019 ‐ August 31, 2019

  Denise Gallagher is passionate about creating. An internationally published author and illustrator, Denise is deeply inspired by rare animals, ancient folklore and her Louisiana home. Always read...

  

• Cosmos: George Rodrigue Foundation

  November 08, 2019 ‐ December 07, 2019

  The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts grants monetary scholarships to high school juniors and seniors through an annual visual arts competition in order to encourage individual participation...

  

• Daniel Canogar: Echo

  February 08, 2019 ‐ April 27, 2019

   

  The fluid and fragile nature of memory is extremely important to Daniel Canogar. Within his studio practice Canogar frequently posits technology as reflective of society’s shared co...

  

• Faculty Miniatures: Toward the Condensed, and Not-Yet-Known

  August 23, 2019 ‐ January 25, 2020

  The Hilliard University Art Museum is excited to present Faculty Miniatures: Toward the Condensed and Not-Yet-Known. Curated by Chris Bennett, Assistant Professor of Art History in the D...

  

• Gisela Colon: Pods

  January 18, 2019 ‐ August 24, 2019

  This exhibition features the work of Gisela Colon, and American contemporary artist who has developed a unique vocabulary of organic minimalism, breathing life into reductive forms. Upon entering...

  

• Installation: Land Displace Ment / Replace Ment

  February 20, 2019 ‐ April 30, 2019

  An interactive public art project by Emily Stergar

  Part of being from a place, or living in a community is knowing the landscape. Oftentimes, the earth under your feet feels more authentic tha...

  

• Kota Ezawa: Two Views

  May 10, 2019 ‐ August 24, 2019

  Kota Ezawa is one of the world’s preeminent appropriation artists. His source materials, video footage in the case of Kota Ezawa: Two Views, are pulled from films that have achieved icon...

  

• Past the Frame: Abstraction and Its Environs in the Work of Allan Jones, 1968-2018

  August 10, 2018 ‐ March 02, 2019

  Past the Frame: Abstraction and Its Environs in the Work of Allan Jones, 1968-2018, honors five decades of ambitious painting, from groundbreaking works of the late 1960s and 1970s defin...

  

• Paths and Loops: Automatic Drawings by John F. Simon Jr.

  June 08, 2019 ‐ November 16, 2019

  John F. Simon, Jr., a native of Louisiana, is a noted software art pioneer. Paths and Loops acknowledges this status, and explores the nature of his creative process with a breadth ...

  

• Quad Suite: Richard Landry

  September 06, 2019 ‐ December 07, 2019

  Richard Landry’s 1973 video Quad Suite explores the performative nature of both video and music. As a musician and composer, Landry pushes the boundaries of music, exploring new ways to ...

  

• Sharon Kopriva: No Small Thing

  September 13, 2019 ‐ January 04, 2020

  Sharon Kopriva’s art is larger than life. This is not a result of her tendency towards large-scale work, rather it is connected to how she depicts and selects her subject matter. Her points of re...

  

• Slavery, the Prison Industrial Complex: Photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick

  February 08, 2019 ‐ May 18, 2019

  Curated by Susan H. Edwards, PhD, Director & Katie Delmez, Curator
  

  Slavery, the Prison Industrial Complex reveals how a New Orleans husband-and-wife team uses their camera...

  

• Songbirds: Nature As Metaphor | Paintings by Melissa Bonin

  September 06, 2019 ‐ October 26, 2019

   

  Through the media of visual art and poetry, artist Melissa Bonin explores ancient and universal themes. She uses nature as metaphor to create a personal symbolic language. Her work ...

  

• Spotlight on the Collection: Henry Botkin

  November 09, 2018 ‐ May 04, 2019

  Henry Botkin (1896–1983) was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art before moving to New York to continue his studies at the Art ...

  

• Spotlight on the Collection: William Moreland

  May 23, 2019 ‐ November 01, 2019

  William Moreland was an educator who touched the lives of thousands of artists during his tenure at the University of Southwestern Louisiana from 1955 to 1986. He is best known for hi...

  

• Tripping Over Cypress: Recent Work by Cliff Tresner

  March 08, 2019 ‐ August 10, 2019

   

  Tripping Over Cypress is an examination of how the artist Cliff Tresner places himself within the literal and cultural landscape of Louisiana. Originally a Hoosier, he is a...