Exhibitions for the 2025-26 Academic Year


The Galleries will reopen on September 26 for the Fall 2025 exhibitions. Join us on October 9 at 4:30 pm for an Artist Talk by Janis Mars Wunderlich with reception to follow. 


Fall 2025

Friday, September 26 – Friday, November 21  

Women in Rare Books

Leech Gallery  

An exhibition of rare books from the Richmond Collection curated by Alex Whaley ’27. Completed as an LU Research Fellow in summer 2025, Alex’s work with the collection was supported by Susan Nelson Goldsmith ‘65. Alex delves into editions by women authors in the collection (Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, and Harriet Beecher Stowe) to examine their presences and absences within book history.  

 

Janis Mars Wunderlich, ceramics and paintings

Hoffmaster Gallery  

Janis Mars Wunderlich grew up in a large Mormon family with Amish cousins in Northeastern Ohio. Her detailed ceramic sculptures and paintings capture the dualities and complexities of being human, inspired by ancient ceramic story-telling figurines and her Cherokee Folk Artist step-grandfather, Edwin George. Wunderlich blends animal, plant, and other natural elements in her narrative figures to celebrate nurturing, reciprocity, resilience, and the spiritual connectedness of all things. Wunderlich is a mother of five grown children and has four grandchildren. Along with her passion to make art, she is also a marathon runner, lap swimmer, bow-hunter, and an associate professor of art at Monmouth College, where she teaches ceramics, creative processes, and art history. She spends much of her time with her husband and best friend Grant on their rural Illinois farm and woodlands.

 

a multicolor ceramic sculpture of a woman sitting cross legged with birds and small mammals sitting on and around her.

Janis Mars Wunderlich, Voice of the Woods, 2023, Ceramic, Underglaze

The Lawrence University Art Collection

Kolher Gallery  

This exhibition of works in the Lawrence University Art Collection will remain on view during most of the academic year, from September to May. A new direction for the gallery schedule, this exhibition showcases the breadth and depth of the collection, built from donations by generous alumni and friends of LU, and connects it concretely to curriculum across the university. The exhibition is organized around four themes: Light, More Light!, Displacement, the Unknown, and Empowerment, which have been conceptualized and curated by Val Muzzarelli ‘27 as a LU Research Fellow in summer 2025. Exemplary artworks by well-known historical and contemporary artists will also be on view. The exhibition will change slightly over the course of the year, so be sure to return often to see new objects. 

Collage of four artworks: abstract patterns, a Japanese scene with lava and boats, colorful modern shapes, and reflective glass objects

Details from left to right: Untitled [Blue Squiggles], late 20th Century; Hiroshige, Great Fireworks Display at Ryogoku Bridge, 1861; Frances Myers, Perils on Land and Sea, 1980s; Jeanette Pasin Sloan, Dots II, 2008


Winter 2026

Friday, January 16 – Friday, March 13 

Louise Bourgeois, Mixografia Series

Leech Gallery 

In 2023, Dr. Robert Dickens ‘63 donated the complete Mixografia series by Louise Bourgeois (French, b. 1911, d. 2010) as part of his named collections of contemporary works on paper. The Mixografia technique is a unique fine art printing process that produces textured, three-dimensional prints. Bourgeois created the series, titled Crochet I-V, based on her vast body of drawings. With the help of Judith Solodkin of SOLO Impression, New York, Bourgeois used red string as a drawing tool to create a series of linear compositions and a representation of a woman’s braided hair. 

 

Todd Mrozinski, printmaking 

Hoffmaster Gallery 

An experienced and exacting printmaker, Todd Mrozinski produces highly detailed images of light and shadow as they play over every day domestic settings as a path into presence and peace. Mrozinski will also be a visiting artist with the Paper Fox Printmaking Workshop in tandem with his show; he will produce a print edition with students, one of which will go into the Wriston Art Galleries Collection. Mrozinski teaches etching, drawing, and painting at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.  

"Black and white sketch of a winter scene with bare tree branches in the foreground and rooftops in the background.

Todd Mrozinski, Flurries, 2024, Lithograph


Spring 2026

Friday, April 3 – Friday, May 15

Ancient Roman Coin Exhibition 

Leech Gallery 

Jackson Bertman ’26, a self-designed classical studies major, curated an exhibition drawn from the Otillia Buerger ‘38 Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins. Focused on Roman Coins, and connected to his capstone research, this exhibition highlights the use of coins as political propaganda in the late Republican and early Imperial eras of Rome. 

 

Andy Gambrell, Art for Humanity’s Sake 

Hoffmaster Gallery 

Andy Gambrell is an American abstract painter and educator. His painting practice was shaped by formative years spent in Miami within a community of abstract painters that included late modern masters such as Darby Bannard and Jules Olitski.  Gambrell also worked in dialogue with alumni of Black Mountain College, and he champions human experience and human expression as legacies of the historic school.

Gambrell’s contemporary work renews and extends American abstract painting through his use of a laser eye-tracking viewfinder to make digital drawings of the path of his eyes while experiencing the landscape. Whether viewing fresh winter snow at dawn in Plover or the summer moon over Stevens Point, this process of abstract painting results in a fresh, beautiful celebration of the Wisconsin landscape.


 

Abstract painting featuring a blue background with a large, textured orange square centered. Overlaid on the square are intersecting geometric lines in purple and white, forming various angular shapes

Andy Gambrell, Winter Dawn III, acrylic paint on canvas over wood panel, 48” x 48”, 2025

2026 Senior Art Show

May 29 – June 20

Leech, Hoffmaster, and Kohler Galleries 

The annual exhibition of artwork by Lawrence University’s senior studio art majors.