2023-2024 Exhibitions
The Wriston Art Galleries showcases new exhibits each term of the academic year, as well the annual Senior Art Show.
Leech Gallery
The “Five Good Emperors” - Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius - ruled during the second century of the Roman Empire, known as the Pax Romana due to the relative stability and lack of external threats. One of the emperor’s many powers was control over currency, and Rome’s coins changed every year. Designed to highlight imperial power and reinforce messages of peace and stability, high value coins were one of the ways that the emperors maintained centralized power and communicated ideas over such a vast empire. Art History major Rachel David ’24 curated this exhibition of ancient Roman Imperial coins from the Ottilia M. Buerger '38 Collection. Building on her capstone research, the exhibition interrogates the coins as primary examples of material culture that conveyed information about leadership in the ancient world.
Hoffmaster Gallery
Milwaukee-based artist Jan Serr repeatedly returns to the human figure in her work. This exhibition explores her substantial body of work in self-portraiture in painting, drawing, and print mediums from different moments in her prolific career. In addition to demonstrating Serr’s deft touch and command of visual forms, the self-portraits reveal her ability to convey multiple aspects of her own personality and a wide range of emotional responses.
Kohler Gallery
Focused on representations of light, reflection, and lustrous surface, painter Robin Jebavy experiments with glassware imagery to reference the fragile and often precarious human condition and ask questions about our intimate relationship with the external world. Through multiplication, fragmentation, repetition, and expansion of patterns, each composition moves from an initial reference of inert still life objects toward something immersive and infinite—an embroidered, animated, reverberating network of shapes and colors into which the viewer can fall and get lost. The painting process transforms a third-person viewpoint of objects into a first-person perspective of the world, expressing moments when seeing is being and the boundary between self and other is lost.
The Wriston Art Galleries showcases new exhibits each term of the academic year, as well the annual Senior Art Show.