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September 29 - November 5, 2000

Opening lecture: Frank C. Lewis, director/curator Wriston Art Center Galleries Friday, September 29, 2000, 6 p.m., Wriston Auditorium
Opening reception: Friday, September 29, 2000, 7 - 9 p.m.

Artistas Argentinos, Contemporáneos/Four Contemporary Argentinean Artists
November 17 - December 17, 2000

Originally organized by The Daura Gallery of Lynchburg College in Lynchburg Virginia, Four Contemporary Argentinean Artists gathers the work of artists who, according to Co-curator Gustavo Fares portray ". . . a double play between the local and the global, the centers and the margins, between what was and is oppressed and the oppressor . . . "Tactile, expressive, and ambitious, the works in this exhibition posit the efficacy of both painting and sculpture in an age torn by cynicism and post-modernity."

Opening Lecture: Gustavo Fares, Associate Professor of Spanish, Lawrence University, Friday, November 17, 6:00 p.m., Wriston Art Center Auditorium
Opening Reception: Friday, November 17, 2000, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Double Exposure: Pairs, Sets, and Twins from the Permanent Collection
Leech Gallery, The Wriston Art Center
Opens November 17. 2000

From Hegel's dialectical model of progress to present day art historians' use of double projection in the classroom, binary comparisons have been employed frequently in modern western culture. While limited and often artificially oppositional, such comparative studies help to reveal both similarities among and distinctions between ideas and objects. Double Exposure: Pairs, Sets, and Twins from the Permanent Collection is one such study.

Whether addressing the mythic aspects of twins, seeking to emphasize family resemblance, or simply dealing with the formal exercise of arranging two figures in space, a number of works in the Wriston's permanent collection have doubling and repetition as a prominent feature. The variety of examples offers a chance for both serious study and playful speculation.

Transforming Gender/Picturing Difference
January 19 - March 18, 2001

Prior to the mid-19th century, images and art works generally celebrated the power of the patrons for whom the works were produced. Prints and paintings, particularly, imbued their subjects with the status of "This is the way things are," inculcating values and often perpetuating divisions determined by class, race, and gender.

As the modern era progressed, many traditional societal roles, based on rather inflexible ideas regarding the actions and behaviors appropriate to specific genders, came to be questioned and challenged. Modern artists, already emboldened by an avant garde practice which encouraged challenges to the status quo, sought to interrogate these traditional gender based roles and the limitations imposed by rigid and limited notions of masculinity and femininity. Thus the late 19th and early 20th century is rich with works of art, which promote, confuse, confound, and contradict earlier definitions of terms such as male and female, masculinity and femininity, and man and woman.

Transforming Gender/Picturing Difference presents a wide variety of images from the Wriston Art Galleries’ permanent collection in order to encourage investigation into and comparison of the variety of roles pictured and sometimes uncritically accepted in contemporary culture. Chosen from a broad spectrum of artistic movements and practices, the art works exhibit both conventional and revolutionary attitudes toward men and women and their activities and place in society.

Opening Reception: January 19, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Lecture: "The Body Politic," 6:00 - 6:45 p.m., January 19, 2001

Three Pieces in Time Fragments: J. Shimon and J. Lindemann
April 6 - May 20, 2001

This exhibition presents three bodies of work (Banquets, Stories, and Thematics) chronicling an artistic evolution involving increasingly deeper investigations into photographic craft, life, and fate.

Artist Talk: Friday, April 6, 6:30 p.m.
Opening Reception: Friday, April 6, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Senior Art Exhibition
June 1 - August 11, 2001

A presentation of work in a variety of media by Lawrence University's senior art majors.

Call 920-832-6621 for more information.