At the Faulconer Gallery Summer 2015

Against Reason: Anti/Enlightenment Prints by Callot, Hogarth, Piranesi, and Goya

Through Aug. 2, 2015

This exhibition of art from the College’s permanent collection explores the darker side of the Enlightenment by asking, among other things, what are the dangers of secularism, nationalism, and a scientific method that dismisses rather than exalts the qualities that make us both human and humane? This pan-European exhibition includes works by Jacques Callot, William Hogarth, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Francisco Goya. The exhibition was curated by students Timothy McCall ’15, Maria Shevelkina ’15, Dana Sly ’15, Emma Vale ’15, Elizabeth Allen ’16, Mai Pham ’16, and Hannah Storch ’16, who wrote the catalog during the fall 2014 exhibition seminar under the direction of J. Vanessa Lyon, assistant professor of art history.

Open to Interpretation

Through Aug. 2, 2015

Curated by Tilly Woodward, curator of academic and community outreach, and Lesley Wright, director of the Faulconer Gallery.

The Faulconer Gallery collection is filled with intriguing and curious works of art, which can be enjoyed or interpreted in many different ways. This summer exhibition brings together a range of works and asks visitors to provide comments and captions; selections of comments will be shared for others to enjoy and ponder.

Summer and Fall

Please note that we will be closed to repaint the gallery from top to bottom from August 3 through September 17, reopening on September 18 with Start by Asking Questions: Contemporary Art from the Faulconer and Rachofsky Collections, Dallas.