O'Connor Art Gallery
The mission of the O’Connor Art Gallery is to present the 91Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ academic community with timely, relevant and focused contemporary art exhibitions that foster critical and thoughtful dialogue across disciplines. Located in Lewis Hall, steps away from many of the art department’s studios and classrooms, the gallery is particularly accessible to art students as a space for intimate engagement and reflection. In addition to curated exhibitions, the gallery is the site of an annual juried student show and senior thesis exhibitions.
The gallery is open to the public during the academic year.
- Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
- Saturday, 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.*
Free and all are welcome.
For information, please contact Jennifer Mannebach, director, at galleryinfo@dom.edu.
Location: Lewis Hall, Fourth Floor.
*Please note that guests may have to access Lewis Hall through the side entry of the library on Saturdays.
ON EXHIBIT
Annual-Student Juried Exhibition
March 19–April 2
Reception and Award Ceremony
Wednesday, March 19
4:00–6:00 p.m.
UPCOMING EXHIBIT
Senior Capstone Exhibition
April 11–April 25
Reception
Sunday, April 13
1:00–3:00 p.m.
PAST EXHIBITS
Joanne Aono and SofÃa Fernández DÃaz
Threads and Granules
January 15–February 15
Reception: Wednesday, January 15, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Artist Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Art by Joanne Aono
No easy beauty characterizes the work of Joanne Aono and Sofia Fernandez-Diaz. Grounded in immersive research, both artists de-materialize the familiar, and embrace challenging paths in work and life that recognize the complexities in their twining. They callback to ancestral practices that revel in excavation, renewal and transformation. This feeds a practice that is not just a pursuit of formal beauty but one that engages holistically in unison with nature and daily ritual, growing studio habits with rigor, and broader ideas about lived experience.
Scott Wolniak
Aggregations
October 23–December 4
Reception: Wednesday, October 23 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Artist Talk at 4:30
Scott Wolniak has exhibited extensively throughout the US. His work has been written about in publications including ArtForum, Art in America and the Chicago Tribune, and is part of numerous permanent collections, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee. Wolniak received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2002. He is an Instructional Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago and is represented by Goldfinch Gallery.
Image: Grapefruit
Nnenna Okore
landfeels
August 28–October 12
Reception: Wednesday, September 4; 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Okore is an internationally acclaimed Nigerian raised, Fulbright Fellow artist and educator who invites dialogue around ecology and sustainable practices through her sculpture and site-specific installations. Her works and public art have been featured in major venues, including the Museum of Art and Design, New York, Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Museu Afro Brasil, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, the BrugesTriennial, and more recently at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art.