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Hagit Barkai (Israeli) All Stories: End with Peak, 2011 Oil on Canvas 78" x 52.25" x 1.75" Gift of Lydia Lorenzin, in memory of Tomm Lorenzin, Class of 1992 As a Gender & Sexuality Studies major, I am drawn to artists that examine the consequences of power dynamics. Hagit Barkai, an Israeli artist now living in Houston, TX, explores the demands on bodies in public and private spaces through her paintings. Barkai received her BA in philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and MFA at Penn State University. We are fortunate to have her painting All Stories: End with Peak...

William Hogarth (English, b. 1697)The Sleeping CongregationEtching and Engraving26.5″ x 21″Gift of John A. Welsh, Class of 1959 William Hogarth (b. 1697) was an English painter, printmaker, and satirist renowned for his moralistic paintings and engravings of quotidian life in 18th century London. Over 40 years of printmaking and editorial cartooning, the artist’s burin spared no one, cutting across class lines to moralize at all tiers of English society. Hogarth’s career began in apprenticeship. Born to a poor family in the Leicester Fields, he pursued trade education early on. Working as an apprentice to a number of engravers, producing trade...

Patrick Caulfield (b.1936 - 2005)Small Window at NightScreenprint39.5 x 29.25 in.Gift of Fred Nederlander Patrick Caulfield was an English painter and printmaker renown for his bold paintings that often incorporated elements of photorealism. He flattened ordinary objects, rendering three-dimensional perspectives on a flat plane. Interested in surrealist painters such as Giorgio de Chirico, Caulfield took a playful approach to his paintings. Since 1963, Caulfield has infused sense of curiosity into empty architectural spaces. In particular, his early oil paintings in the '60’s placed the viewer in the dark outside a building, obscuring everything but the brightly lit interior, leading us...

Cheryl Haines Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly, 2019 Documentary, FOR-SITE Foundation film 1 hour 16 minutes After much anticipation, the award-winning documentary film Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly is now available for audiences to view at home. In partnership with First Run Features, over thirty local theaters in the United States and Canada will be streaming the documentary in its virtual theatrical release. Inspired by the eponymous installation that was part of the FOR-SITE Foundation 2014-15 exhibition @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, the Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly documentary aims to motivate viewers to take action in the struggle for human rights at home and abroad. The Van Every|Smith...

Sze Tsung Leong (British-Mexican-American, b. 1970)Xinjiekou, Xaunwu District, Nanjing, 2004, From the series History Images, 2004Chromogenic print40 x 80 inGift of John Andrew MacMahon ‘95 During Spring 2020, I took a course called “Urban Ecology” with Dr. Anika Bratt, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Davidson College. Through the course, I learned about the importance of urban ecosystems and how they shape our environment. With the rise of urbanization, ecologists and sociologists are just beginning to understand the immense ways in which humans and their actions are influencing the lifecycles, ecosystems, structures, and climate within the urban landscape. Our...