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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...

Through support of the Justice, Equality and Community Grant, Bethany Collins is the 2019-2020 Public Humanities Practitioner-in-Residence at Davidson College. While many institutions continue to struggle with their past in regard to slavery and racism, particularly in the form of monuments and portraits, Davidson College is choosing to engage with the past. The recent creation of a Commission on Race and Slavery is an example of this engagement. Analogous to the commission, the Galleries commissioned  Bethany  Collins to create a new work of art specifically for Davidson College. Bethany gives us a studio tour and an update on the artwork...

Katyayani Singh (1998, Indian)I'm Sleeping, 2018Progressive Video Gift of Charlotte and Alan Artus I'm Sleeping speaks volumes in this moment and couldn't be a better piece to investigate right now! Katyayani (Kat) Singh is a graphic designer and art director. She grew up in India, completing her BA at the University of New Delhi in Government and Politics, before shifting course and moving to the United States to pursue design. Singh landed in Chicago where she attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning her MFA in Visual Communication Design. Soon after, she relocated to Brooklyn and began...