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All of the photographs in this blog post are on view in our current exhibition, From Pandemic to Protests: Visualizing Social Isolation and Social Injustices through the Davidson College Art Collection. Click the button to view the exhibition online: View From Pandemic to Protests Online Alvin C. Jacobs (American, b. 1974)Untitled (Charlotte Uprising, Uptown Charlotte, NC, 2016), 201616 x 24 in.Digital PrintGallery Purchase The photographs depict protests following the 2016 election of Donald Trump; the 2016 death of Keith Lamont Scott, who was murdered by an African American police officer in Charlotte, N.C.; and the 2014 Millions March in NYC...

All the photographs mentioned in this blog post are currently on view in the E. Craig Wall, Jr. Academic Center. The building is open to current students, faculty, and staff due to the pandemic. View all artworks on view in the Wall Center at the link below: Davidson College Permanent Art Collection: On View in Wall Center Joshua WhiteFeatherArchival pigment print4 x 4 inGallery Purchase Joshua White’s archival pigment prints in A Photographic Survey of the American Yard capture both memory and science, evoking childhood nostalgia as well as scientific study. Small in scale, the prints require close observation in order...

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, 1697-1764)The Sleeping Congregation1762Etching and Engraving26.5 x 21 in.Gift of John A. Welsh, Class of 1959 William Hogarth 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 cards and...

Patrick Caulfield (British, 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 to...