Current Exhibitions · Lafayette Art Galleries

Susan Meiselas

Just Open Your Eyes: Susan Meiselas on Making Images

Just Open Your Eyes: Susan Meiselas On Making Images brings together a wide range of works from Meiselas’ portfolio that breaks the notion of the grand narrative of artist production but asserts a sensitive and humanistic approach to image making that zigs and zags between personal narratives and historical moments. This exhibition hopes to inspire image-making with eyes and hearts open, to see and show the world not just as how it is, but how it could be.

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Referentem Mundum

Gabriel Rico

This exhibition examines how artist Gabriel Rico considers his surroundings through found objects, topology, and environmental politics. Referentem Mundum (Latin for calculating the world) describes Rico's practice of world-making through assemblages that are structured with mathematical logic and cladded with ethical considerations for history, culture, and ecology. Following theorem formulation, Referentem Mundum reinforces certain "givens" and "assumptions" to posit an abstract calculus that could optimistically offer a solvable visual equation to many world problems.

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SAM

Sam Gilliam

Focus VI – Sam: Sam Gilliam in the Lafayette College Art Collection Sam Gilliam, one of the most innovative American abstract painters, spent time at Lafayette College as an artist-in-residence in 2002. Gilliam’s residency resulted in creating new works with the Experimental Printmaking Institute and gifting a spectacular hanging painting for the lobby of the Williams Center for the Arts. As the Williams Center for the Arts marks its 40th Anniversary, we celebrate the list of stellar artists who have contributed to Lafayette College. This exhibition celebrates both Sam Gilliam’s life and his contributions to Lafayette College.

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Neon Drawings by Chila Kumari Singh Burman

Chila Burman

British-Indian artist Dr. Chila Kumari Singh Burman, MBE will activate the façade and lobby of the Williams Center for the Arts with her neon installation. Known for her fantastical and glitzy sculptures of ice cream cones based on Bollywood aesthetics, Burman brings her signature style to Lafayette College with neon ice cream cones, hearts, bindis, red lips, dragons, and a new commission of a neon leopard.

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