Current Tendencies III
Artists from Milwaukee

August 21 - December 22, 2013

Current Tendencies III features the work of nine emerging, mid-career, and established Milwaukee artists working in a variety of media including photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. The artists participating in the exhibition are Tyanna Buie, William E. Carpenter, Evan Gruzis, Jon Horvath, Mark Mulhern, Jean Roberts Guequierre, Cassandra Smith and Jessica Steeber (in collaboration) and Jason S.Yi.

Re-seeing the Permanent Collection
The Viewer's Voice

August 21 - December 22, 2013

This exhibition highlights works from the Haggerty’s permanent collection selected by Marquette faculty, staff, and students.  The featured work represents a wide range of styles, processes, and media created by Renaissance to contemporary artists from diverse locales.  Project participants wrote a brief reflection on the piece they choose, expressing why they were drawn to the work and, in the case of some professors, how the work is used in their teaching practices.

 

January 22 – May 18, 2014

Brian Ulrich
Copia—Retail, Thrift and Dark Stores, 2001-11

 

Between Critique and Absorption

 

August 20 – December 23, 2014

Alfred Leslie
The Killing Cycle

New Objectivity in German Art
Highlights from the Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection

June 5 - July 28, 2013

Over the course of 30 years, the late Marvin and Janet Fishman amassed one of the most important collections of early twentieth-century German art, and in 2000 the Haggerty Museum of Art received a substantial gift of paintings and drawings. This exhibition includes a selection of Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity, works. A stylistically diverse artistic sensibility characterized by matter-of-fact representation of harsh realities, New Objectivity emerged during Germany’s Weimar Republic, a particularly tumultuous period marked by extreme political and social unrest.

 

 

 

 

 

Images of the Virgin Mary
 

January 16 - July 28, 2013

Images of the Virgin Mary is an exhibition of international works of art from the late fourteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Based on the life of the Virgin Mary, the exhibition includes paintings, prints, and sculpture that illustrate the five major events of The Annunciation, The Nativity, The Flight into Egypt, The Pietà, and The Assumption and Coronation. Organized by theme, the exhibition creates a lively dialogue between artistic periods, medieval through Modern, and juxtaposes diverse styles and media.

 

Aberrance and Artifice
The Norton Collection

June 5 - July 28, 2013

Many of the works that comprise the Norton Collection were made in the mid-1990s by then-emerging American artists, including Gregory Crewdson, Tim Ebner, Elliott Green, Tom Knechtel, Judy Pfaff and Alexis Rockman. The group of photographs, paintings, drawings, and sculpture included in this exhibition rupture visual and cultural boundaries to interrogate perceptions of what is considered “normal” or “natural.” By playfully fusing conflicting things or ideas, the artists explore the contradictory relationships between repulsion and desire, earthly and immaterial, fascination and dread.

 

 

 

Jim Dow
American Studies

June 5 - July 28, 2013

Over the span of forty years, photographer Jim Dow embarked on countless road trips across America to document the idiosyncratic qualities of banal sites—from motels and roadside diners to barbershops and storefront windows. This body of work captures the spirit of our uniquely American environment but also documents the impermanence of our ever-changing visual landscape.

 

 

More past exhibitions

• A list of past exhibitions and exhibition catalogues