Dark Blue
The Water as Protagonist

January 16 - May 19, 2013

The photographers included in the exhibition Dark Blue utilize water as an active element, making pictures that are, at their core, psychological engagements. Water is often perceived as a restorative element, an essential means to health and happiness. Yet, at the same time, it is a force formidable for its potential to threaten life.

Read Between the Lines
Enrique Chagoya’s Codex Prints

January 16 - May 19, 2013

Read Between the Lines: Enrique Chagoya's Codex Prints is comprised of editioned, accordion-folded artist books and the preparatory drawings and trial proofs created during their fabrication. The exhibition seeks to reveal how and why the codex format, made of amate, or bark, paper and read from right to left based on ancient Aztec, Mayan and Mixtec precedents, is a particularly successful artistic device for Enrique Chagoya, who combines diverse imagery and cultural references to create challenging, intricate, and richly layered objects that defy conclusive interpretation.

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.

Perimeter
Photographs by Kevin J. Miyazaki

January 16 - May 19, 2013

Perimeter is a project commissioned by the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, in which Kevin J. Miyazaki was invited to create new work addressing the topic of fresh water and the Great Lakes. The resulting photographs capture a contemporary portrait of Lake Michigan through images of everyday people whose lives are closest to it. Miyazaki photographed a diverse group of individuals who all have connections to the lake: residents, beachgoers, scientists, dock workers, environmentalists, artists, community leaders, commercial fishermen, ferry captains, boat builders, and surfers. He identified some subjects in advance, but most were people met while traveling, and always within eyeshot of the lake. In all, he photographed more than 200 people in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.

June 5 – July 28, 2013

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

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 2004 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.

Aberrance and Artifice
The Norton Collection

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

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.

August 21 – December 22, 2013

Current Tendencies III
Artists from Milwaukee

Current Tendencies III features the work of 8 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 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 Yi.

Re-seeing the Permanent Collection
The Viewer's Voice

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 Medieval to contemporary artists from diverse locales.  Project participants will write a brief reflection on the piece they choose, expressing why they are 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 - 2011

Thenceforward, and Forever Free

August 22 - December 22, 2012

Thenceforward, and Forever Free is presented as part of Marquette University’s Freedom Project, a yearlong commemo- ration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. The Project explores the many histories and meanings of emancipation and freedom in the United States and beyond. The exhibition features seven contemporary artists whose work deals with issues of race, gender, privilege, and identity, and more broadly conveys interpretations of the notion of freedom. Artists in Thenceforward are: Laylah Ali, Willie Birch, Michael Ray Charles, Gary Simmons, Elisabeth Subrin, Mark Wagner, and Kara Walker. The exhibition includes works in diverse media, from Wagner’s 17-foot-tall collage made from 1,121 dollar bills to Simmons’s site-specific chalk drawing installation to Subrin’s two-channel, HD video. Paintings by Charles and Birch, drawings by Ali, and prints by Walker are also featured. Essayists for the exhibition catalogue are Dr. A. Kristen Foster, associate professor, Department of History, Marquette University, and Ms. Kali Murray, assistant professor, Marquette University Law School.

Freedom Of/For/To
Photography from the Permanent Collection

August 22 - December 22, 2012

The exhibition Freedom Of/For/To is comprised of contemporary photographs from the museum's permanent collection that explore the fluid definition of the word and elicit questions about our collective (mis)understanding of freedom at home and abroad. The photographers represented in the exhibition, including Adam Bartos, Edward Burtynsky, William Clift, Stella Johnson, Miguel Rio Branco, Irina Rozovsky, and Joel Sternfeld, offer a variety of viewpoints that encourage us to consider how we define and protect freedom in a global context.

The Freedom Project: Text/Context
An exhibition by the Chipstone Foundation

August 22 - December 22, 2012

History—the study of past human events, words, and creations—is an imprecise science. The authoritative words we read in history books often do not fully correspond with reality. This inconsistency applies not only to the interpretive words written by historians, but also to the original quotes uttered by figures from the past. In this gallery, you encounter a small gathering of objects that are in one way or another linked to the laudable concept of human freedom. Yet their stories are complex and, at times, conflicted. They suggest that understanding the past begins when we consider multiple perspectives and voices—when we replace the idea of "reading history" with the broader concept of "exposing histories."

More past exhibitions

• A list of past exhibitions and exhibition catalogues