This exhibition features Anne Muntges, an artist and illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY. Blending 2D and 3D space, she re-envisions environments through the mark of her pen, encasing objects and spaces through obsessive handmade lines, creating interactive black-and-white worlds.
Oct. 26-Dec. 10, 2022
‘Ope, Not Ope’
H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art
This group exhibition features the best of the Midwest printmakers. As Midwest is best, so too is this display of artists, including relief prints, monoprints, intaglio, lithographs, silkscreens, and letterpress.
Jan. 17-29, 2023
‘Milestones: Soviet-Era Art Exhibition’
H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art
H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art “Milestones” is the first exhibition of works in the Carthage College Sam and Berry Schoen Collection of Soviet Art. The exhibition is guest curated by Dr. Masha Zavialova. This exhibition brings together thirty works of art from a country that no longer exists, the Soviet Union, making a brief excursion into the art of Imperial Russia. This assemblage of renowned names includes Ilya Mashkov, Sergei Gerasimov, Arkadi Plastov, and many other 20th-century masters who lived in Soviet Russia (one of the fifteen Soviet republics), illustrating the troubled path of artistic expression during the era.
Feb. 9-March 10, 2023
‘Constitutional’
H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art
This exhibition features Christine Wuenschel, an artist based out of West Lafayette, Ind. Using the human figure as a confrontational force, Wuenschel’s drawings emphasize the tensions within the cultural expectations around nudity, touch, pleasure, and comfort.
March 21-April 21, 2023
‘A Place All One’s Own’
H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art
This exhibition features Ellie Richards, a furniture designer and sculptor based out of Penland, NC. Her work builds from the traditions of woodworking and the readymade to create connections between people and their sense of place.
Sept. 8-Oct. 15, 2021
‘Natural History’
H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art
Iris Bernblum’s work explores ideas around human nature, power, and vulnerability, focusing on the way we frame our sense of self as it relates to gender, sexuality, shame, and desire. Jessie Mott’s practice encompasses painting, drawing, collage, sculptural objects, video and installation that speak to a dreamlike or nightmarish quality of fantasy and the grotesque.
Oct. 27-Dec. 5, 2021
‘Declassified’
H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art
Aaron Delehanty’s practice consists of two perspectives: as a staff artist at a natural history museum, and as a studio artist playing with ideas of taxonomy and the systematization of the natural world. Lan Tuazon’s sculptural work, which includes architecture, artifacts, and anthropogenic materials (human effects on the environment), takes on ecology that humbles human culture to the planetary scale of nature.
Feb. 8-March 11, 2022
‘V Crushable’
Noah Kashiani’s sculptures employ up-cycled materials from local thrift stores — a testament to high fashion, placing emphasis on materialism and late capitalism. Kelly Reaves’ paintings are driven by a fascination with the natural world and a hyperactive inner dialogue. The process-driven, intuitive work is the tangible product of meditation, intended to clear the mind.
Oct. 12-Nov. 15, 2020
“StoryTeching/Immersive Tales”
H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art
Curated by Professor Jojin Van Winkle, “StoryTeching/Immersive Tales” considers the powerful and evolving roles of technology in collecting and conveying stories in today’s increasingly digital society through new media, video/film, and 3D scanner-based photography. Featured artists Nadav Assor, Michelle Hessel, and Mint Boonyapanachoti will present their work and discuss their art forms in a series of virtual programs.
Feb. 4-Feb. 26, 2021
“Two Men and a Truck”
Opening Reception: 3:30-6:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021 H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art
Yes, you read that correctly — this gallery exhibition title refers to the affinity that artists/makers Justin Shaw and Marco Rosichelli share with the afore-mentioned moving company, Two Men and a Truck. With their history of packing, loading, and moving, they are no strangers to the conveyance of valuable objects, except now they will be moving their own hand-crafted sculptural wares. What’s in the truck is to be determined, but it will be lovingly delivered, well crafted, and very important — to the makers, anyway.
March 8-April 9, 2021
“Grounded”
Opening Reception: 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 11, 2021 H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art
In “Grounded,” photographer Stephanie Burke presents a visual exploration of lost opportunities. Founded in Cahokia, Ill. in 1927, Parks College was a nexus of aviation development throughout the 20th century until the program moved across the Mississippi River to St. Louis in 1997. Ms. Burke’s images document the loss — and the unexpected growth — that resulted when the original campus was deserted and descended into ruin.
Sept. 4-Oct. 18, 2019
“Interrupted Underpinning”
Opening Reception: 4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019 H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art
A two-person exhibition curated by Becky Nahom, Exhibitions Manager at Independent Curators International, New York. This exhibition will create a dynamic platform for multidisciplinary practices, with a core purpose of sharing histories that have been marginalized. The exhibition will include artworks exploring issues of labor and material culture.
Oct. 30-Dec. 14, 2019
“The Women of Carthage Alumni Exhibition”
Opening Reception: 4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31 H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art
In celebration of 150 years of women students at Carthage College, the H. F. Johnson Gallery is proud to present a retrospective exhibition of studio art majors and minors. This exhibit features a broad range of work from recent graduates and long-standing alumni.
Dec 2-14, 2019
“Studio Art Senior Exhibition”
Opening Reception: 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7 Visual and Performing Arts Lab
In completion of their Studio Art Thesis, graduating Carthage College Studio Art Majors present a group exhibition of their work, featuring a variety of media.
Jan. 8-29, 2020
“Annual Intercollegiate Exchange Show”
Reception: 4:40-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23 H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art
This is the second year for Carthage’s intercollegiate art exchange, partnering this year with the University of Wisconsin–Parkside for the “Annual Intercollegiate Exchange Show.” Carthage studio art majors’ work will be displayed at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside’s Foundation Gallery, from Tuesday, Feb. 11 through Wednesday, March 11. Art from UW–Parkside’s art students is on display in the H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art from Wednesday, Jan. 8 through Wednesday, Jan. 29.
Students have created new work for these exhibits with no requirements for theme, size, or medium. Once received, students will work to build, design, and install the exhibitions received from their partner school, offering students valuable experience in building, designing, and presenting exhibitions.
Feb. 6-March 6, 2020
“Well Heeled”
Opening Reception: 4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6 H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art
This playful group exhibit pivots lightly around the concept of the shoe, as a foundation to traverse issues of class, gender, fashion, sport, and more. Curated by Dana Bassett, Chicago-based writer, curator, and Executive Producer of the Bad @ Sports art podcast, the exhibition features an ensemble of transcontinental artists.
March 18-April 17, 2020
CANCELED — “The Archive and the Repertoire”
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, “The Archive and the Repertoire” gallery exhibit and opening reception have been canceled.
This exhibit brings together new work by Chicago artists Iris Bernblum and Karolina Gnatowski (kg), in a curatorial by Chicago Art Institute’s Exhibition Manager, Lekha Waitoller. Bernblum’s work considers landscapes and our physical and psychological integration therein, through video and watercolors. Within kg’s intricate tapestries they weave intimate items, conveying relational narratives between the artist, their mother, and dog. The works survey conversations the three shared on a month-long road trip across the U.S.
March 25-April 4, 2020
CANCELED — “Annual Student Art Show”
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the “Annual Student Art Show” gallery exhibit and opening reception have been canceled.
Join us at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in the Visual and Performing Arts Lab (VPAL) for the opening reception for the ”Annual Student Art Show.” Each year, students from the Art Department submit works to be specially juried by a guest artist or critic. Pieces are judged on quality, creativity, and variety of media. Students selected to be featured in the gallery are eligible to win awards, including “Best of Show” and a special “Purchase Award.”
April 25-May 2 & May 9-May 16, 2020
CANCELED — “Senior Exhibitions”
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the “Senior Exhibitions” gallery exhibit has been canceled.
In completion of their Studio Art Thesis, 2020 graduating Carthage studio art majors present a group exhibition of their work, featuring a variety of media.
May 9, 2020
CANCELED — “Sixth Annual Art Walk”
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the “Senior Exhibitions” gallery exhibit has been canceled.
Join us for the annual ”Art Walk” from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, May 9, located at various venues across our beautiful lakeside campus. The sixth annual ”Art Walk” will showcase the capstone projects of studio art and graphic design majors. Work is displayed in different media.
In this group of sculptural and graphic artworks, Kjellgren Alkire explores various structures and facades related to religious subculture and middle American rural life. His constructions and performances strive to simultaneously celebrate and interrogate the complexities of white men, homiletics, summer camp and mass-produced Christianity.
Presented by the Carthage studio art majors, this exhibition is one half of a student art exchange with Wisconsin’s Lawrence University. Featuring the collective work of Lawrence University’s studio art majors, Carthage students will curate and host the work of their intercollegiate colleagues, with a reciprocal exhibit displaying the work of Carthage students at Lawrence.
An unbound painting exhibit featuring work by Jenn Dierdorf and Kevin Stuart. The ouvre of New York’s, Jenn Dierdorf demonstrates exquisitely understated abstractions swiping at the history of genre painting. Kevin Stuart is a Chicago painter whose colorful large scale work portends a nervous bliss of anonymous city narratives.
March 20-April 18, 2019
“Between Blind Ambition and Appropriately Sized: Carthage College Faculty Exhibition”
Opening Reception: 4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21
In completion of their studio art thesis, graduating Carthage studio art majors present a group exhibition of their work, featuring a variety of media.
May 11-18, 2019
“Senior Exhibition 02”
Opening Reception: 1-4 p.m. Saturday, May 11
In completion of their studio art thesis, graduating Carthage studio art majors present a group exhibition of their work, featuring a variety of media.
May 11, 2019
“Fifth Annual Art Walk”
Throughout campus, 1-4 p.m.
The “Fifth Annual Art Walk” will showcase the capstone projects of senior studio art and graphic design majors. Work is displayed in different media, featured in both the H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art and the Visual and Performing Arts Laboratory.
“Privates” is a curatorial installation from Chicago artists Nicole Mauser and Tobey Albright. Ms. Mauser, a painter working in the language of abstraction, and Mr. Albright, a freelance graphic designer, have prepared an exhibit of their private art collections. For “Privates,” the gallery functions as a viewing room, making public an aspect of the artist that is typically unknown. In the tradition of a museum rotating its collection, the installation manifests in multiple iterations throughout the run, providing insight into artists through the things they look at and possess.
Nov. 13-Dec. 15, 2017
“The Saint John’s Bible”
Reception: 4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30 Letterpress Workshop lead by Prof. Lisa Bigalke: 4-7 p.m. Dec. 1
Carthage presents “The Saint John’s Bible,” a presentation of 25 prints on loan from the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. In coordination with the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the illuminated pages of scripture feature embellishments of gold and platinum leaf, vibrant colors, and delicate calligraphy.
“Clear and Present,” an exhibition of Tempe (Arizona) artist Kristin Bauer and Denver’s Paul Owen Weiner, dissects the visual vocabulary of language through a continuum of printed words from the concrete to the unknowable. Ms. Bauer’s sculptural assemblages layer text within strata of polymer pigment and plexiglass, creating visual abstractions, transferring new meaning into fixed language. In Mr. Weiner’s new work, prints of legislative documents and executive orders are framed under distressed and decimated glass surfaces, a redacted transparency inciting limitations of expression during times of duress.
March 12-April 20, 2018
“At Home”
Opening Reception: 4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 15 Artist Lecture: 5 p.m. Monday, March 19
Chicago artists Gwendolyn Zabicki and Ann Toebbe paint through the pat routines and relatable spaces of home life. With images reciting the daily tedium of chores and household activities, the substance of “At Home” is a reflection on social and anthropological constructs of our domiciliary spaces. The subtle wryness of Ms. Zabicki’s surfaces reflect upon the systemic congruency between cleaning a mirror and painting an image of that very same act. Ms. Toebbe’s deceptively flat paintings, drawings, and collages conflate complex compositional spaces from experience and memories of domestic settings.
April 27-May 12, 2018
“Studio Art Thesis Exhibitions”
Opening Reception: 1-4 p.m. Saturday, April 28
As part of their Senior Studio Art Thesis Seminar course, Carthage art majors present a capstone exhibition of their work.
May 5, 2018
“Fourth Annual Art Walk”
Throughout campus, 1-4 p.m.
The “Fourth Annual Art Walk” showcases the capstone projects of senior studio art and graphic design majors. Work will be displayed across campus in a variety of venues, so be sure to pick up a map.
What is apparent upon casual consideration is distinct from the feelings or qualities that are not immediately obvious. “The material language of Josephine Durkin and Kristen Cochran is something I ‘know, that I do not know,’” says the exhibition’s guest curator Christopher Willey. There is a natural sympathy between the multimedia projects, installations, and videos created by these two artists who live and work Dallas, Texas area. This collection of works will attempt to lay bare the intentions behind each of these projects.
Oct. 31-Dec. 13, 2016
“Lability: Amber Ginsburg, Autumn Higgins, Erin Furimsky, Pattie Chalmers, Tyler Lotz, and Sean O’Connell”
Curated by ceramic artist Leanne McClurg Cambric, the focus of the show will be on contemporary ceramic artists who use the wall as installation or display space for their work, bridging the two dimensional and three dimensional. Each artist challenges the substantiality of the ceramic form eschewing our expectations through their investigations in narrative overlay, decorative excess, repetition, formal expectations, and ideological representations. By extending outside the safer boundaries of a pedestal these works charge the emotional response and arouse the senses. Leanne McClurg Cambric will include a small signature piece.
Social media such as Facebook and Instagram have changed how we are able to access and view the work of artists worldwide so that what was local has now become international. This new exhibit begins a survey of Kenosha and Racine artists who have regional and national exhibition records. It will also feature some undiscovered talents of all ages. All media and approaches will be represented.
March 6-April 22, 2017
“What Remains is Dust: A Meditation on Family and Vanitas Educativa New Works by Rebecca Keller”
Opening Reception: 4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 9
“What Remains is Dust: A Meditation on Family” This poetic and multi-sensory installation developed out of Keller’s experience after the deaths of several family members. Unfolding and changing over time, and incorporating unusual materials and domestic objects, “What Remains is Dust” transcends Keller’s personal loss to engage the arc of memory, growth, joy and a meditation on what is left behind.
“Vanitas Educativa” In the midst of debates about schools, Keller uses artifacts of the classroom and discussions with teachers to create an installation that offers observations about education, and about the human beings who spend their lives committed to teaching. “Vanitas Educativa” draws on stories of commitment, frustration, and inspiration to create an installation that reminds us we are all in it together.
April 28-May 19, 2017
“Studio Art Thesis Exhibitions”
Opening Reception: 1-4 p.m. Saturday, May 6
Carthage presents the capstone exhibitions of the Class of 2017’s studio art majors. The H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art will host two consecutive group exhibitions with variety of media on display: the first exhibition features work by artists Rebecca Fields, Coleton Keener, and Gina Sipka; the second exhibition features work by artists Maggie Damaschke, Autumn Gnabasik, Cody Iverson, and Amy Swanston.
Sept. 9-Nov. 14, 2015
“Articulate Visions: The Convergence of Art and Science”
Botanical illustration is a delicate and graceful art that delights the eye while informing the mind. This selection of works by the Reed-Turner Group consists of botanical artists guided by the parameters and goals of the American Society of Botanical Artists. As stated in their mission statement, the Reed-Turner Botanical Group “works to further the interests of botanical art, conservation science, botany, and horticulture at the local level. And to emphasize the beauty and importance plants play in our lives by educating, promoting, and exhibiting members’ work in collaboration with local institutions. The group has been in existence for three years and meets at the Reed-Turner Preserve.”
Featuring work by Beverly Behrens, Maureen Claps, Dolores Diaz, Fran Kelly, Sandy Kessel, Heeyoung Kim, Ku-mie Kim, Barb Klaas, Eileen LaBarre, Claudia Lane, Ann Lesciotto, Celine Lillie, Christina Lovering, Lyndsay Murphree, Ramiro Prudencio, Lynne Railsback, Charlene Riffer, Carol Jean Rogalski, Barbara Rose, Carole Schumacher, Serna Sheridan, Jane Sturgeon, Sue Widell, and Jacqueline Willrich.
Nov. 30-Dec. 15, 2015; Jan. 5-23, 2016
“Material Sustenance: Carthage College Art and Graphic Design Faculty Exhibit”
Opening Reception: 4:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4
This triennial exhibit highlights the work created by the art faculty and graphic design faculty, while presenting a variety of media, styles, techniques, and artistic philosophies. As established professional artists with numerous awards and highly accomplished exhibition records, the studio art faculty comprise a marvelous mixture of distinguished artists who manage to balance their dedication to teaching art with their life-long commitment to exploring, creating, and exhibiting their own work. The exhibition will exemplify the range of scholarship in the visual arts at Carthage College.
Featuring work by Lisa Bigalke, Chad Bridgewater, Kimberly Greene, Laura Huaracha, Professor Emeritus Ed Kalke, Diane Levesque, Angela Lopez, Ryan Peter Miller, Jose Montoto, Jared Patton Plock, Neil Subel, and Suzanne Torres.
Feb. 2-March 19, 2016
“Throes of Progress II: Kathy Weaver, Jacqueline Moses and Dominic Sansone”
For generations, society’s architects have manufactured massive industrial techno-scapes that rapidly displaced any previous world that stood in the way. Surely it was for the best, for intellectual and economic advancement, they reasoned, as they justified this unchecked growth by calling every venture “progress.” Yet, what if “progress” no longer implies improvement, but violation? And so we are left to lament the loss of what we can scarcely remember in detail: a community of vital selves in a vital place.
Featuring work by Jacqueline Moses, Kathy Weaver, and Dominic Sansone.
March 28-April 29, 2016
“Rare Fruits & Tall Tales: Jerry Belland, Kay Knight and Eric Penington”
Opening Reception: 4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 31
The human figure has offered a vast repertoire for symbolic, expressive and analogical imagery in the visual arts. Any museum will tell the tale of the significant role that the human form has played throughout the history of art. The three artists in this exhibit utilize the figure in quite varied capacities. Jerry Belland employs a comic mode to convey a satiric social commentary that exposes our human frailties. Kay Knight depicts the ruins of the spaces we inhabit juxtaposed against a decorative background that accentuates the possibility of individual and collective loss of identity. Eric Penington embeds the figure within a veiled and semi-abstract structure. Together, they reveal the rare and unique stories as conveyed through the human form. Artists will be attending the opening.
May 2-14, 2016
“Studio Art Thesis Exhibitions”
Opening Reception: 1-4 p.m. Saturday May 7
As part of their Senior Studio Art Thesis Seminar course, Carthage art majors present a capstone exhibition of their work in the H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art. Featuring works by Danielle Egolf, Bria Haley, Cody Iverson, Mayuko Kawashima, and Peter Sproule.
Sept. 9-Oct. 25, 2014
“A Re-Visioning: New Works in Polymer”
Opening Reception: 4:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18 Special Racine Art Museum Reception: 4-6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18
Over the past thirty years, artists all over the world discovered the almost unlimited capacity polymer holds for mimicking any surface, material, or surface effect. As a result, we are witnessing the birth of a new fine craft and art medium recognized by museums such as the Racine Art Museum and The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. This exhibit highlights new works by master artists and innovators who inspire others to re-vision the possibilities in this medium.
This exhibit is a collaborative event with the Racine Art Museum’ s Polymer 2.0: The Field in the 21st Century, RAM’s Polymer Symposium at Johnson Foundation at Wingspread in Racine, Wisconsin.
Featuring work by Judy Belcher, Leslie Blackford, Jana Roberts Benzon, Heather Campbell, Rachel Carren, Dan Cormier, Jeffrey Lloyd Dever, Meredith Dittmar, Kathleen Dustin, Elissa Farrow- Savos, Rachel Gourley, Alev Gozonar, Lindly Haunani, Tory Hughes, Emily Squires Levine, Maggie Maggio, Wendy Wallin Malinow, Laurie Mika, Sarah Shriver, Laura Tabakman, Cynthia Tinapple, Cynthia Toops, Melanie West, Phil Whitman and Elise Winters.
Nov. 6-Dec. 13, 2014
“A Soft Touch: The Lighthouse Quilter’s Guild Exhibit”
Creativity as it is expressed through touch is notable in functional craft works such as ceramics and textiles. Often it is the very utilitarian requirement of these media throughout material culture that has allowed experimentation in form and color that some have compared to abstract art in the mid-20th century.
The art and craft of quilt making as practiced today by the members of The Lighthouse Quilter’s Guild of Racine provides a glimpse into the ways in which traditional quilt patterns or contemporary abstract or figurative imagery are used to generate engagement with form and color. This invitational exhibit represents a selection of works from more than 122 members of the Lighthouse Quilter’s Guild, a nonprofit organization formed in 1981 and accepted as a chapter in the National Quilting Association in 1998.
Featuring work by Pat Barry, Stevie Breit, Regina Scott Brooks, Retta Falaschi, Mary Ann Fehl, Cindy Garcia, Gayle L. Gottfredsen, Shirley Graham, Darlene Heiden, Cecilia Johnson, Judy Stapleman Kroes, Sandra L. Kruppstadt, Janet A. Kuhl, Autumn Latimore, Patricia Smith Limburg, Mary E. Piper, Marie Raymond, Rachel Riley, Maria Rivest, Rhonda L. Rodero, Ruth Rohlfing, Sue Scheckel, Christy Schliesmann, Mary Kay Shimkus, Kathy Simon, LuWayne Snow, Jeanne E. Steidtman, Betty Ekern Suiter, Jacky Tomkins, Barbara E. Vallone, Pauline Verbrugge, T.C. Wiley.
Jan. 6-March 8, 2015
“Clique: Trisha Holt, Dina Kelberman and Jordan Tate”
Guest curators Marco Rosichelli and Ryan Peter Miller present a select group of photographers known for their contemporary assertion of the pictorial medium into performance, sculpture, and interactive displays. Clique, phonetically referencing the sharp mechanical sound of the camera shutter, is an innovative subgroup of artists expanding the photographic medium into the 21st century.
March 16-April 2, 2015
“The Annual Carthage College Juried Student Art Show”
Opening Reception: 4-7 p.m. Tuesday, March 17
This yearly art exhibit features Carthage student works specially juried by a guest artist or art critic, works are selected for quality and creativity in a variety of media. Awards are presented, for works including Best of Show and a special Purchase Award.
April 13-15, May 1-16, 2015
“Studio Art Thesis Exhibitions”
Opening Receptions: 1-4 p.m. Saturday, April 18 and Saturday, May 9
As part of their Senior Studio Art Thesis Seminar course, Carthage art majors present a capstone exhibition of their work in the H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art. Works in a variety of media will be featured by Emma Barclay, Mary England, Amber Ericksmoen, Amelia Gear, Meghan Johns, Cheryl Pelka, Jennifer Kuss, Meaghan Cusack, Mitchell Morgan, and Anne Rowell.
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