Exhibitions
Sorting Daemons:
Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control
Contemporary Feature and Davies Foundation
Galleries, Etherington House Study and the Union
Gallery Project Room
16 January - 18 April
Information-gathering systems increasingly affect our lives, tracking our movement and consumer preferences. Such "sorting daemons" reinforce existing streams of influence and quietly create new ones. The artists in this exhibition take measure of our relationship to surveillance by addressing its social, political and aesthetic...
Grand Figures: Jan Lievens (1607-1674)
Première Series
Samuel J. Zacks Gallery
5 January - 7 March
Jan Lievens was one of the most important Dutch artists of the 17th-century, tracing a striking career in his home country and abroad in London, Antwerp and Berlin. As a child prodigy in Leiden he quickly made a mark with his grandly conceived figures, virtuoso...
It’s Alive! Bertram Brooker and Vitalism
Historical Feature and R. Fraser Elliott Galleries
7 November 2009 - 7 March
Inspired by early commercial film, international vitalist modernism, and philosopher Henri Bergson’s notion that the individual is a "locus of action," Brooker developed a methodology for ...
Frances K. Smith Gallery
5 January - 4 April
This exhibition features Realist prints and drawings of the late 1920s to the 1950s, from the Art Centre’s extensive collection of works on paper. The Interwar period saw a return to, or reemphasis of, figuration and social observation by many North American artists...
Poet, Priest, Dauber: The Painter in the Renaissance and Baroque Eras
Bader Gallery
17 January - 9 May
This selection from the permanent collection explores the cultural and social roles attached to the art of painting during the 1500s and 1600s. Some of these works show...