Capturing a Moment
March 24 - May 6, 2007 Ellen Berman - Isabelle du Toit - Catherine Maize - Gary Schafter The University of Dallas, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present the paintings of Ellen Berman, Isabelle du Toit, Catherine Maize and Gary Schafter. These lushly painted canvases lure you to pause and study exquisite nuances of softly draped fabric cascading over the end of a table, a room filled with soft afternoon sunlight, insects hovering for an instant, flowers dancing in the darkness. You are aware as you study these paintings that at any moment the sunlight could shift, the insect fly off, thus changing that moment that the artist has captured.
Censored Uncensored
May 8 - August 24, 2008 Recent Work by University of Dallas Art Department Graduate Students The University of Dallas Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present Censored Uncensored, a summer exhibition of recent work by University of Dallas Art Department Graduate Students. This exhibition will feature ceramic, painting, printmaking, sculptural, performance, and video works by graduate students Chris Blackhurst, Jenna Burditt, Paul Fehlberg, Frank Krevens, Rahul Kumar, Courtney Miles, Andrew Myers, Rachel Obranovich, Nick Parker, Chris Rabb, Krystal Read, Mandy Stigant, and John Alexander Taylor.
Donovan Widmer and Lori Hepner
Up Close March 1 - March 30, 2008 The University of Dallas Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of artworks by North Dakota metal smith Donovan Widmer and Pennsylvania printmaker Lori Hepner. This exhibition titled Up Close focuses on the minuscule. Widmer constructs intricate small-scale precious sculptures while printmaker Hepner's digital prints concentrate on microscopic images of the binary code system. The attention each artist pays to detail contributes to the elegance and beauty of this exhibition.
Evolution
Denise Brown, Ellen Frances Tuchman, Norman Kary Guest Curator: Nancy Cohen Israel This three person exhibition explores the evolution of objects and materials. These Dallas artists all use ephemera from the past, including matchbook covers, furniture, scribbled notes and twigs, to create dimensional works that relate to the present.
Historias
An Exhibition by Cuban Artists November 2-December 9, 2007 Art works on loan from PanAmerican ArtProjects
Humor in Art
November 11, 2006 - December 10, 2006 Christine Chin, Brian Row, and Tom Sales The University of Dallas, Beatrice Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition Humor in Art. Artists Christine Chin, Brian Row and Tom Sale have a unique vision towards common everyday objects and events. Through their artworks they project a humorous tongue in cheek comment on those events.
Investigating Memories
September 7 - September 30, 2007 Digital photos by Brian DeLevie and Elizabeth Sher The University of Dallas, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of digital photo works by artists Brian DeLevie and Elizabeth Sher. These recent works are explorations of real and manipulated events that stimulate the artists' subjective memory. Both Mr. DeLevie and Ms. Sher use the manipulation of images to expand the parameters of storytelling drawing us into their visual narratives.
Layers and Illusions
March 25 - April 30, 2006 Joachim Kersten and Richard Lange
Malcolm McClay and Andy Holtin
Action/Reaction Art and technology as a conduit for expression
Maya Lin, Architect
November 5-December 1, 2004 40 photo panels featuring the works of architect Maya Lin. She is best known for her creation of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, AL Although most recognized for her memorials, Maya Lin also designs many earth work installations, numerous public buildings and many private residencies.
Narratives
November 7 - December7, 2008 Roger Colombik, Beau Comeaux, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Tracey Snelling Through the use of photography these artists create visual narratives where viewers are enticed to interpret the unfolding layers of content. The resulting images are at once disarming and beautiful, haunting and mysterious as if the works are stills capturing a moment in a series of changing scenes making the experience a continually speculative and engaging examination of the world presented to us.
Nuances
Marietta Patricia Leis and Dalton Maroney August 29 - September 28, 2008 Beautiful nuances of color, sumptuous stains and striking shadows created by 3 dimensional forms charge the atmosphere in this exhibition of paintings and sculpture. Perhaps a different approach towards their visual language of art from New Mexico painter Marietta Patricia Leis and Texas sculptor Dalton Maroney but the pieces exhibited together resonate an impressive dialogue.
Serious Fun
May 11 - August 30, 2007 Recent Work of the University of Dallas Art Department Graduate Students. Chris Blackhurst, Paul Fehlberg, Autumn Kinsey, Solange Mariel, Andrew Myers, Rachel Obranovich, Humberto Saenz, Mandy Stigant, and John Alexander Taylor.
The Doors of Florence
December 11, 2004 - January 30, 2005 A beautiful documentation of the Baptistery Doors of Florence by the American photographer David Finn. This exhibition of close-up photography records the powerful and moving imagery of a masterpiece of Renaissance Sculpture by Florentine artists Andrea Pisano and Lorenzo Ghiberti.
The University of Dallas Art and Art History Department Faculty Exhibition
October 5 - October 28, 2007 Opening Reception Friday October 5, 2007 6:00-9:00pm Art History Presentations 6:30 pm Elizabeth Lisot Federico Barocci and the Proto-Baroque 7:00 pm Catherine Caesar Reading Rooms: The Martha Rosler Library And the Display of Knowledge 7:30 pm Lyle Novinski Iconographic Resonance: Sacred Images for Contemporary Spaces The University of Dallas, Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of art by the Faculty from the University's Department of Art. This exhibit will feature recent works in ceramics, digital imagery, drawing and painting, printmaking and sculpture. Participating faculty artists are David Fiegenschue, Dan Hammett, Sherry Giryotas, Lyle Novinski, Kim Cadmus Owens, Phillip Shore and Juergen Strunck. This year the University's Art Historians Elizabeth Lisot, Catherine Caesar and Lyle Novinski will lecture in the Haggar Art History Auditorium located in the Arts Village at the University of Dallas.
Thoughts and Remarks
Michael Miller Bill Tourtillotte October 4 - November 2, 2008 Opening Reception Friday October 10, 2008 The University of Dallas Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of artworks by Texas artist Michael Miller and Indiana artist Bill Tourtillotte. These artists? humorous use of discount bin printed fabrics and organic materials incorporate graphic depictions of objects, plants and animals with descriptive or incongruous text conveying a commentary on our society. The resulting images are at once disarming and beautiful, reverent and playfully indignant. They invite viewers to engage in the narratives uncovered in each individual piece. Viewers are rewarded with unfolding layers of content, making the experience a continually engaging examination of the world around us.
University of Dallas 20th National Print Invitational Exhibition
The Haggerty Gallery is pleased to present the University of Dallas 20th National Print Invitational Exhibition. The nationals were started by Professor Juergen Strunck to show actual prints to students in the University's printmaking courses expanding the base of reference found through reproductions in books by artists from the past. Prints in this exhibition come from all across the U.S. and are created by artists who make prints as their main form of expression. These biennial exhibitions are all selected and prepared for exhibition by the graduate students in printmaking. With each invitational the University of Dallas purchases one print by each artist adding to its extensive print collection.
University of Dallas Regional Ceramic Competition
January 27 - March 4, 2007 Juror: Val M. Cushing, Professor Emeritus New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred
Video Art: The Early Years
Curated by Catherine Caesar April 5-May 4, 2008 Opening Reception Friday, April 11, 2008 6:30-8:30 p.m. also a lecture by Paul Slocum 7:00 p.m. Eleanor Antin, Joan Jonas, Martha Rosler, Robert Smithson, William Wegman An exhibition of video works dating from 1970-1978 by five seminal early practitioners of the video medium. Video began as a viable artistic medium in the late 1960s, when the Sony Portapak became available to the publlic. This exhibition investigates the continuities between video art and more extablished media, including painting and sculpture and even performance, but also examines the innovations of the medium, focusing on its unique ability to transform the perception of identity. In conjunction with the exhibition "Video Art: The Early Years," the Haggerty Gallery will host a special screening of recent video works from the Howard and Cindy Rachofsky Collection: Friday April 18, 7-8pm The Screening will include projects by the following artists: Doug Aitken, Rineke Dijkstra and William Kentridge.

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