2024 Exhibitions
Learning to Look: An Artist’s Perspective
January 18 – March 17, 2024
This exhibition is curated by Alejandre Favela, Hollins University class of 2024 and the museum’s summer 2023 intern sponsored by the International Fine Print Dealers Association. During Favela’s time at the museum, he gained a number of skills, including learning the basics of handling works of art and researching printing techniques. As part of the internship, Favela studied works in the museum’s print collection in order to propose and curate this exhibition, which juxtaposes prints in unexpected and thought-provoking pairs. He writes, “The purpose of pairing these works based on visual similarities is to teach audiences how to look at art from an artist’s perspective… It is my goal to make art approachable, and I hope that this exhibition helps everyone in learning to look.”
IMAGE: John Ballator, Oregon Landscape, 1950. Screenprint. Gift of the artist. Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University, 2009.011.
African-American Quilts from the Collection of Carolyn Mazloomi
February 1 – April 14, 2024
Collector, scholar, and maker Carolyn Mazloomi sought work by artists with powerful voices as she built her collection. Quilts, especially those with a narrative element, have been a particularly vital tool that Black makers use to illustrate Black history. These artists portray a variety of Black experiences, some celebrating the achievements of artists, poets, and adventurers, and others protesting the pervasive and harmful racism directed towards people of color in American society. A selection of twenty-four contemporary quilts are presented in this vibrant and inspiring exhibition. Quilts provided from the collection of Carolyn L. Mazloomi.
IMAGE: April Anue Shipp, Mama Rosa, 2017. Cotton fabric, cotton batt; machine appliqué, machine quilting. Collection of Carolyn Mazloomi.
2024 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence Ying Li: Blossoms in a Sudden Strangeness III
February 1 – April 14, 2024
Ying Li is known for her thickly-painted, abstract plein air paintings created in beautiful outdoor gardens, landscapes, and urbanscape settings around the world and across the United States. She has taught at Haverford College since 1997 and is currently the Phlyssa Koshland Professor of Fine Arts. In March of 2020, the busyness of our human lives began to grind to a halt, with classes, exhibits, and concerts cancelled. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Li created these colorful paintings while living on the Haverford campus.
The Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence program allows Hollins University to bring a nationally recognized artist to campus every year. In residence during the spring semester, the Artist-in-Residence creates work in a campus studio and teaches a seminar open to all students.
IMAGE: Ying Li, Awakening, 2020. Oil on linen. Courtesy of the artist.