Exhibitions

Davison Art Center

Creative Acts: Recent Acquisitions at the Davison Art Center
Thursday – Sunday, Noon – 4 p.m.
Clare Rogan, Curator
Fresh from the printmaker’s studio or treasured throughout the centuries, new acquisitions to the Davison Art Center collection expand our understanding of the art of today as well as the past. This exhibition features more than 60 exciting prints, drawings, and photographs selected from the many acquisitions to the DAC collection over the last five years. Contemporary prints include works by Jim Dine, Ellen Gallagher, and Nicola López. Photographs by Harry Callahan, Barbara Morgan, and Gordon Parks represent the art and turmoil of the 20th century. Works by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and Jan Saenredam add to the DAC collection’s historic strengths in Old Master prints. The vitality of the collection is ensured by these new acquisitions, generously given by donors or purchased with endowed funds and funds raised by the Friends of the Davison Art Center.

Olin Library

Kit and Joe Reed: A Retrospective
Open during regular Library hours.
The creative work of recently retired English professors Kit and Joe Reed is highlighted in this retrospective. World famous as a science fiction writer, Kit Reed is also a pioneer in online writing instruction, and was one of the first Wesleyan faculty to experiment with teaching electronically. Well-known for his writings on literature and film, Joe Reed is equally recognized for his exquisite and often witty paintings, many of them based on alphabets and historical figures. This exhibition explores the Reeds’ many creative accomplishments.

The Rick Nicita Gallery, Center for Film Studies

Friday and Saturday, Noon – 4 p.m.
The gallery's exhibit will be on Elia Kazan, with materials all taken from Wesleyan Cinema Archives' Elia Kazan Collection, including rare photos, clippings, scripts, posters, private notebooks, personal and professional correspondence, and more. The Rick Nicita Gallery is located within Wesleyan's Center for Film Studies, 301 Washington Terrace. Additionally, throughout the academic year, the gallery is open from 12:00 noon to 4:00 P.M. on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday and any other time by appointment.

Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery and CFA Green

Paul Villinski: Emergency Response Studio
Friday & Saturday, Noon – 8 p.m.; Sunday, Noon – 4 p.m.
Nina Felshin, Curator
Inspired by what he encountered in post-Katrina New Orleans, artist Paul Villinski created a solar-powered mobile artist’s studio, by purposefully and playfully rethinking and transforming a 30-foot Gulfstream “Cavalier” trailer virtually identical to the 50,000 trailers built by Gulfstream for FEMA. This sustainable, re-built and visually appealing off-the-grid living and workspace is designed to enable artists to “embed” in post-disaster environments, and respond and contribute creatively. Emergency Response Studio (ERS) will be installed in the Center for the Arts’ green and accompanied by an installation in Zilkha Gallery detailing Villinski’s construction process and featuring additional information on “movable” housing as well as “green“ technology and building materials.

Born in York, Maine in 1960, Villinkski received a BFA with honors from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York in 1984.

Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery

BUILDING BRIDGES: UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES AND OTHERS THROUGH ART
Friday & Saturday, Noon – 8 p.m.; Sunday, Noon – 4 p.m.
Nina Felshin, Faculty Advisor
Pieces of Pieces: Rootz of Rootz, an exhibition of student art, will be presented at Wesleyan University's Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery from November 6-22, 2009. Organized by members of the West Indian Student Association (WISA), its goal is to encourage the artistic exploration and representation of the diversity within the Caribbean and those places away from home where peoples of the Caribbean have settled. We aim to represent, investigate and discuss the various factors and pressures that have led to the scattering of our peoples, as well as the realities of our experiences away from "home." In short, our focus is on the formation of the Caribbean Diaspora - that vast network of Caribbean people and their offspring as well as any individuals of Caribbean heritage who believe their lives have been significantly shaped by Caribbean cultures.

Although the focus of the exhibition is the Caribbean Diaspora, the call to submit work is open to all students. Works need not be of an explicitly political nature. We encourage and celebrate diversity of artistic expression.