Past Exhibitions
- November 16, 2007 - January 28, 2008Kemper Art Museum, College of Art GalleryEphemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Womens Magazine, 1940-1960 displays the work of this accomplished illustrator and contributor to the American aesthetic of the mid-twentieth century. Parker, a St... more
- August 31, 2007 - November 5, 2007Kemper Art MuseumWindow | Interface is the second installment in the Screen Arts and New Media Aesthetics series. The exhibition highlights a variety of artistic projects -- including videos, photographs and digital... more
- August 31, 2007 - December 17, 2007Kemper Art Museum, Teaching GalleryKorean Comics: A Society through Small Frames features works by twenty-one of North and South Korea's most talented cartoonists, drawn from the 1950s to the 1990s. On display in the Museum's Teaching Gallery,... more
- May 11, 2007 - July 16, 2007Kemper Art MuseumSince the mid-1980s, Andrea Fraser has achieved a certain renown for her work in critiquing institutions and dramatizing the relationship between art and its audiences. Influenced by feminism, psychoanalysis,... more
- May 11, 2007 - July 16, 2007Kemper Art MuseumAnsel Adams (1902-1984) is celebrated as one of the world's foremost landscape photographers. The works included in Ansel Adams: Reverence for Life -- many of which are virtually unknown -- showcase the clean... more
- May 11, 2007 - July 16, 2007Kemper Art MuseumThe exhibition will include approximately sixty artworks in a variety of media by fourteen Master of Fine Arts candidates in Washington University's Graduate School of Art, part of the Sam Fox School of Design... more
- February 9, 2007 - April 29, 2007Kemper Art MuseumThe fall of the Berlin Wall in November of 1989 instigated a new era of German history, rapidly--yet profoundly--altering everyday German life. Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, the... more
- February 9, 2007 - April 29, 2007Kemper Art Museum, Teaching GalleryA Teaching Gallery exhibition co-organized by Emma Kafalenos, senior lecturer in comparative literature, and Catharina Manchanda, curator at the Kemper Art Museum, Container Narratives is presented conjunction... more
- October 25, 2006 - December 31, 2006Kemper Art MuseumAs a simple method of arranging individual elements into perpendicular lines, the grid is a familiar pattern in contemporary life -- from traffic patterns to computer screen pixels -- sorting out the visible... more
- October 25, 2006 - December 31, 2006Kemper Art MuseumModels are used as tools in countless professions and academic disciplines. Whether developing a new theory or working on a new building, models help us explore and test new ideas or designs, and as such they... more