September 9, 2018–January 6, 2019 Fuller Gallery In the Soviet Union, photojournalists were told to create images that showed their country’s progress toward a bright future. This exhibition examined the role of truth and censorship in the work of two important Soviet photojournalists, Dmitri Baltermants and Mark Markov-Grinberg. Baltermants (1912-1990) spent forty-five years on […]
Angel Suarez-Rosado (American, born Puerto Rico, 1957), Cosmograms, 1995–present, oil on canvas or board, 16 x 12” each. September 9 through December 16, 2018 Rodale Gallery Puerto Rican-born, Easton-based artist Angel Suarez-Rosado will create a site-specific installation at the Allentown Art Museum. Suarez-Rosado transforms ordinary objects, imbuing them with power, in a practice […]
August 25 – December 9, 2018 Fowler Gallery Molas are colorful reverse-appliqué panels made by the Guna, an indigenous people who live in Panama. Since the 1600s, the Guna have maintained trade and diplomatic relations with Western countries. Guna women began using foreign trade cloth to create bold mola panels for their blouses around […]
FEATURED IMAGE: Franck Seguin (French, born 1960). Mixed Martial Arts Fight, UFC 154, Montreal, Canada, 2012, printed 2016. Inkjet print, 9 1/4 x 14 in. (23.7 x 35.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist. From Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present, organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, […]
May 6–September 2, 2018 Fuller Gallery During the first half of the 20th century, sports became an increasingly popular pastime for men and women alike. This new passion for athletics revolutionized American fashion and culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Who Wore Sports featured textiles and clothing that reflect this interest in sports as […]
This beautiful selection of color woodcuts by British artists including John Edgar Platt, William Giles, and Allen Seaby demonstrated the influence of the Japanese aesthetics and techniques on Western art of the 1920s and ‘30s. John Edgar Platt (British, 1886-1967), The Plough (triptych), 1921, woodcut.Collection of John Rossetti. Special thanks to John Rossetti. […]
This installation featured contemporary art that addressed themes of pattern and motion. These topics have proved fruitful for contemporary artists looking to capture the dynamic world around them; the works in this rotation dove into concepts as varied as optical illusion and the Underground Railroad. From the pulsing figures of Keith Haring to the tricks […]
A new generation of women photojournalists are telling some of the most powerful and impactful stories of the last decade. From the savannas of Botswana to the war–torn streets of Libya and Afghanistan, from the beaches of the Jersey shore to the rainforests of New Guinea, these 11 women have traveled the world as […]
“From Marilyn Bridges’ single-engine Cessna, hovering low at the approximate altitude of an angel with wing trouble, the earth tends to be dark, ambiguous, laced with a mournful poetry. The planet’s skin is crumpled and worn and scarred with mysterious designs. Someone long ago left signs here, certain they would be recognized: giants and serpents, […]
José Campeche (Puerto Rican, 1751–1809), Our Lady of Mount Carmel (detail), 1807, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Coleccíón Patricia Phelps de Cisneros August 25 through December 9, 2018 Scheller Gallery Power and Piety presents exquisite paintings, sculpture, silver pieces, furniture and decorative devotional objects made in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of the […]
