Fine Arts

Gallery

The Sarofim School of Fine Arts Gallery at Southwestern University is located in the Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center. The Gallery is open to the public and current Southwestern University Faculty, Staff, and Students from Tuesday - Sunday from 12:00 p.m. – 5 p.m. during the exhibition dates listed below. Admission is always free. 

 

Please note that the fine arts gallery will be closed Saturdays and Sundays throughout the summer (5/13/23–8/27/23).

 

Details regarding past professional and student art exhibitions can be discovered below. Please reach out to Seth Daulton, Exhibitions Coordinator, should you have any questions regarding your visit.

 

Installation view of "Irresistible Revolutions"

"Continuance: Faculty Exhibition" Installation View

"Continuance: Faculty Exhibition" Installation View

Installation view from “Listening to the Anthropocene” featuring artist Erik Hagen (Photo credit: Seth Daulton)

Installation image of Leigh Weinberg's '19 senior art exhibition "BESTIAL" (Photo credit: Seth Daulton)

Installation image from Danbi Heo’s ’19 senior art exhibition “Toys! Toys! Toys!” (Photo credit: Seth Daulton)

Installation image from Sophia Anthony’s ’19 senior art exhibition “Garden of the Laws” (Photo credit: Seth Daulton)

Installation image of Angelina Palacios' ('19) senior art exhibition "Captured Chaos" (Photo credit: Seth Daulton)

Southwestern University students experience artist Kelly Jazvac’s “Forward Contamination” video installation. (Photo credit: Seth Daulton)

Installation view from “Listening to the Anthropocene” featuring artist Cynthia Camlin. (Photo credit: Seth Daulton)

"State Lines" Installation view.

Opening reception for "State Lines." Image courtesy of Carlos Barron. (Photo credit: Carlos Barron)

“Allow Me: facing identity” Installation view

“Off the Wall: Contemporary Prints” Installation view

    Jump to Past Student Exhibits

    Current Exhibit

  • Spring ’23 Annual Student Art Exhibition
    Annual Student Art Exhibition

    April 27, 2023 – TBD

    • Past Exhibits

  • Kushboo Gulati & Jason Ting, still from Collective Ideation #7, 13:50 minute video, 2021
    Irresistible Revolutions

    January 31 – March 10, 2023

  • Ana Esteve Llorens, Untitled (A Long Horizontal Green), Hand woven cotton, natural dyes, foam, wood, acrylic paint, wax.16 ¼ x 64 ¼ x 6 in., 2020.
    Continuance: Faculty Art Exhibit

    October 13 – January 8, 2023

  • Patti Warashina, Gossipmongers, Low fire clay, underglaze, glaze, mixed media, 49" x 84" x 84", 2010
    Plush

    January 18–February 20, 2022

  • Jake Pawelek, SREWOLF TSOHG, Mixed media on industrial wrap, 115” x 180”, 2019
    Seeking Form: Alumni Art Exhibit

    September 21 – October 31, 2021

  • Elvia Perrin, Beam, Monoprint with chine collé,10” x 12,” 2019.
    Disrupted Geometries

    February 1 – March 8, 2020

  • Cynthia Camlin, "Island of Ought and Naught" (detail), Watercolor on paper mounted on panels, 54" x 75," 2015.
    Listening to the Anthropocene

    February 2 – March 3, 2019

  • Tom Morin, Untitled (eyeball on a plate with cracked egg), Digital archival inkjet print, 1993
    Tom Morin: 25

    October 3 – November 12, 2019

  • The Bridge Club
    State Lines

    September 20 – November 12, 2018

  • Nicole Pietrantoni, Precipitous, 14 feet x 6 feet, Inkjet on Awagami Inbe Thick, folded and bound into 5 accordion books, Text written by Devon Wootten, 2015.
    Off the Wall: Contemporary Prints

    February 10 – March 8, 2018

  • “Narrative Migrations: Selected Works by Roger Colombik” Installation View
    Narrative Migrations: Selected Works by Roger Colombik

    October 14 - November 15, 2017

  • Leonard Lehrer, "View of St. Petersburg", Hand colored lithograph, 1978/2012. Image courtesy of the artist.
    Leonard Lehrer: A Retrospective

    June 8 - October 1, 2017

  • Luis Camnitzer: Unbound
    Luis Camnitzer: Unbound

    January 30 - March 6, 2017

  • Beth Lo, "East to West", porcelain
    Allow Me: facing identity

    October 15 - November 14, 2016

  • Solo mía, Featuring the work of Paloma Mayorga ’10

    July 6 - September 25, 2016

     

  • “Don’t Forget” (2013), digital C-print from Nina Katchadourian’s “Family Gathering.” Photo: Nina Katchadourian
    CONTINGENT OBJECTS: Works by Nina Katchadourian and Annette Lawrence

    October 8 - November 16, 2014

  • Reflections by Mary Visser
    2015 International Sculpture Exhibition: What Things May Come

    February 4 - March 4, 2015

  • Susan Goldman, Flower Power III, monotype with woodcut, 2014, 42" x 30"
    Midwest Matrix: Texas

    January 30 - February 25, 2016

  • Prints by Tom Druecker
    Prints by Tom Druecker

    March 6, 2014

  • Shore, Works by Brian Molanphy

    September 24 - November 19, 2015

  • by Patricia Olynyk, Orb, digital pigment print on archival rag paper, 42” x 42”
    Patricia Olynyk: Reconceived Bodies (In Three Parts) Spring 2014

    February 6 8 - March 6, 2014

    • Past Student Exhibits

  • Rebecca Butterworth, West G Street, Oil on panel, 20.5” x 27.5”, 2022 
    B.F.A. and B.A. Senior Art Exhibitions

    Rebecca Butterworth and Audrey Leflore | April 18 – 23, 2023

  • Madison Devoe, Have You Walked a Mile in Those Boots? (Detail), Acrylic and wool yarn tufted rug, 10 x 3 ft, 2023.
    B.A. Senior Art Exhibitions

    Madison Devoe and Zoё Kincaid | April 4–11, 2023

  • Hattie Fischer, Left Ear, Oil and concrete on linen, 34" x 18", 2021
    B.F.A. and B.A. Senior Art Exhibitions

    Hattie Fischer, Maylin Sanchez, Hanna Sanderson, and Laila Saqer | March 2 – 6, 2022

  • Paisley Blair, Mother Pearl, Oil and holographic vinyl on panel, 21 x 21”, 2021.
    B.F.A. and B.A. Senior Art Exhibitions

    Paisley Blair, Ila Dannelley, Jack Doloszycki, Olivia Gray, Lily Loose, Mattie Mint | March 22–27, 2022

  • Hannah Mitchell, Morpheus, Mixed media, 2021
    B.A. Senior Art Exhibitions

    Ciaran Bell , Hannah Mitchell , and Vanessa Saldivar  | April 22–28, 2021

  • Summer Elliott, Dynamism, 48" x 60," Oil and silver leaf on canvas, 2019
    B.A. Senior Art Exhibition

    Summer Elliott | March 23–26, 2021

  • Annual Student Art Exhibition
    Annual Student Art Exhibition

  • Mattie Wesoloski, Hydra-huahua (detail), Oil on panel, 30 in. x 20 in., 2020.
    B.F.A. and B.A. Senior Art Exhibitions in Painting

    Mattie Wesoloski and Hal Webster | April 6–13, 2021

  • Kari Darr, Set of Rocket Cups, porcelain, approx. 5" x 5" x 5" each
    B.A. Senior Art Exhibitions

  • Christine Gutierrez, Interruption, Digital archival inkjet prints, Four 36” x 24” panels, 2019.
    B.A. Senior Art Exhibitions

  • Abigail Jendrusch, "Creamer," Ceramic, 2019
    B.A. Senior Art Exhibitions

    November 21 – December 1, 2019

  • 2018 Annual Student Art Exhibition
    Annual Student Art Exhibition

    April 25 – September 15, 2019

  • Sophia Anthony, Lineup 8 & 9 (detail of series), Oil on linen, 8” x 12”
    B.F.A. and B.A. Senior Art Exhibition

    April 11–16, 2019

  • Julia O’Bryan, Broken, Porcelain and gold leaf, 21” x 30” x 11”
    B.F.A. and B.A. Senior Art Exhibitions

    April 2 – 7, 2019

  • Danbi Heo, Water Gun, Oil on canvas, 48” x 48,” 2018
    B.F.A. and B.A. Senior Art Exhibition

    March 13 – 27, 2019

  • Jennifer Pangelinan, Kerith Marie, Pastel on sanded paper, 32” x 40,” 2018.
    B.F.A. Senior Art Exhibitions

    November 29 – December 7, 2018

  • Annie Elkington, “Tulip Dreams (detail),” 13” x 8” x 6”, Stoneware
    B.F.A. and B.A. Senior Art Exhibitions

    April 17 - 22, 2018

  • Elena Gonzalez, Receding Waters, Reclaimed bedsheets, bleach, coffee, clay, 8’2” x 8’6” x 2’4”, 2017
    B.F.A. Senior Art Exhibition

    April 5 - 11, 2018

  • Huakai Chen, “Life-Releasing,” oil on linen, 40” x 40”, 2017
    B.F.A. and B.A. Senior Art Exhibition

    March 22 – 28, 2018

  • Gallery opening reception for ceramic exhibit
    Annual Student Art Exhibition

    April 20 – 26, 2017

  • Avery Elkins, 90’s Styro, Digital print on paper, 2016
    B.F.A and B.A. Senior Exhibitions

    March 23 - 28, 2017

  • Eamon Rogers, “Bottles”, Wood fired earthenware, 2016, 7” x 4”
    B.A. Senior Exhibitions

    April 4 – 9, 2017

  • Annual Student Art Exhibition

    April 12 – 27, 2016