Current Exhibitions:
April 04, 2013 - June 02, 2013
Focus Gallery
This exhibition celebrates visual splendors of the natural world, focusing on how earth scientists and mathematicians use color and scale to measure and interpret geological and oceanographic processes. As a pendant exhibition to Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture, this show generates compelling synergies between the perspectives of arts and sciences.
March 29, 2013 - June 02, 2013
Halford Gallery
Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery
This installation spans many eras and diverse media as it invites visitors to contemplate the dialectic of the whole and its parts
March 26, 2013 - July 14, 2013
Bowdoin Gallery
Markell Gallery
Walker Gallery
Boyd Gallery
Shaw Ruddock Gallery
The exhibition introduces to American audiences Danish artist Per Kirkeby (born 1938), one of Europe's most celebrated contemporary artists. The artist's roles as geologist, filmmaker, architect, writer, and poet are reflected in this survey of approximately 45 works. Kirkeby's paintings and sculptures are constantly in flux, maintaining a dialogue between art and science. Organized by the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., this is Per Kirkeby's first American retrospective. After the Phillips Collection, Bowdoin is the only other venue hosting this important show.
March 12, 2013 - June 02, 2013
Becker Gallery
European paintings of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries tell stories of love, transgression, sacrifice, and redemption that are often based on biblical or mythological narratives, and on the legends of the Christian saints. While the paintings are silent, they speak to the viewer through their figures' expressive hand movements. It is within the power of those gestures to transform a man into a god, a sinner into a believer, a nymph into a bay laurel tree.
March 08, 2013 - June 02, 2013
Center Gallery
The exhibition explores the nature of divinity in the Ancient Mediterranean, the relationships between gods and the realms they control. The installation organizes around select realms (Eros and Love, Fertility and Nature) and explores the myths and iconography that connect these spheres of divinity.
