Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Frederick R. Mayer Art Center

10/04/2023

Current Exhibition: "Claire Ashley: Radiant Beasts"
Sept 5 - Nov 18, 2023

Visit our website for more info: https://www.exeter.edu/academics/lamont-gallery/claire-ashley

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10/22/2022

Current Exhibition: Tradition Interrupted
October 18 – December 10, 2022

Tradition Interrupted explores how artists weave contemporary ideas with traditional art and craft to create thought-provoking hybrid images and objects that have caught the world’s attention. The 11 artists in this exhibition—and their traditions—hail from every corner of the globe. From rugs and mosaic to metalwork and ceramics, they are merging age-old art and craft customs with innovative techniques that interrupt tradition while still collaborating with the past.

The artists featured in Tradition Interrupted have lived their lives steeped in the traditions of their ancestors and their connections to cultural customs, imagery, and materials are complex. Some have shared the trepidation they felt when they conceptualized and created their art, but in the process of unraveling tradition, these artists are embracing it and bringing it forward. Ancestral memories and political history—at risk of being forgotten in our fast-paced, digital world—take center stage here. It’s harder to lose sight of something that is staring right at you.

Artists: Anila Quayyum Agha (Pakistan), F**g Ahmed (Azerbaijan), Camille Eskell (U.S.), Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Ana Gómez (Mexico), Shirin Hosseinvand (Iran), Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnam), Steven Young Lee (U.S.), Jaydan Moore (U.S.), Ramekon O’Arwisters (U.S.), and Jason Seife (U.S.).

Tradition Interrupted is a nationally traveling exhibition and was organized by Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA.

(Lamont Gallery is open to the public by appointment – Please go to the “Visit the Lamont Gallery” page of our website to make a reservation:

https://www.exeter.edu/arts-exeter/lamont-gallery/visit-lamont-gallery

Image credit: F**g Ahmed, Hal, 2016, handmade woolen carpet, ed. 2/3, 107” H x 64” W x 16” D; Courtesy of the Rodef Family Collection, San Diego, CA

08/04/2022

Current Exhibit: Managing Miscellanea

A wooden antelope, French WWI posters, nineteenth century Japanese woodblock prints, an etching of a surly one-legged hawk, and works by Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Motherwell…. for many reasons, known and unknown, these curious pieces and more are all part of the Lamont Gallery collection.

The works on view in Managing Miscellanea will allow viewers to take a deep look into what we consider to be our undefined collection. Since its conception in 1952, the Lamont Gallery has never officially been a collecting gallery, however like many art institutions, we have accumulated a number of prints, paintings, sculptures, and artifacts. The ethical responsibility in maintaining these works creates a constant, quiet struggle addressing concerns of safety, storage, and preservation for each piece in our care, with the larger question of how to use this collection in meaningful ways when a quarter of the works lack adequate provenance.

This exhibition is a continuation of the ongoing work we are doing to understand our collection. Managing Miscellanea will be addressing many of the same questions that we began to explore through exhibitions a decade ago such as What defines a collection? How are collections built, maintained, and shared? We will showcase some of the unseen works from our storage room, share what we know about their stories, and hope to hear in what ways these works inspire you.

Visitor Information:
The Lamont Gallery is open to the public by appointment only at this time. Please got to the “Visit the Lamont Gallery” page of our website to make an appointment:
https://www.exeter.edu/arts-exeter/lamont-gallery/visit-lamont-gallery

02/03/2022

Informing Memory: Process, Place, and Notion

Open to the public by reservation beginning Saturday, Feb 5 - link below

If memory refers to the process of acquiring, storing, retaining, and retrieving information, what becomes of the information that takes up residence in our hearts – in our minds? What do we choose to remember and why? Thirteen Phillips Exeter Academy alumnae featured in, Informing Memory: Process, Place, and Notion collectively explore these themes as they share their work and artmaking process. The result - a landscape of mind and place stretched out before our eyes. This reflection of gathered memories, notions of self and environment – both real and imagined, offers us an opportunity to ground ourselves in our own unique search and journey to those intricate spaces within, challenging us to be intentional and present within our own thoughts and experiences.

Participating Artists:
Maud Bryt ’83, Alexandra Carter ’04, Millicent Dunstan ’15, Elizabeth Gardner ’83, Kate Gridley ’74, Barbara Rita Jenny ’84, Rose Klabin ’96, Dustan Knight ’76, Evie Lovett ’84, Brittany Otto ’08, Lindsay Packer ’91, Tiffanie Turner ’88, and Wendi Yan ’18.

ONLINE RESERVATION FORM: https://fs30.formsite.com/exeter/form143/index.html

10/27/2021

Check out our new current exhibition: Forces in Motion, Gordon D. Chase '66.
See the "visit us" page of our website to learn how to make your reservation

Forces in Motion: Gordon D. Chase ’66 October 22 – December 18, 2021   Artist and educator Gordon D. Chase ’66 asks big questions in dynamic ways. Whether through intensely colorful gestural paintings or powerful black-and-white drawings; piercingly angular sculpture or circular ‘witness wh...

09/15/2021

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