O'Connor Art Gallery (Dominican University)

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The mission of the O’Connor Art Gallery is to present relevant and focused contemporary art exhibi

04/22/2026

Congrats to our graduating seniors! Here are a few glimpses of Layers of Renaissance- the Senior Capstone exhibition, up through 4/28

04/06/2026

Sneak peek as students prepare their exhibit spaces for Senior Capstone. Join us this Wednesday for SI, and this Friday for the reception in the gallery-
All are welcome 💕

03/21/2026

We are so excited for our Senior Capstone Exhibition!
Please join us for the reception Friday, April 10th- You are also invited to register and attend our SI Expo on April 8th-
All are welcome!

Join us in celebrating the creativity of our graduating Art and Design students—

Pedro Acevedo
Genesis Alvarez
Maeleen Arroyo
Amanda Banda
Vanessa Bello Hernandez
Andrea Calderon

Melanie Canales
Julian Davila
Metzli Flores
Sandy Garcia
Feliciano Martinez
Andrew Nunez
Monica Pesely

Jonathan Pineda
Jordan Rosas
Omar Sanchez
Annie Tang
Daniela Zermeno

03/05/2026

Congrats to all our amazing students who participated in this year’s Annual! Come check out the show- up through March 25-

A big thanks to for her thoughtful and generous participation as our guest juror. 💖

02/22/2026

Sneak peek as we install the Annual Student Juried show! Join us Wednesday 2/25 from 4-6pm
Special guest juror will be there to present awards and help celebrate our students 💖

02/13/2026

We are delighted to have Chicago artist Karen Azarnia as our guest juror this year! Having previously served as the O’Connor Gallery director, Karen is well acquainted with the DU community and we are so happy to have her back for our Annual Juried Student Exhibition.
Karen Azarnia is a painter, educator, and independent curator. Born in Miami, FL, she currently lives and works in Chicago. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Azarnia explores time through the lens of memory, home, and natural life cycles. Inspired by an archive of personal photographs, videos, and drawings, the canvas surfaces are poured, wiped, scraped and layered. At once embracing and pushing against art historical tradition, the work operates in the slippage between abstraction and representation, focusing on the play between description of form and gesture of mark. Evoking a dream-like quality, they are a reminder of the basic human emotions that connect us all, and the fluidity of human perception.

Come celebrate the creativity of our students on February 25th, 4-6 - all are welcome!

02/05/2026

We loved having another group of artists from come visit today! They took the time for some slow-looking and even sketching in the gallery 💖
Something in the Air will be up through February 18th.
Come visit!

02/03/2026

Students! Submit your work to our annual juried art exhibition. Awards will be given in multiple categories, all levels welcome, as long as it was made while a student at DU.
Drop off between February 9- 18.
Selections will be made by Feb 21st and the opening reception will be February 25th 4-6pm.
Remember to complete the form provided and include it with your submission.

We look forward to seeing your work!

Questions? [email protected]

01/26/2026

Come in from the cold and spend some time with this vibrant work! Our group exhibition Something in the Air,
features work that explores different kinds of storytelling— up through Feb 18th

Thank you to for the beautiful documentation

01/15/2026

What a fun opening! A huge thank you to Nick and Lacey from Arts of Life for helping to bring the artists to the O’Connor Gallery. We had such a great time talking to Bill, Marcus, Andrew and Brian about their work. I know the students appreciated it as well. Here are a few details to entice you to brave the weather and check out the show before it closes on Feb 18th.
Additionally, a few of the artists shown with their work-
1-Marcus Imani Kennedy
3-Andrew Sloan
4-Bill Lilly
5-Brian Kaplan

Other artists in the exhibition-
Ariée, Charles Beinhoff, Tarik Echols, Joe Flasch, Cole Fox, Harold Jeffries, Susan Pasowicz, Angelo LaPietra, Jeanne Reindl and Luke Tauber

Address

7900 Division Street
River Forest, IL
60305

Website

https://www.dom.edu/academics/majors-programs/department-art-and-design/oconnor-art-gallery

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