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Previous Exhibitions 2006-2007
  
Frank Breuer: Photographs
July 21 - September 17, 2006
This first museum exhibition for German photographer Frank Breuer, who focuses on the commercial and industrial sprawl of globalization, will include photographs taken in and around Grinnell during a visit in April 2005.
  
Indigo Gives America the Blues
July 21 - September 17, 2006
An exhibition created by the International Quilt Study Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, featuring historical and contemporary quilts that utilize fabric dyed with indigo.
  
Figure Drawings from the Grinnell College Collection
August 18 - September 24, 2006
Figure drawings from the 1500s to the present by Sidney Goodman, Peter Paul Rubens, Gustav Klimt and others. Curated by Natalie Larson '06.
Print and Drawing Study Room, Burling Library
  
Wendy Hollender: Botanical Drawings
August 18 - October 13, 2006
Burling Gallery, Burling Library
  
Vitaly Komar: Recent Works
October 3 - November 16, 2006
Print and Drawing Study Room, Burling Library.
In this series of 35 collages Russian artist Vitaly Komar alters with cutting humor the famous photograph of the Big Three - Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin - at Yalta on the Crimean Peninsula in 1945. The exhibition is in conjunction with the symposium “The Politics of Russian Popular Culture”.
  
Angela Strassheim: Left Behind
October 6 - December 10, 2006
Works by Iowa-born photographer Angela Strassheim.
  
Marco van Duyvendijk: Portraits from Asia
October 6 - December 10, 2006
Van Duyvendijk transports a glimpse of the human landscape of Mongolia, China, Taiwan, and South Korea through photographic portraits.
  
Grandeur and Fantasy: Piranesi's Visions and Views of Rome
January 22 - February 25, 2007
Grinnell College students, with Prof. Timothy Chasson, will curate this exhibition comparing views of Rome by Piranesi with views by other 17 c. - 19 c. artists.
  
The Living and the Dead: Resurrecting The Neapolitan Cult of the Skull
January 22 - February 25, 2007
Margaret Stratton of Iowa City photographs the ruins behind the walls of contemporary Naples, Italy.
  
Stories and Histories Curated by Julia McHugh '07 and Lesley Wright
March 9 - April 22, 2007
Works by American artists from the Grinnell College Art Collection.
  
The Space of Freedom: Apartment Exhibitions in Leningrad (1965-1986)
March 9 - April 22, 2007
Approximately 60 paintings, drawings, and prints from the collection of the Museum of NonConformist Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. Artwork in the exhibition will be displayed in a fabricated Soviet apartment interior (circa 1970) that will be assembled in Faulconer Gallery.

Organized by the University of Richmond Museums, Virginia, the exhibition and tour have been made possible with generous support from Global Partners, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
  
Annual Student Art Salon
May 4 - May 21, 2007
Juried exhibition of work by students enrolled in art courses at Grinnell College 2006-2007.
  
Jill Davis Schrift: New Work
May 4 - June 3, 2007
Pastels, collages, terra cotta, and raku works completed in 2006 and 2007.
 

Turk Text

Felted/Woven/Embellished Turkish Textiles from a Private Collection
June 22 - September 9, 2007
Turkish felts and weavings selected from the extraordinary collection of Keith Achepohl.


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