A Constructed Balance: Photographs by Emily Grimes
August 22 - November 2, 2008
Burling Gallery, Burling Library
Photographs of the Grimes Family Farm

The Return of the Yellow Peril: A Survey of the Work of Roger Shimomura,1969–2004
August 22 - October 26, 2008
Exhibition Programming and Events
The exhibition presented a chronological review of 60 paintings, prints, found art sculpture, and performance photographs documenting Shimomura’s prolific career, and was sponsored by ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance, and The National Endowment for the Arts.
Oriental Masterpiece #1, from the Oriental Masterpiece series, 1971, acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Lonny Kaneko.

Body/Image
November 14- December 14, 2008
An exhibition of works by 16 artists represented in the college's collection whose subject matter is the human body. The contemporary images demonstrate the human body as imperfect, individual, self-destructive, and self-creative. Faulconer Gallery Associate Director Daniel Strong selected the works from recent acquisitions, including gifts from Grinnell College alumni and purchases through the Marie Louise and Samuel R. Rosenthal endowed fund to support the college's art collection.
Marcel Dzama, Citizens of Regimentation (detail), 2004, screenprint with hand-coloring, copyright Marcel Dzama. Grinnell College Art Collection, Marie-Louise and Samuel R. Rosenthal Fund.

Ukucwebezela: To Shine
November 14-December 14, 2008
A collection of contemporary Zulu ceramics, curated by Elizabeth Perrill '99 who was inspired to study African art in the college's collection while a Grinnell student. She later developed her own collection as part of her art history research in South Africa. "To Shine" refers to the careful burnishing preferred by Zulu ceramists. All of the works in the exhibition were crafted within the past 20 years, and three are from the college's collection.

Second Firing by Peni Mathengwa Gumbi, South Africa, 2006. Photograph by Elizabeth Perrill."Ukucwebezela

Egazini Outreach Project
November 4 – December 19, 2008
Burling Print & Drawing Study Room

The Egazini Outreach Project in Grahamstown, South Africa, operates in a facility once occupied by apartheid riot police that has been transformed into studio space for local artists and crafters. The 28 linocuts displayed tell stories of everyday life: struggles for equality and justice, work, and leisure activities in the new South Africa. Courtesy of Sragow Gallery in New York City.

Linocut: "Take Care of One's Belongings" by Linga Diko

Letters to the North Pole: Photographs from the Grinnell College Art Collection
November 24- December 19, 2008
Print and Drawing Study Room

The exhibit focused on the photographic portrait as the other in society and was designed to engage the viewer in the creative process through letter-writing and free-association. Curated by Chris Farstad '09.

Kenji Kanesaka. Brigitte Bardot - Press Conference for "Que Viva Maria!" potograph, c1964. Grinnell College Collection of Art.

Animated Painting
Februrary 6 - April 19, 2009

Animated Painting featured 13 international artists who combine traditional art forms such as painting, drawing and collage with digital animation technologies. The traveling exhibition organized by the San Diego Museum of Art includes works by William Kentridge, Robin Rhode, Kota Ezawa, Serge Onnen, Barnstormers, Jeremy Blake, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Ruth Gomez, Ann Lislegaard, Takeshi Murata, Julian Opie, Wit Pimkanchanapong, and Qiu Anxiong.
Programming for Animated Painting
Clips from Animated Painting
Jeremy Blake, Sodium Fox, 2005. Digital video on plasma screen. Courtesy of Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, New York.

The Lady Doth Protest Too Much: Protest Art as an Expression of American Identity
May 19- May30, 2009<, Print and Drawing Study Room
This exhibition examined the work of socially engaged American artists including John Wilson, Ben Shahn, Warrington Colescott, John Phillips '67, and DB Dowd. In asserting their American identity, these artists advance their political message by invoking these American values - democracy, equality, and freedom - to challenge the status quo. Curated by Allison Rosenthal ’09.

Ben Shahn, Liberty and Barbed Wire, 1952. Drawing and brush drawing. Grinnell College Art Collection, bequest of Clinton A. Rehling '39 by exchange.

Art Faculty Biennial 2009
Works by Jeremy Chen, Andrew Kaufman, Matthew Kluber, Lee Emma Running, Jill Davis Schrift, Donnal Stack, Merle Zirkle
May 1-31, 2009

Student Art Salon 2009
A juried exhibition of student work
May 1-31, 2009

Still/LIFE
Cotber 31, 2008 - July 8, 2009. Noyce Science Cente
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Dallas artist Tracy Hicks created still/LIFE in response to the severe endangerment of approximately one third of the earth's 6000 known amphibian species-- frogs, toads, salamanders, even wormlike caecilians-within the last ten years due to adverse ecological change. The installation raised the questions: what does it mean to preserve? Why do we preserve some things and not others? The Faulconer Gallery invited Tracy Hicks to Grinnell in conjunction with the 2008 Tall Grass Bioneers Conference (October 31 - November 2, 2008). His visit was sponsored by the Faulconer Gallery, Biology Department, and Chemistry Department.

Tracy Hicks, still/LIFE, 2008. 19th/20th century preservation jars, water, alcohol, mineral oil, phosphorescent dyes, fluorescent dyes, colored pigments, rubber, glass, wood.

Below the Surface: A 21st-Century Look at the Prairie
June 12 to September 6, 2009
Curator's Statement
Programs and Events
Although the native tallgrass prairie of the upper Midwest is but a remnant of its former glory, prairie plants, animals and places continue to inspire artists in the 21st century. Below the Surface explored contemporary views of our place and its natural history, infused with overtones of the cultures that now live on the lands that were once a sea of grass. Curated by Lesley Wright, Faulconer Gallery Director. Artists include: Delores De Wilde Bina, Matilda Essig, Barbara Fedeler,Justin Gibbens, Wendy Hollander, Carl Kurtz, Sally Kuzma, Jin Lee, Peggy Macnamara, David Ottenstein, Marguerite Perret, Joseph Scheer, John Spence, Priscilla Steele, Tilly Woodward. Sponsored by Prairie Studies and Iowa Prairie Network

Justin Gibbens, Conjunctive Barn Owls, 2008, Watercolor, graphite, gouache, acrylic, coffe on paper, 30.25x44.5", Courtesy of Elizabeth Leach Gallery

Small Expressions
June 12 - September 6, 2009

Small Expressions 2009, was sponsored by the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. This annual exhibition of small scale works is limited to fiber techniques such as weaving, spinning, basketry, felting, beading, and papermaking. Finished pieces may not exceed 15 inches (38 centimeters) in any direction, including any and all mounting or display devices. This year's juror is Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Alumni-Endowed Professor of Art at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Handweavers Guild of America
Midwest Weavers


Christine Noguere, Astraea, mixed media, 3.625x2.75x1.925"
Lisa Nelson Raabe, Inner Sanctum, mixed media, 9x7"

Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

January 27 - September 9, 2009

Burling Gallery, Burling Library

Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005. Offset lithograph and silkscreen. Grinnell College Art Collection