One Nation Underground: Punk Visual Culture 1976-1985
February 3, 2022 - May 1, 2022
LOOK. Spagnuolo Gallery
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February 3, 2022 - May 1, 2022
Forty years ago, Georgetown was at the center of a cultural explosion called punk rock. From 1979-1985, punk, new wave, and funk bands regularly played in the University’s Walsh building. This exhibition features works from the Andrew Krivine collection in New York, including posters, flyers, and pins featuring bands that played the Walsh building’s “Hall of Nations” and others, the larger DC musical ecosystem, and a broader revolution in graphics. The exhibition shows the ways in which those in the District were in artistic dialogue with a larger global sensibility that changed the way people viewed art, music, and politics forever.
Unknown Artist, Bow Wow Wow DC Concert Flyer, 1982. Mixed-media on paper. 11 x 8 1/2 in. Courtesy of Andrew Krivine.
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SPAGNUOLO SOUTH GALLERY EXHIBITION
Toni-Lee Sangastiano: Carnivalesque
August 25, 2021 - May 23, 2022
Walsh building Suite 102
Sideshows, freak shows, circuses, and the beach boardwalks, from Coney Island to the Jersey shore, inspire Georgetown Professor Dr. Toni-Lee Sangastiano. The works in this exhibition historically document, celebrate, and make visible both the people and varied gathering spaces in all of their wonder, glitter, grit, genius, and eccentricity.
VIEW THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION HERE.
Carnivalesque is open Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 5pm.
History of the Spagnuolo Gallery
The first art gallery to feature the work of professional artists on Georgetown University’s campus, The Lucille M. and Richard F. X. Spagnuolo Art Gallery was established in 2003. Initially it hosted three professional artist exhibitions and at least one student exhibition per year under the direction of the Department of Art & Art History. Concurrent to the construction of the Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery, the Spagnuolo Gallery received extensive renovations, improving the Gallery’s appearance and ability to host multimedia projects. Today it hosts two outside, professional artist exhibitions per year along with shows featuring student and faculty artists.
exhibition image: Beth Katleman: Strange Arcadia, fall 2018
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SPAGNUOLO GALLERY EXHIBITIONS ARCHIVE
Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined
October 3 – December 15, 2019
Chemi Rosado-Seijo: Communities In Motion/Comunidades En Movimiento
January 29 – April 8, 2020
Jesse Krimes: Purgatory
February 1 – March 26, 2017
The Material Instant: Zoetrope Animations by Eric Dyer
October 26 – December 11, 2016
Digital Cityscapes by Tim Portlock
September 9 – October 11, 2015
Ralph L. Wickiser: a Retrospective
June 20 – April 3, 2016
Land of Deities: Pop-Up Photos of Southwest China
January 21 – April 12, 2015
Susanna Raab: The Invisible Wall
October 21 – December 6, 2015
Joseph Grigely: Songs, With and Without Words
Deaf since the age of 10, the Chicago-based artist Joseph Grigely (American b. 1956) is interested in how language, both spoken and written, materializes in our lives. The exhibition features seven selections from the series Songs Without Words (2008-). Guest curated by Yuri Stone.
VIEW THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION HERE.
Prof. Roberto Bocci: Metro Rail
Lucille M. and Richard F.X. Spagnuolo Art Gallery, South
Georgie Friedman: Vortex
January 24 – May 15, 2019
Hybrids: Prof. Scott Hutchison
August 28 – December 14, 2018
Beth Katleman: Strange Arcadia
August 28 – December 7, 2018
Katleman (American b. 1959, lives NY) creates 3D porcelain installations that playfully reference pop culture and art history. She seeks out mass-produced items like bobbleheads, erasers, dog toys, and cake toppers to meticulously cast in porcelain by hand. Combined in island-like vignettes and inspired by both eighteenth-century royal palaces and a dark sense of humor, Katleman imbues these objects with tension.
This exhibition paired a ¾ scale version of Katleman’s seminal work, Folly (2010), left; and Paradise (2018), a smaller piece produced this year. Katleman employs porcelain, wire, and heat-shrink tubing to craft these installations.