Past Exhibitions
Playing Around with Art
Art of the 1990s
Lateral Thinking
This extraordinary exhibition features forty contemporary artists from North, South, and Central America, Cuba, Africa, China, and Europe, including Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Roman de Salvo, Zhang Huan, William Kentridge, Byron Kim, Jean Lowe, Vik Muniz, and Cindy Sherman, many of whose works have not appeared in the Upper Valley before. The exhibition defies categorization by style, school, or medium, but a number of key ideas recur throughout, such as the body; the construction of identity (gender, personal, social, or ethnic); the role of the artist; and one's relationship to everyday occurrences and objects.
Introduction to the History of Art II, 1500 to Present
Regional Selections 30
The Hood celebrates thirty years of regional art exhibitions at Dartmouth College with Regional Selections 30, the happy result of a year of strong collaboration among twelve arts organizations in New Hampshire and Vermont. Recent works by area artists Ria Blaas, Bob Boemig, Peter Paedra Bramhall, Chris Calnan, Amparo Carvajal-Hufschmid, James McGarrell, Jerry MacMichael, The Main Street Museum, MANUAL, Petria Mitchell, Andy Moerlein, Lawrence Nowlan, Rebecca Purdum, Gary Haven Smith, and George Tooker were chosen by museum and nonprofit gallery directors across the region. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Seen and Seen Again
Ferenc Berko
Ferenc Berko drew attention to the beauty that lies in the overlooked details of the everyday visual world. By isolating patterns, shadows, forms, and colors, Berko's images invite viewers to look inquisitively at commonplace materials and experiences. Ferenc Berko: Seen and Seen Again speaks to the breadth, and depth, of the artist's modern sense of vision. Through roughly three dozen black-and-white and color images ranging from 1932 to 1987, the show represents a dialogue over time and within a specific medium, but also between generations. It is curated by Berko's granddaughter, Mirte Mallory, Class of 2002, who shows how Berko maintained and revisited certain themes throughout his long career.
The Decade of Modernism: Selections from 1910–1919