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Upcoming Exhibitions

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Upcoming Exhibitions

Our exhibitions change regularly! See below for exhibitions planned for Spring 2024 and beyond.
Bruce Crane, Sunset, n.d., oil on canvas. Private Collection, Connecticut

Dawn and Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut

Bellarmine Hall Galleries

January 17 – April 12, 2025

Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, often painted from memory, are the primary genre. This exhibition explores Tonalism from the 1880s to the early 20th century through artists from the Northeast, including a number who painted in Connecticut. The forty paintings in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.

Image: Bruce Crane, Sunset, n.d., oil on canvas. Private Collection, Connecticut

Mary Mattingly, Saltwater, 2022

To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home

Walsh Gallery

January 24 – March 29, 2025

Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on this topic often take place in reference to two documents by Pope Francis: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and the 2023 update Laudate Deum. Artists play an indispensable role in our collective response to climate change. To See This Place, curated by Al Miner and David Brinker, will present work by Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai, three contemporary artists whose outlook resonates with the themes of Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. Embodying a breadth of personal, geographic, and cultural backgrounds, the three artists create works strongly associated with a sense of place, whether specific or imaginary. They employ media as diverse as photography, sculpture, video, and painting, and often incorporate materials sourced from particular locales. Yet the artists draw forth broader themes from this particularity, critiquing political and economic systems that perpetuate destructive self-interest and drawing attention to people who have been marginalized and historically excluded or harmed. The works are artistically compelling yet can inspire us to creativity and boldness in our efforts to address climate change. 

This exhibition will open at Saint Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Fall 2025.

Image: Mary Mattingly, Saltwater, 2022, chromogenic dye coupler print. Courtesy of the artist © Mary Mattingly

Scene in Connemara

An Gorta Mór: Selections from Ireland's Great Hunger Museum

Walsh Gallery

April 11 – August 16, 2025

This exhibition will present some of the highlights of the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum. This remarkable collection investigates the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 and its impact through art, by some of the most eminent Irish and Irish-American artists of the past 170 years.

James Arthur O’Connor, Scene in Connemara, 1828, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum

Trude Fleischmann portrait

Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann

Bellarmine Hall Galleries

May 2 – July 26, 2025

Austrian-born Trude Fleischmann (1895-1990) was one of the most accomplished female photographers of the 20th century. After great success in Vienna in the 20s photographing artists, models, and performers, she fled the Anschluss in 1938, first to Paris and then New York. She opened a studio on Fifth Avenue in 1940 and photographed many of the artists and intellectuals of the day, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. This exhibition will include loans from the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria, private collections, and the New York Public Library, as well as never-before-exhibited works from family collections.

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