Catherine Opie

In Dialogue

Van Every / Smith Galleries

On View: October 14, 2024— February 02, 2025

Opening Reception: October 15, 2024, 6:00 pm— 7:30 pm

Artist Talk will take place prior to reception, 5pm, at Tyler-Tallman in Sloan Music Center.

Catherine Opie is one of the most important American photographers of our time. For more than three decades she has used her artistic practice to help us see people, places, and subcultures that are often overlooked. Opie has created seminal portraits of the LGBTQIA community, as well as images of high school football players, California... Read More >

Upcoming

A landscape painting with water and plants.

Elizabeth Bradford

Warp Weft Water Weeds

Van Every / Smith Galleries

On View: February 13, 2025— April 09, 2025

Opening Reception: February 13, 2025, 5:30 pm— 7:30 pm

Elizabeth Bradford draws inspiration for her paintings from a profound connection to nature through direct observations while hiking or kayaking primarily in the Southeastern United States where she resides. While her works are predominantly representational, they also maintain a relationship with abstraction. This exhibition will have a catalogue with essays by Dr. Emily Stamey, Curator... Read More >

Small black frame with a brush of paint that reveals a landscape underneath, labeled with a gold bar that says

Landscapes from the Collection of Davidson College

Material and Imaginative Worlds

Smith Gallery

On View: February 13, 2025— March 13, 2025

Opening Reception: February 27, 2025, 6:30 pm— 7:30 pm

2025

Herb Jackson Annual Student Art Exhibition

Van Every Gallery

On View: April 21, 2025— May 07, 2025

Opening Reception: April 23, 2025, 7:00 pm— 8:30 pm

Awards at 7:15 pm

The Van Every/Smith Galleries and the Davidson College Art Department present the Herb Jackson Annual Student Art Exhibition in the Van Every Gallery from April 21 to May 7, 2025, with a reception on April 23 from 7-8:30pm. The Herb Jackson Annual Student Art Exhibition highlights more than 60 works produced during the academic year... Read More >

Past

2024 Exhibitions

Tyler Starr

Tales of the Future

Van Every Gallery

On View: August 26, 2024— October 06, 2024

Opening Reception: September 12, 2024, 5:30 pm— 7:30 pm

Artist Talk at 6:30pm

We are pleased to present Tyler Starr’s solo exhibition, Tyler Starr: Tales of the Future. Combining research, direct observation, and poetic associations, Starr’s mixed media works and artists books often rely on cross-references to better understand current social and political conundrums. Tales of the Future features a new comic-style artist book of the same name,... Read More >

2024

ArtMate

Smith Gallery

On View: May 31, 2024— September 12, 2024

Opening Reception: September 12, 2024, —

ArtMate is an art-lending program that allows students to borrow a work from the Galleries’s art collection for their residence hall room for the academic year. Gallery staff and interns selected over 125 pieces out of the 4,200 works in the college’s permanent art collection spanning centuries, regions, and genres to provide a variety of... Read More >

2024

Annual Student Art Exhibition

Van Every Gallery

On View: April 24, 2024— May 08, 2024

Opening Reception: April 24, 2024, 7:00 pm— 8:30 pm

Opening reception features award ceremony, dinner, and music

The Van Every/Smith Galleries and the Davidson College Art Department will present our Annual Student Art Exhibition in the Van Every Gallery from April 24 to May 8, 2024, with an opening reception on April 24, 2024, from 7-8:30 pm. The Annual Student Art Exhibition highlights more than 60 works produced during the academic year... Read More >

2024

Senior Art Majors

Smith Gallery

On View: March 13, 2024— May 01, 2024

Claire Begalla ’24 Unbound On View: December 8 – 13, 2023 Reception: Friday, December 8, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Encompassing photography, printmaking, and animation, Claire Begalla’s works visually explore the manipulation of the human figure and its dynamic relationship with the surrounding landscape. Born in DeLand Florida, they will receive their Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and... Read More >

image of artist Barfield on top of hood of car

The sun still rises in spite of everything

Van Every Gallery

On View: January 22, 2024— April 07, 2024

Opening Reception: February 15, 2024, 6:00 pm— 7:30 pm

Featuring Johannes Barfield, Alexandra Bell, Erika Diamond, Johannah Herr, Jammie Holmes, Matt Kenyon, William Pope.L, Shaun Leonardo, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Cara Sheffler, Hồng-Ân Trương, Jina Valentine, Ashima Yadava The sun still rises in spite of everything draws inspiration from the Van Every/Smith Galleries’ 2014 exhibition State of Emergency in its consideration of the role... Read More >

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

A Crack In the Hourglass

Van Every Gallery

On View: January 22, 2024— April 07, 2024

Soon, it will no longer be possible to delegate one’s death to others. It will no longer be possible for that person to die in our place. Not only will we condemned to assume our own demise, unmediated, but farewells will be few and far between. The hour of autophagy is upon us and, with... Read More >

2023 Exhibitions

Art by Alumni

Homecoming

Van Every / Smith Galleries

On View: October 12, 2023— December 06, 2023

Opening Reception: November 2, 2023, 5:30 pm— 7:30 pm

In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Davidson College’s Katherine and Tom Belk Visual Arts Center, the Van Every/Smith Galleries and the Department of Art are embarking on a year-long reflection aimed at honoring our past and the folks who helped shape our community, as well as imagining our future impact on the visual arts... Read More >

Endia Beal

Spaces of Comfort

Van Every Gallery

On View: August 28, 2023— October 01, 2023

Opening Reception: September 14, 2023, 5:30 pm— 7:00 pm

Reception followed by Panel Discussion with Endia Beal and student participants

Spaces of Comfort is the result of a two-year-long residency with internationally acclaimed artist Endia Beal, commissioned by Davidson College, with the support of the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Over the course of the residency, Beal met with more than 100 students, on campus and via Zoom, for group conversations and one-on-one listening sessions. During... Read More >

Various Artists

ArtMate

Smith Gallery

On View: May 26, 2023— September 20, 2023

Spring 2021 brought the launch of ArtMate, a program that allows student to select an artwork for their residence hall room for the academic year. Gallery staff and interns selected over 120 pieces out of the 4,200 works in the college’s permanent art collection spanning centuries, regions, and genres to provide a variety of aesthetics... Read More >

Various Artists

Annual Student Art Exhibition 2023

Van Every Gallery

On View: April 17, 2023— May 03, 2023

Opening Reception: May 2, 2023, 7:00 pm— 8:30 pm

Closing reception features award ceremony, dinner, and music

The Van Every/Smith Galleries and the Davidson College Art Department will present our Annual Student Art Exhibition in the Van Every Gallery from April 17 to May 3, 2023, with a closing reception on May 2, 2023, from 7-8:30pm. The Annual Student Art Exhibition highlights more than 60 works produced during the academic year by... Read More >

2023

Senior Art Majors

Van Every Gallery

On View: March 16, 2023— May 11, 2023

Laura Bullock ‘23: GOOSECHASE On View: March 16-24, 2023 Reception: Friday, March 24, 4-5pm Laura Bullock (she/they) is pursuing a BA in Studio Art with a Gender and Sexuality Studies minor at Davidson College, NC. In their large-scale oil paintings, pastel drawings, and prints Bullock depicts personal hardship in a playful tone through interactions between... Read More >

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