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Lisa Kereszi (American, b. 1973)Eye on Door, Spook-A-Rama, Coney Island, Pennsylvania, 2007 30 x 40 inArchival pigment printGift of John Andrew MacMahon, Class of 1995 Lisa Kereszi’s Eye on Door, Spook-A-Rama, Coney Island, Pennsylvania is an everyday-eerie look at the reality of the escapist fantasy of haunted houses. The photograph depicts green double doors at the entrance, though only the front of one of the two doors is visible. The doors appear halfway open, haphazard, like something happened—something scary, unexpected, or unknown—and there was no time to close up. On the front of the door is a stylized, wide-eyed green...

For our next installment of "Profs Talk Art," we talked to Dr. Scott Denham, the chair of the German Studies Department. His research interests include German literary and cultural studies, translation, and questions of identity, loss and memory in the central European context. Dr. Denham talked about Käthe Kollwitz's lithograph Verbruderung, as well as Georgia Blizzard's sculpture Pozes and Roger Manley's photograph Georgia Blizzard. Watch the videos here and here (subtitles available). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReBIc3ryXdc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNRFBBsxK4 What do you think of this work? We have over four thousand works spanning five centuries in our collection. If you want to see more of our...

DENIALCorporate Sludge (Blue)24 x 18 in.4-color screenprint on 300 gsm French fine art paper This is my second year participating in ArtMate. Last year, I went for a big name when choosing my work. I have always been a fan of Andy Warhol, so to have his polaroid Crosses in my sophomore year dorm was quite literally a dream come true. After participating last year, I was even more excited to pick my piece for my junior dorm where I would have my own room. Crosses by Andy Warhol in my dorm room last year. Although Crosses was available again...

For this installment of "Profs Talk Art," we talked to Dr. Dave Wessner, a Biology Professor whose work focuses on HIV/AIDS education and researching viral pathogenesis. He looked at Canadian artist Shan Kelley's Disclosures, a three-work series of needle-perforated parchment and printed paper. Watch the video here (subtitles available). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msvr1XQGDwc What do you think of this work? We have over four thousand works spanning five centuries in our collection. If you want to see more of our collection, you can view the collection around campus, online through the collection portal on our website, and by appointment in collection storage at...