List Gallery / Swarthmore College

03/17/2022

Happening in 5 minutes! Join the List Gallery in celebrating Paul S. Briggs and the creation of this new catalog! Come and meet Paul S. Briggs himself, grab a catalog and some light refreshments. See you all soon!

02/19/2022

Interested in hearing from Paul S. Briggs, the current artist on exhibition at the List Gallery? Check out the link below for a recording of Briggs' artist talk that took place on Thursday, January 27, via Zoom.

Paul S. Briggs: Material Shapes in Clay is on display at the List Gallery from January 20th-March 23rd, 2022. The five pinch-formed vessels in the front room will only remain on view through March 17th.

January 20 — March 23, 2022 Swarthmore College is pleased to honor Paul S. Briggs as the Donald J. Gordon Visiting Artist and Lecturer for 2021–2022 The Virtual Artist's Lecture took place on Thursday, January 27, via Zoom. View the talk below:

10/21/2021

A big thanks to Claire Ottenstein from the Phoenix for a wonderful article about the Gallery's current exhibit, "2020 in Perspective." If you would like read more about the origins of the exhibit, and about the Picture of the Year competition, the article is linked below.

When you are done reading that, you can stop by the Gallery and check out "2020 In Perspective", closing this Sunday, 10/24! Stop by the gallery to see the powerful images taken around the world this past year.

Parisa is taking refuge in her home. It’s 2020. She is unable to work because of COVID-19 and she cannot

02/18/2021

Please join the List Gallery on Monday, February 22 at 5:30 PM for a talk by Christina Vassallo, executive director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum. This is the first installment of our Sharing Notes lecture series.

Register in advance for the Zoom meeting here: https://swarthmore.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvfuGurT0rG9GV0fiiQsx0PaKdIhE0-lZ4

Please find the complete schedule and all registration links here:
https://www.swarthmore.edu/list-gallery/sharing-notes-personal-narratives-philadelphia-arts-community

The List Gallery is pleased to announce Sharing Notes: Personal Narratives from the Philadelphia Arts Community, a four-part virtual lecture series highlighting individuals who have been making important contributions to the arts in the Philadelphia area. The distinguished speakers will share insights about how they have navigated the art world and discuss how the pandemic has led to innovative programming and strategies at their respective institutions. The List Gallery is honored to feature: Christina Vassallo, executive director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum; Ricky Yanas, artist, educator and co-founder of Ulises bookshop and curatorial platform; Jennifer-Navva Milliken, artistic director of the Center for Art in Wood; and Elizabeth Spungen, executive director of the Print Center, Philadelphia.

12/10/2020

Please join us Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 4:30 p.m. for a film screening and discussion with Philadelphia-based artist Emily Steinberg! A Q & A with the artist will follow until 5:30 p.m. Although the List Gallery is unable to host visitors due to COVID-19, this film offers a virtual look into Steinberg’s studio, philosophies, and practice.

Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://swarthmore.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlc-2vpzorG9Ue0K9sE83k-_eMGzcrpKoD

12/08/2020

We are pleased to present an online exhibition and tour of "Spatial Recollections: Art from the Swarthmore College Permanent Collection and Recent List Gallery Exhibitors." Join us via Zoom on Monday, December 14, 4:30–5:30 p.m.! Swarthmore College seniors Lee Cohen, Bria Dinkins, Inna Kimbrough, and Kristina Stallvik will guide us through the site and we hope to welcome several featured artists, including Daniel Heyman, Orit Hofshi, and Syd Carpenter.
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://swarthmore.zoom.us/.../tZAvcumuqD8iEtcX7AtGvyuQeO...
At the beginning of the fall 2020 semester, List Gallery Director Andrea Packard selected works from Swarthmore’s permanent collection and installed them in the List Gallery for on-campus students to view. One room of the gallery hosted works by 17th–early 20th century painters, including Benjamin West, Robert Henri, Childe Hassam, and Mildred B. Miller. The other room of the gallery featured works in a variety of media by influential artists, including Mary Lee Bendolph, Chris Staley, Syd Carpenter, Bruce Cratsley, Donna Polseno, Alex Anderson, Orit Hofshi, Daniel Heyman, Judy Glickman Lauder, Donald Teskey, David MacDonald, Ellen Shankin, Romare Bearden, Robert Turner, and Kevin Snipes.
"Spatial Recollections", the accompanying virtual tour, and the 2020-21 List Gallery Internship program were made possible by the Kaori Kitao Endowment for the List Gallery and the generosity of Joan Gordon.

11/13/2020

Swarthmore Campus, the Scott Arboretum, is famous for its mesmerizing plants and trees. These landscapes have inspired multiple artworks. One of them is currently featured in the List Gallery exhibition.

Alex Anderson's work, Magnolia Vessel and a similar work he created for the Inn at Swarthmore take inspiration from the magnolias that bloom on our campus every spring and the distinctly white, upright blossoms of the Swarthmore Sentinel Magnolia variety. Such early works demonstrate a precocious technical mastery and synthesis of Asian and Western visual cultures. They also reflect his growing fascination with objects that embody complex and often contradictory attitudes toward beauty, desire, power relationships, and decay. Alex earned an M.F.A. in ceramics from the University of California Los Angeles in 2018. His graduate work broadened to include complex installations incorporating video and dramatic lighting effects. Increasingly, both his installations and individual sculptures challenge cultural stereotypes explicitly and explore identity politics.

A rising star in the art world, Anderson's work has already been exhibited in galleries and institutions across the United States and abroad. He is currently represented by Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, which presented his 2018 show, Wonderland. Last Spring, Gavlack presented his second solo exhibition titled Little Black Boy Makes Imperial Porcelains. While enjoying remarkably swift critical and commercial success, Alex has also begun teaching ceramics at the Geffen Academy in Los Angeles, where he has also established his studio.

Want to see this piece, not just as a picture? The List Gallery welcomes Swarthmore students to come and enjoy the artworks of prominent masters. Also, stay tuned for the live translation of the exhibition! Admission is limited to members of the Swarthmore College community who are authorized to be on campus. Located in the Lang Performing Arts Center, the List Gallery is open daily, Noon — 5:00 p.m. Reservations can be made via the GET Mobile App. During gallery hours, visitors can also call (610) 328-7811 or stop by the gallery to see if space is available.

10/29/2020

Another wonderful piece of the Spatial Recollections exhibition at the Swarthmore College List Gallery - Little Friend by Kevin Snipes, 2015, porcelain, glazes, underglaze, and oxide wash, 9 x 4 x 3 inches, private collection. Kevin Snipes records encrypted conversations and implied narratives on small curiously designed porcelain pots. Using humor and conceit as his methods, his drawings depict a cast of performing cartoonish figures in a display of contorted gestures and suggestive signals. Elaborately coiffed heads bend at right angles, eyes dart, sinuous limbs hang limp or twist improbably. However received, the response to Kevin Snipes’ charmed and unsettling offspring ranges from the sympathetic to the hilarious. What feelings does it evoke in you? Want to see this piece, not just as a picture? The List Gallery welcomes Swarthmore students to come and enjoy the artworks of prominent masters. Also, stay tuned for the live translation of the exhibition! Admission is limited to members of the Swarthmore College community who are authorized to be on campus. Located in the Lang Performing Arts Center, the List Gallery is open daily, Noon — 5:00 p.m. Reservations can be made via the GET Mobile App. During gallery hours, visitors can also call (610) 328-7811 or stop by the gallery to see if space is available.

10/07/2020

While you are getting ready to come and see the Spatial Recollections exhibition at the List Gallery of Swarthmore College, we would like to introduce some of the highlight pieces. This one is Strip Quilt by Mary Lee Bendolph, 2006, mixed fabrics, including polyester, corduroy, and cotton blend. This piece was a part of “Piece Together: The Quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph” exhibition in 2018, which calls attention to the extraordinary achievements of one of America’s most celebrated quilt makers. Born on August 25, 1935, in a pole cabin, Mary Lee Bendolph grew up in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, 40 miles southwest of Selma. She learned aesthetic strategies and techniques from her mother, Aolar Carson Mosely (1912–1999), and an extended community of women who found quilt making essential. Aolar’s infuence, and the importance of quilt making as a language that has evolved for generations in Gee’s Bend, are represented here by the one quilt that remains in the family’s collection: Pump Handle Spin Top (Log Cabin Variation) (1954). Sadly, most of Mosely’s quilts were destroyed by a house fire. Bendolph’s only daughter, Essie Bendolph Pettway (b. 1956), is one of the few women of her generation to remain in Gee’s Bend and actively make quilts; several of her quilts accompany this exhibition, and her work deserves further study. Piece Together features 18 quilts by Mary Lee Bendolph as well as seven prints she created in collaboration with Paulson Bott Press (now Paulson Fontaine Press) in Berkeley, California. These beautiful and deeply moving artworks reflect communal traditions that have evolved over centuries, yet demonstrate an aesthetic that is distinctly Bendolph’s own.

Want to see it yourself? The List Gallery welcomes Swarthmore students to come and enjoy the artworks of prominent masters. Also, stay tuned for the live translation of the exhibition! Admission is limited to members of the Swarthmore College community who are authorized to be on campus. Located in the Lang Performing Arts Center, the List Gallery is open daily, Noon — 5:00 p.m. Reservations can be made via the GET Mobile App. During gallery hours, visitors can also call (610) 328-7811 or stop by the gallery to see if space is available.