O'Connor Art Gallery
The mission of the O’Connor Art Gallery is to present the Dominican University academic community with timely, relevant and focused contemporary art exhibitions that foster critical and thoughtful dialogue across disciplines. Located in Lewis Hall, steps away from many of the art department’s studios and classrooms, the gallery is particularly accessible to art students as a space for intimate engagement and reflection. In addition to curated exhibitions, the gallery is the site of an annual juried student show and senior thesis exhibitions.
The gallery is open to the public during the academic year.
- Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
- Saturday, 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.*
Free and all are welcome.
For information, please contact Jennifer Mannebach, director, at galleryinfo@dom.edu.
Location: Lewis Hall, Fourth Floor.
*Please note that guests may have to access Lewis Hall through the side entry of the library on Saturdays.
ON EXHIBIT
Uncertain Contours
Steve Reber and Deb Sokolow
September 17–October 22
Reception: Wednesday, September 17, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Artist's Talk: 4:30 p.m.
By means of different vocabularies, the works of Deb Sokolow and Stephen Reber help us make space for uncertainty and states of discomfort with an economy of language and perfectly pitched humor. Practices of drawing, painting, sculpture and text become scaffolding for idiosyncratic subjective responses, holding both memory and expectation. The work reminds us of the somatic presence that transforms spaces and objects, often through granular attention paid to what is sometimes considered marginal.
Sculptural installation left: Steve Reber; Drawing right: Deb Sokolow
UPCOMING EXHIBITS
November 12–December 17
Palpable
Shenequa Brooks, Vesna Jovanovic, Julieta Beltran Lazo, Bobbi Meier
Reception: Wednesday, November 12, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Artist Talk: 4:30 p.m.
January 14–February 18
Anecdotal: Stories in Fragments
Group show featuring artists from Arts of Life and Little City Foundation
Reception: Wednesday, January 14, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Artist Talk: 4:30 p.m.
PAST EXHIBITS
Senior Capstone Exhibition
April 11–April 25
Reception
Sunday, April 13
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Annual-Student Juried Exhibition
March 19–April 2
Reception and Award Ceremony
Wednesday, March 19
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Joanne Aono and Sofía Fernández Díaz
Threads and Granules
January 15–February 15
Reception: Wednesday, January 15, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Artist Talk at 4:30 p.m.
Art by Joanne Aono
No easy beauty characterizes the work of Joanne Aono and Sofia Fernandez-Diaz. Grounded in immersive research, both artists de-materialize the familiar, and embrace challenging paths in work and life that recognize the complexities in their twining. They callback to ancestral practices that revel in excavation, renewal and transformation. This feeds a practice that is not just a pursuit of formal beauty but one that engages holistically in unison with nature and daily ritual, growing studio habits with rigor, and broader ideas about lived experience.