About Past Exhibitions
Installations by Tim Murdoch
August 21–October 8, 2009
Touch, Tim Murdoch’s first interactive installation, includes many motorized wooden fingers that tap on glass. The motion and sound capture the audience’s attention and draw them into the artwork. Who’s That is a piece that engages the audience directly. It is composed of a series of mirrors mounted to springs and attached to the wall. At the back of each is a vibrating motor connected to a proximity sensor. When a person walks near the mirrors shake, blurring the images reflected. Tubes unlike the other two installations, is still and directs the viewer through its placement in the space. It consists of modular wooden tubes that are cut and twisted to fit the particularities of the location where it is displayed. The history of the previous site is carried forward to the next site keeping the sculpture in a continuous state of change. Tubes was altered to fit the unique qualities of Gallery 360's space.
Runners at the Corners
July 14–August 12, 2009
In this exhibit, Boston resident and artist Ian Kennelly shows a love of baseball through drawings and gouache paintings. Although Kennelly has been a Red Sox fan since he moved here more than 19 years ago, expressing his affection for the sport on canvas proved difficult when he initially started working on the series.
Many people, especially in Boston, have a special fondness toward baseball that Kennelly wanted to express in this series. Although Kennelly has completed this series, he said he continues to look for the essence of the baseball experience and there is no finality to it.
Right: Armchair Bat & Ball, Ian Kennelly. Photograph by Brian Bresnahan
Jessica Scranton’s Sudan
June 4–July 9, 2009
International photographer Jessica Scranton shoots for magazines, designers, public health and non-governmental organizations. This exhibit features photographs she took in Sudan focused on the children at Akon School of Girls, a school established with the help of My Sister’s Keeper, a non-profit organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Scranton's photographs invite us into the real lives of Sudanese girls. Sudanese children face severe obstacles just to attend school, however, they are also like any other children who know how to laugh and have fun. Through her photographs, Scranton shares “ positive and human light on people living in Sudan.”
Andrew Neumann
In conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival
April 10-May 29, 2009
Andrew Neumann is a Boston-based artist who works in a variety of media, including sculpture, electronic/interactive music, and film and video installation. In 2004 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has had solo shows at bitforms Gallery in New York City, the DeCordova Museum, Howard Yezerski Gallery, and the Boston Cyberarts Festivals in 2003 and 2005.
Art + Design Student Exhibit
April 1-5, 2009
The Northeastern University Department of Art + Design displays a collection of artwork by students enrolled in the department's program. This exhibit features students works in different artistic genres and media. The exhibit opens with a gallery reception on April 1 and is followed by the Faux Arts Ball.
Welcome to Our World: International Art, Artifacts, and Photographs March 16-March 28, 2009
Northeastern University’s International Student & Scholar Institute celebrates ISSI Carnevale with an eclectic, artistic showcase of masks, wood carvings, ceramics, gems, textiles, and a special photograph exhibit from Beijing. Collected from the countries of Northeastern's international student community, the personal treasures reflect history, heritage, and home.
Kala India! Indian Art Past and Present
February 18-28, 2009
Northeastern's International Student & Scholar Institute and the Indian graduate student group Sanskriti jointly present an exhibit of India art: textiles, crafts, silk prints, sculture, and more-a colorful interweaving of cultural, historical, spiritual, and philosophical elements.
Against the Wall
January 23-February 17, 2009
Northeastern University faculty from the Art + Design Department display their artistic creations in Gallery 360, as part of the Against the Wall exhibit. Their works include a diverse collection of paintings, photography, sculpture, and mixed media.
Legacy Mixed Media Exhibit
January 12-19, 2009
The African-American Master Artists in Residence at Northeastern are 13 visual artists who work in different media, have widely differing styles, and come to their art from different backgrounds. But all are storytellers who seek to relate part of the ever-evolving narrative, that of the African diaspora. From Ralph Beach’s watercolors of the Lost Boys of Sudan and Gloretta Baynes’s digital collage depicting a 19th century writing system in Cameroon, to the oils by Keith Washington of American landscapes that contain a tragic, sinister history, and L’Merchie Frazier’s documentation—in mixed media—of 19th century African-American businesswomen, these works convey and celebrate the cultural and historical richness of the African experience.
Art in Ireland
December 15, 2008 -January 9, 2009
A group of Northeastern students, led by art professor Mira Cantor, traveled abroad last summer to create art for Art in Ireland. The students who travelled to Ireland are: Katherine Coleman, Jaclyn Cunningham, Jaime Klein, Sean McDermott, Meredith McKelvey, Meg Lynch, Marc Pellegrino, Loraine Peone, Clara Rice, Nicholle Richard, Alex Turnwall, Michael Viera, Christina Voll, Zohar Weinstein, and Maggie Wilson.
Art NU: Fifth Annual Staff & Faculty Art Exhibit
November 17-December 12, 2008
Art NU, winner of the 2005 President's Aspiration Award, presented the Fifth Annual Staff & Faculty Art Exhibit. The exhibit featured paintings, photography, and other creative works by Northeastern faculty, staff and administrators. The annual event is sponsored by the Office of the Provost.
A Diary of Healing
October 30-November 14, 2008
When Mary Ann Nilan was diagnosed with breast cancer, she chose to have her story documented. A Diary of Healing is the candid chronicle of her personal journey. The series of 48 sequential photographs by artist Christopher Capozziello communicates the stark reality of a life-threatening illness. The exhibit was sponsored by Colleges Against Cancer, the Pre-Med Association, the Student Nursing Association, the Society of Women Engineers, Lambda Kappa Sigma, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and the Health Science Society.
Wild Ones
October 9-24, 2008
Wild Ones, the inaugural exhibition at Gallery 360, brought to roaring life an array of imaginative and mechanistic art pieces by Michael Ulman, AS '00. His tactile metal work may appear to be an unconventional homage to the race car or motorcycle—icons of speed, power, and masculinity. Closer examination reveals just how unconventional his pieces truly are. Each work—which can take years to complete—is constructed of found objects that Ulman uncovers, cleans, polishes, and welds into place.