May Gallery

Elizabeth M. Claffey: Mother’s Milk, Father’s Blood 4 - 25 October 2019 with a talk by Ms. Claffey on Friday, 4 October, 3 pm, Sverdrup 123 Opening reception Friday, 4 October, 5-7 pm in the gallery. http://webster.edu/maygallery... In her exhibit, Mother’s Milk, Father’s Blood Elizabeth M. Claffey examines contemporary Albanian identity and the complex intersection of present and past as shaped by a people’s perseverance, desire, hope, and conflict. In 2012-2013, Ms. Claffey received a J. William Fulbright Fellowship to support this project of documentary and creative research in Albania. Ms. Claffey is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Indiana University in Bloomington and a 2019-20 Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.

In what is sure to be a fascinating lecture and exhibit, historian and photo critic A.D. Coleman will discuss Robert A Capa's work, some of the most iconic phot...os from World War II and the myths that surround them. Read more here and attend Coleman's lecture at 3 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9. It will be held in room 123 of the Sverdrup Complex on Webster University’s campus in Webster Groves. Later that day, enjoy a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. in the May Gallery. It's located on the second floor of the west wing of the Sverdrup Complex. The exhibit, "Robert A. Capa: Unmaking a Myth" will be on display in the May Gallery from Nov. 2-30, 2018.

In this exhibit’s photographs, Rebecca Lynn Barnard draws your attention away from the objects that were before her camera. They exhibit a wide range of ways a photograph can be made abstract: moving the camera, blurring the focus, cutting through a subject, juxtaposing unrelated elements, flattening the perspective, darkening the image, or focusing on geometric, color, or shading relationships. Talk by Richard Rubin Friday 5 October, 3 pm Opening reception Friday, 5 October, 5-7 pm.

Peter Glendinning: My Paris Opening reception Friday, 9 March, 5-7 pm with a talk by Mr. Glendinning on 9 March, 3 pm, Sverdrup 123 2 - 31 March 2018... These Polaroid prints are portraits en creux, in which the subject of the portrait does not physically appear in the picture, glimpses of an eclectic, romantic, nostalgic view inside an apartment in the Marais. This exhibition is co-sponsored by the Center Francophone at Webster University. and in the Small Wall Gallery, Jordan Palmer: On the Street Where We Live (a collaboration with AmeriCorps St. Louis) [We are presently under construction. The gallery may be accessed from the doors at the west end of the building, next to the Visual Art Studio and the Hunt Gallery. Accessible entrances on Big Bend are marked by the construction crews.] http://webster.edu/maygallery/

Come and see Jen Morris' exhibition on the mining and meaning of marble in our culture in Sanctioned Memory, on view through November third.