Past
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&Loving: Photography from the Georgetown Collection
January 17 - May 18, 2025 Spagnuolo Main 'Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever.' – Aaron Siskind Photography, in a way that no other medium can, captures fragments of life – intimate, raw, emotionally charged moments that would otherwise pass in an instant. The thirteen... Read more -
Alex McQuilkin: That Hand-Touch Sensibility
September 24 - December 7, 2024 Spagnuolo Main By combining conceptualism and craft, Alex McQuilkin (b. 1980, lives New York state) acknowledges the influential legacy of male-defined art movements of the 1960’s whilecritiquing them from a contemporary feminist perspective. She appreciates the absurdity of transcribing LeWitt’s lofty, abstract manifesto with its emphasis on ideas into a handcraft typically... Read more -
Confluences: Intersectional Visions of Italy
January 26 - April 7, 2024 de la Cruz, Spagnuolo Main Confluences explores issues of social justice connected to notions of Italy, which is far more complex than the single cultural, political, or social space it is commonly thought to be. The artists represented here counter such familiar fictions through projects, most of them here exhibited for the first time in... Read more -
Kara Walker: Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies
September 21 - December 3, 2023 Spagnuolo Main This work from 2021 is a 12-minute stop-motion animation where Walker’s cut-paper silhouettes reenact several of the most gruesome and infamous acts of white supremacist violence in the country’s recent history, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh and the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr. Inspired by... Read more -
Elizabeth M. Webb: Cameo Ground (Children of Paradise)
January 19 - May 14, 2023 Spagnuolo Main Elizabeth M. Webb: Cameo Ground (Children of Paradise) uncovers the artist’s family genealogy. The installation evocatively documents a series of interviews that artist and filmmaker Elizabeth M. Webb (American, b. 1989; lives Charlottesville, VA) conducted with a relative. These ceramic pages tell the stories of the 13 children of Paradise,... Read more -
Adéla Babanová: Projected Trilogy
September 22 - December 11, 2022 Spagnuolo Main Kalinovska says Babanová’s films “address the current situation of political and moral turmoil. She is not afraid of dealing with complexities, which leads her to look at consequences of disinformation in novel ways.” This Czech-based artist’s immersive and entrancing films Neptune , Where Did the Stewardess Fall From? , and... Read more -
One Nation Underground: Punk And Visual Culture
February 3 - May 1, 2022 Spagnuolo Main Forty years ago, Georgetown was at the center of a cultural explosion called punk rock. The University’s radio station, WGTB, broadcast underground rock’n’roll across the city, and amplified progressive causes. In 1979, its license was sold by the administration for $1 to the University of the District of Columbia. The... Read more -
Joseph Grigley: Songs, With And Without Words
October 21 - December 12, 2021 Spagnuolo Main Deaf since the age of 10, the Chicago-based artist Joseph Grigely (American b. 1956) is interested in how language, both spoken and written, materializes in our lives. Grigely has been exhibiting his work in sculpture, installation, video, sound, and works on paper—here, a selection of digital prints—since the early 1990s.... Read more -
Chemi Rosado-Seijo: Comunidades En Movimiento
January 29 - April 8, 2020 de la Cruz, Spagnuolo Main This was the first solo exhibition on the mainland of Rosado-Seijo (American b. 1973, lives San Juan), a celebrated voice in the field of social practice. Known for orchestrating lasting interventions and creative collaborations in his native Puerto Rico and around the world, Rosado-Seijo is equal parts artist and community... Read more -
Design Transfigured: Waste Reimagined
October 2 - December 15, 2019 de la Cruz, Spagnuolo Main Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined is the first exhibition to recognize a fresh approach to addressing the current state of our depleted and polluted environment; an extreme and inventive kind of upcycling. In a religious context, transfiguration is “a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state.”... Read more -
Georgie Friedman: Vortex
January 24 - April 7, 2019 Spagnuolo Main Interdisciplinary artist Friedman (American b. 1974, lives Boston) explores the relationship between the sublime power of natural phenomena and human fragility in her immersive video installations. Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Friedman began examining atmospheric and oceanic conditions in her work, grappling with humankind’s simultaneous defenselessness and... Read more -
Beth Katleman: Strange Arcadia
August 28 - December 18, 2018 Spagnuolo Main Katleman (American b. 1959, lives NY) creates 3D porcelain installations that playfully reference pop culture and art history. She seeks out mass-produced items like bobbleheads, erasers, dog toys, and cake toppers to meticulously cast in porcelain by hand. Combined in island-like vignettes and inspired by both eighteenth-century royal palaces and... Read more
