Join the Georgetown University Art Galleries on Friday, September 18th from 6-8 pm for an Opening Reception to celebrate our Fall 2026 exhibitions: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Look Alive, and Professor E. Brady Robinson: Studio Hours / After Hours. Enjoy live music and light refreshments. This event is free and open to the public.
The Georgetown University Art Galleries are pleased to announce Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Look Alive, an exhibition of select installations by internationally acclaimed Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
Spanning the Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery and Lucille M. & Richard F. X. Spagnuolo Gallery, Look Alive brings together works from more than three decades of Lozano-Hemmer’s practice exploring presence, participation, machine vision, and the act of looking. Throughout the exhibition, visitors become part of responsive environments that shift through their movement, gaze, and biometric data, blurring the boundaries between observer and observed.
The title Look Alive draws on a familiar expression calling us to attention, awareness, and engagement, but takes on new meaning throughout the exhibition. To look is not only to observe, but also to become visible. To be alive is not simply to exist, but to be present.
At the center of Look Alive is the premiere of Pulse Map, a new site-specific installation created for Georgetown’s de la Cruz Art Gallery and the newest work in the artist’s celebrated Pulse series. Nearly 3,000 lightbulbs will fill the gallery, each pulsing with the recorded heartbeat of a past participant. Visitors can record their own heartbeat, adding their presence to an installation that continually changes over time.
Across the exhibition, individual actions become collective experiences. A heartbeat joins countless others. A glance activates a machine’s gaze. Faces return the visitor’s look. Each interaction leaves a trace.
Also opening on September 18th is Studio Hours / After Hours by Professor E. Brady Robinson in our Spagnuolo South Gallery.
This exhibition explores and documents the people and places that continue to define Baltimore’s creative community. Through portraiture, editorial collaborations, and documentary work, Robinson has photographed this community for the past decade. Moving between the controlled environment of the studio and the city's music venues, galleries, and performance spaces, these photographs celebrate agency, individuality, and the energy of the people who shape Baltimore's cultural landscape.
Studio Hours / After Hours brings together studio portraits, album cover collaborations, and photographs from Robinson's archive documenting Baltimore Club culture. Featured throughout the exhibition are Underground Club Queen Kotic Couture, filmmaker, musician, and director of Dark City Baltimore, TT The Artist, and Ballroom ICON Marquis Clanton of the House of Revlon. The documentary photographs were made at venues including The Crown, Metro Gallery, and Creative Alliance.
