Each year the Thacher Gallery presents six exhibitions that probe community and aesthetic
issues, multicultural and interfaith dialogue, and the urban Jesuit
university’s commitment to social justice.
Along with its exhibition calendar, the Thacher Gallery at USF presents free public programs, including artist lectures and panels, craft seminars, gallery publications, guided tours, outreach and class shows, and cross disciplinary discussions on campus and in the community.
January 27—March 4, 2012
Richard Kamler: A Retrospective
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 2.
This retrospective of San Francisco artist activist, Richard Kamler, presents drawings, objects, photographic documentation and sketchbooks that trace his four-decade career with art as a socially-engaged practice. Works on view include iconic pieces from each decade, including selections from “Impact Drawings,” “Out of the Holocaust: Drawings and Environments,” and SFMOMA-sponsored “The Desert Project” (1970s); “Maximum Security 1-8: Installations” (1980s); “Table of Voices” and “Bison Project” (1990s); and “Seeing Peace” and “Las Mujeres de Juarez” (2000s). To create these works, Richard Kamler has collaborated with groups as far reaching as death row inmates, interfaith communities and the United Nations. Richard Kamler retired from USF’s Department of Art + Architecture in 2011.March 18—April 22, 2012
Aroused Tranquility: Graphic Botanicals by Henry Evans
The gallery will celebrate spring with botanical prints by Henry Evans (1918-1990), a prolific illustrator and printmaker of California flora. Drawn primarily from the Donohue Rare Book Room’s collection and including recent acquisitions, these linocut prints use elegant lines and bold color to demonstrate the artist’s admiration for nature, from the California Poppy to the Redwood, often suggesting what the artist referred to as "aroused tranquility."
Reception and Printmaking Demonstration
Take away an original print by USF student artists
Thursday, March 29
10:30-11:30 a.m. and 1-2 p.m.
Thacher Gallery and Donohue Rare Book Room
May 4—July 8, 2012
The 13th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual
Award Ceremony + Reception: Friday, May 4.
This juried exhibition features juniors and seniors from USF’s Departments of Art + Architecture and Media Studies. Often including over fifty artists, it is one of the most ambitious and diverse student art shows in the Bay area.
On the Rooftop Sculpture Terrace, Kalmanovitz Hall:
August 2011–January, 2012
Nature’s Effigies: Tor Archer
For this outdoor exhibition, San Francisco artist, Tor Archer, has brought together a group of life-size figurative sculptures fabricated in copper that simultaneously suggest the fragility of the human form and its structural strength. Archer’s work has been shown at Charles Campbell Gallery and Hackett Freedman in San Francisco as well as galleries in Park City, Utah, La Jolla, California and Seattle, Washington.
Spring on the Rooftop Sculpture Terrace, Kalmanovitz Hall – To be announced
