Julio Fine Arts Gallery’s
Past Projects and Exhibitions
2024 Annual Student Exhibition
April 17 - May 2, 2024
Our Student Exhibition is always a joyous celebration of the creativity and hard work that all of our Visual Arts students display throughout the academic year. We were so honored that our 2023-2024 exhibition awards were juried by Devin Allen, and our students did not make it easy on him to decide! The 23-24 student art award winners were:
1st Place in Studio Arts: Trevor Sangiorgio for Chasing Vinyl Dreams
2nd Place in Studio Arts: Warren Megger for Fundamentally Unserious Animal
3rd Place in Studio Arts: Katherine Albert for Hidden
1st Place in Photography: Izabel Paiva for The Visitor
2nd Place in Photography: Kenneth Noah Mansfield for Untitled
3rd Place in Photography: Sophia Randle and Vilnis Chakars for Poetry
Congratulations to all our student artists on another successful exhibition!
*Special thanks goes out to the 2023-2024 Student Gallery Assistants for all their hard work in putting together this exhibition, and for all their contributions throughout the year!
h/t to Molly Clement ‘25 for the poster design!
seeking/found
LGBTQIA+ Artist Exhibit
April 3 - April 14, 2024
seeking/found examines matters of queer identity, belonging, safety, self-expression, hope, love, and more. From rebellion to inclusion, secret love affairs to public declarations of affection, turbulent identities to jubilant self-discovery, these works encompass what it is like to live as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community.
A Piece of Me Died with You
February 22 – March 27, 2024
Solo Exhibition by Devin Allen
This year the Julio Fine Arts Gallery was proud to present A Piece of Me Died with You, a new solo exhibition by Baltimore native, and internationally renowned artist and activist Devin Allen. The exhibition was an exploration of loss, grief and coping, and shines a light on the pervasive issue of gun violence in Baltimore. A Piece of Me Died with You, marked the first time that Allen has exhibited painting alongside photography. We were honored to provide the space for that exploration!
Unrested
January 16 - February 16, 2024
a strikeWare Collective exhibition reflecting on historical research conducted by faculty, staff, and students at Loyola University, MD
In their exhibition at the Julio Fine Arts Gallery, strikeWare invited the Baltimore community to examine the complex history of Jesuit slaveholding and its ongoing impact on Maryland communities, including those related to Loyola University. Unrested recognized the 272 individuals sold by the Jesuits, reinterpreted literature and visuals specific to Loyola University, and drew upon historical records to find parallels to current day trends. The exhibition employed new media technologies, extended reality artworks, and interactive displays in an aestheticized exploration of the ongoing archival research pursued by students and faculty of Loyola University.
Panoptic Moments
December 1 - 17, 2023
Featuring LUM Senior Visual Art Majors and Minors
Mapping Mnemosyne:
Where am (I/WE/YOU?)
The exhibition Mapping Mnemosyne highlighted a comparative view among fourteen international artists, who developed artistic concepts in the connection between mapping and memory in the material culture today.
The title of the project, Mapping Mnemosyne - Where am (I /We/ You)? hints at intersecting routes of memory: while Mnēmosynē means "memory”, and refers to the mother of the Nine Muses in Greek mythology, mapping devises memory to places rooting in the past, present, and the potential of future concerns. This exhibition tells stories about memories imprinted into our bodies - individually and collectively - that carry the weight of histories and places. In the present state of calamity of wars, social injustice, gender inequality, and political insecurity, the works bring together constellations of interrelated issues and create a temporary map of our existence.
Faculty Exhibition 2023
September 11 - October 8, 2023
We were thrilled to have the opportunity to feature our very own Visual & Performing Arts Faculty in the gallery! We are fortunate to have such thoughtful, talented artists in our midst. Check out the exhibition page to learn more about our current faculty and their work!
Heather Braxton, “Maybe this will work”
Archival adhesive prints and vinyl, 2023
In 2022-2023, the Julio Fine Arts Gallery worked in concert with the organizers of the Humanities Symposium to commission a temporary public installation by Baltimore artist, Kei Ito.
From February through May of 2023, the installation, The Unknown Citizen, was displayed in the atrium of McManus Theatre on campus. The installation was part of the Loyola University Maryland Center for Humanities 2023 Humanities Symposium themed around Displacement and Belonging.
2023 Annual Student Exhibition
Our Student Exhibition is always a joyous celebration of the creativity and hard work that all of our Visual Arts students display throughout the academic year. Congratulations to all our student artists on another successful exhibition!
*Special thanks goes out to the 2022-2023 Student Gallery Assistants for all their hard work in putting together this exhibition, and for all their contributions throughout the year!
h/t to Allie House ‘25 for the poster design!
Heartlines
Akea Brionne | Phylicia Ghee | Savannah Wood
This exhibition, and the work within it begs the question—do our heartlines connect us to the future, to our fate, or do we in fact see in them the legacy of our past, our archive, the love formed, and traumas experienced in previous generations—in essence the connection to family, to place, to self, which helps to form our own personal journey? Each of these artists trace the heartlines of the generations that have come before them—interruptions and all—and find in them the connections and the journeys that have given shape to their own journeys.
Phylicia Ghee, Still from The Site of Memory, 2020, Single channel Video, 18:46
The Seeping, 2023
Relievo Ambrotype (wet-plate collodion glass image, archival ink jet print)
Apparitions & Manifestations
Dan Schlapbach
Seeing is believing, right? But what if believing is seeing? How much of our understanding about what we see comes from outside of our body, and how much do we rely on what we think we see? When does a manifestation of our senses become an apparition of our minds? Apparitions & Manifestations is a post sabbatical exhibition by Dan Schlapbach, Professor of Photography, that explores these and many other questions through the medium of photography.
PRISMS
Featuring Loyola University Maryland Seniors:
Sadie Applegate | Evan Casas | Madelyn Chelak
Randi Little | Siobhan McGeever | Lia O’Riordan
Greyson Pearce | Brooke Scotti | Laura Yacoubi
Image design: Allie House
Featuring work by: Siobhan McGeever, Madelyn Chelak, and Laura Yacoubi
This Harmless but Horrible Sensation
Beth Yashnyk
Julio Fine Arts Gallery Artist-in-Residence 2022-2023
In This Harmless but Horrible Sensation, Beth Yashnyk explores the relationship between gender, technology, and identity. She manipulates her physical form in ways that are unnatural and unnerving. These anatomical extensions act autonomously, engaging viewers to reevaluate their relationship with the body.
Image: Still from Glitch 2 (Hands/Feet), Animation, 2022
Sentient River
Billy Friebele
This exhibition considers the role that technologies play in extending the human sensorium beyond its limits into the complex web of flora and fauna that coexist in rivers. Can we develop kinship with a larger ecological web through the prosthetic digital apparatus, and thereby decenter the human exceptionalism that led us to large-scale environmental degradation?
Machines Learn from the River 1.4, 2022, soil, water, algae sampled from the Anacostia River, acrylic paint, AI-generated digital print, resin, mirror
Lithographs of Tadeusz Lapinski (1928-2016)
From the Collection of Stanley Naj
The Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola University Maryland is proud to present Lithographs of Tadeusz Lapinski (1928-2016) From the Collection of Stanley Naj from June 9 – July 27, 2022. We welcome you to take this incredible opportunity to see a large collection of work by this well-known Polish-American artist who helped define the genre of lithography. The works range in date from 1972-1996, and display Lapinski’s use of ground breaking techniques and visually compelling compositions.
2022 Annual Student Exhibition
Right:
Lia O’Riordan ‘23
Exobotany Series
Digital media
Drawing from Observation with Dr. Lonegan
Artist, Allegory & Society
A Solo Exhibition by Chris Wilson
January 18 - February 21
Chris Wilson, The things that kept me alive, mixed media, paint brush, fabric, paper, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 inches
Jon Malis, Grey Light Grey Black Circle, Automatic Resizing, 12 Iterations, from the Automatic Photoshop Paintings series, 2021, Digital pigment print on canvas, 34 x 42 inches
Invisible Structures
October 7 - November 12, 2021
Ruminations
Nancy Daly, 2021-2022 Artist in Residence
March 3 - April 7, 2022
Nancy Daly, An Ode to #PolishMountain, 2020- , Nail Polish & Plaster, 7in X 9in X 4in
Familiar Strangers
November 18 - December 17, 2021
Featuring Loyola University Maryland Seniors:
Averi Cannon, Julia Cirincione, Phoebe Clark, Valerie Downing, Tomas Fernandez, Brett Hooper, Natalie Labib, Liberty Nank, Scarlett Parish, Hannah Schaub, Camryn Simmerman, John Skahill, Brianna Zaccari
Yunkyoung Cho, Morning Routine, Korean silk, fabric, PVC, yarn, wire, 2021
Keeping it Together: Local Fiber Arts in the Time of COVID
Aug 31 - Sept 30, 2021
2021 Annual Loyola University Maryland Student Exhibition
Take a look back at some of the work done by students in Fine Arts, Communications, Science, Business, and Writing courses from the 2020-2021 academic year. 2021 Loyola University Maryland Student Exhibition.
In Spring 2021 we were so pleased to be able to host the Professional Practices (Senior Capstone) exhibition of three of the Fine Arts Department’s hardworking students, Courtney Kenny, Kristen Richards, and Catherine Tsilionis. Take a look back through the work of these talented Loyola grads!
Yoshi Nakamura
The various rains converge on the sea
A solo exhibition by Japanese artist Yoshi Nakamura. He strives to erect a bridge between hearing and non-hearing peoples throughout this interactive exhibit and promote communication amongst people with vastly different sound experiences.
Initially designed to be featured in an improvised live performance, Nakamura encouraged viewers to experiment with the four instruments on display by lightly hitting and moving the components.
Image courtesy of Mina Cheon Studio (Photo by Cyrus Feldman)
Mina Cheon ONE KOREA
October 22, 2020
Mina Cheon is a global Korean new media artist, scholar, and educator who lives and works between Baltimore, New York, and Seoul. In her talk, MINA CHEON ONE KOREA, we explore Cheon’s new body of work Dreaming Unification: Protest for Peace along with an introduction to Cheon’s life and larger body of work. Check out the recording of the talk here.
Image courtesy of Karyn Miller at Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York, with François Morellet, No End Neon, 1990/2017
2020 Visions: Public Art in a Year of Protests & Pandemics
November 19, 2020
If you missed our conversation with visiting speaker and current Golden Triangle Business Improvement District’s Public Space Activation Curator, Karyn Miller, you can click here to watch the recording on our YouTube page.
Artist Trading Cards Project—Spring 2020
In the Spring of 2020 we found new and creative ways to keep our talented community of student artists connected! Take a look at our ‘Artist Trading Card Project’.
2020 Annual Loyola University Maryland Student Exhibition
Take a look back at some of the work done by students in Fine Arts courses from the 2019-2020 academic year. 2020 Loyola University Maryland Student Exhibition.