Exhibitions

Previous and Virtual Exhibitions

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Collected Watershed (Spring 2020)

This lyrical installation by nationally renowned environmental artist Stacy Levy made visual the interconnectedness of local watersheds, mapping them onto the floor of the gallery by filling thousands of recycled glass jars with water from the corresponding streams and tributaries. 

This exhibition presented in collaboration with the Office of Sustainability and the Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University. With support from the Department of Music, CoLab and the Dean’s office at Towson University. Financial support by the Maryland State Arts Council and the Commission on Arts and Sciences, Baltimore County. 

Creation and Destruction (Fall 2019)

Through her work, Sandy Winters explores nature, perceiving it as an indefatigable and overwhelming force, perpetually giving birth to and at the same time continuously overcoming the world of order, artifice, and fantasy. Winters often combines painting, drawing and block printing.

Entanglement (Spring 2020)

Rachel Horner explores the interconnection and complexity of our climate crisis, employing saturated hues and abstracted imagery to investigate nature’s immense resilience and simultaneous fragility. Entanglement conveys the delicate entanglement we share with the flora and fauna of our biosphere.

Form.Print (Spring 2019)

Form.Print, curated by TU faculty member Joshua DeMonte, explores the processes within digital fabrication. The challenge for participating artists is to create work that maximizes the unedited potential of additive and subtractive digital tools.

From the Inside Out: Building the Silhouette (Spring 2018)

This exhibition celebrated Towson’s extensive historical clothing collection, with a focus on the century between 1820-1920. Visitors got a behind the scenes look at the clothing we so often see in old photos and ads. From the most private of undergarments and hidden tricks of the trade to the outfits and accompanying outerwear, we answered the question, “How DID they wear that?”

Into the Void (Summer 2020)

Included artists: Mary Anne Arntzen, Kyle Bauder, Sue Crawford, Liz Ensz, Andrew Flanders, John Herndon, Lilian Bayley Hoover, Jeremy Jirsa, William Knipscher, Nicole Lenzi, Giulia Piera Livi, Zoe-Elena Moldenhauer, Danni O'Brien, Anne Clare Rogers.

Isla: Regarding Paradise (Fall 2018)

This exhibition considers the etymology of paradise and questions the effectiveness of an island’s natural and man-made barriers. Curated by guest curator Jackie Milad.

Limits of Empathy (Spring 2020)

Italo De Dea composes warm, monochromatic ink drawing installations of landscapes, urban areas, fauna, flora and figures, contrasting the socioeconomics of the northern and southeastern regions of Brazil from historic books, utilizing various media and field research to create an open narrative.

Misperception (Summer 2019)

In the summer of 2019, the Holtzman MFA Gallery hosted a unique exhibition of works created by at-risk youth seeking to convey our common humanity and to build community connections. The exhibition was a partnership with The Children’s Home, Inc. (TCH).

PRINTFEST: Modern, Contemporary and Future Masters (Fall 2017)

PRINTFEST was a collection of four interrelated exhibitions on prints and printmaking in the 20th and 21st centuries: Modern Masters: Twentieth Century Prints from the Reading Public Museum; Modern Masters: Twentieth Century Prints by African American Artists in the Collection of Otis Robertson; Modern Print Methods and Techniques; and Masters of the Contemporary Print. These exhibitions showcase historical figures and young and upcoming artists, and include Picasso, Warhol, John Biggers, Alison Saar, Sandy Winters and Shelley Thorstensen. 

SAMPLE(D)(R) (Fall 2019)

Astrid Bowlby makes drawings, prints, sculptures, and installations. For her TU exhibition, she  presented an on-going project in which she makes pairs of objects. The materials for each pair vary widely and the objects themselves have various names: painting, drawing, sculpture, pillow, picture frame, poster, photograph, vase of flowers. While each object in a pair is very similar to the other, they are not precisely the same.

Visions of Place: Complex Geographies in Contemporary Israeli Art (Traveling Exhibition)

Visions of Place was first presented at Towson University in the spring of 2016 and now continues on as a traveling exhibition. The exhibition includes the art of contemporary Israeli citizens, who speak to these vital concerns from diverse perspectives. Geography is an inescapable part of Israeli life, psyche and art. The country’s physical, personal, religious, intellectual, political, existential, historical, economic and other geographic manifestations present some of the most pressing issues in the world. 

Y? (Spring 2020)

Edelweiss Calcagno explores abstraction through a variety of media to shed light on abuse survivors. Multiple perspectives and layering represent the changes in those who experience abuse, ADHD, PTSD, dyslexia and other disabilities that are a normal consequence of trauma.