Tom Sternal’s King and Queen, c. 1990 featured on LUAG’s Spring 2016 brochure are not very centrally located on campus, but they are probably seen by thousands of viewers a… Read More The King and Queen of Interstate 78
LUAG recently introduced its first self guided audio tour and it is available for the exhibition Object as Subject. The tour provides visitors with educational information about artworks in the exhibition which can be accessed from inside or outside of the… Read More LUAG's First Self Guided Audio Tour
Ellsworth Kelly, who died in his home in Spencertown last month, was a painter, sculptor and printmaker well known for hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His piece Green Curve… Read More Ellsworth Kelly and Green Curve with Radius of Twenty Feet
Above: Carmen Herrera, Verde y Negro, 1995, Serigraph In the exhibition “…Of The Americas”, LUAG Lower Gallery, August 26, 2015 – June 4,2017 Carmen Herrera sold her first painting at… Read More Carmen Herrera, 100 Years Old This Year
Above: Cross Overlooking Bethlehem, PA (After Walker Evans), 1996, Silver Gelatin Print, 4/10 Linda Cummings is one of many talented photographers with works in LUAG’s exhibition Revisiting South Bethlehem. Below is a brief… Read More A Revisiting South Bethlehem Conversation
Above: Tactile for Luis Cruz Azaceta, Cloud, 2014, Archival pigment print Last spring, Brian Slocum received a call from the Lehigh University Art Galleries. At this time LUAG was in the midst of… Read More Lehigh Students and LUAG Join Forces to Make Art More Accessible
Featuring mixed-media works by member artists.
Latin American Art Is American Art. Abstraction, conceptualism, the politics of identity: these are the territories of contemporary art in America. Not surprisingly, these concerns belong to artists of many backgrounds with diverse personal histories. Contemporary Latin American Art focuses on the ways Latino artists have carved out a place within the mainstream of art history or have positioned themselves against it. Figures like Diego Rivera, Wifredo Lam, and José Clemente Orozco have become highly visible, but countless others from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Cuba, Jamaica, Ecuador and elsewhere have contributed to the complex story of contemporary art. Reflecting aspects of gender, diaspora, poetics, and political commentary, these artists address the reality of life in the 20th and 21st centuries.… Read More …OF THE AMERICAS
Celebrating 150 Years of Lehigh University. From the very beginning, Lehigh University has regarded the arts as a fundamental part of its educational vision. Lehigh’s first president Henry Coppée included… Read More OBJECT AS SUBJECT: The Lehigh University Art Galleries Teaching Collections – Part 1
From the Civil War to SteelStacks, South Bethlehem has been the cradle of Lehigh University for 150 years. Always historical, sometimes hysterical, these neighborhoods have housed ever-changing multi-ethnic communities and… Read More REVISITING SOUTH BETHLEHEM
Celebrating 150 Years of Lehigh University. From the very beginning, Lehigh University has regarded the arts as a fundamental part of its educational vision. Lehigh’s first president Henry Coppée included… Read More OBJECT AS SUBJECT: The Lehigh University Art Galleries Teaching Collections – Part 2
George Segal (1924-2000), American Woman on Park Bench, 1998 Bronze with white patina, metal bench 52″ x 72.5″ x 37.5″ Gift of the George and Helen Segal Foundation LUS 05.1004… Read More George Segal: Woman on Park Bench, 1998
Above: Lou Stoumen, Times Square in the Rain, 1940, Gelatin Silver Print Linda Ganus’ Music and Art: Collaborating in Early Modern Europe and America class visited LUAG a few weeks… Read More Times Square in the Rain
Above: Vuillard, Édouard, The Theatre, c. 1905, Oil on panel I sat down with Mark Wonsidler and Jeffrey Ludwig-Dicus, members of LUAG’s curatorial team, to discuss the challenging process of selecting… Read More Selecting Object As Subject
Below is the line up of events at LUAG for this semester. For more information about the events call us at 610.758.6880 or email luag@lehigh.edu. September 10 at 5pm, LUAG Lower… Read More Fall 2015 Event Line Up