Shain Library First Floor Exhibition Area 

Labors of Love: Work, Family and Play in American Folk Photograph

American vernacular photographs from the collection of Natalie M. Curley, curated by students in AHI 250: Perspectives on Photography.

Charles Chu Asian Art Reading Room 

Guo Zhen: What is My Name?

Guo Zhen (b. 1955) pursued art from a young age, attending Shandong Art School in 1973 during the Cultural Revolution in China. She later studied at the prestigious China Academy of Art (CAA) from 1978 to 1982, receiving a rigorous training in Chinese ink painting and calligraphy. After graduation, she was appointed as the first female faculty member in the Chinese Painting Department at CAA since the Cultural Revolution. She moved to the United States in 1986 and since 1988 has been living and working in New York. She has exhibited extensively in China and the United States as well as in Mexico, Germany, and Korea, among other countries.

The current exhibition at Connecticut College is the first to survey Guo Zhen’s 50-year journey as a Chinese and Chinese-American artist. Most of her early works exhibited here are being seen by the public for the first time, including rare sketches, drawings and paintings dating back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her later works present a radical break and departure from her earlier style, decrying and defying patriarchy and all forms of oppression, and exploring art as a tool of self-salvation and self-empowerment. 

Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives 

The Woodcut Art of Barry Moser

The Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives maintains a strong collection of three of the premier American wood engravers of the 20th century: Leonard Baskin, John DePol, and Barry Moser. This exhibition showcases the distinctive style of Barry Moser and his Pennyroyal Press, featuring several deluxe illustrated volumes and the magnificent 1999 folio Bible.