O'Connor Art Gallery

The mission of the O’Connor Art Gallery is to present the Dominican University academic community with timely, relevant and focused contemporary art exhibitions that foster critical and thoughtful dialogue across disciplines. Located in Lewis Hall, steps away from many of the art department’s studios and classrooms, the gallery is particularly accessible to art students as a space for intimate engagement and reflection. In addition to curated exhibitions, the gallery is the site of an annual juried student show and senior thesis exhibitions.

The gallery is open to the public during the academic year.  

  • Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Free and all are welcome.

For information, please contact Jennifer Mannebach, director, at galleryinfo@dom.edu.

Location:  Lewis Hall, Fourth Floor.

FALL 2023

Jackie Kazarian

November 8 – December 15
Heatless Light
Reception: Wednesday, November 8, 4:00–7:00 p.m.
Gallery Talk at 4:30 p.m.

“Heatless Light” engages two distinct bodies of work by Chicago painter Jackie Kazarian and alludes to the clarity of looking back at something without the 'heat' or turbulence of a specific moment. 

During the pandemic, Kazarian embraced her own isolation in the studio and the impossible social upheaval outside it by inviting doubt and uncertainty to permeate her studio practice. The result was a body of small paintings and works on paper mapping ambiguous spaces and exploring the textured blues of night and the cool, heatless, fluorescent streetlights. Gathered together, these fits and starts trace a tumultuous moment in time and ricochet with the vibrant, colorful paintings that followed. The newer paintings are sweeping panoramic gestures projecting onto infinite space, and those passages stacked with nuance suggest renewed vitality and engagement.

Pandemic Wall Detail
Jackie Kazarian

Jeffery Cote de Luna

September 27 – October 25
Drawings
Reception: Wednesday, September 27, 4:00–7:00 p.m.
Gallery Q&A at 4:30 p.m.

Jeffery Cote de Luna will be exhibiting a large group of figure drawings and portraits going back thirty years to when he first began teaching at Dominican University. He states that, “The first ten years, at what was then Rosary College, was a highly inspirational and creative period.” This exhibit will include sustained drawings from life, figure studies for paintings, and gesture drawings from the Open Drawing Sessions that he ran from 1994–2000.

SPRING 2024

The Slowfire Art Foundation

January 17 – February 24
Slowfire
Reception: Wednesday, January 17, 4:00–7:00 p.m.
Gallery Talk at 4:30 p.m.

Student Juried Exhibition

March 6 – April 3
Reception: Wednesday, March 6, 4:00–7:00 p.m.

Senior Capstone Exhibition

April 10 – May 8
Reception: Wednesday, April 10, 4:00–7:00 p.m.