Faculty, staff, and students celebrated the opening reception for HOLES (on view in the Clifford Gallery September 3 through November 12, 2025), preceded by a dual lecture and conversation with exhibiting artists Noel Anderson and Christopher Page, on September 24 as part of the Fall 2025 Art Lecture Series.
This exhibition, curated by Associate Professor of Art and Film & Media Studies Lakshmi Luthra, expands on the fourth issue of Effects, a journal of art, poetry and essays, devoted to thinking about aesthetic effects, their social and philosophical histories, and contemporary lives.
As Professor Luthra explains, “Holes draw our attention to the periphery, the edges of the visible. Through rips and shadows, enclosures and erasures, the artworks in this exhibition peer across the familiar into something unknown. A range of conceptual approaches and material processes are used to probe the illusionistic and associative power of the image, illuminating the fragile moment when a form coheres — or begins to fall apart. These works address transience, destructive violence, and lost histories, while also evoking the nascent formation of as-yet-unknown patterns for meeting the problems of living — with ourselves, with one another, and with absence.”
More information about the exhibition, the lecture series, and the Clifford Gallery can be found at https://www.cliffordgallery.org/.