Current: Fall 2025 Faculty ExhibitionSeptember 2 - October 17, 2025Gallery of Art, 30 Academic Way, DurhamOpening Reception: Friday, September 5, 2025 | 5-7PMTo the working artist, all works of art are vitally contemporary regardless of historical moment. In this way our work is diachronic, it exists in the flow of time. Yet it is also synchronic, it exists in time as an expression of our present moment. As educators in the Department of Art and Art History we aspire to impart the value of finding one’s voice amongst the chorus of voices that have come before. One of the great functions of Art is its ability to give sympathetic access to systems of belief that are not your own. In defense of his selection for the identification of works of literature that constitute the “Western Canon,” Harold Bloom conjectured that the closest we may get to the ideal of a Universality is the collective expressions of the deepest possible subjectivity. In a time of increased fragmentation and division, the need for an inclusive chorus of deeply reflective subjectivity is all the more essential. The work presented in this exhibition does not conform to any unified vision, point of view, or conceptual framework. Its strength is in its diversity of ideas, viewpoints, and expressive voices. As such, it invites you the viewer to not only view, but to engage, to bring yourself and your own experiences, to join the chorus.Sachiko Akiyama • Michael Cardinali • Benjamin Cariens • Brian Chu • Alain Co • Sarah Elliott • Brett Gamache • Shaina Gates • Julee Holcombe • Kate Knox • Amanda Letscher • Maureen Mills • Joshua Rondeau • David Shaw • Emily Trenholm • Leah Woods • Liese Zahabi • Steven Zoldak Event Url