McNamara Gallery

Showcasing emerging artists in a dynamic hallway gallery

The McNamara Gallery honors the legacy of Walter McNamara, longtime curator of University Galleries, by serving as a vibrant space for emerging ideas and creative exploration. Established in 1987 in the Church Fine Arts building, the gallery offers a flexible platform for student artwork, experimental projects, and community exhibitions. With frequently rotating shows, it invites visitors to encounter new perspectives and supports an accessible, ever-evolving dialogue within the University’s artistic community.

Current exhibition

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Wild Flower House

Feb. 24 - March 20

Wild Flower House pairs the paper-based work of Zach Clark and D. Stevens. Together, this work represents a kind of skepticism of images, combined with a resourcefulness and direct approach to art-making found in both of their practices. Clark's snapshot photography and Stevens' casual drawing hand demonstrate an immediacy of voice, while Stevens' razor-sharp collage compositions and Clark's skilled risograph print knowledge share a sustained and sophisticated craft.

Join us for a reception in McNamara Gallery on March 12 from 5-7 p.m.

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About the artists

Zach Clark

Zach Clark's collection of risograph prints are composed of photographic images made with technically capable, but equally unreliable, vintage rangefinder cameras. Interested in the similarly unreliable process of memory, instead of typically precise photographic print processes, Clark's multi-exposure 35mm negatives are scanned and translated through risograph color-separations, which became much more like painterly images than proper photographs, questioning how and what images and memories mean.

D. Stevens

D. Stevens' wigged-out mixed-media collage and drawings reflect, in exuberant ways, on the astounding violence from Necro-State systems of nature-destroying technology and weaponization of food and water. With a zero-waste ethos applied to studio practice, Stevens uses collage to review materials that would otherwise become trash. This work is assembled from reworked scraps cut from old work, layered with paint, ink and graphite, creating joy as an act of defiance.

Past exhibitions at McNamara Gallery

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