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Past Exhibitions

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2009
Andy Warhol: The Photographic Legacy Program, Recent Gifts to the Hofstra University Museum
July 20 - September 20, 2009
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Burton Morris: Pop!
July 14 - September 27, 2009
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Cultural Diversity Awareness Program Posters
 June 1  - August 31, 2009
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Tranquil Power: The Art of Perle Fine
April 7 - June 26, 2009
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Perle Fine and Friends: An Intimate Portrait by Maurice Berezov
April 7 - June 26, 2009
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
A Celebration of Darwin's Legacy
February 20 - May 22, 2009
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Ancient Echoes in Contemporary Printmaking
January 27 - March 20, 2009
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Out of Africa: Works from the Hofstra University Museum Collection
January 12 - March 15, 2009
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Sacred to the Memory: Photographs by Robert Reinhardt
November 7, 2008 - February 6, 2009
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
2008
The Presidents: 1933 - 2001, History of Presidential Conferences at Hofstra University
September 8 - October 26, 2008
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
The Presidents: 1933 - 2001, History of Presidential Conferences at Hofstra University
September 8 - December 8, 2008
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
The Greatest of All Time: Muhammad Ali
September 23 - December 2, 2008
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
A Painter's Witness to History: Recent Work by Yonia Fain
May 5 - August 8, 2008
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
On Location:  Women Photographers from the Hofstra University Museum Collection
January 14 - June 27, 2008
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Stan Brodsky: The Figure: 1951 - 2006
April 8 - June 6, 2008
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Bells, Baubles & Farce
February 5 - April 27, 2008
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
African American Highlights from the Reader's Digest Art Collection
January 29 - March 20, 2008
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
2007
Photographing Suburbia: Crewdson, Owens and Weiner
September 24, 2007 - January 28, 2008
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Hofstra University Person of Color Sculpture Competition Finalists
September 17 - December 9, 2007
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
American Perspectives: 1907 - 1992
September 4 - December 14, 2007
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
What We Wear
April 16 - August 10, 2007
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Looking and Thinking Past Auschwitz
Internationally recognized photographer Jillian Edelstein's portraits of Primo Levi.
April 2 - June 22, 2007
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Opening Windows to Gernika
April 25 - May 21, 2007
Main Floor, Axinn Library
Twardowicz and Dodson: Artists in Parallel
February 6 - May 11, 2007
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Bearden, Lawrence, Parks: Artists of Influence
January 29 - April 5, 2007
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Rhoda Sherbell, NA: Looking East En Plein Air
December 11, 2006 - March 23, 2007
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
2006
Euclid to E-books: ideal books moving ideas
September 18 - December 8, 2006
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
"Voiceless in the Presence of Realities": 9/11/01 Remembrances from the Long Island Studies Institute
September 5 - December 10, 2006
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
The Betrayal of Srebrenica: A Commemoration
September 27 - December 3, 2006
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Baile Y Música: Preserving Hispanic Culture on Long Island
May 15 - September 10, 2006
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
2006 Fine Arts Students Exhibition: Selected Works
April 24 - June 18, 2006
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Views of Old New York City: D. T. Valentine's Manuals, 1841-1870
January 23 - May 7, 2006
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist-Citizen: Posters for a Better World
February 11 - April 23, 2006
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Sally Gall: Selected Landscapes
February 1 - April 13, 2006
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
2005
Quilt National '03
November 15 - December 16, 2005
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Clinton and New York
November 7, 2005 - January 15, 2006
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
A New Democrat: Remembering the Clinton Presidency
November 7, 2005 - January 15, 2006
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
A Tale of Two Cities: Eugene Atget's Paris and Berenice Abbott's New York
September 6 - October 23, 2005
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
R.B. Kitaj: Selections from "In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part"
August 22 - October 23, 2005
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor, and Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
Lifting the Rose-Colored Glasses: Three Social Realists
June 7 - July 29, 2005
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Hofstra at Seventy: New Views of Our Past
May 18 - August 14, 2005
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
The Photographs of Ruth Orkin
April 25 - August 12, 2005
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
"Our Local Heavens"
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Years on Long Island and New York City, 1922-1924

April 11 - May 8, 2005
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
Poetic Dimensions in the Modern Still Life
February 1 - May 8, 2005
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
France - Near and Far: Ralph Gibson Photographs
January 18 - April 17, 2005
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, Axinn Library, 10th floor
From the Market to the Mall
New Visions of Suburban Life Conference Exhibition
February 7 - April 1, 2005
David Filderman Gallery, Axinn Library, 9th floor
2004
Visual Interpretations of Don Quixote
November 4, 2004 - January 9, 2005
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
The Provost Collects: Dreidels as Art
September 27 - December 17, 2004
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Playing, Learning, Working in Amsterdam's Golden Age: Jan Luyken's Mirrors of Daily Life
September 21 - December 5, 2004
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
New, New Media: Recent Trends in Web Design
September 7 - October 31, 2004
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Trophies, Cups and Titles: Sports on Long Island
June 14 - September 17, 2004
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Where the Island Begins
June 7 - August 31, 2004
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
From the Collection: Print and Photograph Portfolios
June 1 - July 29, 2004
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Places Made Sacred: Houses of Worship in Nassau County
February 23 - June 2, 2004
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
President Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Procession in New York City, April 24-25, 1865
February 2 - May 28, 2004
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Over There! World War I and World War II Posters and Artifacts from the Long Island Studies Institute
February 10 - May 9, 2004
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
2003
Contemporary Russian Art from the Hofstra Museum Collection
October 27, 2003 - February 18, 2004
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
By the Hand of Jean Cocteau: Works from the Hofstra Museum Collection and the Howard L. and Muriel Weingrow Collection of Avant-Garde Art and Literature at Hofstra University
September 2, 2003 - January 23, 2004
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
A Celebration: The Hofstra Museum at 40/Works On Paper
August 26 - December 12, 2003
Emily Lowe Gallery
In the Eye of the Camera: Jean Cocteau in the South of France
September 20 - October 22, 2003
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
In the Eye of the Camera: Jean Cocteau and Beauty and the Beast
May 27 - September 17, 2003
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
From Autogiro to Gyroplane: 1923-2003
April 1 - August 22, 2003
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
From the Inside Out
April 27-May 16, 2003
Emily Lowe Gallery
Broadway on the Record: Glimpses of a Century
March 24 - May 21, 2003
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
A Celebration: The Hofstra Museum at 40
January 28 - April 13, 2003
Emily Lowe Gallery
Renaissance Portraits from Italy
January 20 - March 21, 2003
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
2002
Romare Bearden Prints from the Hofstra Museum Collection
November 20, 2002 - March 14, 2003
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Crosbyanna: Bing's Diversity on Display
November 11, 2002 - January 10, 2003
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Tabletop: Works From the Long Island Craft Guild
September 3 - December 13, 2002
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti from a Nazi Prison
September 4 - November 10, 2002
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Where There Is Sorrow, There Is Holy Ground: A September 11, 2001 Anniversary Retrospective from the Long Island Studies Institute
September 11 - November 1, 2002
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Allegory and Mythology: Selections from the Reingold Collection of American Relief Sculpture
June 10 - August 30, 2002
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Breaking the Walls of Bias: Art From Survivors
April 16 - August 1, 2002
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Play Out the Play: A Historical Look at Theater Productions at Hofstra, 1936-1976
April 1 - August 30, 2002
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Through the Seasons with Madeline Novlotzky
April 22 - May 31, 2002
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Milt Hinton Photographs of Jazz Artists
February 11 - April 12, 2002
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
The Swiss Poster: Art of Ten Masters
February 5 - March 28, 2002
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Images of John Steinbeck's Life (1902-1968)
January 28 - March 24, 2002
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
2001
Visitors for Peace: Hofstra University and Nobel Peace Prize Winners
November 5, 2001 - February 1, 2002
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Fine Art, 19th Century Trade Bills and Images of New York City
November 5, 2001 - January 18, 2002
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Rodin's Obsession: The Gates of Hell, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection
October 2 - December 14, 2001
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Artists After Moby-Dick
September 4 - October 24, 2001

Chasing Moby-Dick Across Paper and Canvas: Five Decades of Free-Floating Literary Art
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library

"The Common Continent of Man": Visualizing Race in Illustrations of Moby-Dick
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library

Moby-Dick: History of a Loose-Fish, Manuscript, Print and Culture
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Recording America's Past: The Prints of Currier & Ives
May 29 - August 24, 2001
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Abstract Expressionism: Then and Now
May 1 - August 2, 2001
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Families on the Move: Developing Suburban Communities
March 19 - May 18, 2001
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
and
March 21 - August 3, 2001
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Painted in New York City: Viewpoints of Recent Developments in Abstract Painting
January 30 - April 12, 2001
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
African Blades: Selected Metalwork from the Hofstra Museum Collection
January 15 - March 11, 2001
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
2000
Harold Feinstein: Photographer's Choice - Four Decades
December 11, 2000 - March 11, 2001
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Four Artists, Four Objects, Ten Years
September 10 - December 15, 2000
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Fine Art and Paper Money in Jacksonian America, 1820 - 1860
September 5 - December 22, 2000
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Leonard Baskin Prints: A Memorial Exhibition
August 28 - December 1, 2000
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Asian Identities: East and West
June 5 - August 3, 2000 Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
The Hofstra Family at 65
May 22 - August 25, 2000
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Elliott Erwitt: Photographs from the Hofstra Museum Collection
May 22 - August 18, 2000
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
The Living World of Oscar Wilde
March 28 - May 19, 2000
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
New Works by Sigrid Burton, Rosenfeld, Jennifer Young
March 28 - May 19, 2000
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Broken Pictures: Mark Flood and David West
March 27 - May 12, 2000
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Together/Working
February 1 - March 12, 2000
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Thatcher, Reagan and the Battle for Britain (conference exhibition)
January 24 - March 28, 2000
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
British Prints from the Hofstra Museum Collection
January 17 - March 19, 2000
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Shakespeare at 50: The Hofstra Festivals and Productions
November 1, 1999 - January 7, 2000
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
and
November 8, 1999 - January 14, 2000
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Melanesian Art: on permanent loan from the Collection of the Salgo Trust for Education
Long-term installation ending March 2000
Study Area, 9th floor, Axinn Library
1999
Paul Jenkins: The Early Years in New York and Paris
September 7 - December 17, 1999
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Opportunities for Joyous Living: The Vision of Eleanor Roosevelt
August 30 - October 24, 1999
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
and
September 20 - October 31, 1999
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Contemporary Russian Art: Paintings by Dmitry Krasny and Aleksandr Razin
June 14 - August 20, 1999
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Beyond the Frame: Animation Art and Paintings by Faith Hubley, John Hubley and Emily Hubley
June 7 - July 22, 1999
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
A Bridge Between Worlds: Three Dutch Artists
April 11 - May 21, 1999
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Michael Gordon: Artist, Scholar, Teacher
March 29 - May 28, 1999
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library
Vintage New York: Etchings, Engravings and Photographs of New York City, 1850 to the Present
March 22 - September 12, 1999
David Filderman Gallery, 9th floor, Axinn Library
Unfolding Light: The Evolution of Ten Holographers
January 31 - March 28, 1999
Emily Lowe Gallery, Lowe Hall
Nassau County at 100: Then and Now in Photographs
January 25 - March 23, 1999
Lowenfeld Exhibition Hall, 10th floor, Axinn Library