Past Exhibitions - Art Museum – Syracuse University

Abstract print with a soft yellow background and a streak of green in the lower left corner. A large organic shape floats in the middle of the image, printed in burgundy. Two thin streaks intersect and run horizontally within the organic shape, printed in green and red. Another thin streak runs horizontally below and to the left of the shape, printed in orange-yellow.

“What If I Try This?”: Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem

August 26-December 9, 2025
Emily and Joe Lowe Galleries

“What If I Try This?” explores how Helen Frankenthaler, the noted 20th-century abstract artist, collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

This project is generously supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. It celebrates the 10 prints and 1 set of process proofs that the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation gifted Syracuse University in the second round of the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative.

A Sense of Arrival: Kevin Adonis Browne

August 26, 2025 - December 9, 2025
James F. White Gallery

A Sense of Arrival brings together scholarship and artistic practice in a multimedia installation by Kevin Adonis Browne, professor of rhetoric and writing in the Department of Writing Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. Browne’s exhibition combines photographs, sculpture and new writings that reflect a decades-long meditation on Caribbean blackness, being and rhetorical expression.