Cantor Art Gallery

From the Collection of Mark D. Nevins '86

Essays by collector Mark D. Nevins, Meredith Fluke, Director of the Cantor Art Gallery, Curator Randy Rosen, and Claire Raymond of the University of Maine, Orono.

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition of contemporary process-based photography from the collection of Holy Cross alumnus Mark D. Nevins by artists exploring the medium in diverse ways.

Works included are by Matthew Brandt, Marco Breuer, Ellen Carey, John Chiara, Jessica Eaton, Bryan Graf, Pello Irazu, Gottfried Jäger, Farrah Karapetian, Barbara Kasten, Vera Lutter, Klea McKenna, Abelardo Morell, Floris Neussüs, Mariah Robertson, Alison Rossiter, Jean-Pierre Sudre, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Penelope Umbrico, and James Welling.

• Softcover: 77 pages, color images
• Publisher: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross

By Susan Rodgers

This publication was published in conjunction with the 2016 exhibition of historic pua and kain kebat selected from the remarkable, comprehensive collection of Dr. John G. Kreifeldt. Curator Dr. Susan Rodgers, emerita anthropologist from Holy Cross, offers anthropological essays in Stunned by Beauty as a companion volume to Woven Power . These magnificent, intricately dyed, hand-loomed cotton ikat textiles were once woven in longhouses as religious objects par excellence for the Iban and the related Dayak women who wove them in Malaysia’s Sarawak, and in nearby Kalimantan, Indonesia. Pua kumbu blankets and the closely connected kain kebat ceremonial skirts were designed to be extraordinarily beautiful – to attract the attention of the gods and invite them to longhouse rituals.

• Softcover: 96 pages, 58 color photographs
• Publisher: Published by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross in conjunction with the exhibition Woven Power: Ritual Textiles of Sarawak and West Kalimantan, August 31 – December 14, 2016.
• ISBN: 978-0-9616193-9-1

Photographs by Margot Balboni

Essay by Sarah Stanbury

The Italian Presepe: Cultural Landscapes of the Soul is an exploration of an important form of Italian installation art: the nativity scene, or the presepe, by Margot Balboni, an independent curator and photographer, and Sarah Stanbury, a medievalist and member of the Holy Cross English Department.

Italians date their rich history of the presepe to 1223, when St. Francis reenacted the Nativity in Greccio. Through the centuries the presepe has developed a history deeply entwined with Italian art and culture. The catalog features Balboni’s photographs of nativity scenes from the thirteenth-century to today, along with photographs of artists at work in contemporary workshops with an essay by Stanbury.

• Softcover: 80 pages, full color photographs
• Publisher: the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross
• ISBN: 978-0-96-16183-2-2

With his portfolio of gelatin silver prints, Peter Moriarty explores the architecture and collections of a series of historic European and American greenhouses. Taken over the course of more than 20 years, Moriarty’s evocative works explore the interactions of familiar architectural forms with the lush, exotic, organic, and often disorienting collections housed within. Moriarty’s treatment of reflected and refracted light, alongside his documentary inquiry into the plants themselves, render his compositions at the same time reminiscent of early-20th century photography, but also wholly innovative.

• Hardcover: 119 pages, 90 images
• Publisher: Published by Peter A. Moriarty on the occasion of the exhibition at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, January 22 – February 29, 2020.
• ISBN:13: 978-0-578-48777-9

By John G. Kreifeldt

This publication was published in conjunction with the 2016 exhibition of historic pua and kain kebat selected from the remarkable, comprehensive collection of Dr. John G. Kreifeldt. In Woven Power, full color photographs are accompanied by textile biographies written by Kreifeldt documenting each textile in the exhibition.

• Hardcover: 160 pages, 72 color photographs
• Publisher: Published by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross in conjunction with the exhibition Woven Power: Ritual Textiles of Sarawak and West Kalimantan, August 31 – December 14, 2016.
• ISBN: 978-0-9616183-6-0

These publications were published in conjunction with the 2016 exhibition of historic pua and kain kebat selected from the remarkable, comprehensive collection of Dr. John G. Kreifeldt. In Woven Power, full color photographs are accompanied by textile biographies written by Kreifeldt documenting each textile in the exhibition. Curator Dr. Susan Rodgers, emerita anthropologist from Holy Cross, offers anthropological essays in the companion volume Stunned by Beauty. These magnificent, intricately dyed, hand-loomed cotton ikat textiles were once woven in longhouses as religious objects par excellence for the Iban and the related Dayak women who wove them in Malaysia’s Sarawak, and in nearby Kalimantan, Indonesia. Pua kumbu blankets and the closely connected kain kebat ceremonial skirts were designed to be extraordinarily beautiful – to attract the attention of the gods and invite them to longhouse rituals.