The Rapture

The Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University presents The Rapture, on view from October 8 to December 8, with a reception on Friday, October 11, from 5:30-7:30 PM, at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery. This solo exhibition by Joel Leivick, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Photography, features his new photographic works from the Pantheon.

The enormously entertaining exhibition of 45 color images is an unexpected surprise and deviation from Leivick’s past work, which has generally been characterized by large format landscape prints in black and white.  While in Italy last autumn as a 2012 Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, Leivick had planned a project involving beachfront…

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