Rotating Gallery

In addition to the annual festival, FOTA organizes an on-going gallery at the Harper Memorial Library commons, providing university members a highly visible venue to showcase their artwork. At this newly renovated study-space, we can accomodate both three-dimensional and two-dimensional works. All mediums and styles are welcomed.

  • To submit work for display:


    If interested in presenting your work, please send an image of your artwork(s), its rough dimensions (cannot exceed 34"x34"x9") and (optional) description to Weiling at weilingl@uchicago.edu. Submissions are accepted all year, but in order to be considered for Fall Quarter's first show, please contact us by Friday, October 23rd.

  • Current Exhibition (10.26.09-11.22.09)

    Sally Cochrane
    Self Portrait with an Optical Migraine, oil on canvas, 22"X28"
    Hippocratic and Modern Medicine, oil on canvas, about 16"X20"
    Paradigm Change, oil on canvas, 22"X28"

    Sally Fama Cochrane is a 3rd year HIPS major and a student at the School of Representational Art in downtown Chicago. Her paintings combine her interests in outdated science, Neoclassical and Baroque art, inventing and diagnosing her own psychological abnormalities, and lead-based oil paints (she thinks the last two may be correlated but is unwilling to attribute causation yet). In her free time she secretly gives her acquaintances Homeric epithets and assigns them to Jane Austen characters (don't get your hopes up -- if you're reading this you're probably a Mary Bennet).


  • Keiko Nemeth
    Homage to Red, oil on canvas, 34 x 28"
    Untitled, oil on canvas, 24 x 20"
    Terra No. 29, oil on canvas, 24 x 20"

    "Images in my painting carry a geometric underpinning in relationship to the canvas, may it be figurative, still life, or complete abstraction. This is because of my absorbing interest in the spatial structure in painting, which may be described as running parallel to but transcending our experience in the physical world. Ultimately, in my abstract work, I am interested in the question of space that helps define and shape our existence as psychological and spiritual being operating in the physical world. -What does the field of our core energies look like and varying nuances of them? My paintings emerge out of such questions."