CANTON — The St. Lawrence University Richard F. Brush Art Gallery will present two exhibitions beginning Monday, Oct. 18, through Thursday, Dec. 9.

The exhibits will showcase artwork by notable western artists, recent acquisitions by women and BIPOC artists, and photographs of the collars worn by late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The exhibitions are open to the public and any visitors inside the art gallery are required to wear a mask. For up-to-date St. Lawrence masking policies and guidelines, visit https://www.stlawu.edu/offices/always-forward-returning-st-lawrence .

The first exhibit “Looking Back, Looking Forward” will feature selected works of art from the Gallery’s permanent collection created by notable western artists of the past 75 years and recent acquisitions by women and BIPOC artists.

“Looking Back” will feature a range of modernist genres from figurative drawing and landscape painting to pure abstraction including works by several artists of the Western art historical canon as well as one-of-a-kind drawings and paintings by 20th-century artists Milton Avery, Isabel Bishop, Willem de Kooning, Paul Klee, Reginald Marsh, Henry Moore, and David Smith.

“Looking Forward” will showcase ceramic vessels by regional Akwesasne Mohawk artists Katsitsionni Fox and Natasha Santiago Smoke, as well as a large quilt by Iakonikonriiosta illustrating the Haudenosaunee Creation Story.

In addition, paintings by six Mexican indigenous artists in the Kjoaetzen Colectivo depict aspects of the Mazatec agricultural calendar with a particular emphasis on the cultural importance of corn in order to nurture and protect ancestral wisdom. A selection of Japanese-style mokuhanga water-based prints by contemporary women artists is also featured in the exhibition.

“The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Collars: Photographs by Elinor Carucci” exhibit will feature images of Ginsburg’s collars, commissioned by TIME magazine in 2020, from her early penchant for traditional lace jabots to necklaces made of beads, shells, and metalwork from around the world.