Brosseau Center for Learning: Hot as Hell
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview
Brosseau Center for Learning: Hot as Hell
Cara Nordengren, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
Kate Meyer, curator
July 15, 2025–September 7, 2025
Gallery 318, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
This installation celebrates flame, devilry, and all things hot.
Works of art
Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Soaking Pits,
1946
Jean Mignon
The Fall of the Rebel Angels,
circa 1545–1555
Andreas Feininger
Variant of Pouring molten steel into ingot molds,
circa 1945–1955
Adrian Xuana
skeleton figure,
1986–1996
Zhao Yannian
Chasing the Sun,
1992
Maarten de Vos; Nicolaes de Bruyn; Assuerus van Londerseel
Ignis (Fire),
late 1500s
Rockne Krebs
Smoke Drawing,
1973
John Steuart Curry
Prairie Fire,
1940
Louis Alfred Habert; Adolphe Block
Louis Alfred Habert; Adolphe Block
Jost Amman; Wenzel Jamnitzer
Plate A4,
1568
Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton
Motorcyclist Riding Through Flames,
mid-late 1900s
Aaron Siskind
Volcano 54,
1980
Jacques Callot; Bernardino Poccetti
L'Enfer (Hell),
1612
Jan Telfer
Fire, Fire,
2004
Hazelle, Inc.
devil hand puppet,
1960s–1970s
Donald Holden
Forest Fire VII,
1992
Jost Amman; Wenzel Jamnitzer
Plate A2,
1568
Louis Alfred Habert; Adolphe Block
Edward Ruscha
Boris Ignatovich
Blast Furnace,
1927
Adrian Xuana
devil figure,
1986–1996
Félicien Joseph Victor Rops
Satan Semant l'Ivraie (Satan Sowing the Tares of Evil),
mid-late 1800s
Aaron Siskind
Volcano 67,
1980
Paul Hambleton Landacre
Grass Fire,
1928
Jost Amman; Wenzel Jamnitzer
Title page (Ignis),
1568
Adolphe Block; Pierre Adolphe Hennetier
Pouvoirs de Satan (Satan's Powers),
1859–1860
Jost Amman; Wenzel Jamnitzer
Plate A5,
1568
Louis Alfred Habert; Adolphe Block
Louis Alfred Habert; Adolphe Block
Jost Amman; Wenzel Jamnitzer
Plate A3,
1568
Rowland Wilson
Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton
Tony Fitzpatrick; Landfall Press
Little Hot Diablo,
1992