Art by Contemporary Jesuits

From the Winter 1995 print edition of Company

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Kennedy's Butter and Eggs

Acrylic on canvas

Fr. Michael Ford, SJ, has an MALS from Dartmouth with a concentration in fine arts. He taught art and chaired the department at Boston College High School. He is currently in campus ministry at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.

St. Catherine of Siena

Oil on panel

Br. Gebhard Fröhlich SJ, taught art history at Loyola University of New Orleans. His media include photography, abstract painting and sculpture, and orthodox icon painting. This painting of his in St. Catherine's Church in Metairie, La., includes scenes from the saint's life: cutting off her hair, receiving the stigmata, choosing a crown of thorns instead of gold, and holding the pope's tiara.

Chair of Library Science

Mahogany and beechwood

Fr. Eugene Geinzer, SJ, professor of art and sculpture at Loyola University Chicago, built this chair and titled it as a sedentary pun on academic life. "There are niches, drawers, and shelves for everything--even a cubbyhole for sherry," he says. Among Fr. Geinzer's many other works in wood are the altar, chair, ambo, and massive screen at Loyola's Madonna della Strada chapel.

Anima Raising

Acrylic on canvas 60" x 80"

Fr. Josef Venker, SJ, assistant professor of fine art at Seattle University, teaches ceramic sculpture, two- and three-dimensional design, color theory, and printmaking. This work incorporates a mandorla, an archetypal shape that includes variations of the circle and oval; it first appeared in Buddhist art of India and Central Asia.

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Kennedy's Butter and Eggs Acrylic on canvas Fr. Michael Ford, SJ, has an MALS from Dartmouth with a concentration in fine arts. He taught art and chaired the department at Boston College High School. He is currently in campus ministry at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.

	St. Catherine of Siena Oil on panel Br. Gebhard Fröhlich SJ, taught art history at Loyola University of New Orleans. His media include photography, abstract painting and sculpture, and orthodox icon painting. This painting of his in St. Catherine's Church in Metairie, La., includes scenes from the saint's life: cutting off her hair, receiving the stigmata, choosing a crown of thorns instead of gold, and holding the pope's tiara.

Chair of Library Science Mahogany and beechwood Fr. Eugene Geinzer, SJ, professor of art and sculpture at Loyola University Chicago, built this chair and titled it as a sedentary pun on academic life. "There are niches, drawers, and shelves for everything--even a cubbyhole for sherry," he says. Among Fr. Geinzer's many other works in wood are the altar, chair, ambo, and massive screen at Loyola's Madonna della Strada chapel.

	Anima Raising Acrylic on canvas 60" x 80" Fr. Josef Venker, SJ, assistant professor of fine art at Seattle University, teaches ceramic sculpture, two- and three-dimensional design, color theory, and printmaking. This work incorporates a mandorla, an archetypal shape that includes variations of the circle and oval; it first appeared in Buddhist art of India and Central Asia.