Olin | Exhibitions

Exhibition Schedule 2003-2004:
Thom Shaw, Spiritual Warfare, India ink on canvas, 2002, 48" x 63"		Thom Shaw Inner Sanctums/Urban Sanctities August 28 - September 27 Artist Slide Talk: Thursday, September 4, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium Opening reception will follow the talk in the Olin Art Gallery. Cincinnati-based Thom Shaw works primarily in large woodcuts, but also in ink and painting. The exhibit comprises works drawn from the artist’s “Self-Portrait” series, and “The Malcolm X Paradox” series. Shaw’s introspective self-portraits are autobiographical reflections on mortality, and works from “The Malcolm X Paradox” treat the irony and tragedy of inner-city gang violence. Read More
Anthony Luensman, Gallery Buoys [detail], polyvinyl, 12" x 12" x 4", 2003		Anthony Luensman Eolian October 2 - November 2 Artist Slide Talk: Thursday, October 16, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium Opening reception will follow the talk in the Olin Art Gallery. A 1988 graduate of Kenyon, Luensman, an aural/kinetic, technology-based installation artist, will exhibit new work. Aspects of Eolian obliquely reference the artist’s own work as a student, as well as pay homage to others’ work exhibited in the Olin Art Gallery in the past. Site-specific installation pieces include a hypersonic, aviary sound piece, and motion-activated sound pieces that incorporate drums, horns and dancing, vibrating motors. Read More This exhibition is supported, in part, by Alumni and Parent Programs, the Inaugural Committee for President S. Georgia Nugent, the Provost, and the Mesaros Fund of the Art and Art History Department.
Ellen Garvens, Moth, photo, surgical clamp, pliers, brass, 11" x 9" x 6", 1999		Ellen Garvens Segments: 1989-2003 November 6-December 14 Artist Slide Talk: Thursday, November 6, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium Opening reception will follow the talk in the Olin Art Gallery. Seattle-based Ellen Garvens’s intimate, wall-mounted photo-sculpture pieces–a number are hung in series as installation–incorporate irregularly shaped and abraded pieces of metal and stone and other materials. Fragmented photographs are alchemically merged with undulating surfaces. Garvens’s objects and images of the body connect ourselves and our past to modern technology. Read More This exhibition is supported, in part, by the Mesaros Fund.
Whitfield Lovell, Sun Go Down, charcoal on wood, 2000.		Whitfield Lovell Tableaux January 22 - February 29 Lecture: Thursday, January 29, 7:30, Olin Auditorium Professor of Art History Patricia Hills, Boston University, will discuss the significance of Lovell’s work Opening reception will follow the lecture in the Olin Art Gallery. New York-based Whitfield Lovell’s tableau installations, which often include found objects, incorporate life-size charcoal drawings of African-American subjects on faded wall boards. Lovell’s charcoal drawings are based on found studio photographs. Lovell has had a lifelong fascination with photographic images of ordinary African-Americans, and his interpretation and contextualization of these images evoke the memory and history of Africans in America. Read More This exhibition and lecture are supported, in part, by Multicultural Affairs, and the American Studies Department.
		Senior Exercises in Studio Art For completion of the Kenyon College Studio Art degree, senior art majors must prepare and curate a week-long exhibition of their work in Olin Art Gallery. The exhibition derives from work completed during the students' senior year. March 21-27: Alexis Pace, Jeremiah Thompson & Cynthia Brinich-Langlois March 28 - April 3: Pablo Poffald, Kristen Covi & Angie Willoughby April 4-10: Mindy Stoker, Julie Orr, Qiana Woodard & Linda Nguyen April 11-17: Xander Piper, Kate Nichols, Christian Lynn &Margaret McGuire
		Faculty Exhibition April 22-May 23 Read Baldwin, Claudia Esslinger, Barry Gunderson, Marcella Hackbardt, Damand Howard, Karen Snouffer

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