Current Exhibit:
April 24-June 1
Opening reception
Thursday April 24, 7:00-9:00 pm
Stereopsis
Claudia Esslinger
Transplant
Marcella Hackbardt
Nostalgic Temptations
Craig Hill
A Second Look at Versailles
Barry Gunderson
My Chaos is Your Chaos
Karen Snouffer
Liminal Landscapes
Ted Rice
Trace Studies
Ellen Sheffield
Past Exhibits:
August 23-September 29, 2007
Artists’ talks, Thursday, September 6, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium
Opening reception follows talks in gallery
This exhibition presents, together in context, the fine art and
professional photography of Ted Rice (Mount Vernon, OH) and Joshua
Touster (Watertown, MA). A vital synthesis of fine art and
commerce is found in the output of these skilled photographers.
In their lifelong artistic and commercial work, Rice and Touster work
effectively across both worlds, illustrating the cross-pollination of
the two. Rice’s and Touster’s most innovative images reside the
productive grey area between art and commerce.
In a joint artist talk and class visits, Rice and Touster will discuss
their careers and the mutual influences of their fine art, professional
and personal work.
Contemporary Art Quilting in Ohio
Talks by artist & author Gayle Pritchard and
artist Susan Shie
Thursday, October 11, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium
Opening reception follows in the gallery
Common Hour Gallery talks
Artists: Ellen Harbourt, Elaine Hartley, Jo Rice and
Linda Brougher Shaffer
Tuesday, October 16, 11:10 am, in the gallery
This exhibition of Ohio-based quilt artists reflects the rich heritage of contemporary art quilting in the state. A number of artists in the exhibition have been instrumental in pioneering the art quilt movement, which began in the 1970s and 1980s. Innovation and Tradition samples from the diversity of surface design quilting techniques in practice today. Featured work evidences traditional quilting employed in combination with media such as painting and writing on fabric, bead work, stamping, dyeing, printmaking, image transfer and the use of found and manufactured objects. Avenues of expression in this work range from abstract design, to the iconic, to the personal and political, to whimsy, to the appropriation of popular imagery.
Artists in the exhibition include: Clare Murray Adams, Deborah Melton Anderson, Nancy Crow, Gerry Fogarty, JoAnn Giordano, Ellen Harbourt, Elaine Hartley, John Lefelhocz, Cynthia Lockhart, Gayle Pritchard, Jo Rice, Linda Brougher Shaffer, Susan Shie and Andrea L. Stern.
Supplemental funding for this exhibition and program is provided by the Mesaros Fund.
November 8-December 15, 2007
Artist talk:Thursday November 8, 7:30 pm,
Higley Hall directions
Opening reception follows talk in gallery
The Synergy Project (video by Claudia Esslinger, audio by Brian Harnetty), an interactive video installation, investigates the manner in which meaning is created when varying narrative elements are juxtaposed. It consists of visual and aural phrases that can be chosen by visitors to create a variety of results. The phrases in this project reflect nature/technology, culture/politics, absurdity/humor within a tradition of magical realism.
SPoems is an interactive installation built around a series of poems written from spam emails. Visitors control the speed of the spoken texts by their movement through the gallery.
Searching for the Aurora is based on a poem by G. C. Waldrep. This video projection uses imagery from the Marin Headlands to complement the voice of the poet.
Costumes and props from recent video projects are included in the exhibition.
Thanks are extended to Jack Esslinger, the Ohio Arts Counsel, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, and Kenyon College.
More work by the artist here
Photo credit: © Joshua White.
January 31-February 24, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium
Student curators will discuss perspectives on researching and planning the exhibition.This exhibition surveys modern and contemporary works dating from the 1950s to the present. Artworks included represent a number of post-World War II movements, concerns and media including: Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Conceptualism, Postmodernism, Postminimalism, politics and the representation of the body, and recent developments in photography. A partial list of artists includes: Hans Hoffman, David Smith, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Georg Baselitz, Jim Shaw, Sherrie Levine, Robert Gober, Karen Finley, Elizabeth Murray, Chris Ofili, Martin Puryear, Kiki Smith and Christian Boltanski. Media include: India ink, charcoal, pastel, graphite, acrylic, oil, gouache, watercolor, tempera and photography.
States of Art is the product of a fall 2007 Museum Studies seminar taught in the Art and Art History Department at Kenyon College. Students enrolled in the seminar participated in the selection and arrangement of works drawn from a private collection. Students also researched and wrote all introductory text panels and interpretive labels, and contributed essays to the exhibition brochure. Student curators include: Emily Bierman, Kate Coker, Madeline Courtney, Peter Dumbadze, Jessica Gersh, Louisa Hartigan, Leila Hirvonen, Emma Perry, Leah Rogers, Eugene Rutigliano and Roxanne Smith.
Read MoreFull interpretive text accompanying the exhibition is presented in the following links:
Opening receptions each Monday, 7:00-9:00 pm
March 17-21:
Lawrence Keaty: Fade Out
In a series of drawings "mangled and congested, meticulous and
detailed," the work illustrates "a sense of the 21st century
metropolis."
Adam Rasmus: End Times
Rasmus explores "themes of conflict and societal decay" in mixed-media collage panels.
A series of paintings feature invented organic forms.
March 24-28:
Nora Gavin-Smyth: Flooded Room
Identity, loss, and catastrophe are the ideas behind a multi-media installation with projected video, sculpture, and found art.
Katharine Harlan: Cellular Process
Her paintings explore themes of aging, mortality, and rejuvenation.
Zachary Weaver: Fragmentation
Portraits are "shattered" into pools of light and color, reassembling the subjects in a study of visual perception.
March 31-April 4:
Madeline Courtney: Wunderkammer
The nature of human-object relationships is probed in Courtney's wunderkammer of taxidermy and found materials.
Rosalind Paradis: Static Transmissions
Paradis creates imagery of celebrity and war on etched and painted
acrylic glass against a "manic static background" to explore the
contrast between news-media presentations of the war in Iraq and
celebrity news.
Abram Shriner: Some Applications of Natural Geology
Scientific graphs and diagrams are brought into play by Shriner in a series of paintings focused on landscape abstractions.
Evelyn Volz: In the Pursuit of Happiness
Working with larger-than-life objects of wire and papier-mache, Volz's
sculptures capture the American dream, contrasting "appearance,
possibility, and hope with disappointment, disillusionment, and
reality."
April 7-11:
Marion Anthonisen: Map/Maze
Childhood imagination and the memories of events and household objects take shape in painted works on board and fabric.
Charis Durrance: Raw Materials
Durrance's work sorts out the connections between control and anxiety and safety and fear.
Chelsea Raflo: Temporary Things
Visual
narratives were created with stop-motion animation and digital
technology with an infusion of surrealism to convey childhood memories
and family stories.
Elizabeth Shapiro: Meticulosus
Seeking ways to convey the beauty of the natural world, Shapiro built imaginary landscapes with mixed-media collages.
April 14-18:
Kate Coker: The HomefrontCoker uses "printmaking on a large scale" to explore and critique the effects of the Iraq War on the everyday lives of American citizens.
Elly Deutch: Trichotomy
A video and audio installation critiques the experience of growing up in the United States.
Blair Gazza: Known and Unknown
Color photographs depict images of places Gazza "designed and built."
Emily Zeller: Echoes
Zeller uses photography to document abandoned public spaces and buildings that were once important to local communities.