Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
All exhibitions and events are free and open to the public. Podcasts of artist lectures are now available on Franklin & Marshall College's iTunesU http://its.fandm.edu/itunesu
Faculty Art Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, and Photography by Franklin & Marshall Faculty
January 19-March 12, 2010, Curriculum Gallery, Steinman College Center
January 28, 2010, 4:45 pm, Artists' Reception
The Bi-Annual Art Faculty Exhibition will include artwork of fourteen art faculty and emeriti. Always anticipated, this exhibition offers an opportunity for students to view work by Art Department professors and for the college community to appreciate the vision and accomplishment of the fine art faculty. There will be an artists' reception on January 28 at 4:45 p.m. in the Dana Gallery. Department Chair, Virginia Maksymowicz, will give a gallery talk.
Lancaster Online Newspaper Article
Photograph by Bonnie Halloran '11
AP-PRAISED: Solo Exhibition of Works by William Hutson and Selected Works From His Personal Collection
January 19-February 28, 2010, Dana & Rothman Galleries, Steinman College Center
February 11, 2010, 4:45 pm, Symposium, Bonchek Lecture Hall, Barshinger LS&P
February 11, 2010, 6:30 pm, Reception, Dana Gallery, Steinman College Center
An exhibition of selected works by Cook Distinguished Artist in Residence, William R. Hutson as well as selected works by: Frank Bowling, Nanette Carter, Juan Cash, Edward Clark, Gregory Coates, Ed Colston, Adrienne Hoard, Alvin Loving, Melvin Edwards, Souleymane Keita, Lawrence Compton-Kolawole, James Little, Sam Middleton, Padmini Mongia, Iba N' Diaye, Baba Shongo Obadina, Larry Potter, Bob Shigeo, Shirley Stark, William T. Williams.
The exhibition will offer a glimpse of the recently acquired life work of Mr. Hutson, and will include pieces from his personal collection of artwork by distinguished African American Abstractionists, memorabilia and ephemera from the 1960's through the end of the 20th Century. There will be a reception for Mr. Hutson on February 11, at 6:30 pm following a special symposium in honor of Mr. Hutson to be held in the Bonchek Lecture all of the Barshinger Life Sciences and Philosophy Building beginning at 4:30 pm.
Speakers featured at the symposium are Mel Edwards and Frank Bowling, Dr. Padmini Mongia, (Professor of English) and Jessica Jackson '10, who was the Phillips Museum's summer Hackman Fellow in 2009 and who will share her documentation of Mr. Hutson's collection and her experiences while recording the gathering, cataloguing and delivery of the collection to the college. The exhibition, symposium and reception are free and open to the public. Reservations for the symposium are required. Please call the Museum to make reservations at (717) 291-3879. This symposium was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Kingerlee: Paintings by John Kingerlee
March 5-April 18, 2010, Rothman Gallery, Steinman College Center
March 5, 2010, 4:45 pm, Gallery Talk by Richard Vine, Managing Editor of Art in America
Self-taught, illiterate until the age of eleven, Kingerlee claims himself an "outsider" artist. He takes influence from Art Brut and CoBrA artists, and inspiration from Paul Klee and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Irish artist John Kingerlee spends several months each year in Spain and Morocco. The influence of these places-the western coast of Ireland (in Cork), the markets of Morocco and daily bustle of the streets of Granada-are evident in the luxurious color and texture of his works in oil on board.
The exhibition of works is traveling throughout the United States and The Phillips Museum is the only mid-Atlantic venue scheduled. It was curated by internationally acclaimed art critic, William Zimmer. The exhibition was organized through Katharine T. Carter & Associates.
A very special part of this exhibition is the William Zimmer Prize in Art Criticism, open to students who are currently enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate Fine Arts Program, or who major in Art at any college or university in the United States. There will be an award of $1,000 for the best written criticism of the exhibition at The Phillips Museum of Art. The winning essay will then become part of a national Grand Prize award of $3,000 at the conclusion of the U.S. tour and will be published in an American or European art journal. Jurors are Dominque Nahas, Richard Vine and Larry Powell.
Image: Fiesta, Granada, 2005, by John Kingerlee, 9" x 12" collage and mixed media on paper.
Adaptation-Equilibrium Between Tensions: Paintings by Alice Oh
March 8-April 11, 2010, Dana Gallery, Steinman College Center
March 11, 2010, 4:45 pm, Artist's Talk and Reception
Oh is a Philadelphia based artist who attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City and went on to study at Temple University in Rome, Italy, and the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia where she received her B.F.A. and at Yale University where she received her M.F.A. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Fine Arts Department at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia where she serves on the Board and was Department Chair from 2004-2006. She has received prizes and awards from Yale, The Leeway Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Her most recent series of large paintings remain focused on the biologic, a theme she has developed over time beginning with her experience viewing drops of contaminated blood at 3,000 times their actual size. She explains that the "dichotomy between the harmfulness of disease and the beauty of the images was intriguing."
Image: Biota (life), PC. no. 63.08, 2009, by Alice Oh, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 78 " x 96"
Architecture and Art-Spacial Relationships: Works by Kenneth Kimm '10
April 1-May 7, 2010, Sally Mather Gibson Curriculum Gallery
April 2, 2010, 4:45 pm, Artists talk and reception
F&M Senior, Kenneth Kimm will exhibit his architectual models, related sculptures and conceptual art works at a solo exhibition to be held in the Sally Mather Gibson Curriculum Gallery in The Phillips Museum of Art.
Senior Invitational
April 15-May 15, 2010, Dana Gallery, Steinman College Center
April 15, 2010, 4:45 Artists' Reception and gallery talk by Professor Virginia Maksymowicz, Department Chair
This annual exhibition features works by F&M Senior artists who are invited to participate in the exhibition by the Art Faculty.
Annual Student Juried Exhibition
April 22-May 7, 2010, Rothman Gallery, Steinman College Center
April 22, 2010 4:45 pm, President's Awards Ceremony
This annual juried exhibition features works by students from all cohort years. Students' works are juried by an esteemed member of the arts community and selected works are exhibited in the Rothman Gallery. There will be a reception on April 22, during which President Fry will present awards for outstanding works chosen by the juror.
