Selected faculty show to spotlight the work of five artists
Untitled, panorama 9-2-2010 out, pigment ink print,
36" x 36", by Patrick Kelley
The Schick Art Gallery at Skidmore presents the annual Studio Art Faculty Exhibition on Thursday, Oct. 7, with an opening reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m. A gallery talk with the artists will take place at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12, in the gallery, and the exhibition will remain on view through Dec. 5.
The practice at the Schick Art Gallery in recent years has been to exhibit work by
a small group of five or six artists selected from among the more than 20 studio faculty
in the department, and this year is no exception with five artists showing new work.
John Galt's recent cast iron and bronze sculptures seem to hover between animation and rest,
evoking suggestions of animal, vegetable, and boat-like forms. Digital prints and
video stills by Patrick Kelley probe the cultural interface between language, memory, and perception; while relative
newcomer to Skidmore, fiber artist/sculptor Sangwook Lee, exhibits a playful range of three-dimensional works that comment on the interplay
of American and Asian cultural images and identities. Doretta Miller and Iona Park show recent oil and mixed-media paintings, respectively. In oils on canvas, Miller
renders "chair portraits" as metaphors for human subjects, while Park infuses oil
on panel paintings with scorched paper, layered texture, dry pigment, wax, and varnish
in abstractions that give rise to meditative spaces redolent of landscape.
The exhibition, reception and talk are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1 to 4:30 p.m. weekends. Admission is free. Please click here to visit the gallery Web site.
