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Past Exhibits
2003-2004

Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism
March 9 - April 11, 2004

Curated by Klaus Ottmann and Pamela Auchincloss
and toured under the auspices of Pamela Auchincloss/Arts Management, New York

Below: Sam Taylor-Wood, (Detail) Five Revolutionary Seconds XIII, 1998,
chromogenic print on vinyl w/audio, 44 x 305 inches, courtesy of White Cube, London

SOCIAL STRATEGIES introduces tendencies in contemporary art that redefine social realism by either reconsidering the art of propaganda as a force in forming social consciousness, simulating prevailing social or political conditions, or projecting new social or spiritual orders. This art no longer serves the government-sanctioned rhetoric of the first half of the twentieth century, but shifts the political agenda away from representing the authorities of power toward critical and creative practices that challenge the incumbent order and comment on the rampant issues of late-twentieth century society: vanity, consumption, commerce, sex, drugs, and AIDS. Some of today's social artists even clear away "realism," following instead a path from realism to transcendence, trodden initially by artists such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman—in their search for an abstraction encoded with utopian ideology.

SOCIAL STRATEGIES includes the following world renown artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Richard Billingham, Jeremy Blake, Tracy Emin, Rainer Ganahl, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Wolfgang Laib, Julie Mehretu, Jack Pierson, Thomas Ruff, Paul Shambroom, Sue Williams, Sam Taylor-Wood

Past Exhibits
2004-2005

Drawn
November 11 - December 15, 2004
Contemporary Drawings

Below: Lisa Sanditz, Memorial Day, 2001, mixed mediums on paper, 30 x 42 inches

Guest curator Clodagh Keogh was born in Dublin, Ireland. She is a graduate of The National College of Art and Design, Dublin and has worked as a designer in Paris, where she has lived since 1990. She is currently completing graduate studies at Goldsmiths College, London.

The six exhibiting artists include: Stephen Brandes who was born in Wolverhampton, England and lives in Cork, Ireland; Heide Fasnacht who was born in Cleveland, Ohio and lives and works in New York City; Yun-Fei Ji who was born in Beijing, China and lives and works in New York City; Elizabeth Karsch who was born in New York City and currently lives and works in Sag Harbor, New York; Lisa Sanditz who was born in St Louis, Missouri and currently lives and works in New York City; and Clemens Weiss who was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, and divides his time between Germany and New York.

These artists have shown nationally and internationally and have won awards such as fellowships from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Their exhibitions include prestigious New York galleries and the Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among other renowned international exhibits.

Past Exhibits
2003-2004

Digital Selections
April 20 - May 21 and June 2 - June 12, 2004
Curators: Bruce Wands and David Miller
Co-presented by the Schick Art Gallery &
the New York Digital Salon

Below: John Klima, Glasbead, 1999-2000, Software

DIGITAL SELECTIONS is an exhibition of prints, installations, web sites, CD-ROMs, computer animation, and video and audio works by artists who employ digital tools in creation, co-presented by the Schick Art Gallery and the New York Digital Salon. An opening reception will take place on Tuesday, April 20th from 6:30pm until 7:30pm. Please note that the gallery and this exhibition will re-open for the summer session from June 2nd through June 12th. Bruce Wands will give a digital art lecture on Wednesday, April 21st at 6:00pm in Emerson Auditorium, (Palamountan Hall) on the Skidmore campus.

The DIGITAL SELECTIONS exhibition was curated by David Miller, Director of the Schick Art Gallery and Bruce Wands, Director of the New York Digital Salon, an international digital art organization that celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2003. Involved with the salon since its inception, Wands was curator of the first three of their annual exhibitions, juror for their fourth and has overseen the entire operation since 1998. He is an artist, writer, musician and the Chair of the MFA Computer Art Department and the Director of Computer Education at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has taught for nineteen years in the graduate, undergraduate, and continuing education programs in Computer Art.

Past Exhibits
2004-2005

Vojislav Stanic
July 11 - September 23, 2004
Yugoslav Painter

Below: Vojislav Stanic, Gallery, 2000, 24 x 28 inches

A 24-page exhibition catalogue is available with an essay by Robert Boyers, Tisch Professor of Arts & Letters, English Department, Skidmore College. This exhibition was supported by the Office of Special Programs and Salmagundi magazine.

An excerpt from Boyers' essay follows:
The Yugoslav painter Vojislav Stanic was born in Podgorica, Montenegro in 1924 and has long been regarded in his own country as a major painter. A retrospective of his work was the sole exhibition in the Yugoslav pavilion at the 1997 Venice Biennale, no doubt the high point in the career of an artist whose works have mainly been shown in his own country, and in the United States for the first time in the summer of 2004.

Stanic is a painter of considerable range. In early works he can seem almost like an old-fashioned easel painter with a varied bag of devices borrowed from the entire history of art. More often he paints like a surrealist with an ambivalent allegiance to Magritte and to other eccentric artists, from Bosch to Miro. A figurative painter with an old master's command of structure and design, he is an artist committed to whimsical but affecting depictions of the ordinary lives of ordinary people in and around his own small city. Stanic's paintings offer glimpses of what is apparently a familiar, habitual landscape. People are captured at their games, at their televisions, in various postures of recreation or worship or distraction. Lovers are glimpsed, or studied, through open windows, in parks, often at the edge of some larger spectacle or public event. The mood of the paintings is characteristically optimistic, even cheerful. Typically, grim or solemn things are made to seem incidental, the stuff of an occasional nightmare that will pass. In fact, Stanic is so much at home with both the ordinary and the marvelous that the eruption into his work of the political during the Bosnian war seemed remarkable and chilling. The paintings in this retrospective exhibition demonstrate the full variety of the painter's imagination.

The paintings of Vojislav Stanic are originals in every sense of that much abused term, and powerfully affecting in combining the political and the intimate, formalism and freedom, whim and melancholy, the sumptuous and the "scrapbook," enigma and clarity, subversive irony and generosity of emotion. At eighty, Stanic deserves to win the large international audience that has thus far eluded him.

Past Exhibits
2002-2003

Representations Drawing Invitational
July 11 - September 15, 2002
(Closed August 2 - September 14)

Steven Assael, William Beckman, Kent Bellows, Paul Fenniak, Susan Hauptman, Timothy Hawksworth, Daniel Massad, Bill Vuksanovich, Jerome Witkin

Hauptman 2002

Susan Hauptman, Self-Portrait on Display, 1998, charcoal and pastel on paper, 59 x 40 inches,Courtesy Forum Gallery

Jerome Witkin, Self-Portrait, 1999, graphite, 21 x 18 inches, Courtesy Jack Rutberg Gallery

Past Exhibits
2002-2003

Senior Thesis Exhibition
May 9 - May17, 2003
Tang Teaching Museum

The Department of Art and Art History at Skidmore College, announces the Skidmore College Studio Art Majors' Senior Thesis Exhibition. The show runs from May 9 through May 17, 2003. An Opening Reception will take place on Friday, May 9th, from 6pm until 8pm. The exhibition and reception are FREE and open to the public. Tang Museum hours are Tuesday through Friday 10am until 5pm and Saturday and Sunday 12 noon until 5pm (closed Mondays).

Fifty-four Senior Studio Art Majors will be displaying their work as a capstone to their studies at Skidmore College. The Department provides courses in nine studio art disciplines, all of which will be included in the exhibition: ceramics, communication design, drawing, fibers, metalsmithing, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.

Students whose work will be exhibited are as follows: Molly K. Aaker, Lauren A. Adolfsen, Judith L. Barr, Devin F. Bell, Rachael J. Brouillette, Daniel I. Byers, Rebecca L. Cavanaugh, Owen R. Clements, Richard D. Collins, Ian T. Craig, Adam M. Daily, Lauren L. DeLong, Matthew F. Enderlin, Rosemarie A. Garschina, Martha Gold, Miles D. Halpern, Laura A. Herman, Marta L. Herter, Stephanie L. Howell, Megan D. Hurst, Nicholas H. Jones, Dana Keiner, Rachel L. Kohn, Erika Kondo, Karlene M. Kunigiel, Ruth M. Landy, Sarah Lerman, Elizabeth W. Low, Sarah J. Lutenski, Audrey L. Mangini, Marissa E. Mastrangelo, Joanna B. Nagy, Eliza Naranjo-Morse, Amanda M. Newman, Sarah A. Nohe, John T. O'Hara, Sarah C. Olson, David A. Rankowitz, Beth S. Rosenfeld, Colleen M. Rudolf, Rachel I. Shuman, Jason P. Smith, Kathy I. Spiegel, Kirsten E. Steglich, Emily Tanen, Amy E. Theriault, Akira N. Thompson, Rebecca L. von Behren, Alexandra K. Weigel, Amy E. Wenzel, Maya J. Whitner, Emily A. Winner, Michaelene D. Wisenski, and Dorothy C. Zarren.

Past Exhibits
2003-2004

Bay Area Revisited
November 7 - December 17, 2003
Gallery Talk, November 11th, 3:30pm
Featuring Erin Fitzpatrick,
Assistant VP of Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, NYC

Stephen De Staebler, "Seated Woman Bisected," 1981, bronze, 71-1/2 x 23 x 26 inches, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

Robert De Niro, Sr., "Torso on Table," undated, charcoal on paper, 24-1/4 x 19-1/2 inches, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY

This exhibition presents drawings, paintings and sculpture by major artists from the San Francisco Bay Area including ELMER BISCHOFF, ROBERT De NIRO, SR., STEPHEN De STAEBLER, RICHARD DIEBENKORN, NATHAN OLIVEIRA, and DAVID PARK. Thriving in the Bay Area of San Francisco since the mid 50's, this contemporary group grew in reaction to both West Coast and East Coast Abstract Expressionism, infusing the movement with meaning through the introduction of figurative imagery. What began as a local phenomenon came to have an important impact on the history of American art.

This exhibition was organized in cooperation with the Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NYC, and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, NYC. Works were also borrowed from Nathan Oliveira, Barbara Salander, and the University at Albany, SUNY. An exhibition brochure is available.

Past Exhibits
2003-2004

Skidmore College Senior Thesis Exhibition
May 14 – May 22, 2004
Tang Teaching Museum

The Skidmore College Studio Art Majors' Senior Thesis Exhibition runs from May 14 through May 22, 2004. An Opening Reception will take place on Friday, May 14th, from 6 pm until 8 pm. The exhibition and reception are FREE and open to the public. Hours at the Tang Teaching Museum are Tuesday through Friday 10 am until 5 pm and Saturday and Sunday 12 noon until 5 pm (closed Mondays). Call the museum for additional hours on graduation weekend (May 21st through 23rd) at (518) 580-8080.

Fifty-one Senior Studio Art Majors will be displaying their work as a capstone to their studies at Skidmore College. The Department provides courses in nine studio art disciplines, all of which will be included in the exhibition: ceramics, communication design, drawing, fibers, metalsmithing, jewelry, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.

Students whose work will be exhibited are as follows: Katherine Appleton, Reid Ballard, Sasha Bernstein, Teaya Bromley, Heather Brunner, Evan Campisi, Sarah Conant, Jodie Cooper, Monet Cruz, Bay Danforth, Molly Dougherty, Hollis Erickson, Caitlin Feury, Lixia Guo, Susannah Haesche, Rebecca Harper, Charles Heidsieck, Fitzhugh Karol, Graham Keegan, Zehra Khan, Eric Kuhl, Morgan Lampert, Russell Leggett, Nicholas Loftus, Jason Lombardi, Tara Marino, Alexander Maschas, Andrew McGrath, Hallory Mogren, Tessa O'Brien, Charlotte Peters, Afshaan Rahman, Gail Reich, Eleanor Rhinehart, Laura Rooney, Sarah Ross, Naomi Ruiz, James Sachs, Lindsey Schubart, Charlotte Semmes, Suzanne Servelli, Julie Shulman, Katherine Simonetti, Brian Sprengelmeyer, Martin Sweeney, Kathryn Traynor, Jocelyn Tunney, Palden Weinreb, Allison Weinstein, Erin Williamson, and Jessica Zubatkin.

Past Exhibits
2004-2005

June 16 - September 22, 2005
Anything But Realism
Reception: Thursday, June 16, 6-7 pm

Below: Scott Brodie, Weigela florida at 580 Madison Avenue,
2003, oil on canvas, 46" x 40"

Schick Art Gallery and the Department of Art and Art History announce Anything But Realism, an exhibition of five highly regarded artists who either live or work in the Capital Region: Scott Brodie, David Carbone, JoAnne Carson, Mark Greenwold, and Deborah Zlotsky.

Three of the exhibiting artists will give a panel talk as part of the Summer SIX Visiting Artist lecture series: Scott Brodie, Mark Greenwold and Deborah Zlotsky will present slides and speak in Emerson Auditorium on Thursday, July 7th at 7 pm. David Carbone and JoAnne Carson will hold a dialogue in Schick Art Gallery on Tuesday, September 13th at 4 pm.

All five of these exhibiting artists are professors: JoAnne Carson, David Carbone, and Mark Greenwold are faculty members at the University at Albany; Scott Brodie and Deborah Zlotsky teach at the College of St. Rose. The pieces in this exhibition range in scale, content, and process. The viewer will be fascinated by each artist's unique expression of his or her artistic vision in this engaging exhibit.

The exhibition, reception and talks are FREE and open to the public. The gallery will be closed August 5th through September 5th for summer break. Summer hours are Monday through Friday 9 am to 4 pm and Saturday 1 pm to 4 pm. Hours beginning September 6th are Monday through Friday 9 am to 5 pm and Saturday and Sunday 1 pm to 4:30 pm. This exhibition is sponsored in part by the Office of Special Programs.

Past Exhibits
2001-2002

January 31 - February 24, 2002
Skidmore Student Exhibition

Best of Show, Schick Gallery	Anna Kaye '02
2nd Prize, Soave Faire	Laura Cantor '02
3rd Prize, Pro-Arts Award	Nathaniel Jones '02
4th Prize, Adirondack Trust	Megan Coleman '02
5th Prize, Uncommon Grounds	Maya Whitner '03
6th Prize, Case Gallery	David Gualtieri '02
7th Prize, Allerdice Building Supply	Ben Eberle '03
8th Prize, Image	Maya Whitner '03
Honorable Mentions: Ruth Landy '03, Sam Rosenberg '04, Rebecca Von Behren '03

Past Exhibits
2003-2004

Skidmore Student Exhibition
February 3 - February 29, 2004
List of Winners/Prizes

1. Schick Art Gallery Award (Best of Show)
$300 Skidmore Shop gift certificate
Brian Sprengelmeyer, Dwelling, ceramic

2. Soave Faire Award
$150.00 gift certificate
Evan Campisi, Untitled #2, oil & resin on panel

3. ProArts Award
$75.00 prize
Russel Leggett, The Better to Eat You With, Metal

4. Adirondack Trust Award
$50.00 savings bond prize
Lindsey Fyfe, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle & Other Stories, book pages

5. Case Gallery Prize
$50.00 prize
Sam Jaspersohn, Alison Series, charcoal, ink, oil, graphite on paper

6. Allerdice Building Supply Award
$25.00 gift certificate prize
Sarah MacCaughey, Perpetual Motion, dowel, rice paper

7. Image Photo & Digital Lab Award
$20.00 gift certificate prize
Nyssa Wittliff, Untitled, photograph

Past Exhibits
2004-2005

2005 Skidmore Student Exhibition
February 1 - March 6

Guest juror of this year's exhibition is John Weber, Dayton Director of the Tang Teaching Museum, who selected 51 works from 176 pieces submitted for consideration. All of the paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, prints, photographs, and mixed media works on display were created by Skidmore students in 2004. A total of 87 students entered works; 39 are represented in the show. Weber also selected a number of awards for outstanding work. These prizes are funded through donations made by friends of the gallery, campus organizations, and community businesses. A complete list of winners will be posted in the in the gallery along with a juror's statement.

Weber came to the Tang from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where he served as curator of education and public programs since 1993. He assumed his new position in October 2004, directing the Tang Museum's curatorial and education programs, planning, and administration.

Past Exhibits
2004-2005

Selected Faculty Exhibition
October 1 - November 3, 2004

An exhibition featuring seven out of twenty studio art faculty members. Opening with a reception from 6:30 to 7:30 pm on Friday, October 1st, remaining on view through November 3rd. A gallery talk is set for Wednesday, October 13th from 3 to 4 pm. The exhibition, talk, and reception are free and open to the public.

The Skidmore College studio art faculty consists of fifteen full-time and five part-time visiting studio art faculty members, representing a wide variety of disciplines including ceramics, communication design, drawing and painting, metals, photography, printmaking, sculpture, textile design, and videography. In addition, there are seven art history faculty members.

The Schick Art Gallery exhibitions committee has arranged for seven faculty to exhibit in this show: Regis Brodie (clay), John Galt (sculpture), Deborah Hall (graphics), David Miller (painting), Doretta Miller (painting), Victoria Palermo (sculpture), and Iona Park (painting). These seven exhibiting artists will be able to show a larger number of works than faculty members have exhibited in previous years. Similar numbers of faculty members in small groups will rotate for annual faculty exhibitions in the future, giving the entire faculty a chance to exhibit over the coming years. Skidmore studio art faculty members have shown regionally and nationally over the past several years and most have gallery affiliations in one or more major cities throughout the country, are represented in numerous public and private collections, and have been the recipients of significant awards.

Past Exhibits
2004-2005

Artist Residency/Exhibition
March 21 – April 15, 2005

Minneapolis artist Amelia Biewald, recipient of the Schick Art Gallery 2005 artist's residency competition, will use the gallery space as a studio to develop an installation piece during her residency, scheduled March 21st through April 15th. Students and the public may view the process and interact with the artist at limited times. There will be a celebration reception in the gallery when her creation is brought to fruition.

Biewald's work addresses conventional notions of physical beauty, and the ways it can be obtained, as well as pop culture's obsession with supernatural beauty and youth. Her work looks at the line between the artificial and natural, including surgically enhanced bodies, and questions the ethics of such medical "advances." She incorporates a wide array of materials in her provocative large-scale installations and considers the process of construction to be of utmost importance in her work.

Biewald received a B.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and studied fine art and theory at Goldsmith's College at the University of London. She earned an M.F.A. degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The recipient of many awards and fellowships, Biewald received a 2004 residency fellowship from the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. She has exhibited widely in the midwest and taught at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is an adjunct professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Artist's Lecture/Reception Info

An artist's lecture will be held on Thursday, March 24th at 7:00 p.m. in the Payne Room of the Tang Teaching Museum. A reception and installation celebration will take place on Thursday, April 14th from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the gallery. Gallery visiting hours will be Monday through Thursday 10 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 2 p.m.; the gallery will be closed to visitors Friday, Saturday and Sunday throughout the residency. The lecture, exhibition and reception are FREE and open to the public.

Past Exhibits
2004-2005

April 21 - June 11, 2005
Seven Skidmore Alumni Under Thirty Includes:

Ian Bissonnette, Class of 2000; paintings
Eben Goff, Class of 2000; paintings
Michael Green, Class of 1995; sculpture
Anna Kaye, Class of 2002; paintings
Gregg Moore, Class of 1997; clay sculpture
Abigail Rubenstein, Class of 1997; paintings
Scott White, Class of 1995; sculpture

Opening Reception: April 21st 6:30 to 7:30 pm

A Panel Talk will be held at 10 am, April 22nd,
Room 311, Saisselin Art Building

Below: Anna Kaye, Chryse Planitia, 2004, oil on canvas, 36 x 108 inches

Past Exhibits
2005-2006

Selected Faculty Exhibition
September 30 - November 3, 2005
Reception: Friday, September 30, 6:30-7:30 pm

Below: Deborah Morris, Temperance, 2003, charcoal, 26 x 40 inches

The Department of Art and Art History announce an exhibition featuring six out of twenty-two studio art faculty members. A gallery talk will take place on October 6th at 3pm. The exhibition, reception and talk are free and open to the public.

The Skidmore College studio art faculty consists of fourteen full-time professors and eight part-time visiting assistant professors, representing a wide variety of disciplines including ceramics, communication design, drawing and painting, metals, photography, printmaking, sculpture, fiber arts, and videography. In addition, there are seven art history faculty members.

The Schick Art Gallery exhibitions committee has arranged for six artists to exhibit in this show: John Cunningham (sculpture), Kate Leavitt (painting/printmaking), Margo Mensing (installation), Deborah Morris (drawing), Ryan Parr (drawing), and Rebecca Shepard (painting) . These six exhibiting artists will be able to show a larger number of works than faculty members have exhibited in previous years, when over twenty artists participated in the annual faculty exhibit at one time. Similar small numbers of faculty members in groups will rotate for annual exhibitions, giving the entire faculty a chance to exhibit in the future. Skidmore art faculty members have shown regionally and nationally and most have gallery affiliations in one or more major cities throughout the country, are represented in numerous public and private collections, and have been the recipients of significant awards.

Exhibition
Then & Now: Seven Skidmore Alumni
April 26-June 24, 2007
Schick Art Gallery, Saisselin Art Building

Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
Pat Musick
June 8-August 8, 2007
Artist's Reception June 21, 6-7pm
Location: Adjacent to Saisselin Art Building

Open House
Summer Arts Students
June 29, 6:00-8:00 pm (meet the faculty)
June 30, 6:00-8:00 pm
Saisselin Art Center

Exhibition
Regis Brodie: A Retrospective
Celebrating 40 years of work
July 5-September 23, 2007
Opening Reception, July 5, 7-8:30pm
Schick Art Gallery, Saisselin Art Building

Art Lecture/Demonstration
Regis Brodie, Ceramist
July 5, 6:00 pm
Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall

Art Lecture
Summer Art Programs Faculty
July 10, 3:30 pm
Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall

Art Lecture
Toshiko Takaezu, Ceramist
July 16, 7:00 pm
Gannett Auditorium Palamountain Hall

Art Lecture
Janet Fish, Painter
July 23, 7:00 pm
Gannett Auditorium Palamountain Hall

Open House
Summer Art Students
August 2, 6:00-8:00 pm
Saisselin Art Center

Also visit www.skidmore.edu/summer

2008-2009 Exhibitions

Barry Moser, Prints & Drawings
July 1 - September 28, 2008
Gallery closed for summer break August 1 - September 1

Artist Delivers Fox-Adler Lecture*, Sept. 25th
Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall, 5:15 pm

Gallery Receptions: July 1, 6:30-7:30 pm
and immediately following the Fox-Adler Lecture

The Schick Art Gallery at Skidmore College will exhibit a number of prints, drawings and books by Barry Moser that reflect various stages of the artist's career. Works for this exhibition are on loan from the R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton, MA, and the Department of Special Collections, Lucy Scribner Library, Skidmore College.

^{*The Fox-Adler Lecture is named after the late Hannah M. Adler and donor Norman M.
Fox and supports the intellectual mission of the Fox Collection, an invaluable asset
for Skidmore students and faculty studying Victorian literature, illustration, and
culture.}

^{From Frankenstein, 1983, wood engraving by Barry Moser, image 8.5 x 6 inches; Collection, Lucy Scribner
Library}

Barry Moser is a big bear of a man with a full white beard and the Tennessee accent of a Bible Belt preacher (which at age 19, is what he was). Moser put himself through his last two years of college as a Methodist preacher, but his calling to the ministry didn't last. He was accepted into the Theological Seminary at Vanderbilt, but he declined to attend. He moved to New England and devoted himself to teaching and learning the crafts of etching and wood engraving. He later studied printing and typography at the Gehenna Press under the tutelage of Harold McGrath and Leonard Baskin. He is an extraordinary bookman and frequent lecturer on the art of the book.

Moser, who was born in Chattanooga, Tenn. and now lives in western Mass., is a virtuoso wood engraver, painter, designer, publisher, author, and lecturer. He composed his first line of handset type in 1969, and since then, his work has been published in more than two hundred books for children and adults. He is world renowned for his children's illustrations, wood engravings, watercolors, and reinterpretations of the classics, including the Pennyroyal Press editions of Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Frankenstein, Huckleberry Finn, The Wizard of Oz, and the Pennyroyal Caxton Edition of the Holy Bible. Moser's art is represented in numerous library and museum collections.

Past Exhibits
2005-2006

Edward Mayer: Drawing In
March 3 - April 7, 2006
Reception: March 3rd, 6:30-7:30 pm
Artist Lecture: March 8th, 6:30 pm, Gannett Auditorium,
Palamountain Hall

Below: Drawing In, 2006, view of site-specific installation in Schick Art Gallery, coated steel shelving, vinyl tape, found objects, plastic ties

For over thirty years, Edward Mayer has been transforming space and ordering perception through large-scale sculptures that use simple geometry and everyday materials, redefining spatial relationships in response to the architectural elements of a given site. Mayer's recent works introduce inherently transparent materials, such as pre-fabricated wire shelving, wire fencing and wire tomato plant cylinders. The repetition and transformation of these modular/linear forms enable the viewer to now enter and move through Mayer's installations from a variety of perspectives.

Mayer recently had his second solo show at Zabriskie Gallery in New York, and a survey of his work was recently installed at the University Art Museum in Albany, New York. He has had solo exhibits at the Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, New York; the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; the Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany; the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Zolla-Liebermann Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin; the São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York; and the New York State Museum in Albany, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a NYFA Fellowship in Sculpture. Edward Mayer is the Sculpture Area Chair at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Past Exhibits
2005-2006

Terry Winters:Sketchbook Pages & Tokyo Notes
April 13 - July 9, 2006
April 25th, 6:00 pm: Artist's Talk, Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall,
followed by Artist's Reception in the gallery

Below: Tokyo Notes 3; 2005; from a portfolio of eleven lithographs, including title page and colophon, published by Kido Press, Tokyo

Terry Winters is known for his paintings, drawings and prints: layers of interlocking networks of accumulated lines, forming webs and grids that have intrigued, challenged and thrilled viewers for years. His first solo exhibit in New York was at the Sonnabend Gallery in 1982, and since then he has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. Among the many publications of his work is a recent book in which his prints from the preceding decade were placed in the context of his work in other media. Titled Terry Winters/Paintings, Drawings, Prints/1994-2004, the book was organized and circulated by the Addison Gallery of American Art and co-published by Yale University. It includes essays by Richard Schiff, Rachel Teagle and Adam D. Weinberg, and its publication coincided with an exhibition of work by Winters at the Addison.

The Schick Art Gallery will showcase twelve Sketchbook Pages (graphite on paper) from 2002. These works, courtesy of the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, which represents Winters, have never been displayed. Also in the exhibition is the series Tokyo Notes, a portfolio of eleven lithographs, including title page and colophon, published by Kido Press, Tokyo, 2005, courtesy of the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, where they are part of the permanent collection and were last exhibited. A catalogue with text by Francine Prose will accompany the Skidmore exhibition.

Past Exhibits
2003-2004

Annual Skidmore Art Faculty Exhibition
October 3 - November 2, 2003
Gallery Talk, October 10th, 3pm

This group exhibition presents works by fourteen full time faculty members including: Regis Brodie, John Cunningham, Deborah Hall, Kate Leavitt, Richard Linke, Margo Mensing, David Miller, Doretta Miller, John Moore, David Peterson, Paul Sattler, Janet Sorensen, Peter Stake (Chair), and Joanne Vella. Eight visiting faculty members including: Leslie Ferst, John Galt, Trish Lyell, Jane Mackintosh, Deborah Morris, Victoria Palermo, Sara Tack will also be featured. Multi-media works, ceramics, metals, photography, graphic design, drawing, painting printmaking and sculpture will be among the works exhibited.

Illustrated above:
Doretta Miller, Greetings, gouache on paper, 2002

Past Exhibits
2005-2006

Drawn2, Contemporary Drawing Exhibition
November 11 - December 18, 2005
Reception: Friday, November 11, 6:30-7:30 pm

Below: Dawn Clements, On the Table, 2004, Sumi ink on paper, 31.75 x 50 inches, courtesy of Pierogi

A gallery talk with one of the exhibiting artists, Darrel Morris, will take place on Tuesday, November 15th at 6pm in Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall.

Twenty-two works will be on display by six of the exhibiting artists. Another two series of ten drawings each by Simone Shubuck bring the total of pieces on display to forty-two. The works range in size from a four and a half inch square by Wes Mills to a thirty by one hundred and eighty inch long panoramic drawing by Dawn Clements. Works in varying mediums are included, from the traditional to the experimental: a stitching by Darrel Morris, burnt hole paper pieces by Jane Masters. The viewer will find direct observation, inventive abstraction and the imaginative minimal in evidence here. In a catalogue essay, Margo Mensing, Associate Professor of Art and chair of the exhibitions committee, remarks: "How differently these seven artists see the world and how familiar they make it while keeping their own strides."

Past Exhibits
2005-2006

Skidmore Student Exhibition
January 31 - February 21, 2006
Reception: January 31, 6:30-8:00 pm

Below: Alex Smith '06, Untitled, oil on canvas
Best in Show, Schick Art Gallery Prize from the 2006 Skidmore Student Exhibition

Exhibition juror Fred Wilson selected 77 works from 194 pieces submitted for consideration. All of the original paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, prints, photographs, graphic design, installation, metals and mixed media works on display were created by Skidmore students in 2005. A total of 88 students entered works; 60 are represented in the show. Wilson also selected eleven awards for outstanding work, which were announced at the opening reception. These prizes were funded through donations made by friends of the gallery, campus organizations, and community businesses. A complete list of winners is posted in the gallery along with a juror's statement.

Fred Wilson is an American artist of African-American and Caribbean descent who represented the United States at the 2003 Venice Biennale. Born in the Bronx, New York in 1954, Wilson received a B.F.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1976 and lives in New York City. He is best known for rearranging museum collections, using the same design techniques museums use, coming up with different points of view.

Past Exhibits
2003-2004

Skidmore Student Exhibition
February 3 - February 29, 2004

Juror: Painter, Mark Wethli
Wethli will give a Slide Lecture of his work Tuesday evening, January 27th at 6pm in Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall.

Guest juror Mark Wethli selected 86 works from 168 pieces submitted for display in this exhibition. Skidmore students created all the paintings, drawings, sculpture, metals, ceramics, textiles, prints, photographs, communication design, and mixed media on exhibit in 2003 and 2004.

93 students entered works; 66 are represented in the show. The juror also awarded a number of prizes, funded by a variety of campus organizations and community businesses. A complete list of winners is posted in the exhibition along with a Juror's Statement.

Mark Wethli is a painter and professor of art at Bowdoin College, where he is also Director of the Visual Arts Program. A graduate of the University of Miami (MFA, 1973), his paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the country, with frequent solo exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles. His work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art, and the DeCordova Museum of Art, among many others, as well as numerous private collections. He has received artist's fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, as well as artist's residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, and the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy.

Past Exhibits
2002-2003

Beggars and Choosers: motherhood is Not a class privilege in America, a photography exhibition
March 7 - April 6, 2003
Rickie Solinger & Kay Obering, Exhibition Curators

Regina Monfort, Regina and Stanley, photograph

Mel Rosenthal, East 173rd Street, The Bronx, photograph

Curator Rickie Solinger will deliver a related lecture, Nine Ways of Looking at a Poor Woman, on Thursday, March 27th at 6:30pm in Gannett Auditorium at Skidmore College. The lecture is a discussion of how we define poor women in the United States and a consideration of how these definitions shape what we think welfare policy should look like. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Department, the Intercultural Center of Skidmore College and the Office of Diversity and Affirmative Action. Immediately following the lecture, a reception will be held in the Schick Art Gallery from 7:30-9pm.

Past Exhibits
2002-2003

Visiting Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
April 17 - May 16, 2003
Paul Sattler, Exhibition Curator

Arms Length

Ruth Foote, 2002, from the At Arms' Length series, 8.5 x 11 inches, photograph

Victoria Palermo, 2002, Three, 34-46 inches in height, rubber

This group exhibition presents works by ten Visiting Studio Art Faculty members at Skidmore College including: Seth Cluett, Stephanie Collins, Leslie Ferst, Ruth Foote, Anne Francey, John Galt, John Hampshire, Trish Lyell, Deborah Morris and Victoria Palermo. A multi-media installation and works in ceramics, metals, photography, drawing, painting and sculpture will be featured. Paul Sattler, curator of the exhibition, is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Skidmore. An Opening Reception will take place on Thursday, April 17th, from 6pm until 8pm. A Gallery Talk with exhibiting artists will take place on Monday, April 21st from 12 noon until 1pm. The exhibition, reception, and gallery talk are FREE and open to the public

Past Exhibits
2003-2004

Lenore Malen, Performance Artist:
"Archivist for The New Society for Universal Harmony, A Utopian Community"
June 17 - July 6, 2004
Performance followed by Reception: July 6th, 4:30 pm

Below: Lenore Malen, Kathryn, 2003, photograph

Performance Artist, LENORE MALEN, (Skidmore Class of '66) "Archivist for The New Society for Universal Harmony, A Utopian Community," will present slides and audio about Animal Magnetism, the Michelson-Morley Experiment, the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT), the Lottery as an Instrument of Education, Morgan's Revolt of the Bees and other topics on July 6th in Schick Art Gallery at 4:30pm. An Artist's Reception will immediately follow her presentation.

The New Society for Universal Harmony is an installation of black-and-white and color photographs that reinvents in contemporary terms La Société de l'harmonie universelle, a utopian society established in Paris in 1783 by followers of Franz Anton Mesmer. Mesmer's thesis, combining Newtonianism and astrology, was that a universal magnetic fluid linked all forces in nature and that an imbalance of the fluid caused illness in human beings. Mesmer initially used magnets as a curative agent but eventually dispensed with them, considering himself to be an "animal magnet." He induced an altered state of consciousness in his patients through auto-suggestion, a technique later developed into hypnosis. Mesmer's beliefs established a medical and psychological tradition that ultimately influenced Charcot and even Freud. They offer parallels with contemporary healing practices.

"Treatments" at The New Society for Universal Harmony, on display as part of the installation, have been adapted from the original cures at La Société. The New Society includes pseudo-documentary photos, video and audio narratives, testimonials, and case histories in a stage-set environment. The pseudo-documentary photographs show the putative members of the society undergoing therapy by performing acts based on Mesmer's actual treatments. The photographs rely on theatrical and narrative conventions, particularly the tableau vivant, and make reference to documentary photos from the Kinsey Institute Archives, stills from productions of Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade (both theater and film stills), the photographs of 19th century French anatomist G.B. Duchenne de Boulogne, the work of the Czech photographer Frantisek Drtikol, and the photographs of Calvin Watkins, among others, The audio tracks present pseudo-biographies, philosophical musings, and scientific explications, exploring the ways in which the institutional and communal identities of the society have been shaped.

Past Exhibits
2003-2004

A Roadshow of Dutch Graphic Design (1990-2003)
July 25 - September 28, 2003

A Panel Discussion will be held on Wednesday, September 10th at 6pm in Ganett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall:Featuring Exhibition Curator Toon Lauwen of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and designers Bob van Dijk, also of Amsterdam, formerly of the acclaimed Studio Dumbar, now of NLXL Studios and panelist Barry de Bruin of Ping Pong Design, Rotterdam. Moderator will be Deb Hall, Assistant Professor of Art, graphic design specialist.

The exhibition A Roadshow of Dutch Graphic Design (1990-2003) presents a selection of the diversity and color produced by Dutch designers and design studios over the last decade. From these posters, books, catalogues, brochures, house styles, annual reports, magazines and a few websites, it becomes evident that graphic design is well integrated in all forms of expression in Dutch companies, cultural institutions and government agencies. This multiform stream of communication is the result of good design schools and professional possibilities for designers. At the same time, the collected work bears witness to the energy, the daring and the entrepreneurial spirit of their clients. The collection also characterizes the culture of the Netherlands. It is a culture that offers ample space for individuality, tolerance and progressive opinions.

A Roadshow of Dutch Graphic Design (1990-2000) was previously shown in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Institut Néerlandais in Paris, Musée des Beaux Arts/Villa Steinbeck in Mulhouse, Musée des Beaux Arts in Valence-France, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore-USA, ADGFAD/Laus 01 in Barcelona-Spain, Erasmushuis, Jakarta- Indonesia, the Design Center Stuttgart/Germany and the AIGA Gallery in New York. The exhibition is curated by Toon Lauwen/Lauwen Projects.

Image above courtesy of Bob van Dijk, Studio Dumbar.

Holland Dance Festival ©1995
poster: Studio Dumbar/Bob van Dijk (1967) Den Haag
client: Holland Dance Festival, Den Haag

Past Exhibits
2002-2003

Annual Juried Skidmore Student Show
January 30 - February23, 2003
Juror: NYC painter, Will Cotton

The gallery received two hundred submissions, from which the juror selected fifty-six works for display in the show. All works were created in 2002. The juror also selected eight works to receive awards, some of which are supported by contributions from local businesses. Prizes and recipients (with the year of their graduation) are as follows:

Schick Art Gallery Prize - Adam Daily '03
Soave Faire Prize - Amy Wenzel '03
ProArts Student Organization Prize - Eliza Naranjo-Morse '03
Adirondack Trust Company Prize - Peter Kimmerling '03
Case Gallery Prize - Ruth Landy '03
Allerdice Building Supply Prize - Benjamin Eberle '03
Image Photo & Digital Lab Prize - Fitzhugh Karol '04
Honorable Mention - Joan Hodges '05

Enberle 2002

Benjamin Eberle '03, Bottle Form 3, 2002, clay

Winner of 2003 Allerdice Prize

Sarah Nohe '03, Untitled, 2002, oil on canvas

Past Exhibits
2007-2008

Selected Art Faculty Exhibition
September 27 - November 4, 2007
Opening Reception: September 27, 6:30-7:30 pm
Gallery Talk: October 17, 10:30 am

Exhibiting Faculty:
Evangelos Courpas, John Galt, Deb Hall, David Miller, Doretta Miller,Victoria Palermo, Iona Park

^{Image Above Left: Victoria Palermo, Last night's dream...you, me, and the Dalai Lama, 2006, rubber, 47.5" h x 14.5" dia.
Image Above Right: David Miller, Ocean View: Cozumel Deep, 2007, pastel and mixed mediums, 36" x 36"}

Small numbers of faculty members in groups continue to rotate for annual faculty exhibitions. Exhibiting in this year's show are seven out of twenty-four studio art faculty members. These exhibiting artists will be able to show a larger number of works than faculty members have exhibited in previous years when over twenty artists participated in the annual exhibit at one time. Skidmore studio art faculty have shown regionally and nationally, and most have gallery affiliations in one or more major cities throughout the country, are represented in numerous public and private collections, and have been the recipients of significant awards.

The Skidmore College studio art faculty consists of fifteen full-time professors and nine part-time visiting assistant professors, representing a wide variety of disciplines including art theory and foundations, ceramics, communication design, drawing and painting, electronic media, fiber arts, metals, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. Skidmore also has nine art history faculty members.

^{Image: Schick Art Gallery installation 2007}

Past Exhibits
2007-2008

THE NEW AMERICAN SUBLIME:
LANDSCAPE AND ABSTRACTION BY CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS
Featuring Gregory Amenoff, Jake Berthot, Bernard Chaet, Laurel Hughes, Bill Jensen, John Lees, Joan Snyder, John Walker

FEBRUARY 29 - APRIL 6, 2008
Reception: February 29, 6:30-7:30 pm

GALLERY TALK: Tuesday, March 18th, 4:30 pm
With Paul Sattler, acting chair, Dept. of Art
and associate professor of art, Skidmore College

The Nielsen Gallery in Boston lent multiple works for this exhibition. Additional paintings are on loan from Alpha Gallery, Boston, and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College. Sattler conceived the exhibition, which was co-curated by his Skidmore colleagues, Peter Stake, associate professor of art, and David Miller, professor of art and director of the Schick Art Gallery.

^{Gregory Amenoff, June, 2005, oil on panel, 28 x 30 inches, courtesy Nielsen Gallery, Boston}

"ENTHUSIASM AND EXHULTATION" by Paul Sattler

The eye attunes, pastoral warbler, always.
Joy in the cradle of calamity
Wakes though dim voices work at lullaby.
Triumph of vision: the act by which we see
Is both the landscape-gardening of our dream
And the root's long revel under the clipped lawn.

James Merrill
from Foliage of Vision (1951)

"Enthusiasm and exultation" are the primary characteristics of determined artists; so said Cennino d'Andrea Cennini in his 14th century treatise and technical manual Il Libro dell'Arte. Such are the qualities to be found in our exhibition of painters, The New American Sublime. (more)

^{Bernard Chaet, Heavy Clouds, 2005, oil on canvas, 34 x 40 inches, courtesy Alpha Gallery, Boston}

^{Jake Berthot, Bayard's Meadow, 1999, oil on panel, 15 3/4 x 22 inches, courtesy Nielsen Gallery, Boston}

Past Exhibits
2007-2008

JULIAN LAVERDIERE
MOBILE MONUMENTS
April 17 - June 20, 2008

Reception: Thursday, April 17, 6:30-7:30 pm
Gallery Talk with the Artist:Thursday, April 24 , 4:00 pm

^{Imperial Dragster (Napoleon Re-built),}^{2003, fiberglass, automotive paint, dragster wheels, florescent lights, industrial
felt and acrylic, 9' x 9' x 9'}

New York native LaVerdiere lives and works in NYC and LA. Visit the artist's website and learn more about his work. A production designer and fine artist, he is perhaps best known for his haunting collaboration with Paul Myoda on the Tribute in Light Initiative, a temporary light memorial to honor the victims of the attack on the World Trade Center. The memorial was first approved and illuminated at the WTC site in 2002. A year later, Mayor Michael Bloomberg selected Tribute in Light to become a permanent, official annual ceremonial addition to the WTC memorial. LaVerdiere's sculpture, drawing, and photography have been exhibited internationally (more)

^RenuLife,^{2005, vacuu-formed Lexan, florescent lights, aluminum, vinyl, wire, flock, acrylic
paint, steel construction hook and hardware, 8' x 3' x 18", hanging dim. variable}

Past Exhibits
2007-2008

Eve Aschheim: New Drawings
November 8 - December 16, 2007*
*Note: Gallery closed for the Thanksgiving holiday November 21 - 25
Opening Reception: November 8, 6:30-7:30 pm
Gallery Talk: November 13, 3:00 pm

^{Triple Steel,}^{2006,
gesso, black gesso, ink and graphite on Duralene Mylar, 12 x 9 inches}

Eve Aschheim was born in New York City and studied art at the University of California, Berkeley (BA, 1984) and the University of California, Davis (MFA, 1987). Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe. Aschheim has said of her quietly evocative yet compelling works, "I want to create a composition that is open, where the viewer can imagine." In this realm of possibility and movement, the discovery of new notions of abstract space is permitted. The Schick exhibit will contain mainly small works in gesso, ink and graphite on Mylar.

A selection of Aschheim's recent solo exhibitions include Lori Bookstein Fine Art (New York, 2006), University Gallery at the Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts (Amherst, 2003), Galerie Rainer Borgemeister (Berlin, 1999 and 2000) and Galleri Magnus Åklundh (Lund, Sweden, 1999). In 1998 her work was included in the exhibition Drawing Is Another Kind Of Language at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, which traveled to the Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Kunstmuseum Ahlen; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Picardie and Musée de Picardie, Amiens; and the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY.

Recent group exhibitions including Aschheim are Twice Drawn at the Tang Museum (Saratoga Springs, NY, 2006), In Black and White at Lori Bookstein Fine Art (2005), About Painting at the Tang Museum (2004), New Views: Modern New York Cityscapes at the New York Historical Society (New York, 2004) and Ins Licht gerückt - Aus der Grafischen Sammlung at the Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany, 2004).

Aschheim has received fellowships from the Elizabeth Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her honors include the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award.

Her work belongs to numerous collections, including the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; the Kunstmuseum, Bonn; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the New York Historical Society and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.

In 2003 Aschheim was appointed Director of the Visual Arts Program at Princeton University. She lives in Manhattan with her husband John Yau and their daughter.

^{No Accidents ,}^{2006,
gesso, black gesso, ink and graphite on Duralene Mylar, 12 x 9 inches}

Past Exhibits
2007-2008

2008 SKIDMORE STUDENT EXHIBITION: 1/29/08 - 2/24/08
Reception: 1/29/08, 6:30-8:00 pm
Juror:John L. Moore, NYC Painter

As juror, Moore selected 65 works from 162 pieces submitted for consideration. All of the original ceramics, drawing and painting, electronic media, metals, photography, printmaking, and sculpture works on display were created by Skidmore students in 2007. A total of 84 students entered works; 53 are represented in the show. Moore also selected nine awards for outstanding work, which will be announced at the opening reception. These prizes are funded through donations made by friends of the gallery, campus organizations, and community businesses. A complete list of winners will be posted in the in the gallery and on the Schick website along with a juror's statement.

STUDENT GUIDELINES/TIMELINE

^{Left, Sarah Glasser '10,Unity, oil on canvas, Best in Show, Schick Art Gallery Award, 2008 Skidmore Student Exhibition
Right, Meredith Mowder '08,Untitled, wax, hair, foam, wood; ProArts Award, 2008 Skidmore Student Exhibition}

^{Installation photo, 2008 Skidmore Student Exhibition}

Past Exhibits
2006-2007

Skidmore Student Exhibition
January 30 - March 4, 2007

Reception: Tuesday, January 30th, 6:30pm - 8pm
JUROR: IAN BERRY, Associate Director and
Malloy Curator of the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore

^{Images: Kristina Costa, Untitled (detail at right), 2006, wood, toy soldiers (Best in Show)
Each toy soldier represents an American casualty in the War in Iraq, collectively
forming a portrait of President Bush. This piece will be updated as the war continues.}

Ian Berry selected 38 works from 148 pieces submitted for consideration. All of the original paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, prints, photographs, graphic design, metals and mixed media works on display were created by Skidmore students in 2006. A total of 77 students entered works; 30 are represented in the show. Berry also selected nine awards for outstanding work, which will be announced at the opening reception. These prizes are funded through donations made by friends of the gallery, campus organizations, and community businesses. A complete list of winners will be posted in the gallery along with a juror's statement.

A specialist in contemporary art, Berry served as Assistant Curator at the Williams College Museum of Art before coming to Skidmore in 2000. His many exhibitions for the Tang Museum include Living with Duchamp (2003), Twice Drawn (2006), and the "Opener" series of focused solo projects that has featured artists such as Shahzia Sikander, Nayland Blake, Lee Boroson, Jim Hodges, and Nina Katchadourian. Berry is also a frequent guest lecturer on museums and contemporary art practice and a regular essayist for exhibition catalogues. His recent publications include Kara Walker: Narratives of A Negress (Tang and MIT Press, 2003), Richard Pettibone: A Retrospective (Tang and Laguna, 2005), and America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler (Tang and MIT Press, 2006).

Past Exhibits
2006-2007

Christoph Ruckhäberle
*Residency: March 19 - April 22, 2007

*German painter Christoph Ruckhäberle will use the gallery as a working studio to complete a series of paintings while in residency; visitors may observe his process during limited gallery hours March 19th through April 16th: Mon.& Wed.
10 am-12 noon or Tues. & Thurs. 2-4 pm

Slide Lecture: Thursday, March 22, 7pm, Payne Room - TANG
Exhibition: April 17 - 22nd
Reception: Tuesday, April 17th, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Exhibition hours April 17th - 22nd: weekdays 9 am-5 pm, weekends 1-4:30 pm

Special thanks to Zach Feuer Gallery, NYC

^{The Fan , 2006, oil on canvas, 48 x 79 inches}

In my paintings, interior rooms set the stage for young men and women dressed in simple clothes. The dancing, standing, and sitting figures perform a variety of acts, often with blank stares or somber expressions. The characters, composed in classical poses, contrast with the relaxed rooms. These rooms act as theatrical backdrops where play is carried out with grim faces and animated gestures. Using neutral colors and figure-groups, I transform public locations into centers for relaxation. Stages with no directors, my paintings become places where boredom and possibility coexist.

In my most recent work, the viewer is able to look at the subjects from a new angle - one seems to be watching the scene from under tables, on the ceilings, floating in mid-air. These odd viewing positions extenuate the contorting bodies of the figures. Perspective is exaggerated and shrunken, legs are stretched, and everyone seems frozen in an unspecific scene.

^{Big Fan, 2006, oil on canvas, 79 x 110 inches}

Past Exhibits
2006-2007

Then & Now : Seven Skidmore Alumni
April 26 - June 24, 2007

Reception: 6:30 - 7:30 pm, Thursday, April 26th
Artists' Panel Discussion: April 27th, 10:30 am,
Surrey Inn, North Broadway

^{Elena Borstein ('68), Yellow Courtyard, 2003, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 40 inches}

Abigail Murray ('96), Bricks, 2003, porcelain, 60 x 26 x 25 inches

Exhibiting Artists:
Glenda Arentzen ('62) - jewelry; New York, NY
Elena Borstein ('68) - paintings; New York, NY
Joan Wadleigh Curran ('72) - drawings/paintings; Philadelphia, PA
Josh Dorman ('88) - works on paper; Long Island City, NY
Sandra Dovberg ('69) - metals; Albany, NY
Beverley Mastrianni ('76) - sculpture; Saratoga Springs, NY
Abigail Murray ('96) - ceramics; Ann Arbor, MI

A panel discussion with the alumni will take place on April 27th at 10:30 am at Skidmore campus Surrey Inn , during which the artists will talk about their career development in the field of fine art. This event is made possible through support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Office of Career Services.

Recent works will be on display along with one piece from each artist's college days. A variety of media will be included in this exhibit: large and small-scale metal sculpture; jewelry; ceramics; acrylic, oil and mixed media paintings and drawings. These artists have received numerous awards, been widely exhibited in prestigious galleries and reviewed; several are included in major national and international museum collections including the MOMA, New York.

^{Josh Dorman, Sum, (detail) 2006, ink, acrylic and antique maps on wood panels, 64 x 36 inches}

Past Exhibits
2005-2006

Misleading Trails, Seven Artists*
*This exhibition was organized by the artists; China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing; and Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University
July 13 - September 22, 2006

Reception: Thursday, July 13, 6:00-7:00 pm
Lectures with Dan Mills, one of the artists/curators of Misleading Trails
Friday, July 21, 7:00 pm
Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall

AND September 13th 3pm in the Gallery

^{Below: Xiaoze Xie, December 2001, L.T., 2002, oil on canvas, 106.5 x 190.5 cm, courtesy of the artist and Charles Cowles
Gallery, New York; Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles; China Art Archives & Warehouse,
Beijing}

-- An excerpt from Xiaoze Xie's exhibition catalogue essay:

"Misleading Trails" is a result of our [Dan Mills' and Xiaoze Xie's] interaction and collaboration with a number of artists for a year and a half. Ai Weiwei, Hai Bo, and Hong Hao live in Beijing; Xiaoze Xie is from China but lives and works in the States now; Enrique Chagoya, Dan Mills, and Vernon Fisher are American artists. The artists have been actively involved in the curatorial process of "Misleading Trails," which can be regarded as an "organically produced" show. Even though there is not a single theme or artistic medium linking all the works in the exhibition, there are diverse and complex correlations between the featured works. The natural merging of conceptual and visual elements, the layering and complexity of meanings, the questioning and challenging of cultural and political significance and established value systems, deconstruction or synthesizing of art forms, the ambiguity of artistic styles, all of these are the traits that this group of extremely individualized artworks share.

^{Below: Dan Mills, Mine!, 2004, acrylic on paper, 123.5 x 103 cm, courtesy of the artist and Printworks Gallery,
Chicago}

Past Exhibits
2006-2007

Selected Art Faculty Exhibition
October 5 - November 5, 2006

Reception: 6:30 - 8 pm, Thursday, October 5th
Gallery Talk: 10:30 am, Wednesday, October 18th

^{Images above: (L) Leslie Ferst, Signs of Life, 2006, clay, 9 x 8.5 x 9 inches
(R) David Peterson, 2005, Perfect Pitch, sterling silver}

The Schick Art Gallery exhibitions committee has arranged for eight of twenty-three studio art faculty to exhibit in this show: Leslie Ferst, Richard Linke, Trish Lyell, David Peterson, Paul Sattler, Janet Sorensen, Peter Stake and Joanne Vella. These eight exhibiting artists will be able to show a larger number of works than faculty members have exhibited in previous years, when over twenty artists participated in the annual faculty exhibit at one time. Similar small numbers of faculty members in groups will continue to rotate for annual exhibitions. Skidmore art faculty members have shown regionally and nationally and most have gallery affiliations in one or more major cities throughout the country, are represented in numerous public and private collections, and have been the recipients of significant awards. Most recently, Paul Sattler was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.

The Skidmore College studio art faculty consists of fifteen full-time professors and eight part-time visiting assistant professors, representing a wide variety of disciplines including ceramics, communication design, drawing and painting, metals, photography, printmaking, sculpture, fiber arts, and videography. In addition, there are eleven art history faculty members.

^{Image above: Paul Sattler, Contact, 2006, oil on canvas, 79 x 110.5 inches}

Past Exhibits
2006-2007

John McQueen: Farouche
November 9 - December 17, 2006

Reception: Thursday, November 9th, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Gallery Talk: Thursday, November 16th, 3:00 pm
Closed for holiday: November 22-26

^{Installation Image - Schick Art Gallery, 2006, sticks, string, plastic}

John McQueen is internationally known for his sculptural work, which primarily uses carefully tied sticks and other natural materials to form three-dimensional constructions or wall images. Some contain elements of poetic wordplay including palindromes, rebuses, and anagrams. McQueen's conceptually driven and often thought-provoking or humorous work stems from that of a basket maker. He has influenced the fine craft scene and broken its boundaries for more than 30 years. His work has been exhibited in several of the country's most prestigious museums and galleries, including the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. (1992); and the Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI (2004). His works are in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; the American Craft Museum, New York, NY; and the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, among others. "A basket is egocentric and imprisoning; it holds tenaciously to its limits. It has its own organization and regulates its definition closely. By insisting on being a basket, it keeps itself confined. Let other objects try for art. A basket is isolated, unique, separate from all but itself. Such defenses are tightly held. Uncertainty, movement, fear of being spread out is guarded against. The open object, the object of art, leads to a larger reality. The basket must reject this even when inside, it secretly entertains it. These secrets lead to hero worship and flights of fantasy. A basket must be careful. In such a state, it could become raveled."

PastExhibitions
2010-2011

5/9/11-6/18/11
Convergences / Currents:
Regis Brodie, Recent Work
Vessel Forms, Sculpture, & Painting
by Skidmore Professor Emeritus Regis Brodie
Recognizing 41 years of service to Skidmore College,
the Art Department, & the Ceramics Studio in particular.
Opening reception May 9, 5:30 - 7PM. Click here to see photos of the 2011 Brodie installation.

3/25/11-5/1/11
Mercurial Objects: Luxuriant Obsession
An invitational exhibition of artists working in three-dimensional media:
Betsy Brandt, Sharon Church, Ginger Ertz, Rebecca Hutchinson, Terrence Lavin, Bruce Metcalf, Stephanie Metz, Annabeth Rosen, Anat Shiftan. Opening Reception: March 25, 6-7PM, Gallery Talk 5-6PM.

2/3/11-3/11/11
2011 Skidmore Student Exhibition
Curated by Rachel Seligman, Skidmore alumnus '91, Director of the Mandeville Gallery at Union College, and Curator of the Permanent Collection at Union College.

10/7/10-12/5/10
Selected Art Faculty Exhibition
Featuring work by art faculty members John Galt, Patrick Kelley, Sangwook Lee, Doretta Miller, and Iona Park.

7/6/10-9/26/10
Michael Kuch
Printmaker, Book Artist
Michael Kuch delivers the 2010 Fox-Adler Lecture on September 23, 2010.

We're currently between exhibits, and undergoing a little remodeling. Our next event is Summer Session's Installation 101 class in July. Join us then for two openings featuring installation art by artists Anna Kunz, Dan Levenson, and their students.
Anna Kunz & students: Thursday, July 19th, 4:30 - 5:30 PM.
Dan Levenson & students: Wednesday, August 1st, from 4:30 - 5:30PM.

Read on for highlights of our most recent exhibition....

Gallery talk: Friday, March 23, 5 - 6PM
Opening reception: Fri., March 23, 6 - 7:30 PM

Wall Fingering #8 in progress

Installation view, 'Contemplations and Conjectures: 12 Artists'

Installation view (Click here to view more images of the exhibition)

Contemplations and Conjectures is an invitational group show featuring drawings by twelve contemporary artists: Sadaie Ayuko, Judith Ann Braun, Jeff Feld, Meg Hitchcock, Cynthia Ona Innis, Michael Schall, Charlotte Schulz, Ruijun Shen, Hiroyuki Shindo, Lorene Taurerewa, Antoinette Winters, and Sandy Winters.

The contemporary definition of drawing is generally broad in scope, encompassing works created with a variety of tools and on diverse surfaces. Contemplations and Conjectures presents works that range from rigorous representation, such as Michael Schall's graphite drawings presenting industrial architecture in surreal, ominous landscapes, to works that are unconventional in process or materials, like Judith Ann Braun's 'Wall Fingerings' and Meg Hitchcock's drawings made from excised holy texts.

Sadaie Ayuko, Untitled
Graphite, ink and watercolor on paper
Sadaie Ayuko (Kyoto, Japan) is an emerging artist who makes detailed, sensitive pen and ink drawings of plants and insects in a style that is directly representational, yet has echoes of traditional Japanese painting methods.

Judith Braun, Wall Fingering #8, Not Sorry (detail), in Schick gallery
Judith Ann Braun (Brooklyn, NY) makes 'wall fingerings,' site specific, abstract drawings done directly on a wall with her fingers and charcoal dust. She often employs self-imposed limitations (governing the direction or pressure of each mark, for example) that determine the ultimate outcome.

Jeff Feld, Untitled
InterOffice mail envelope, ink, enamel, graphite
Jeff Feld (Ridgewood, NY) is a former social worker whodraws, collages, and paints on inter-office envelopes, objects from the realm of offices and institutions. He works and reworks their surfaces, allowing uncertainties and imperfections, and arriving at pieces which combine utilitarian and aesthetic qualities.

Meg Hitchcock, Castle
Chapter 1 - 3 of Interior Castle, by Saint Teresa, cut from chapter 6 of Mysterium Conjunctionis, by CG Jung
Meg Hitchcock (Brooklyn, NY), collects holy texts from used bookstores and cuts them up letter by letter, in a labor-intensive process. She then reconfigures them, in visually striking patterns, to create passages from other religious texts. Her 'cross-pollination' of different spiritual traditions implies their shared source, an abiding sense of reverence.

Cynthia Ona Innis, Flare.
Ink, acrylic, and satin fabric on wood
Cynthia Ona Innis (Oakland, CA) makes abstract works that combine drawing, painting, and collaged fabric. Her art is inspired by the cycles of nature; elements in drawings may refer to biomorphic forms or to botanical study of growth stages.

Michael Schall, Rebuilding the Quarries
Graphite on paper
Michael Schall (Brooklyn, NY ) makes highly detailed, labor-intensive charcoaldrawings that depict industrial architecture in ominous landscapes, alternate universes that are both compelling and unsettling. He is interested in issues pertaining to the environment and to the 'beauty and arrogance of technology.'

Charlotte Schulz, Territories (detail)
Charcoal on paper
Charlotte Schulz (Danbury, CT) creates narrative charcoal drawings that fuse historical catastrophes with domestic interiors, architecture, and otherworldly landscapes. Her works often incorporate folds or bends in the paper as part of their structure, creating unexpected shifts in the perceived space of the work.

Ruijun Shen, Ladies
Transparent film, pen on Plexi
Ruijun Shen (Guangzhou, China) makes line drawings that use a stream-of-consciousness, Surrealist sensibility, and combine influences from traditional Eastern philosophy and contemporary Western culture.

Hiroyuki Shindo, Untitled
Ink on paper
Hiroyuki Shindo (Kyoto, Japan) is primarily a textile artist known for his use of indigo dye. Concurrently, he makes ink drawings that employ skillful brush techniques; their simplified, bold elements often have the impact of a Motherwell abstraction.

Lorene Taurerewa, See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
Charcoal on paper
Lorene Taurerewa (Brooklyn, NY) makes large-scale figurative drawings whose characters appear to enact theatrical narratives. Dramatic changes in scale and value are employed, evoking satire, dream, and danger. Taurerewa uses her own life and her childhood in New Zealand as a source for her imagery.

Antoinette Winters, Convergence(detail)
Mixed media on mylar on paper
Antoinette Winters (Waltham, MA) reassembles remnants and leftovers from a decade of discarded drawings, exploring the variety of ways that disparate parts can achieve a new meaning. She uses a narrow horizontal format that echoes her interest in Japanese scrolls and visual narrative.

Sandy Winters, She Takes You Down to the River
Flashe, watercolor, graphite on paper
Sandy Winters (New York, NY) makes work in which the biomorphic and the mechanical merge, becoming at once ominous and playful. She uses drawing, painting, relief printing, and collage techniques, and is interested in the tension between creative and destructive forces in nature and in human society.

The Schick Art Gallery offers students, the college community and the public an opportunity to study significant contemporary exhibitions that compliment the Studio Art curriculum at approximately one or two-month intervals. Art from museums, galleries, private collections and artists is borrowed for exhibitions that address a wide range of disciplines and are often accompanied by catalogues, gallery lectures and discussions. In addition, there is an annual art faculty and juried Skidmore student exhibition. We also host invitational alumni exhibits and artist installations. Opened in 1978, named in 1983 to honor an alumna's family, the Schick Art Gallery has played an integral role as a teaching lab in the Department of Art to fully educate students in the visual arts and creative process for over thirty years.

PastExhibitions
2007-2008

7/5/07 - 9/23/07
Regis Brodie: A Retrospective

9/27/07 - 11/04/07
Selected Art Faculty Exhibition:
Evangelos Courpas, John Galt, Deb Hall, David Miller, Doretta Miller, Victoria Palermo, Iona Park

11/08/07 - 12/16/07
Eve Aschheim: New Drawings
Closed for holiday: Nov. 21-25

1/29/08 - 2/24/08
Skidmore Student Exhibition

2/29/08 - 4/6/08
The New American Sublime:
Landscape and Abstraction by Contemporary Painters
Closed for spring vacation: March 8-16

4/17/08 - 6/20/08
Julian LaVerdiere
Mobile Monuments

7/1/08 - 9/28/08
Barry Moser, Prints & Drawings
Artist Delivers Fox-Adler Lecture, Sept. 25th

PastExhibitions
2003-2004

May 29 - July 19, 2003
Elise Freda & Bruno LaVerdiere

July 25 - September 28, 2003
(Gallery Closed August 2 - September 1)
Roadshow of Dutch Graphics

October 3 - November 2, 2003
Annual Skidmore Art Faculty Exhibition

November 7 - December 17, 2003
Bay Area Revisited

February 3 - February 29, 2004
Skidmore Student Exhibition

March 9 - April 11, 2004
Social Strategies, Redefining Social Realism

April 20 - May 21 and
June 2 - June 12, 2004
Digital Selections
Co-presented by Schick Art Gallery and the New York Digital Salon

May 14 - May 22, 2004
Senior Thesis Exhibition
(Tang Teaching Museum)

June 17 - September 23, 2004
Steel Sculpture by Maria Hall
on the Outdoor Deck

June 17 - September 23, 2004
Lenore Malen,Performance Artist:
"Archivist for The New Society for Universal Harmony, A Utopian Community"

PastExhibitions
2005-2006

June 16 – September 22, 2005
(Gallery Closed: August 5 - September 5)
Anything But Realism

September 30 – November 3, 2005
Selected Art Faculty Exhibition
John Cunningham, Kate Leavitt, Margo Mensing, Deborah Morris, Ryan Parr, Rebecca Shepard

November 11– December 18, 2005
DRAWN 2: Contemporary Drawings
Featuring: Dawn Clements, Tony Hepburn, Stanley Lewis, Jane Masters, Wes Mills, Darrel Morris, Simone Shubuck
(Gallery Closed: November 23 - 27 for Thanksgiving Break)

January 31 – February 21, 2006
Skidmore Student Exhibition
Guest Juror: Fred Wilson, Luce Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Skidmore College

March 3 – April 7, 2006
(Gallery Closed: March 11 - 19 for Spring Break)
Edward Mayer: Drawing In

April 13 – July 9, 2006
Terry Winters: Sketchbook Pages & Tokyo Notes

July 13 – September 22, 2006
Misleading Trails
Seven Artists: Ai WeiWei, Xiaoze Xie, Hong Hao, Vernon Fisher, Enrique Chagoya, Dan Mills, and Hai Bo *

*This exhibition was organized by the artists,China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing; and Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University
(Gallery Closed: August 4 - September 4)

PastExhibitions
2002-2003

June 4 - July 6, 2002
Summer Six Faculty

July 11 - September 15, 2002
(August 2 - September 14 closed)
Representations Drawing Invitational

September 26 - October 27, 2002
Annual Skidmore Art Faculty Exhibit

November 7 - December 15, 2002
Per Kirkeby, Monumental Monotypes

January 30 - February 23, 2003
Annual Juried Student Exhibit

March 7 - April 6, 2003
Beggars and Choosers: motherhood is Not a class privilege in America, a photography exhibition

April 17 - May 16, 2003
Skidmore Visiting Studio Art Faculty
Curated by Paul Sattler

May 9 - May 17, 2003
2003 Senior Thesis Exhibition
(Tang Teaching Museum)

PastExhibitions
1998-1999

July 23 - September 20, 1998
TODT Installation

October 2 - November 8, 1998
Annual Skidmore Art Faculty Exhibit

November 12 - December 15, 1998
Facing Death (Portraits from Cambodia's Killing Fields)

February 2 - February 28, 1999
Skidmore Student Exhibition

March 5 - April 11, 1999
Richard Linke and Doretta Miller

April 16 - June 12, 1999
Benchmarkers: Women in Metal Curated by Rosanne Raab Associates

May 14 - May 22, 1999
1999 Senior Thesis Exhibition

PastExhibitions
2000-2001

July 13 - September 17, 2000
Paul Resika Prints and Paintings by Selina Trieff Deck Space:
Installation by Pavel Kraus

September 28 - October 29, 2000
Annual Skidmore Art Faculty Exhibit

November 9 - December 15, 2000
James Drake Conversations:
Tongue-Cut Sparrows;
A Thousand Tongues Burn and Sing (video installation, photographs,
and drawings)

February 1 - February 25, 2001
Skidmore Student Exhibition

March 8 - April 4, 2001
Contemporary Narratives Curated by John Moore's Current Issues
in Art Class

April 12 - May 11, 2001
John Cunningham and
David Peterson

May 11 - May 19, 2001
2001 Senior Thesis Exhibition
(Tang Teaching Museum)

PastExhibitions
1997-1998

July 17 - September 21, 1997
Anne Tabachnick Retrospective

September 26 - October 26, 1997
Annual Skidmore Art Faculty Exhibit

November 6 - December 14, 1997
Clay, Fiber, and Metals Invitational

January 27 - February 28, 1998
Skidmore Student Exhibition

March 5 - April 5, 1998
Margo Mensing and Peter Stake

April 9 - May 16, 1998
The Sky Below:
Paintings by Gregory Amenoff

May 8 - May 16, 1998
1998 Senior Thesis Exhibition
(Starbuck Center)

PastExhibitions
1996-1997

July 25 - September 29, 1996
Michael Mazur: "The Inferno" (Monotypes)
with Translations by Robert Pinsky

October 4 - November 3, 1996
Annual Skidmore Art Faculty Exhibit

November 8 - December 17, 1996
Images of Self: The Search
For Identity Through Art

January 24 - February 23, 1997
Skidmore Student Exhibition

February 27 - April 6, 1997
Jeff Elgin and Kate Leavitt

April 10 - May 17, 1997
Nurturing Vision: Paintings by
Ed Paschke, Antonia Contro, and Michael Oruch

May 9 - May 17, 1997
1997 Senior Thesis Exhibition (Starbuck Center)

May 29 - June 25, 1997
Sculpture Invitational

PastExhibitions
1995-1996

July 13 - September 17, 1995
Sonia Gechtoff: Works on Paper
1956-1995

September 22 - October 29, 1995
Annual Skidmore Art Faculty Exhibit

November 3 - December 17, 1995
Faculty Selects: Selections from the Skidmore College Permanent Collection

January 26 - February 25, 1996
Skidmore Student Exhibition

March 1 - April 9, 1996
Regis Brodie and David Miller

April 18 - June 22, 1996
Lenore Tawney Retrospective

May 17 - May 25, 1996
1996 Senior Thesis Exhibition

July 3 - July 20, 1996
Summer Six Art Faculty

PastExhibitions
1999-2000

July 15 - September 26, 1999
Six Artists from Czech Republic
One Czech Born/American Artist

October 7 - November 7, 1999
Annual Skidmore Art Faculty Exhibit
and Invited Artists
(2 locations: Schick and
the Arts Center Gallery,
downtown Saratoga Springs)

November 18 - December 17, 1999
Robert McCurdy - Figure Paintings
Self-Portraits as a World Map,
Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault

February 1 - February 23, 2000
Skidmore Student Exhibition

March 2 - April 6, 2000
A Plurality of Truths, Curated by
John Moore's Current Issues
in Art Class

April 13 - June 10, 2000
Joanne Felt and Janet Sorensen

May12 - May 20, 2000
2000 Senior Thesis Exhibition

PastExhibitions
2001-2002

July 12 - September 16, 2001
Two-Palms Press:
Under Pressure, Prints by Pedro Barbeito,
Mel Bockner, Chuck Close, Tara Donovan, Carol Dunham, Sol Lewitt, David Row, Jessica Stockholder, and Terry Winters

September 27 - October 28, 2001
Annual Skidmore Art Faculty Exhibit

November 8 - December 16, 2001
Two Painters: Julia Jacquette and
Mark Wethli

January 31 - February 24, 2002
Skidmore Student Exhibition

March 5 - April 4, 2002
Clay, Fiber, Metal Exhibit

April 11 - May 10, 2002
John Moore and Paul Sattler

May 10 - May 19, 2002
2002 Senior Thesis Exhibition
(Tang Teaching Museum)

PastExhibitions
2006-2007

7/13/06 - 9/22/06
Misleading Trails*
Seven Artists: Ai WeiWei, Xiaoze Xie, Hong Hao, Vernon Fisher, Enrique Chagoya, Dan Mills, and Hai Bo
*This exhibition was organized by the artists, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing; and Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University

10/05/06 - 11/05/06
Selected Art Faculty Exhibition
Leslie Ferst, Richard Linke, Trish Lyell, David Peterson, Paul Sattler, Janet Sorensen, Peter Stake, Joanne Vella

11/09/06 - 12/17/06
John McQueen: Farouche
Closed for holiday: Nov. 22-26

1/30/07 - 3/04/07
Skidmore Student Exhibition
Juror: Ian Berry, Associate Director and Malloy Curator of the Tang Teaching Museum

3/19/07 - 4/22/07
German Painter Christoph Ruckhäberle:
Artist Residency

4/26/07 - 6/24/07
Then & Now : Seven Skidmore Alumni

Summer Art Programs Calendar07

6/8/07 - 8/8/07
Outdoor Sculpture Works by Pat Musick
Location: Adjacent to Saisselin Art Building

7/5/07 - 9/23/07
Regis Brodie: A Retrospective

PastExhibitions
2004-2005

June 17 - September 23, 2004
Steel Sculpture by Maria Hall
on the Outdoor Deck

June 17 - September 23, 2004
Lenore Malen, Performance Artist:
"Archivist for The New Society for Universal Harmony, A Utopian Community"

July 11 – September 23, 2004
(Gallery Closed: August 6 - September 6)
Vojislav Stanic, Yugoslav Painter

October 1 – November 3, 2004
Selected Faculty Exhibition
Regis Brodie, John Galt, Deborah Hall, David Miller, Doretta Miller, Victoria Palermo, Iona Park

November 11 – December 15, 2004
DRAWN, Contemporary Drawings
Guest Curator: Clodagh Keogh
(Gallery Closed: November 24 - 28)

February 1 – March 6, 2005
Skidmore Student Exhibition
Guest Juror: John Weber, Dayton Director, Tang Teaching Museum

March 21 – April 15, 2005
Artist Residency, Amelia Biewald
Gallery Open to Visitors: Mon-Thurs 10-11am & 1-2pm only

April 21 – June 11, 2005
(Gallery Closed: May 30th, Memorial Day Holiday)
XXX and Under, Seven Skidmore Alumni

April 26 - June 2, 2005
Ceramic Sculpture by Tom Schottman
on the Outdoor Deck

June 16 – September 22, 2005
(Gallery Closed: August 5 - September 5)
Anything But Realism

Schick Art Gallery offers students, the college community and the public an opportunity to study significant contemporary exhibitions that compliment the Studio Art curriculum at approximately one or two-month intervals. Art from museums, galleries, private collections and artists is borrowed for exhibitions that address a wide range of disciplines and are often accompanied by catalogues, gallery lectures and discussions. In addition, there is an annual art faculty and juried Skidmore student exhibition. We also have semi-annual invitational alumni exhibits and artist installations. Opened in 1978, named in 1983 to honor an alumna's family, the Schick Art Gallery has played an integral role as a teaching lab in the Department of Art to fully educate students in the visual arts and creative process for over thirty years.

PastExhibitions
2009-2010

7/7/09-10/4/09
Nathalie Miebach, Sculpture

10/15/09-12/6/09
Selected Art Faculty Exhibition
Kyle Ford, Trish Lyell, Janet Sorensen, Peter Stake, Joanne Vella

2/9/10-3/28/10
2010 Skidmore Student Exhibition
Juror: NYC Artist, Dawn Clements

4/8/10-6/27/10
The Figure Five Ways
A figurative exhibition featuring five contemporary artists:
Hugo Crosthwaite, Michael Ferris, Jr.,
Susan Jamison, Sophie Jodoin, and Emily Metzguer

7/6/10-9/26/10
Michael Kuch*
Printmaker / Book Artist
*Michael Kuch delivers the 2010 Fox-Adler Lecture on September 23
(NOTE - Gallery closed August 6 through September 6 for Summer Break)

Summer 2011 saw the Schick Art Gallery hosting 'Installation 101,' an installation class taught by artists Nnenna Okore and Elana Herzog from July 5-August 5. Students learned about the history of installation art, and worked alongside first Herzog, then Okore, to create two dramatic - and dramatically different - installations.

Herzog took her inspiration from the rectilinear space of the gallery, while OKore's starting point was material-oriented, using large quantities of discarded newspapers and burlap. See our photo gallery for images of the installations in progress.

Elana Herzog makes "sculptural drawings" using chenille bedspreads, old clothing, and common household materials. Her works consider, among other things, the geometry of spaces, our existence within them, and the passage of time. She is a lecturer at Yale, and is represented by Lmak Projects in New York.

Nnenna Okore is a Nigerian American artist who uses discarded materials and, through labor-intensive processes, transforms them into intricate, highly textural sculpture installations. She is the Chair of the Art Department at North Park University in Chicago.

Above left, students hanging 'The Blob,' one aspect of the installation created with Elana Herzog.

At right, Nnenna Okore works on installing 'Rush', the class installation composed of burlap, newspaper, paint, and dye.

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Past Exhibitions

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Gallery talk: Friday, March 23, 5 - 6PM
Opening reception: Fri., March 23, 6 - 7:30 PM

Herzog took her inspiration from the rectilinear space of the gallery, while OKore's starting point was material-oriented, using large quantities of discarded newspapers and burlap. See our photo gallery for images of the installations in progress.

Nnenna Okore is a Nigerian American artist who uses discarded materials and, through labor-intensive processes, transforms them into intricate, highly textural sculpture installations. She is the Chair of the Art Department at North Park University in Chicago.

Above left, students hanging 'The Blob,' one aspect of the installation created with Elana Herzog.

At right, Nnenna Okore works on installing 'Rush', the class installation composed of burlap, newspaper, paint, and dye.

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Gallery talk: Friday, March 23, 5 - 6PM Opening reception: Fri., March 23, 6 - 7:30 PM

Herzog took her inspiration from the rectilinear space of the gallery, while OKore's starting point was material-oriented, using large quantities of discarded newspapers and burlap. See our photo gallery for images of the installations in progress.

Nnenna Okore is a Nigerian American artist who uses discarded materials and, through labor-intensive processes, transforms them into intricate, highly textural sculpture installations. She is the Chair of the Art Department at North Park University in Chicago.

Above left, students hanging 'The Blob,' one aspect of the installation created with Elana Herzog.

At right, Nnenna Okore works on installing 'Rush', the class installation composed of burlap, newspaper, paint, and dye.

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Gallery talk: Friday, March 23, 5 - 6PM
Opening reception: Fri., March 23, 6 - 7:30 PM