Michiko OkayaLafayette College Art Galleries
Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery 2009-2010
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DARKNESS DESCENDS:
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DARKNESS DESCENDS When DARKNESS DESCENDS was originally presented at the non-profit organization chashama in New York earlier this year the exhibition generated a complex dialogue that refused to end quietly. The aim was to encourage an exchange of ideas between Norwegian artists and the global art community during an active time for the arts in New York City. This was the perfect spotlight for an exhibition that addresses a group of young artists from a Scandinavian country that has still to capture the attention of a major American contemporary art museum. The exhibition is curated by Christina Vassallo, produced by Cottelston Advisors. The exhibition includes drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, video, and sound pieces by Thora Dolven Balke, Halvor Bodin, Lars Elling, Anki King, Sol Kjøk, Ingvild Langgård, Are Mokkelbost, Rune Olsen, Anne Katrine Senstad, Elise Storsveen, Kjersti Vetterstad, Marius Watz, Liz Wendelbo, Jana Winderen, Monica Winther, and Munan Øvrelid. Tuesday, September 29, 4 p.m. Williams Visual Arts Building Wednesday, September 30, noon, Williams Center for the Arts |
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The exhibition Computation, Vision: Emergence will run Oct. 20-Dec. 12 in the Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery in the Williams Visual Arts Building. A public reception will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, in the gallery. During the reception, images from the exhibition will be projected on the outside of the building and on the walls of the gallery. Attendees are encouraged to wear white in order to reflect the images. A brown bag presentation, “Deep Patterns and Processes in Nature,” will be held noon Monday, Oct. 19, in the Gendebien Room of Skillman Library. The artwork in the exhibit represents a collaboration between students and faculty in the art and computer science departments through the Emergent Patterns project. Headed by Ed Kerns, Eugene H. Clapp II '36 Professor of Art, and Chun Wai Liew, associate professor and head of computer science, the project explored the complex patterns and processes that can emerge in visual structures. Students from both technical and artistic backgrounds worked with software programs to produce different forms of recurring, natural patterns. These organic structures and patterns were then combined in layers of transparent surfaces. The multiple-layered works will allow the viewer to see the evolutionary track back through the surface to the less complex visual systems from which the final image emerges. Student participants included Rhodes Baker '10 (Columbus, Ohio), a computer science major; Imogen Cain '12 (Perkasie, Pa.), an art major; Long Ho '10 (Hanoi, Vietnam), a mathematics and computer science double major; Khine Lin '11 (Yangon, Myanmar), who is pursuing a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and an A.B. with a major in mathematics; and Scott Lyttle '10 (Easton, Pa.), an art major. |
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Feburary 1 – March 13,
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Grace Hartigan’s long and productive career ended with her death in early 2009. Hartigan’s last works are among her finest. In these painting and watercolor drawings, she returned to a theme that had long occupied her: the recreation of Old Master art and popular culture figures through a modern sensibility. Hartigan’s figures are taken from both Western and Asian history and theater. Created though a balance of incisive drawing and sensuous paint application, her figures confront us with moods ranging from forceful, to seductive, to melancholic. In each, Hartigan explores the meaning of being a modern individual with all the freedom and isolation that our age embodies, and each work is, of course, also a symbolic portrait of the artist. The will be a joint exhibition with the Williams Center Gallery, at Lafayette's Williams Center for the Arts. |
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Chakaia Booker March 23 -April 24 Grossman Gallery visiting artist |
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| May 2-23, 2009 | 2009 Honors Exhibition in Art
Senior Studio Art Students present their thesis projects. |
