Union College Student Invitational 2014

Union College Student Invitational 2014

The Mandeville Gallery is pleased to welcome the works of 32 student artists for this year’s Student Invitational. The exhibition features a selection of student artwork from this academic year, and includes works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, digital and computational art, and film.

In the Forest: Aliene de Souza Howell

In the Forest: Aliene de Souza Howell

As Howell writes, “[her] work examines our interactions with each other, the objects we use, and the natural world. This is done through humor, personal stories, imagination, and conscious observation of how we affect our environment. By focusing on a more allegorical interpretation, it provides space for a more open and personal dialogue; a dialogue between beauty and metaphor, behavior and craft.”

Union College Student Invitational 2013

Union College Student Invitational 2013

The Mandeville Gallery is pleased to welcome the works of 25 student artists for this year’s Union College Student Invitational. The exhibition features a selection of the best student artwork from this academic year, and includes works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, computer art and sculpture.

Art or Evidence: The Power of Photojournalism

Art or Evidence: The Power of Photojournalism

This exhibition features the portfolio, Flashpoints, by international photojournalist Gilles Peress, which includes work from the conflicts in Northern Ireland, Iran, Rwanda and Bosnia. Peress sees his work as “gathering evidence for history” rather than art, though the forensic nature of his photography is a mere fraction of its meaning

Connections: Exploring the Ties Between Poet Jim McCord and Painter Bruce McColl

Connections: Exploring the Ties Between Poet Jim McCord and Painter Bruce McColl

What informs a work of art? How does a writer choose words for a poem? How does a painter choose color and form? Decisions are made because of time and place, and how the artist reacts to that context. The chance meeting over ten years ago between poet Jim McCord and painter Bruce McColl at the Vermont Studio Center started a relationship that would influence both the form and content of their art.

Union College Student Invitational 2012

Union College Student Invitational 2012

This year there is a selection of the best work of students from all of the visual arts classes offered at Union including photography, painting, drawing, video, sculpture and printmaking. Come and see the great work these students have done!

African Photography: For Whose Eyes?

African Photography: For Whose Eyes?

The premise of this exhibition is that photography is a particularly potent tool in objectifying what is in its lens, and that over time, from the colonial period to the contemporary period, the photograph in Africa has changed from initially being an instrument of the European colonist — to the later studio “dream factories” in the cities — to the rich and complex work African photographers today.