The vibrancy of the Visual Arts Faculty at Union College is palpable, and is due at least in part to their differences. These artists differ in their techniques, narratives and even philosophies. Chris Duncan’s steel and wood sculptures express a vigorous push-pull between the linear and the organic, the cerebral and the visceral, but ultimately elicit permanence.
A collection of more than 70 wood engravings, this exhibit provides a broad retelling of the Civil War, which is commemorating its 150th anniversary this year. The exhibition was co-curated by Marie Costello, Interim Director of the Mandeville Gallery, Andrea Foroughi, professor of history, and Joseph Privitera, ’12.
This exhibition contains 37 paintings from the Robert Lesser Collection of Pulp Fiction Art and is on loan from the New Britain Museum of American Art. The collection is a promised gift to The New Britain Museum. The paintings, roughly 30” x 40”, were done as covers to the “pulp fiction” genre of the 1930’s and 1940’s.
The Mandeville Gallery is pleased to host the third annual Union College Senior Invitational. The Invitational exhibition is open to all graduating senior artists who successfully fulfill a series of application procedures.
The exhibition BULL’S-EYE: New Photographs by Martin Benjamin includes a selection of photographs by Martin Benjamin, Professor of Visual Art at Union College. The works included in the exhibition are an exploration of Benjamin’s experience as an artist living locally and abroad in Italy and Vietnam, evoking both nostalgic and emotional responses to the people and environments he encounters.
Of Weeds and Wildness: Nature in Black & White is a group exhibition featuring work by over a dozen artists including Louise Bourgeois, Lee Bontecou, Arnold Bittleman, Harold Edgerton, William Kentridge, Kiki Smith, and James Siena, among others.
The Will to Power, playfully caricatured in Risk, also underlies Dan Mills Meditations on Empire, an exhibition of five series of works dealing with the seductions of Imperialism. As in Risk, these pernicious geopolitical tendencies are presented with a certain degree of levity, allowing Mills to draw out their consequences to absurd, but logical extremes.
Sewing, knitting, embroidery, rug-hooking, and crocheting – from an intimate scale to a grand scale, Critical Stitch presents the work of a new generation of needle-working artists. Curator Lorraine Morales Cox brings together a diverse group of twelve artists, who are linked by their approach to these once marginalized techniques.
2010 marks the third year of the Union College Senior Invitational, a group show of work by the most accomplished and talented graduating artists of Union College. The show is not only open to art majors, but to all seniors who have studied art at Union.
This annual faculty exhibition features recent sculpture and works on paper by Chris Duncan, Professor of Visual Arts at Union College. Duncan’s vibrant, playful abstractions are imbued with a sense of immediacy and energy.