LGBTQ at Union, the fifth annual exhibition of LGBTQ-themed artwork, will be on view in the Wikoff Student Gallery from May 9th through June 16th, 2013. This year’s exhibition includes pieces by both students and alumni, working in painting, photography, film, and rap performance.
This exhibition features works by six Union College students: Chelsea Baptiste, Elizabeth Cohen, Charlotte Lehman, Hallie Manheim, Alexandra Napp, and Kaitlyn Thoen. Taking Professor Martin Benjamin’s photography courses sparked an interest in the medium for several of the exhibitors.
The fourth annual juried It Gets Better: The LGBTQ Community at Union College exhibition includes artwork by Julia Anthony, Nguyen Thi Thu Trang, and Frank Rapant. The format of this year’s exhibition includes an invitation for the viewer to participate by sharing their reflections of the work by these three artists.
As a potter, I focus on function. When challenged to produce a purely aesthetic piece, I turned to what I knew and created a sculpture inspired by function, though paradoxically nonfunctional. I began exploring the concept further, pairing activities and vessels to create a series of small contained scenes, fun little inversions of everyday activities.
Sophomore Nguyen Thi Thu Trang created the works included in this exhibition as an independent research project in Printmaking with Professor Sandra Wimer. Her goal was to bring awareness to issues surrounding people who were born intersex.
Growing up in Rhode Island I have always been surrounded by vast areas of open water and space and have been fascinated with how light, seasons and weather affect their appearance. I enjoy being out in these spaces and watching the change happen before my eyes.
As the recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Nori Lupfer traveled Russia, Brazil and Europe photographing circuses. Her photographs celebrate the human form by capturing quiet moments within stunning and dramatic circus performances. In this collection, by transferring photograph to print through a solar plate etching process, Lupfer translates these actions from crisp, sharp images to soft, textured works.
This exhibition, Do You See What I See? , reflects three of my interests: European armor, video game art, and sea life. I wish to convey some of the feelings, excitement, interest and wonder I have for these subjects through sculptural and print mediums. The works are not deeply symbolic, but are instead intended to be enjoyed as art for art’s sake.
Union College is hosting their third annual LGBTQ exhibition on display now through Sunday, June 12 in the Nott Memorial. The exhibition provides an opportunity for the Union community – including students, faculty and alumni – to share their take on issues surrounding the LGBTQ community with the community at large.
The Australian aboriginals created about creation. Their art is deeply tied to their religion, which centers around their creation story, “Dreamtime” when the gods walked and created the earth. Their link between art, land, and spirituality struck me, for “paintings, like the landscape itself, are considered to be not merely representations of the ancestral past but also manifestations of the ancestral beings themselves and a means of establishing contact with them”