The Mandeville Gallery’s alumni exhibit, “ReView: Five Union Alumni,” featuring works in a variety of media, runs through Oct. 14.
Artists include Alfred J. Nadel ’56 (drawings and mixed media); Stephen Pentak ’73 and Linda Fisher ’87 (paintings); Chester Urban ’93 (sculpture and drawings); and Nori Lupfer ’03 (photographs and prints).
“There are so many great alumni artists of the College. This is a chance to celebrate their work and bring them to the attention of our community,” said Rachel Seligman, Mandeville director and curator.
New York City-born Nadel,a practicing surgeon for more than 40 years, began to study painting in 1982 and has been a full-time artist since the late 1990s. He has had solo exhibitions at galleries in New York City and elsewhere, and his work has been included in group shows nationwide.
Pentak, professor emeritus of art and a past associate dean of the College of the Arts at Ohio State University, has co-authored two books: “Color Basics” and “Design Basics.” He has shown extensively across the United States and abroad. His work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Columbus Museum of Art.
Fisher also has displayed her work in solo and group shows nationwide. She has been an instructor at Snow Farm, in Williamsburg, Mass., since 1994, and is currently teaching at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts.
Urban, of Holyoke, Mass., has exhibited in group shows in Tribeca and the Bronx, and his work was recently reproduced in the New York Times.
Lupfer, who was a freestyle aerialist on the U.S. Ski Team and performed with Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, was awarded a Watson Fellowship in 2003 to study “Circuses and Stunts: Photography of Entertainment in Motion.”She has exhibited her work in Barcelona, Schenectady and Connecticut. Her current works were taken over the last 18 months during an expedition to update the Garmin GPS marine database.