And speaking of art… If you haven’t had a chance to see the current faculty exhibition at the Mandeville Gallery Nott Memorial, do so before May 9.
“Chris Duncan: Recent Work” features the professor of sculpture’s latest sculpture and works on paper. The playful abstractions have a sense of immediacy, energy and emotion.
Duncan is a man of many talents who’s exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions throughout the Capital-Saratoga Region, the Bruno Marina Gallery in Brooklyn, Nanjing Normal University in China, and at numerous college galleries across the country.
His work also is included in private and public collections including the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls and the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art in Utica.
And while you’re at the Nott, don’t miss “Nano Grande,” in the Wikoff Student Gallery through May 2, featuring digital prints made by students using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). This exciting collaboration was created by merging courses: Photography II, offered by the Visual Arts Department, and Frontiers of Nanotechnology, a joint offering of Biology, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering.
The classes worked together to arrange each composition using the SEM machine and various samples, everything from clay nanocomposites with embedded quantum dots to bees, electric circuits and metal shavings from the Peter Irving Wold Center construction site.
This project was organized by Palma Catravas, associate professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and Kevin Bubriski, visiting professor, Visual Arts, in collaboration with many other Union faculty and staff and the Capital District Microscopy and Microanalysis Society.
It was sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation, the Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies, and an Internal Education Fund grant.