September 27 – November 27, 2013
Leech Gallery: Capturing Modernity: Art, Fashion, and Artifice
Curated by Elizabeth Carlson, Associate Professor of Art History
A look at the connections between turn of the century fashion and burgeoning modernity.
Hoffmaster Gallery: Alison Stehlik: Where-House
Where-House explores the relationship between the architectural space that is a home, and the products and possessions that fill that space. Packaging crowds the visual backdrop of our day-to-day routine. It sits on our tabletops, it fills our cupboards, it occupies our purses and our luggage; an assortment of products and brands color the visual landscape of our homes. Meanwhile the actual structures that we live in become more and more derivative, as homes are produced ‘factory style’ in subdivisions and planned communities. As our homes, and the things within our homes become more and more alike, I wonder if we are losing our connection to the place where we live in favor of the space that we live in.
Kohler Gallery: Stephanie J. Williams: Homegrown
Washington D.C. based artist Stephanie Williams is interested in the process of reconstitution in which mundane experiences and scenes form potential oddity. The Anomaly Portrait series, sculpture and installation examines themes of body topography, play, home, and pose. The work tends to amalgamate the senses of the human form, taking something familiar and reconfiguring it into alien territory. Through a changed context, these disparate parts become fetish or exotic object allowing you to look at what is uncomfortable to see, to tie a cute bow around something grotesque and to have accessibility to anomaly. These works collect gaps in understanding and reorient in order to create myth. They extend a hand that provides context in which our bodies experience and understand the world around us.
Artist lecture by Stephanie J. Williams and opening reception:
September 27, 6 p.m., Wriston Art Center
January 17 – March 16, 2014
Leech Gallery: The Art of Stuff
Hoffmaster Gallery: Leslie Smith III: paintings
Kohler Gallery: Sandra Dyas: photography
Artist lecture and opening reception:
January 17, 6 p.m., Wriston Art Center
March 28 – May 4, 2014
Leech Gallery: Archetypes of Masculinity
Hoffmaster Gallery: Shawn Sheehy: book arts
Kohler Gallery: Carol Emmons: sculptural installation
Artist Lecture and opening reception:
April 4, 6 p.m., Wriston Art Center
May 24 - July 27
Leech, Hoffmaster, and Kohler Galleries: Senior Art Major Exhibition
Opening reception May 24, 6 p.m., Wriston Art Center
