Past Exhibit
Religious Arts of the Abrahamic Traditions
Rogers GalleryIn conjunction with the exhibition of the Saint John's Bible in the Hutchins Library, this exhibition explores the arts of the Abrahamic faiths in the College Art Collection. This exhibition incorporates liturgical and devotional objects from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as an exploration of the development of these forms over time.
Wilds
Since the death of my twin brother in May 2007, I have endured suspension between a world I cannot yet enter, and a world to which I no longer feel I belong. Once-fixed horizons became unmoored, passages between points in time collapsed, and concealed specters suddenly emerged. My current research and studio practice centers on [...]
Fall 2014 Graduating Seniors Exhibit
Tredennick GalleryThis exhibition showcases the work of our graduating Art majors.
Dearest
Upper Traylor GalleryMy studio practice includes interactive soft sculpture, performance, and works on paper. I create sensory experiences that allude to sensations such as weightiness, pressure, and simple gestures like hugging and hiding. I emphasize tactility to conceptually address a displaced sense of self and a universal search for belonging. Tactility is paramount in my work because [...]
Cross Cultural Exchange
Rogers GalleryCurated by the students in ARH 263: Introduction to Museum Work along with Meghan C. Doherty, this exhibition explores exchanges of ideas among cultures through the objects they produced.
Overburden: Stripping Away the Mountains and Its People
Upper Traylor GalleryMy work explores what Wendell Berry calls “the unsettling of America,” namely, the effects, the marks, and the changes that humans make on the land and cultures of a given area. My installations demonstrate my desire to create art that gives viewers time and space to think about the art initiates questions which remind viewers [...]
The Blue Collar
Lower Traylor GalleryKelly and Kyle Phelps are both Associate Professors at private Catholic universities in Ohio. Kelly Phelps is an Associate Professor /Chair at Xavier University (Cincinnati) where he oversees the sculpture department. Kyle is an Associate Professor at University Dayton (Dayton) where he is the head of the ceramic department. Both Kelly and Kyle continue to [...]
Gifts of Insight: Highlights from the Hanson Collection of West African Art
Rogers GalleryExplores the wide variety of African artifacts from the Hanson family who lived in Africa as a branch through the Ford Foundation. The objects selected from the collection are from different parts of the region and tell a remarkable story and offer insight to a large nation.
Spring 2015 Graduating Seniors Exhibit
Upper & Lower Trayor GalleryThis exhibition showcases the work of our graduating Art majors.
Division of Labor by Montana Torrey
Upper Traylor GalleryMy artwork employs the landscape as a metaphorical tool to investigate oppositional structures through temporary outdoor installations and interventions. My work explores memory, longing, desire, and absence in contrast to or in connection with my immediate environment to form a phenomenological understanding of place. Division of Labor references the historic rock fences or stonewalls that [...]