Past Exhibit
“Visions of the Dharma: Buddhist Art from the Berea College Art Collection”
Rogers GalleryVisions of the Dharma: Buddhist Art from the Berea College Art Collection Exhibition run: February 25 - May 3, 2019 Gathered together over the course of several decades through the generosity of many donors, the Berea College Art Collection includes numerous objects associated with Buddhism. The works of art in this exhibition showcase significant aspects [...]
Graduation Exhibition for Art Majors
Upper & Lower Trayor GalleryExhibition run: April 11 - May 5, 2019 Artist talk and Opening Reception: April 11, 4:30pm
Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra
Lower Traylor GalleryArrangement for a Silent Orchestra Julie Comnick Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra is a painting and video project that explores the gradual dissolution of culture in contemporary society through the symbolic ruin of a personal and cultural icon, the violin. Using the violin as a metaphor, I raise questions about the relationship between advancing technology [...]
Biopathies
Rogers GalleryBiopathies Carrie Longley The driving force behind my sculpture is the relationship of science and art. Collections, categories, labels, frames, and display cases are all devices used by science and art to encourage the view to carefully examine precious objects and artifacts. My intention as an artist is to create a playful shifting back and [...]
Placed & Displaced
Upper Traylor GalleryPlaced and Displaced Amanda Maciuba My work is concerned with how the effects of purposeful human actions, alongside uncontrollable factors of time and nature, alter both the current landscape and human agency within that landscape. The accrual of our past modifications in combination with what evolves over those remnants leaves us with physical traces of [...]
Feathers Fall, Grass Grows
Rogers GalleryFeathers Fall, Grass Grows by Andréa Connell Figurines come into one’s possession to celebrate a birth, a death, an anniversary, or any other numerous or commemorative moment. They become a stand-in for a story, stories often held privately by the collector. Through my work I explore the complex narratives that lay dormant, forgotten, and suppressed [...]
Sharing Space with Authority: Proposals for Installing the Berea College Presidential Portraits
Lower Traylor GallerySharing Space with Authority: Proposals for Installing the Berea College Presidential Portraits A seemingly simple task, to reinstall the Berea College presidential portraits, is actually wrapped up in a complicated dialogue –one that does not exist solely on college campuses, but in museums, academic buildings, and public spaces nationally and globally. How do we make [...]
Historical Portraits from the Berea College Art Collection
Upper Traylor GalleryHistorical Portraits from the Berea College Art Collection Curated by the students in Art History 263 ABSTRACT Exhibition Run: November 4 - December 13, 2019 Image: Robert Nanteuil (French, 1623-1678), Portrait of John Evelyn, Engraving, 1650, 7 1/4" x 10 3/4", Gift of Ross W. Sloniker, 180.N.87
Across the Space Separating
Rogers GalleryAcross the Space Separating Kiana Honarmand I am a Middle Eastern woman living and working in the United States. My creative work address issues related to my cultural identity. I explore the space between the imagery from my cultural background and the Western ideals of my foreground. This is my hybrid portrayal of Middle Eastern [...]
Re-Reading and Other Bookish Desires
Upper Traylor GalleryRe-Reading and Other Bookish Desires Suzanne Dittenber Dittenber’s works engage in the dialectics of space—books shaped by their histories and contexts. Indications of domestic furniture and interiors allow for intimacy to take shape, culling memories in relationship to reading. Paintings and sculptures of books carrying blemishes and imperfections demonstrate a history of receptivity to nuance [...]