Exposing Desires by Raymond Gonzalez

Upper Traylor Gallery

Artist’s Statement The exploration of the overlap and interrelation between child play, desire, adult play, and sensuality informs the basis of my art. Many of our toys were handed down from generation to generation including Lincoln Logs, Lego’s, and wooden blocks. I capture the appeal of those toys that endured time and technology. In someway, [...]

The Berea Suite by Steve Armstrong

Rogers Gallery

Artist Statement: I have always felt a strong kinship with the craft traditions of Berea College. My maternal grandfather was from Eastern Kentucky and in addition to farming and working in the coal mines, he made simple furniture and household items out of cherry, walnut, and poplar. Typically, and like many of his peers, if [...]

Triangulations by Brendan Baylor

Rogers Gallery

Artist Statement: By presenting the often-unexamined history of a space, I work to understand what cultural norms and systems produce the current landscape. My hope is that by reflecting on my own experience of place I can come to understand the larger contexts each space is embedded in. Formally, I work to produce an overwhelming [...]

Lù|Way by Leah Schreiber Johnson

Upper Traylor Gallery

Lù|Way is an exhibition of work inspired by Leah Schreiber Johnson’s visit to Wuhan, China, where she spent 6 weeks teaching and traveling. Rich with texture, pattern, and ornament, the busy city sidewalks became an important physical and visual experience- heightening her awareness the varied and cobbled terrain of the growing urban landscape. The included [...]

Living on the Over Door by Sarah McRae Morton

Lower Traylor Gallery

Artist Statement: The studio where I am most at home is in rural Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Its a hayloft above horse stalls. A hatch lets in a net of north light, a view of Amish farmed fields and swallows who nest in the rafters. It has been my studio since childhood, shared with my brother [...]

International Focus: Southeast Asia

Masterpiece Gallery Berea, KY, United States

As part of our showing of objects from the College Art Collection, we at the Doris Ulmann Galleries like to display art to go along with the Francis and Louise Hutchins Center for International Education's International Focus. This year's International Focus is Southeast Asia. Join us in the Masterpiece Gallery to appreciate the fine works [...]

Thicket

Upper Traylor Gallery

My work is a balance of thoughtful observation, memory, and ample invention, drawing information from a variety of sources. It focuses on experiencing a place, both in person and through recollection. Constructed out of scattered fragments of light and location, these scenes are an invented geography, losing space and site. Specificity of place becomes blurred in a fiction of memories, [...]

Decomposing the Monument of the Third International

Lower Traylor Gallery

Decomposing the Monument to the Third International is an interactive art project that considers how the practices of art, food, and education might be drawn together in order to plug some of the microflows of capital distribution. The hope is to encourage a rising-up of human essence that is based on creating networks of survival whereby the fulfillment of our most basic needs opens-up [...]