“Aesthetics of Influence: David Leach, Berea College, and the Mingei Movement” – Curated by Molly Baker
Rogers GalleryAesthetics of Influence is an exhibition project that celebrates how ideas and inspirations are explored, embraced, and transformed as they flow from one source to another. First, this exhibition highlights a very special time in Berea College history. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the famed English studio potter David Leach made two visits [...]
Fall, 2018 – Senior Exhibition
Upper Traylor GalleryJoin is in the Doris Ulmann Galleries for the opening of our Mid-Year Graduation Exhibition for Art Majors. In this special show, four graduating Studio Art students will publicly present their work to the Berea campus and community at large. On November 15 at 4:30pm, participants will deliver talks about their pieces, giving visitors an [...]
“Bogus Boutique” by David Bogus
Rogers GalleryExhibition Run: January 8 - February 8, 2019 About the Exhibition: The Bogus Boutique is a lifestyle brand featuring unique brightly colored ceramic objects and status symbols. These everyday objects foretell the ironic codification of consumer culture as it embodies our current society. In The Bogus Boutique, high heel shoes, punk rock lock necklaces, [...]
“Going Against the Grain: Wooden Quilts” by Laura Petrovich-Cheney
Upper Traylor GalleryExhibition Run: January 14 - February 15, 2019 Artist Talk: February 7, 4:30pm About the Artist: Using traditional and contemporary patchwork quilt patterns, Laura Petrovich-Cheney creates complex and vibrant sculptures from debris that was collected after natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy (2013), Gatlinburg, TN Fires (2015), and a series of nor’easters that pounded [...]
“Residue of a Lived Experience” by Ryan Schroeder
Lower Traylor GalleryArtist Statement: My paintings are relics that reflect reality. Through paint, I am exploring space as a phenomenological experience in that the subject matter is assembled through firsthand exploration. I paint abandoned spaces that resonate with me. Some paintings are made perceptually, and others from photographs. However, my main focus is finding a means to [...]
“From Sabbatical” by Kevin Gardner
Upper Traylor GalleryExhibition run: February 25 - March 29, 2019 From Sabbatical Kevin Neal Gardner Art is, at its best, more beautiful, better crafted, and more interesting than the reality we think influences it. However illusionistic it may or may not be, art is, in the end, purposefully unreal. These drawings and paintings were created in [...]
“Cataclysmic Microcosm” by Jave Yoshimoto
Lower Traylor GalleryCataclysmic Microcosm Jave Yoshimoto My work takes on the ephemerality of news and information and how the emotions we bring to each tragedy in the news cycle are swept away by the wave of information that floods the media. I address this social amnesia through my art with the work acting as a social memory [...]
“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 [...]