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 [...]

Representing Race

Rogers Gallery

This exhibit is focusing on depictions of race in art. It will be curated by Meghan Doherty's students in ARH 263, Introduction to Museum Studies. Robert Blum, Negro Settlement (detail), watercolor on paper, 6 7/8"x 9 1/2", 19th c. Gift of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith

Horizon Line

Upper Traylor Gallery

While I am influenced by the southern tradition of narrative figure painting, my work focuses mainly on drawing. My drawings have paint, of course, but they are not really paintings—the drawn line is what tells the tale. I use painting and mixed media elements enhance the mark making, and reassert the shallow space of the picture plane. The pops [...]