Past Exhibitions
Spring 2019 Exhibitions
Friday, May 3 – Friday, May 24, 2019
Senior BA Thesis Exhibition
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception: Friday, May 3, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
These exhibitions are part of the graduating Elon Art Major’s capstone experience. It represents the culmination of their art making endeavors. During the opening receptions, each exhibiting artist will present brief statements that offers context to their thesis.
Monday, March 11 – Thursday, April 25, 2019
this broken room…
Will Taylor
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk & Reception: Monday, March 11, 5:45 – 7:00 p.m.
Will Taylor is an Associate Professor of Drawing and the Director of the Visual Arts Program at the University of North Carolina, School of the Visual Arts. He is a recipient of the UNCSA Excellence in Teaching Award and the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts’ BREATHE Project Development Grant.
An excerpt of his exhibition statement follows: “Formally trained as a painter, I perceive all of my works (prints/drawings/paintings) as multi-layered constructions that suspend, preserve, and document my actions within the picture frame. Beyond a sharp focus on mark making, coloration, and texture my recent works are deep meditations on personal and familial loss. For me, these works attempt to reconstruct systems of belief in search for guidance, the nature of the archetype and a semblance of spiritual resolve.”
Monday, February 11 – Thursday, March 7, 2019
Damnatio Memoriae
Steven Labadessa
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk & Reception: Monday, February 11, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Mr. Labadessa’s painting arises from a deep interest in stark realism, which strips away the veil of vanity. His work is confrontational and raw, vivid and compulsive. In his nudes, he portrays the human figure as incontrovertibly carnal, possessed of an almost preternaturally keen sexual awareness that is both challenging and defiant.
An excerpt of his exhibition statement follows: “I exact a preference for hyperbole (i.e., operatic) and psychological texture in my work, exploring within the confines of self-portraiture, that typically runs counter to modern western notions of beauty. Hence, figuratively and literally theatrical, friends and relations, lasting and temporary, serve as a surrogate for me, as I re-render their flesh by “compositing” my imagery from a variety of sources. Ultimately, the work, in the abstract, considers the ways in which a person or persons can take on an iconic quality in memory, at the same time they emblematize, retrospectively, a more universal human experience.”
Fall 2018 Exhibitions
Monday, October 22 – December 7, 2018
Sara Allen Prigodich and Hanna Vogel
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk & Reception: Monday, October 22, 5:45 – 7:00 p.m.
This exhibition consists of craft-based sculptural work by two artists, Sara Allen Prigodich and Hanna Vogel. Multi-media sculptures and installations that use the meanings inherent in the materials to explore emotional and physical dualities. Sara works with porcelain and wood and Hanna works with woven steel wire and handmade paper. Sara’s work examines the mutability of memory and its effects on our emotional states. Hanna’s work explores the balance between growth and decay in order to cultivate compassion for the physical world around us and for our own ephemeral bodies.
Both Sara Allen Prigodich and Hanna Vogel both received their MFAs at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Their public talk will offer context to this two-person mixed-media site specific installation.
Monday, September 3 – Friday, October 5, 2018
Boundings
Gallery 406, Arts West
Naomi J. Falk
Artist Talk & Closing Reception: Monday, October 1, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Falk’s work ruminates on our relationships and collaborations with the manufactured and natural landscapes we inhabit. They contemplate the struggles and connections we have with each other and the need to find a place to call our own. In the current climate, politically and environmentally, how do we find balance between staked territory and collective community? Under the specter of rapidly diminishing polar ice and other worries, what measures do we take to feel safe and at what cost? Where do we go from here?
Naomi Falk received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She has exhibited regionally and nationally, and has done residencies in Germany, Iceland, New York, Vermont, and the Faroe Islands. Falk currently is an Assistant Professor at the School of Visual Art & Design at the University of South Carolina.
Spring 2018 Exhibitions
Friday, May 4 – Wednesday, May 11, 2018
Layered Perspectives
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
These exhibitions are part of the graduating Elon Art Major’s capstone experience. It represents the culmination of their art making endeavors. During the opening receptions, each exhibiting artist will present brief statements that offers context to their thesis.
Wednesday, April 25 – Friday, July 13, 2018
Very Fine People
Daniel Hosterman
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Reception: Tuesday, May 1, 6 – 7 p.m.
The photographs in this exhibition showcases the artist’s experiences during a torch march through UVA campus on August 11, 2017 and the “Unite the Right” rally on August 12.
Tuesday, March 13 – Friday, April 13, 2018
Mark Holmes
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 13, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
Mark Holmes is a sculptor and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University. Exhibits include: The Chrysler Museum (VA), The Beverly Art Center (Chicago), Devening Projects (Chicago), Chicago Urban Art Society, Judith Racht Gallery (Chicago), Sidecar Gallery (Indiana), Illinois Wesleyan University, Dominican University, and Western Illinois University. From 1990-2004, he was the founder/operator of -ism Furniture/Design in Chicago. Mark states of the exhibition: Our world is full of manufactured objects that have been carefully designed and materially executed to erase traces of their making and makers. The art that most interests me integrates conception and execution as embodied thought. Examining the way we make things exposes how we think, and opens new possibilities for shaping the world. This show will include two bodies of work representing distinct but complimentary parts of Mark’s creative practice.
Monday, February 5 – Friday, March 9, 2018
Neck of the Woods: Marrow
Renee Van der Stelt
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk & Opening Reception: Monday, February 5, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
Graphite drawings and objects approach the often-hidden pith of rural landscapes in the United States. The exhibition presents a portrait of the subtle ways in which territories are protected and perpetuate tight borders of control through culturally inherited forms of shame and fear. Van der Stelt’s drawings and objects reveal a complex relationship to the rural landscape as it relates to legal control, trust, and deeds. The artist uses images of her body to explore a direct relationship to the land, and looks for new ways to engage with openness and flexibility. Politics of space and a deep interest in maps informs the art works in this exhibition.
Fall 2017 Exhibitions
Thursday, November 2 – Wednesday, December 5, 2017
Student Juried Art Exhibition
Center For the Arts, Isabella Cannon Room
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 2, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
The annual Juried Student Art Exhibition represents some of the strongest art selected from currently enrolled Elon University students. This exhibit is coordinated and executed completely by the students enrolled in Art 380: Professional Practices in Art.
Monday, October 23 – Friday, December 1, 2017
Contact
Ryan Rasmussen
Arts West, Gallery 406
Opening Reception: Monday, October 23, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
Ryan Rasmussen is a multi-disciplinary artists whose work spans practices in printmaking, sculpture, installation, interactive objects, video, digital fabrication, teaching and things that have mass or do not. His work serves to investigate how contemporary cultural artifacts simultaneously embody and emit desire through an expanding global vernacular. Rasmussen sees these forms as a cultural composite whose morphology is based on abstract, socially agreeable representations of value. As a result, they are exceptional in their adaptability to social change and are capable of igniting cultural mutation as well as mirroring it. His role as an artist is to interpret these forces that are not only present in our world but are major players in crafting it.
Monday, September 24 – Friday, October 20, 2017
Biennial Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Arts West, Gallery 406
Opening Reception: Monday, September 24, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
Studio faculty from the Art & Art History Department exhibit their work in mediums ranging from photography, video, painting, sculpture and mixed media.
Spring 2017 Exhibitions
Friday, April 28 – Thursday, May 4, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, April 28, 5:30-7 p.m.
Friday, May 5 – Thursday, May 12, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, May 5, 5:30-7 p.m.
BA & BFA Thesis Exhibitions
Arts West, Gallery 406
These exhibitions are part of the graduating Elon Art Major’s capstone experience and represent the culmination of their art making endeavors. During the opening receptions, each exhibiting artist will present brief statements that offers context to their thesis.
Monday, March 27 – Thursday, August 3, 2017
The Body in African Art
Center for the Arts, Isabella Cannon Room
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday, April 26, 4 – 5:15 p.m.
This student curated exhibition features works from Elon’s African Art Collection. Spanning several time periods and cultures throughout Africa.
Monday, March 6- Thursday, April 20, 2017
Petrichor: Reflections on becoming
Jeanine Hill
Arts West, Gallery 406
Artist Talk: Monday, March 6, Gallery 406, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
In this current body of work, Jeanine Hill utilizes the memory of clay to build objects that become records of action. The same fluency that a drawn line is able to bring to a surface, she is able to articulate through the creation of form. As we experience the world, we gradually create narrative memory palaces in our minds; small fragments created and combined to produce a narrative that is our own. It is through the examination of personal history and the construction and reconstruction of this landscape that Ms. Hill deciphers her own mysteries through the morphology of clay.
Jeanine Hill was born in Alcalde, New Mexico on a Pueblo Reservation where she and her family were surrounded by vast orchards and high canyon walls. Her first exposure to the arts was early on when her father began taking photographs of the traditional Pueblo ceremonies by day and working with wood by night. She was taught the value of storytelling by her mother who used words to shape the world. Jeanine’s own making and storytelling practices were forged out of hours of being lost in the woods of Vermont, and sharing stories with her siblings.
Monday, February 6- Thursday, March 3, 2017
Word on the Street
Amanda Burnham
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk: Monday, March 6, Gallery 406, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Burnham’s drawings and large, site specific installations (which are also drawings) begin as anecdotal moments either recorded or observed in the city around her, and frequently evolve to emphasize the darkly comic and absurd. Installations are (usually) composed of hundreds of quick, gestural acrylic and flashe paint sketches made with a fat brush that are then cut and collaged onto both built armatures and the existing surfaces of a space; these are sometimes further animated with embedded lighting. The effect is somewhere between a comic book and a stage set.
With a printmaking and painting BA from Harvard and an MFA from Yale, Amanda Burnham currently teaches drawing, painting, design and contemporary theory and practice. Ms. Burnham is a very prolific and successful artist. Recent exhibitions include the Volta Art Fair (Basel, Switzerland), the Toledo Museum of Art, Benrimon Contemporary (NYC), Bridge Gallery (NYC), Christina Ray Gallery (NYC), Dorsch Gallery (Miami) and GV/AS Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). Ms. Burnham was an artist in residence at the Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva, Switzerland, in 2015, and has been named a Sondheim Prize semifinalist in 2012, 2013, and 2014.
Fall 2016 Exhibitions
Thursday, October 27 – Thursday, December 8, 2016
Student Juried Art Exhibition
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Reception and Awards Ceremony: Thursday, October 27, Isabella Cannon Room, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
The annual Juried Student Exhibition represents some of the strongest art selected from currently enrolled Elon University students. This exhibit is coordinated and executed completely by the students enrolled in Art 380: Professional Practices.
Monday, October 10 – Thursday, December 8, 2016
Search Windows
Chris Ireland
Arts West, Gallery 406
Artist Talk: Monday, October 10, Gallery 406
Chris Ireland is the founder and the coordinator the digital media studies area and assistant professor of art/digital media at Tarleton State University. The exhibition will consist of photographs on aluminum, along with interactive and traditional video/sound works. The images come from Midwestern urban areas through Google searches of real estate terminology used to conjure a positive association with a neighborhood; words such as “home” and “development.”
Monday, September 5 – Thursday, October 6, 2016
I May Not Be A Lion
Elizabeth Alexander
Arts West, Gallery 406
Artist Talk: Monday, September 5, Gallery 406, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Elizabeth Alexander is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in sculptures and installations made from paper and found objects. She is a member of the Boston Sculptors Gallery and was named “Best Artist of Boston” for 2014 by Improper Bostonian magazine. Her work has been highlighted and reviewed by publications such as Sculpture Magazine, Hyperallergic, Boston Magazine, Fiber Art Now, The Boston Globe, Art New England, The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, Santa Barbara News-Press, The Detroit Free Press, and New Glass Review.
Monday, August 29 – Thursday, October 20, 2016
Motion Pictures, Photographic Exhibition
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
A selection of works by Assistant Professor of Dance, Jen Guy Metcalf, will be presented at Motion Pictures—A Photographic Exhibition. During her time with the Elon in LA program, Metcalf collaborated with local professional artists, faculty, students and alumni to create dance photography and film projects. The intention of her photographic work was to capture expressive movement in a variety of environments around Los Angeles. Emphasis was placed on investigating spaces with dancers and making physical site-specific choices.
Spring 2016 Exhibitions
Friday, May 6 – Thursday, May 19, 2016
Senior Bachelor of Arts & Bachelor of Fines Arts Thesis Exhibition
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk: Friday, May 6, Gallery 406, 5:30 p.m.
A graduating Elon art major’s capstone experience includes a culminating exhibition of his or her art-making endeavors. During the opening reception, artists present brief statements to offer context to their theses.
Monday, March 17 – Friday, April 15, 2016
DO TO DO
Lisa Walcott
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk: Monday, March 14, Gallery 406, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Walcott’s exhibition demonstrates the significance of small gestures through installation-based kinetic sculptures that captivate and hold the viewer’s gaze.
Monday, February 8 – Monday, March 7, 2016
Anti-local
Mark Schoon & Dominic Lippillo
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk: Monday, March 7, Gallery 406, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Two photographers who live more than 1,000 miles apart undertake a collaborative project using the diptych format. Their exhibition explores domesticity, proximity, locality and space vs. place.
Fall 2015 Exhibitions
Monday, November 2 – Friday, November 20, 2015
Future Histories
Jason Mitcham
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk: Monday, November 2, Gallery 406, 5:30 p.m.
Mitcham, a 2012 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Interdisciplinary Work, is primarily a painter, although his work has expanded into the realm of video, creating stop-motion animations from paintings. His videos explore the development of our society’s landscapes, specifically notions of temporality, suburbia and modern ruins. One of his recent animations was premiered on National Public Radio’s website and included in the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival.
Thursday, October 29 – Monday, December 7, 2015
Student Juried Art Exhibition
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Reception: October 29, Isabella Cannon Room, 5:30 p.m.
The annual juried student exhibition represents some of the strongest art selected from currently enrolled Elon students. This exhibit is coordinated and executed by the students enrolled in ART 380: “Professional Practices.”
View Video of Exhibition Reception created by Elon alum Emily Stone.
Monday October 5 – Thursday, October 29, 2015
Causes Taken As Effects
Timothy van Laar
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk: Monday, October 5, Gallery 406, 5:30 p.m.
These paintings are rooted in collage and its disruptive procedures. Simple, varied paint applications catalog a wide range of processes and at the same time become specific images and art historical references – a bird, a smear of black; a bowl, a puddle of transparent paint; a hard-edge grid of colored squares. Like collage and its radical recontextualization, the paintings examine the nature of representation and the function of signs. They are unsystematic and eccentric, offering visual puns, arbitrary relationships, and playful allusions to art history, personal stories and surprising shifts of materiality.
Monday, August 31 – Monday, September 28, 2015
Biennial Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Gallery 406, Arts West
Studio faculty from the Department of Art & Art History exhibit work ranging from photography, video, painting, sculpture and mixed media.
Spring 2015 Exhibitions
Friday, May 1 – 19, 2015
Anomalous: BA & BFA Thesis Exhibition
Gallery 406, Arts Wet
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Gallery 406 – 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
These exhibitions are part of the graduating Elon Art Major’s capstone experience. It represents the culmination of their art making endeavors. During the opening receptions, each exhibiting artist will present brief statements that offers context to their thesis.
Monday, April 27 – Monday, May 25, 2015
Faculty Select Collective
Gallery 406, Arts West
This exhibition displays selected art from enrolled Elon University students. The art, chosen by faculty of the Art Department, represents some of the strongest art coming out of the Art Department. Many mediums are represented in an exhibition.
Monday, February 16 – Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Time/Travel: Cut, Paste, Stitch and Mark
Judy Henricks, Anne Simpkins, and Carolyn Nelson
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Reception: Isabella Cannon Room, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Using varied approaches to the surface, these three artists have spent the past year recording the atmosphere of places visited through travel, dream and memory. Each uses multiple strategies including the painted, drawn and stitched line combined with collaged textile or paper to create an intense visual record.
Monday, March 9 – Thursday, April 16, 2015
“Elegies” photography, video mixed media
Samantha Dirosa
Gallery 406, Arts West
Reception: Gallery 406, Monday, March 9 – 12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Performance and Artist Talk: Gallery 406, Monday, March 9 – 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Appropriated medical terminology study cards, snippets from popular Meg Ryan romantic comedies, and projected video and text about the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe make up the work of this one-person exhibition titled Elegies by Elon University Associate Professor of Art and Environmental Studies, Samantha DiRosa. Performing as localized requiems in a sense, DiRosa’s seemingly dissimilar bodies of work come together to speak poetically to lovesickness, loss, distance, and disconnection. These themes are explored on both intimate / personal levels and larger cultural / global levels through a diversity of media.
Monday, February 9 – Thursday, March 5, 2015
The Accident Event Register
Lisa Bulawsky
Gallery 406, Arts West
Reception: Gallery 406, Monday, February 9 – 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Artist Talk: Gallery 406, Monday, February 9 – 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Bulawsky’s current exhibition in Gallery 406 focuses specifically on the relationship between the “happy accident”- a pleasant situation that is neither planned nor intended, and the “integral accident”- one which is driven by new technologies, often catastrophic, but so commonplace and inevitable that it is no longer unexpected. She transforms visual happenstance into commentaries concerning the nature of the accidental, whether defined by imminence or serendipity. Even more, these juxtapositions of personal and cultural histories examine the documentation of time itself.
Fall 2014 Exhibitions
Thursday, November 13, 2014 – February 10, 2015
Student Juried Exhibition
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Opening Reception, Thursday, November 13, Isabella Cannon Room, 5 – 6 p.m.
The annual Student Juried Exhibition represents some of the strongest art selected from currently enrolled Elon University students. This exhibit is coordinated and executed completely by the students enrolled in Art 380: Professional Practices.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Matt Wilt
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception: Monday, November 3, Gallery 406, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: Monday, November 3, Gallery 406, 5 – 6 p.m.
Wilt is intrigued by art that synthesizes the human, physical body with the mechanics of the manmade world. Influenced by the work of Hausmann, Ernst, and Rebecca Horn, Wilt’s art references the body and its uneasy union with the artificial or mechanical. Symbolic forms include the hand and objects used as surrogates for the body: bottle nipples, respirator bags, sex toys, and prosthetics. The hand exemplifies the human presence, while the other objects distance us from the most human of activities. These forms as manufactured objects replicating natural functions act as substitutes for nature. Wilt finds this composite of the physical body and the synthetic world simultaneously fascinating and frightening. Through this line of inquiry he attempts to connect threads that link the many disparate elements of history, culture and what it is to be human.
Monday, September 29 – October 30, 2014
Berding and Henriquez: Painting
Opening Reception: Monday, September 29, Gallery 406, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: Monday, September 29, Gallery 406, 5 – 6 p.m.
Inspired by the connectivity that John Dewey saw as essential to aesthetic experience, this exhibition highlights the work and studio process of two artists with different methodologies, yet who share a commitment to painting as a practice deeply informed by both the landscape of material culture and the transformation that occurs in the creative process. Thus, along with new paintings produced during the recent year, the exhibition will importantly feature source materials and other archived elements critical to their studio practice.
August 26 – September 25, 2014
Hassell and Pegelow Kaplan
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Reception & Gallery Talk: Monday, September 8, Gallery 406, 5 – 6 p.m.
While the gaze has long been explored as a mechanism of domination, recent scholarship also considers the act of looking as a disruption of power. The artworks of Ken Hassell and Ann Pegelow Kaplan each explore modern day inequalities and how our attention and perspective as human beings influence our experience. Both artists work in photography and video – Hassell considering environmental and social issues in Appalachia, such as mountain top removal, pollution of drinking water and black lung; Kaplan following her own autobiographical traces to explore instances of contemporary oppression, including racial segregation, nuclear power and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Continuing an ongoing conversation about power, representation, attention and stillness, and the act of looking.
Spring 2014 Exhibitions
Friday, May 2 – May 19, 2014
BA & BFA Thesis Exhibition
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception & Artist Talks, Friday, May 2, Gallery 406, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
As part of the graduating Elon Art Major’s capstone experience, this exhibition represents the culmination of their art making endeavors. During the opening reception, each exhibiting artist will present brief statements that offers context to their thesis.
Monday, April 14- May 29, 2014
Third Nature
Virginia Derryberry
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Artist Talk: Monday, April 14, Yeager Recital Hall, 5:30 – 6: 15 p.m.
Artist Reception: Monday, April 14, Isabella Cannon Room, 6:15 – 7:00 p.m.
Derryberry’s large scale oil on canvas figure paintings blend narrative elements from mythology and alchemy, the forerunner of modern science. Her intent is to suggest multiple interpretations rather than straightforward illustration of a specific narrative. At first glance, it seems that she’s defining a “real” space, but in fact, the images are constructed from multiple viewpoints and lighting systems. Passages of volumetric rendering set next to more abstract, painterly areas result in the creation of a virtual, shifting world where nothing is quite what it seems.
Monday, March 17 – April 15, 2014
Significant Other
Patrick Earl Hammie
Artist Reception: Monday, March 17, Gallery 406, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: Monday, March 17, Gallery 406, Arts West, 5 – 6 p.m.
Patrick Earl Hammie’s paintings explore the tension between power and vulnerability and attempt to re-image the modern male. Through body language and narrative, Hammie reinvents and remixes ideal beauty and heroic nudity and examines how male artists have historically represented themselves and the nude. These portraits draw from his life history as a son, a male and an African American struggling to synthesize past adversity and visualize the effort to reconcile inner duality and yield to new realities that require constant
Monday, February 10 – Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Stillness
John Penny
Artist Reception: Monday, February 10, Gallery 406, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: Monday, February 10, Gallery 406, Arts West, 5 – 6 p.m.
Much recent attention, particularly in Europe, has been given to the question of “drawing research.” Artist John Penny sees his work and interests as being intrinsically bound up in this area. His current research is centered on the idea of “drawing with materials” – an interest that sources sculpture rather than painting to construct this area of work.
Fall 2013 Exhibitions
Monday, December 8 – Thursday, February 6, 2014
Digital Fabrications
LM Wood
Gallery 406, Arts West
LM Wood, Associate Professor of Art at Elon, presents an exhibition of fiber based and mixed media art. This exhibition represents her most recent scholarship created during her Fall 2012 sabbatical.
Thursday, November 14 – Tuesday, December 3, 2013
SJE: Student Juried Exhibition
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Thursday, November 14, Isabella Cannon Room, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
The annual Student Juried Exhibition represents some of the strongest art selected from currently enrolled Elon University students. This exhibit is coordinated and executed completely by the students enrolled in Art 380: Professional Practices.
Monday, November 4 – Thursday, November 28, 2013
TrendFACTORY: ELON
Leslie Mutchler
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception and Artist talk: Monday, November 4, Gallery 406, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
A community-driven, multi-participatory installation that explores issues related to hand (craft), the physicality of labor, and the repetition of memes in the virtual world through hand-manufactured objects. It utilizes the gallery as a workspace and its existence is dependent on audience participation. Minimalist workstations are placed around the space for viewers to construct a cultural artifact, a non-functional art object, using guidelines and basic tools. The byproduct of the participants’ physical production is uploaded to a common media-sharing platform (tumblr) by using a smartphone. Once these objects are catalogued in the database for posterity and analysis, they are dismantled and left in the “recycling” bin for another viewer to build a new, repeating the cycle throughout the course of the exhibition.
Monday, October 20 – Friday, October 29, 2013
Signal Jammer
Jason Lahr
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Artist Talk: Monday, October 28, Yeager Hall, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Closing Reception: Thursday, October 28, Isabella Cannon Room, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Jason Lahr’s paintings combine darkly comic texts with appropriated images, creating shifting narratives of working class male identity as influenced by popular culture. The images are pulled from a wide range of popular and sub-cultural ephemera while the texts are fragments that suggest their excision from a larger story, and give the reader/viewer flashbulb glimpses at moments of narrative action.
Monday, September 30 – Monday, September 30, 2013
Form, Function and Futility: An Exploration in Architecture and Identity
Morgan Craig
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk and Reception: Monday, September 30, Gallery 406, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Morgan Craig believes that architectural structures acting as both repositories and as vehicles for memory profoundly influence culture and identity by providing a tangible framework through which facets of a society can be expressed. Consequently, Craig has been inspired to build a body of work dealing with how identity is influenced by the types of architectural edifices present in a given landscape. So often the post-industrial edifices are dismissed as symbols of failure, danger, and/or obsolescence. While evidence of these pasts or present-day difficulties may not be pleasant, Craig feels it imperative that societies not ignore their existence and their impact on the past, present, and future understanding of societies.
Monday, August 20 – Friday, September 27, 2013
Recent Work
Jim Hopfensperger, Nowal Motawi & Jason Lahr
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk: Monday, August 20, Gallery 406, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Hopfensperger’s functional furniture pieces illustrate comparisons, contrasts, and reconciliations between the history of handmade objects and the culture of mass production, serving as reminders of the elegant relationships and essential connections among the human hand, the eye, and the mind. Motawi hand-crafts art tile in an Ann Arbor, MI studio. These distinctive tiles are known for their rich glazes and uniquely American designs, inspired by nature, art and architecture.
Spring 2013 Exhibitions
Friday, April 19th & Friday, May 3, 2013
BA Senior Thesis Exhibition
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception: Friday, April 19, Gallery 406, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. & Friday, May 3, Gallery 406, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
These exhibitions are part of the graduating Elon Art Major’s capstone experience. It represents the culmination of their art making endeavors. During the opening receptions, each exhibiting artist will present brief statements that offers context to their thesis.
Monday, April 15 – Monday, May 27, 2013
Transcendence (2005-2012)
Jess Dugan
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Monday, April 15, Isabella Cannon Room, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
A collection of portraits within the transgender and gender variant community shows the endless number of gender identities or specifics to each person and further illustrates gender identity and biological sex as two distinct constructs. More broadly, the images call into question societal expectations about gender roles that affect everyone including those who are not a part of the transgender community. In an effort to increase understanding, these images portray issues unique to the transgender community while also highlighting the shared experience of being human.
CANCELLED – Monday, March 18 – Tuesday, April 11, 2013
Archival Structure 5: Bricks
David Hamlow
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception: Monday, March 18, Gallery 406, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Artist talk: Monday, March 18, Yeager Recital Hall, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
An installation of an unlimited edition of brick-shaped boxes created from Hamlow’s saved paperboard and vacuum-formed plastic consumer refuse. Also on display, several versions of Hamlow’s latest series Pulse: wall-and-floor-based works created using conserved Mylar food packages. The exhibition will be a collaborative effort between the artist and the students of the Elon University Art & ARH department and continues through Tuesday, April 11.
Monday, February 18 – Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Write/Writhe
Colleen Choquette Raphael
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception: Monday, February 18, Gallery 406, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: Yeager Recital Hall, 5:30 -6:30 p.m.
Text, video and appropriated imagery meet at the intersection of delirium and logos, fluidity and stasis, memory and experience – the imaginary filament between an utterance and the word.
Monday, February 11 – Tuesday, April 9, 2013
The Faculty Biennial and the Art Kit
Opening Reception & Panel Discussion: Monday, February 11, Isabella Cannon Room, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
The studio faculty of the Art & Art History department exhibits current work surrounding the idea of the “art kit.” The concept has become pervasive in popular culture and whether it bolsters or breaks down the perceptions of contemporary art is one of many questions that may be addressed in this exhibition. During the reception, the faculty will share their approaches in a roundtable discussion.
Fall 2012 Exhibitions
Monday, December 3, 2012 – February 12, 2013
Somewhere Between Support and Collapse
David Borawski
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception: Monday, December 3, Gallery 406, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Borawski addresses the interface of art-making and daily life, particularly the refashioning of typical activity, routine and habit into authentic archives, artifacts and performance rituals. Ranging from drawing to large-scale sculpture and multimedia installation, his work reveals the habitual in the creative and the monumental in the mundane.
Monday, November 19, 2012 – February 5, 2013
Student Juried Art Exhibition
Opening Reception: Monday, November 19, Isabella Cannon Room, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
The annual juried student exhibition represents some of the strongest art from current Elon University students and curated by the students enrolled in Art 380: Professional Practices.
Friday, November 9 – November 27, 2013
Material Life
Hyoung Seok Kim
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, November 9, Gallery 406, 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
Kim focuses on the story of communication and the concepts of waves and particles through symbols and images including the human body, horn shapes, seeds and trees.
Monday, October 1 – October 30, 2013
The National Security Garden Project
Fabian Winkler and Shannon McMullen
Opening Reception: Monday, October 1, Arts West, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Artist Talk, Monday, October 1, Yeager Recital Hall, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
A series of art installations demonstrating critical gardening strategies to address issues of climate change, energy, agriculture and national security in a post-surplus world.
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Monday, September 3 – November 13, 2013
Small Flowers Crack Concrete
Craig Hill
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Talk: Monday, September 3, Yeager Recital Hall, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Opening Reception: Monday, September 3, Gallery 406, 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Hill works in intricate ways to examine the relationships between childhood perception and adult reminiscence. His pictures allow children to act out fantasies, to become someone else or travel to a different place and time. For adults, he provides the ability to exploit the many complexities in the images with intimate childhood experiences. Hill’s exhibition spans both university galleries.
Spring 2012 Exhibitions
Sunday, April 29 – May 8, 2012
BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 29, Gallery 406, 1 – 3 p.m.
This exhibition is part of the Elon BFA capstone experience and represents the culmination of students’ art making endeavors. At the opening reception, exhibiting artists present brief statements to offer context to their theses.
Monday, April 16 – Friday, May 18, 2012
BROEI*KAS: The Greenhouse
Tom Hubbard
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Opening Reception & Gallery Talk: Monday, April 16, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
A series of photographic images and mixed media works incorporating found objects, colors, textures and materials from the artist’s home environs in Voorschoten, the Netherlands. Like the farms and barns he knew growing up in the Midwest of the United States, these subjects shave a sense of history, place and integrity in spite of any outward condition.
Sunday-Thursday, April 15 – 19, 2012
Sunday-Thursday, April 22 – 26
BA Senior Thesis Exhibitions
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening receptions: Sunday, April 12 & Sunday, April 22, Gallery 406, 1 – 3 p.m.
Sundays, 1 p.m.
Two consecutive exhibitions are part of graduating art majors’ capstone experiences at Elon and participation represents the culmination of their art making endeavors. During each opening reception, exhibiting artists present statements that offer context to their theses.
Monday, March 12 – Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Analytic Mark
Jelena Berenc
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception, Monday, March 12, Gallery 406, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: Monday, March 12, Yeager Recital Hall, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Berenc’s endurance drawings document several of her fundamental life experiences. The works on paper are created through repetition, excessiveness and continuous durations so constructed to allow the artist to re-experience her existence in a slower and more fully conscious way.
Monday, February 13 – Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Damian Yanessa
Gallery 406, Arts West
Reception: Monday, February 13, Gallery 406, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: Monday, February 13, Yeager Recital Hall, Center for the Arts, 5 – 6 p.m.
Artist Damian Yanessa will exhibit large mixed media sculptures and installations that examine the modern world with visual transformations and evolving definitions of materiality.
February 6 – April 10, 2012
Current Trends in Print
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Opening Reception: Monday, February 6, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
An annual juried print exhibition of representation, non-representational and abstract art. This exhibition exemplifies the diverse medium of printing, where media range from the traditional to the non-traditional.
Fall 2011 Exhibitions
Monday, December 3 – January 25, 2012
Fabulous Fibers 4
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist Reception: Monday, January 9, 12 – 2 p.m.
This invitational exhibition features contemporary fiber art created by North Carolina artists. Varying techniques and media will be featured, including quiltmaking, beading, hand and machine stitching, hand-dyed fabric, weaving, and digital imagery.
November 21, 2011 – January 31, 2012
Student Juried Art Exhibition
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts
Opening Reception: Monday, November 21, Isabella Cannon Room, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
An annual juried student exhibition representing some of the strongest art selected from currently enrolled Elon University students. The exhibition is coordinated and executed entirely by the students of Art 380: Professional Practices.
Wednesday, November 9 – Thursday, November 24, 2011
Ally/Enemy
Heather Layton
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening Reception: Monday, November 9, Gallery 406, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
A site-specific installation comprised of narratives from anti-heroes in their attempt to overcome mediocrity. The illustrated scenarios question the definitions of heroism in a cultural that encourages us to win at any cost.
Monday, October 3 – November 2, 2011
John Douglas Powers
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening reception: Monday, October 3, Gallery 406, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Artist talk: Monday, October 3, Yeager Recital Hall, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Powers exhibition includes a series of new kinetic sculptures; part of a continued exploration of the interaction between motion, sound and physical space. The artist is the recipient of a Southeastern College Art Conference Individual Artist Fellowship. His sculptures, installations, animation and video work have been exhibited worldwide.
Monday, September 12 – September 27, 2011
Indrani Nayar-Gall
Gallery 406, Arts West
Opening reception: Gallery 406, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
Artist’s talk: Monday, September 12, Yeager Recital Hall, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Nayar-Gall examines the displacement and loss integral to the trauma of migration. Oftentimes, the experience leaves one in a minority, different, and faced with uncertainty in an unfamiliar landscape. The body of work encompasses works on paper, hybrid forms, installations, multimedia collaborations, public interactive and intervention projects.