Dylan Redford Screening "The Party"
7:30 pm in Johnson Gallery
Friday December 7th
Senior Independent Show
Living Portraits
September 18, Tuesday (through September 25)
Living Portraits
Johnson Memorial Building
Oil paintings and ceramic sculptures created in Jim Butler’s spring Portraiture class, some of which were presented in the Spring Student Symposium, are on display. The students present vivid images communicating the personalities of people who have made a difference in their lives. Beautifully crafted pictures and colorful glazed ceramic objects bring them to life. Sponsored by the Program in Studio Art. Free
Pictured:Yasmina Muslemany ’14 works on her oil painting Triple Portrait of My Father
Environmental/Figurative Interiors
September 26, Wednesday (through October 3)
Johnson Memorial Building
Students in Jim Butler’s spring Foundation-Drawing class spent more than five weeks creating large-scale, multimedia drawings of a live model posed in a theatrical tableaux. The resulting images are rambunctious combinations of charcoal, ink, gouache, photo collage, and found objects. Melding visual observation with strategies of patterning, process, and willful abandon, each is distinctively personal in style and form. Sponsored by the Program in Studio Art. Free
Pictured: Tom Durkin ’13 works on his mixed-media drawing Skeletal Hand
Recent Student Work in Large Format Painting and Glass: Open Studios
September 28, Friday
Clifford Symposium Breakout Sessions
3:00–4:15 PM
Davis Family Library, Johnson Memorial Building Gallery, and Mahaney Center for the Arts, Lower Lobby
The Program in Studio Art presents creative student visual art in three venues: at the Mahaney Center for the Arts, the first floor gallery area features a wide array of class work including prints, photographs, paintings, and sculpture. Collaborative art created with Cameron Visiting Artists in blown-glass and silkscreen-printing is on view in the Davis Family Library main lobby. Come see the art process behind-the-scenes as Johnson Building studios are open to the public during the day on Friday. The open studios are accompanied by a exhibition of large-scale drawings in the Johnson Pit. Free
Pictured: Mandy Kwan '12 creating a house in the class Sculptural Architecture
Line in Space: Just a Corner of Your Memory Palace
October 10, Wednesday (through October 18)
Johnson Memorial Building
Students from Sanford Mirling’s fall class Sculpture I—Communicating in Three Dimensions exhibit works that focus on the limitless, form-making possibilities of welded steel rod. While tackling elemental aesthetic issues of balance, volume, perspective, and scale, each sculpture provides a glimpse into the artist’s own personal narrative. As a collection, these pieces representearnest experiments in translating two dimensions into three and memories into new realities. Sponsored by the Program in Studio Art. Free
Pictured: Dylan Redford '14, I keep losing my favorite things
Pinhole Photography
October 30, Tuesday (through November 7)
Johnson Memorial Building
John Huddleston’s ART 327 class presents an exhibition of black and white pinhole photography. Sponsored by the Program in Studio Art. Free
Pictured: Elma Burnham ’13, pinhole photograph, 4 x 4 1/2 inches
The Autumn Campus
November 27, Tuesday (through December 6)
Johnson Memorial Building, Pit Space
The works created in Jim Butler’s fall class Landscape Re-Imagined: Painting, Drawing, Photography, and Glass are large-scale images of our campus presented in new and surprising ways. Students interact with the natural and built environment and study the rich history of painting landscape. Their results exploit all the fluidly colorful possibilities of oil paint to reimagine our everyday world. Sponsored by the Program in Studio Art. Free
Pictured: Stephanie Moroney '12, Chateau, oil on cavas, 48 x 72 inches
Silkscreen Prints
November 28, Wednesday (through December 6)
Johnson Memorial Building, Mezzanine
Students in Hedya’s Klein’s ART 318 printmaking class display their new work. Sponsored by the Program in Studio Art. Free
Pictured: Samantha Rudashevsky Parry '12, untitled, cut paper silkscreen
