The Gallery at Penn College
Roger and Peggy Madigan Library, Room 303 · (570) 320-2445
Past Exhibits
60 x 60 – Small Prints from Purdue University Galleries
January 10 - February 3, 2009
Robin Kaneshiro, Standing Alligator
1976, lithograph.
A traveling retrospective exhibition of contemporary prints acquired from Purdue University Galleries’ biennial small print exhibition, “Sixty Square Inches” The exhibit includes 60 images from a broad range of artists working in a variety of printmaking techniques including etching, engraving, lithograph, woodcut, intaglio, and others. All prints in the exhibit are no more than 60 square inches in image size.
Craig Martin, director of the Purdue University Galleries states, “The strength and variety of the printmaking society over the past 30 years is revealed in this small-scale exhibit through the presence of the very large creative personalities that have inhabited it and participated in our exhibits.”
“60 x 60” was developed by the Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, Indiana.
David Armstrong – Exalting Everyday Elements
December 2 - 17, 2008
A Benefit Exhibit for Penn College Foundation
Mountain Air
tempera on panel, 1989, 22 in. x 32 in.
This popular exhibit returns to The Gallery at Penn College for a third year with new original works by David Armstrong. Originals and reproductions will be available for acquisition to benefit the Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation, Inc. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of these works will be used for annual scholarship awards and endowed scholarship funds to benefit Penn College students. The Penn College Foundation is a non-profit, tax exempt organization, established in 1981. The Foundation operates for the purpose of securing financial and other support necessary to assist the College in achieving it’s mission.
"My work attempts to present my vision of beauty through ordinary elements of the commonplace. I believe great works of art are not achieved through complicated statements, but rather simple ones, which allow painter and viewer alike to see beneath the surface, to question, and in our individual ways, to attempt an answer to the question of how we integrate our human needs with the natural world. In my pictures I attempt to feel -- a sense of time and place -- a moment of light, movement, and mood reflective of the world around me. In essence, my paintings reflect specific times and emotions of my life."
-David Armstrong (1947 – 1998)
David Armstrong & Chris Armstrong– "Returning Home"
December 8 - 16, 2007
Greening Up at Grace’s
by David Armstrong,
watercolor,
29” x 34 ¼”, 1994
A vast selection of watercolor paintings by the late David Armstrong and oil paintings by his son Chris Armstrong will be on display. All sales from this special exhibit will benefit the Lycoming County United Way. Originals and reproductions will be available for acquisition.
Kim Banister – "Vessels of Life"
November 9 - December 2, 2007
Man and Woman
charcoal, pastel and linseed oil,
95” X 52”, 2001
Delicate strokes of charcoal are captivatingly balanced by dripping lines of linseed oil in large-scale drawings by Kim Banister. Her knowledge and understanding of Eastern concepts is fundamental to the portrayal of her subjects. White space bestows the drawings with more life and becomes an essential part of the work. The drawings, full of both beauty and simplicity, encourage a contemplative emotional state. Banister holds a Master of Fine Arts in Drawing from the University of Cincinnati, and a Bachelor of Arts from Dickinson College.
Rosemarie Bernardi - "Bearing Water: Prints and Drawings"
April 4 - 28, 2006
Untitled
The final show of the academic year, "Bearing Water: Prints and Drawings," features the work of Rosemarie T. Bernardi. An associate professor of art at Keene State College in New Hampshire, Bernardi uses her original photographs to create works in a series. Most of her recent work has been based on images taken at medical museums and combines text with prints and drawings to form dynamic wall installations.
Brian Bishop – [pause]
Untitled (R.R.)
2007, encaustic on panel
8 ½ in. x 8 ½ in.
Brian Bishop’s paintings attempt to pinpoint the overlap between opposites such as the intangible and the tangible, the conceptual and the visceral, the forgotten and the remembered. Some of his inspiration comes from snapshot photography, surveillance films, and portraiture study. His work also addresses memory, in particular, as it is explored through the medium of photography and asks the following question: Does the moment captured by the camera represent truth or fiction?
Brian Bishop attended The School of Visual Arts in New York; he earned a B.F.A. from Memphis College of Art, and an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He recently exhibited his work at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, The University of Delaware, and Georgetown University. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at Framingham State College in Framingham, MA.
Dr. Kenneth E. Carl - "Visions in Wood"
May 15 - June 17, 2007
Pair of Cardinals
Walnut and Cherry, 8.5” x 16.5” x 8", 1979
Dr. Kenneth E. Carl was director of the Williamsport Technical Institute, and President of the Williamsport Area Community College. After retiring from his educational career in 1973, Dr. Carl combined his love of wood and the natural world to create unique and sympathetic representations of birds native to Pennsylvania. His attention to details and patience are apparent in the wood carvings, made of an assortment of native woods and exotic woods. This exhibit features sculptures of a variety of birds that Dr. Carl observed on a daily basis.
Fanky Chak - "Misplacement"
February 21 - March 24, 2006
Green & Purple, 2003-04, digital print, 20" x 24"
The exhibit "Misplacement" is composed of intriguing photographs by Fanky Chak. The artist starts with straight black-and-white photographs, then inserts them into another setting and takes another photograph, this time in color. He says he “plays on the ideas of consciousness versus randomness, staged versus documentary photography, and analog versus digital technology.” Chak is an assistant professor of art at The College of New Jersey.
Brian D. Cohen – "The Fool’s Journey"
March 30 - April 25, 2008
Water
Etching, 2” x 9”, 2005-07
Printmaker Brian D. Cohen presents his new work The Fool’s Journey, a set of 23 etchings based on the traditional tarot deck. Each card presents an archetype of human experience illuminated through a parallel, symbolic element or quality of the physical world. The composition of each etching is based on a geometric framework derived from study of the history of art and sacred geometry. Cohen is a printmaker and founder of Bridge Press, a publisher of artist’s books, broadsides, and etchings in Vermont. Bridge Press was established to further the association and integration of visual image, original text, and book structure. Cohen earned his B.A. from Haverford College and his M.F.A. from the University of Washington.
Maureen Drdak – "Planes of Aspiration"
January 15 - February 12, 2008
Isaac, detail from Akedah Triptych
Acrylic on wood with mineral threads, 48” x 48 ” x 2", 2004
Maureen Drdak’s large, dynamic works present highly polished black surfaces, crushed mineral and metal particles, and a restricted chromatic palette of reds, blacks, and ivories. Her work corpus examines and reinterprets religious symbolism and cultural paradigm. Using formal contemporary aesthetic vocabularies, Drdak's work bridges the deep Past with the volatile Present while addressing psychology, origins of religious impulse, and contemporary social and political concerns, particularly the cult of martyrdom. Drdak is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of the Arts. Her work has been the focus of invitational lectures and exhibits by noted speakers and historians.
Employee Exhibition
May 14 - June 30, 2009
Marilyn Palmer, Winter at the Homestead, watercolor on paper
7 ½ in. x 9 ½ in.
Pennsylvania College of Technology values the service and hard work of its employees, and recognizes that it is important for employees to cultivate their non-work endeavors. Our campus shines with creativity, and The Gallery at Penn College will applaud that creative spirit with the first Employee exhibition. A wide variety of media—photography, sculpture, textiles, paintings, woodworking, and more—will be represented in this exhibit.
The annual Penn College Proud Showcase features artwork or personal collections of members of the Penn College, Williamsport Area Community College, and Williamsport Technical Institute family, including alumni, faculty and staff, and retirees.
Faculty Art Exhibit – "Premiere"
August 14 - September 24, 2006
The works of 14 Penn College art faculty will be featured in the premiere exhibit.
The premiere exhibit features a show of work by full and part-time Penn College art faculty. Fourteen artists exhibit pieces in painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media, photography and printing.
Fred T. Gilmour – "Searching for Creativity"
May 16 - June 22, 2008
Driftwood
photograph, 2005
This collection of images by Fred T. Gilmour chronicles the search for the perfect creative moment. Finding the unexpected, he holds up the normally unobserved or overlooked juxtaposition of elements. Gilmour graduated from WTI/WACC, and holds a B.S. degree from Mansfield University. He retired from Pennsylvania College of Technology where he was an assistant professor of art and director of instructional technology.
Ray Gloeckler – "Works from Wood"
January 23 - February 18, 2007
As It Is, Not As I Would Have It
Woodcut, 35” x 21 5/8”, 2004-05
The first exhibit of the Spring semester features “Works from Wood” by Ray Gloeckler. Gloeckler is a master wood engraver and emeritus professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His detailed imagery portrays humor, politics, and American life in general
Jason Godeke – "Object and Figure: Paintings by Jason Godeke"
September 9 - October 2, 2007
Alone in the Garden
O/C, 12" x 15", 2005
Jason Godeke, an assistant professor of art at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, creates paintings that brilliantly balance fantastical subjects and classical style. Included in his visually realistic paintings are toy figurines taking part in imaginative, tension-filled scenes. Giving insight into his intrigue with these models, Godeke says “a toy figure allows us to project our own psyche onto its blank expression… in making a painting of a plastic statuette, I aim to give that machine-made copy a hand-made uniqueness.” Some images are so engrossing that gallery visitors are forewarned that viewing may lead to a desire to regress back to childhood, overwhelmed by urges to play within the scene, moving figures and creating a story. Godeke was raised in Northern California, earned a BA in studio art from Yale, and an MFA from SUNY Stony Brook.
Cynthia Harper – "Applied Landscape"
April 10 - May 6, 2007
Untitled
Pastel on Paper, 50” x 60”, 2004
Closing the academic year is “Applied Landscape” by Cynthia Harper. Harper’s large-scale works on paper reinvent the traditional landscape. She is a recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
Timothy Hawkesworth – "Paintings and Drawings"
February 27 - April 1, 2007
Boat #1
Mixed Media on Paper, 52” x 58”, 2001
Timothy Hawkesworth will display “Paintings and Drawings” beginning February 27. Exhibiting in Ireland and the United States, Hawkesworth’s largely abstract works create a visual experience for the viewer.
Brad Holland – Third Eye
August 14 - September 14, 2008
Fifth Business
2007, Acrylic on Panel
Now considered one of the top illustrators in the world, Brad Holland became a recognized name in the print industry in the 1970’s. His revolutionary style and perceived political commentaries were a welcome change from the nostalgic illustrations of the past. His works expressed a personal approach and though the ambiguity of his work was initially controversial, he was in time embraced by the likes of Playboy and The New York Times. The trail of his drawings and paintings can be followed through a broad range of publications including Vanity Fair, Time, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, and The Atlantic Monthly. While his unique style has evolved through the years, Holland’s approach remains consistent. He has illustrated CD covers for Ray Charles, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Billy Joel among others, and his work can be found on theater posters, on the walls of Rio Casino in Las Vegas, and in the pages of virtual magazines. He recently illustrated LaNotte di Q, for Australian author Michael Reynolds, and Pandora Books of Seville, Spain, published a book of his Spanish landscape pastels.
His works merge satire and wit with compassion and humanity, resulting in very stirring images that are stories themselves. This extensive display of Holland’s art at The Gallery at Penn College will include drawings and paintings from a variety of sources.
David Hostetler – "The Iconography of the Goddess"
October 3 - October 29, 2006
Installation of Ancient Tree Root Goddesses
5'9" to 6'10", Bronze, Year (various)
The second show features renowned sculptor David Hostetler with an exhibit titled “The Iconography of the Goddess.” Hostetler, a professor emeritus at Ohio University, specializes in wood and bronze sculpture of the female form.
A celebrated American wood carver and bronze sculptor for more than 50 years, he gained national prominence in the 1960s with his “American Woman Series.”
His works appear in more than 25 museums and have been featured in films, on television, and in newspapers and magazines. During his 38-year teaching career at Ohio University, he taught a number of now-accomplished artists.
Vincent Hron - New Work
September 28 - October 22, 2004
Vine Kitchen, oil, 36" x 48"
Hron is an associate professor of art at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Born in Omaha, Neb., he earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting/drawing from Drake University and a master of fine arts degree in painting from the University of Michigan.
Many of Hron's paintings feature interiors, neighborhoods and playgrounds. His artwork has earned several awards, including a graduate scholarship to study for a year at the State Art Academy in Karlsrhue, Germany. His works are displayed in collections in Belgium, Michigan, California, Arizona, Florida, Minnesota, Nebraska and Pennsylvania. He is affiliated with the Gross McLeaf Gallery in Philadelphia.
Japan Juxtaposed – Traditional Textiles/Modern Images
Scarf, detail, Shibori yokobiki kanoko,
silk, 55 in. x 19 in.
Kirk Pedersen, Neon near Ginza,
2007, digital print, 26 in. x 39 in.
July 8 - August 6, 2008
Traditional Textiles: Geometric patterns and designs based on nature can be found in this exhibit of textiles from Japan featuring the classic Japanese method of cloth resist-dyeing called Shibori. Since the 8th century, Shibori fabric is produced by folding, twisting, tying, stitching, or clamping, and then dying in one or more colors. The personal collection of Joseph LeBlanc, Penn College instructor of physics, who lived in Japan for eight years, includes samples of many styles of Shibori. Touching the cloth is allowed and encouraged!
Modern Images: Photographs by Kirk Pedersen feature modern-day Tokyo. Japan’s largest city is captured through the eyes of an urban landscape artist. The images offer a fresh look at scenes that can be found in the city. Pedersen is a professor of art at Mt. San Antonio College, California, and has recently been an invited visiting artist and guest lecturer in China. His work is included in over 70 public and corporate collections.
Hands-on Lecture: Japanese Culture as seen through Textiles by Susan Ball Faeder, Tuesday, July 8, 7 p.m. on the second floor of the Madigan Library
Using examples from her own collection, Susan Ball Faeder will share her knowledge of Japanese traditional textiles based on her nearly 40 years of traveling in Japan. Included in the talk are some basic facts about the Japanese kimono, as well as a discussion of the fabric techniques relating specifically to Japanese textiles such as dyeing, tying, stenciling, block printing, and weaving.
Susan Ball Faeder, of Lewisburg, PA, is the owner of Quilters’ Express to Japan, and has led 17 group tours to Japan. She is also the owner of The Beckoning Cat, a retail shop in Lewisburg, which offers Japanese fabric and gift items. Her goal is to teach others about Japanese art and culture through the vehicle of quilting. Free admission.
Children ages 4 to 6 are invited to enjoy two dramatic and enthralling adventures of brave and honorable children who prevail over evil and greedy forces. Joseph LeBlanc will tell the stories of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, and Ken’ichi and His Magic Pen. Free Admission
Join instructor Sandy Trimble as she teaches students about traditional Japanese Shibori stitches and techniques. Two hand-stitches, ori-nui and mokume, will be used to design a pattern on a pashmina scarf, before the cloth is passed through a dye bath. The pole wrap technique arashi will also be explored. Original designs and patterns will be encouraged to create a beautiful, wearable work of art. Trimble, who resides in Indiana, PA, enjoys sharing her knowledge of fiber arts, and has over 20 years of teaching experience.
Nick Johnson – Transcendence
March 17 - April 9, 2009
Untitled #15
2003, selenium toned gelatin silver print,
23 ½ in. x 19 ½ in.
Working exclusively with a large format camera, Nick Johnson’s photographs portray manipulated rock and flagstones that resemble abstract landscapes. His technical mastery is apparent as he captures the images on film with minimal lighting in order to preserve a feeling of natural light. Johnson believes that photography ultimately must work at a visual level that transcends the subject matter. In creating images, he is motivated by a belief that there are new levels of dimensions and harmonies to be found within the formal visual language.
Nick Johnson has been a fine-art photographer for over 30 years. He teaches photography at the New England School of Photography, and is the Director of the school’s Center for Photographic Exhibitions.
Judith Kalina – New Paintings
September 19 - October 16, 2008
The Moon Mother Searches
for Her Children
2007, oil on linen, 36 in. x 40 in.
Travelling with American and European circuses for almost a decade, Judith Kalina uses these experiences as a source for her art. She considers her semi-abstract work to be autobiographical; in addition to the circus imagery, she portrays intimate family moments and her own memories. Each painting has its own narrative, many times an exploration of a forgotten experience that is reinvented in an altogether new way. She attempts to explore the edge between myth and reality, memory and action, feeling and thought. Kalina received her M.F.A. from Brooklyn College. Her work is in various collections including The John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Ringling College of Art and Design, and the Omega Institute.
Brian Kreydatus - Recent Work
November 7 - December 5, 2003
Christine, oil, 30" x 22"
Kreydatus, an assistant professor of drawing and printmaking at The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, also has taught at the Washington Studio School, Chevy Chase, MD, and the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University and a master of fine arts degree from Penn.
Warren Linn - "LeftRight"
November 2 - November 26, 2004
Wilson Pickett with Strings, 2004, collage & acrylic on masonite, 35 cm x 35 cm
Linn has exhibited and done illustrative work since 1969. He has a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting and printmaking from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
He has worked for major print and media clients and exhibited in a wide range of gallery venues for more than 35 years. Highlights include a 21-by-156-foot mural for CBS Records International's biennial meeting and the HarperCollins children’s book “Happy Birthday, Frankie” by Sarah Weeks. The book contains 23 collages and was awarded the Marion Vannett Ridgway Honor Book Award.
Linn’s work has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Esquire, the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and Rolling Stone.
Linn is a full-time instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He also taught at Parsons School of Design for 16 years and at Rhode Island School of Design in 1996-97. His work is in numerous private collections and in the Art Institute of Chicago’s print and drawing collection.
Bill Lowenburg - "Crash Burn Love: Demolition Derby Photographs"
January 20 - February 13, 2004
Awaiting Memorial Day Competition, photograph
Mark Mahosky - "The Earthly and the Ethereal"
January 18 - February 11, 2005
Untitled, 2002, oil on canvas, 40" x 60"
Mahosky is an assistant professor of fine arts at Kutztown University. He earned a master-of-fine-arts degree in painting from Stanford University and a bachelor-of-fine-arts degree from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.
His work has been exhibited in galleries across Pennsylvania and in New York City; Houston; Portland, Ore.; and Paris.
Mahosky works extensively with high-school art programs around the state. He founded and directs the Mifflinburg Art Center, which provides art education for all ages in a three-county area of central Pennsylvania, and has taught art and drawing courses at the federal penitentiary in Allenwood.
Babette Martino - "Realism with a Surreal Edge"
February 22 - March 25, 2005
2 Bridges Over the Schuylkill, 2003, oil/panel, 18" x 34"
Martino, of Blue Bell, earned a master-of-fine-arts degree from the Instituto Allende of the University of Guanajuato in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; a bachelor-of-arts degree from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia; and a diploma from L’Accademia di Belle Arti in Firenze, Italy. She also studied with her parents, the acclaimed artists Giovanni Martino and Eva Marinelli, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
Martino has taught at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, N.Y.; Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica; Rome Art Association, Rome, N.Y.; and the Norristown Art League, Norristown. Her work has been exhibited in many states, as well as in Mexico and Africa.
Gary Mesa-Gaido – "Public Spaces of Europe"
February 19 - March 14, 2008
Galeria Vittorio Emanuele,
Milan, Italy
Digital Light Jet Print on Silver Halide Glossy Photo Paper, 40” x 44”, 2004
Photographs of Europe by Gary Mesa-Gaido offer stunning panoramic views of churches, piazzas and courtyards. While they are completely reality-based, digital stitching creates an illusion of multiple perspectives. This simultaneous view of various angles would be impossible for the human eye to perceive. Mesa-Gaido received his Master of Fine Arts from Ohio University, his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pittsburgh, and is an Associate Professor of Art at Morehead State University.
Gretchen Moyer - "Schemata"
January 17 - February 10, 2006
The Dog Observed, 2004, mixed media, 29" X 36"
Mixed-media artist Gretchen Moyer will open the Spring 2006 calendar with an exhibit titled "Schemata." Moyer encompasses all her varying techniques of interest in her works on paper, including painting, printmaking and drawing. She earned degrees in the latter two.
Patrick Murphy - Recent Work
September 28 - October 22, 2004
Pete, 2004, oil on linen, 30" x 22"
Murphy is an associate professor of art at Penn College, where he has taught for 25 years and earned the College’s highest academic recognition for faculty members, the Master Teacher Award, in 1989.
He said the exhibit features works produced over a two-year period that included a semester’s sabbatical. Much of the work focuses on portraits in painting, drawing, and sculpture. Other works include still-life paintings concentrating on subtle variations of subject and composition.
Murphy earned a master’s degree from Parsons School of Design/Bank Street College of Education in New York City, and a bachelor’s degree from King’s College in Wilkes-Barre. He served as an adjunct faculty member at Luzerne County Community College and worked as a freelance illustrator and technical illustrator for 10 years.
His work has been shown in exhibits across the United States, as well as in Paris. He has also been a guest lecturer at several universities, and he has drawings and paintings in public and private collections.
Kirk Pedersen - "Urban"
August 30 - September 23, 2005
Mission, 2004, watercolor, 22" X 30"
The kickoff exhibit, "Urban," features watercolor paintings by California artist Kirk Pedersen. His untraditional works involve abstraction, collage and the use of words to create an altogether new style of watercolor paintings for the viewer. Pedersen is a full-time professor of art and the art department chair at Mt. San Antonio College.
Catherine Prescott - "Portraits: Recent Oils of Family & Friends"
September 2 - September 26, 2003
Wild Bill, oil on canvas, 50" x 36"
Florence Putterman – "Interwoven Dialogues"
October 9 - November 4, 2007
Tsunami
Oil on Canvas, 64” x 58”, 2004
Florence Putterman’s paintings are both complex and simple; seemingly naïve upon first glance, yet layered with symbolism upon examination. She credits her study of the symbols created by early man as having a great influence on her style. Perhaps this explains the timeless quality she creates in her works; resembling ancient cave painting, yet bursting with colors from the modern era. Timeless as well are her lines, thick and broad, and her textures, rough with sand and shells, all resonating in the collective theme of her works: man and his relationship to the earth. Putterman earned her B.S. from NYU and her M.F.A. from Penn State University, and in 1979 was awarded a National Endowment Grant. Her work is in over 50 museum and corporate collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Chicago Art Institute, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Leonard Ragouzeos - "In Black and White"
August 24 - September 17, 2004
The Fall (Head #4), 2003, ink on Yupo paper, 25" x 38"
Ragouzeos' work with India ink will be part of the show, "In Black and White." He is a professor in the art department at Millersville University where, since 1980, he has taught graphic design, basic design, calligraphy and typography.
Over the past 30 years, Ragouzeos has exhibited paintings in 37 one-person shows and more than 80 invitational and juried small-group shows nationally.
His paintings are in the collections of the Des Moines Art Center and State Museum, The Lancaster Museum of Art, and numerous corporate and private collections. He is represented in Philadelphia by Sande Webster Gallery and in Lancaster by Central Market Art Gallery.
David Foss, Michelle Marcuse, and Antonio Puri – "ReMix: Wax and the Intuitive Process"
November 7 - December 10, 2006
(l-r) David Foss, Untitled #20, 2001, 64” x 54”, mixed media on canvas
Michelle Marcuse, Drops Patterned by Lamplight, 2005, 17” x 21”, beeswax & digital image transfer on paper Antonio Puri, Melting Pot, 2004, 12’ x 8’, mixed media on canvas
The third exhibit, “Remix: Wax and the Intuitive Process,” features Philadelphia artists David Foss, Michelle Marcuse, and Antonio Puri. In this exhibit, the three celebrate the continued use of wax as a contemporary visual art medium. They remix the ancient traditions of creating with wax in contemporary styles of artistic expression.
Linda Mylin Ross - "Contemporary Landscapes"
August 30 - September 23, 2005
Site #10, 2003, charcoal on paper, 30" x 42"
In contrast to the vibrant and stimulating colors of Pedersen’s paintings, the second exhibit, "Contemporary Landscapes," features works in charcoal. Rather than allowing her chosen medium to offer a subdued vision of the landscape, artist Linda Mylin Ross attempts to portray her concern with environmental issues within the black-and-white images. Such issues should raise awareness in many patrons of this exhibit, as she takes inspiration from the area surrounding her home in Pennsylvania.
Rolfe Ross - "cuba...on the street"
April 1 - 29, 2005
Breadman, photograph, 8" x 12"
Rather than allowing her chosen medium, charcoal, to offer a subdued vision of the landscapes she depicts, Ross attempts to portray her concern with environmental issues within the black-and-white images.
Ross is an assistant professor of education and humanities at Penn State Harrisburg, where she has taught art education, studio and art history courses since 1983. She holds a master of fine arts degree from Maryland Institute College of Art, a master's degree from Penn State Harrisburg and a bachelor's degree from Millersville University. Her work has been displayed in galleries across the state, and her drawings and paintings have been selected for state exhibits.
Gaylord Schanilec - "Bookends"
April 2 - 30, 2004
High Bridge, wood engraving , 3.5" x 5"
Schanilec, who holds a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the University of North Dakota, beautifully combines wood engraving and old-fashioned printing methods with by-hand bookbinding. His work is exhibited internationally and is in dozens of museum, corporate and university collections – including a complete collection at the University of Minnesota.
With a reputation that far transcends his remote studio, Schanilec found perhaps his greatest success in 1987 with “High Bridge,” which chronicles (in woodcuts and old typefaces) the history and demolition of a wrought-iron span over the Mississippi River in St. Paul, Minn.
Miguel Tio – Artist in Residence
April 21 - 24, 2009
Unseen Companies, detail
2008, mische technique on masonite, 30 in. x 40 in.
Miguel Tio will be conducting workshops for the Children’s Learning Center and students in the Early Childhood Education program during his Artist-in-Residence program at Pennsylvania College of Technology. As a member of the Society for Art of Imagination, Tio’s work was included in the popular 2007 exhibit Where Science Meets Art at The Gallery at Penn College. Tio will be exhibiting a small collection of original portraits during regular gallery hours.
Miguel Tio’s paintings are full of powerful energy and symbolism. His work has been likened to Renaissance paintings with his dramatic use of form and light, realism, perspective, and humanist concerns. Tio often employs the Mische technique in his artwork, a method for creating the illusion of realism and considered one of the secrets of the Renaissance.
A native of the Dominican Republic, but now based in Manhattan, Tio’s painting skills have been employed for a wide variety of creative projects, including the feature films Spiderman 1 and 2; Broadway shows Beauty and the Beast, Rent, and Miss Saigan; Old Navy & Hershey’s commercials; and window displays. He has been commissioned to paint portraits, including one of Diane Von Furstenberg. Since 2005, Miguel Tio has worked as an art teacher for the New York City Studio in a School, in addition to maintaining a studio and producing new work.
Victoria Veedell - "Visions & Imaginings"
November 8 - December 9, 2005
Evening Passage, 2003 oil on canvas, 24" x 24"
The third exhibit of the fall season, "Visions & Imaginings," offers a different take on the landscape. Victoria Veedell’s paintings suggest landscapes that may not have been physically seen, but rather sensed or experienced by the artist. Much of her inspiration comes from her travels in Japan, India and Canada, as well as the United States.
"Where Science Meets Art" featuring works from around the world by members of the London-based Society for Art of Imagination
June 22 - August 31, 2007
Earth, Water, Air, and Fire
International members of the Society for Art of Imagination will be featured in a juried exhibit at The Gallery at Penn College. While working in England in 1961, founding members of the SAI (originally called the Inscape Group) recognized that many contemporary artists were not trained in the techniques of painting and drawing. They set out to experiment with and share both old and newly developed techniques, as well as reinforce the imaginative and spiritual aspect of painting that has been the heart of art for centuries. The group was inspired by visionary artists such as Bosch, Botticelli, da Vinci, and Rembrandt; and artist Ernst Fuchs has played a significant role as researcher and teacher, and is now the Honorary President. The exhibit, “Where Science Meets Art”, will be alive with realism, fantasy, and surrealism.
Ed Wong-Ligda – Beauty, Vulnerability and Inevitability
February 10 - March 6, 2009
Gwendolyn as America Wounded
2007, oil on canvas, 48 in. x 70 in.
This exhibit comprises three separate but related bodies of work that examine beauty, vulnerability, and the inevitability of change. One group depicts scars that are markers of conflict or medical interventions. The second group uses theatrical scars as metaphors, and the third explores how pregnancy changes the roles and relationships of women. The pieces represent the artist’s attempts to resolve the juxtaposition of disparate facts and situations.
Ed Wong-Ligda was born and raised in Palo Alto, California. He attended Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and holds an M.F.A. in painting from Tulsa University in Oklahoma. He is a Professor of Illustration at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. Wong-Lidga is a proponent of public art; he has lectured on the subject and produced a 6’ x 9’ painting, Levels of Knowledge, for Grand Valley State University’s 45th Anniversary.