Sit a spell in enchanted gallery exhibit

Monday, March 31, 2025

Photos by Alexandra Butler, photographer/photo editor

Mayuko Ono Gray's “諸行無常_This too, shall pass” is on display through Thursday, April 17 in the gallery on the third floor of The Madigan Library at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

The Gallery at Penn College invites campus and community members to “sit a spell” and be enchanted by the artwork of Mayuko Ono Gray.

The Houston-based artist’s exhibition, “諸行無常_This too, shall pass,” is on display through April 17 in the gallery on the third floor of The Madigan Library.

“Mayuko Ono Gray meticulously renders fine details in her large-scale graphite drawings,” said Penny Griffin Lutz, gallery director. “Visitors are encouraged to sit with the work to explore the artist's techniques and the creative still lifes she illustrates.”

The Gallery at Penn College is open 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays; noon to 4 p.m. Fridays; and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. (The gallery is closed on Mondays and Saturdays.) Admission is free.

The Gallery at Penn College is a cultural asset to the college and local communities, providing the opportunity for appreciation and exploration of contemporary art and encouraging critical thinking and meaningful experiences.

Enter and explore!

An artistic retreat

Delightful details

Graphite drawing is the artist's primary medium.

Ono Gray's pieces feature "everyday encounters" with people, animals and still life.

Each drawing is titled with a Japanese proverb spelled out with hiragana and kanji characters intertwined to create a single line from the top right to the lower left of the pictorial space, following traditional Japanese writing format.

A treasure hunt ...

... filled with intriguing objects.

Ono Gray's work “unfolds as a dialogue between the tangible and the intangible, the temporal and the timeless, and the deeply personal and the universally shared.”