As you first enter the Gallery into the Faculty Art Show, Annette Owens’ collagraph titled “Primordial Metamorphosis” is sure to catch the eye.
An interactive mixed media installation by Art Professor Ali Ahmadpour of the war in Iraq is one of many featured works of art being exhibited this year.
“It’s different every year and we’re always curious to see something new and for people to interact. Ali Ahmadpour has a video of the war in Iraq and Kent Hayward has a piece with computers and their both unique,” Art Gallery director Susanna Meiers said.
The annual faculty art exhibit opened this past Monday in the Art Gallery and will continue through to Nov. 6. The Gallery is open to the public Monday and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The exhibit showcases a variety of art pieces representative of the many areas of media such as oil, watercolor, acrylic, printmaking, digital media, photography, design and advertising, interactive, lyrical, ceramic, three-dimensional techniques, mysterious objects and an interactive DVD.
“We invite the art department to show their pieces. It’s an opportunity to see what professors and instructors are working on in their artist life,” Meiers said.
Photography Professor Darilyn Rowan’s piece, a photo collage titled “Paris,” was recently accepted into the permanent collection at the Musee Europeenne de la Photographie (Museum of European Photography) in Paris. It’s also part of a larger series Rowan is working on called “Death and Transformation.”
“I selected that image so photography students can see the piece that went into the museum collection framed and displayed in a gallery setting. I also want my students to know that with their hard work and talent, they can achieve their dreams through education,” Rowan said.
“Paris” is a black and white photograph created by printing two negatives together on the same piece of light-sensative photographic paper.
Randall Bloomberg, art professor, has a ghostly figure of a life portrait seated in an interior oil canvas painting and Marcie Kaufman, art professor, has a watery image of a jellyfish superimposed on the body of a pregnant female titled “Suspend.”
Lee Kim, art professor, is exhibiting a realistic local landscape painting and Robert Dalton has a gelatin-emulsion photograph of a strip of Route 66 hotel rooms resembling Native American Teepees.
Watercolor poppies and a portrait in acrylic is being displayed by Art Professor Linda Bush, and fellow Art Professor Larry Klepper is presenting a painting of a pinstripe abstraction in watercolor.