Past Exhibitions
38th Annual Juried Art Exhibition
April 30 - May 10, 2009
The perennially popular Juried Art Exhibition will again take center stage at the Arnold Art Gallery. The exhibition is the longest-running visual arts event at the College and attracts works in all media by the leading artists in the region and beyond. Artists are encouraged to submit up to four entries per person for this show. This year's juror is Shannon Egan, Ph.D., Director of the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College.
Opening reception and awards ceremony: Thursday, April 30, 5 - 7 p.m
Academic Allure: Art and Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Paris
March 13- April 19, 2009
This splendid loan exhibition from the Dahesh Museum in New York City features close to thirty works by French artists trained in the academic tradition. Paintings, sculpture, sketches, polished drawings and even medallions highlight a vibrant and varied mainstream of French nineteenth-century art that drew crowds to the annual Paris Salon exhibitions and enjoyed public and critical acclaim. Portraits, still lifes, historical compositions, Biblical narratives, landscapes inspired by sites from rural France to the Egyptian Nile were executed with consummate skill and an allure that is frequently overlooked, in the aftermath of Impressionism.
Opening reception: Friday, March 13, 5 - 7 p.m
Art Lecture: Dr. Barbara Anderman, Chair and Associate Professor of Art History, Lebanon Valley College, Monday, April 6, 7 p.m., Zimmerman Recital Hall
William Trost Richards: Land and Sea
January 9 - February 22, 2009
This outstanding exhibition will feature the land and seascapes of renowned nineteenth century artist William Trost Richards (1833 - 1905). The artist was a native of Philadelphia who continued his studies in Florence, Rome and Paris. In the 1850s, he befriended Frederic Church and Thomas Cole and became a member of the Hudson River School. By the 1870s, the artist became interested in the American landscape movement known as luminism, which explored, among other concerns, the immensity of the sea and the untapped frontiers of America. The show will feature oil paintings, small studies in watercolor, and pencil on loan from private collections, New York City galleries and several regional institutions.
EXHIBITION EXTENDED THROUGH FEBRUARY 22
Opening reception: Friday, January 23, 5 - 7 p.m.
Dutch Prints from the Golden Age
October 17 - December 7, 2008
This fascinating show is drawn from a remarkable private collection of Dutch seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century etchings and engravings by master artists including Romeyn de Hooghe, Jan Saenredam, Crispin I de Passe, Cornelis Bega, Thomas Wijck, and Jan Luyken, among others. Many of the prints served as illustrations in printed books on history, religion, and science in the baroque age. The exhibition includes more than forty works including exceptional examples of the most important genres of the era: portraits, maps, landscapes, histories, allegories, scenes from everyday life, and religious subjects.
Opening reception: Friday, October 24, 5 - 7 p.m.
The Maze: An Installation by Grant Taylor
August 29 - October 5, 2008
The Maze, a contemporary installation piece by Grant D. Taylor, an Australian digital and installation artist explores the artist’s response several years ago to his new surroundings in rural Pennsylvania. Seasonal celebrations, autumn corn mazes, and the ubiquitous white church steeples scattered throughout the south-central Pennsylvania landscape, provided the inspiration for the installation. In addition to integrating the region’s unique, vernacular architecture, the room-size piece addresses notions of memory, liminality and spirituality. Taylor’s installation consists of dozens of clean, white steeples, each measuring more than seven feet high and modeled on prefabricated designs, arranged in the form of a maze. The multisensory experience will include special lighting effects and an accompanying audio track.
Artist's Reception: Friday, August 29, 5-7 p.m.
Talk: Liminality and Reoccurrence: A Conversation Between Artist and Curator, Thursday, September 18, 7 p.m., Zimmerman Recital Hall of the Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery
Right: Grant Taylor, The Maze, mixed media installation