Eric Dean Gallery: Calendar 2012–2013

September 7–October 3, 2012
Sarah Rockett: Human Climate

During a week-long residency, Visiting Artist Sarah Rockett will collaborate with Wabash College studio art students to install Human Climate in the Eric Dean Galleries. The exhibit explores socially acceptable phobias and the resulting persistence of individual anonymity in American society. Extracting forms and situations from common fears and cinema, Rockett creates work that exposes our complacent participation in systems of social interaction. In the same way that Rockett investigates the fluctuating contradictions of social behaviors, she also collapses boundaries between artistic disciplines as she combines materials such as wire and latex with traditional drawing media. Rockett's works often begin as drawings on the wall and transition to three dimensions to "become drawings in space." Casting shadows, the external elements create additional surface layers imposed upon the originating drawings. Additional support provided by the McGregor Visiting Artists Fund.

Public Lecture: Wednesday, September 5, 7 pm, Korb Classroom, Fine Arts Center
Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 4:30–6
Eric Dean Gallery, Randolph H. Deer Art Wing, Fine Arts Center
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday 9–5, Saturday 10–2.
Admission is free, open to the public, and handicap accessible.


October 15–December 7, 2012
Visions Through Open Eyes: Haitian Art from the Waterloo Center for the Arts 

Despite their nation’s history of poverty and political upheaval, the artists of Haiti flourish and create vibrant works of art. This exhibit, selected from the extensive collection of the Waterloo Center for the Arts, presents highly stylized, visually stimulating, and thought-provoking works depicting scenes of Haitian labor, life, celebration, mythology, beliefs, and practices. Bucolic, mystic, and surreal themes are the subjects of paintings, pierced steel or wooden sculptures, and sequined flags.

Opening Reception: Monday, October 15, 8–9:30
Eric Dean Gallery, Randolph H. Deer Art Wing, Fine Arts Center
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday 9–5, Saturday 10–2.
Admission is free, open to the public, and handicap accessible.
Closed during Thanksgiving Recess, November 17–25

 

January 18–February 27, 2013
Works on Paper: Drawings, Prints, & Photographs from the Permanent Collection

The exhibition features a wide range of works on paper from the Wabash College Permanent Collection of Contemporary Art. While curated to enhance teaching and learning of the studio arts and art history classes during spring semester, the exhibition gives viewers an appreciation of the breadth and depth of the permanent collection. The works showcase the artistic vision of numerous contemporary artists, as well as a few well-known masters, including Dali and Picasso. The drawings, prints, and photographs encompass a wide range of media highlighting the diverse formal, material, and conceptual approaches to art making.

Opening Reception: Friday, January 18, 5:30–7
Eric Dean Gallery, Randolph H. Deer Art Wing, Fine Arts Center
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday 9–5, Saturday 10–2.
Admission is free, open to the public, and handicap accessible.

March 15–April 12, 2013
Stefani M. Rossi: Circuitous Center

In her work, Stefani M. Rossi cultivates intimate encounters that invite viewers to contemplate the larger narratives in which they routinely participate. In Circuitous Center, Rossi explores the historic and contemporary rituals that people practice in the course of understanding and establishing their place in the world, both physically and metaphorically. These works represent how “the paths we find ourselves on, and the things we carry with us as we meander, determine how we walk through the world.” Threading together the themes of displacement, itinerancy, and pilgrimage, Rossi's work questions what it means for one to discover and, perhaps maintain, home.

Opening Reception: Friday, March 15, 4:30–6
Eric Dean Gallery, Randolph H. Deer Art Wing, Fine Arts Center
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday 9–5, Saturday 10–2.
Admission is free, open to the public, and handicap accessible.

April 19–May 12, 2013
2013 Senior Art Majors Exhibition

This annual exhibit celebrates the artistic accomplishments of Patrick Alston, Joey Fogel, Sean Parchman, and Chase Tichenor.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 19, 6–7:30
Eric Dean Gallery, Randolph H. Deer Art Wing, Fine Arts Center
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday 9–5, Saturday 10–2.
Admission is free, open to the public, and handicap accessible.