September 10—October 13, 2010 /  10 de septiembre—13 de Octubre, 2010
Across the Border: Perception and Reality  /  Cruzando la Frontera: Percepción y realidad From the Cárdenas Collection  /  De la Colección Cárdenas

                                                                                                      The Immigrant's Dream: The American Response, Malaquias Montoya, acrylic on canvas, 2003
                   
Presentation by Gilberto Cárdenas, Friday, September 10, 4:15 p.m.
Opening Reception, Friday, September 10, 5—6:30
Eric Dean Gallery, Fine Arts Center
Gallery Hours: Monday—Friday 9—5, Saturday 10—2. Closed on campus holidays.
Admission is free, open to the public, and Handicap accessible.

The pieces selected for this exhibition from the Cárdenas Collection consist primarily of Latino art that addresses an array of interrelated and overlapping issues affecting immigrant and migrant populations in the United States: globalization, poverty, free trade, human rights, and political disenfranchisement in both Mexico and the United States. To their credit, these powerful images communicate in an aesthetically compelling manner some very complex and deeply rooted dynamics to help understand current immigration issues beyond the level of mere appearance.

Eric Dean Gallery, Fine Arts Center
Horas de Galería: lunes-viernes 9:00-17:00, sábado 10:00-14:00
Entrada gratis, abierto al público, accesible para discapacitados.

Las Piezas seleccionadas para esta muestra de la Colección Cárdenas son principalmente obras de arte latino contemporáno que tratan una serie de temas interrelacionados y supersupuestos, que afectan a las poblaciones que inmigran a los Estados Unidos: globalización, pobreza, libre comercio, derechos humanos y falta de representación política tanto en México como en los Estados Unidos. Estas poderosas imágines tienen el mérito de comunicar con una gran fuerza estética algunas dinámicas mu complejas y arraigadas que nos ayudan a comprender los problemas de a immigracion més allé de las meras apariencias.

Gilberto Cárdenas http://latinostudies.nd.edu/people/
 

October 22—December 10, 2010
Greg Huebner: Transitions

                                                                         Gregory Huebner, Transition #10, acrylic on canvas, 2009

Opening Reception and Retirement Celebration: Friday, October 22, 4:15—6:30 p.m.
Eric Dean Gallery, Fine Arts Center
Gallery Hours: Monday—Friday 9—5, Saturday 10—2. Closed on campus holidays.
Admission is free, open to the public, and Handicap accessible.

Transitions aptly names Greg Huebner's sabbatical and retirement exhibition. Huebner has spent the past year painting diligently and musing upon transitions that occur in one’s life.  Such transitions include both short-term reflections upon the minutia of daily interactions with people, objects and environment, and long-term relationships that one can only contemplate in retrospect, like “reflections in the rear view mirror”.

Please join the Art Department in this bittersweet farewell to Greg.
 

January 21 – Feb 18, 2011
Alumni Exhibition Invitational

Opening Reception: Friday, January 21, 4:30—6 p.m.
Eric Dean Gallery, Fine Arts Center
Gallery Hours: Monday—Friday 9—5, Saturday 10—2. Closed on campus holidays.
Admission is free, open to the public, and Handicap accessible.

The Alumni Invitational Exhibition brings to campus works by Wabash art graduates who have made careers in the visual arts.

February 28 –April 8, 2011
Layers Exposed: Exhibitions by Orie Shafer and Nhat Tran
Opening Reception: Monday, February 28, 8-9:30pm
Eric Dean Gallery, Fine Arts Center
Gallery Hours: Monday—Friday 9—5, Saturday 10—2. Closed on campus holidays.
Admission is free, open to the public, and Handicap accessible.

Orie Shafer’s colorful, energy-filled hybrid paintings combine digital technology with the materials and methodology of traditional art. Shafer’s abstract work has a sense of landscape. His initial complex images originate as small glimpses from digital macro photographs, which provide the matrix for freehand application of oils, colored pencils and oil pastels. These small hybrid paintings are then redigitized for enlargement and overpainting again and again to produce large scale canvases.

Nhat Tran studied oil painting at the University of Fine Arts, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam where she earned her BFA. After immigrating to the United States, Tran began to explore the ancient Asian art form of layered urushi (lacquerware). Urushi has been her primary medium of artistic expression since mastering its complex processes. Through her non-traditional usage of urushi techniques, she achieves stunning visual effects unobtainable in other media. Her sense of esthetic embraces the Asian soul. Nhat Tran’s works are in numerous public and private collections including the Renwick Gallery, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Indianapolis Airport Authority, and Indiana State Museum.

April 18 – May 15, 2011
2011 Senior Art Majors Exhibition
Will Skertic
Callum Davies
Kyle Edwards
Tian Tian
Aaron Cantu
Ian Starnes

Opening Reception: February April 19, 8-9:30pm
Eric Dean Gallery, Fine Arts Center
Gallery Hours: Monday—Friday 9—5, Saturday 10—2. Closed on campus holidays.
Admission is free, open to the public, and Handicap accessible.

The Wabash 2011 Senior Art Majors Exhibition represents a final rite of passage for these talented men who have dedicated their academic focus to the visual arts.  Here they present the achievements of their intense final year of studio work.