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.
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.