Abington College
Brik Libète. Wood, blood, spit, oil. 4 pieces, 7″ x 3″ x 1.75”each. 2025
Maurelle is a newly appointed assistant professor at Clark University; he works and resides in Worcester Massachusetts. His work has been shown in New York, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Austin, Philadelphia, Brussels, Cincinnati, Worcester, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. He is a Pew Fellow (2022) and a recipient of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship (2015).
Please join us to celebrate Bonnie Levinthal’s retirement after over 40 years of service to Penn State University and Penn State Abington College.
Contact Art Gallery Director H. John Thompson with any questions at hjt106@psu.edu
Please join us in the art studio, Room 136 Woodland, as Julia Clift and Matthew Colaizzo demonstrate their artistic and professional practices, giving us insight to how this two-person exhibition came together.
Julia Clift makes many of the pigments used in this exhibition from scratch with foraged natural materials. In this workshop, Julia will demonstrate pigment-making ingredients and techniques. Participants will have an opportunity to explore the use of these pigments by creating their own drawings.
In the event of inclement weather, the workshop and reception will be held on Monday, February 10th.
Bonnie Levinthal’s work is rooted in the exploration and re-presentation of landscape, incorporating methods and mediums that connect process with content to create a visual record of her experiences in response to place. While working, Levinthal continually re-(de)fines what landscape is for her. Her work interprets elements of landscape and place as image, object, and as installation. In the studio, Levinthal’s observations and memories of the landscape are combined with research concerning the environment and global climate crisis; creating a context that exists somewhere between the real and the imagined, and that calls to the underlying structure and relationships inherent in the physical world alongside critical issues of our time.
This exhibition showcases two bodies of work alongside artist’s journals, reflecting Levinthal’s response to place through a sampling of artworks completed at home and abroad. In a large work on view, entitled Strata, she contemplates ice and sediment core sampling, geological formations and topographical patterns, completed while a resident fellow at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland. In a body of work on view throughout the gallery, Between Two Rivers is an exploration and response to the waterways in and around Philadelphia, a record of observations of atmosphere, weather, and a record of her studio practice during the pandemic. The journals on view illustrate Levinthal’s many responses to various bodies of water, both actual and imaginary.
Bonnie Levinthal (Philadelphia, PA) received her MFA from the Pennsylvania State University and her BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art. She has shown her work both nationally and internationally. Levinthal has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant. She has been a fellow at Yaddo and The Millay Colony in the United States and internationally at Lumen in Atina, Italy, Nes in Skagastrond, Iceland, the Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard, Norway and at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland. Levinthal’s work is collected in numerous public and private collections in the United States. She is Professor of Art, Emerita at Penn State Abington. Over the years, Bonnie Levinthal has been instrumental in the development and growth of the Penn State Abington Art Program and the college at large. She has been at the forefront of the internationalization process at Penn State Abington and has developed and implemented study abroad programs to locations such as Ireland, Italy, Cuba, and Spain, sharing her research and creative activity with students in impactful and lasting ways.
Suminagashi Paper Marbling Workshop
10:00 – 11:30 am
Room 136 Woodland
Exhibition Reception
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Art Gallery
Closing Reception
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Art Gallery
Access Information:
This event is free and open to the public. The performance takes place in a small, indoor gallery space. Masks are not required but are recommended. Seating is limited to 30 and will be available on a first come first served basis.
If you are driving to the event from off-campus, you can check in at the Parking Lot Kiosk at the College’s main entrance on Woodland Road, and they will direct you to available parking. See directions to the campus here and the interactive campus map here. Note: Wheelchair accessible parking is available and can be reserved by request. Email Gina Montgomery at gmm67@psu.edu.
The Abington Art Gallery is wheelchair accessible via the rear of the building (near parking lot M). The doors are automatic. From there, you take the elevator from the 2nd floor (street-level) to the 1st floor of the Woodland Building and make a left; the gallery will be on your left in room 116. The doors to the gallery are not automatic but they are wheelchair accessible. The performance will be seated, and seating is provided.
If you are entering the Abington Art Gallery from the front of the building, there are 5 flights of stairs (55 steps in total), and a small step at the top of the stairs into the building. From there, make a left, and the gallery will be on your left.
There are gendered bathrooms across the hall from the gallery. They are wheelchair accessible. There are no all-gender or single-stall bathrooms in the Woodland Building. The closest single stall bathroom is on the 3rd floor of the Sutherland Building, on the other end of campus (see interactive campus map here). This bathroom is accessible via a wheelchair accessible elevator on the first floor of Sutherland. This all-gender bathroom, however, is not ADA compliant.
Light refreshments (coffee, tea, dessert) will be served after the performance. The food is vegetarian and includes vegan, gluten-free, and kosher for Passover options.
To be respectful of those with allergies and environmental sensitivities, we ask that you please refrain from wearing strong fragrances.
The event will last approximately 1 hour without intermission, followed by a conversation with the artists.
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