LAYERS OVER TIME: Works by 2016-17 Penn State Laureate Rebecca Strzelec
Exhibition
August 29 — October 7, 2016
Penn State Abington Art Gallery
116 Woodland Building
Artist Talk
Wednesday October 5th, 12:20 – 1:10 pm
112 Woodland Building
A reception will take place in the gallery immediately following the artist talk.
Rebecca Strzelec is a professor of visual arts and head of the degree
program of visual art studies at Penn State Altoona. She is the Penn
State laureate for the 2016-17 academic year. This exhibition provides
a survey of Strzelec’s work since arriving at Altoona and spans a
working period from 2002 to present.
Penn State Abington College Solo Series 2016
April 8 – 27, 2016
Opening Reception Friday, April 8 th 6-8pm
The Penn State Abington College 2016 Solo Series features works by graduating students Lauren Haas, Samantha Haas, Jacqueline Lanning, and Suzie Pepe. On view will be paintings in various media as well as a mixed media installation. Various content is included in the exhibition as each student-artist explore content through their work.
The 10th Annual Bertha Lear Student Art Exhibition
The Penn State Abington Student Art Exhibition
Hailey Rei Salamone. Puff, 2015 Raku fired ceramic 3 1/2” x 5” x 5”
The Tenth Annual Bertha Lear Art Exhibition features sculpture, painting, drawing, ceramics, photography, printmaking and new media work by the student artists of Penn State Abington. The public is welcome to visit the exhibition during library and gallery hours.
Exhibition
Marianne Dages Artist Talk
In association with the Destination(s) without Location(s) exhibition, an Artist Talk by Marianne Dages:
Tuesday, January 26th from 12:30-1:30 in Room 112 Woodland
Reception following the artist talk
Tuesday, January 26th from 1:30-2:30 in the Gallery and Woodland Lobby
Destination(s) Without Location(s)
Featuring the work of Victoria Burge, Marianne Dages, Louise Kohrman, Erin Paulson, and Lauren Rosenthal
January 19 — March 18, 2016
Destination(s) without Location(s) is an exhibition of 5 artists whose work either imagines, anticipates, or remembers a place.
in this exhibition explore physical location as well as landscapes of the imagination. In some instances the artist’s home location may provide inspiration, in others distant location is the impetus, “place” is a memory and a metaphor. Location and Destination can be understood and experienced in a multitude of ways, literally, virtually and metaphorically. Memory and self, ones place in the world, inform the work and contribute to the works meaning. All the artists use personal narrative but ultimately reveal shared experience and connection that reference universal themes of interconnectedness through content and process.
Destination(s) without Location(s) is co-curated by Bonnie Levinthal, Associate Professor of Art and H. John Thompson, Gallery Director and Lecturer of Art.
Artist Talk by Marianne Dages:
Tuesday, January 26th from 12:30-1:30 in Room 112 Woodland
Reception following the artist talk
Tuesday, January 26th from 1:30-2:30 in the Gallery and Woodland Lobby