Abington College
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 on 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.
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.
Portrait of High God Bluca
Oil on canvas
16″ x 20″
Dinner Time
Oil on canvas panels
4 panels, 10″ diameter each
Personal Still Life
Charcoal on paper
17″ x 22″
Perception (triptych)
Etching
11″ x 14″ each
Still Life
Digital print from 3D model
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Levittown 1b
Silver gelatin print
8″ x 10″
Transfigurations is the latest in a collection of artworks spanning over a decade that reflects on the artist’s relationship with his father. It presents the artist’s foray into time-based media in the context of the entire series, which includes monumental and small scale sculpture, and printmaking. The works contemplate the changing nature of memory, grief, and the natural progression of life cycles through this experience between father and son stemming from a portrait sculpted by the artist of his father. Mirroring this relationship, the artworks bear the visible toll of tragedy and loss and the attempts to rebuild. Each iteration presents a unique stage of this evolution, which here can be appreciated in its entirety. The exhibition extends beyond the gallery walls to the stone amphitheater on campus grounds, where the remains of a storm ravaged sculpture is installed.
On view in the outdoor amphitheater is Abu, an 8’ tall acrylic sculpture, created in 2019, was commissioned by Philadelphia Sculptors as part of the Flow exhibit at the Philadelphia Seaport Museum’s boat marina. It lived in the Delaware river for weeks as part of the temporary exhibit until a storm tore it from its moorings and broke into pieces. This exhibit presents the work in its restored, yet damaged state for the first time since its destruction. In the wake of that event, and just at the onset of the pandemic in 2020, Horn created Growth Rings as a National Endowment for the Arts artist-in-residence at the Brandywine Workshop and Archives. The residency paired Horn with master printer Alexis Nutini of Dos Tres Press to create a varying edition reduction print series based off Horn’s topographical construction methods. Transfigurations builds further on this collaborative practice, working with Chris Landau of LANDAU Design+Technology to combine the imagery from this print series into animated sequences that unfurl the nuances of the prints into evolving projections of form and color.
Miguel Antonio Horn is a visual artist from Philadelphia with Colombian and Venezuelan roots. He received a certificate in sculpture in 2006 from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He creates large-format sculptures using digital and analog processes in a variety of media. His artworks engage public spaces with temporary and permanent installations that address power dynamics, conflict, loss, marginalization and deterioration. He founded El Cubo in the Parkside neighborhood of Philadelphia in 2019 as a space for experimental projects and programming. He is the father of two young children who he raises with his wife and community in South Philadelphia.
Transfigurations is the latest in a collection of artworks spanning over a decade that reflects on the artist’s relationship with his father. It presents the artist’s foray into time-based media in the context of the entire series, which includes monumental and small scale sculpture, and printmaking. The works contemplate the changing nature of memory, grief, and the natural progression of life cycles through this experience between father and son stemming from a portrait sculpted by the artist of his father. Mirroring this relationship, the artworks bear the visible toll of tragedy and loss and the attempts to rebuild. Each iteration presents a unique stage of this evolution, which here can be appreciated in its entirety. The exhibition extends beyond the gallery walls to the stone amphitheater on campus grounds, where the remains of a storm ravaged sculpture is installed.
On view in the outdoor amphitheater is Abu, an 8’ tall acrylic sculpture, created in 2019, was commissioned by Philadelphia Sculptors as part of the Flow exhibit at the Philadelphia Seaport Museum’s boat marina. It lived in the Delaware river for weeks as part of the temporary exhibit until a storm tore it from its moorings and broke into pieces. This exhibit presents the work in its restored, yet damaged state for the first time since its destruction. In the wake of that event, and just at the onset of the pandemic in 2020, Horn created Growth Rings as a National Endowment for the Arts artist-in-residence at the Brandywine Workshop and Archives. The residency paired Horn with master printer Alexis Nutini of Dos Tres Press to create a varying edition reduction print series based off Horn’s topographical construction methods. Transfigurations builds further on this collaborative practice, working with Chris Landau of LANDAU Design+Technology to combine the imagery from this print series into animated sequences that unfurl the nuances of the prints into evolving projections of form and color.
Miguel Antonio Horn is a visual artist from Philadelphia with Colombian and Venezuelan roots. He received a certificate in sculpture in 2006 from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He creates large-format sculptures using digital and analog processes in a variety of media. His artworks engage public spaces with temporary and permanent installations that address power dynamics, conflict, loss, marginalization and deterioration. He founded El Cubo in the Parkside neighborhood of Philadelphia in 2019 as a space for experimental projects and programming. He is the father of two young children who he raises with his wife and community in South Philadelphia.
This showcase features sequential artworks created at Penn State Abington and the University of Dundee in Scotland. These schools collaborate on a broadly defined exploration of transmedia storytelling, which grew out of work each had done independently on this topic in the time prior to the start of their partnership in 2018.
The exhibition centers on Steampunk Carnival, the creative output from a collaboration and study abroad visit to Dundee in Fall 2023, but it also includes a history of prior collaboration and independent work. Prominently featured are publications created by Dundee for the Being Human Festival, an annual celebration of the humanities in the U.K., which will be occurring at the same time as the exhibition.
Professors Mary Modeen of the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and Chris Murray, chair of Comics Studies in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law, are the twin engines that power the collaboration in Dundee.
To learn more about the work and study abroad programming that supports it, contact William Cromar, Associate Teaching Professor in Art, williamcromar@psu.edu or Stephen Cohen, Associate Teaching Professor in English, uuc91@psu.edu.
On Wednesday, September 27th, the Penn State Abington Art Gallery will host a reception and tile-making workshop to celebrate the work of our students and faculty in the collaborative course held on-site at the TileWorks of Bucks County in Spring 2022 and Spring 2023.
The event will begin with an informal reception in the Art Gallery in the Woodland Building from 1:30pm to 2:00pm. We will then move to the ceramics room in 136 Woodland where a workshop will take place from 2:00pm to 3:00pm and be led by a student who participated in the 2023 course alongside faculty member Chris Bonner. All are welcome, but RSVP’s are appreciated. If you plan to attend, please contact Art Gallery Director H. John Thompson at hjt106@psu.edu.
To learn more about these classes, contact Yvonne Love at ymm1@psu.edu or Chris Bonner at cmb30@psu.edu
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