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).
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
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″
Growth Rings. Block print, Miguel Antonio Horn in collaboration with Alexis Nutini of Dos Tres Press, 2019
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.
Abu, on view in the outdoor amphitheater, is an 8’ tall acrylic sculpture created in 2019. Commissioned by Philadelphia Sculptors Abu was 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.
For more on Miguel Antonio Horn’s work, please visit https://www.miguelhorn.art/
This exhibition showcases printmaking work by current student Orest Luzeckyj. Orest is the 2023 recipient of the Thomas R. and Eileen Walton Smith Award for Achievement in the Arts and Humanities and much of the work in this exhibition is made possible by the financial support from this award. Orest’s work explores printmaking processes including woodblock and monoprint. Comprising 66 woodblocks in total, this exhibition showcases a world of exploration of the printmaking process through the imagery of monsters created by Orest to investigate representations of his own inner world.
Please visit the link below to read about Orest’s work with Professor Bonnie Levinthal. Story by Regina Broscius.
https://www.abington.psu.edu/story/46716/2023/02/27/abington-student-trades-improv-drawing-printmakings-discipline
Follow Orest on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/orestluzeckyj/
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.
This exhibition showcases a ceramics course taught on-site at Moravian Pottery & Tile Works by Chris Bonner, Associate Teaching Professor of Art and Yvonne Love, Associate Professor of Art. In these courses, students learn and experiment with ceramic tile making processes using traditional tools and equipment in use at the historic site in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
The Moravian Pottery & Tile Works Course Showcase will feature the tile works of students enrolled in courses in Spring of 2022 and 2023 alongside objects on loan from the Moravian Pottery & Tile Works.
To learn more about these classes, contact Yvonne Love at ymm1@psu.edu or Chris Bonner at cmb30@psu.edu
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