Month: October 2017

What’s Happening Around the BAC?

| Katie Hopkins

As October ends the start of this year’s Juried Student Art Exhibition draws closer and with it a chance to view some of the best student artwork SNC has to offer in a formal and professional setting. To get us in the mood, let’s take a closer look at some of the student artwork currently being displayed around the Bush Art Center (BAC).

Photography

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The second floor of the BAC features some photographic selections from two of Professor Brandon Bauer’s classes: Introduction to Photography and Digital Imaging, and Contemporary Photographic Strategies. These selections make up a beautiful mosaic of digital imagery that shows just how powerful these students are with a manual camera in their hands.

Printmaking

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Also on the second floor, Professor Katie Ries’ Beginning Printmaking class has a display of hand-made monotypes. These monotypes were made by both adding and removing ink from a piece of square plexiglass that is then run through the press with a piece of high quality paper to create the print. By using only black ink, the students are able to showcase their composition and design abilities, demonstrating that you don’t need color to make a powerful image.

Drawing

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The display case on the first floor of the BAC features a selection of self-portraits from Professor Debbie Kupinsky’s class Introduction to Studio Art. Each student had to create a portfolio of 25 self-portraits for the assignment and then chose their best to display. Through the variation of line and style of mark making, the personality of each student truly shines through in each of their images.

Sculpture

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Debbie Kupinsky’s Introductory Sculpture class is also garnering a lot of attention on the first floor with their installation of “Monumental Foam.” Each student took a small object and sculpted a larger-than-life-size version from only sheets of large foam board. These sculptures are a favorite of students and faculty passing through the art building. That’s some art that is certainly hard to miss!

Clubhouse Gallery

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“Window Pains” by Jim Rogers

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“Untitled” by Ben Wylie
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“Flesh Eater” by Emerson Bartch

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Finally, students Emerson Bartch, Jim Rogers, and Ben Wylie currently have a sculpture display in the Clubhouse Gallery–the student-run gallery space on the second floor of the BAC.

The craftsmanship of these pieces, created for Debbie Kupinsky’s Intermediate Sculpture class, is truly phenomenal, and reads as a cohesive, professional exhibition. You would be remiss to miss out on seeing these pieces, so make sure to go and check them out.

If you enjoyed this selection of work by SNC students, make sure to attend the Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition in the Baer Gallery to see other great pieces. The show runs from November 13-December 8 with a reception on November 16. It will surely be a display you will not want to miss.

 

 

This Month in the Galleries: October 2017

| Katie Hopkins

Although the coming of fall this year has been somewhat unreliable of late, you can count on the changing of the exhibitions here at the SNC Art Galleries to be dependable and swift.

We have two new exhibitions this month, each with their own enticements and merits. Read on below to discover what’s new and get the details for this month’s gallery reception.

Baer Gallery

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The Baer Gallery currently holds the exhibition Johanna Winters: What the Pleasures Told Us. Winters, as she tells us in her artist’s bio available on her official website, “hails from Minneapolis, MN and received her BA from the University of Wisconsin…In her work she applies modes of printmaking, hand-driven animation, and puppetry to consider ideas about vanity and shame.” Her work in this particular exhibition, as she tells us in her artist’s statement available for viewing at the exhibition, “…behaves as coping rituals for anxieties about aging, vanity, disappointment, shame, and pleasure.” Winter’s is currently working towards her MFA at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Winter’s exhibition at the Baer Gallery is guest-curated by Katie Ries, SNC Art Faculty member. Ries provides an insightful statement about Winter’s work also available for consumption at the gallery. One line in particular sums the mysterious and poetic work up beautifully: “This is how it feels to be human, coming up short, loving things, and figuring it out as we go along.”

Godschalx Gallery

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This month the Godschalx Gallery features the show Graphic Design History & Rock and Roll. This show is comprised of work made by St. Norbert College art students. The show features dozens of original band posters, each variously influenced by a historical graphic design style. Some of the bands featured are well-known, and some come out of the imaginations of the students themselves.

Each poster in the show is impressive by itself, but collaged together in one space they present a power-punch of movement and color that is not to be missed.

Gallery Reception

A reception for both of these shows will be held on October 19, from 5-7p.m. and will feature a performance art piece by Johanna Winters. Light food will be available as well as wine for those of age. All of us at the gallery bid you welcome and hope to see you there!