After a hiatus of showing work in a solo exhibition capacity, Bonnie Collura, associate professor of art, will be showing new work in three strategically placed solo exhibitions between September 2017 and January 2019. These projects aim to highlight different works done over the past 10 years in her Bellefonte studio, while teaching at Penn State.
"SEEP," a group exhibition presenting 11 contemporary artists from across the country whose work engages with water, will be on display Aug. 24 to Sept. 30 in the Woskob Family Gallery in State College.
The Freyberger Gallery will host a special juried exhibition to honor the late CEO Emeritus Frederick H. Gaige. This exhibit includes the work of more than 40 artists from Berks County and surrounding regions, selected by art instructors Janice Trusky, Penn State Berks, and Bob Stickloon, Penn State Schuylkill. The exhibit runs from March 22 to April 20, with an opening reception at 6 p.m. on March 22. This event is free and open to the public.
The Penn State School of Visual Arts' third annual Foundations Area exhibition, titled “Hope for a New Age,” is now on display at the Edwin W. Zoller Gallery at University Park. The exhibition, which includes drawing, sculpture, installation, and stop-motion animation, will be open through Dec. 14.
The Penn State Berks Freyberger Gallery will present an exhibition of paintings by Ann Elizabeth Schlegel from Sept. 8 to Oct. 18. There will be an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. on Sept. 8. This event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.
"Layers Over Time: Works by Rebecca Strzelec" opens today (Aug. 29) in the Penn State Abington art gallery. Strzelec, the Penn State laureate and professor of visual arts at Penn State Altoona, investigates the ways wearable objects interact with the surface of the body. Using computer aided design, Strzelec’s objects are built layer by layer in plastics and photosensitive resins using 3D printing process.
From an ironworker assembling a structure drawn by an engineer, to an artist drawing a structure assembled by an ironworker, Vince Ornato paints images chronicling and celebrating Pittsburgh’s industrial past. Ornato’s oil paintings will be on exhibit Sept. 3-30 in the Penn State New Kensington Art Gallery. A reception for the artist will take place from 5-8 p.m. Sept. 15 in the gallery.
The Woskob Family Gallery will present "Deal With It," an exhibition of work by emerging contemporary artists curated by Maake Magazine editor and Penn State master of fine arts candidate Emily Burns, from Aug. 22 to Oct. 19.
The HUB-Robeson Galleries will be hosting “Decorum,” an exhibition of mixed-media artwork by Kiana Honarmand, in the HUB Gallery from May 27 to Sept. 11. Honarmand’s work focuses on issues related to her cultural identity, especially the treatment of women in Iran.
Penn State Professor of Art John Bowman's work will be featured in a multi-venue exhibition as part of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association's Art-a-Whirl, May 19-22. Perhaps best known in the Twin Cities for his painting “Crossings” (1988) — a moody, much-admired landscape scene prominently displayed at Northeast Minneapolis's 331 Club since it opened in 2005 — the New York-based Bowman has been making lyrical, enigmatic paintings and "erasures" of urban landscapes for more than 40 years.
