Faculty Art Exhibition, through February

Arts West Gallery and Isabella Canon Room

Reception, February 7, 12:30-1:30, Arts West Gallery

Zeroes and Ones: Exhibition of Advanced Digital Art Students

Alamance Arts Council April 14–May 20. Reception Thursday April 22, 6:30-8:30.

213 South Main Street
Graham, NC 27253-3301
(336) 226-4495

Art Installations

Newly admitted BFA students, Marlee Belmonte and Mark Capozzola, will be hosting an opening reception for their installation "Discourse" in the Trollinger House (Arts and Letters Community) Friday 4/16 at 4pm-5:30pm. Please come and explore the piece as well as ask questions and enjoy some refreshments. Hope to see you there, and if you cannot make the reception but would still like to see the work, feel free to email Mark at mcapazzola@elon.edu and they can arrange another showing.

Senior Thesis Exhibitions

April 18-May 14

Thesis exhibitions for Elon Art Department graduating seniors.

Receptions on Sunday April 18, 1–3 and Sunday May 2, 1–3.

Arts West Gallery and Isabella Cannon Room in Center for the Arts

An-My Le

Arts West Gallery, March 7 - April 14

Closing reception and discussion (with pizza!): Wednesday, April 14, 12:30 PM, Arts West Foyer

An-My Le, a Vietnamese refugee, examines the complex cultures of warfare through the combined lenses of traditional documentary photography and the drama of Hollywood films. Her work focuses on Vietnam War re-enactments and military training sites to prepare soldiers for service in Iraq and Afghanistan. The lovely aesthetics and dispassionate distance of her photographs seem to belie the sobering nature of battle while complementing the truth of their simulation. This dissonance brings into question the viewer’s assumptions about the depiction and realities of war.

An-My Le currently teaches in the photography program at Bard College. Exhibitions include Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia College, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Cornell University. She was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and her work resides in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

Student Curated Art Exhibition -- Tuesday 2/23 at 5:30 in the Isabella Cannon Room

Lovers of Art, listen up!

Many of you are interested in museum studies and curatorial projects so I know you will be excited about Tuesday’s student curated art exhibition, which opens to the Elon community on Tuesday at 5:30 in Isabella Cannon Room (Fine Arts Center). Erin Day, Nichole Rawlings and Travis Butler have curated (and created art) to accompany William Chapman’s Nyaho’s visit to Elon this coming week. Nyaho is a pianist who plays and collects Diaspora composers.

Don’t know that Diaspora means?

Come to his piano recital on Monday at 7:30 in Whitely Auditorium...
Or, come to the creative workshop with Nayho on Tuesday at 4;15 in Whitley Auditorium...
And, come to the art opening on Tuesday at 5:30 in Isabella Cannon Room.

Have questions or need more information, contact Dr. Evan Gatti at: egatti@elon.edu

Reception and gallery talk for current Arts West Gallery exhibition

Please plan on starting the semester right by joining the art department in welcoming visiting artist Brant Schuller on Monday, Feb. 8th at 12:30 in Arts West Gallery. Brant is an interesting printmaker/installation artist that will have his work on display for the month of February. At the reception he will be giving a brief lecture on his work.

The exhibition of Schuller's work focuses on making the often passive role of the observer into an active one. Schuller has been exploring ways to capture time through drawing, more specifically tracing as a means to map or document the experience of looking. The images in the exhibition include tracings of the landscape as it sped by from automobiles, trains, buses and planes. These “Travel Tracings” were than hand colored with acrylic paint using the colors found in the landscape. Many of these images take the shape of the car window and reinforce the viewer’s position in the documented place. Other tracings have Schuller gazing out windows from banal and famous locations such as the bedroom of Charles Demuth. In “Exterior Tracings” he documents not only the activity outside, but also his constantly changing viewpoints. These flattened images compress the space into imagery that often reinforces the sites he chooses to work.

Time Arts class installations

Students in ART 114 Time Arts constructed installations in the display cases of the Arts West foyer. Exploring various issues surrounding material culture, students gathered objects found at thrift stores and other assorted places to transform the cases, pushing the boundaries of the display case's usual format. From top to bottom: Emma McGregor, Maggie Nolan, and Maria Papa; Joanna Patterson; Blair Foster and Mollie Hunter; Dean Coots and Ryan Cousins; Nick Seckerson and Rob Shapiro; Brent Edwards, Dan Enders, and Greg Gentile.

Small Works Invitational

Colleen Choquette Raphael,

The Flower Eaters III

Reception: Tuesday, December 8, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

The annual Small Works Invitational exhibit will open this week in Arts West Gallery. All pieces do not exceed 100 square inches each and explore a range of media. Artists from across the United States and Canada have been invited to participate. Exhibition continues through February 3rd.

Current Trends in Print

Reception Tuesday, December 1, 12:00 - 1:30

Isabella Canon Room, Center for the Arts

Current Trends in Print, represents artists from across the country. The exhibition has contemporary art from both conventional and non-conventional forms of printmaking, with mediums ranging from mezzotints, screenprints, monoprints, collage/chine-colle, and more. This is an International exhibition with artist represented from the US and as far as Japan.

Installation of Dr. Ahmed Fadaam’s Civilization on Nov. 19

Thursday November 19, Arts West; 4:30 - 6:00

Please join us for the installation of Dr. Ahmed Fadaam’s Civilization, a gift of art to Elon University. The installation of the sculpture will take place on the portico at ArtsWest. A reception will follow, accompanied by a documentary film of the project and a virtual conversation with the artist.

The installation will occur as part of International Education Week and is sponsored by the Office of the University Art Collections, Elon’s Department of Art & Art History, and the Isabella Canon Center for International Studies.

A Journey of Friends: The Collaborative Art of the Theatrical Designers of Elon

Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts

An exhibition that considers how theatrical design develops and impacts the choices made in theatre production. Renderings, models, sketches, antique garments and other source materials will be on view as well as costumes and props from recent productions. Exhibition continues through April 23.

Inaugural Small Works Invitational

Arts West Gallery

January 12 - January 28, 2009

Reception: Monday, January 12, 12 - 1:30

We had nearly 100 submissions for this exhibit. Included is work from neighboring institutions like Guilford College, UNCG, NCState, NCSchool of the Arts, as well as institutions like Penn State and Albright College. We received works from California, New Mexico, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, South Carolina, and NY. The 2D works ranged from intaglio, silkscreen, and lithography to oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings; the 3D work included ceramic, bronze, silver and plaster sculpture. This is the inaugural exhibition of the SWI, and it will occur every year. The gallery director, Michael Fels, plans to continue its wide-reaching spectrum and hopes to eventually receive enough work to fill both galleries and publish a catalog with the exhibit. Read more about the exhibit here.