Jose Orozco
The Paw Print
Every fall at Adams State College the Art Department hosts the Faculty Art Opening in the Snook Gallery.
Faculty within the art department have their summer projects on display, but, it’s not just the faculty that have the spot light. over the summer students taking summer art studio courses are able to place their works on display in the Hatfield Gallery.
The exhibit has been on display since August 22, with the actual art opening held on Friday August 26, at 4 p.m. in the art department. The exhibit will be available for viewing until September 22. Now for those of you who have never been it really is an experience that is both enjoyable and fascinating.
The opening of an art show usually signifies that there is delicious free food in the art department, but the food is just a portion of the experience. Appetizers such as homemade Swedish meatballs and artichoke and spinach dip are part of the departments effort to expand the audience to view their works.
This show has been one of the more low key shows that have been on display.
Margret Doell is the department chair and had photos on display. It seems her current interest is death as she has taken the initiative to display some of the more beautiful scenes that can be found in cemeteries. Laura Murphy, another of the department faculty that specializes in fibers, decided to step outside of her area of expertise to work with oil paints. If you look you can see the giant hand that seems to stick out as a major piece of work.
One of the more interesting pieces was a series of iphone drawings displayed on a digital frame. This piece required you to step behind a curtain and have a seat in front of a digital display of what Eugene Schilling, professor of fine art and drawing, would call digital art. The best part about this piece is the mystery of what you will find behind the curtain. Which, interestingly enough, has seemed to have been missed by several visitors to the gallery.
Roger Erikson, another art department faculty was able to do some intriguing work with what he called and ice study series. These truly are some of the more breathtaking pieces on display. I find it unique that colored ice being photographed at the rising and setting of the sun make such a spectacle.
Tiffany Lee and Jenny Grawronski, had a more 3-D approach to their pieces, sculpture and pottery. These can be found in the very center of the Snook Gallery. A comment was made about one of the sculpture pieces that went along the lines of, “It looks like they didn’t know what to do so they just threw some stuff on top of some wood and called it art.”
With the faculty, hosting an opening it only seems appropriate to have a student gallery as well.
The summer studios classes have their pieces on display in the Hatfield gallery. With a variety of works from a variety of students one of the most noticeable pieces is by Henry Blount.
Blount has on display a tryptic set of a boy that seems to be laying dead in the middle of a road with a bus and birds in the background.
Each painting in the tryptic set has a different setting applied such as western, urban, and suburban rural. These paintings are almost the size of the wall and may give the art professors a run for their money.
If you have never experienced an art opening, it is definitely worth your time and effort to make it to the Faculty Art Opening.
The galleries are constantly filled with new displays for your viewing benefit so be sure to stop by and check out these marvelous works by both the students, faculty, and guest artists.
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