Exhibitions

    

Sandy Winters combines the mediums of printmaking, drawing, and painting to realize her mural-like constructions of an imagined future of biological plant-animal-machine hybrids. Winters earned a BS from the University of New Hampshire and a MFA from Cornell University. Her work tends to depict environments of largely abstracted forms that are forbidding yet playful and birarre yet familiar. For the last 40 years, her art has been exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions held throughout the United States. Some of her more recent solo exhibitions include "Sandy Winters: Creation and Destruction" at the Deland Museum; "Williamson Memorial Award: 10-Year Survey" at the Indiana State University Art Gallery; "Metamorphosis" at the Flaten Art Museum in Forthfield, Minnesota; and "In My Back Yard" at George Adams Gallery in New York City.

Image: Sandy Winters, "Near Treacherous Waters", 2013. Flash acrylic, graphite, collage on Arches paper, 52 x 72.25 in.

     

This exhibition is curated by students in the Art History Methods course at Gettysburg College under the direction of Prof. Yan Sun. Drawing from Gettysburg College’s extensive collection of Asian art, the students apply their studies in art historical methodology to analyze and describe a wide selection of textiles, stone sarcophagus rubbings, and exquisite jade, lacquer, and porcelain objects. Image: Kesi Tapestry of Yang Guifei and Emperor Xuanzong Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Emperor, 1661 – 1722 CE, silk, 101.6 x 62.9 cm Gift of the Estate of Prof. Frank Kramer, Special Collections and College Archives, Musselman Library, Gettysburg College

       

Original eighteenth-century prints by German naturalist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) as well as those by her followers—including Carolus Linnaeus, Christiaan Sepp, and others—are featured in this exhibition curated by Gettysburg College students Emily Roush ’21 and Shannon Zeltmann ’21 under the direction of Prof. Felicia Else and Prof. Kay Etheridge. These intricate, accurate, and compellingly beautiful compositions reflect the artists’ and scientists’ extensive travels, dedication to scientific inquiry, and a thorough, innovative understanding of ecological frameworks. This exhibition is made possible by a generous gift by Bruce and Betsy Stefany and loans from Professor Kay Etheridge.

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Image: Maria Sibylla Merian, Plate 33, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (Metamorphosis of the Insects of Surinam), 1705, hand colored engraving, 13 x 19.5 in., Special Collections and College Archives, Musselman Library, Purchase made possible by Bruce and Betsy Stefany.

Outstanding artwork created by Gettysburg College students during the 2019-20 academic year is selected by Julie Wills, Asst. Prof. of Art, Washington College.

      

Julie Wills is an interdisciplinary artist working in the expanded field of sculpture, including installation, collage, performance, video and architectural interventions. Recent solo exhibits have been presented at C for Courtside, Knoxville, TN; Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA; IA&A at Hillyer, Washington, DC; and Whittier College, Los Angeles, CA, with additional upcoming solo exhibits at VisArts, Rockville, MD and Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, MD. She has been an artist-in-residence at Jentel (WY), PLAYA (OR), The Hambidge Center (GA), and Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (MD), among others, and is the recent recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. Her works are included in the White Columns Artist Registry in New York and the ICA Baltimore’s Flat Files Program. Wills is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Washington College in Chestertown, MD. In addition to her individual studio practice, Wills is the founder and director of China Hutch Projects, a domestic project space for contemporary art located inside her home (www.chinahutchprojects.com) Image: Julie Wills, Toy Soldiers, 2019. mixed media on digital print

      

This competitive exhibition features paintings, sculpture, photography, prints, drawings, and textiles produced by artists in Adams County and the larger Mid-Atlantic region. Schmucker Art Gallery partners annually with the Adams County Arts Council to support its mission to cultivate an arts-rich community. Image: Joseph Lozano, Xednew, Best of Show Award Recipient, 2018

   

Senior studio art majors present their independent capstone work in a variety of media under the direction of Professor Mark Warwick. Image: Laura Waters ’19, Capstone 2019

         

Through paintings, prints and works on paper, Andrew Ellis Johnson and Susanne Slavick examine the contradictory fears and hypocrisies, ignored histories and punitive policies surrounding the challenge of migrants and refugees today. The works in Getting There question and expose the consequences of our resentment or fear of “the stranger.” Getting There is not just about the journey and reception of migrants; it is also about the movement of our own consciences. Images: (above) Susanne Slavick, Ghost Ship, 2017, archival inkjet print on Hahnemuhle paper, 4 x 6 in. Source: Giovanni di Paolo, St. Clare Rescuing the Shipwrecked, ca. 1455 (below) Andrew Ellis Johnson, Black Cabbage (detail), 2019, ink on paper, 42.5 x 89 in.

Juror Lindsey Landfried, artist, curator and director of the HUB-Robeson Galleries at Penn State University, has selected 40 artists for the Adams County Arts Council’s 16th Annual Juried Art Exhibition held in partnership with Schmucker Art Gallery: Dorothea Barrick, Richard Barvainis, Alex Bellotti, Pamela J. Black, Doris Burdick, Mary Eve Cain, Gabriel Clarke, Sandra Derosiers, Loy Elliot, Andrea Finch, Linda Ifigenia Gottfried, Lisa Gohr Harman, Nanette Hatzes, Michael Hower, Brooke Jana, Kim Klabe, Julie A. Labosky Myers, Kip Laramie, Sarah Lenker, Joseph Lozano, Christina M. Lund, Charles D. Marley, Jr., Dorothy Marquet, Casey Martin, Gerard McFerren, Lisa S. McLeod-Simmons, Kate Miller, Alan Paulson, Judith Pyle, JD Pyshnik, Joh Ricci, Jaci Rice, James K. Rowland, Ted Scarpino, Tim Smith, Dennis Steinauer, Austin Stiegemeier, Dora Townsend, Jim Whetstone, and Sara Williams-Haggerty.

Senior studio art majors: Angelique Acevedo, Erin Brault, Bailey Harper, Susan Holz, Yiru Jia, Li Jianrui, Annora Mack, Emma Mugford, Inayah Sherry, Jacob Smalley, Laura Waters, and Laurel Wilson, present their independent capstone projects in a variety of media under the direction of Prof. Mark Warwick.