Exhibitions

Outstanding artwork created by Gettysburg College students during the 2018-19 academic year is selected by Rachel Eng, Asst. Prof. of Art at Dickinson College.

Drawing upon the ephemeral and immortal qualities of clay, Rachel Eng’s work considers aspects of the controlled and unpredictable in relation to our changing environment. Eng received her B.F.A. from Pennsylvania State University and her M.F.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2017 she was selected as a NCECA Emerging Artist and she has participated in residencies and exhibited both in the United States as well as internationally. Rachel Eng is Asst. Prof. of Art at Dickinson College and is juror for the Juried Student Exhibition in Schmucker Art Gallery.

Gallery Talk with Prof. Nicholas Miller, Asst. Professor of Art History, Gettysburg College: Feb. 27, noon, coffee and doughnuts provided.

In her exhibition titled "The Domestic," artist Zoë Charlton creates large-scale collages, drawings, and a sculptural installation that explore the " complexities of contemporary social and cultural stereotypes. Recurring imagery in Charlton's work --suburban houses, African masks, paper dolls, and lush landscapes--provides a new approach to issues and representations of black identity. "The Domestic" examines notions of care-taking across racial and class lines, the fragility and failings of a home, and the complications of gender and sexuality in relation to this intensely bodily work.

Zoë Charlton, Associate Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art at American University in Washington, DC, received her MFA degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her BFA from Florida State University in painting and drawing. Charlton has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and at The Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been included in national and international exhibitions including the Contemporary Art Museum (Houston, TX), the Studio Museum of Harlem (NYC, NY), the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland), Haas and Fischer Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland), Clementine Gallery (NYC, NY) and Wendy Cooper Gallery (Chicago, IL). Her exhibitions have been reviewed in ARTnews, Art in America, The International Review of African American Art, and The Washington Post, among other publications. Her work has been collected by many museums, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, NY; Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, MA.

This exhibition is supported in part by Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Office of Multicultural Engagement, and EPACC, Gettysburg College.

Under the direction of Schmucker Art Gallery Director Shannon Egan, students in the course "Art History Methods" curate an exhibition of photographs, prints, and paintings that depict the urban environment. Students will examine issues of race, class, age, gender, as well as effects related to industry and climate change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

image: James Lesesne Wells (American, 1902-1992), Builders, etching on cream laid paper, 1938. Acquisition made possible by the Robin Wagner and Michael Birkner Art and Photography Acquisition Fund and Deborah M. Smith, Gettysburg College Fine Arts Collection

View in the Cupola: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/30/

Keira Koch ’19 examines representations of indigenous cultures in prints and photographs by American artist Andy Warhol and First Nations artist Carl Beam. In this comparative study, Koch considers the topic of appropriation and re-appropriation of Native imagery, and invites discussion about the role of contemporary indigenous artists and how indigenous identities are expressed in contemporary art. This exhibition intersects with the issues and methodologies studied in Koch’s individualized major titled “Indigenous Cultures, History and Identity.”

image, Carl Beam (First Nations, Canadian, 1943-2005, born West Bay (M’Chigeeng), Manitoulin Island), Sitting Bull and Whale,1990 etching on Arches paper, 80 x 119.4 cm, Gettysburg College Fine Arts Collection

View in the Cupola: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/29/

Over fifty original prints by renowned artists from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth century, including Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Théodore Géricault, and Francisco de Goya, among many others, are featured inThe Plains of Mars: European War Prints, 1500-1825. On loan from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the works of art included in this exhibition examine the topics of war and peace, propaganda, heroism, brutal conflicts, and the harrowing aftermath of battle.

Under the direction of Professor Felicia Else and Shannon Egan, Melissa Casale ‘19 and Bailey Harper ‘19 have researched and written didactic labels, catalogue essays, and created an interactive digital interface to complement the exhibition.

View in the Cupola: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/28/

Juror: Richard Rinehart, Director
Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University

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.

Liliana Arias, Yellow House, Best of Show Award Winner, 2017

Senior studio art majors present their individual capstone projects in Schmucker Art Gallery under the direction of Gettysburg College studio are faculty.

Operating at the crossroads of sculpture, performance, and new media practices, Professor Gil produces installations, situations, and events that explore ideas of journey, borders, and interactivity. A graduate of UNC Chapel Hill's MFA program in studio art, Gil has shown work widely, observing his own motto, "I make and I do, and as an artist I make do."

By Nestor Armando Gil, Enjambre, offset print on paper, 24x36in., stack of 1000, 2017

Outstanding student artwork from the 2017-18 academic year; the exhibition reflects the diversity, technical expertise, and immense creativity of Gettysburg College students. Juried by Nestor Armando Gil. Asst. Prof. of Art at Lafayette College.

image, Mary Margaret Blum 18’, Self Portrait (Underwater Childhood), detail, acrylic on panel