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senior comprehensive exhibitions coming soon!

portfolio reviews loomed, pounced, and faded back into the autumn night

On Tuesday evening, the sophomores, juniors, and seniors waited quietly with signs and pieces of masking tape in hand, ready to pounce when the clock struck five. They worked through the night to curate a series of galleries packed to the gills with new art. The next morning, a brilliant team of faculty whipped through the final round of portfolio reviews, passing on their wisdom for nearly 8 hours straight.



The galleries quickly filled with art on Sunday afternoon.



Frightening & encouraging posters littered the hallways.

art club completes important balloon-popping project for mary & stephan's de-installation finale

Many thanks to our Art Club members for lending their pin-holding hands to the balloon-popping take-down of Vision Fields by Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand. You have here the nearly unedited video footage of this event.

a student's response to our installation from K. Johnson Bowles, 'For Better or For Worse and Other Mixed Messages'

from Sierra Campoli, class of 2008:

I feel like I'm in an old, deserted farmhouse at sunset. The flies are swarming everywhere. There are signs of a life that used to exist in this old house with chipped old wooden windows and doors. The doilies have been left, some discolored from the sun, others collecting dust. The crows remind visitors that the life in the old farmhouse is gone. Many happy marriages entered and left. Now all that is left is the color of sunsets on the drapes. The crows try to hide in the doilies and drapes, but you can't deny that the only life left is in the flies that swarm inside.

our second round of fall shows - update

We're very fortunate to have three amazing solo shows running this fall. Our students have been engaging with the exhibitions throughout October, writing essays, making sketches, helping renew the balloon supply in Mary & Stephan's exhibit, and discussing the projects in class. Enjoy these photos.

gallery talk with mary & stephan on october 4

k. johnson bowles

ellen jantzen

Anomalous


Blind Trust


Eye Witness


Outré


Spawn

mary magsamen & stephan hillerbrand

air-balloon-water installation


Dragon Story installation


Dragon Story still


Dragon Story still


Flash Light installation


Flash Light still

three upcoming exhibitions!

PRESS RELEASE

THREE NEW EXHIBITIONS OPEN AT THE MOREAU ART GALLERIES

Saint Mary’s College Moreau Center for the Arts & Moreau Art Galleries are pleased to announce the opening of three new exhibitions: Beneath the Surface: digital imagery by Ellen Jantzen in the Sister Rosaire Gallery, For Better or For Worse and Other Mixed Messages by K. Johnson Bowles in the Little Theatre Gallery, and Vision Fields by Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand in the Hammes Gallery. These exhibitions will be on view at Saint Mary’s College, Moreau Hall, from October 5 through November 2. An opening reception will take place on October 4 from 4 to 6 p.m., with a gallery talk by Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand at 5.30 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or by appointment.

In Beneath the Surface, Ellen Jantzen presents a series of inkjet prints showing altered ephemeral assemblages, temporary sculptural set-ups that she photographs, layers, manipulates, and mines for surprising connections. In this project she creates a series of anthropomorphic beings hovering symmetrically over backdrops ranging from the apocalyptic to the sublime. Her method of altering images parallels her interest in creating an altered reality for her viewers, in which objects combine to form a moment that seems to fall outside of our ordinary expectations for space and time. Ellen Jantzen is based in Valencia, California, and has been pursuing this body of work for over three years.

K. Johnson Bowles presents For Better or For Worse, an installation first created in 2005, alongside Mixed Messages, a new body of mixed media work developed in 2007. In each project, she uses a combination of precious and disturbing materials to explore the shifting and formative nature of memories and personal history. In Mixed Messages, a layering of delicate domestic items combined with staples, flies, and candles simulates a decayed surface that points to trauma’s potential to eat away at the formation of new perceptions and experiences. For Better or For Worse is a poetically surreal environment including a combination of classic domestic objects and symbols of decay, causing us to question our preconceptions about marriage and the effect of long-term relationships on individual identity. In addition to her studio work, K. Johnson Bowles directs the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts in Farmville, Virginia.


Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand, a collaborative husband/wife team who use abstraction and play to re-contextualize everyday items, are presenting a set of three video installations in Vision Fields. In these three related projects, the artists use balloons filled with their own air as new lenses through which the work is both shot and projected. In Flash Light, air-balloon-water, and Dragon Story, the artists use this altered mode of perception to explore childhood, memory, and parenting. The artists install these works with balloons filling the gallery, enveloping the viewer in the obscuring effect of this uncanny optical tool. Mary & Stephan will be giving a gallery talk at 5.30 on the night of the opening as part of their work as Visiting Artists in the Department of Art.

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more images from 'moving through medium'

Bridget Riversmith's Walking the Red Giraffe


Kelley Schei's Svengali

images from 'moving through medium'

opening reception earlier this month


Gisela Insuaste's installation


Karin Lekan's i love you like my dad loves shelley


Lisa Leighton's paintings still float above his chair


Kit Rosenberg's Twins

installation in progress

Gisela Insuaste preparing her installation for Moving Through Medium

moving through medium opens this fall

MOVING THROUGH MEDIUM coming soon
August 27-September 22, 2007
Opening Reception Thursday, September 6, 4-6 p.m.
This show features the new animations of six emerging artists: Gisela Insuaste, Lisa Leighton, Karin Lekan, Bridget Riversmith, Kit Rosenberg, & Kelley Schei. Curated by Visiting Assistant Professor and Gallery Director, Annie Heckman. Stay tuned for more details about this show and visit www.movingthroughmedium.blogspot.com