The 2008 Senior Art Exhibition presents artwork in a variety of media by Colby Studio Art majors Natalie Clay, Julia Deutsch, Eric Hansen, Catherine Jensen, Alyssa Lee, Angela Martinelli, Elizabeth Mortati, Sarah Parrish, Julia Stuebing, Kathryn Tom, and Kate Yedinak. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 8, from 4 to 6 pm.
Mitch Epstein
Biloxi, Mississippi (from American Power series), 2005
C-print, 45 x 58". Gift of Burt Silberstein '49 and museum purchase from the Jetté Acquisitions Fund. Image courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
The College Collection as Kunstkammer
May 2, 2008 - May 25, 2008
UPPER JETTÉ GALLERIES
Curated by Justine Ludwig '08
The Kunstkammer (art chamber), an exhibition space popular in the 16th through 18th centuries in Europe, allowed for the juxtaposition of cultures and time periods. Rather than organizing objects according to era, the display’s goal was an aesthetic conversation meant to reveal truths about the universe. This exhibition presents a range of works drawn from the permanent holdings of the Colby College Museum of Art in a manner reminiscent of Kunstkammern, and, in so doing, it explores the eclectic nature of the collection.
Robin Mandel
Storm, 2008
Mixed media installation
Storm
April 14, 2008 - May 18, 2008
THEATER GALLERY
During a recent one-week residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, Assistant Professor of Art Robin Mandel created computer-controlled kinetic mechanisms capable of producing viewer-activated thunder, lightning, wind, and rain simulations. Mandel's Storm, installed in the museum's Theater Gallery, brings these mechanisms together to create an electrifying thunderstorm.
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
Rhododendrons, Boston Public Gardens, 1899
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 14 1/16 x 20 3/4". The Joan Whitney Payson Collection at the Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Joan Whitney Payson Collection
February 17, 2008 - June 1, 2008
LUNDER WING
The Colby College Museum of Art presents seven world-class works of art from the Joan Whitney Payson Collection, on bi-annual loan from the Portland Museum of Art. This impressive collection includes paintings by Marc Chagall, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Alfred Sisley.
Above image courtesy of the following: Susan Mary Alsop, Robert D. Barton and Nancy Hemenway Barton, Deborah and George Brett, Mrs. Howard S. Cowan, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W.H. Dodge, Leon Gorman, Mrs. Hugh G. Hallward, Austin and Ellen Higgins, Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. McCorkle, Elizabeth B. Noyce, John G. Ordway, Parker Poe Charitable Trust, Mrs. Jefferson Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Risley, Phineas W. Sprague Memorial Foundation, Mrs. Nicholas Strekalovsky, Mrs. Stuart Symington, UNUM Charitable Foundation, Friend of the Collection, five anonymous donors, and through funds generated by a gift from the estate of Francis and Marion Libby, 1991.61
Gary Green
Pleasant Point (View no. 1), Salmon Falls, Maine, 2006
Iris print on Somerset Satin paper, 47 x 35". Image courtesy of the artist
Gary Green
February 7, 2008 - March 23, 2008
TEACHING GALLERY,THEATER GALLERY
Gary Green joins the Colby College Art Department this year as professor of photography. Green's sensitive images of the common landscape draw connections between human nature and the natural world. His photographs of carved and weathered tree bark, like human skin, tell stories of manmade encounters and natural phenomena. Decaying houses, cleared lots, and bulldozed dirt piles reveal the forces and events that create the history of nature.
Adolph Gottlieb
Untitled, 1950
Ink and watercolor on paper, 19 x 24”. Gift of the Alex Katz Foundation
Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings and Early Prints
February 3, 2008 - April 13, 2008
UPPER JETTÉ GALLERIES
Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) was an early member of the Abstract Expressionist movement and an intensely productive painter, printmaker, and sculptor who created an immense body of work during his 50-year career. Primarily self-taught as a painter and printmaker, Gottlieb aimed to synthesize an intellectual approach to painting with his own emotional experience. This exhibition, featuring a 1950 pictograph by the artist given to the Colby Museum by the Alex Katz Foundation, brings together 50 early prints and paintings, which demonstrate Gottlieb's significant contribution to the changing face of American art at mid-century.
Amy Stacey Curtis
sort II (detail), 2007
10,080 acrylic-painted wooden circles, 18 receptacles, 16 color keys, Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm, instructions, tape, audience, 45 x 14'. Photo: Alan LaVallee
currents4: Amy Stacey Curtis
December 15, 2007 - April 13, 2008
DAVIS GALLERY
Curated by Sharon Corwin, Carolyn Muzzy Director and Chief Curator
The fourth installment of the Museum's annual emerging- artist exhibition, currents, presents work by Maine-based installation artist Amy Stacey Curtis. Curtis, who has been working in abandoned industrial sites throughout the state for the past seven years, creates interactive works that examine our interconnectedness through themes of chaos, order, and repetition. For currents4, Curtis invites viewers to perceive, manipulate, and perpetuate her exploration of light and color.
James McNeill Whistler
Draped Figure, Reclining, 1892
Transfer lithograph on paper, 11 1/4 x 17 1/4". The Lunder Collection. Photo: Peter Siegel
Whistler at Work: The Process of Printmaking
December 3, 2007 - June 15, 2008
GOURLEY GALLERY
Curated by David P. Becker
Peter and Paula Lunder have assembled one of the foremost collections of prints by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), comprising more than 200 etchings and lithographs of the highest quality. The latest in a continuing series of exhibitions drawn from this collection not only serves as an overview of Whistler's printmaking career but also highlights a number of rare examples that reveal Whistler's working process. Important selections include examples of Whistler's trial proofs, three pairs of prints that show how the artist developed his images through successive printings from the same plate, and a rare pastel that illuminates how Whistler treated similar subjects in different media.
Robin Mandel
Suitcase, 2007
Mixed media. Image courtesy of the artist
Fall Faculty Exhibition
November 6, 2007 - January 20, 2008
UPPER JETTÉ GALLERIES
The Fall Faculty Exhibition presents an opportunity to view recent work by Colby College faculty members Bonnie Bishop, Bevin Engman, Gary Green, Maggie Libby, Robin Mandel, Abbott Meader, Nancy Meader, Garry Mitchell, Scott Reed, and Barbara Sullivan.
