The first exhibition for 2017 at ICON Contemporary Art will be new work by gallery artist Garry Mitchell. A long-time member of the Colby College art faculty, Mitchell will be showing a collection of both large and small acrylic on canvas or panel paintings and a group of framed mono-types. The Garry Mitchell shows opens...
In March and April 2017, Associate Professor of Art Tanya Sheehan contributed to the “Still Searching” blog published by the Fotomuseum in Winterthur, Switzerland. Her five-part blog series on Photography and Migration considers the role of the photographic medium in the human crossing of geographical and cultural borders. The series reflects on the photographic culture of the contemporary global migration crisis, placing it into...
Professor of Art, Bevin Engman, is participating in a traveling exhibit entitled, Zeuxis: The Unstill Life. The exhibit is currently displayed at The Painting Center in NYC. Following New York, it will be shown in Arizona and Mississippi. Among the paintings by Engman included in the show are The Redshift, 2015, shown below.
Gary Green interviews Susannah Sayler for Urbanautica’s newsletter in an article titled,”Susannah Sayler on Canaries, Climate Change and Collaboration.” In the article she describes ‘The Canary Project’, which she co-founded with collaborator Edward Morris. The project has a mission to produce art and media that she hopes will deepen public understanding of climate change and...
With Katie Hornstein, Visiting Associate Professor of Art Daniel Harkett has coedited Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Published by the University Press of New England in 2017, this collection reconsiders the life and work of Emile Jean-Horace Vernet (1789–1863), presenting him as a crucial figure for understanding the visual culture of modernity....
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch delivered a talk at the Department of French at Scripps College on January 31, 2017. Her lecture was titled “Des tréteaux à la page d’un manuscrit français du 15e siècle.”
Tanya Sheehan, an accomplished scholar of American art and visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present, has been named the William R. Kenan Jr. Associate Professor of Art. Professor Sheehan is an expert in the history of photography and the representation of race in American art. She is the author or editor of...
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch delivered a lecture via Skype, “Words, Images, and Materiality in Early Performance,” on December 20, 2016. Her audience was the Advanced Studies in the Materialities of Literature Ph.D. Program at the School of Arts and Humanities and the Centre for Portuguese Literature, University of Coimbra, one of the oldest universities in the...
On December 8, 2016, in the Colby College Museum of Art, Professor of Art Véronique Plesch and the students in the seminar “Picasso’s Suite Vollard and Its Contexts” discussed the artist’s work and their experiences interacting with the etchings in this extraordinary series. This photograph features in the five students who presented their research, from left to right: Arianna...
Asian Abstractions/Global Contexts, a symposium on the legacy of Zao Wou-ki and other East Asian Diasporic artists on 20th Century Art will take place at the Asia Society in New York, November 18, 2017. The symposium was co-organized with Colby College Museum of Art, Dr. Ankeney Weitz, Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of...
