Gallery Exhibition Archive 2000-2001
Remnants: Ancient Forests & City Trees
Drawings, Paintings and Mixed Media Works by Prilla Smith Brackett
Thursday, September 7 - Thursday, October 5
Artist's lecture, September 7, 7:00 p.m.
Opening reception, September 7, 8:00 p.m.
Catalogue available
Prilla Smith Brackett is a Boston artist whose work addresses environmental issues. Her exhibition includes work done over a three-year span from photographs she took while hiking in areas of old growth forest in New Hampshire and Maine. It will be featured in seven galleries from Maine to Virginia between1999 and 2001.
Candace Jans: Paintings
Thursday, October 12 - Friday, November 10
Gallery talk by the artist, October 12, 7:00 p.m.
Reception, October 12, 8:00 p.m.
Catalogue available
Candace Jans, a Boston realist painter, spends part of each year drawing and painting in Italy. Since 1981 she has been represented by the Fischbach Gallery in New York, where the paintings exhibited in Beard & Weil Galleries will be shown from November 30 - December 23. One of our outstanding alumnae artists, Candace Jans received her B.A. in art history at Wheaton College in 1974.
Tim Cunard: Recent Works
Thursday, November 16 - Tuesday, December 12
Artist's lecture, November 16, 5:00 p.m.
Reception, November 16, 6:00 p.m.
Tim Cunard is Professor of Art at Wheaton College where he teaches sculpture, 3-d Design and Drawing. His exhibition includes four new mixed media installations inspired by the writings of Albert Camus, the plays of Samuel Beckett, a speech by Archbishop Desmond Tu Tu, and by his long-standing interest in alchemy. Also included are photographs by Cunard documenting a performance related to one of his exhibited installations.
TactileImages: Paintings and Painted Objects by Bill Hutson
Thursday, February 1 - Friday, March 1
Artist's lecture, February 1, 7:00 p.m.
Reception, February 1, 8:00 p.m.
The artist's lecture is co-sponsored by Beard & Weil Galleries and the WheatonCollege Black History Month Committee.
Bill Hutson has made abstract paintings and painted objects since 1960. He employs a variety of materials and utilizes sculptural as well as painting techniques to create works that are conceived and constructed like architecture. With the "Tactile Series" (1995-2000) he has created images that have detachable parts. The mobility of some parts allow active participation of the viewer, who can reconfigure the compositions by displacing selected components. Bill Hutson teaches at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Hidden Geometries: Paintings by Livia Campanella St. Florian
Tuesday, March 6 - Friday, April 13
Artist's lecture, March 6, 7:00 p.m.
Reception, March 6, 8:00 p.m.
Livia Campanella St. Florian received her BFA in Painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, and also studied at the Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris. She has exhibited in the United States, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, and resides in Providence, Rhode Island. Her images often make reference to landscape, architecture, places, or sensory experiences, lyrically interpreted through the painting process, and governed by the hidden geometries referenced in her exhibition title. Her work was recently included in By Virtue of Excellence, the juried exhibition of the Rhode Island State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Newport Art Museum. Her exhibition in Beard & Weil Galleries coincides with Women's History Month.
Annual Exhibition of Senior Studio Art Majors
Wednesday, April 18 - Friday, May 4
Opening reception, Wednesday, April 18, 7:00 p.m.
The senior show, to be titled by the participating students, is the culmination of the studio art major. Each student is represented by a body of work usually initiated in a Fall independent study course and completed as part of the senior seminar during the Spring semester. Painting, printmaking, graphic design, drawing, sculpture, photography, textile and jewelry design, installation art and video are typically included, and make for a rich and varied cap stone exhibition.