Alfred University News

SOAD faculty exhibiting on Long Island, in Rochester, and, in Arkansas, in the path of the upcoming solar eclipse

Several faculty members of Alfred University’s School of Art and Design have work appearing or due to appear soon in exhibitions.


Sarah Blood, Associate Professor of Glass, is exhibiting work at the Windgate Museum Exhibition In the Shadow of the Moon, which will run through April 13. Her sculpture “Luna Fossil” celebrates this year’s total solar eclipse.

The Windgate Museum is located at Hendrix College, in central Arkansas. The campus will be in in the path of totality for the April 8 eclipse. In the Shadow of the Moon has been curated by Windgate Museum Director Christian Cutler.

For more information, click here.


Artists elekhlekha (Nitcha Tothong and Kengchakaj), Tansy Xiao, and John McGarity, all recent residents of Alfred University’s Institute for Electronic Arts, will exhibit together at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) in the exhibition Built Environments: Forging Worlds through Video Art.

The work of these four artists is described as constructed “universes within the confines of a screen, holding within them powerful and essential truths of our current world told through this complex and efficacious medium.”

The exhibition will be open from March 1 through May 4 with an opening reception March 1.

Art displayed at RoCo.
Art by elekhlekha (Nitcha Tothong and Kengchakaj), Tansy Xiao, and John McGarity at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center

RoCo is located at 137 East Ave, Rochester, NY. For more information on Built Environments, click here.

 

Patrick Brennan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting, is exhibiting at the Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton, NY, in a large scale installation of painting, sculpture and video called The Cage.

Brennan’s exhibition will run through March 31.

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Artwork by Patrick Brennan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting, is on display at the Halsey McKay Gallery, on Long Island.

Click here for more information on Halsey McKay Gallery exhibitions.