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MARIA MELCHIORRE
Special to The Leader
On Wednesday, Sept. 9, a 16 ton, 48-foot-long sculpture, titled “Progression,” will be installed by crane in front of Fenton Hall. The piece by Rochester artist Albert Paley, is one of two that Fredonia has received on loan this year through the Insight Onsite program, headed by Barbara Racker.
The second sculpture, “Portal,” also by Paley, weighs in at 1,350 lbs and is currently on display at the entrance to King Concert Hall.
“They actually had to put up an old-fashioned pulley gantry to get it up the steps and again just to get it upright,” said Racker, who is also Director of the Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery in Rockefeller Hall.
In the Cathy and Jesse Marion Gallery this semester, students will find the maquettes — smaller-scale models of larger sculptures of Paley’s campus contributions — as well some of his other international sculpture work. The exhibit, “Albert Paley: Humanizing the Material,” will be on display from Sept. 1 through Oct. 18, highlighted by Paley’s Visiting Artist Series lecture on Thursday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m.
Paley is one of four lecturers being brought to Fredonia this semester for the Visual Arts and New Media Department’s Visiting Artist series. All lectures, apart from Paley’s aforementioned time, will take place at 8:30 p.m. in McEwen 209.
Patterson Clark, a visual journalist for the Washington Post and a printmaker who uses invasive plant species to make paper and ink will be lecturing on Sept. 24. Clark, brought to Fredonia by art department professor Tim Frerichs, will be conducting printmaking workshops at the time of his visit as well.
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On Oct. 15, artist Ed McGowin will be lecturing on campus, which will coincide with the exhibition of some of his works, titled “Ed McGowin: Name Change,” at the Fredonia Technology Incubator.
In 1972, McGowin, in the interest of expressing the linear nature of the artist’s process, undertook an 18-month-long project in which he legally changed his name, and therefore his persona, 12 times, whilst working within 12 different mediums.
“We have the court documents that show the name change, in addition to the art itself,” said Racker. The screenprints of McGowin’s that will be on display at the Incubator, organized by Racker, come from Fredonia’s own art collection, now stored in the vacant Erie Hall.
Documentary filmmaker Kevin Schreck will be on campus Nov. 5 to screen his film “Persistence of Vision” about the iconic animator Richard Williams, of “Pink Panther” and “Roger Rabbit” fame.
Both Paley and McGowin will be supplementing their on-campus lectures with talks at the Technology Incubator. The Art and Business Luncheon series will be held at the Incubator on Sept. 11, for Paley, and Oct. 16, for McGowin.
Once Paley’s maquettes come down on Oct. 18, the Department of Visual Arts and New Media faculty will be displaying their work in the gallery from Oct. 23 through Nov. 20. The exhibit will include two- and three-dimensional works by faculty artists Ray Bonilla, Jason Dilworth, Tim Frerichs, Phil Hastings, Jill Johnston, Stephen Komp, Liz Lee, Alberto Rey, Hide Sadohara, Peter Tucker and Megan Urban.
December 4-11 will be the first of the senior shows exhibited in the gallery.
Also housed in Rockefeller, on the second floor of the art building, is the Emmitt Christian Gallery, headed by Robert Booth, chair of the Visual Arts and New Media Department.
The exhibit “Dual Nature,” featuring the paintings of Laura Adinolfe and James East, will be on display until Sept. 2. East’s work will showcase the idealization of the natural world in the style of early 19th and 20th century landscape artists and Adinolfe’s will showcase the chain of reactions caused by microplastics pollution. Various other student exhibitions will be on display in the gallery throughout the semester.