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Skidmore College
Schick Art Gallery - Saisselin Art Building
815 North Broadway, 2nd Floor
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

DIRECTOR:
Peter Stake

Curatorial Assistant:
Rebecca Shepard

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We're currently between exhibits, and undergoing a little remodeling. Our next event is Summer Session's Installation 101 class in July. Join us then for two openings featuring installation art by artists Anna Kunz, Dan Levenson, and their students.
Anna Kunz & students:        Thursday, July 19th, 4:30 - 5:30 PM.
Dan Levenson & students:   Wednesday, August 1st, from 4:30 - 5:30PM.

Read on for highlights of our most recent exhibition....

Contemplations and Conjectures: 12 Artists
March 23 - May 6, 2012

Gallery talk: Friday, March 23, 5 - 6PM
Opening reception: Fri., March 23, 6 - 7:30 PM

Judith Braun making Wall Fingering #8
Wall Fingering #8 in progress

Installation view, 'Contemplations and Conjectures: 12 Artists'
Installation view
(Click here to view more images of the exhibition)

Contemplations and Conjectures is an invitational group show featuring drawings by twelve contemporary artists: Sadaie Ayuko, Judith Ann Braun, Jeff Feld, Meg Hitchcock, Cynthia Ona Innis, Michael Schall, Charlotte Schulz, Ruijun Shen, Hiroyuki Shindo, Lorene Taurerewa, Antoinette Winters, and Sandy Winters.
The contemporary definition of drawing is generally broad in scope, encompassing works created with a variety of tools and on diverse surfaces. Contemplations and Conjectures presents works that range from rigorous representation, such as Michael Schall’s graphite drawings presenting industrial architecture in surreal, ominous landscapes, to works that are unconventional in process or materials, like Judith Ann Braun’s ‘Wall Fingerings’ and Meg Hitchcock’s drawings made from excised holy texts.


Sadaie Ayuko, Untitled drawing
Sadaie Ayuko, Untitled
Graphite, ink and watercolor on paper

Sadaie Ayuko
(Kyoto, Japan) is an emerging artist who makes detailed, sensitive pen and ink drawings of plants and insects in a style that is directly representational, yet has echoes of traditional Japanese painting methods.

Judith Braun, Wall fingering (detail)
Judith Braun, Wall Fingering #8, Not Sorry (detail), in Schick gallery

Judith Ann Braun (Brooklyn, NY)
makes ‘wall fingerings,’ site specific, abstract drawings done directly on a wall with her fingers and charcoal dust. She often employs self-imposed limitations (governing the direction or pressure of each mark, for example) that determine the ultimate outcome.

Jeff Feld, Untitled
Jeff Feld, Untitled
InterOffice mail envelope, ink, enamel, graphite
Jeff Feld (Ridgewood, NY)
is a former social worker whodraws, collages, and paints on inter-office envelopes, objects from the realm of offices and institutions. He works and reworks their surfaces, allowing uncertainties and imperfections, and arriving at pieces which combine utilitarian and aesthetic qualities.


Meg Hitchcock, 'Castle'
Meg Hitchcock, Castle
Chapter 1 - 3 of Interior Castle, by Saint Teresa, cut from chapter 6 of Mysterium Conjunctionis, by CG Jung

Meg Hitchcock (Brooklyn, NY),
collects holy texts from used bookstores and cuts them up letter by letter, in a labor-intensive process. She then reconfigures them, in visually striking patterns, to create passages from other religious texts. Her ‘cross-pollination’ of different spiritual traditions implies their shared source, an abiding  sense of reverence.

Cynthia Ona Innis, 'Flare'
Cynthia Ona Innis, Flare.
Ink, acrylic, and satin fabric on wood

Cynthia Ona Innis (Oakland, CA) makes abstract works that combine drawing, painting, and collaged fabric. Her art is inspired by the cycles of nature; elements in drawings may refer to biomorphic forms or to botanical study of growth stages.


Michale Schall, 'Rebuilding the Quarries'
Michael Schall, Rebuilding the Quarries
Graphite on paper
Michael Schall (Brooklyn, NY )
makes highly detailed, labor-intensive charcoaldrawings that depict industrial architecture in ominous landscapes, alternate universes that are both compelling and unsettling. He is interested in issues pertaining to the environment and to the ‘beauty and arrogance of technology.’

Charlotte Schulz, 'Territories'
Charlotte Schulz, Territories (detail)
Charcoal on paper

Charlotte Schulz (Danbury, CT)
creates narrative charcoal drawings that fuse historical catastrophes with domestic interiors, architecture, and otherworldly landscapes.  Her works often incorporate folds or bends in the paper as part of their structure, creating unexpected shifts in the perceived space of the work.

Ruijun Shen, 'Ladies'
Ruijun Shen, Ladies
Transparent film, pen on Plexi

Ruijun Shen (Guangzhou, China)
makes line drawings that use a stream-of-consciousness, Surrealist sensibility, and combine influences from traditional Eastern philosophy and contemporary Western culture.

Hiroyuki Shindo, Untitled
Hiroyuki Shindo, Untitled
Ink on paper

Hiroyuki Shindo (Kyoto, Japan)
is primarily a textile artist known for his use of indigo dye. Concurrently, he makes ink drawings that employ skillful brush techniques; their simplified, bold elements often have the impact of a Motherwell abstraction.

Taurerewa, 'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'
Lorene Taurerewa, See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
Charcoal on paper

Lorene Taurerewa (Brooklyn, NY)
makes large-scale figurative drawings whose characters appear to enact theatrical narratives. Dramatic changes in scale and value are employed, evoking satire, dream, and danger. Taurerewa uses her own life and her childhood in New Zealand as a source for her imagery.


Antoinette Winters, 'Convergence'
Antoinette Winters, Convergence
(detail)
Mixed media on mylar on paper
Antoinette Winters (Waltham, MA) reassembles remnants and leftovers from a decade of discarded drawings, exploring the variety of ways that disparate parts can achieve a new meaning. She uses a narrow horizontal format that echoes her interest in Japanese scrolls and visual narrative.

Sandy Winters, 'She Takes You Down to the River'
Sandy Winters, She Takes You Down to the River
Flashe, watercolor, graphite on paper
Sandy Winters (New York, NY) makes work in which the biomorphic and the mechanical merge, becoming at once ominous and playful. She uses drawing, painting, relief printing, and collage techniques, and is interested in the tension between creative and destructive forces in nature and in human society.



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The Schick Art Gallery offers students, the college community and the public an opportunity to study significant contemporary exhibitions that compliment the Studio Art curriculum at approximately one or two-month intervals. Art from museums, galleries, private collections and artists is borrowed for exhibitions that address a wide range of disciplines and are often accompanied by catalogues, gallery lectures and discussions. In addition, there is an annual art faculty and juried Skidmore student exhibition. We also host invitational alumni exhibits and artist installations. Opened in 1978, named in 1983 to honor an alumna's family, the Schick Art Gallery has played an integral role as a teaching lab in the Department of Art to fully educate students in the visual arts and creative process for over thirty years.