Martin Art Gallery
Baker Center for the Arts
Muhlenberg College
Allentown, PA 18104
Phone: (484) 664-3467
Fax: (484) 664-3633
Email:
kburke@muhlenberg.edu
Gallery Hours
Tuesdays - Saturdays
Noon - 8:00 pm
All programs and events are
free and open to the public.
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 Exhibition Schedule
Baker Center for the Arts
Martin Art Gallery Schedule: Spring 2010 / Fall 2009
Galleria Lobby Schedule: Spring 2009
Martin Art Gallery Fall 2009 exhibition schedule
Faculty Show:Raymond Barnes: Untitled
September 2 – September 25
September 9, Gallery talk: 4:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Reception: 5:00– 6:00 p.m. |
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Professor of art, Raymond Barnes, explores 3-dimensional industrial form and context in his installation of stainless-steel industrial screws. The screws vary in length from 3’ to 10’ but are similar in circumference—5” – 6”. Barnes has been working on linear and grid installations for many years. His work is informed, at times, by installations of American minimalist Carl Andre. |
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Judith Ross: Living with War
October 7 – November 7
October 7, Reception: 4:30– 6:30 p.m.
October 14, Gallery talk by the artist: 4:30 – 5:30 p.m
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Nearly four dozen provocative portraits from three of Ross’ series: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Gulf War, and Protest the War and several monographs of her work are featured. Ross, a well-respected photographer both in the U.S. and abroad, works with a large-format camera and prints using gold-toned gelatin silver. In her 25-year plus career, her subjects have also included school children members of the U. S. Congress.
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Exposed Terrain
November 18 – December 18
November 18, Gallery talk: 4:30 –5:00 p.m.
Reception: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. |
Guest curator Amra Brooks, brings together painter Erica Svec, installation artists Carlos Motta and B. Wurtz, sound artist Scott Sherk, and video artists Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn and their personal response to the theme of place and space. Exposed Terrainis is part of the Center for Ethics 2009 programming.
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Darfur: Artwork for Awareness
February 15 – 18, 2009 |
Student curators: Jenny Bleznak and Sami Mangel/STAND (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur)
Related lecture: Dr. Ehrlich, Feb. 18 in Recital Hall
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The Art of Magic
March 11 – April 4 |
Curator: Alumna Candace Dobro
The exhibition is part of the College’s 10th anniversary celebration of the Theory and Art of Magic.
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Pennsylvania Hands
June 5 – July 26 |
Photographs by alumna Sally Wiener Grotta that celebrate Pennsylvanians who keep traditional arts and crafts that reflect our state’s diverse culture alive. Grotta was awarded a Lehigh Area PPA grant for this project.
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Floating Architecture and Constant Centers: Some Projections
August 27 – September 27, 2008 |
Guest curator: Bartholomew Ryan/ 7 international video artists
Reception: Wednesday, September 3, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Floating Architecture is guest curator Bartholomew Ryan’s intriguing exploration of identity and the relationship of identity to place. In developing the theme, he chose to work with young, international video artists whose imagery is as varied as their individual backgrounds. Ryan compiled six separate and distinct videos made by Yvonne Buchanan, Jana Eske, Yael Bartana, Kota Ezawa, Dionn Meade & Mary Simpson, and Dawit L. Petros and looped them to be shown continually on one projector. Most were produced using a long shot of a single scene with no cuts. |
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In Harlem, Buchanan documented young children in a typical urban playground. Using grainy black-and-white Super-8 film, Mead & Simpson captured anonymous legs and feet moving rapidly in an undeterminable location of brick and gravel. Ezawa used a laborious animation technique to reduce a suburban tract home to an iconic representation of contemporary suburban angst, while Eske employed an aquatic vantage point to shoot a building complex in Helsinki, Finland. Finally, painterly references were made by Petros who framed a Canadian lake as a landscape and by Bartana who shot a Vermeer-like, frame-within a-frame viewpoint of a Purim celebration in Jerusalem. |
Safety Architecture
October 15 - November 15, 2008
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Guest curator Lou Joseph worked with nine artists--Diana Behl, Micah Bornstein, Sam Brown, Amze Emmons, Kim Faler, Goatmother Industrial, Brooke Inman, Michael Markwick and Mario Marzan--who are looking at the various apparatus and infrastructures that promote public and personal safety.
Maybe more appropriately, these artists are looking at systems designed to protect us from a myriad of both real and imagined dangers. These dangers can come in many forms- natural, criminal, accidental, civil, chemical, governmental, sociological, mental, biological, to name just a few. The work in the exhibition touches on those themes and more. Some of these artists looked more directly at the actual objects of our safety architecture, at their form and how they function. Others explored the edges where an obsession with safety can turn into paranoia.
Opening reception: October 15, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m |
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Creighton Michael: Plane Drawing
November 25, 2008 – January 9, 2009
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Opening reception for the artist: Wednesday, December 3, 4:30 – 6 p.m. Slide lecture in conjunction with the exhibition by writer Susan Isaacs: Tuesday, December 2, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. in the Center’s lobby.
An excerpt by independent curator, essayist and critic Lilly Wei from the exhibition catalogue, Creighton Michael: Plane Drawing:
…Calling them dimensional drawings, Michael began to experiment with a range of formulations, in particular grids, his next series, proceeding in an intuitive but also systematic way, incorporating repetition, difference and an element of chance. Using wire to represent the mark, shaped individually by hand into forms that suggest leaves and petals, the process replicated the act of drawing while creating more substantive delineations. The delicate wire units, combined with glue, plastic or rubber, were inserted into a sectioned, pre-drilled wall, the resultant shadows from the interaction with light functioning as a shimmered modeling, enhancing the work’s three-dimensionality. In essence, Michael created a hybrid of drawing and sculpture, incorporating actual space and movement, claiming the architecture as the support. These early grids, drawn in graphite on the wall, were always 30, 24 or 12 inch squares, the measurements he favored…
Creighton Michael is lives and works in New York. Wei writes for Art in America and is a contributing editor for ARTnews and Art Asia Pacific. |
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