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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 - 9:00 pm

All programs and events are free and open to the public.

Exhibitions and 
Events

Selected Past Exhibitions

LAA Image

Lehigh Art Alliance 71st Annual Spring Juried Exhibition
The Lehigh Art Alliance was founded in 1935 by Professor Garth Howland of Lehigh University.  For more than 70 years the Alliance's annual fall and spring juried exhibitions have given artists from the region an opportunity to exhibit their work in a professional manner. 

Senior Shadows 2006

2006 Senior Art Exhibition
This annual exhibition features the work of senior art majors. Their work in painting, drawing, sculpture, digital video, and photography is the result of their year-long participation in the Senior Art Seminar.

Robert Walch Picture

Robert Walch: Natural Mosaics
Walch shares his creative process—a progression of images that represent the evolution of a visual theme, from his initial inspiration to the present.

Pennell, Courtland Street Ferry, NY 1908

 

Joseph Pennell: Surveyor of American Wonders
Art history professor Dr. Jadviga da Costa Nunes has curated an exhibition that highlights etchings and lithographs made by Philadelphia native Joseph Pennell (1857 -1926).

Wright, Chinese Food

 

Chris Wright: New Paintings
Based in New York City, Wright is one of contemporary art's highly respected still-life painters.

Smith, Prison Train

Jos. A. Smith: Innerscapes
Professor of Fine Art at Pratt Institute, Jos. A. Smith will exhibit his recent work which includes watercolors, drawings and paintings. 

Mason, Baseball Painting
Max Mason's baseball oeuvre: a dynamic, accessible look at America’s pastime through the eyes of a fan and a painter. His compositions are beautifully considered and feature intense contrast between light and shadow with clear, resounding color.
Photo of Seymour Lipton Sculpture Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post War America in Three Dimensions curated by Lori Verderame in cooperation with the Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City, IA and the Elrejem Museum, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Herbert Ferber Sculpture The Founder of Sculpture as Environment: Herbert Ferber 1906-1991 curated by Lori Verderame in cooperation with the Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.
Di Suvero and Serra: Sculpture Di Suvero and Serra: Sculpture curated by Lori Verderame and Patricia Canfield Phillips in cooperation with SUNY, New Paltz, NY.
Spanish Art España: Artists Celebrate Spain curated by Keli Rylance in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin, Stout, WI.
Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective curated by Richard Lorenz in cooperation with the Imogen Cunningham Trust, Berkeley, CA.
Photo of Lind exhibit A Sea Change: New Paintings by Frank Lind curated by Lori Verderame.
Photo of Wilkinson exhibit Seasons of Symmetry: Jeanne C. Wilkinson curated by Mark Daniel Cohen.
Photo of Women Artists: Past & Present Women Artists: Past & Present curated by Jennifer Olson Rudenko in cooperation with the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, the Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA and the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA.
Photo of Exhibition Women of the Land: Images of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis curated by Lori Verderame and Jadviga da Costa Nunes in cooperation with the Atrium Gallery, Chubb Corporate Headquarters, Warren, NJ.
  City Streets and Country Byways: The World of Walter E. Baum curated by Martha Saston in cooperation with the Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA.
  The Rediscovery of Allan R. Freelon: African American Master curated by Lori Verderame.
Masterpieces Photo Three Muhlenberg Masterpieces: Selections from the Permanent Collection curated by Lori Verderame and students in the Museum Studies program of Muhlenberg College.
Local Color: Selections by Area Artists Local Color I & II: Selections by Area Artists curated by Lori Verderame.
  DePietro & DeLong: Art Narratives curated by Lori Verderame.
 
Place: Robin Hill, Sharon Horvath, Mary Hambleton curated by Sandra Erickson.
Dawn Kenzer Paintings Dawn Kenzer Paintings curated by Lori Verderame.
Abstract Dilemmas: The American Abstract Artists
Abstract Dilemmas: The American Abstract Artists curated by Lori Verderame.
 

Beatrice Riese: A Retrospective curated by Jeanne C. Wilkinson in cooperation with the Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN.

  James Carroll: New Work curated by Sandra Erickson.
Rembrandt Etchings Rembrandt Etchings curated by Troy Thomas in cooperation with Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA; Berman Museum, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA.
Ron Hand, Potter curated by Lori Verderame.
Photo of Lydia Panas Artwork Lydia Panas: New Work curated by Lori Verderame.
Photo of Natural Affinities: New Work  by Mark Wonsidler Natural Affinities: New Work by Mark Wonsidler curated by Lori Verderame.
  Barnes & Elliott: New Work curated by Ray Barnes and Joseph E. B. Elliott.
African Figure African Art: The Biography of a Private Collection curated by Lori Verderame in cooperation with Quinnipiac College, Handen, CT and Hicks Art Gallery at Bucks County College, Newtown, PA.
Photo of Margery Edwards Retrospective Margery Edwards Retrospective curated by Jeanne C. Wilkinson in cooperation with the Estate of the artist, New York, NY.
Photo of Durer prints Albrecht Durer: The Life of the Virgin and Selected Master Prints curated by Leo Mazow with Lori Verderame in cooperation with Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA and the Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA.
Bo Barlett, History Lesson and Frank Lind, The Gift Art History's Heroes: The Masters of Contemporary Realism curated by Lori Verderame.
Robert Forman, Nierica Robert Forman: Thread Paintings curated by Joseph E. B. Elliot and Lori Verderame.
Charles Hewitt, Pompham,  Gift of Dr. Don '59 and Harriet Rothfeld A Passion for Collecting: Selections from the Rothfeld Gift of Contemporary Art curated by Lori Verderame in cooperation with the office of Alumni Relations.
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Design Competition Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Design Exhibition in cooperation with the department of Theatre and Dance.
Edward Burtynsky, Three Gorges Dam Project Wan Zhou, Yangtze River, China, Collection of the Martin Art Gallery Displacement: Contemporary Photographs by Edward Burtynsky and Camilo Jose Vergara curated by Joseph E. B. Elliott in cooperation with the Center for Ethics.
Edward S. Curtis, Mosa Mohave Girl, Collection of the Martin Art Gallery Creative Collecting: General Trexler's Vision for the Arts curated by lori Verderame in celebration of the 150th anniversary of General Harry C. Trexler and the Trexler Trust.
  The Birds of Armenia
For the Birds of Armenia exhibition, the Martin will host sixty beautiful and original paintings of various birds which were featured in the book of the same name published by Muhlenberg College Professor of Ornithology, Dr. Dan Klem. The paintings are currently on deposit at the Martin. This exhibition relates to the college's biology curriculum.
Sculpture by Scott Sherk Scott Sherk & Kevin Tuttle: Drawings, Figure Studies, & Recent Work
On view are Sherk and Tuttle's working drawings and clay studies which have led them to produce vastly divergent work. The exhibition gives the viewer an opportunity to see the artistic journey-- the decision making aspect, an integral part of the creative process.  Both artists begin their work with careful observations of the visual world and then respond to it, interpret it, and record in very personal ways.  Those initial searches give way to powerful and unexpected conclusions.
Mark Klee Image The Creative Genius of Mark Klee: The Allentown Zoo & Other Myths
Through sight and sound, the exhibition honors the inventiveness, intelligence, and multi-faceted talent of Mark Klee— a man who gave much and left too soon. For nearly two decades he was best known as Mr. Mark, a beloved and integral part of Muhlenberg’s radio station WMUH FM91.7 and the edgier side of the Lehigh Valley arts scene. His intriguing body of work includes spoken word, illustration and design, theater, and music performance. Mark’s hand-written radio scripts, recordings of his programs for WMUH, and visual art made in a variety of media are all highlighted in the Martin Art Gallery.
Carolyn Manosevitz Image healing: a personal journey
Artist/educator Carolyn Manosevitz shares with viewers her intimate and personal post-holocaust odyssey. As a child of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, her 2- and 3-dimensional works are inspired by themes of memory and reconciliation. She works in a modest scale using a variety of media, often creating layers with papers and fabrics. Carolyn has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Canada, teaches art at Colorado Mountain College, and has lectured at the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the Iliff School of Theology in Denver and Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. The exhibition, in the Galleria area of the Baker Center for the Arts, is presented in collaboration with the College’s Institute for Jewish and Christian Understanding.
Four Freedoms Image Four Freedoms
In conjunction with the Center for Ethics fall programs, guest curator R.L. Tillman explores President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s four freedoms as he expressed them in his 1941 address to Congress—freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. During World War II, these abstract ideals were illustrated by Norman Rockwell and became cultural icons of that era. Now more than 60 years after Rockwell, Tillman offers another look at these values through the work of nearly a dozen 21st-century artists.
Larry Fink Image Larry Fink: Somewhere There’s Music
Larry Fink shares with viewers his personal photographic overview of American musicians.  During the past 50 years, he’s captured compelling images of musicians—jazz, street, famous and not-so-famous—using electronic flash and high contrast printing, a well-trained eye, and honed instincts.   The results are pictures rich in social context and texture that reflect the quintessential photographic moment, fleeting and personal, but undeniably public.
Amze Emmons Work

Amze Emmons: Recent Work
Emmons, assistant professor of printmaking at Muhlenberg, combines traditional printmaking and perspective drawing with flat, colorful painting to depict modern spaces in thoughtful and unexpected ways.  He points out that we live in a world of increasing flux and migration with “more than 30 million people currently displaced by strife alone”.

Emmons researches the “media-scape” daily for images and phrases that may lead to deeper narratives and combines them with inspiration from a variety of additional sources including old signs, architectural illustrations, graffiti, information graphics, and news footage.  He then uses time-honored studio techniques to make images with a sense of minimal realism that go one step further and evocatively record the global transience and dislocation of our time.

  The PA Diversity Network (PDN) Photo Project
100 Same-sex Couples: Facing Inequality
PDN coordinator and photographer, Liz Bradbury, began the project in February 2006. Since then Bradbury, who holds both undergraduate and graduate fine arts degrees, has taken more than 100 photos of local same-sex couples to illustrate to the greater Lehigh Valley community that many committed long-term, same-sex couples are living here.  She states, " … viewers have recognized people they know and learned how these friends, neighbors, and colleagues have to endure the lack of civil rights that the rest of the population takes for granted."   The exhibition is held in collaboration with the College’s Gay Straight Alliance.
Emergent Behavior

Emergent Behavior
Guest curated by Amze Emmons, this group exhibition focuses on installation and three-dimensional art being made outside the boundaries of traditional production methods and media. All eight women—Tova Carlin, Diane Carr, Cece Cole, Leslier Mutchler, Tracey Snelling, Christine Buckton Tillman, Regan Wheat and Wendy White—are making art in various locations throughout the country. They are, however, unified in using commonly found materials and infusing their work with a sense of mystery and unexpectedness that is thoughtful and often playful.

  Senior Exhibition: Class of 2007
This annual exhibition showcases the work of senior art majors. Their work in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and mixed media is the result of their year-long participation in the Senior Art Seminar.
Carol Heft, Cityscape #2, 2007

Heft, Fletcher, Haas: Recent Work
Drawings by Carol Heft and Leslie J. Fletcher, and silver gelatin prints by David Haas give viewers an opportunity to explore provocative similarities as well as obvious differences in the artists' use of media, color, composition, and subject.  All three artists teach studio classes at Muhlenberg College and other colleges and universities in the area.

The Pathos of Ecstasy
Guest curator Ara Osterweil, Assistant Professor of Muhlenberg College's Art & Film Studies, brings together a quartet of New York artists, painters-Noah, Landfield, Lydia Mullin, and Elizabeth Leggett- and sculptor David Baumflek.  Working independently, they each use formal issues such as media, color, scale, and composition, to create art that expresses the ineffable emotions of pathos and ecstasy.

work by Kerns and Chapman

Word, Mind, City: The Universal Resonance
This exhibition features uniquely layered compositions by artist and Lafayette College faculty member Ed Kerns and painter/architect Elizabeth Chapman.  They use topography, urbanism, and linguistic symbols as visual metaphors to study and explore the realm of neuroscience in exciting and unexpected ways.
For more details visit: www.lafayette.edu/~kernse

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