Review: Abstract exhibit showcases local artists’ work
The Handwerker Gallery’s latest exhibition, “First Person, Twice Removed,” dazzles with abstract pieces.
The Handwerker Gallery’s latest exhibition, “First Person, Twice Removed,” dazzles with abstract pieces.
The Handwerker Gallery’s new exhibit “The Veil: Visible and Invisible Space” explores different cultures and religions.
Students in art history now have an opportunity to get hands-on experience in museums and learn what it takes to make it in a museum or gallery. Beginning this semester, a concentration in museum studies has been made available to art history majors.
The Visual Resource Collection and the Handwerker Gallery are organizing a show featuring artwork made of retired projection slides.
The city of Ithaca has been collaborating with Ithaca’s Public Art Commission to spread creativity and awareness.
The Handwerker Gallery features a large-scale art exhibit by Patricia Bellan-Gillen. The opening reception for the exhibit will be 5 p.m. Thursday at the Handwerker Gallery.
It can’t be seen in the carved, wooden mask depicting a squashed human face. It isn’t evident in the contemporary painting that presents a woman in a brightly colored robe with wild criss-cross brushstrokes.
Amid the soaring city skylines depicted in gradients of grays, blacks and whites, the limbs of construction workers parallel the lines of the majestic building they are working on, the Empire State Building. The most striking part of the photograph, however, is not the architecture but its human counterparts — the workers.
The figure is one of the most fundamental parts of human existence. Artists spend lifetimes studying it. They learn its different lines, angles, curves and shades. Then they spend the rest of their career drawing, painting and experimenting, all just to find ways of interpreting it.