Category Archive

Our next exhibition features West African textiles donated to SLU by Chris Roy ‘70 and Nora Leonard Roy ‘69.

I’ll be updating details in the  Gallery website in the next day or two, but there is an exhibition checklist available.

Lauri Lyons will be showing her Flag photographs at the Gallery during January – March of 2010.

From her Web site:

“Flag reveals what is beneath the surface of the American dream by looking beyond stereotypes and into the minds of ordinary citizens whose feelings about America not only tells the viewer what America really is, but also what it can become. Through each person’s photographs and hand-written statements about America, the viewer becomes aware of the beauty, inequity and hope that have created the American cultural fabric.”

On Saturday, the gallery held a reception for the Wild Things exhibition of wildlife photography by Melissa Burchard.  The turnout was fantastic!

Melissa with Bart and Margaret Harloe

Melissa with her friends and family

We had a festive reception the day before Commencement for students and their families.  Music with Minor Swing.  President Sullivan and Ann Sullivan were able to join us, as well as alumna Connie Harris Saddlemire, pictured with FA faculty Melissa Schulenberg and Kasarian Dane.

In honor of President Daniel F. Sullivan and Ann H. Sullivan, the gallery presents an exhibition of works by students, faculty, and alumni from the past twelve years.  Here is a detail of a digital photograph by Cassie Walsh ‘09, a project in which she asked people to “hold the tomato.”

Jack himself.

April 9 – 22, 2009

Thursday, April 9 at 7:00 p.m.
Artist’s lecture by David Beck, juror
Opening reception to follow

For this year’s juried exhibition, students were asked to create up to four works that explored the concept of be(com)ing.

David Beck teaches digital art at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, and has shown his work extensively throughout the United States.  His artwork is featured in the book GameScenes. Art in the Age of Videogames (John & Levi, 2006), the first volume entirely dedicated to game art.

The department of fine arts presents the student exhibitions with assistance from the Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment Fund and the gallery’s Barnes Endowment Fund.

Holland Cotter writes in his New York Times article Why University Museums Matter (02.19.09) that “at least one good idea seems to be gaining ground. In a bleak economy, when our big public museums threaten to sink under budget-busting excesses, the university museum offers a model for small, intensely researched, collection-based, convention-challenging exhibitions that could get museums through a bumpy present and carry them, lighter and brighter, into the future.”

02.24.09 – Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.
03.03.09 – Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.
Screenings in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery

In 1962, James Joseph Dresnok, a U.S. soldier sent to guard the peace in South Korea, deserted his unit, walked across the most heavily fortified area on earth, and defected to the Cold War enemy, the communist state of North Korea.  He then simply disappeared from the face of the known world.  Dresnok became a coveted star of the North Korean propaganda machine and found fame acting in films, typecast as an evil American.  Dresnok has now lived in North Korea twice as long as he did in America and uses Korean as his daily language.  He has three sons from two wives.  At one time, there were four Americans living in North Korea.  Today, just one remains.  Now, after 45 years, the story of Comrade Joe, the last American defector in North Korea, is told in the film Crossing the Line.

Crossing the Line will be screened at St. Lawrence University in conjunction with the exhibition North Korean Images at Utopia’s Edge, on display at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery until March 12, 2009.  The prints in the exhibition are on loan from Nicholas Bonner, an acclaimed documentary filmmaker who has been traveling to North Korea for the past 15 years.

Recent multimedia work by SLU professor Christopher Watts opens February 16, 2009.  Check the Gallery’s Web site for more information about the exhibition.  Chris will present a performance using live interactive electronics, foregrounding process while asking the listener to think about the relationship between person and machine.  “Jack of all Trades” will premier in the Gallery at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, March 9, 2009.

This past week, Brandeis announced its intention to close the Rose Art Museum and sell its entire collection of art objects and artifacts.  The American Association of Museums, the College Art Association, and the Association of College and University Museums and Galleries have responded with statements protesting this decision.  You can also read more at the Culture Grrl blog.

Students in Professor Kasarian Dane’s class install COLOUR.

Info. available on the  RFBAG gallery web site.

Carole and I are working on a new CONTENTdm collection that will document our rotating exhibitions, educational programs, and projects related to SLU’s Permanent Collection.  We’ll have a link on the Gallery’s Web site soon.

Here is Noli Chew at the beginning of the project.

Scores of SLU students from Jenny MacGregor and Relani Prudhomme’s FYP Sprague College and Kasarian Dane’s painting class participated in a community-based site-specific installation using designs painted by the Kartoon Kings based on the work of Canton-born Frederic Femington,  We also had the pleasure of working with Dianne Drayse-Alonso’s students from Ogdensburg Free Academy and Ray Whalen’s students from Parishville Central School.

We hope you can all come to the lecture and reception to follow.

What an amazing weekend with the artists from the Combat Paper Project. To find out more about the visiting artists who were here for the past three days, visit the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery website for background information, the Combat Paper Project at Green Door Studio (Burlington), and Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Here are some pictures from Amy Hauber: