2020 – Albright College

2020

The Freedman Gallery is open to the public Tues.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. & Sun., 1-4 p.m., please visit https://www.albright.edu/about-albright/buildings-facilities/gable-center/covid-19/ for information and tour requirements related to COVID-19.

In “Welcome to Flattened Flat Space,” 2018, single channel HD video, 4:02 minutes, Han questions time, space, and reality in our digital world. (FG)

Click here to read more about Suji Han: Welcome to Flattened Flat Space

 

Using traditions from the artist’s Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, Anne Buckwalter explores how gender-related expectations are defined and disrupted. Incorporating folk art traditions from Amish quilt patterns and Vorschriften writing exercises, Buckwalter juxtaposes convention with contemporary issues of feminine identity, sexuality, and health. This project is part of a city-wide collaboration with the Reading Celebration of Women in the Arts. (PS)

Click here to read more about Anne Buckwalter: Repeating X

Click here to watch Anne Buckwalter’s March 12 lecture

• Artist’s Lecture, Thur., March 12, 4 p.m., Klein Lecture HallEE
• Closing Reception, Thur., March 12, 5-7 p.m.

A retrospective exhibition honoring Dan R. Talley’s nearly five decades as an artist, arts educator, curator, and critic. Talley is the cofounder of two long-running and well-respected arts organizations, Real Art Ways and Art Papers. As an artist, Talley works in multiple mediums and is a faculty member of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. “State: Obvious/Not So (selected works, 1973-Present)” will trace his artistic career through selected installations, video works, photography and ephemera. (MG)

Click here to view the catalog for “State: Obvious/Not So (selected works, 1973-Present)”

• Artist’s Lecture, Thur., Feb. 6, 4 p.m., Klein Lecture HallEE
• Reception, Thur., Feb. 6, 5-7 p.m.

The Freedman Gallery is open to the public Tues.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. & Sun., 1-4 p.m., please visit https://www.albright.edu/about-albright/buildings-facilities/gable-center/covid-19/ for information and tour requirements related to COVID-19.

Wilson earned his M.F.A. from Hunter College in 2012 where he currently teaches sculpture. Two of Wilson’s sculptures were previously on view in the Freedman Gallery’s National Juried Exhibition on social justice in the fall of 2018 for which he won the “Best in Show” award. Out of an investigation of the objects, architecture and institution of the U.S. prison industry, Wilson recently developed a series of hardwood sculptures that speak to issues of incarceration. Wilson employs processes of carving, laminating, steaming, bending, sanding, turning and polishing wood to impress time in a physical way onto a material, evoking the effects of labor and confinement on the body. Wilson’s work as a whole delves into the power dynamics of institutions of governance and oppression with a specific focus on how objects and architecture affect the human body and perception.

Click here to read more about David J. Wilson: Ontological Inebriation

  • Artist’s Lecture, Thur., Aug. 20, 4 p.m., via ZoomEE
  • Virtual Reception and Tour, Thur., Aug. 20, 5-7 p.m., via Facebook Live
  • Virtual Homecoming Tour, Sun., Sept. 27, 2 p.m., via Facebook Live (PS)

In “Challenges of Imagination,” 2017, screen recorded video, 17:41 minutes, Rāmbod and Ramyar Vālā use satire to discuss the difficulties of obtaining a visa to work and live in the U.S. as artists from Iran. (FG)
Click here to read more about Rāmbod and Ramyar Vālā: Challenges of Imagination

The Freedman Gallery is open to the public Tues.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. & Sun., 1-4 p.m., please visit https://www.albright.edu/about-albright/buildings-facilities/gable-center/covid-19/ for information and tour requirements related to COVID-19.

This important exhibition, curated by Leigh Hendry, organized to travel by Carole Sorell, and underwritten by Park West Foundation, pairs the editioned ceramics of Pablo Picasso, 1947-1969, which were created in the Madoura Pottery workshop, with the travel paintings and prints of Marcel Mouly, 1945-2007. (MG)

A hard copy of the catalog can be purchased for $5 (shipping & handling costs). For more information, call (610) 921-7715.

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   The Annual Juried Student Exhibition is the most anticipated exhibit of the year and culminates the season with the work of Albright students from all majors. Prizes were awarded by guest juror Ben DeMott, GoogleWorks ceramics studio manager.

Hewston received her B.F.A. from Kutztown University and is the lead for the Weaving and Fringe Department at Barbett Industries, Inc. She is also an active artist, quilting and weaving textile works that reflect her passion for color and design. For her exhibition at the Freedman Gallery, Hewston will showcase her own works, which will also be for sale, and will create two unique pieces. One will be a response to Neda Al-Hilali’s “Marduke” from the gallery’s permanent collection, and the second will be an interactive piece that visitors to the gallery will have an opportunity to help create.

  • Artist’s Lecture, Thur., Oct. 15, 4 p.m., via ZoomEE
  • For Experience credit, pre-register on Canvas (Albright Experience) and view in the Zoom application. To view live on YouTube (non-credited), click on https://tinyurl.com/AlbrightEE at time of event.
  • Virtual Reception & Tour, Thur., Oct. 15, 5-6 p.m., via Facebook Live
  • Closing Reception & Trunk Sale, Tues., Nov. 24, 5-7 p.m.

Click here for more information about Contemporary Weavings by Erika Hewston


Since the close of 2015, urban landscape photographer Peter Ydeen has been shooting Easton, Pa., and the surrounding area at night. These efforts evolved into a monumental series, capturing the ethereal beauty and unreal colors of a classic Americana town, transformed under cover of darkness. Ydeen received his B.F.A. from Virginia Tech and M.F.A. from Brooklyn College.
• Artist’s Lecture, Thur., Oct. 29, 4 p.m., via ZoomEE
• Experience credit, pre-register on Canvas (Albright Experience) and view in the Zoom application. To view live on YouTube (non-credited), click on https://tinyurl.com/AlbrightEE at time of event.
• Virtual Reception & Tour, Thur., Oct. 29, 5-6 p.m., via Facebook Live