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SUNY Adirondack Visual Arts Gallery

Exhibition Schedule 2020

Hidden Beauty – Exploring the Aesthetics of Medical Science
February 12 – April 16, 2020
(Gallery is closed because of social distancing measures. Please view the slideshow above.)

Hidden Beauty is an exhibition of microscopic images of diseases in the human body. While disease is a troubling state for the body, the scientific images produced of the reactive state can be quite compelling. The collaborative project is the work of two professors from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospital; Norman Barker, Associate Professor of Pathology and Art as Applied to Medicine and Christine Iacobusio-Donahue, Professor of Pathology, Oncology and Surgery. The collaborative project between scientist and artist presents a unique perspective of a system that works indiscriminately. The exhibition features minute details of affected body states such as degenerated lung tissue, the lace of osteoporosis, pebble-like gallstones, circular brain neurons and heart disease.

Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
April 23 – May 7, 2020

The Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition is representative of the best student work from the fall and spring semesters in media arts, photography, printmaking, 3D and 2D design, painting and drawing classes. Work is chosen by a juror from the art community and students are given the opportunity to exhibit in a professional setting. Awards are given for Best of Show and those pieces represent the college in the SUNY-wide student exhibit each year at SUNY Administration in Albany.

Fall 2020

Russell Serrianne
Sept. 9- Nov. 11, 2020

Russell Serrianne is captivated by the energized line naturally found in the strength and determination of the vine tendril. Serrianne uses the vine tendril as a  drawing tool — and a 3-dimensional line. The process centers around the selection of individual tendrils, each having a complex simplicity. The work creates a visual interplay within what is natural and, when applied out of context, creates pause for re-examination.

Dearlove Hall
Visual Arts Gallery Hours:
Mon - Thurs 10am-3pm
Tues / Wed 5:30-7:30pm

For school tours or more information contact:
Rebecca Pelchar, Director
pelcharr@sunyacc.edu
518.832.7738

Look around the hallways, library and offices on campus, and you will find artistic inspiration.

The SUNY Adirondack Art Collection began in 1999 with a gift of 150 pieces from the estate of poet William Bronk of Hudson Falls and now has more than 1,000 works of art by more than 300 local, national and international artists. The diverse work represents artists from the United States, Canada, Cuba, Italy, Greece, France, Czech Republic, Japan and Russia. Artistic mediums include paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, photography and mixed-media. 

The collection also includes a selection of broadsides by selected American poets.

The Visual Arts Gallery, located in Dearlove Hall since 1984, schedules a variety of exhibitions throughout the year that emphasize creativity, vision and imagination  Included are group and solo shows by artists of local, national and international reputation. Each exhibition includes an informative and interpretive brochure. A juried exhibition of student art takes place at the end of the Spring Semester.

The Visual Arts Gallery offers a chance for students to become exposed to the works of artists from within, as well as outside of, the Lower Adirondack and Capital Regions. Receptions, musical performances, lectures and formal dialogs provide the opportunity for the sharing of ideas, opinions and responses that feed a sense of community as well as provide a link for the student to what lies beyond the academic life.

SUNY Adirondack’s Theatre and Music programs offer rich and diverse programming unexpected at a community college.

The Theatre department is known for its professional-level productions of bold and innovative plays. Past productions have included D.W. Gregory’s “Radium Girls,” a true story of the women factory workers who fell ill from exposure to radioactive paint, and Moises Kaufman’s “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later,” a drama tracking the hate crime murder of openly gay student Matthew Shepard.

Catch musical performances each semester by the college’s talented faculty and staff, including vocal concerts, instrumental recitals and jazz sessions.