SUNY Adirondack Visual Arts Gallery

Making It

The Visual Arts Gallery at SUNY Adirondack's Dearlove Hall presents an exhibition featuring the works of alumni Joseph Eggleston, Vinny Otto, Anthony Richichi, Jes Turcotte and Hannah Williams.

"Making It" runs through Oct. 28. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday; and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.

About the artists

Joseph Eggleston attended SUNY Adirondack from 2006 to 2008. He took a handful of painting and drawing classes with John Hampshire and art history courses with Rebecca Pelchar. These classes influenced his decision to transfer to the Fashion Institute of Technology, where he earned a Bachelor in Fine Arts in 2012. After graduation, he remained in New York City, where he worked for artist Rashaad Newsome before falling into the world of set design and prop styling.

Eggleston has exhibited in various galleries in New York and Philadelphia. He continues to work in set design on a freelance basis while working on portraiture commissions in his studio regularly.

Eggleston was born in Glens Falls, and lives and works in Philadelphia.

Vinny Otto is a 2018 graduate in Media Arts.

"It’s an escape from stress. It makes me happy,” Otto said about photography. “I like getting out there and taking pictures and seeing what I can get. I like to get out of my comfort zone.”

Otto is turning his photo skills into a business, shooting weddings, engagements and portraits.

Anthony Richichi has been published and exhibited in many galleries throughout New York. He has painted live at numerous events, has permanent work on display in The Hyde Collection gift shop and his portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe at Wiawaka in Lake George.

He has won several awards and holds illustrating positions at Penny Dreadful Press, Killustrator Comics, 1Die Games, The Observation Post, AJ Woodworks, Adirondack Theater Festival and Adirondack Film Festival, for which he is also gallery director and curator. Anthony also stands as board member and lead artistic designer for Art In the Public Eye, a Glens Falls nonprofit art organization. He is also art director and curator of music and art festival GEMfest and Rock Gallery. 

Jes Turcotte is an illustration and multimedia artist who graduated from the SUNY Adirondack in 2016 with an AAS in Graphic Arts. Since, she built an experimental body of work which consisted of illustration, printmaking and typography including basic font-making.

That work evolved into her present art practice, which includes primarily illustration and painting, as well as world-building and character-building, experimental three-dimensional work, and delves into different methods of printmaking. She self-released an art zine titled “Cumulus” in 2020 which consists of a sequence of digital illustrations featuring her first original character, the Pink Creature. Jes enjoys trying her hand at any variety of medium, however her favorites thus far are digital, ink, acrylic gouache and watercolor.

Jes is a student at Empire State College studying Environmental Science and Ecology. She sees her pursuit of science as an investment in self-enrichment, which benefits every aspect of her life in some way, including her artwork.

Hannah Williams is influenced by a wide array of artists, spanning from the Impressionist movement to Modern visionary art. Hannah studied under established local artists in her community, taking private art lessons and specialized art classes at SUNY Adirondack, where she received the Glens Falls Foundation Art Scholarship. Her work has been shown in multiple galleries, art publications and magazines.

From 2016-2017 she was a scenic artist at Adirondack Studios in Argyle, painting large-scale murals for 20th Century Fox World in Malaysia. Hannah is also a freelance artist who has painted several murals in her community as well as "live paintings" in front of audiences at various music festivals. Hannah mostly focuses on portraiture, merging women figures with natural/spiritual subjects. She is narrowing in on her style, creating a new series of works called, “Reveries of a Woman,” which dives more into the realm of femininity within a dream-like landscape.

Learn more about the artists and exhibition.

The Visual Arts Gallery at SUNY Adirondack exhibits a variety of themes, styles and techniques from local artists and international artist that are of recent and historical significance. The gallery upholds a high professional standard when selecting work for exhibits due to the multidisciplinary nature it services on the campus.  Exhibits are coordinated with the educational goals of the college and are interpreted through lectures by artists and faculty as well as brochures and pamphlets.  The gallery space is regularly used as an intimate space for meetings, small receptions, class meetings, lectures, Writer’s Project poetry readings, musical concerts and an Annual Student Art Exhibition. 

For 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.