Archive for category: Past Exhibitions

Reception: Thursday, October 22 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Artist Talk: Thursday, October 22 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in DiStefano Hall (next door to Gallery)

Susan Mullally’s What I Keep is a photographic portrait of survival told through the personal items that individuals cherish most.  This collaborative project addresses ideas of class, race, value, ownership and cultural identification.  It includes over 60 portraits, made on Sunday mornings under Interstate-35 at the Church Under the Bridge.  This work is a series of life-size images with brief personal statements by, and about, each person’s choice.  This exhibition contains nearly two dozen 28” x 42” prints.  This project continues to be exhibited throughout the country.

 

OPENING RECEPTION: September 25, 2014 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.

 

This triennial exhibition highlights some of the most dynamic work currently being made by the artists and art historians of Salve’s Art Department.  This is a unique opportunity to engage the images and objects, information and media that shape their research.

 

The gallery will feature the work of nine faculty in the areas of photography, painting, ceramics, graphic design, sculpture, art history and mixed-media.  This installation combines the recent work of Bert Emerson, Karyn Jimenez-Elliot, Ernest Jolicoeur, Jay Lacouture, Anthony Mangieri, Gerry Perrino, Barbara Shamblin, Susannah Strong and James Yarnall.

 

The Faculty of the Department of Art dedicates this exhibition to Professor Barbara Shamblin who has served the university for twenty-seven years and will retire after the 2014-2015 academic year.

 

On Thursday, September 25 the campus community and the general public are invited to attend an opening reception from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. with the faculty and their work.

AWARDS CEREMONY: January 25, 2015 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Bazarsky Lecture Hall, O’Hare

 

OPENING RECEPTION: January 25, 2015 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Hamilton Gallery, Antone

 

For the sixth consecutive year, the Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery will host this extraordinary survey of the best young talent working in the middle and high school art programs across the state of Rhode Island. This annual show features over one hundred outstanding examples of student work in drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, sculpture and design.

Two Openings on One Night!  Friday, March 27, 2015, 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

GERRY WILLIAMS: EFFIGIES IN CLAY in the Hamilton Gallery

Gerry Williams – Effigies in Clay, a Memorial Tribute to Gerry Williams.  Salve Regina University honors the creative legacy of New Hampshire potter Gerry Williams.  This exhibition features Williams’ ceramic work from his family’s collection and other private collections.

 

PALACE POTTERY in the Library of Ochre Court

Palace Pottery features the private pottery collection of James Baker and the ceramic work of Susan Harris, Michelle Erickson and Jay Lacouture.  These four artists have developed installations in Ochre Court, a historically significant “Guilded Age” building that responds to the decorative aspects of pottery form.

OPENING RECEPTION: February 13, 2014 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

PANEL DISCUSSION: February 13, 2014 from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

 

For her Simulating Iraq project, Claire Beckett photographs role-playing exercises at U.S. military training centers. In settings fabricated to look like Iraqi villages, soldiers and civilians in Middle Eastern dress enact engagement scenarios used to prepare troops for deployment. Beckett’s work conflates identities—both of people and place—creating an ambiguous reality that elicits both curiosity and confusion from the viewer.

The subjects of the intimate close up portraits in Suzanne Opton’s Soldier series are American military personnel that have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. While requested to lay their heads on a table, few of her subjects seem at ease, their wartime experiences internally manifested but only suggestively visible on their faces. Opton’s portraits convey individuality and vulnerability, countering the fearlessness and strength we have come to associate with the military, particularly in America.

There is a performative aspect in both photographers’ work—whereas the players in Beckett’s photographs simulate activities associated with today’s wars, Opton’s subjects express the internalized actuality of that experience. Both photographers interpret aspects of soldiers’ experiences of war—as an artificial construction in the case of Beckett’s trainees and as the unimaginable reality hidden in the faces of the veterans in Opton’s portraits.

Claire Beckett holds an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and teaches photography at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Represented by Carroll & Sons (Boston), her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT) and the University of Rhode Island.

Suzanne Opton is a self-taught photographer whose work is strongly influenced by performance art. The recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship among other awards, she teaches at the International Center of Photography. Her work was recently shown in solo exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum (Norfolk, VA) and the Linfield Gallery at Linfield College (McMinnville, OR).

Michelle Lamunière is the Photography Specialist at Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers in Boston and Marlborough, Massachusetts. For over twelve years, she served as a curator of photography at the Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum. Lamunière has written on contemporary photography for Exposure and Contact Sheet and curated exhibitions for the Addison Gallery of American Art and Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History (2009) from Boston University.

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is located in the Antone Academic Center on the campus of Salve Regina University.  It is handicap accessible with parking along Lawrence and Leroy Avenues.  Its exhibits are open Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 to 6:00 p.m., Wednesdays and Fridays 11:00 to 5:00 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays noon to 4:00 p.m.  The gallery is closed on Mondays.