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Empirical Evidence: Gerry Perrino – Painter & Mentor

February 22 – March 24, 2024

 

Opening Reception:  February 22, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Gallery Talk with Gerry Perrino and Alumni:  February 22, 6:00 – 6:30 p.m.

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Empirical Evidence: Gerry Perrino – Painter & Mentor.  This is a special alumni exhibition organized around the teachings and paintings of Gerry Perrino, professor of painting at Salve Regina University.  This group exhibition highlights Perrino’s most recent work and the paintings of fourteen former students from across the country.

 

Gerry Perrino is a painter, an image maker, and a storyteller.  He works with still life arrangements of toys and miniatures to craft visual narratives that are at once playful, poetic, and political.  His oil paintings draw the viewer into a meticulously rendered metaphoric world of staged figures, signs, and props.

 

As a professor of painting and drawing, Perrino engages his students in the problems of visual thinking.  He teaches them how to understand and interpret empirical evidence.  From foundation drawing to advanced painting, Perrino inspires new and authentic relationships between teacher and student, observation and imagination, art and life.  This exhibition reflects on this unique learning process in the visual arts and celebrates the study of painting at Salve Regina University over the past twenty-five years.  This exhibition brings together the artwork of the following alumni that Perrino mentored.

 

Victor Aguirre-Williams ‘21

Jennifer Bulay ‘07

Rachel DeLuca ‘16

Megan Garbe ‘10

Serena Lafond ‘16

Jeremy Lukasiewicz ‘21

Patricia Jurkowski ‘23

Mia Loia ‘14

Cara Lopilato ‘14

Lauren Roeser (formerly Bingham) ‘15

Nora Sands ‘03

Tommy Slocum ‘03

Maddie Squizzero ‘21

Jordan Thuman ‘16

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is located in the Antone Academic Center on the campus of Salve Regina.  It is a fully accessible space with parking along Lawrence Avenue and Leroy Avenue.  The gallery is open to the public Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Wednesdays and Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays from Noon to 4:00 p.m.  The gallery is closed on Mondays.

November 9 – December 10, 2023

 

Opening Reception:  November 9, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Gallery Talk with the Artists:  November 9, 6:00 – 6:30 p.m.

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Cursive and Clay, an exhibition of new and recent work combining language and clay.  This group exhibition highlights the work of three contemporary ceramic artists and educators from New England: Justin Gerace, Kathy King and Stephanie Lanter.

 

The union of written text and ceramic form can be traced back to the ancient world.  From the earliest clay tokens and cuneiform tablets, a vast array of “cursive and clay” amalgams has emerged that includes coins, tiles, buttons, pottery and more.  This exhibition reflects on that rich history by exploring the innovative treatment of text, writing, graffiti, pictographs, inscriptions, and other forms of cursive expression in ceramics today.

 

Justin Gerace injects the grittiness of urban life into functional ceramics.  Drawing inspiration from the lyrical storytelling of hip-hop and the graffitied environments of the city, Gerace depicts a landscape at full boil, one bubbling over with juxtapositions of imagery and text.  His stoneware platters and vases become active receptacles for his lived experience and his observations on social and political unrest.  Gerace is an adjunct Lecturer in Ceramics at Salve Regina University.

 

Cultural issues and personal narratives enliven the ceramic vessels of Kathy King.  Trained as printmaker, King employs a range of subtractive drawing and carving methods on thrown porcelain.  Her work constructs charged relationships between text and image while navigating the politics and poetics of identity from a feminist point of view.  Kathy King is Director of the Ceramics Program and Visual Arts Initiatives at the Office for the Arts at Harvard.

 

Stephanie Lanter’s layered ceramic sculptures often spring from her own writing and meditation on a single word or phrase.  Lanter interrogates language to the point of its embodiment.  By contemplating the dimensions of each utterance, she coaxes handwritten liquid clay to deform, coagulate and blossom into new dynamic states of expression and solid form.  Lanter is Associate Professor of Ceramics at the University of Harford Art School.

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is located in the Antone Academic Center on the campus of Salve Regina.  It is a fully accessible space with parking along Lawrence Avenue and Leroy Avenue.  Cursive and Clay is open to the public Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Wednesdays and Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays from Noon to 4:00 p.m.  The gallery is closed on Mondays and November 22 -27 for the Thanksgiving holiday.

May 4^th  –  May 21^st  2023

 

Sydney Austin

James Arcoleo

Michaela Conway

Courtney Collibee

Amara D’Antuono

Patricia Jurkowski

Ray North

Rory Smith

Alexa Winter

 

Opening Reception Friday May 19^th 5-7pm

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the Art and Art History Department’s Senior Juried Show featuring graduating senior Art major students Sydney Austin, James Arcoleo, Michaela Conway, Courtney Collibee, Amara D’Antuono, Patricia Jurkowski, Ray North, Rory Smith and Alexa Winter. An opening reception for the artists is scheduled for Friday May 19^th  from 5 – 7pm.

 

Sydney Austin is a Illustration and Graphic Design Concentrator whose work revolves around the development of her graphic novel, titled, The Phoenix of the South. Bringing the darkness to light, the primary theme that Austin shares in her art is mental health, specifically how people hide their true feelings for fear of being stigmatized.  Sydney connects with her audience by inserting her own struggles in her characters to tell people about what goes on inside her head.  Instead of rushing to finish the whole novel, she decided to produce a series of volumes so that her readers could grow alongside the characters.

 

James Arcoleo is a Graphic Design Concentrator whose work focuses on linear portraits with text and drawing.  His work has a macabe melancholy that is challenged by bright red scrawled graffiti-like emotional statements.  He works with skeletal figures, sad clowns and snakes, all with a toxic edge and a burning desire to engage with anger and complacency.

 

Michaela Conway is a Graphic Design and Interactive Media Concentrator whose work is an exploration of brand identity design that reflects her interests as a graphic designer. In creating the brand Florence, Conway drew inspiration from the Newport mansions on Salve Regina’s campus, allowing the intricate architectural details to accentuate the luxurious aesthetic of her clothing line. She first developed a brand identity, focused on translating the opulence of Ochre Court and the Vinland Estate into a fashion line and logo design. From there, she designed a fashion catalog, packaging, website, and a video campaign. Her installation in the Hamilton Gallery is a pop-up shop that allows for an immersive consumer experience for the viewer that projects the luxurious aesthetic of Florence.

 

Courtney Collibee is a Illustration Concentrator whose painted work is deeply collaborative.  She curates poses based on how her models answer questions like: “what is your biggest fear?” or “what do you feel is something most people don’t know about you?” to form a story line of their character in the image.  Her goal is to achieve noticeabe tension in the dynamic between model and artist, to capture them in vulnerable moments.

 

Amara D’Autuono is a Graphic Design, Interactive Media and Photography Concentrator who enjoys working with many mediums. Her thesis project is the perfect example of this

combination. Her project is based around the comfort that one should feel in their own

home. Using Revit and Enscape, she created hyper realistic 3-dimensional renderings to

trick the eye into thinking that the spaces are real. She turned these renderings into a

magazine entitled Jules, named after the interior designer of Ochre Court.

 

Patricia Jurkowski’s is a Painting and Illustration Concentrator who makes dark figurative oil paintings.  Her body of work centers on the relationship between the viewer and the figures. Jurkowski composes provocative images that first aim to shock the viewer, then garner further thought. The subjects are trapped behind the glass of viewership, destined to exist only as a spectacle in the memory of whoever gazes at them. They are unforgettable, yet easily judged on the surface. They are unexplainable upon initial sight yet force you to ponder why they exist.

 

Ray North is a Graphic Design Concentrator whose work plumbs psychological depths with hard edged graphic portraits like “Horseface” and his quiet, limited palette “Self Portrait.  He also  engages with a wry sense of humor in the sweet and funny Meyers Briggs survey “Find Your Personality” video.  This humor plays with the self-seriousness of the idea of a personality test by pairing cartoons and movie characters with their MBTI personalities.  His bashful portrait keeps a watchful eye over the whole endeavor.

 

Rory Smith is a Interactive Media and Graphic Design Concentraor whose work explores the intersection of the real and surreal.  He strives to create images that captivate and terrify.  His goal is to push the boundaires of what is possible in visual storytelling, using the latest digital tools and techniques to bring his vision to life.  In his work as a UX designer, he approaches each project with a focus on usability, accessibility and aesthetics.  By combining his skills as a graphic artist, illustrator and UX designer, he aims to bring a unique perspective to the world of digital media.

 

Alexa Winter is a Painting Concentrator whose painting and drawing describe a sense of place.  In “Park Brunch” we are looking at an ample active scene filled with figures dining and ambling through a lush space.  The bright, active line of her oil pastel is antic, active, allowing the drawing to come to life, to vibrate.  The scale of the drawing, dripping almost to the floor allows us entrance to a scene of half abstraction, half energy.  Meanwhile “2010” is a bright swamp, dripping off a canvas with drooping brilliance, slow, melting.  It is at once here with us and sinking away.

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is located in the Antone Academic Center on the campus of Salve Regina. It is handicap accessible with parking along Lawrence Avenue and Leroy Avenue. Its exhibits are open to the public, though our regular hours will be a bit limited through the run of this show as the students are in finals period.  We will have some of our regular monitored hours May 6-21^st on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Wednesdays and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays from Noon to 4 p.m. The gallery is closed on Mondays.  If you miss us during this time, please contact [email protected] to make an appointment to see the show or do come to the opening on May 19^th from 5-7pm.

Do or Don’t Do It Yourself

A Paint by Number Show

February 23rd –  March 30th, 2023

 

Kate Bae

Jenny Brown

Katie Commodore

Teresa Cox

Marjorie Hellman

Lori Larusso

Ghost of A Dream

Will Hutnick

Jodie Mim Goodnough

Karl LaRocca

J Myszka Lewis

Jerry Mischak

Kristen Schiele

Jen Shepard

Michelle Weinberg

Lauren Whearty

Jamie Vasta

 

Visiting Adjunct Curator Kirstin Lamb

 

Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery

Salve Regina University

 

Opening Reception February 23rd  5-7pm

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of our group show “Do or Don’t Do It Yourself: A Paint by Number Show”.  An opening reception with short conversations with several of the included artists is scheduled for Thursday, February 23rd, at 5:30 p.m.

 

If anyone can make it, why is it art?  Why should an artist be interested?

 

At once an emblem of mindless conformity, leisure time, the machine age and the possibilities of collaboration with the machine, the paint by number continues to inspire artists, despite its purported bad reputation.  The form of paint by number democratizes painting, heralding the moment when you too, could be a painter.

 

This show gathers a range of artists working with painting, sculpture, textiles, and drawing and looks at the leisure activity and hard-edged readymade as it has influenced a range of contemporary American artist’s aesthetics.

 

What is possible now that we can use computers to generate patterns once done by hand?  What does a paint by number become in the digital age?  What does it symbolize?  Why would an artist want to use that symbolism and aesthetic?

 

As a curator and an artist, I find myself gravitating to work that I feel is in some way influenced by the paint by number, either its high color and hard edges or its readymade order-from-the-internet art objects.  One can get photographs printed as canvases of number gridded textiles, plans for embroideries, paintings and more, thanks to the advancements in printing, graphics and 3d printing.

 

Some of the artists in this show were initially uncomfortable with the idea of being included in a show about Paint by Number aesthetics.  As an artist and curator, I love the art form, and use it in my work, but I can understand the hesitation.  I am not judging the work as less than, or without skill.  I am looking for evidence of the machine, the aesthetic of the edges of the form. We have easy access to photo processing programs in our computers and phones and that changes our visual lexicon, the high color and sharp edges spend a greater time in our field of view.

 

This is at once a celebration of a democratic art form and a salutation to that form in many different conceptual and painterly art practices.

 

The Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery is located in the Antone Academic Center on the campus of Salve Regina. It is handicap accessible with parking along Lawrence Avenue and Leroy Avenue. Its exhibits are open to the public Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Wednesdays and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays from Noon to 4 p.m. The gallery is closed on Mondays.

 

For the run of this show, the gallery will also be closed for Salve Regina’s Spring Break, Saturday March 11^th – Sunday March 19^th, please be aware of these hours.