Staniar Gallery at Wilson Hall
Lenfest Center Staniar GalleryJAZZ PEOPLE, 1974 - 2007
Patrick Hinely: Images from the Jazzprezzo
Calendiary
Exhibition
Sept. 3, 2007 to Oct. 10, 2007
Staniar Gallery / Wilson Hall
Lecture/Reception
Sept. 14, 2007 / 5:30 p.m.
Concert Hall / Wilson Hall
Stanair Gallery
Patrick
Hinely’s photographs of jazz musicians are
respected,
admired, and published internationally, including on hundreds of LP and
CD covers since 1973. In Jazz
People, 1974-2007, the Washington and Lee
University photographer exhibits over three decades of images of jazz
musicians in the studio, on stage, and on the road. The in-the-moment
alertness and rhythmic responsiveness of Hinely’s photographs
match that of his subjects as he captures “those ephemeral
moments of life being lived, unfolding at its own pace, when the
geometric and the poetic pass through their
fleeting…confluence.” Noting that
Hinely’s work
qualifies “equally as art and documentary,” Tad
Hershorn,
archivist for Rutgers University’s Institute for Jazz
Studies,
has written that in Hinely’s images “you can sense
the
atmosphere, the personalities, and the interaction among the
musicians.”
Many of the works in this exhibition have been included in
Jazzprezzo’s 2008
Jazz Calendiary,
which will be available for sale at the exhibition. An
improvisational jam session will take place in the gallery during the
opening.
DRAWING ITALY
Student Work from the Spring 2007 Abroad
Exhibition
Oct. 17, 2007 to Nov. 7, 2007
Staniar Gallery/Wilson Hall
Lecture/Reception
Oct. 19, 2007 / 5:30 p.m.
Concert Hall / Wilson Hall
Stanair Gallery
The
Drawing Italy
abroad led by Professor of Art Kathleen Olson is a
tradition at Washington and Lee University. During their
study in
Italy, students draw daily, exploring creatively the landscape,
historical vistas, and light in the Mediterranean country. When they
return to campus for the last two weeks of Spring Term, they work
intensively to create series of pastel drawings that reflect their
artistic immersion in Italian culture. In Drawing Italy, students from
the abroad will present the artworks that resulted from this experience.
GERALD DONATO: REINVENTING THE GAME
Exhibition
Nov. 9, 2007 to Dec. 9, 2007
Staniar Gallery/Wilson Hall
Lecture/Reception
Nov. 9, 2007 / 5:30 p.m.
Concert Hall / Wilson Hall
Stanair Gallery
Gerald
Donato: Reinventing the Game comes to Staniar Gallery as a
cross-section of the work included in a larger retrospective of over
forty years of the celebrated Richmond artist’s paintings,
drawings, and prints. Amy Moorefield, curator of the exhibit and
VCUarts Anderson Gallery Assistant Director, notes that “it
is
not a conventional retrospective by any means. Instead, it showboats
Donato’s savvy and satirical mechanisms drawn from familiar
cartoon imagery and nonsensical sources, and it celebrates his unique
pictorial language…” Gerald Donato’s
work combines
two different visual traditions, American pop culture and painterly
expressionism, and it yields a mixture of luscious painting, animated
gesture, parody, and quirky narrative.
SCANNER AS
CAMERA
MAGGIE
TAYLOR, CHRISTA KREEGER BOWDEN, RUTH ADAMS,DARRYL
CURRAN, STEPHEN ALTHOUSE, J. SEELEY, VALERIE MENDOZA, RHONA SHAND
Exhibition
Jan. 7, 2008 to Feb. 15, 2008
Staniar Gallery/Wilson Hall
Lecture/Reception
Jan. 10, 2008 / 5:30 p.m.
Concert Hall / Wilson Hall
Stanair Gallery
Curated
by Ruth Adams and originating at the University of Kentucky’s
Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, Scanner
As Camera includes eight
contemporary artists who use the flatbed scanner as a means of
capturing photographic imagery. Washington and Lee University
Assistant Professor of Art Christa Kreeger Bowden collaborated with
Adams on the development of the exhibition, and the two artists will
give a lecture about this emerging, experimental photographic medium at
the exhibition’s opening. In scanner photography, a flat-bed
scanner replaces the camera and offers exciting possibilities for
experimentation. Instead of taking the camera to the object to be
photographed, three-dimensional objects are placed on the
scanner’s bed and their images are captured -- and often
manipulated -- digitally. As Scanner As Camera
reveals, this
nontraditional approach to photography results in images that range
from the surreal to the lyrically metaphorical to the vibrantly,
meticulously descriptive.
WILLIAM
HALSEY:
MODERNISM IN THE SOUTH
WORKS FROM THE JOHNSON COLLECTION
Curator's Lecture with Harmony Haskins and Lauren Brunk.
Exhibition
Feb. 27, 2008 to April 4, 2008
Staniar Gallery/Wilson Hall
Lecture/Reception
March 7, 2008 / 5:30 p.m.
Concert Hall / Wilson Hall
Stanair Gallery
South
Carolina artist William Halsey (1915-1999) was an abstract
expressionist painter whose life and career path led him away from the
major urban art centers and back to Charleston as a very young man. He
created an original and idiosyncratic body of work that has been
critically acclaimed yet remained largely unknown. Halsey studied at
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in the 1930s, where he
was given the Boston Museum School’s prestigious and rarely
awarded Paige Fellowship. In 1939, the advent of war in Europe
prevented him from using the fellowship to study in Paris, so the young
Halsey traveled to Mexico. He enrolled at the Academy San
Carlos
in Mexico City and had contact with the muralist Diego
Rivera.
Halsey’s immersion in the emergent Modernism of American art,
the
influence of Mexican art and culture, and his return to a regional
milieu combined to create a vigorous and inventive body of work -
saturated color, earthy texture, and seemingly hieroglyphic sense of
shape. The works in this exhibition are drawn from Halsey’s
works
in The Johnson Collection, a collection based in Spartanburg, South
Carolina and comprised of primarily Southern artists from the late 19th
to the mid-20th centuries.
BUSINESS
AS USUAL: SCULPTURE BY BOB TROTMAN
Exhibition
April 11, 2008 to May 17, 2008
Staniar Gallery / Wilson Hall
Lecture/Reception
May 15, 2008 / 5:30 p.m.
Concert Hall / Wilson Hall
Stanair Gallery
Combining
wood’s visual frankness and warmth with a philosophical
sensation
of dislocation and alienation, Bob Trotman’s figurative
sculptures in Business
as Usual bring to Staniar Gallery an intense
examination of the psychology of everyday life. The nationally
acclaimed sculptor sees his wooden figures “…in
relation
to the vernacular traditions of…carved religious figures,
ships’ figureheads, and the so-called
‘show’
figures…found in the nineteenth century,” yet
inhabiting a
familiar contemporary world in which “tragedy and comedy
constantly vie for the upper hand.” Comically pointed yet
empathic, Trotman’s figures suggest an enigma at the core of
human experience. As Mark Scala, Chief Curator for the Frist
Center for the Visual Arts, wrote, “they…convey
attitudes
that typify a particular moment in time…not caricatures, but
real people in conflict with themselves.”
During the exhibition, Bob Trotman will spend a week in the Art
Department as a visiting artist.
SENIOR ART THESES EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition
May 19, 2008 to June 5, 2008
Staniar Gallery / Wilson Hall
Lecture/Reception
May 21, 2008 / 5:30 p.m.
Concert Hall / Wilson Hall
Stanair Gallery
Studio
Art majors at their opening reception, May 2007.
ART/MUSIC/THEATER AWARDS
Presentations/Reception
Tues., June 3, 2007
Time TBA
Concert Hall/Staniar Gallery
Wilson Hall