Contemporary Still Life at Cazenovia College Art Gallery

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CAZENOVIA, NY (09/17/2010)(readMedia)-- The Cazenovia College Art Gallery in Reisman Hall offers "Betwixt & Between," featuring still life works by Jen Gandee, ceramic artist; Hall Groat II, painter; Grant Johnston, painter; and Robert D. Loring, ceramic artist.

The exhibition opens Wednesday, Sept. 29, at 1 p.m., with an artists' reception and the on-going Artist Lecture Series, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., in the gallery. The show runs through Friday, Oct. 29, closing at 4 p.m.

The Cazenovia College Art Gallery in Reisman Hall, 6 Sullivan St., is on the corner of Sullivan and Seminary streets in Cazenovia. Hours during the academic year are: Monday through Thursday, 1-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.; Friday, 1-4 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, 2-6 p.m. Summer hours vary.

For information contact Jen Pepper, gallery director, by e-mail to jpepper@cazenovia.edu. Information is also on the Web at www.cazenovia.edu/art-gallery.

Curator Jen Pepper says, "Betwixt & Between: Contemporary Still Life" presents the works of four artists who investigate the traditions of still life painting, capturing subtle beauty in common objects that we come across in our daily lives, while serving as metaphors or memento mori, reminding us that the objects depicted will also come to pass. The works in this exhibition include works in both traditional painting methods with contemporary quirky twists, and works in ceramic creating whimsical objects and the unexpected."

The artists include:

Ceramic artist Jen Gandee is an adjunct art instructor in ceramics and ceramic sculpture at Cayuga Community College, Auburn, N.Y.; and a graduate teaching assistant in Syracuse University's Art Foundation Department, and it's Material Studies/Fibers AreaGandee is currently an adjunct assistant professor of art at Cayuga Community College and owns the Gandee Gallery in Fabius. Her work explores the connection between power and objects. . (www.jengandee.com)

IMAGE: "Mementos" and "Mementos DETAIL," by Jen Gandee (images available via e-mail - request to sneedel@cazenovia.edu.)

Painter Hall Groat II, professor of fine and media arts at Broome Community College, teaches foundation courses in painting, drawing, color theory, and computer graphics. Groat earned a master of fine arts degree in painting and drawing from City University of New York at Brooklyn, a bachelor of arts in art history, minoring in studio art at Binghamton University, and attended graduate and certificate programs at Buffalo State College, Syracuse University, and Savannah College of Art and Design. He also attended summer sessions at Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY, and Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt. Groat's work incorporates various social and political issues that are connected with both our consumer-driven culture and natural environment. (www.hgroatii.blogspot.com )

Image: "A Freegan's World," by Hall Groat II, 40" x 30" - Oil on canvas

Painter Grant Lincoln Johnston of Guilford, Ct., earned a master of fine arts degree in painting at the University of Iowa, a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting from Western Michigan University, and a bachelor of arts degree at Kalamazoo College. Johnston received the Joan Mitchell Foundation full fellowship, has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt. In 2006, and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Johnston's series of paintings our culture of ambivalence that may at times relegate expressive fervor and artistic virtuosity to the hedonistic realm of guilty pleasures." (www.local-artists.org/node/75535)

IMAGE: Three Tier Chocolate Cake, by Grant Johnston

Ceramic artist Robert D. Loring received a master of arts degree in sculpture from the State University of New York at Oswego, and a bachelor of fine arts degree in art education and sculpture from Syracuse UniversityLoring works in a variety of media, often sculpture, presenting hermit crabs in ceramic shells with various images in live performance works. He is interested in how aesthetics influence commercial marketing and the moral decisions made by individuals as well as communities. (www.rowbeartoe.com)

IMAGE: "Oriental Ceramic Bird," 11" X 14" by Robert D. Loring

Cazenovia College, named one of "America's Best Colleges" by US News & World Report, is an independent, co-educational, baccalaureate college, located near Syracuse, N.Y. Cazenovia College offers a comprehensive liberal arts education in an exceptional community environment, with academic and co-curricular programs devoted to developing leaders in their professional fields. For more information, visit www.cazenovia.edu.

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