Anne LaPrade Seuthe

HYPEROPIA

Oct. 11 - Nov. 9, 2016

Reception and Gallery Talk: Wed. Oct 19 11-1:00pm - gallery talk begins at noon

The paintings in Hyperopia are inspired by scenes of  Western Massachusetts that include Mt. Sugarloaf, the Quabbin Reservoir, and the Connecticut River. The paintings play with the notion of time of day, distance, and other factors that impact our perception of the landscape. 

As Hyperopia  suggests: Things seen up close may appear indecipherable, and may only be understood viewed from a distance.

Anne LaPrade Seuthe holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts. Her public and collaborative projects include X Marks the Spot, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY, Intrude 366 at the Zendai MoMa in Shanghai, China, Physical Geography/Psychological Landscape at the Goethe Institute in Dresden, Germany and at the Distillery Gallery in Boston, MA,The 2008 London Biennale with TCE Boston, and The Coaster Project at the Fuller Museum. In 2016  she served as a mentor and panelist of the TransCulturalExchange International Opportunities in the Arts Conference in Boston, MA. She has been a resident artist in the East/West artist residency in Carei, Romania and her work has been included in recent group exhibitions to include Mapping Heaven, Front Room Gallery, NY,The American Dream at Takt Projekt Raum in Berlin, Germany and AmericAura in Cameroon, West Africa. She has had solo exhibitions at The Augusta Savage Gallery and at Herter Gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as at the Main Art Gallery at Hampshire College. She has been awarded the Strathmore Paper Award for drawing, a study-abroad award from the Ministry of Culture, Germany, a New England Foundation for the Arts presenters award for travel to Eastern Europe, and an Award of Excellence from the Department of Art, Art History, and Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 

HeyLook HoLyoke

46 years of witnessing Holyoke through a camera 

Frank Ward

Sept 6 through Sept 30, 2016

Gallery Talk & Reception: 

Wed. Sept. 14, 

11am - 1pm  -  talk begins at noon

Evening Reception: Thurs. Sept.15th, 5:30 - 7:30pm

2016

HOLYOKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

STUDENT ART

EXHIBITION

April 11th - May 5th

Reception Thursday April 14th, 7 - 9pm

Awards announced at 8pm in the library lobby

The HCC Student Art Show is held in 3 locations throughout the HCC campus:  

The Taber Gallery and the Library Showcases on the 2nd floor of the Donahue bldg;  the Art Dept. on the 3rd floor of C bldg; and the 3rd floor of G bldg. in the Media Center. All locations are open to the public during regular school sessions (excepting the Taber Gallery which is open Mon - Thurs. 9am - 5pm)

Amor Fati

Paintings and Drawings by 

Christopher Willingham 

HELD OVER through March 10, 2016

Afternoon Reception - Wed. Feb.17th, 11am - 1pm

Evening Reception: Thurs. Feb. 18th 5:30 - 7:30 

Fire-imbibed, Thy Sanctuary, 2015, 30” x 24”, oil on canvas

Amor Fati presents recent paintings and drawings by Christopher Willingham, adjunct professor of visual arts at Holyoke Community College. Charged with mark and color, and evoking themes from classical mythology, these powerful images reveal emergent forms and compositions in a language of exploratory abstraction. Grounded in vivid materiality, they record the search not for specific objects, but for an emotional exactitude—a specificity of feeling in which features of light, landscape, weather, and organic form pulse as elements of urgent process. Naming his creative engagement as amor fati, “love of fate,” the artist offers his works as a Stoic meditation on life as eternal, transformative process, and on the aesthetic as life itself. In an exuberant exchange of chance and vernacular, he proceeds not by merely accepting as necessary the often fraught activity of making and living, but by loving it. 

Bio:

An adjunct professor of visual arts at Holyoke Community College since 2000, Christopher Willingham teaches drawing and design, and has authored and co-developed several advanced courses and Learning Communities, including the popular Sensuality, Spirit and the Sublime: The Art of Philosophy. He served as coordinator for HCC’s off-campus studio at Open Square in downtown Holyoke, and curator for three annual Arts of the Valley exhibitions, each featuring over 70 regional and international artists. He collaborated with Dean Nimmer on the writing of Art from Intuition, published in 2007, and contributed original art and project design to Nimmer’s highly-successful Creating Abstract Art, published in 2014. Trained across disciplines, Christopher Willingham’s work combines rigorous intellectual investigations with sensuous approaches to materials and environments, utilizing the blended strategies of drawing, painting, sculptural installation, photography and critical writing. His solo works and collaborations have been exhibited in New York, Boston, Germany, and Turkey, as well as extensively throughout western Massachusetts. He maintains a studio in the Cabotville complex in Chicopee, and resides in East Longmeadow.