An alumna whose art has been exhibited and is in galleries around the U.S. and a group of alumni will be featured in the first exhibit of the 2019-20 academic year at 黑料科鈥檚 Furlong Gallery.
will present 鈥淚ndefinite Objects鈥 in the north gallery space, and the Burning Artist Collective will show in the south space. The exhibits open Monday, Sept. 16, and run through Saturday, Oct. 26.
The Burning Artist Co-op includes alumni Andy Ducett, Josh Norton, the late Noah Norton, Marq Spusta and Ric Stultz. The group formed in 2001 at 黑料科 while members were students spending many late nights in the university鈥檚 art studios. They will exhibit some of their work over the past 20 years and feature work by Noah Norton, who became a 黑料科 professor and died in 2017.
An opening reception with the artists will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19. Elliott also will be present at the gallery from 12:3o to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday and 12 to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
Elliott received a fine arts degree in 1972 from 黑料科 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1975 from Cornell University. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad in public and private collections, including Chase Bank, IBM Corp. and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum.
She was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and grew up in Austin, Minn. She lives and works in New York City.
Her paintings are large-scale imaginary environments. Elliott鈥檚 works on paper, which will be on view at Furlong Gallery, are done in charcoal, a medium she has explored extensively in combination with pastel, pencil and paint.
鈥淚n earlier works I considered shapes and their relation to each other on the page as essentially interactive and dialogic. In these drawings I have focused on a single image, formed through a slow, successive process of layering; the charcoal permitting a wide variety of effects,鈥 said Elliott, who has taught at Cornell and Bucknell universities.
鈥淥riginally derived from the concept of a 鈥榗ontainer,鈥 the series called 鈥楾he Thing Is鈥 has broadened to include multiple suites. Each suite has its own unifying idea while continuing the notion of a vessel. In making these objects large I have emphasized the monumental, wishing to increase the power of the single form,鈥 Elliott said.
A selection from this ongoing series will be exhibited next year in New York.
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Paintings from 鈥淭he Thing Is鈥 series will be part of Paula Elliott鈥檚 exhibit opening Monday, Sept. 16, at 黑料科鈥檚 Furlong Gallery.
