Cantor Art Gallery to Present Part II of Exhibition Featuring Work of Faculty and Staff

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross will present Crossroads: Holy Cross’ Visual Arts Faculty and Staff, Part II, from Nov. 8 through Dec. 19, 2007.  This second half of the two-part exhibition will focus on two-dimensional work created by visual arts faculty and staff, including drawings, painting, printmaking, digital prints and digital animation.

Crossroads, Part II features the work of  Newton-based artist Naomi Ribner, lecturer of visual arts, whose work utilizes digital imaging, digital animation and mixed media; Boston-based artist Cristi Rinklin, assistant professor and studio art division head, is exhibiting paintings as well as a site-specific installation of colored vinyl films applied to glass; Somerville artist Susan Schmidt, associate professor of visual arts, will display works in printmaking and drawing; Rhode Island artist Amy Wynne Derry, visiting lecturer of studio art, will display paintings and works in various drawing media; Providence artist David Gyscek, studio lab supervisor for the visual arts department, will present works in photography and painting. Roger Hankins, director of the Cantor Art Gallery, will be represented by a selection of paintings on ceramic surfaces.

The following events are planned in conjunction with the second part of the exhibition. All events will be held at the Cantor Art Gallery.

* Nov. 8, 5 – 6:30 p.m., Opening reception * Nov. 13, 12 – 1 p.m., Gallery talk by Susan Schmidt * Nov. 15, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Gallery talk by Cristi Rinklin * Nov. 19, 12 – 1 p.m., Gallery talk by David Gyscek * Nov. 28, 12 – 1 p.m., Gallery talk by Naomi Ribner * Dec. 4, 4 – 5 p.m., Gallery talk by Amy Wynn Derry

Guided tours of the exhibition are available on Nov. 12 and 26 at noon.

Rinklin has been a member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2002.  Her paintings start with the digital process, to create abstract images collected from a multitude of sources, including Baroque painting, microbiology, constellations, and natural history. These images are distorted and combined, then meticulously rendered in layers of space, rich with swirling saturated color. Recently, Rinklin’s work was on display at the exhibition “Big Bang! Abstract Painting for the 21st Century,” at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass., the Rhys Gallery in Boston, and a site-specific installation piece, Nuvolomondo, was on view at the Remis Sculpture Court at Tufts University from July 2006 to August 2007.

Schmidt, a member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1987, teaches courses in printmaking, book making and drawing, areas that she herself works in as part of her studio practice. For several years, she has created work that draws upon her experiences raising children, focusing her attention on the interactions between adults and children at family gatherings or larger community social events. The resulting small-scaled prints and drawings are an intimate portrait of childhood and adolescence as a state of transition or change, while her subjects interact with the world outside themselves.

The Cantor Art Gallery organizes comprehensive exhibitions of faculty artist work every three years. The current faculty exhibit is unique in that for the first time, the exhibition is being presented in two parts, enabling larger and a greater number of works to be featured by each artist.

Faculty artists included in Crossroads: Part I were Michael Beatty, associate professor of studio art; Robert ParkeHarrison, associate professor of studio art, and his wife Shana; Michael Demers, lecturer of studio art; Leslie Schomp, lecturer of studio art; and Tim Johnson, Cantor Art Gallery exhibitions preparatory.

Gallery Information

The hours for the Cantor Art Gallery are Monday - Friday 10 a.m. - 5p.m., Saturdays 2 - 5 p.m. The gallery is located in O’Kane Hall, 1st Floor, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Worcester, MA, 01610.  Admission to the gallery is free.  The gallery will be closed November 21 – 25 for Thanksgiving break.

For additional information please visit the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery website or call 508-793-3356.