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From Monday, May 12, 2008 To Saturday, May 24, 2008
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SENIOR THESIS ART EXHIBITION
featuring June Lesney, Annie Ryerson, Nicole Blum
Sponsored by: Wells Art Department
Time: see gallery hours below
Location: String Room Gallery, Main Building
The Wells College Art Department is pleased to present the spring senior thesis exhibit featuring paintings and sculpture by graduates June Lesney, Annie Ryerson, and Nicole Blum. The show opens on Monday, May 12 and will run through May 25. An opening reception on May 12 from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. offers an opportunity to meet the student artists and discuss their work; light refreshments will be served.
June Lesney of St. Paul, Minn. is a visual arts major with a concentration in studio arts. Her focus on three dimensional, found object sculptures came about fairly recently, beginning with independent study and developing during an internship at the New York Student Art League. Her thesis explores the aesthetic and practical problems of the accumulation of consumer by-product. The challenge lies in consuming the rest of that by-product into her work. This idea originates less in the environmental movement than in the depiction of the Native American practice of using “every part of the buffalo.” As June explains it, “Essentially, I am taking the refuse of my own consumerism and turning it into something meaningful.”
This summer following graduation, June will begin an internship with the Rogue Buddha Gallery in Minneapolis.
Aurora native Annie Ryerson also holds a concentration in studio art and a minor in French. Her love of the arts in addition to the French language led her to spend a year in Paris studying under several accomplished artists and art historians. It was through her painting professor, Betsy Castleman Damez, Wells class of 1964, that Annie became a copyist in the Louvre Museum. That experience transformed her general love of art to a deep passion for painting.
Annie has completed an internship at the Sherry French Gallery in Manhattan, taken courses at the Student Art League, and studied abroad at the University College of Cork, Ireland. After graduation, she plans to take a year off to work and exhibit her paintings before attending the Art Institute of Chicago. She hopes to one day be a professor of art.
The bright colors in Nicole Blum’s paintings flow smoothly in work that is non-representational and free flowing, yet calls to mind organic forms. Nicole, who comes from Rochester, likes to leave her work open to interpretation by those who are experiencing it. She is a visual arts major with a minor in book arts, which she plans to study more extensively in graduate school in addition to education. Nicole has interned at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester as well as Wells' own Book Arts summer institute.
Senior theses are the culminating requirement of study at Wells College. Art seniors are expected to plan and implement the entire exhibit, including the creation of the artwork to be shown, hanging the pieces and preparing the gallery, coordinating the reception, and promoting the show. Art professor and gallery director William Roberts, along with Associate Professor Ted Lossowski, guides the students’ work in the studios and oversees the installation of the show.
The String Room Gallery is located in Main Building. Hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
This event is open to the Wells community and the public.
There is no charge for this event.
For more information, please contact William Roberts, Professor of Art 315-364-3237.
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