Annual senior art exhibition to open at Monmouth College
Release Date: March 30, 2005
MONMOUTH, Ill. — An exhibition by four Monmouth College senior art
majors will be on display April 1-15 in the college’s Len G. Everett
Gallery. A reception for the artists will be held April 3 at 2 p.m.
in the gallery, which is located on the second floor of Hewes
Library. Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the
public.
A longtime annual tradition, the exhibition is notable for its
eclectic mix of artistic media and pieces. Because of the volume and
complexity of the student artwork, the exhibition will be held in
two different stages. The second phase of the exhibit, featuring the
works of four more senior artists, will be on display April 19
through May 3.
Featured in the first phase of the exhibition will be art by
Elizabeth Toal, Burlington, Iowa; Allissa Woloshyn, Hawthorn Woods;
Adam Lovinggood, Monmouth; and Jared Ottman, Roscoe.
Toal will exhibit a series of colorful circus recruitment posters as
well as several other paintings. She says her works are “designed to
be full of humor and mystery.”
Woloshyn will display numerous acrylic paintings, accompanied by
smaller watercolor, pastel, charcoal, pencil and color-aid pieces.
Of her work, she said, “I love color; its interaction with other
colors; and its interaction with itself, the absence of it and the
over-saturation of it.
“I hope when viewers enter the gallery and see my work they are
overwhelmed by a sense of order and attraction. I want them to get
thirsty and excited and then feel satisfied and complacent,” said
Woloshyn. “I want them to get the sensation of biting into the
richest, juiciest, most saturated color; it should be like an
explosion of delicious flavors and an infusion of pigmentation.”
Lovinggood, who will exhibit geometric paintings on paper and wood,
illustrated drawings on paper and some sculptures, says most of his
works are inspired by his “personal view of humanity as a whole. I
am expressing through the simple, disfigured pieces I have created
to show non-individuality in our society. I am basically summing up,
or stereotyping, the core of the human race … sad, lonely,
non-original, empty, meaningless beings.”
He says much of his earlier work with lines and simple shapes was
inspired by the cubist and minimalist ideas of breaking images down
to their simplest forms and showing the cores of their existences.
Ottman’s work involves architectural design. Using software, he has
produced floor plans, electrical plans and elevations, along with
three-dimensional models of houses constructed of foam core and
plywood.
“For this show,” said Ottman, “I have tried to expand my horizons as
an architect. While retaining my roots as a residential designer, I
have experimented with commercial and office buildings as well. I
have included two aspects of architecture – the blueprints and the
three-dimensional models. I feel that they are two important aspects
of architecture; they show the design and the building processes.”
The Everett Gallery is open Mondays through Thursdays, 8 a.m. to
midnight; Fridays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
and Sundays, noon to midnight.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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