{"id":33848,"date":"2004-04-09T14:08:29","date_gmt":"2004-04-09T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33848"},"modified":"2023-04-13T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:12:09","slug":"art-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/04\/09\/art-majors\/","title":{"rendered":"Art majors show work at Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/04\/martha.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/04\/martha.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"martha\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twelve art majors cap their Bates College careers  with the popular Annual Senior Exhibition, opening with a reception at 7  p.m. Friday, April 9. The exhibit at the Bates College Museum of Art,  75 Russell St., runs through May 30 and is open to the public at no  charge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition highlights work selected from the thesis projects of  graduating seniors majoring in studio art. The program emphasizes the  creation of a cohesive body of related works through sustained studio  practice and critical inquiry. The yearlong process is overseen during  the fall semester by Assistant Professor of Art Pamela Johnson, and  during the winter semester by Senior Lecturer in Art Robert Feintuch,  who also curates the exhibit and oversees its installation.<\/p>\n<p>In alphabetical order, here are the exhibiting artists:<\/p>\n<p>Julia Allen of St. Paul, Minn., has made cups, bowls and vases of  porcelain, exploring varying degrees of distortion in order to find  forms that imply fluid motion.<\/p>\n<p>Sarita Fellows of Natick, Mass., has used Nigerian printed fabric as a  source of inspiration for intensely colored abstract paintings and  etchings.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Greer of Chester, N.H., has worked with abstraction, space and  light in his monochromatic paintings of fragmented images of the figure.<\/p>\n<p>Using manipulated and anthropomorphic forms, Paul Heckler of Cross  River, N.Y., has made a group of high-fired reduction stoneware teapots.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Locke of Troy, Maine, has done a group of paintings of Martha  Stewart that evoke journalistic photography and address Stewart&#8217;s  multifaceted and controversial image.<\/p>\n<p>Working with images of furniture, Graham Macbeth of Ellsworth, Maine,  has made paintings and monotypes that play with ideas of geometric  abstraction and representation.<\/p>\n<p>Meredith Nutting of Rockville, Md., has used forms found in tree  branches as the basis of abstract paintings that explore color  interaction and spatial relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Helen O&#8217;Donnell of Mount Desert, Maine, has used etching and drypoint  to make images that combine handwritten text, abstract imagery and  cartoons, and that question traditional ideas of content and meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Through her work in ceramics, Caitlin Reiter of Mystic, Conn.,  investigates textured surface patterns in a series of monochromatic  functional forms that are hybrids of bowls and trays.<\/p>\n<p>In digital photographs that stress color, Elizabeth Sall of  Villanova, Pa., shows still-lifes that she found in domestic situations.<\/p>\n<p>Annie Schauer of Louisville, Ky., has made black-and-white  photographs of interiors and landscapes that evoke notions of absence  and presence.<\/p>\n<p>K-Fai Steele of Charlton, Mass., is interested in the intersection of  banality, humor and awe. Her work in the fall semester culminated in  the large-scale installation <em><a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2004\/01\/19\/art-transforms-atrium\/\">Me and Jesus<\/a><\/em> in the Perry Atrium. Her more recent work uses a structure inspired by dollhouses.<\/p>\n<p>The museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and is closed  Sundays and major holidays. For additional information call  207-786-6158.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve art majors cap their Bates College careers with the popular Annual Senior Exhibition, opening with a reception at 7 p.m. Friday, April 9. 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