SUMMER 2024

JAMES F. L. CARROLL: New Works 2020-2023

For over fifty years, Carroll has focused on the process and, most important, asking questions but not looking for answers. The selected works in this exhibition include both the harder surfaces of stretched raw canvas with acrylic markers and the softer buttery surface of carbon papers that literally float like a butterfly.

Exhibition: May 20 - August 15, 2024

Opening reception: Thursday, May 23 from 3-5PM

Martin Art Gallery

MARTIN ART GALLERY: Highlights from the Permanent Collection

Enjoy highlights from MAG's permanent collection including Judy Chicago's Birth Certificate, Robert Rauschenberg's Mock Pollen, Imogen Cunningham's Magnolia Blossom, and six large-scale Andy Warhol screenprints which were a gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation.

Exhibition: May 20 - November 22, 2024

Baker Center for the Arts Galleria

MICHAEL VAN HUFFEL: Body Shadows

In 2008, Michael Van Huffel was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis, a debilitating yet poorly-understood neuromuscular disease. What followed were eight years of isolation and many experimental treatments. Among other issues, he struggled with feeling distorted, as if his body was betraying him. What was once a healthy, active lifestyle for the artist had become a constant flow of pain and sickness. Van Huffel’s therapist suggested photography as a means of self-examination, allowing Van Huffel the opportunity to contend with and accept how his body was changing. The artist began photographing his shadow as a metaphor for the bodily distortion he was experiencing but as he continued the process, he also found himself more willing to look at and accept the body he was living in. Michael Van Huffel is an award-winning photographer, animator and musician. After attending Berklee College of Music, his creative career began when working for the musician Prince as an in-house graphic artist at Paisley Park, and later as Art Director. He went on to work in Hollywood as a Creative Director, also designing motion art for movie titles and trailers. He is now an artist whose ongoing creative work is informed by living with chronic illness.

Exhibition: January 15 - August 9, 2024

Baker Center for the Arts 

Fall 2024

JON KRASNER

Symbiosis | Visions of Light (Phase II)

Martin Art Gallery

August 19 - October 3, 2024

Jon Krasner, The Enigma: Dual Systems, 2003, digital montage

Krasner’s multi-disciplinary work as an artist and designer combines the disciplines of painting, digital imaging, animation, and music composition. The works in Symbiosis | Visions of Light take their inspiration from coastal shorelines where natural elements like dunes mingle with synthetic objects such as kayaks. The assemblages combine found materials while the digital montages further explore the changing properties of light, color, and texture. Krasner is a graduate of Muhlenberg College and a Professor of Communications Media at Fitchburg State University.

SOFIA CACCIAPAGLIA

Di Nuovo

Martin Art Gallery

October 14 - December 31, 2024

Sofia Cacciapaglia in her studio, courtesy of Sapar Contemporary 

Often monumental in size, Sofia Cacciapaglia’s paintings depict dream-like gardens and larger-than-life female entities suspended in an ethereal space, linked to one another through contact and gaze, placement and pattern. Her paintings harken back to a long Italian tradition of mural painting, from ancient Rome to the Renaissance and into today. The work is also imbued with environmental concerns over waste and mass production and speaks to the radical Italian arte povera movement of the 1960s that challenged traditional modes of production and consumption. By painting on salvaged cardboard boxes rather than canvases, Cacciapaglia allows discarded objects to live di nuovo, renewed, afresh, transformed. Cacciapaglia studied Fine Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan; after graduating in 2006, she moved to New York. In 2011 she became the youngest artist invited to the Italian Pavilion for the 54° International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Sapar Contemporary, New York.

MARTIN ART GALLERY

Highlights from the Collection

Baker Center for the Arts Galleria

May 20 - November 22, 2024

Enjoy highlights from MAG’s permanent collection including Judy Chicago’s Birth Certificate, Robert Rauschenberg’s Mock Pollen, Imogen Cunningham’s Magnolia Blossom, and six large-scale Andy Warhol screenprints which were a gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation.

ANATOLIY ANSHIN

Unexplored Realms

Outer Wall Gallery

August 19 - December 31, 2024

Anatoliy Anshin, Unexplored Realms 13, photograph

Anshin has a Ph.D. in pre-modern Japanese history and has lived in Japan for the past 20 years. Tranquil and contemplative, Anshin’s images of Japan are not concerned with portraying stereotypes of exotic locales or attempting to encapsulate all things Japanese, rather they are an homage to a place and its historically rich ancient culture.

12th ANNUAL ALUMNI ART SHOW

Seegers Union

August 19 - December 12, 2024

Join us for Muhlenberg’s 12th Annual Alumni Art Show to be held once again in Seegers Union. Celebrate our talented and artistic alumni who share their diverse works with our campus community each year.

Throughout the year the Martin Art Gallery rotates permanent collection works that are on display in the Center for the Arts. These large works are hung throughout the common spaces, and extend into areas outside of the Baker Theater building [aka the Fishbowl].

The Martin Art Gallery is open during the fall and spring semesters Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm and Saturdays 12 - 4pm (and closed for all college holidays). 

MODIFIED SUMMER HOURS: May 20-August 15, Monday-Thursday, 10am-2pm.

All of our exhibitions and programming are free and open to the public.  For further information, please  call us at 484 664 3467.