The Woman Who Says No
Françoise Gilot Lithographs
January 23, 2023 - March 3, 2023
The Martin Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Françoise Gilot lithographs drawn from the gallery's permanent collection. While Gilot works in a variety of artistic media and continues to paint daily at the age of 101, her dextrous use of color and fine draughtsmanship are perhaps most apparent in her prints, particularly her lithographs. Gilot was in a decade-long relationship with Pablo Picasso, and while his artistic style certainly influenced Gilot's own, Picasso famously called her "the woman who says no" because of her strong will and independent spirit. Her lithographic images walk the fine line between abstraction and figuration, making use of vibrant color and bold lines in a manner entirely her own to create images that are at once universal and deeply personal.
The exhibition will be accompanied by related programming, including an opening reception on Tuesday, January 24 from 5-7pm which will include a gallery talk by the gallery's Director at 5:30pm. There will also be a movie night in the gallery featuring the 1996 film "Surving Picasso" starring Sir Anthony Hopkins as Picasso (Thursday, February 9 from 7-9pm) and a public lecture by the exhibition's designer, Alexandra Shanley (Thursday, February 23 at 5pm).
Vivid Chaos
December 15, 2022 – March 15, 2022
Baker Center for the Arts
Vivid Chaos is a digital exhibition of NFTs derived from paintings created by Alisha Anglin. Presented onscreen in the Baker Center for the Arts, this collection exemplifies how fine artists operate within the NFT space and how their physical artworks translate to a digital medium.
Born and raised on Long Island, Anglin currently lives and works as a full-time abstract artist in New York. She is self-taught and started painting at the young age of 10. For her, art is a way of living and a means through which she makes sense of the chaotic events in life. Anglin's bold abstract compositions are influenced by a variety of styles including Expressionism, Cubism, and Action Painting. She paints intuitively using acrylics on canvas and has an extensive portfolio of artwork in various styles. Known for her chaotic style of painting, the beauty of imperfection is explored through applying geometric and wild patterns to deliberately distorted forms.
Her newfound passion started in March of 2021 when she decided to dive deep into Web3 and the world of NFTs which incorporates concepts such as decentralization, blockchain technologies, and token-based economics. Since then, she has been creating and selling her work to collectors worldwide on OpenSea, Exchange.Art, Objkt and Known Origin NFT marketplace platforms. She is the host and founder of the HOUSE OF ABSTRACT twitter space podcast which you can listen to live every Friday 12 PM EST.
Past Exhibitions
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2022 Senior Thesis Exhibition
May 2 - May 21, 2022
The Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College is proud to host The 2022 Senior Thesis exhibition featuring works byAmanda Alliance, Nyjah Johnson, Jacob Lader, Dylan Merino, and Avital Zemel. This year's CUE [Thesis] course wastaught by Associate Professor Frederick Wright Jones.
Myk Eff: Analog Alchemy: Exploring Nonlinear Aesthetics
Virtual artist talk: October 18, 2023 at 4pm in Baker Center for the Arts Room 155
Opening reception: October 18, 2023 from 5-7pm in Baker Center for the Arts Galleria
WARNING!
This exhibition contains bright, fast flashing images. It may cause discomfort and trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
Ashe Kaye: "Glut and Guzzle"
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Artist statement: In this project I focus on my relationship with my partner, our sexualites and how to navigate these issues outside of the LDS faith of my childhood. The work engages with our struggles with gender, sexual expression, mental illness and notions of the female gaze. These explorations arrived at seductive and grotesque imagery of food and body. The lush, large-scale color photographs, tactile soft-sculpture, and variably textured frames apply the visual tools of advertising to seduce the viewer.
Exhibition: August 21 - November 10, 2023
Artist talk: September 20, 2023 at 5pm
Reception to follow
Andrew Soria: "Welcome to the Neighborhood"
Andrew Soria
Chinatown - LA, 2020
Digital collage
Welcome to the Neighborhood is a love letter to a city and its culture, conveyed through a series of pop surrealism cityscapes. These artworks embrace the city's diversity, shining a light on underrepresented neighborhoods and paying tribute to the unique essence of the places we call home. This body of work invites viewers to appreciate the beauty found in some popular and lesser-known corners.
Martin Art Gallery
Exhibition: November 27, 2023 - January 5, 2024
Virtual artist talk and opening reception: November 29, 2023
Maria Belén Irusta: Onírica
Maria Belén Irust, Element3001003
Irusta is an Argentine interdisciplinary artist based in Santa Cruz, CA. She studied at the University of Fine Arts in Rosario (Argentina) and works with a variety of media including traditional painting, traditional and digital illustration, traditional and digital collage, analog and digital photography and video. Onírica, an exhibition comprised of digital prints and motion art, is named for a Spanish adjective that means "of the dream or related to the images and events that are imagined while sleeping,” an apt description of Irusta's celestial, hypnotic works.
Outer Wall Gallery
August 21 - December 15, 2023
On View in Fall 2024
Discover the art exhibitions on display this fall at the Martin Art Gallery.
SOFIA CACCIAPAGLIA:
Nuovo
Martin Art Gallery
October 14 - December 31, 2024
Director's Walkthrough and Opening Reception:
Wednesday, Oct. 16 from 5-7:30 in the Martin Art Gallery
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.
Baker Center for the Arts Galleria
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
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.
