Past Exhibitions

On view August 11 – December 2, 2007

Tom Davie, The Parishioner Series

Tom Davie’s haunting and evocative images offer an introspective view into the artist’s thoughts on faith, salvation, mortality, and above all, Catholicism. The portraits included in The Parishioner Series are taken from a single edition of the St. Mary’s parish directory in Sandusky, Ohio. “The parishioners are members of the small religious community to which I belonged as a child and young adult, and the 1974 church directory was chosen because it represents the year I was born into this group,” Davie explained. “I have a great deal of respect for this community founded in religion, however, my personal struggles with faith, religious power and mortality prevent me from fully embracing the ideals of my youth.”

Reflecting the influence of Chuck Close, Andy Warhol, and Francis Bacon, Davie’s powerful images offer their own unique graphic signature. Highly stylized and finely crafted, these meticulously hand-painted works are composed of a complex matrix of dots. Layers of transparent washes applied to the canvas’s surface conceal the subtle and fragmentary textual imagery. “As the concept behind my work has become more focused, the layering and complexity have gradually increased,” stated Davie.

Tom Davie earned his Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Dayton.

December 15, 2007 - April 20, 2008

Regional Artists Gallery

The Creative Eye: Photographic Works by Marc Suda and Sean Wilkinson

May 20 - July 23, 2007

YECK COLLEGE ARTIST FELLOWS

The sixth annual Yeck College Artist Fellows exhibition features the distinctly different work of four art students from local colleges. Viewers have the opportunity to see innovative artwork created for the Regional Artists Gallery.

Printmaker Nick Satinover attends Wright State University and creates artwork resulting from his investigation of objects and forms that are produced in regional factories. Jodi Carpenter is a student at Wright State University with a concentration in sculpture. Sinclair Community College student Pete Wallace is a sculptor focusing on ceramics.

January 6, 2007 - April 29, 2007

Roy Johnston

TRANSFORMATIONS:

Recent paintings, prints, and works on paper

My drawings and paintings have for some time been essentially non-referential, and the forms which I use have come directly from a long and continuous process of experimentation and inquiry which is central to my art making. This personal catalogue of shapes, forms, textures and color, to which I constantly refer, is always being expanded and transformed through new discoveries in each work that I make.

In this most recent series of works there are recurring shapes and forms which may seem to relate to the phenomenological world in which we live. While there has been some reference to biological charts and diagrams, the origin of the forms really belongs to the generation of paintings and drawings which has preceded them. Roy Johnston, Oxford,Ohio -- January 2007

August 12 to December 17, 2006.

(In)Formal Relationships
Recent work by Paige Williams

Exploring relationships is at the heart of Cincinnati-based artist Paige Williams’s intimate abstract paintings and collages. Williams’ vibrant colors and bold, rudimentary lines and shapes are inspired by a range of sources, including children’s drawings and mid-twentieth century American abstract paintings. The images appear casual, yet the compositions are rigorous, analytical, and strategically designed to convey complex and abstract issues like harmony, tension, vulnerability, and confidence.

Williams’s work tells a personal story. In The Best Day (ever), signature shapes function as loose metaphors for people, situations, or feelings. Seemingly independent objects, such as an abstract grid, crown, and intertwining rope, interact with one another to form a dialogue about Williams, her artistic influences, the urban environment in which she lives and works, and relationships with family and friends. “Simultaneously evoking and obscuring reality the forms are distilled from these real life references,” states the artist.

May 21 - July 31, 2006

Yeck College Fellows

The fifth annual Yeck College Artist Fellows exhibition showcased the works of print-maker Rachel Dennis and painter Rodney Godek from the
University of Dayton, painter Joanna Hammer from Ohio State University, and painter Steven Snell from Miami University. These artists push the limits of conventional painting and printmaking, and their artwork incorporates a wide variety of nontraditional materials and methods. The exploration of different mediums and the use of modern technology are an emerging theme in their works. The inspirations for the creation of the artwork are as diverse as the artists themselves. Influences include feminism, memories, experimental artistic processes, and the media's effect on contemporary American society.

December 17, 2005 – May 8, 2006

CULTURAL CONNECTIONS:
RECENT WORK BY LESLIE SHIELS

The paintings in Cultural Connections are a direct result of Shiels’ life-altering experience in Africa. Shiels believes that the impetus that drove her to paint these works stemmed from a discussion about the relationship between South Africa and France she had with a friend who currently lives South Africa. In the weeks following this conversation, Shiels began to contemplate seriously how differently these countries are regarded in contemporary Western society. For example, countries located in the continent of Africa are generally defined by Western society as “Third World,” whereas European and other Western-based nations are considered among those in the First World order. Although this viewpoint is generally accepted as fact in contemporary American society, these labels—which are essentially thinly-veiled markers of cultural and societal rank—simply felt wrong to Shiels.

On view September 17 - December 11, 2005

STASIS QUO: Recent Works by Kevin T. Kelly

Although initially trained as a sculptor, Kevin Kelly has worked for the past 13 years within the 2-dimensional sphere of painting. His figural, flat, graphic works have been defined as belonging to a "Postmodernist Pop style."    Kelly's images are created through the process of appropriating mass media imagery from a variety of sundry sources. His paintings are essentially allegorical narratives, based purely in his imagination, and often focus on the issue of gender roles and how the portrayal of these roles have changed in the postwar era.

The works in Stasis Quo, in particular, are a continuation in this process and are an expansion of his interest in creating new and poignant images relating to his unique view of relationships, society, and sex in a post-9/11 world.

May 21 - July 31, 2005

Yeck College Artist Fellowship

Andrew Dailey, Sarah Johnson, Jason Nein,Amy Mauck

November 13, 2004 - May 8, 2005

Joel Whitaker and Jeffrey Cortland Jones

August 7 - November 7, 2004

APPROPRIATIONS: The Art of “Borrowing"

june 5 - August 1, 2004

Yeck College Fellows

Featuring the work of the 2004 Yeck College Artist Fellows

February 28-May 30, 2004

REGIONAL ARTISTS GALLERY: Amy Kollar Anderson, Nathan Bennett and Brian Pitman

November 22, 2003 - February 22, 2004

Christina Pereyma

August 30-November 16, 2003

DESTRUCTION AND RENEWAL: THE RECENT WORK OF

SARAH L. BLINKHORN

jUNE 7 - August 17, 2003

2003 YECK COLLEGE FELLOWS: Jennifer Bristol, J.D. Giffin, Julie Plummer and Bonnie Sabin.

March 8 - June 1, 2003

LILLIAN LAMDEN: A Retrospective
The work of the late Lillian Lamden (1922-2002)

November 18, 2002 - February 23, 2003
AFFINITIES OF SPIRIT:
An Interview and Photography Project

Sept. 7 - Nov. 8, 2002
Yeck College Fellows

June 8 - August 25, 2002
Vicky Smith and Jud Yalkut
FEATURES WORKS ON PAPER

March 9 - May 26, 2002
Photography by Hitoshi Nakajima and Jeff Smith

NOVEMBER 3, 2001 - FEBRUARY 2, 2002
Photographs by RICHARD MALGORSKI

JUNE 30 - OCTOBER 21, 2001
Paintings by JOHN E. FORD and LEE FUNDERBURG

DECEMBER 16, 2000 - MARCH 18, 2001
Large still-life paintings by Anita Tresslar of Tipp City

SEPTEMBER 16 - DECEMBER 10, 2000
Photographs by Fred Hobbs and Mark Tyler