Art Department Presents Senior Exhibition II posted 3/19/10
“Emotion, Experience & Eccentricity”on display April 1-13

ADRIAN, Mich. – The Adrian College Department of Art & Design presents Senior Exhibition II, “Emotion, Experience & Eccentricity,” in the Subnitz Gallery from April 1 through April 13. Artists in the exhibition include Jillian Brown, Sarah Henry, Andrew Jones, and Anna Pasternak.

A reception for the artists will be held Sunday, April 11th from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. This event and admission to the gallery are free and open to the public. The exhibition can be viewed during regular gallery hours, Monday through Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Thursday, from 9:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

The exhibition is composed of diverse bodies of work that explore people, their experiences and emotions, through fantasy and reality. Painting, sculpture, and digital media are used throughout the exhibit and showcase the emerging artists' talent for content and material.

Jillian Brown’s objective in her current work is to develop her skills in photographic portraiture. Jillian, who comes from the Kalamazoo area in Michigan, has originated a series of superheroes and super villains.  She has utilized common, but unusual materials, to create the super characters' costumes that will be displayed in the gallery as well. For her villains she uses a black backdrop and creates sinister effects through posing and lighting. For her heroes she uses a white backdrop, creating a glowing blissful aura for their flowing angelic poses.

Sarah Henry, a native of Gibraltar, Michigan, explores the multitude of emotions that can be conveyed through the human eyes using multiple mediums. Her large-scale paintings convey a series of emotions through colour, size and technique. "Project: Eyes of Adrian," is a movie produced by capturing images of people throughout the College campus, and compiling them into a stop motion movie.

Andy Jones, from Napoleon, Michigan, has created a series of miniature islands that are suspended in the gallery space.  They are each finely detailed with greenery at a minute scale.  One of these islands is home to a pair of people who are also of minuscule size.  These figures are shown going about their daily routine, tending to their field and quite accustomed to their airborne homestead.  Smaller islands encircle the aforementioned, themselves devoid of settlement. Isolation and being a small part of a large world are vital concepts behind the work.

Anna Pasternak, who lives in the Blissfield area of Michigan, uses subtle detail and hyper-real color to depict individual children from the artist's life in her oil paintings. The passage of time, the nature of reality and the truthfulness of a captured moment are important to her work. Perspective, feeling, and individuality are examined, especially in terms of the subject to his or her setting, and in relation to the viewer. 

Stubnitz Gallery is located in Downs Hall on the Adrian College campus on S. Madison St. More information may be obtained by contacting Professor Pi Benio at 517-264-3901 or via e-mail at pbenio@adrian.edu