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SAGE FACULTY ARTWORK ON DISPLAY
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Written by Elyse Beaudoin
Practice exhibit shows the wide variety of faculty artists at the Sage College of Albany.
Albany, NY- Sixteen visual arts faculty members from The Sage College of Albany contributed their work to collected show titled Practice. It will be on display at the Opalka Gallery until February 21. This is the second faculty showcase at Opalka. The first was in 2002.
Practice is an exhibit with a combination of styles ranging from traditional to contemporary. The mediums used to construct these pieces included print and digital photography, sculpture, illustration, mixed media, architecture, monoprints, and even interactive touch screens and computers. The messages behind these works were just as diverse as the mediums. Some faculty artists chose to address current social and political issues.
Sally Packard, the chair for the Sage College of Albany’s department of visual arts, submitted a piece titled “Globall.” This installment was created to teach people about carbon footprints and how limited our resources are in terms of what we use. Packard incorporated an enormous wall drawing of a world map and pinned deflated globe beach balls on it indicating resource usage. She then left inflated globes spread out on the floor next to the viewer to signify the remainder of the resources available. To support her claims, Packard posted two computers at the end of the display with carbon footprint statistics on the screens.
“Polyvinyl chloride inflatable globes from China symbolize our part in the consumption in the unsustainable export of our culture,” said Sally Packard in an artist’s statement about “Globall.”
Other contributing artist’s chose more light-hearted subjects, such as Matthew McElligott, a professor of illustration, graphic design, and digital multimedia. McElligott is also a freelance illustrator and designer. His contributions to Practice included illustrations from three of his published children’s books “The Lion’s Share,” “Backbeard: Pirates for Hire,” and “Even Monsters Need Haircuts.” In the illustration from “The Lion’s Share,” the subject is an ant with an apron cooking in the kitchen of its underground tunnel. There is a strawberry in the background that dwarfs the ant and creates a lighter feeling for the heavily shaded illustration.
“It’s designed to be read by a child in a few minutes, but takes years and years to create,” noted McElligott in a statement about his work.
Visit http://www.sage.edu/opalka/currentshow/ the Opalka Gallery’s website for further information.
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