A Gestural Journey

Jennifer Crupi, Tools for Reassuring Contact, #3, sterling silver, plastisol rubber dip, acrylic, 17” x 17” x 6”, 2024 Jennifer Crupi
Exhibition Dates: August 29 – October 31, 2024

Reception: Monday October 7th from 5 – 6:30 p.m. with Gallery Talk at 5:30 p.m. 

Exhibition Description: A hand on the shoulder to offer comfort, an elegant gesture reminiscent of old masterwork paintings, body language that reveals pent-up frustration or anxiety—A Gestural Journey addresses the ways we communicate with each other visually, through body language. Crupi’s finely crafted metal sculptures point out various gestures or postures and their associated meanings, in the hope viewers will realize the importance of how our bodies speak for us. 

Jennifer Crupi, Tools for Reassuring Contact, #3 (shown worn), sterling silver, plastisol rubber dip, acrylic, 17” x 17” x 6”, 2024

Exhibition sponsored by Susan and Jerry Eckert.

Image: Jennifer Crupi, Tools for Reassuring Contact, #3, sterling silver, plastisol rubber dip, acrylic, 17” x 17” x 6”, 2024 

Branding the AfroFuture 

Stacey Robinson, Cosmic Listening

Stacey Robinson
Exhibition Dates: November 12, 2024 – February 18, 2025

Tuesday November 12, 2024

  • Stacey Robinson Artist Lecture
    5:00 p.m. Biemesderfer Hall, Winter VPAC
  • Opening Reception with artist
    immediately following the lecture, Eckert Art Gallery, Winter VPAC
  • Events are free and open to the public. No tickets required.

Stacey Robinson. Branding the AfroFuture show title logo

Branding the AfroFuture is a multimodal art exploration into the multimedia aesthetics of artist and designer Stacey Robinson’s Black futuristic imaginings. Visualized through a myriad of configurations with a specific focus on jumpstarting the audience’s imagination, to introduce to them even the idea of Black people in the future. The artist states “No longer does an oppressive vision for our lives overshadow the lives we as Black people define and design for ourselves. If you want Black people to activate the AfroFuture you gotta show ‘em what it looks like.” 

Image: Stacey Robinson, Cosmic Listening

  

Amanda Case Millis, Past-Present, oil on linen, 59.5” x 47.25”

Windows

curated by Heidi Leitzke 
Exhibition Dates: February 27 – May 2, 2025 

Reception: Thursday February 27th from 5 - 7 p.m.

This group show features painters exploring pictorial possibilities of the window. Artists are drawn to the unique formal possibilities of the window as a visual framing device, the reflective surface of panes of glass, light passing through, casting shadows and illuminating interiors. The artists’ gaze may be revealed in a reflection and often the window becomes a painting within a painting. 

Exhibition sponsored by Thomas A. and Georgina T. Russo 

Image: Amanda Case Millis, Past-Present, oil on linen, 59.5” x 47.25”