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Jeff Repko: In Proximity
The Gallery at Penn College 1 College Avenue, Williamsport, PA, United StatesJeff Repko creates assemblages that explore potential and possibilities through interactions of color and forms. Born in Pittsburgh, PA after deindustrialization, his work explores notions of industry and the stories he heard growing up. Never truly having experienced the industrial era in the Pittsburgh, he feels both a distance and closeness to it. His work […]
Sarah Nguyen: Gathering the Names
The Gallery at Penn College 1 College Avenue, Williamsport, PA, United StatesReception: Thursday, January 23, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Gallery Talk 5:30 p.m. Sarah Nguyen uses a balance of abstract and representational forms to sever the connection between shape and meaning, connecting the viewer instead to the cut of the knife, so that s/he becomes complicit in the art. Folklore, reverence, refinement of nature, and observance […]
Victory for a Dime: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War
The Gallery at Penn College 1 College Avenue, Williamsport, PA, United StatesComic books as we know them arrived during he hungry days of The Great Depression, peddled by would-be entrepreneurs struggling to survive. In 1938, the fledgling enterprise suddenly became an industry when Superman appeared on the cover of the first issue of Action Comics. In September 1939, when the Second World War officially began, they […]
Textiles in Translation: presented by Studio Art Quilt Associates of Pennsylvania
The Gallery at Penn College 1 College Avenue, Williamsport, PA, United StatesTextiles in Translation is a collection of fiber-based artwork by Pennsylvania regional members of Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA). The juried exhibit will showcase a wide range of 2D and 3D fiber art and highlight a diverse range of styles and techniques. Fiber work stretches back to ancient times and has grown and developed across […]
Jeanette May: Tech Vanitas
The Gallery at Penn College 1 College Avenue, Williamsport, PA, United StatesJeanette May's Tech Vanitas still life photographs embrace the anxiety surrounding technological obsolescence. As widely observed, we live in an age filled with devices that make domestic life faster, easier, and more complicated. Consumers choose from an astounding number of tech products. The more we yearn to keep current—the smartest watch, camera, speaker, computer, phone—the more we […]