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Art Gallery 2024-25
The Lycoming College Art Gallery and the student-run Lycoming College Downtown Project Space are both located at 25 West Fourth Street in downtown Williamsport. Some exhibitions are housed in both spaces.
- Summer Gallery Hours during exhibitions: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 5-9 p.m.
- Fall and Spring Semester Gallery Hours during exhibitions: Thursday, Friday, Saturday 4-8 p.m.
- The Gallery is closed during academic breaks.
Check out our recent Artists-In-Residence: Pedro Lasch, Nicole Dextras and Aaron Hughes.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Lycoming College Faculty Art Show
December 6-February 7, 2025
Reception: Dec. 6, 4-8 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Dec. 6, 5:30 p.m.
The College’s 2024-25 Art Faculty Show will open on Friday Dec. 6 with a gallery talk at 5:30 p.m. The annual show will feature the works of the following faculty artists:
Seth Goodman
Seth Goodman, associate professor of art at Lycoming College, will show paintings that connect to the social and political dysfunction of our times. Goodman explores celebrity and class worship, the culture wars, and the politics of disinformation. His paintings poetically unearth truths that hide just beyond the folly and the fiction of the topical movements of the day.
Goodman teaches painting, drawing, 2-D design, digital art, and graphic design. He exhibits his paintings, drawings and mixed-media work internationally. His recent solo exhibition this summer at 105 Henry Street in New York City showcased a number of his recent major works.
Andrea M. McDonough
Andrea M. McDonough, Ed.D., is a secondary art educator and K-12 art curriculum coordinator for the Williamsport Area School District. She supports the art and education departments at Lycoming College and leads graduate students at The Art of Education University. McDonough is a successful grant writer with a passion for public art and the promotion of social and emotional learning through mindfulness and creativity. She holds a Pennsylvania K-12 Art Education Certificate and a Pennsylvania PK-12 Supervisory Certificate in Curriculum and Instruction.
McDonough’s current work is a continued exploration of art as mediation. Each piece or series of works embraces intuitive creation and experimentation with varied media. This process-based approach yields unexpected results and nurtures the habit of mindful art-making.
Manuel Moreno Lee
“My work focuses on narrative-driven stories and themes of culture, nature, technology, and human identity using a wide range of mediums. While I prefer working on traditional techniques to create my films, the exploration of new technologies is essential in the development and creative process.”
Manuel Moreno-Lee, assistant professor of digital art, earned his B.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and his M.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology in Film and Animation. Moreno-Lee is a 3D generalist and artist whose work has been screened at festivals globally, winning several awards. As a freelance animator, he has worked in Boston, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Rochester, N.Y. He works in a wide range of mediums to create narrative-driven work in both 2D and 3D.
Andreas Rentsch
“For the past 12 years, I’ve been photographing extensively at Caumsett State Park on Long Island. My first project there was The Wanderer movie, composed of 2,800 still images. The work is both an homage to early German Expressionist cinematography and a remembrance of a kindred spirit that went through life endlessly searching.
In 2020, I collaborated with concert pianist Andreas Klein, projecting 80 photographs from my Wanderer series - many created specifically for that performance - while he played Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7.
This October, I was awarded an artist residency at Caumsett State Park, where I revisited The Wanderer figure, this time using a process entirely new to me: lumen printing. This method involves placing objects on traditional photo paper and exposing it to sunlight for 1 to 3 hours. Lumen printing is challenging to control; it feels like alchemy, and that’s what fascinates me.”
Andreas Rentsch teaches photography at Lycoming College. Having grown up on a prison compound where his father was the warden, Andreas’ work is an ongoing exploration of the connection of fate, geography and politics in the direction of justice.
His work is in many museum collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, in Houston, Texas, the Musée de la Photographie, in Charleroi, Belgium, Musée de l’Elysée, in Lausanne, Switzerland and the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, in Berlin, Germany. His exhibits have spanned the globe. He is a recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships and two grants from the Polaroid Corporation. He earned the 2012 Goldberger Award from Stony Brook University.
The prestigious photography magazine, Aperture, published one of his portfolios. Other pieces have been published in numerous books and magazines including “The Polaroid Project,” book published as part of four museum exhibitions (2017), Better Photography, “13 Iconic Photographers on the Self Portrait,” Mumbai, India (2016) and other journals. In 2014, he was featured on Push/Pause FIOS Cable TV, “In the Art Studio with Andreas Rentsch,” and in art reviews by the New York Times, USA Today and other prominent media outlets around the world.
Howard Tran
Howard Tran, the Logan A. Richmond Endowed Professor, teaches sculpture, drawing, figure modeling and ceramics at Lycoming College. He received his M.F.A. in sculpture from Boston University. Tran exhibits his sculpture, painting, and mixed media work nationally.
Lycoming College Alumni Art Show
Rene Gortat, Cry; 44”x44”x2”; acrylic paint, paper, resin on a wooden panel
February 14-March 21, 2025
Reception: Feb. 21, 5-7 p.m.
Artist Talk: Feb. 21, 5:30 p.m.
Lycoming College will pay tribute to retiring President Kent Trachte and his wife, Sharon Trachte, with a special art exhibition featuring works from alumni who have been inspired and supported by the Trachtes’ vision and leadership during their tenure at Lycoming. Pieces from the following alumni artists will be on display:
Sifa Blackmon ’14, art major in design and photography
Rene Gortat ’12, double major in art: painting, philosophy
Brooke Long ’14, art major in painting and sculpture
Bill Mauro ’11, double major in art: painting, creative writing
Brian McGinniss ’16, art major in painting and photography
Christina Moliterno ’14, digital media communications major
Joe Troxler ’17, art major in design and painting
Josh Troxler ’12, art major in painting
Past Exhibitions
Paula Gately Tillman: Recollections
Photography 1983 to 2024
October 4-November 22
Reception: Oct. 4, 4-8 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Oct. 4, 5:30 p.m.
Feast your eyes on a rarely seen video of RuPaul’s first publicity shoot in his then apartment in Atlanta, Georgia, 1986. Delight in the digital color photographs taken at the Bowery Electric, New York City, in March 2024 of the high priestesses of punk Tish and Snooky Bellomo, founders of the Manic Panic hair dye line, and backing singers for Blondie as well as RuPaul on his RuPaul is Star Booty soundtrack. Drink in the portraits of New York and Atlanta LGBTQ+ punk musicians and fashion divas captured in the 1980s and 1990s, featured in Fringe, the artist’s award-winning book.
Then move on to photographs of digital sepia-toned pigment prints captured in the Ca' Rezzonico Museum of 18th Century Venice in 2006, Chester River series on Maryland’s Eastern shore from the 1990s, dreamy landscapes shot in black and white 35 mm film in Liechtenstein between the years 2008 and 2012, which were produced later as digital blue pigment prints, and black and white gelatin silver prints from her Women in the Arts series, Baltimore 2004.
Seldom or never-shown-before gelatin sliver prints from the artist’s collection will be exhibited along with pigment prints, including a portrait of Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn, and photogravures, as well as new digital color portraits and landscapes.
From Aspen through New York City, Atlanta, and Baltimore to foreign locales, the artist’s eye roved across found studios from formal interior shots to the gritty landscapes in city backyards and streets as well as the natural settings of shorelines.
Gately Tillman’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented in numerous public and private collections, including most recently the CLAMP gallery in New York City and CLAMP online; the Permanent Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA); E. Kirkbride Miller Art Research Library at the BMA; Decker Library at Maryland Institute College of Art; Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Sheriden Libraries, at Johns Hopkins University; Fales Library at New York University; and the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. Gately Tillman’s Fringe: New York ◊ Atlanta ◊ 1984–1997, My Love is a Thread Tied to You, as well as published catalogs from her recent exhibitions, are also featured in these collections.
"In looking back at any life’s work the tendency for the viewer is to catalog both the peaks and the valleys as well as the plateaus. For me, I have chosen instead in this statement to focus on the theme underlying and animating the work I have done over the years, and that is, connection. In every photograph I have ever captured, the motivation and the energy of the moment has been created through connection—connection to the personalities, interiors, and landscapes I have felt privileged to photograph, as well as to the childhood influences that birthed my passion as an artist. It is a felt experience, one that not only exists in that moment but persists through every viewing of every print that makes its way into my collection," said Tillman. "A childhood in a decorated Air Force officer’s family moving through my father’s postings to exotic locales exposed me to other cultures, other places, not usually experienced by an American child. School vacations meant trips to museums around the world to see the great works of art, the iconic and influential architecture in countries such as Turkey, Greece, Italy, and France, as well as the ruins of civilizations long gone. I don’t have to wonder how much I understood of these works or these places as a child, since I have felt their influence in my chosen profession all my life. They come to me as whispers, as a hunger for that feeling I get when I capture the focus of my attention in that one second in time when everything changes, yet everything stays the same, recorded for all time through my lens."
Now is the Time
September 6-27, 2024
Reception: Sept. 6, 4-8 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Sept. 6, 5:30 p.m.
The works of artist, independent curator, and educator Sarah Blood will be on display in the Lycoming College Art Gallery in an exhibition entitled, “Now Is The Time.”
Born in the United Kingdom, Blood has enjoyed an active studio practice since 1999 and has exhibited extensively throughout the U.K. and the United States, and internationally in France, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Hong Kong, China, Portugal, and Dubai. Blood’s work has been exhibited alongside contemporary artists, including Bruce Nauman, Agnes Denes, Glenn Ligon, Sarah Lucas, and Mona Hatoum, with exhibitions in prestigious venues such as the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; Akron Museum of Art, Ohio; Windgate Museum of Art, Alaska; The Delaware Contemporary Museum, Del.; and Neuberger Museum, Purchase, N.Y.
Her work is in numerous permanent collections, including The Institute of Neuroscience, U.K.; The National Glass Centre, U.K.; Museuo Do Vidro, Portugal; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and Kohler Corporation, Wis., U.S.A.
Blood’s practice is concerned with light and phenomenology. Her work is best known for the interplay of material, form, object, and space. Light, often neon, is enriched by a counterpoint with conceptual, physical, and visual weight. Using beauty to draw the viewer into the work, she frequently employs metaphor or humor as an entry point. At first look, pieces can appear purely whimsical, a celebration of light and form, a joyful experience. With time and exploration, social and political themes are revealed.
“When I talk about light, I also talk about its absence. Light gives us color, warmth, and life, but we cannot perceive form, texture, and depth without shadows. I used to think that light was everything, but light in isolation is nothing; we must also know the dark to understand our world.”
Her current research explores themes of invisible labor, structures of power and inequitable systems. The resulting works explore light, sound, and movement using contemporary and obsolete technologies with traditional and non-traditional art-making materials to create object-based sculpture, performative interventions, video, and immersive experiences.
Blood is currently the associate professor of light in the sculpture dimensional studies program at Alfred University in New York, where she has been teaching since 2013.
About the Lycoming College Art Gallery:
The Lycoming College Art Gallery is located in downtown Williamsport at 25 W. Fourth St. The gallery contributes to the city’s arts culture and provides a way for the College to become more involved with the community surrounding it. Lycoming art students have the opportunity to interact with visiting artists and their work, as well as learn first-hand the inner workings of a gallery.
This fall, the gallery is open on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. For more information, please visit the gallery online at www.lycoming.edu/art/gallery/ or email dirocco@lycoming.edu.
Gallery Submissions
To submit work for consideration for a Gallery Exhibition:
Contact Dan Mingle, Art Gallery Coordinator, mingle@lycoming.edu, 570-321-4047
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