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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
Now is the Time
September 6-27
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.
Paula Gately Tillman: Recollections
Photography 1983 to 2024
Oct. 4-Nov. 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."
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 Rose DiRocco-Hodges, Gallery Director, dirocco@lycoming.edu, 570-321-4002
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