Faculty art show in Hege Library
Justin Betson
Issue date: 10/5/01 Section: Features
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The Guilford College Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition in the Hege Library has the variety to grab any of us whether it’s through black and white photography, delicate wood carvings, pottery, abstract paintings, or even exhibits made of tea bags and human hair.
”I was really impressed; I have not had the opportunity to take a class with any of them [art professors], but I’m grateful I got to see their work in our library,” said senior Jasmine Fouts.
“The costume of human hair was an incredible act of creativity,” said senior Alla Khmeleva. “ It’s so classy and provocative. I mean it is an artifact made out of a part of our bodies. It is part of us.”
Heea Crownfield, a visiting assistant professor of art at Guilford, is the artist behind the human hair statue and the tea bag displays. Crownfield’s medium is sculpture, and she shows us much in her displays in terms of the limitless places you can explore with art.
In one exhibit, she has stuffed poetry into jars of honey, making us all contort ourselves to read what we can. Crownfield will give a talk on her work in the gallery on Wednesday, Oct. 17, from 12:45-1:30.
Crownfield is joined by eight other artists in the gallery: Maia Dery (photography), Todd Drake (painting), Shawn Linehan (photography), Michael Northius (painting and sculpture), Roy Nydorf (sculpture), Molly Stouten (printmaking), Charles Tefft (ceramics), Adele Wayman (painting and mixed media). In order to have a place in the gallery, professors need to have taught art at Guilford since the previous Biennial Exhibition. All of these artists have joined forces to make a truly original gallery.
”As a painter I see myself as a door through which images enter this world,” said Todd Drake. Drake has added a few abstract paintings to the show that he feels are not finished yet. He has set journals next to his work, asking us to help him finish the job. His paintings are chock full of vibrant colors and inch-worm compositions, with diagonals falling all over each other.
Michael Northius has brought a southwestern feel into the gallery. His painting Surrealist Cowboy is its own little fantasy land, with bright colors and little characters. Northius gives us an oil painting, drawings, and two wood carvings. His talk will be on Wednesday, Nov. 21, at 12:45-1:30.