2021 Selected Art Faculty Exhibition

Deb Hall, Trish Lyell, and Gina Occhiogrosso
September 16 – October 17, 2021
Opening reception: Thursday, sept. 23, 5-7 p.m.*

*5 – 6 p.m. for students and art faculty only; 6 – 7 p.m. for campus community and off-campus visitors*
Masks required for all: off-campus visitors must show proof of vaccination

The Schick Gallery is pleased to present the 2021 Selected Art Faculty Exhibition, featuring digital prints by Deb Hall, paintings by Trish Lyell, and paintings and collages by Gina Occhiogrosso. 

Deb Hall’s work is concerned with nature, the environment, and our ‘seeming inability to save the essential elements on which our lives depend.’  At the same time, she is inspired by the beauty of typography and the vibrancy of color. She has shown her work regionally and nationally, and it is held in collection at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, NY, and numerous private collections. Hall teaches Communication Design at Skidmore College.

Of her richly hued recent paintings, Trish Lyell states: ‘I did away with specific forms and references and focused on up and down, left and right; interruption, layering, burying, crossing out, finding pathways, etcetera, with just the shape of the brush….These are the paintings I need to be making now in the midst of so much that is unsteady, unsettling, and displaced.’  Lyell has shown her work extensively in the Capital Region, and it is held in both public and private collections. She teaches drawing at Skidmore, and is Assistant Director of the Schick Art Gallery.

Gina Occhiogrosso’s paintings are ‘composed not only through the application of wet color on a surface, but through processes of disassembly and realignment, and the incorporation of common, everyday materials like thread and yarn. These activities and elements allow me to explore anxiety, loss, humor and heroic femininity.The hallowed and often masculinized tradition of painting is subverted…. ‘

Occhiogrosso has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions regionally and nationally; her most recent solo exhibitions are Gathering and Easing, at ZINC contemporary, and The Absence of Presence, Wilson Art Gallery, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY. She is represented by ZINC contemporary in Seattle, WA and Appleton Art Design in Westport, CT.  She teaches drawing at the College of St. Rose in Albany, NY, and at Skidmore College.

The Artists’ Talk on Zoom took place Weds., Sept 29, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Here's a link to the recorded talk: https://vimeo.com/622668252

Schick Gallery hours: Mon – Thursday 10 - 6 p.m., and Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 11 - 4 p.m.
For more information, call 580-5049 or 518-580-5027

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