2023 Selected Art Faculty Exhibition
September 14 – October 13, 2023

Reception: Thursday, September 14, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
Artist’s Talk: Wednesday, September 20, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

 

The Schick Gallery presents the annual Selected Art Faculty Exhibition, this year featuring prints by Ruben Castillo, sculpture by John Galt, and paintings by Paul Sattler.  Participants in each year’s faculty exhibition are chosen by simple rotation; each faculty member has an opportunity to show their work every three or four years.

Ruben Bryan Castillo is Assistant Professor of Printmaking and the Co-managing Editor of the Mid America Print Council Journal. 

His work investigates themes of intimacy, queerness, archival history, and the body using a range of media, including print, drawing, sculpture/installation, and video. His most recent imagery draws from photographs and documents, seeing the ordinary as a site for transformative potential and feeling. 
Castillo’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is included in collections such as the Mulvane Art Museum (Topeka, KS), National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, IL), and the University of Colorado Special Collections (Boulder, CO).  Ruben was born in Dallas, TX and received his MFA in Visual Art from the University of Kansas and a BFA in Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute. Before coming to Skidmore, he taught printmaking and drawing at the Kansas City Art Institute (MO) and Johnson County Community College (KS).

John Galt, Assistant Professor of Sculpture, received his BA at SUNY Cortland and his MFA in Sculpture at the University of Pennsylvania. His work explores line, movement, and color, and his sculpture has been featured in exhibitions regionally and nationally.  He is deeply engaged in the bronze-casting process in both teaching and his personal work. John is the owner of IBIS CASTING, specializing in Lost Wax ceramic shell fine art casting, and he has designed and executed various types of sand molds at both Atlas Brass and Aluminum Company, Inc. and Laran Bronze, Inc.  Before coming to Skidmore College, he taught undergraduate courses at the University of Pennsylvania.

Paul Sattler’s paintings feature people engaged in mysterious activities in settings that evoke circuses, bazarres, or suburban neighborhoods beset by extraordinary occurrences.   He has had solo exhibitions at Alpha Gallery in Boston, Gerald Peters Gallery in New York and a mid-career survey at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.  He also has shown work in other exhibitions around the country, including the Tang Museum, the Albany Institute of History and Art, and the National Academy of Art and Design, where he was awarded the Wallace Truman Prize.  Paul received his MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  A former professor of art at Boston University, Sattler is Associate Professor Art at Skidmore.

All exhibitions and events at the Schick Gallery are free and open to the public.