Browse Exhibits (12 total)

September – December 2017

A three-dimensional exhibition that features whimsical hand-built ceramic sculptures by Japanese artist Kensuke Yamada and exquisite glass creations by Danville native Stephen Rolfe Powell, and highlights new collaborative pieces created by the artists specifically for this show.

Fire is considered a metaphysical constant of the world. Its tale in our history is as long as the trails of smoke it exudes. Its impact on our figurative and literal landscape radiating into the past, present, and future.

In Greek Mythology, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man, but was punished for the gift. The mythical Phoenix is used to signify rebirth, consumed by fire every five hundred years yet rising from the ashes anew. In the practice of alchemy, the elemental weapon of fire is considered to be the wand – and in our case it is the carving tool and the blowpipe. Yet all instruments are used to yield power over their surroundings. At its most elemental, fire is a bonding of the weak and the strong to create an ignition point and finally—a flame.

Each work by each artist has journeyed far. From humble granular beginnings of air, earth, sand, and water to broken tubes of color, mounds of clay, sketches on paper, and drops of paint, they have experienced an odyssey of formation and discovery, manipulated by the hands of two masters and the commonality of two-thousand degrees of heat that binds both the glass and the ceramics.

February – May 2015

Beyond the Window was an exhibition by Zeuxis artists (an association of still life painters) that explored the ways paintings use interior scenes to frame outdoor vistas.

August – December 2018

“Lois Greenfield: Moving Still” is a groundbreaking show, accompanied by a published monograph, that marks; a radical departure from her previous body of work, gravity-defying images of dancers in flight. In this very contemporary collection, perplexing scenarios slowly unfold, and yet the mystery intensifies with what is revealed. These images capture the grace and power with which dancers bend their body, as well as time and space, giving us a glimpse of the movement continuum apparent in dance improvisation. The laws of logic are replaced by the paradox of inversion – the moving elements solidify, and what appears immobile is in flux.

April – June 2017

An exhibit composed of five totemic sculptures created by sculptor Robert Rohm. These works are meant to serve as a stand-in for the human figure. The artist viewed the figure as a container or cage that held the spirit. This exhibit was curated by Mackenzie Nichols, Centre College Art History Major,’17.

Curator's Statement

“Rohming Around: Untitled Works by Robert Rohm” is an exhibition composed of five totemic sculptures created by the sculptor, Robert Rohm. These totemic works are meant to serve as a stand-in for the human figure. The artist viewed the figure as a container or cage that held the spirit. He noted, “The origin of each piece is my attempt to make manifest my thoughts and visions generated by my inner life, my ongoing process of learning to quiet the mind and my struggle to achieve what can be referred to as the Buddhist ‘states of being’.”  These modern, abstract sculptures were constructed using industrial materials such as steel, mesh, and encaustic paint.

-Mackenzie Nichols, ’17
Centre College Senior Art History Major

January – April 2016

“The Painting Hour” was an exhibit of works by Centre College professor Ken Keffer, painted during his travels in the Summer of 2015. Each piece was created in just 60-90 minutes, and as a body of work encourage the viewer to consider the relationship between art and time.