Current Exhibitions

Slip the Body, Center the Mind | Megan Adams Irving, Andrew N. Fitzsimmons, Veronica Juyoun Byun

Martin-Mullen Gallery
On view: January 21 - March 7, 2025
Reception: Thursday, February 6, 5-7 p.m. (inclement weather date: Thursday, February 13, 5-7 p.m.)

Clay can absorb and hold the warmth of a hand, it remembers how it’s been shaped, and it retains a tactile quality when fired. What better vessel to hold the ephemeral creations of the human mind: memories, stories, feelings. In Slip the Body, Center the Mind, works by Megan Adams Irving, Andrew N. Fitzsimmons, and Veronica Juyoun Byun reflect this in distinct ways. Megan Adams Irving (Westford, NY) creates ceramic sculptures that weave the connections between environments, both natural and man-made, into subtle structures that tease the edges of how we inhabit the world. Andrew N. Fitzsimmons (Owego, NY) pulls from ancient and contemporary stories to sculpt busts of allegorical fictional characters and symbolic vessels. Veronica Juyoun Byun (Utica, NY) creates atmospheric installations that often repeat an object or design to interpret the effects of experiences, demonstrating the subtle variations and shifts that occur when a moment becomes a memory. Together, these three artists tell stories of humanity; how the things we create, be they physical, emotional, or mental, are all distinctly human and pulled from our imaginations and communal state. Ceramic sculptures are organic and essential, they are the physical representation of our attempts to manipulate and control the world and the inevitability of the material asserting its own continued influence.

Poster Design by Alaina Rullo.

Art Across Campus: 2025

Project Space Gallery
On view: January 21 - February 15, 2025
Reception: Thursday, February 6, 5-7 p.m. (inclement weather date: Thursday, February 13, 5-7 p.m.)
Rithmomachia Game Night: Thursday, February 6, 2025, 6-8 p.m. (inclement weather date: Thursday, February 13, 6-8 p.m.)

Art Across Campus: 2025 is the newest exhibition in an annual series that showcases the creative final projects by students across campus from a diverse range of majors and focuses. This semester’s exhibition features student work submitted by Dr. Suriati Abas (Elementary Education and Reading), Dr. Nathan Asman (Music), Dr. Elizabeth Cruzado Carranza (Anthropology), Dr. Kim Fierke (Sport and Exercise Sciences), Dr. Toke Knudsen (Mathematics Department) in collaboration with Professor Jian Cui (Art) and Dr. Zdenek Tronicek (Computer Science), and Dr. Sheena Mason (English).