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Synthesis: Experiments in Collaboration, an exhibition last fall at the Grossman Gallery of Lafayette’s Williams Visual Arts Building, will be displayed again July 7-Aug. 7 at Axel Raben Gallery in New York.
The exhibit features the results of creative partnerships by nine pairs of artists, including Ed Kerns, Eugene H. Clapp II ’36 Professor of Art and director of the Williams Visual Arts Building, and Joe Biondo, architect of the Visual Arts Building, who worked together to plan the design and construction of the facility.
They both have interests in using materials to symbolically define space by contrasting nature’s internal processes and the external solutions of design, according to the exhibition catalog. Their collaborative work strongly suggests “that renewed perceptions of space, distance, and time are measures of the narrowing gap between the internal and external realities of humanity’s collective consciousness.”
Before graduating with honors in art and a second major in English, Jeb Madigan ’04 of Binghamton, N.Y., assisted in the production of components for the project. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Madigan created molds and cast over 100 polyurethane foot-long fish. The resulting translucent, amber fish rose from the lighted, pre-existing elevator pit in the rear of the Grossman Gallery.
The Quadrant Book Mart & Coffeehouse in downtown Easton exhibited 11 oil paintings by Madigan, and other shows of his work took place in Easton and Binghamton.
An opening reception will be held at the Axel Raben Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, New York, from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, July 7.