The Trout Gallery

Todd Arsenault The Massed Effect November 2–January 26
Todd Arsenault's recent work explores the reorganization of information through the merger of digital technology and traditional painting with the ultimate goal of making observational images from digital sketches. Arsenault uses the computer as a starting point for a creative process that alternates between pixel and brush. He makes digital sketches from imagery gleaned from photographs, books, magazines, video, and the internet which he reorganizes into painted compositions that are recognizable, though fractured and transitional. The Trout Gallery will be closed November 21–25 and December 22–January 1. IMAGE: It Took Twelve Hours, 2006, Oil on canvas.
New Lives for Asian Images February 8– March 29 Opening Reception: Friday, February 8, 5–7 p.m
This selection of works from The Trout Gallery’s permanent collection considers a variety of objects from Asia and how, divorced from their original context, live new lives as part of an art collection at a small college liberal arts museum. The images and objects gathered here all were originally made and used in Asia. Many were dedicated to the practice of religious belief in homes or temples or other sacred places. Others provided entertainment to villagers or townspeople, enabled merchants to weigh goods for sale in the marketplace, educated people about great events of the moment, or brought to mind bygone and better days. These images and objects also offered the pleasures of beauty and the solace, enlightenment and inspiration works of craft and artistry carry in their making, and in their viewing. Collected and donated over the years by Dickinson alumni, faculty, staff, and other friends of the college, these works of art and craft have found a new home in an institution dedicated to thinking about the past, the present, and the future of Asia, America, and the world. Their presence among us invites serious and playful conversations about their lives and ours. The exhibition is curated by Samuel Parker, from the University of Washington, in conjunction with David Strand, James Bowman, and Jennifer Huang ’09. Click here to review the catalogue. IMAGE: Zou Yigui (Chinese, 1686–1772), Bird, lotus and grasses, ink and paint on silk, Gift of Mrs. Lloyd Gamble Cole, 1967.1.12a
America en plein air Impressions by Henry Ryan MacGinnis January 25–April 12 Opening Reception: Friday, January 25, 5-7 pm
Henry Ryan MacGinnis (1875–1962) was born and raised in Indiana and began his career painting sun-filled landscapes en plein air with Hoosier Group artists T.C. Steele and John Ottis Adams. In his late twenties, MacGinnis traveled abroad for several years, studying art in Munich and Paris, before establishing his career at the School of Industrial Arts in Trenton, New Jersey, where he worked for forty years. His works feature scenes of the surrounding Delaware River Valley as well as views from New Hampshire, where he spent his summers. This exhibition is organized with the generous assistance of Richard Frey '90, and curated by Dickinson College senior art history majors Abigail Bruckart, Kara Carmack, Sonia Evers, Rachel Fitzsimmons, Diana Jonas, Rebecca Mendelsohn, Anna Metzger, Selwyn Ramp and Martine Romano, under the direction of Elizabeth Lee. Click here to review the catalogue. IMAGE: Birches and Lake, n.d., Oil on canvas
The Dogon Spiritual Forces in Action April 11–July 3 Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 4–5 p.m.
This exhibition provides insight into Dogon spirituality through a selection of wood carvings and cast bronze figures. This diverse group of objects from the 19th and 20th centuries includes masks, ceremonial staffs, and fertility figures. These objects represent different aspects of Dogon life such as rituals, food production, social organization, identity, fertility, and childbearing. This exhibition is curated by Anabella Atach ’08, under the direction of Phillip Earenfight. Click here to review the brochure cover and here to view the inside. IMAGE: Kanaga Mask, Wood, raffia, and pigments, Gift of Joseph and Doris Gerofsky, 1997.6.5
HÄNDENTÄNDEN Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition April 25 – July 3 Opening Reception: Friday, April 25, 5–7 p.m.
The annual Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition marks the culmination of a student’s artistic career at Dickinson College. This exhibition features works by Christian Meade, Leann Leiter, Tracy Meyer, Selwyn Ramp, Allison Reilly, and Tyler Young under the direction of Anthony Cervino with Todd Arsenault, Andrew Bale, Ward Davenny, and Barbara Diduk. IMAGE: Installation of 6, The Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition of 2007