Art Exhibits on Display Sept. 2–26, 2024
Truckee Meadows Community College art galleries are exhibiting four new exhibitions including the 53rd Annual Art Faculty Exhibition. The exhibitions run Monday, Sept. 2–Thursday, Sept. 26, at four locations on the Dandini Campus. There will be an opening artists’ reception on Wednesday, Sept. 4, from 5–7 p.m. at the V. James Eardley Student Center and Red Mountain Gallery on the 3rd floor in the Red Mountain Building on the Dandini Campus. Refreshments will be available, and exhibitions are free and open to the public.
TMCC Main Gallery: 53rd Annual Faculty Show
The 53rd Annual TMCC Art Faculty Exhibition. Truckee Meadows Community College is proud to present the 53rd Annual Faculty Art Show, a spectacular exhibition showcasing our esteemed faculty members' extraordinary talent and creativity. This year's show promises to be an immersive experience, featuring large-scale artworks that captivate the imagination and a diverse array of art mediums that highlight the breadth and depth of artistic expression within our community. From towering sculptures to intricate installations and multimedia creations, the exhibition will offer a unique opportunity to explore the innovative and thought-provoking works of our faculty artists. Each piece is a testament to the skill, dedication, and passion that define the TMCC art faculty, providing visitors with an inspiring and enriching experience. Faculty members participating in the exhibition are Rossitza Todorova, Mehedi Anjuman, Micaela Rubalcava, Brandon Lacow, Galina Milton, Dean Burton, Felixity Danger, Frances Melhop, J. Damron, Jinny Tomozy, Miles Hall, Candace Garlock, John Gwaltney, Kyle Karrasch, and Erin Shearin.
Red Mountain Gallery: Nature Eats Image by Susanna Herrmann
In Nature Eats Image, Herrmann created distorted imagery that is rooted in moments and materials sourced from the location at which the photos were taken. The work draws on places where she has practiced active imagination. Her process is a continuation of these experiences. She starts her paintings plein air, bringing her materials into the landscape to consider her experience of place as she paints. Using materials from the landscape such as soil, natural water, and berries, as well as personal items like coffee grounds and beets from her lunchbox, she soaks rolls of film before developing them, distorting form, and color. To Herrmann distortion offers entry points for the viewer, encouraging them to reach for past experiences or into their imaginations to explain what is visually confusing. This is a practice of orientation. For Herrmann, the process of working through imagery, materials, and language is one of orientation. For the viewer, she hopes to spark curiosity and offer a designed space for orienting oneself and practicing imagination. Susanna Herrmann is a painter, photographer, and professor of graphic design at Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah. She received her MFA in Graphic Design from Indiana University and her BA in Philosophy and German from Georgetown University. Susanna’s work is based on theories of visual perception and is influenced by space and landscape. Her work has been published in Hayden’s Ferry Review, ArtXt magazine through the University of Malaga, Bellevue Magazine, and Antithesis Journal, among others. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, including at Springville Museum of Art, Marshall University, Indiana University, Bountiful Davis Art Center in UT, and Racecar Factory in Indianapolis.
Erik Lauritzen Gallery: TMCC InsideOut: Reno Chamber Orchestra and TMCC Art 101 Drawing I Students Collaboration
Truckee Meadows Community College students embarked on a unique partnership with the Reno Chamber Orchestra (RCO). As part of this collaboration, students from TMCC's Art 101 Drawing I courses created artwork inspired by various emotions. From anger and excitement to anxiety, sadness, and adventure, the most compelling pieces were selected by RCO and featured in the RCO InsideOut performances in April 2024 at the University of Nevada, Reno.. Each artwork was paired with musical compositions from esteemed classical composers, including A. Scarlatti, Henry Purcell, George Telemann, Damian Geter, G.F. Handel, Durante, and Vivaldi, with the emotions visually projected during the performances. On display are a portion of the works selected that were a part of the April 2024 performance.
Red Mountain Student Gallery: Monsters by Crowley Foster and Gwyneth Crowes
For their collaborative exhibition, Crowley and Gwyneth’s imagination is limitless, and so are the monsters that reside in each of their art pieces. Each monster has a story and life, as well as ups and downs, that make them each unique. They have achieved this through their experimentation of different mediums and using these to make each character distinct from each other, while also allowing it to exist as a part of the collective whole. These paintings help to show the colorful lives of these monsters, as well as show an initial statement that art does not need to have deep meaning to make an impact on viewers. However, through their process of doing these works, the meaning began to evolve, and soon, they realized how much they were connecting the monsters to our own social and personal experiences, attaching meaning that they were never planning to attach the paintings to. Within these works the monsters are representative of the people in society who benefit from the fruits of monetary value and represent the underlying pressures that they uphold to maintain their reputations in society.
Crowley was Born and raised in the Reno-Sparks area, she started her art journey by drawing many characters and designs in a school notebook. She was inspired heavily by fantasy books like Wings of Fire and Star Trek, leading to her early love of fairytales and fiction. It wasn’t until she was around 11 years old that she began to take art seriously, and she was filling up to four sketchbooks a month, bursting with colorful ideas. Gwyneth, also from Reno started her artistic journey with comics and animation where she used many panels or shots to tell a story. She wanted every shot to be filled with storytelling and provide more context. Her traditional work comes from this angle; where the characters or things in her paintings existed before and will exist after. To her, it feels like she is picking a thumbnail with only one panel of the story she gets to show the viewer to convey the whole story.
