Throughline: Sayward Schoonmaker

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

October 24 - December 6, 2013 Sayward Schoonmaker's work centers around the use of clichéd and intimate language, often taking form as poetry installed on walls, spoken in recordings, or in collaboration with moving images. Whether spoken or printed, her texts benefit from her careful attention to the shape, sound, and space between words, resulting in ... Read more

Henry Wesselwoman: Alli Miller + Trey Burns

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

March 19 - April 24, 2014 Alli Miller + Trey Burns have an ongoing collaborative practice through which they explore liminal, hyperbolic, and humorous visions of the American commercial landscape. This latest effort features work stemming from a character they've designed named "Henry Wesselwoman," a direct revisionist reference to the New Topographics generation of landscape ... Read more

Illusions: Julia Forrest

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

September 11 - October 8, 2014 Forrest's photography is rooted in traditional Black and White darkroom processes, exploring the unique visual and spatial possibilities of images created solely in the lens. Describing her process as " the notion of the landscape by referencing what makes a photograph," Forrest depicts her female subjects enacting interventions on ... Read more

Primer For Well Water: Justin Randolph Thompson & Bradly Dever Treadaway

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

October 23 - December 3, 2014 Justin Randolph Thompson and Bradly Dever Treadaway have collaborated over the past 15 years through the mediums of photography, installation, video and performance. Their collaboration revolves around ideas of cultural clash, generational divide, social hierarchies, the resonance of collective and personal identity and a legacy of spiritual ascension. Their ... Read more

Annual Student Exhibition 2015

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

  Opening reception on Thursday, January 29 from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition will be on view from January 29 — February 26. Wells College Visual Arts Department is excited to present the 2015  Annual Exhibition of Student Work in the school's String Room Gallery. The exhibition features notable pieces from introductory to advanced ... Read more

To The Waters and The Wild: Rita Leduc

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

March 19 - April 24, 2015 The work comprising "To The Waters and the Wild" was created during Leduc's frequent visits to the Wells College campus during the fall of 2014, and finalized during a residency on campus made possible in part by funding from the College's Scholar In Residence program. In a process she ... Read more

Senior Thesis Exhibition 2015

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

May 4 - 16, 2015 The Wells College Visual Arts Department is proud to announce the annual Senior Thesis Exhibition. The exhibition features the final work produced by the Department's seven Studio Arts seniors and serves as the culmination of their course of study. Regina Agoruah (Atlanta, GA) developed her love for photography after taking ... Read more

Make No Loud Noise: Pato Hebert

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

November 6 - December 7, 2015 Make No Loud Noise is a solo exhibition by artist, educator, and cultural worker Pato Hebert. Several central works anchor the show. "51 Synonyms for Oscillate" takes the form of a word search consisting of dozens of mirrored acrylic letters that contain multiple, hidden variations on the experience of ... Read more

Annual Student Exhibition 2016

String Room Gallery 170 Main St., Aurora, NY, United States

The Wells College Visual Arts Department announces the opening of the 2016 Annual Student Exhibition in the school's String Room Gallery. The public is cordially invited to celebrate the student artists' work at a reception on Thursday, February 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition will be on view from February 4 through March ... Read more