
10/21/2022
"Despite being seductively visual, the works are driven by my love of language, wordplay, and contemporary literary & historical allusions." - Sean Capone
Stop by HUB Gallery with your friends to explore Capone's abstract animation 👀
Engaging the Penn State Community with questions of local relevance and global importance through co HUB Gallery is open daily 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
The HUB-Robeson Center is open 24/7
"Despite being seductively visual, the works are driven by my love of language, wordplay, and contemporary literary & historical allusions." - Sean Capone
Stop by HUB Gallery with your friends to explore Capone's abstract animation 👀
"I utilize a variety of animation techniques, including 3D character design, motion capture, A.I. and generative art to create a hallucinatory digital landscape that is both absurdist, emotional and spiritual. Note I said 'both' even though that's three things. But also note: I did say absurd. My rhetoric, if not my grammar, remains unimpeachable." - Sean Capone
HUB Gallery is waiting for you! BLACK NIIGHT WHIITE LIIGHT is on view through November 6 ✨
Another sneak peek of AYDO's (A young Yu & Nicholas Oh) upcoming exhibition, DREAMS ✨
DREAMS explores ancestral and personal dreams through sculptural and video installations. Ancestral dreams refer to the experiences of the artists' ancestors, which they recall and meditate through spiritual ritual-based practices that center on themes of generational trauma, family, and diaspora.
On view in HUB Gallery beginning November 11!
Stopping by the HUB for lunch, to study, or just for a break? Come visit HUB Gallery to experience Sean Capone's BLACK NIIGHT WHIITE LIIGHT
Capone creates a conspicuous overabundance of digital graphics techniques and visual effects technology to explore an absurdist and hallucinatory social media landscape🌈
Today on Indigenous Peoples' Day, we're highlighting the work of Jeremy Dennis✨
Dennis' exhibition, "Future Return" brings together beadwork, woodcarving, photography, and Shinnecock written books to share Indigenous stories.
Dennis creates cinematic images and places of belonging that center BIPOC artists. Future Return brings together mediums of art where the creation is to continue their ancestors' tradition of storytelling and showcase the sanctity of their land.
Sean Capone utilizes a conspicuous overabundance of digital graphics techniques and visual effects technology (including motion capture, 3D character animation and generative art software) to explore an absurdist and hallucinatory social media landscape.
BLACK NIIGHT WHIITE LIIGHT | HUB Gallery | September 10 – November 6
A sneak peek of the upcoming exhibition DREAMS by AYDO (A young Yu and Nicholas Oh)
DREAMS will be on view in HUB Gallery starting November 11! ✨
There is exactly 1 month left to view Sean Capone's exhibition of video works!
BLACK NIIGHT WHIITE LIIGHT showcases from two of Capone's ongoing series, "Avatar Poetics" and "Global Illuminations." In these videos, Capone utilizes a conspicuous overabundance of digital graphics techniques and visual effects technology (including motion capture, 3D character animation and generative art software) to explore an absurdist and hallucinatory social media landscape — a landscape illuminated by pseudo-neon glows and scrolling media feeds, and populated by logorrheic talking heads, A.I. oracles and cyberpunk poet philosophers.
One of our Gallery Assistants, Ethan shares how important it is for students to have experience with art.
Ethan has been a part of HUB-Robeson Galleries since last summer and we are so grateful to have him on the team! ✨
While experiencing BLACK NIIGHT WHIITE LIIGHT, don't forget to peep your head behind the exhibition's centerpiece🤭
Holy Mountain by Sean Capone presents an altogether different kind of virtual body: one that is gendered, homo-erotic, and self-pleasuring; but headless mute, and seemingly alienated.
We are so excited to announce the next exhibition in HUB Gallery, DREAMS by AYDO (A young Yu and Nicholas Oh)
Through performance-based film and site-specific installation, AYDO re-imagine Korean folklore and precolonial spiritual practices to reflect personal and Asian American perspectives.
Visit their accounts and website for a sneak peek at the exhibition✨
**Exhibiting Artist Spotlight**
Sean Capone has worked extensively in the digital video and animation field for over 20 years, and has developed a wide-ranging body of work across its many aspects: film & TV, video games, music videos, gallery and museum exhibitions, festival presentations, event and stage scenography, and site-specific public art installations. Capone is a 2020 recipient of NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship award in Digital/Electronic Art.
Capone's BLACK NIIGHT WHIITE LIIGHT is on view in HUB Gallery through November 6!
**Exhibiting Artwork Spotlight**
A production still of Global Illuminations by Sean Capone
This work utilizes digital animation to simulate the motifs of stained-glass windows, nightclub visuals and advertising signage to create poetic transmissions of spiritual, devotional, and erotic energy across luminescent architectural surfaces as a kind of futuristic 'altarpiece' or urban interior backdrop.
Visit HUB Gallery any day 10 A.M. - 6 P.M. to experience the full animation! 🌈
We Are... still hungry for Nikki Lau's Generous Helpings
Each piece is for sale and 20% of proceeds supports Lions Pantry🍴
Contact us or visit the gallery to purchase!
Join us TOMORROW in HUB Gallery to celebrate Over & Over Again!
The reception will take place on August 31 from 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.! Come hear how artists have committed their craft to 3D printing.
Light refreshments and snacks will be provided! 🌈
Did you know that clay 3D printing was possible? Penn State Associate Professor of Studio Art/Ceramics/Digital Design Tom Lauerman designed, built, and iterated his own custom clay printer.
The clay Lauerman uses is just clay, the same as potters and sculptors have used for millennia - nothing needs to be added or changed to facilitate printing!
Join us on August 31st to celebrate the artists and Over & Over Again in HUB Gallery 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.!✨
**Exhibiting Artwork Spotlight**
Hydro Turbine Generator Blade (as-printed state), Hydro Turbine Generator Blade (fully machined to final dimensions) by Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D)
The two blades are hydro turbine generator blades for the Department of Energy (DOE). The Inlet Guide Vane (IGV) was printed on CIMP 3D's HPHD (High Power High Deposition) Directed Energy Deposition (DED) Additive Manufacturing system. Printing of the IGV took 50 hours of total additive deposition over hundreds of layers!
Over & Over Again | July 22 - Sept 4 | HUB Gallery
The first documented iterations of 3D printing trace back to the early 1980s, but the first practice of building through placing line on top of line is found in ceramic's coil building technique as early as 6000 BC. Through new digital technologies, artists and manufacturers can model objects in software programs.
Over & Over Again brings together 3D printed works by Penn State faculty. The works on view highlight their commitment to working in innovative technologies, encountering new possibilities, and reimagining objects.
**Exhibiting Artwork Spotlight** Rebecca Strzelec's Rebecca Strzelec 3D printed Garchitect and Garlinear
Garchitect | Neckpiece, hardneck garlic stems, ABS plastic, cord | 21 x 9 x 3.5 in.
Garlinear | Neckpiece, hardneck garlic stems, ABS plastic, cord | 14 x 7 x 3.5 in.
Garlinear | Neckpiece, hardneck garlic stems, ABS plastic, cord | 14 x 7 x 3.5 in.
Over & Over Again | July 22 - Sept 4 | HUB Gallery
**Exhibiting Artwork Spotlight**
Deformation in the Printing of Small Parts by Negar Ashrafi, Jose P. Duarte, Shadi Nazarian, and Nicholas Meisel
Cement cylinders printed with tool paths considering: (a) no compensation; (b) compensation for layer height deformation only; (c) compensation for both layer height and width deformation; (d) compensation for time dependent deformation
"Deformation in the Printing of Small Parts" is on view in Over & Over Again in HUB Gallery! ✨
Over the weekend we installed "ARC Presents: Premiere" by Andrew Castañeda. .r.castaneda
Join the artist for a reception this Wednesday!
Reception: July 27 | 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Art Alley
Happy Arts Fest Weekend! 🌈
This years poster by Lanny and Saige Sommese next to 1998's poster designed by emeritus Professor of Graphic Design, Lanny Sommese. The Arts Fest Poster Collection is on view in the Hetzel Library located in HUB-Robeson Center!
We Are... hungry and obsessed with Nikki Lau's "Generous Helpings!"
The exhibition is located in the exhibition cases in the Charlotte Ray Memorial Lounge!
We reflected on the exhibition text while installing. Mental Health in Higher Education highlights the complexities of mental health and neurodivergence of faculty members at Penn State.
Come check out the works by these artists!
Now graduated, curator Kayley McDonald visits the final exhibition she worked on with HUB-Robeson Galleries. Congrats on your hard work!
Last week we installed
"Generous Helpings" by Nikki Lau!
Artist and alumna Nikki Lau and creator of Little Lau Shop, produces intentionally hand-made ceramics of anthropomorphic food and creatures that have big and small emotions. 20% of sales will go to the Lions Pantry providing food to PSU students at no cost.
If you are interested in purchasing you can head to the gallery or contact HUB-Robeson Galleries
Bon Appetite!
Last week we said goodbye to "Lunchbox Moments" installed in the HUB-Robeson Center.
Thank you to Amie Bantz for bringing these conversations and stories to Penn State
Excited for the student stories to travel with you and this project.
Mark your calendars! The Happy Valley Animation Festival is returning to HUB Gallery on May 10th. The festival is a juried, international animation competition that seeks to showcase works in three primary categories: Animated Films, Experimental Animated Works, and Animated Motion Graphics & Design. This exhibition will be on view through July 17th! Don't miss it!
"The Whirling World"
Penn State Engineering hosts Sean Capone’s “The Whirling World”
Bayard D. Kunkle Activities Center is bursting with color thanks to artist Sean Capone! The installation, entitled “The Whirling World,” is the result of a partnership between the college and Campus Arts PSU Launched during our 125th anniversary, Capone’s animations will be on display through summer 2022.
Thank you so much to Penn State Graphic Design for all their hard work with their Senior Exhibition, Full Transparency! It's been a pleasure showcasing the amazing work from Penn State students!
We are proud to recognize our Student Employee of the Year Sureaya Inusah!
Sureaya always feels so strongly about the artwork. She has a great positive energy and is always fun to work with during install and de-install. She always says she feels sad taking down the work because she resonates with it but is quickly excited to put up new work. She is so fun to work with and is incredibly kind. Her passion for the galleries really shines through in everything she does.
Missed Rosemarie Fiore's live smoke performance? Check out the accompanying video on first floor HUB next to Fiore's murals to see how these pieces were made!
Thank you to our amazing seniors for being part of our team!
Kayley McDonald, Exhibitions Intern: B.A. in History, minor in Business and the Liberal Arts, certificate in Museum Studies: We appreciate your determined nature, love of learning, and commitment. Your kindness, compassion, and top-notch people skills are enormous strengths that will serve you well always in your future path.
Andrea, Gallery Assistant: BFA: Ceramics; Minors: Art History, French & Francophone Studies: We have shared many great memories over the years, which include several very unique installation days in which she never gave up and helped us to see things through to completion. Thank you for your grace, keen sense of detail, and commitment to the galleries and congratulations to you on your upcoming graduation!
Have you seen the process wall? Check out Penn State's Graphic Design's Full Transparency in HUB Gallery through May 7!
**Exhibiting Artwork Spotlight**
Recollection (finger top's sigh) is the title of Stacy Isenbarger's assemblage. Isenbarger also takes materials from a living room to create an enigmatic object. Her emphasis on texture is curiously bodily, as the soft skin of the branch protrudes from the supple folds of the cushion.
This piece is currently on view in Art Alley in Scatter Terrain through July 17th.
Don't miss your chance to check out Scatter Terrain before graduation! This exhibition will be on view through July 17, 2022 in Art Alley!
We had a blast at 3 Dots Downtown last tuesday bringing Lunchbox Moments by to Downtown!
Thank you to our student workshop facilitators.
Lunchbox Moments, on view thorough May 15th, are the formative occurrences in many Asian Americans' lives where a traditional Asian meal is eaten at school or at home and the meal elicits some sort of reaction, whether it be positive or negative. Read their stories in exhibitions cases on the first floor of the HUB Robeson Center!
The Happy Valley Animation Festival 2022 is having screenings of their official selections and award winners on Wednesday the 27th and Thursday the 28th. HVAF Screenings will be live streamed for remote audiences. For steam link and additionally programming information visit: www.happyvalleyanimationfestival.org
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We Are... hungry and obsessed with Nikki Lau's "Generous Helpings!" The exhibition is located in the exhibition cases in the Charlotte Ray Memorial Lounge! @littlelaushop
Thank you to all the graduates that exhibited their work in the Visual Arts Annual Graduate Research Exhibition! It is so amazing getting to see the work produced by students in our community.
We are reception ready!!! Will we see you tonight in Art Alley? If you can’t make it here leave a few words in the comments for the artists and curators!
It’s exhibition turn over time! We had an amazing crew of student employees to transition the Cases from Altar by Kiana Honarmand to Lunchbox Moments by Amie Bantz. Lelsie Laing director of Adult Learner Programs and Services stoped by! Adult Learners of Penn State Check out the full program of events! https://studentaffairs.psu.edu/events?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D565397867
Welcome back students!! Remember when it was warmer and Rosemarie Fiore painted with smoke on HUB Lawn? Check out her work, interview, and murals by visiting HUB Gallery. The exhibition closes January 30th.
Interview with Rachel Sydowski This large-scale installation presents a fantastical vivarium, a rarefied collection of birds and plants for study and aesthetic reflection. Thousands of hand-printed serigraphs are collaged together to create a fabricated wilderness where birds have adapted to the controlled environment; nesting in unlikely places, displaying their plumage and pageantry in a truncated and finite space. Historical architecture and decorative objects form a complex coded system of social class and power, a web of clues prompting further research. Silkcreened multiples, these cut multiples become a vehicle to create environments of repetition and pattern. Pattern is an extension of power, of taming nature, a trick of the eye, it turns the unadorned into the fanciful and opulent. Decorative objects are redirection, an illusion of the wealthy, masking flaws and sending carefully crafted messages of rank from its curves and geometries. Taking cues from Gilded Age interior spaces, gardens and American vernacular architecture I appropriate motifs, decorative objects and flora and fauna using screenprinting as a primary medium.These large-scale installations, informed by history and memory, reinvent and reevaluate the past. Based in New York City, Rachel Sydlowski is a visual artist and educator. Recent exhibitions include Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, Wassaic Project, Facebook Open Arts, MoCA Westport, Chashama Space to Connect: Fordham Windows Project, Wave Hill Sunroom Project Space, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York Public Library, and Lehman College Art Gallery. Curatorial projects include Lucky to be Here a digital exhibition through Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos and Bronx Council on the Arts, Intersecting Editions at The Castle Gallery, History of the Present at OSilas Gallery and Infinite Archive, NYPL at the 115th Street Harry Belafonte Library. She is currently serving as department chair of Art at Eastchester High School. #artistinterview
Artist Interview with Tatiana Arocha. Arocha amplifies the splendor of her home also to abate the negative stereotypes associated with Colombia. Her practice is deeply personal and respectful of indigenous forestry. Her art practice explores intimacy between people and land, rooted in personal memory and her immigrant experience, and centers on exchange. Arocha's work records what has not yet disappeared but is threatened by extinction, layering her relationship to the bio-political and place- based knowledge. Influenced by-and in opposition to-the scientific texts and botanical engravings of colonial explorers, Arocha alters her archive of flora and fauna to recreate and re-imagine endangered ecosystems and to resist the violent costs of extractive economies. Tatiana Arocha is a N ew York-born Colombian artist, living in Brooklyn on Lenape ancestral land. She has held residencies at The Wassaic Project, LABverde, Centro Selva, Arquetopia, and Zea Mays Printmaking. Arocha has received funding from The Sustainable Arts Foundation and Brooklyn Arts Council. Solo exhibitions include Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, Queens Botanical Garden, and site-specific installations at BRIC, Brookfield Place/Winter Garden, MTA Arts, Goethe-lnstitut Kolumbien, and Hilton Bogota Corferias. She has participated in group exhibitions at Smack Mellon, Wave Hill, BRIC, The Wassaic Project, ArtBridge, KODALab, and The Clemente. Arocha studied illustration and graphic design in Bogota, Colombia. From 2000-2008, she was owner/curator of Servicio Ejecutivo, a digital-turned-physical gallery in Brooklyn.
Interview with Deirdre Murphy one of three exhibiting artists in 'Wind Spirits' Reception: OCT 26 5-7 p.m. | Art Alley Murphy’s work emerges from more than a decade of interest in avian migratory patterns, and the effects of climate change and molecular biology. This deep creative inquiry into patterns in nature both visible and invisible have led to a history of collaborating with scientists from institutions including The University of Pennsylvania, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Powdermill Nature Reserve/ Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Drexel University’s Academy of Natural Science and Integral Molecular Laboratory. Imagery in her work ranges from data visualization of ornithology charts to phosphorescent images of viruses, to cellular structures in petri dishes that morph into star clusters and light pollution maps to finally rest upon a Luna moth. #interview #artistinterview #birds Shaver's Creek Environmental Center
On September 10, 2021 artist Rosemarie Fiore painted with smoke on the HUB Lawn in celebration of the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity's 20th anniversary. During the performance, Fiore completed three murals that will hang in the HUB-Robeson Center. After the performance students interviewed Fiore to learn more about why she paints with smoke and the inspiration of her tools. Special thanks to HUB-Robeson Center, Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity, countless students, staff, and faculty volunteers, and HUB-Robeson Galleries student staff who made the event possible. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Filmed by: Bulldog Production House, Ken Grua, https://www.bulldogproductionhouse.com/ Edited by: Dani Spewak, Visual Arts Production Specialist, HUB-Robeson Galleries, Penn State
Join artist Rosemarie Fiore on the HUB Lawn September 9, 2 -5 p.m. for a live smoke painting performance. Find an action packed day of offerings as we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity. Rosemarie creates her own tools for a one of a kind expression of pride, making your own mark, and being you. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support from Penn State Student Affairs, the HUB-Robeson Center, and the Jeffrey A. Conrad Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
Attention all 2nd year students!! Would you like to meet other 2nd year students and attend exhibitions, performances, and concerts together? Are you an arts and culture enthusiast or just looking to experience something new? Explore Penn States' offerings of comedy, live music, exhibits, films, talks, workshops and more with a diverse group of arts curious folks. There is no cost to participate and expenses such as tickets/materials are covered by the programs sponsors. Art Adventures for 2nd Year Students is a co-curricular learning cohort organizing arts outings for students new to State College or University Park campus. While space is limited, we will notify those interested at the beginning of September. Priority will be given to students new to University Park, from majors outside of the arts, and who have not yet joined a campus club or organization. However, all those interested are invited to submit an interest form and spots will be offered on a first come first serve basis after September 1st. Link to sign up is on our website and below! https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=RY30fNs9iUOpwcEVUm61Lvl_0nFu0sBCnfDsCkZBpT9UM0dWUzVIV0pDVDVGSEdaNlMxTUlMREJWVS4u In order to participate in Arts Adventures you must: **Commit to attending 9 or more events per semester **Assist cohort members in developing a meaningful community that supports and promotes the ideals of personal and academic responsibility and engaged citizenship **Develop and participate in regular cohort meetings to encourage ongoing development and engagement with concepts, ideas, and material related to programs **Actively engage with the offered educational, social, recreational, and cultural events This program is led by current Penn State students, with support from Student Activities and the HUB-Robeson Galleries, and sponsored by the Second Year Student Enhancement Program. #pennstate Please spread the word across Penn State 2nd year students! Penn State Student
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