This exhibition will feature the creative works of current Exeter students enrolled in advanced art courses.
Work by iconic space artist, Chesley Bonestell, meets contemporary artists in an exploration of all things cosmic. The Bonestell work is drawn from the collection of the late Jay Whipple ’51.
Artist and educator Gordon D. Chase ’66, asks big questions in dynamic ways. Whether through intensely colorful gestural paintings or powerful black-and-white drawings; piercingly angular sculpture or circular ‘witness wheels,’ he endeavors to create art with a social conscience to test our assumptions about how we affect—and are affected by—the world we share.
“I like to explore human motives and behavior at many different scales, from personal to global,” he asserts. Politics and social justice—whose politics, and what actions signify justice—are at the heart of his artful quest. From exploring the mythic, to critiquing the military, and through observing the frequent intensity of simply being human, he illuminates how our passions determine our behaviors and the consequences they create.
Image credit: Gordon D. Chase, The Insanity of Violence, 2017, 12' x 6' x 12', marine plywood
Lamont Gallery programs are supported in part by the Michael C. Rockefeller ’56 Visiting Artists Fund.
Lamont Gallery, Frederick R. Mayer Art Center, Phillips Exeter Academy
20 Main Street, Exeter NH, 03833
603-777-3461 / gallery@exeter.edu