Camphill Kimberton hosts Ursinus Faculty Exhibition: February 20-April 9

A gallery opening featuring art by Ursinus College faculty will be held Monday, February 20 from 6-8 p.m. in the Wellspring Gallery at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills.  

This group exhibition consists of work by the Ursinus College Fine Arts faculty, including Robert Waddington, Sarah Kaufman, Roger Chavez, Jackie Brown, and Pedro Barbeito.  The works on display represent the variety of media, approaches and conceptual frameworks that this exceptional faculty brings to the learning experience at Ursinus. The exhibition also attests to the College’s ongoing engagement and dialogue with the local community. 

The exhibition will run from Februrary 20 until April 9, 2012. 

  

For more information about the exhibited works please contact Mimi Coleman at mimi@camphillkimberton.orgor 610-935-0300, ext. 17.

Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is located at 1601 Pughtown Road, Kimberton, Pa. The Wellspring Gallery is located in the Kepler Building.

About the artists:

Mr. Waddington is currently represented by the Rodger Lapelle Gallery in Philadelphia. His work is based in Pop Art Culture and Photorealism. He has shown his work extensively and is in many corporate and private collections. Mr. Waddington is an in-depth historian and scholar of ancient manuscripts and treatises on painting techniques and materials. He, in collaboration with another author, is writing the definitive book of portrait painting, titled “The Definitive Book of Portrait Painting”.

–Robert Waddington



"My work is an inherently human investigation. I visit people in their homes and ask them to try to show me the world that they inhabit when they are alone. The resulting photographs chase glimpses of this world and explore the relationships among the subjects, their bodies, and their spaces. They reveal the possibility for a quiet intensity within the everyday by prolonging reflective silence as it seeps into the environment."

 –Sarah Kaufman


"Fueled by quotidian reality, there are psychological, residual outcomes in the works: auras of mortality, timelessness, and identity. My painting process involves a significant amount of adding and subtracting of painterly forms, resulting in forms overlaying preceding forms, increasingly concealing the real appearances of the subject matter. In the process, my color palette results in the use of muted colors and tonal grays, arriving from the use of the prismatic hues as these afford more vibrant and colorful grays and allow for subtle changes in color and temperature in the paintings."

–Roger Chavez



"At the core of my work is an interest in biological processes and the transformative potential that is possible through adaptation and mutation. I aim for the works to be electrically charged, conveying a feverish sense of immediacy and through the use of viscous porous surfaces I attempt to provide a sense that the work is alive. Brain Sprouts are offshoots from the recent series of installations collectively titled Brain Fruit, which stem from an interest in neuroscience, specifically the elastic potential of the mind. I hope for the works to suggest an active meshwork of synaptic exchange where the green rods and orange linear elements serve as active pathways, implying circuitry and the continual pulsing of inputs and outputs."

 –Jackie Brown



"The works included in this exhibit are from a 2005 series of paintings and drawings that examine how digital imaging can be used to inform the aesthetic and formal makeup of cubist painting. I began this project by making multiple drawings of family and friends in a style similar to that of Picasso. These were then scanned, manipulated with 2-D and 3-D programs and then translated into paint on canvas."

–Pedro Barbeito