Main Gallery

“WFU Art Department Exhibition”

The “WFU Art Department Exhibition,” which will run through March 22, is a multimedia exhibition featuring the work of 13 Wake Forest art department faculty and staff members. The 40 pieces in the exhibit will represent a variety of media ranging from oil paintings, encaustic paintings, collages (both paper and sound), mixed-media installations, sculpture, digital images/prints, drawings (traditional graphite, powdered pigment and digital), furniture and intaglio printmaking/installation (metal plate etching).
Alix Hitchcock, instructor of drawing, will show two of her recent encaustic paintings titled “Nature’s Share” and “Crow Soul.” Encaustic painting is an ancient Egyptian medium in which beeswax is melted, pigment is added and then layers of wax are applied and fused to a firm surface using both painting and sculpting techniques. Hitchcock began studying the medium in 206 at Penland School of Crafts through a grant from Wake Forest’s William C. Archie Fund for Faculty Excellence.

The exhibition will feature oil paintings, including “Running Black Woman,” from Page Laughlin’s new interior series. Laughlin, a professor of art and department chair, gleans her inspiration from home magazines and paints “room portraits” unconventionally on mylar backed by aluminum panels. Some of her earlier work is part of the permanent collection at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

The installation will also feature collages like “via Cavour II” by Paul Bright, assistant director of the Hanes Gallery. Using trash and found items, Bright creates what he describes as new order through artistic re-compositions of the fragments of human existence. He does this through several different media including glued and laminated papers, video and sound. His work has exhibited in Gothic churches and Renaissance fortresses in Italy.

Exhibiting Artists and media:

Alix Hitchcock , encaustic

Roy Carter, digital media

Bryan Ellis, works on paper

John Pickel, photography

David Finn, sculpture

David Gainey, sculpture

Victor Faccinto, video and mixed media

Paul S. Marley, photography and sculpture

Jennifer Gentry, digital media and drawing

Paul Bright, collage

Leigh Ann Hallberg, drawing

David Faber, printmaking

Page H. Laughlin, painting