Outsider Artist and local resident Gregory Warmack (Mr. Imagination) was commissioned to make Alferd the Mountain Mule. Warmack is an internationally known folk artist, a self-taught visionary whose subtle spirituality is captured in everyday found objects, ranging from sandstone to paintbrushes and bottle caps. His work is exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution and in major… Read More ALFERD THE MOUNTAIN MULE

An interactive outdoor sculpture exhibition by noted artist Martha Posner that combines two bodies of work: "Waking the Wood", a series from the early and mid-1990s, and her most current series of woven and waxed empty garments. In September, Posner will construct three human-scale dresses made of honeysuckle, wire, and wild rosecanes at an outdoor… Read More MARTHA POSNER: HONEYSUCKLE COUTURE

What can we learn by looking at more than one work of art by the same maker?  How do artists use seriality, multiples, or multi-format works to convey their ideas?  What happens when an artist addresses similar subjects with different approaches, or at different times in his/her career?  These are some of the questions explored through this selection from the LUAG teaching collection.

Guido Llinás was a master painter and printmaker, born in Cuba, in 1923, and living in France from 1963 until his death in 2005. In Havana he found affinity with Abstract Expressionism, but in Paris during the 1960s his prints began to feature a series of "marks" - squiggles, crosses, doubled crosses and arrows, inspired… Read More GUIDO LLINÁS: FORGOTTEN CUBAN MASTER

Blanka Sperková's art is based upon simplified material and technique: metal wire and finger knitting. She skillfully manipulates fine wire of silver and other materials into three dimensional objects that become symbols of frailty: transparent anthropomorphic and ethereal shapes with internal and external tension that suggest the unwinding of time. Sperková is an award-winning artist… Read More BLANKA SPERKOVÁ: POETRY MADE OF WIRE

In conjunction with the exhibition, Lehigh Associate Professor of Modern Languages, Mary A. Nicholas will offer a First-Year Seminar, "The View From Here: Images of America in Contemporary Literature". Heralded in Moscow as Russia's largest contemporary art show of the decade, the U.S. exhibition tour includes a selection of 70 innovative screenprints by over 20… Read More THE VIEW FROM HERE – ISSUES OF CULTURAL IDENTITY & PERSPECTIVE IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN ART