siegel gallery
The Art of Collecting
LUAG MAIN GALLERY, Zoellner Arts Center 420 E. Packer Ave., Bethlehem, PA, United StatesMuseum collections are alive. Like the culture around them, they grow and change, responding to new ideas and new circumstances ranging from iPhones to ISIS. The culture engine never stops, and likewise the collecting museum feels an urgency to reflect how the world is changing around it. By acquiring new objects...
Estraño – Stranger Things
SIEGEL GALLERY, Iacocca Hall Mountaintop campus, Bethlehem, PA, United StatesThe strangeness of everyday objects provides endless fascination for artists. This experience of unsettling familiarity—or what Sigmund Freud called “the uncanny”—has taken many forms throughout history. The Greeks and Romans… Read More Estraño – Stranger Things
Jack Youngerman: Prints
SIEGEL GALLERY, Iacocca Hall Mountaintop campus, Bethlehem, PA, United StatesJack Youngerman (b.1926) belongs to the first generation of artists who set up studios in New York City’s abandoned industrial spaces during the 1950s and 1960s.
Peter Berg: Labyrinths
SIEGEL GALLERY, Iacocca Hall Mountaintop campus, Bethlehem, PA, United StatesPeter Berg (1948-1997) was known for his maze-like sculptural installations that moved in and out of existing architecture with discreet presence. Fabricated from standard building materials, Berg’s constructions of wood, sheetrock, spackle and paint often merged with their surroundings, sprouting walls, plinths, winding passageways, and rooms with no obvious entry points...