Nuts & Bolts: NOVA Community College Faculty Art Exhibit
November 7-December 12
The Caton Merchant Family Gallery will host a NOVA (Northern Virginia Community College) Art Show featuring faculty from the Woodbridge and Manassas campuses from November 7-December 12. The exhibit will highlight the work of 11 creative instructors from the Art & Art History Departments. NOVA, a cornerstone of the northern Virginia region, boasts professors that work with a variety of media and techniques, such as painting, photo-collage, sculpture, and abstract mixed media. The exhibition emphasizes each instructor’s individual style, technique, and approach to art. Meet the instructors at the opening reception, November 10, 6- 8 pm.
Featured Artists:
Erin Devine, David Epstein, Rosemary Gallick, Eric Garner, Hank
Harmon, Zac Jackson, Jean Lauzon, Elizabeth Lynch, Fred Markham, Matt
Pinney, Gail Rebhan
About the Artists:
Erin Devine
Erin Devine is an artist, writer, and curator based in Washington, DC.
She received her Ph.D. in Art History with a specialization in
Contemporary Art from Indiana University. Her video-based and live
performances are characterized by research that addresses the adverse
position of patriarchy in shaping history and culture.
David Epstein
David Epstein, M.F.A, M. Ed., is the College Dean of Visual, Performing,
and Media Arts (VPMA) and the Woodbridge Campus Dean of Languages, Arts
and Social Sciences at Northern Virginia Community College. David
holds a Bachelor of Arts in Integrative Arts from The Pennsylvania State
University, a Master of Fine Arts from The Savannah College of Art and
Design and a Master of Education from Northcentral University.
Rosemary Gallick
Rosemary Gallick is a Professor of Art and Art History at Northern
Virginia Community College where she has taught since 1996. She holds a
B.A. from the State University of New York in Art and an M.F.A. from
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. In addition, Rosemary Gallick has a
Master’s degree in Communication from Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York. She has published numerous articles, has given various art
presentations and has exhibited her artwork throughout the United
States.
Eric Garner
Eric Garner received a BAS in studio art and civil engineering from
Stanford University in 1989 and an MS in civil engineering from Stanford
in 1990. Garner’s work reflects an interest in patterning and visual
systems, with influences ranging from American quilts, Islamic arts, and
African textiles, to infrastructure design conventions.
Hank Harmon
Hank Harmon’s work is: abstract – opposed to natural representation of
things; not opposed to nature directly experienced – immediate in
communication. His work is self-contained, in that it is concerned with
relational esthetics only in the work’s relationship to itself highly
simplified – based on primary sensations gained by direct experience
with the work aesthetic ideals aim toward a conciseness of statement.
Zac Jackson
Zac’s work stems from a fascination with our reactions, both mentally
and physically, to ideas of stress and tension. Referencing his own
experiences as well as those gathered from interviews with others his
work creates a dialogue for these, often unrecognized, occurrences. To
capture the movements that are associated with anxieties he occasionally
employs different kinetic elements that amplify or exaggerate these
twitches.
Jean Lauzon
Jean Lauzon hails from the Midwest, where she earned a BFA, summa cum
laude, Fine Art, at Millikin University, Decatur IL, and her MA and MFA
in Fine Art/Painting from the University of Iowa. After retirement and a
year of travel, she followed her husband to Reston, VA, and returned to
teaching as an adjunct art instructor at NVCC – Manassas. Ms. Lauzon
considers her paintings to be “Post-Modernist” and her drawings and
watercolors to be naturalistic.
Elizabeth Lynch
Elizabeth Lynch received her BA, MA and PHD in art history. She has been
teaching art history for seventeen years, and has been teaching full
time at NOVA Woodbridge for the past seven years. She likes to work with
pastels and acrylics, focusing on still-life and landscape.
Fred Markham
Fred Markham received his Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Drawing from
Transylvania University in Lexington Kentucky. He went on to a
Post-Baccalaureate Program in Painting at the University of Kentucky,
and then received his Master of Fine Arts in Painting from The George
Washington University.
Matt Pinney
Matt Pinney is a multi-media artist living and working in Washington
D.C. He has shown his work nationally and internationally. Pinney is an
Assistant Professor at Northern Virginia Community College’s Manassas
campus where he teaches studio art. He is also a faculty member at The
Art League at the Torpedo Factory where he won the Clemente Faculty
Award at the Patron’s show in 2017.
Gail Rebhan
Gail Rebhan is a Washington, D.C. based photographer and Professor of
Photography at Northern Virginia Community College. She has an M.F.A.
from California Institute of the Arts and an undergraduate degree from
Antioch College. Integral to her various bodies of work is an interest
in time and change. She often constructs a conceptual framework that
uses sequencing or grids.