Visual Arts Department

Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
Crowell and West Galleries
September 5 - November 29, 2025
Mon. - Sat. 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Opening Reception
Friday, September 26, 2025 4:30-6:30 pm

Free and open to the public

The Department of Visual Arts at Union College is pleased to present Chris Duncan: Beats and Riffs, at the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts. Internationally known for his large-scale outdoor sculptures in steel and concrete since the 1990s, Chris Duncan continues to make work that sings with syncopated rhythms and intricate harmonies. This exhibition features forty-four recent and new works, many of them exhibited here for the first time. Duncan's highly personal sculptural vocabulary of densely massed form and dynamic space is remixed with new materials, textures, surfaces, and bold experiments in color. The works on paper pulse with chromatic modulation and a gestural style of drawing that reveals his roots and practice as a maker of three-dimensional objects. This exhibition includes works that trace key lines of his creative trajectory across the last ten years – small-scale bozzetti (sculptural sketches), cast bronze pieces, large-scale works on paper, and numerous freestanding sculptures. From the intimate to the monumental, and from the abstract to the figurative, Chris Duncan's work deftly navigates the space between structure and improvisation.

The exhibition is curated by David Ogawa.

Art History
AAH-104 Arts of China MWF 10:30-11:35
AAH-115 Leonardo da Vinci: Science, Art, & Tech MWF 3:05-4:45
AAH-265-01 Environmentalism and Art TTh 10:55-12:40
AAH-265-02 Environmentalism and Art TTh 1:55-3:40
AAH-380 Edo Prints & Printmaking MWF 1:50-2:55

Studio Arts
AVA-110 Drawing 1 MW 9:30-12:30
AVA-120-01 Photography 1 TTh 9:30-12:30
AVA-120-02 Photography 1 TTh 2:00-5:00
AVA-130 Sculpture 1 TTh 2:00-5:00
AVA-140 Three Dimensional Design TTh 9:30-12:30
AVA-150 Printmaking - Relief MW 9:30-12:30
AVA-160 Digital Art TTh 9:30-12:30
AVA-260 Painting in Oil TTh 9:30-12:30
AVA-310 Experimental Drawing MW 2:00-5:00
AVA-363 3D Computer Modeling TTh 2:00-5:00

Visual Arts photography students along with Frank Rapant and Rachel Stern have artwork in an exhibition at Baxter Street Camera Club of New York on view in Manhattan. You can learn about the exhibition on the Visual Arts photography Instagram.

Participating students include:

• Zach Anisman
• Sam Brosnan
• Aspen Moris
• Andrea Mullen
• Bryan Nunez
• Isabel Pacchiana
• Iris Phenix
• Frank Rapant
• Spencer Shaffer
• Rachel Stern
• Vu Chi Tam
• Jack Vagzanelis
• Lily Von Barren
• Ece Yenigun
• Rowan Zeigler

PHOTOS: Exploring spaces and new perspectives in Jackson’s Garden

Students in AVA 310 - Experimental Drawing are using non-traditional materials and conceptual challenges to spark play in their drawing practices and expand their notion of art making

The Union College Visual Arts Department was recently featured in a WAMC story. Listen here.

The Department of Visual Arts is committed to the centrality of art in the liberal arts at Union College. We do so from a position unique among other departments on campus. Already by nature interdisciplinary, the department has in recent years increasingly become a dynamic intersection of scholarly undertakings and teaching initiatives across the campus. Our vision is to strengthen the multiple connections between ourselves and other academic departments and to reach beyond the campus to develop relationships with other arts institutions. Our vision is to continue to bridge the past, present, and future for our students through painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, digital art, and art history. Our vision, in short, is to enrich the Union College community through art.

Take a virtual tour of the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts.

Professor Conley's Post Digital Printmaking class printed their oversized woodcuts with a steamroller!