Visual Arts
The Visual Arts Department Faculty and Staff Exhibition
September 9 - November 22
Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
Crowell and West Galleries
Opening Reception
October 23, 2026
4:30 - 6:30pm
As part of the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts, the department is pleased to present Practices: the Visual Arts Department Faculty and Staff Exhibition. This show brings together more than 60 works across a variety of media, including painting, printmaking, photography, robotic art, sculpture, installation, and theatrical costume and set design.
Union College, the Visual Arts department, and especially our students are extremely fortunate that all of the Studio teaching faculty and support staff are artists with robust and active practices of their own. Each individual work embodies their accomplishments in their respective fields and media, and collectively, the exhibition is a series of dialogues between their practices. Aesthetic concerns resonate between drypoint etchings and robotic machines, and between paintings and photographs, between wallpaper and installations. Thematic concerns resonate across all the works: stasis and animation, memory and oblivion, raw perception and esoteric ideation, embodied experience and disembodied feeling. What unites them is the dynamic and multivalent notion of practices.
Practices can be rehearsals and repetitions. Practices can be rituals, whether spiritual or mundane. Practices can be the refinement of material technique through the conjunction of hand, mind, and eye. Above all, practices are constant experimentation, restless elaboration, and a devotion to process, not just product.
