Studio Art Majors

Due to COVID-19, the Galleries will be open to the campus community only. Exhibition receptions and programs will be virtual.

If you would like to attend any of the following virtual receptions, please sign up by clicking here! We will email you a link to the zoom meeting the day of the reception.

Senior Studio Art Majors will present solo exhibitions in the Smith Gallery throughout the Spring semester.

Adrienne Lee ’21
Ode to Self
On View: March 10 -15, 2021
Virtual Artist Reception: Wednesday, March 10, 4:30pm EDT via Zoom. Sign up here.

[arborization]: nerve extensions in the brain, a sensible

homage to the Latin arbor for “tree.”
Earthly extensions;
tethered to the abstract
architecture of self

Adrienne Lee is pursuing a BA in studio art with minor in neuroscience at Davidson College, NC, US. Her work was featured at the 32nd European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress (2019) and was awarded best sculpture in the annual international art competition (2019) led by Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Recently, her work was selected for online publications of Humanities, Arts & Society project by UNESCO-MOST.

Emilie Hoke ’21
illume
On View: March 18-23, 2021
Virtual Artist Reception: Friday, March 19, 4:30pm EDT via Zoom. Sign up here!

Emilie Hoke is pursuing a BA in Art and Environmental Studies at Davidson College. Her work is inspired by her interactions with the natural world and has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art (2019) and the National Humanities Center (2019). Her portfolio of work can be found at emiliehoke.com.

Landin Eldridge ’21
On View: March 26-31, 2021
Virtual Artist Reception: Tuesday, March 30, 5pm EDT via Zoom. Sign up here!

Landin Eldridge is pursuing a BA in Studio Art and Theatre at Davidson College, NC. Her body of work explores the intersection of humor and guilt, portraying the exact moment a good thing turns bad. Her pieces won the popular vote award (2018) and the best in show award (2019) at Davidson’s annual student art exhibition. She is also the recipient of the Douglas Houchens Studio Art Award (2020) and the Keiser Prize in English for Classical Performance (2020). A collection of her work can be found at the Instagram account @theabstractlando.

Rebecca Cobo ’21
Im:mutable
On View: April 3-11, 2021 (Galleries will be closed April 7 & 8)
Virtual Artist Reception: Monday, April 5, 5pm EDT via Zoom. Sign up here!

Rebecca Cobo is pursuing a BA in Studio Art with a double major in Psychology at Davidson College. Inspired by gender and sexuality throughout history, they illustrate invented narratives of characters that focus on the beauty and pain of queer experience. Their work has been featured on the cover of the Advertising and Bare Bones editions of Libertas.

Adelle Patten ’21
<i> Coalescing Realities </i>
On View: April 15-19, 2021
Virtual Artist Reception: Friday, April 16, 2pm EDT via Zoom. Sign up here!

Adelle Patten is a North Carolinian mixed media artist interested in visualizing our current reality, defined by the Digital Revolution. Patten is currently pursuing a BA in Studio Art with a minor in Digital Studies at Davidson College. As a MacDonald Community Scholar and Charles L. Fonville Scholar at Davidson, she is passionate about the intersection of social justice, climate change and arts education. In 2018, she received the Juror’s Award for Painting at the Annual Student Art Exhibition. Patten serves as a Davidson Arts and Creative Engagement Fellow, granting student creatives with AIR (Artistic Independent Research Grants). As a Davidson College Digital Learning Media Consultant, Patten also collaborates with students and faculty to build digital projects. Currently, she is digitally illustrating for Professor of Creative Writing, Alan Michael Parker’s newest publication. In the near future, she hopes to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts. To learn more, please visit https://www.adellepatten.com/.

Chloe Pitkoff ’21
Laloland
On View: April 22-27, 2021
Virtual Artist Reception: Friday, April 23, 4:30pm EDT via Zoom. Sign up here.

Chloe Pitkoff is pursuing a BA in studio art at Davidson College, NC, US. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Chloe has studied and had her work displayed at The Brooklyn Museum, MoMA, The Guggenheim, Bridgeview School of Fine Arts, The Cooper Union, and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music&Art and Performing Arts. She is the illustrator of That Baby in the Manger by Anne E. Neuberger and contributed illustrations to Holy Troublemakers and Unconventional Saints by Daneen Akers.

Isaac Scharbach ’21 
On View: April 29-May 5, 2021
This exhibition was organized by friends of Isaac in his memory. Learn more about Isaac and his work at the link above and through this article in The Davidsonian.