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We have already introduced one artist of the Baik Artist Residency, Jagath Weerasinghe. Now, we are excited to introduce you to another, Yong Soon Min! Keep your eyes peeled for a third Artist Spotlight blog post about the third Baik artist, Tintin Wulia, in the upcoming days. Davidson College is lucky to welcome Yong Soon Min as an artist in residence. Min, Wulia, and Weerasinghe will occupy the Van Every/ Smith Gallery with their exhibitions until the end of October. Min arrived last week and will stay until the end of October working on an exhibition for the Davidson community...

Over the next few days, we will be introducing each of the three artists who make up the Baik Artist Residency. For the entire month of October, each artist will be working in the Van Every gallery creating works for their combined exhibition, which will be on view from October 29th until December 11th. Today, we are spotlighting Sri Lankan artist and archaeologist Jagath Weerasinghe. Born in Sri Lanka, he studied painting and the conservation of wall and rock paintings before moving to the United States to pursue his MFA at American University in DC. He is currently the director...

Last spring, many students interning in the Davidson College Art Galleries graduated. Some also went abroad for a semester or two. Fortunately, this was balanced out by a number of talented and enthusiastic new interns who are just starting this fall. Among these new interns are two friends, Alice Berndt '20 and Sarah Jackson '20. Sarah is a double major in Studio Art and Economics, while Alice is an English major and Art History minor. Sarah enjoyed a particularly museum-rich summer this year! She pursued a course on "How the Art World Works," provided by the Sotheby's Institute of Art...

While looking through the Davidson College Gallery archive, I had a difficult time deciding which piece to write about and where it fit in in my experience working in the gallery. I considered a fascinating and complicated Victor Vasarely print composed of deep purple, red and white. However, I have always been drawn to photography, specifically photographs of people, both candid and posed. So, I chose a work by American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) entitled White Gauze. Some people argue that photography is not “true art” and that only painting and sculpture constitute forms of artistic creation, but Mapplethorpe proves...

Upon returning to campus in August, Davidson students were welcomed by a new addition to the campus’s collection of outdoor art - the painted steel sculpture titled Walking See Flower (2001) by Texan artist James Surls. Even I, as an art history major and gallery intern, was surprised by its presence outside of commons, as it disrupted such a familiar Davidson landscape. Because it is in a high-traffic area of campus, this piece now holds a place in campus conversation by posing two questions: what role should art play on a college campus, and how do landscape, both built and...