Landscape art meets digital design in season-opening CCRI Art Gallery exhibit
Sept. 18, 2019
The Community College of Rhode Island’s Knight Campus Art Gallery hosts its first
exhibition of the fall semester beginning today with, “On Earth: Paintings & Cross
Over Images,” by renowned artist Susan Nichter.
The month-long exhibition is free and open to the public.
Nichter, a professor at Suffolk University in Boston, teaches studio classes ranging
from drawing to installation courses in the college’s Art & Design Department. She
is also a former Wellesley College and Rhode Island School of Design professor. Nichter’s
work has been displayed nationally and internationally with exhibits throughout New
England, New York, Canada and Italy.
Among her more notable displays are public works projects at the Business Improvement
District in downtown Boston and The Dean Center for Tick Borne Illness at Spaulding
Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown, MA. She previously taught a study abroad program
in Prague, Czech Republic in 2010 and 2012 in addition to seminars in Rome and Milan
as a Fulbright scholar. In the summer, Nichter teaches a landscape painting course
on Martha’s Vineyard.
“On Earth: Paintings & Cross Over Images,” blends her landscape work with computer
design to create fantasy art. The exhibit, Nichter says, “combines mediums that physically
could not work together without digital intervention.”
“Landscape paintings are actually a side project, one that I only do for two weeks
out of the year,” Nichter said. “My narratives span years and range in subject matter
from the balancing act of motherhood and career.”
Assistant Professor of Art and Knight Campus Art Gallery Director Daniel O’Neill says
the exhibition can be a valuable teaching tool for students in various programs, from
Painting and Drawing to Digital Art and Graphic Design.
“We want our students to see examples of professional artists reacting to the same
prompts and challenges we present to them in the classroom,” O’Neill said.
The Knight Campus Art Gallery will host three exhibitions this fall, concluding with a student-run show at the
end of the semester in which students from all areas of study within the Art Department
– from Ceramics to Video Art – will have an opportunity to display their work.
“Many of our shows are very interactive,” O’Neill said. “We’ve had video artists who’ve
come to work with students in the Performing Arts Department who went on to become
actors in the projects they were making. We try to bring in artists, or groups of
artists, whose artwork can be an inspiration to our students.”
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