Online Campus Art Tour:
Click on the white buildings to see artworks currently on display on Union College campus.
Legend:
(Building numbers correspond to the Union College Campus map)
- 2. President's House
- 3. Feigenbaum Hall
- 4. Siliman Hall
- 14. Hale House
- 15. Becker Career Center
- 16. Old Chapel
- 19. Memorial Chapel
- 22A. O'Brien Center
- 22B. Grant Hall
- 25. Karp Hall
- 26. Schaffer Library
- 28. Nott Memorial
- 40.Wold Center
- 44. Olin Center
- 45. Reamer Campus Center
- 47. Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
- 48. Taylor Music Center
- 53. Henle Dance Pavilion
28. Nott Memorial
Float Face by Keun Young Park
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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The Ree Group Formula by Enrico Bombieri
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Ampère's Law by Simon K. Donaldson
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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P vs NP by Richard M. Karp
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Outlook by Racheal Wren
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Encyclopedia of Cloud Divination (Plate 3) by Saya Woolfalk
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Trance by David Shrobe
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Regenerate by David Shrobe
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Infinite Regress VIV by Eamon Ore-Giron
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Modern Gods by Sam Winston
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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To experience all the things that may happen there by Firelei Báez
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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M'ap manje Kochon Sa a by Didier William
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Untitled by Paul Thek, Harlan & Weaver
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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The Spirit of Marie Laveau (from the Crown series) by Renée Stout
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Black is the Color (from the Crown series) by Alisa Sikelianos-Carter
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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The Harbinger by Stacey Robinson
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Tribe and Community (from Survival Suite) by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Location: Mandeville Gallery.
Jaune Quick-to-see-Smith is an artist, cultural arts worker, and an enrolled Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Montana. Through humor and satire, she “examine[s] myths, stereotypes, and the paradox of Native American life in contrast to the consumerism of American society.”
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Wisdom and Knowledge by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Nature and Medicine by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Humor by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Infinite Regress CXLVII (variation I) by Eamon Ore-Giron
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Notebook on Water 1965-1966 by Joseph Kosuth
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Dream Team by Jenny Kemp
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Untitled by Seydou Keïta
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Stars Over Perus by Juan Hinojosa
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Stars Above Perus by Juan Hinojosa
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Black Celebration by Tony Cokes
17:11 minute black and white digital video with sound.
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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No Sell Out by Tony Cokes
5:37 minute color digital video with sound.
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Evil.Torture.Musik by Tony Cokes
17:00 minute color digital video with sound.
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Twelve Heads by Nicole Eisenman
Location: Mandeville Gallery
Each figure Nicole Eisenman renders is done so in a unique way, an intentional practice that links to her belief that “different images” or in this case, people, “ask to be painted in different ways.”
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White Line Square XVII by Josef Albers
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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The Jungle Bunny Gave You Fever, The Only Cure is to Fuck the Bunny. She Wants It by Katrina Andry
Location: Mandeville Gallery
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Mammy Complex: Unfit Mommies Make for Fit Nannies by Katrina Andry
Location: Mandeville Gallery.
In, “Mammy Complex: Unfit Mommies Make for Fit Nannies”, made in 2011 by New Orleans native, Katrina Andry, explores a complicated narrative on persisting negative stereotypes within the essence of mother-hood. Most of Andry’s work centralizes itself around conceptions of identity, primarily analyzing the stigmas which surround minorities.
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26. Schaffer Library
Sultana's Dream: Refugees and Queen (20) by Chitra Ganesh
Location: 3rd Floor; Schaffer Library
Chitra Ganesh's print portfolio for Sultana's Dream were made in 2018 as monochromatic linocuts on tan paper. There are 27 pieces that total the collection. Ganesh’s visuals series of prints illustrate Sultana's Dream, a 1905 Bengali feminist story written by Rokeya Sahkawat Hossain.
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Sultana's Dream: House in Heart Garden (07) by Chitra Ganesh
Location: 3rd Floor; Schaffer Library
In Chitra Ganesh’s series of prints inspired by Sultana’s Dream, a story written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain in 1905, Ganesh explores female identity, magical symbolism, nature, myth, and the power of dreams. Ganesh’s work is detailed, intricate, and nuanced, which represents well the infinite power inherent to Hossain’s fabled feminine utopia.
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Séance by Valerie Hammond
Location: 1st Floor; Lally Reading Room.
Valerie Hammond’s creation of hybrid creatures begins with the collection of wildlife that she transfers into her work through drawing and printmaking. As a result, her collected ferns and vines feel intrinsically linked with the human body, forging a new kind of being.
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Kochon Sa a lou/This Pig is Heavy by Didier William
Location: 1st Floor; Lally Reading Room.
Didier William is originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but currently lives and works in the United States. In his own words, his work is about “living in diaspora and the process of constructing meaning out of history, mythology and lived experience,” a balance that has required careful research into the history of Haiti and the United States, as well as an excavation of his own life experience for visual references.
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Birmingham by Toyin Ojih Odutola
Location: 2nd Floor; Mandeville Gallery alcove area.
Toyin Ojih Odutola is a Nigerian-born artist, who immigrated to the United States as a young child. She notes that upon moving to the United States “[her] skin, became a definition”; a jarring change to her identity that would go on to inform the questions and constructs investigated in her body of work.
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25. Karp Hall
Blue Stone (from Primary Series) by Lee Krasner
Location: 2nd Floor.
Lee Krasner was an American, abstract expressionist and part of an era of art-making characterized by gestural marks and artworks that embodied spontaneity, emotion, and improvisation. Blue Stone is evocative of the era, filled with energetic, emotive brush strokes.
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Complementary with Gold by Herbert Bayer
Location: 1st Floor.
Herbert Bayer was a student of the Bauhaus, a prominent school of arts and design in Germany in the early 1900’s. Bayer’s roots as an artist of the Bauhaus are evident in Complementary with Gold, showcasing his rich knowledge of color theory and perception.
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40. Wold Center
Untitled (from Figure/ Table Series) Gemini #20.5 by Robert Graham
Location: 2nd Floor.
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45. Reamer Campus Center
47. Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
Ready by Gregory Eltringham
Location: 2nd Floor.
Gregory Eltringham is a Professor of Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia. With over two decades of figurative work, Eltringham conveys images that are “closely tied to personal experiences and reaction to outside forces.” His paintings also reflect on “social dynamics, questionable behavior, habitation, and the limits of personal comfort.”
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22B. Grant Hall
Out of the Blue III by Sandra Wimer
Location: Reception area.
For Sandra Wimer, “spending most of [her] life in the plains states provided an experience of living with a sky that is cinematic”; an influence and motif that can be seen throughout her printmaking career and in Out of the Blue III in particular.
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22A. O’Brien Center
After Metternich Drawings (Red-Blue) by Chryssa
Location: Lobby.
Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali was a Greek born, American artist, who moved to New York City in the 1950’s. Already interested in depicting written communication and fragmented writing, Chyrssa was struck by her new surroundings and her art quickly became inspired by the city’s bright advertisements and lights.
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What's your favorite artwork on campus?
To be considered for inclusion in the online tour, submit a written impression of your favorite Permanent Collection item installed on campus! Submissions can be sent to mandevillegallery@union.edu
Very special thanks to Jenn Byrd, Library Web Developer, for coding the tour map and this website possible.