Recent MHC Faculty Work Carleen Sheehan's Calypso Series works in gouache and enamel are brilliantly colored, tiny, jewel-like images that bring to mind kaleidoscopes or air bubbles trapped in layers of ice. She is one of six art faculty members whose recent work is currently on display at the Art Museum.
Professors get to look at student work all the time.
A new exhibition at the MHC Art Museum turns the tables by putting faculty members' artwork on display. The Mount Holyoke College Art Faculty through March 12. The range of styles and media used by the six artists is considerable, from Sheehan's small, jewel-like enamel works and Miller's painterly oils of horses to Campbell and Kuhr's abstract rhythms, Margalit's use of encaustic, and Smith's ironic sculptural juxtapositions of clear, fragile glass with solid metal and wood. Marion Miller's latest oil paintings focus on horses and their riders. Because she paints them in indoor settings, the works are as interesting for their formal structure as for their equestrian content.