The Grace College School of Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce a new show of artwork by Will Carpenter, titled “Stacked Houses.” The exhibition, on display from Tuesday, Oct. 21, through Friday, Dec. 12, will feature a selection from his oil painting series of abstracted suburban landscapes. The show will be in the Art Gallery on the garden level of Mount Memorial Hall, 1 Lancer Way, Winona Lake. The artist will give a talk in the Mount Memorial Art Gallery on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. The community is invited to attend a free reception from 7 – 9 p.m.
“We are thrilled to welcome the return of Will Carpenter,” said Dr. Kim M. Reiff, dean of the School of Arts and Humanities. “His work continues to combine representation and abstraction in energetic and thoughtful ways. This new show of Carpenter’s oil paintings reveals his passion for composition, interpersonal relationships and the overarching presence of spiritual reality. Viewers of Will’s artwork, conveyed through house-like shapes, abstracted vertical design and layered colors, are invited to consider their own experiences of building relationships in various neighborhoods as they have journeyed through local and foreign landscapes.”
Now the chair of the Division of Art+Design at Indiana Wesleyan University, Carpenter lives in Marion, Ind., and is in his 20th year serving as a professor of art there. He teaches courses in art appreciation, color, design, drawing, printmaking and painting. His work has won numerous awards and has been featured in nationally juried exhibits and other shows around the country. He holds a B.A. from Wheaton College and an M.F.A. from the University of Miami in Florida, where he studied under the Abstract Expressionist painter Walter Darby Bannard and the author of “Drawing from Observation,” Brian Curtis.
This will be the second of six art exhibits hosted in Grace’s newly remodeled Art Gallery space on the Garden Level of Mount Memorial Hall. The exhibit is open to all without charge through Friday, Dec. 12. Art Gallery hours are Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
For more information, contact the Grace College Department of Visual and Performing Arts at 574-372-5100, ext. 6258, or email artgallery@grace.edu. The exhibit is ADA-accessible.
For more information about the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, visit www.grace.edu/academics/undergraduate/academic-schools-departments/school-of-arts-and-humanities/department-of-visual-performing-and-media-arts/.
