Visual Arts Department

January 8th - March 14th, 2025
Crowell and West Galleries
Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
9:00am - 5:00pm daily

Opening Reception: January 17th, 4:30-6:30pm

All that is Gathered features three artists whose printmaking practice fundamentally informs their work, permeating sculpture, painting, installation and craft. Unbeholden to tradition, their formally developed methods expand with every iteration.

Golnar Adili uses image transfer techniques to meld personal archives with the present. Kristina Bivona disrupts the sanctity of galleries to vignette the lives of sex workers and incarcerated people. Karen Lederer marries the gestural marks of painting with the graphic quality of monoprints.

All that is Gathered looks at the wake created from life moving forward, picking up and putting down, and the evidence of joy, pain, and resilience. The reverberation of experience passing into the present is a source of sustenance for these artists. While they examine their lives using the tools they carry, we are called to reflect on our own journey. How do we find nourishment through the guardianship of our life experiences? What responsibilities do we owe to what we have gathered? And how can our position be used to learn, to share, to understand?

Curated by Allison Conley, Lecturer of Printmaking and Drawing

Press Release

In the News

Visual Arts photography students along with Frank Rapant and Rachel Stern have artwork in an exhibition at Baxter Street Camera Club of New York on view in Manhattan. You can learn about the exhibition on the Visual Arts photography Instagram.

Participating students include:

• Zach Anisman
• Sam Brosnan
• Aspen Moris
• Andrea Mullen
• Bryan Nunez
• Isabel Pacchiana
• Iris Phenix
• Frank Rapant
• Spencer Shaffer
• Rachel Stern
• Vu Chi Tam
• Jack Vagzanelis
• Lily Von Barren
• Ece Yenigun
• Rowan Zeigler

PHOTOS: Exploring spaces and new perspectives in Jackson’s Garden

Students in AVA 310 - Experimental Drawing are using non-traditional materials and conceptual challenges to spark play in their drawing practices and expand their notion of art making

The Union College Visual Arts Department was recently featured in a WAMC story. Listen here.

The Department of Visual Arts is committed to the centrality of art in the liberal arts at Union College. We do so from a position unique among other departments on campus. Already by nature interdisciplinary, the department has in recent years increasingly become a dynamic intersection of scholarly undertakings and teaching initiatives across the campus. Our vision is to strengthen the multiple connections between ourselves and other academic departments and to reach beyond the campus to develop relationships with other arts institutions. Our vision is to continue to bridge the past, present, and future for our students through painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, digital art, and art history. Our vision, in short, is to enrich the Union College community through art.

Take a virtual tour of the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts.

Union graduates, like the ones featured below, are thriving in the art world. Learn more about art at Union, and read additional alumni stories, in the Spring 2023 magazine.

Professor Conley's Post Digital Printmaking class printed their oversized woodcuts with a steamroller!