Now Showing: International Education Photo Contest Winners & Finalists

Now showing in the RSM Art Gallery are the 2020 International Education Photo Contest category winners and finalists.

Each year Bentley students, faculty, and staff are invited to submit one photo for each of three categories: Bentley Abroad, Landscapes, and The World As Your Classroom. Visit @BentleyUAbroad on Facebook to view the complete contest entries photo album. For more information about the contest, visit the International Education Photo Contest webpage.

2020 International Education Photo Contest
Winners and Finalists
November 6, 2020 –

2020 International Education Photo Contest

Members of the Bentley community who are enrolled in the COVID screening program are welcome to visit the gallery to view these amazing photographs in person! We hope you’ll stop by.

Sponsored by the Bentley University Cronin Office of International Education.

Now Showing in the RSM Art Gallery: HOKU by Kiana Kanoa '20

Updated March 13, 2020: The opening reception scheduled for March 26th has been cancelled. We will post an update if the event is rescheduled.

Now on view in the RSM Art Gallery is a collection of photographs from HOKU Magazine, an online sustainable fashion magazine founded by Bentley University student Kiana Kanoa ’20. Please join us in celebrating HOKU at a reception on Thursday, March 26, 5:00-7:00 p.m. To learn more about the exhibit read the artist’s statement below. Co-sponsored by the Bentley Library and the Office of Sustainability .

HOKU
Kiana Kanoa ’20, Founder and Editor in Chief
March 5 – April 18, 2020

Opening Reception
Thursday, March 26 | 5:00-7:00 p.m.

HOKU Magazine cover: Modern Opulence, volume I, issue II.

Artist Statement

Multi-disciplinary creative, strategic marketing maven and self-proclaimed lover of all things film.  After traveling to Milan, I indulged in the world of fashion but couldn’t come to terms with its detriment.  With 6+ years of digital marketing and branding experience under my belt, I set out to shed light on authentic, badass and conscious fashion brands who don’t settle for the ordinary.  My passion for sustainability and fashion allowed me to seamlessly fuse my knowledge of innovative marketing techniques, love for photography and eye for web design to form HOKU MAGAZINE.

In the Native Hawaiian culture, HOKU is the night of the fullest moon – beautiful and magnificent.  As a Native Hawaiian, my culture is emulated in everything I do.  HOKU Magazine represents the ethereal and ever-present guiding light of the good that encompasses the fashion industry.  We are an online fashion magazine that fuses the best of sustainability, fashion, and design by creating a seamless platform for the eco and ethically conscious reader.  A narrative that highlights brands who create effortless silhouettes and killer accessories, while being conscious of their impact.  HOKU covers stories revolving around brands, influencers, creators and real people who are committed to sustainable innovation within the fashion industry.

Kiana Kanoa ’20
https://www.hokumagazine.com/

Now Showing in the RSM Art Gallery: "LUMEN: Paintings by Roz Sommer"

Now on view in the RSM Art Gallery is LUMEN, a collection of oil paintings by Roz Sommer. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Thursday, January 16, 5:00-7:00 p.m. To learn more about the artist and her work, please read the Artist Statement below.

LUMEN
Paintings by Roz Sommer

January 13 – March 2, 2020

Opening Reception
Thursday, January 16 | 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Broken Peach by Roz Sommer

Artist Statement

In Roz Sommer’s paintings, expressive qualities of paint, particularly oil paint, connect the various bodies of work. Thick, juicy, textural color as well as dramatic light and shadows emphasize the intensity of the images. In some pieces the content is emotional, such as the paintings of the aftermath of disasters; physical, global catastrophes or personal interior struggles. In other work, the subject matter might be tranquil; still life paintings of foods and everyday objects, or scenes from nature, but Sommer’s paint application, energetic brushwork and gesture can still be troubling or ominous. Yet, emanating light brings hope and expectation into the darkness.

Roz Sommer
http://rozsommer.com/

Now Showing: 2019 International Education Photo Contest

Now showing in the RSM Art Gallery are the 2019 International Education Photo Contest category winners and finalists.

You have one more opportunity to vote for your favorite finalist! Stop in to the gallery to cast your vote before 4:30 p.m. on Friday, November 15. The Bentley Votes winner will receive a $50 Amazon gift card and one lucky voter will win a raffle for a $25 Amazon gift card.

2019 International Education Photo Contest
Winners and Finalists
November 8, 2019 – January 8, 2020

To learn more about this annual photo contest and to take a peek at the winners, visit the Office of International Education on Facebook and Instagram. The exhibit will be on view until January 8, 2020. Don’t miss these amazing photographs taken by faculty, staff and students.

Now Showing in the RSM Art Gallery: "Vague Space" by Casey Hayward

Vague Space is a hybrid documentary project and photo-sculptural art installation by Casey Hayward, Associate Professor of English and Media Studies at Bentley University. The components of the work—still photographs and found objects—come from the cities of Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn and Salem, MA. These cities have been hit particularly hard by the opioid epidemic and the exhibit serves to shed light on that environment. Mattresses, doors, highchairs and other castoff items found in dumpsters, forested areas, back alleys and roadsides become canvases for imagery of a life lived “rough.”

Please join us in celebrating the opening of Vague Space at a reception for the artist in the RSM Art Gallery on Wednesday, October 16, from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Casey Hayward
Vague Space 
October 2 – November 5, 2019


Artist’s Reception: 
Wednesday, October 16
4:00-6:00 p.m.

Your Protection by Casey Hayward
Your Protection
large print transfer on plywood, scrap wood, syringe caps

Casey Hayward: Artist Statement

In my work, be it documentary filmmaking, photography or installation, I seek to explore social justice issues through art, with an appreciation for the imperfection of lived experience. The flaws of humanity often afford a more impactful entrée into the investigation of the world we inhabit.

I am particularly interested in the entropy of cultures, communities and systems. From an aesthetic standpoint, I have always been drawn to rusted metal, rotting wood and other detritus surrounding us. To me this detritus–the less desirable output of our way of life–has a beauty all its own.

I take photographs, interview participants and consider the most effective ways of sharing my work, all with the complexity of imperfection in mind. While I cannot avoid digital technologies due to their ease and ubiquity, I do enjoy physical processes like exposing and developing analog film. I find the process is challenging and introduces flaws based on a myriad of environmental factors and my own abilities. I enjoy the serendipity of “happy accidents.” These can serve to remind viewers that they are experiencing not just a body of work but also a process. Reflexivity in this way is something I instill in much of my work. I trust that participants are keen enough to examine more than just the product, but my role and the problems it can inhere in making the art.

Casey Hayward, Associate Professor
Department of English and Media Studies
Bentley University
chayward@bentley.edu

This project was made possible with the support of the Bentley University Health Thought Leadership Network, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English and Media Studies.

Now Showing in the RSM Art Gallery: Underline Series by Elisa H. Hamilton

Now on view in the library’s RSM Art Gallery is a series of continuous-line, blind-contour drawings by Elisa H. Hamilton. All are invited to attend a closing reception for the artist on Wednesday, September 25, from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Please mark your calendars for this special event!

To learn more about Elisa H. Hamilton please read the artist’s statement below, visit the website www.elisahhamilton.com/, and follow @elisahhamilton #UnderlineSeries on Instagram.

Elisa H. Hamilton
Underline: within, and beneath, the wandering lines 
August 6 – September 27, 2019


Closing reception: 
Wednesday, September 25
5:00-7:00 p.m.

Artist’s Statement

This body of work explores my biracial identity through the introspective creation of continuous-line, blind-contour self-portraits; a drawing process that asks me to engage fully with my own visual form, and translate that form into line while not looking at what I am creating or lifting my mark from the page.

As a biracial person how I am seen shifts in the eye of the beholder and depends on social context.  Through these explorations I contemplate my own visual form while relinquishing the ability to control how I look. I embrace a process of discovery that asks me to truly see myself, and asks the viewer to find me within, and beneath, the wandering lines.

These drawings began in black and white, but gradually shifted towards multicolored expressions of self.  Through this process I have discovered that none of us are just one thing- we are all multicolored beings beneath the surface.

Elisa H. Hamilton
socially engaged multimedia artist – she/her/hers
www.ElisaHHamilton.com
@ElisaHHamilton Instagram & Twitter

Bentley Archives Exhibit: The Bentley Student Experience

Now on view in the RSM Art Gallery is The Bentley Student Experience, an exhibit of archival photographs and documents showcasing 100 years of student life at Bentley University.

The Bentley Student Experience
from the Bentley University Archives
June 24 – August 2, 2019

Students cheer on Bentley in the stands at a school sporting event.

Student Affairs at Bentley evolved as they did at colleges and universities across the country, though perhaps a bit more slowly as a result of Bentley’s status as an urban, “street-car school” that offered the basics to students. Once Bentley relocated to its spacious Waltham campus, the student experience steadily began to resemble that of a traditional residential college.

The Bentley Student Experience exhibit is not limited to student life narrowly defined as activities and clubs; but is intended to showcase all aspects of what has contributed to being a student at Bentley for the past century – in the classroom, in the residence halls, commuting by streetcar or on Route 128, playing a sport, serving the community, meeting someone with a drastically different background, and more.

Also available for online viewing is a companion online exhibit and a selection of videos from the Bentley archives dating back to the 1950s.

Art Gallery: Milisa Galazzi Exhibit Opens April 25; Reception 5-7pm

Opening on April 25, 2019, is an exhibit by Milisa Galazzi titled “Line as Language”. We hope you can join us in welcoming the artist at an opening reception on Thursday, April 25, from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

The exhibit will be on view until June 13, 2019. To learn more about the artist, please read her statement below and visit her website at https://www.milisagalazzi.com/

Milisa Galazzi
Line as Language
April 25 – June 13, 2019

Artist’s Reception
Thursday, April 25
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Asemic Message 54 by Milisa Galazzi

Artist’s Statement

LINE AS LANGUAGE

I learned to read in fifth grade. Until then, I struggled to sound out vowels, and I had difficulty stringing words together to build sentences. Printed text seemed to float on the page like shadows wafting in a breeze. Letters and numbers flipped in space. “Ws” would become “Ms,” and sixes would become nines. Even after laborious late-night studying, I repeatedly failed tests the next day – although I knew the material cold. By mid-high school, I finally understood why.

Dyslexia, a form of neuro-diversity, is defined as “a neurological condition caused by a different wiring of the brain.” Over time, I have found that the unique way my brain functions is a great asset in my creative work – especially my drawing.

The language of a line communicates powerfully. Even an asemic line – one in which no semic content or meaning exists – conveys a strong message with deep meaning. This exhibition is hung on the walls of an art gallery inside a library, which sits in the middle of a university campus. This is where thoughts are born and nurtured. Shared through the symbols of math and science and in the written words of the humanities, ideas are created and cultivated here. This is a place of scholarly meaning making. Just as a mathematician and a social scientist have their own languages, as an artist, I speak a different language – I am fluent in the language of line.

Milisa Galazzi