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September 7, 2018The Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) department presents “Chasing Light,” Oil paintings by Professor of Fine Arts, Gary Shankman
Professor of Fine Arts Gary Shankman is a member of the Oakroom Artists Association. His landscapes set in Albany’s Ten Broeck Triangle and his still lifes of toys, fruit and chocolate have been shown in solo exhibitions in Antwerp, Belgium, London, Washington D.C., and Albany, and in group exhibitions throughout the United States. His paintings are in the Watkins Collection, American University Museum, the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Shawnee, Oklahoma, the Superior Court Art Trust of Washington D.C., and the National Home Furnishings Association of Chicago. He received an ITT International Fellowship to study at the Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp, Belgium, held a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in rural Maine, and was an Artist-in-Residence for the State of Oklahoma and the City of Rockville, Maryland. He has taught at the Smithsonian Institution, the University of the District of Columbia, Maryland College of Art and Design and Northern Virginia Community College. Shankman has taught drawing, painting and two-dimensional design at Sage College of Albany since 1986 and will retire at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year. “I am intrigued by the effects of light and color in nature. Light dappling the side of a house, light creating the form of a chocolate covered strawberry, and light caressing the objects in a room are the subjects which fill my canvases. In my work, light, mood, atmosphere combine to form a work of art. I think of this show as a farewell to Sage and perhaps my last solo exhibition in the area,” Shankman said. “I have devoted my career to Sage and I have enjoyed it all.”
