Southeastern to exhibit faculty artwork
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
by: Tonya Lowentritt
HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University’s Contemporary Art Gallery will present
“Outside, In,” an exhibit featuring a selection of art works made by faculty in the
Visual Arts + Design department at Southeastern. The exhibition will be open from
Sept. 1 – 29.
Faculty exhibiting artwork include Kathryn Baczeski, Lily Brooks, Vanessa Centeno,
Ben Diller, Luisa Hernandez, Eric Huckabee, Mitchell Long, Ernest Milsted, Cristina
Molina, Dale Newkirk, Chad Serhal, Hasmig Vartanian, and Tom Walton.
The exhibit was curated by Leslie-Claire Spillman, owner and director of Spillman-Blackwell
Fine Art in New Orleans, whose external perspective uncovered many thematic connections
coursing throughout the faculty’s individual practices.
Spillman said that themes related to local landscape, urbanism, and artistic empathy
are prevalent throughout the show.
“While seemingly disparate at first glance, the works in this exhibition are
constructed out of a desire to formalize the internal, to flush out ideas, and to
a tangible result to that exploration, bringing to the surface, to the outside, what
is within,” she said. “With artists using so many different approaches to achieve
this, my hope is that viewers find inspiration in the limitlessness of the possibilities
of this experience.”
The gallery will host an opening reception to celebrate the exhibition and its
artists on Sept. 2 at 5 p.m. Several of the artists will be present.
For more information about the exhibition, contact Gallery Director Cristina
Molina via email at cmolina@southeastern.edu or by phone at 985-549-5080.
