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Art Gallery 2024-25
The Lycoming College Art Gallery and the student-run Lycoming College Downtown Project Space are both located at 25 West Fourth Street in downtown Williamsport. Some exhibitions are housed in both spaces.
- Summer Gallery Hours during exhibitions: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 5-9 p.m.
- Fall and Spring Semester Gallery Hours during exhibitions: Thursday, Friday, Saturday 4-8 p.m.
- The Gallery is closed during academic breaks.
Check out our recent Artists-In-Residence: Pedro Lasch, Nicole Dextras and Aaron Hughes.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Now is the Time
September 6-27
Reception: Sept. 6, 4-8 p.m.
Gallery Talk: Sept. 6, 5:30 p.m.
The works of artist, independent curator, and educator Sarah Blood will be on display in the Lycoming College Art Gallery in an exhibition entitled, “Now Is The Time.”
Born in the United Kingdom, Blood has enjoyed an active studio practice since 1999 and has exhibited extensively throughout the U.K. and the United States, and internationally in France, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, Hong Kong, China, Portugal, and Dubai. Blood’s work has been exhibited alongside contemporary artists, including Bruce Nauman, Agnes Denes, Glenn Ligon, Sarah Lucas, and Mona Hatoum, with exhibitions in prestigious venues such as the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; Akron Museum of Art, Ohio; Windgate Museum of Art, Alaska; The Delaware Contemporary Museum, Del.; and Neuberger Museum, Purchase, N.Y.
Her work is in numerous permanent collections, including The Institute of Neuroscience, U.K.; The National Glass Centre, U.K.; Museuo Do Vidro, Portugal; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and Kohler Corporation, Wis., U.S.A.
Blood’s practice is concerned with light and phenomenology. Her work is best known for the interplay of material, form, object, and space. Light, often neon, is enriched by a counterpoint with conceptual, physical, and visual weight. Using beauty to draw the viewer into the work, she frequently employs metaphor or humor as an entry point. At first look, pieces can appear purely whimsical, a celebration of light and form, a joyful experience. With time and exploration, social and political themes are revealed.
“When I talk about light, I also talk about its absence. Light gives us color, warmth, and life, but we cannot perceive form, texture, and depth without shadows. I used to think that light was everything, but light in isolation is nothing; we must also know the dark to understand our world.”
Her current research explores themes of invisible labor, structures of power and inequitable systems. The resulting works explore light, sound, and movement using contemporary and obsolete technologies with traditional and non-traditional art-making materials to create object-based sculpture, performative interventions, video, and immersive experiences.
Blood is currently the associate professor of light in the sculpture dimensional studies program at Alfred University in New York, where she has been teaching since 2013.
About the Lycoming College Art Gallery:
The Lycoming College Art Gallery is located in downtown Williamsport at 25 W. Fourth St. The gallery contributes to the city’s arts culture and provides a way for the College to become more involved with the community surrounding it. Lycoming art students have the opportunity to interact with visiting artists and their work, as well as learn first-hand the inner workings of a gallery.
This fall, the gallery is open on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. For more information, please visit the gallery online at www.lycoming.edu/art/gallery/ or email dirocco@lycoming.edu.
Gallery Submissions
To submit work for consideration for a Gallery Exhibition:
Contact Rose DiRocco-Hodges, Gallery Director, dirocco@lycoming.edu, 570-321-4002
Gallery Schedule Archive