Goodman: Kek's Wrath, 78"x67"x3", Oil on Wood, 2023-4
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Carrying the Lycoming College Art Gallery through the holidays will be the College’s 2024-25 Art Faculty Show, opening on Friday Dec. 6 with a gallery talk at 5:30 p.m. The show is free and open to the public and will run through Feb. 7. The annual show will feature the works of the following faculty artists:
Seth Goodman
Seth Goodman, associate professor of art at Lycoming College, will show paintings that connect to the social and political dysfunction of our times. Goodman explores celebrity and class worship, the culture wars, and the politics of disinformation. His paintings poetically unearth truths that hide just beyond the folly and the fiction of the topical movements of the day.
Goodman teaches painting, drawing, 2-D design, digital art, and graphic design. He exhibits his paintings, drawings and mixed-media work internationally. His recent solo exhibition this summer at 105 Henry Street in New York City showcased a number of his recent major works.
Andrea M. McDonough
Andrea M. McDonough, Ed.D., is a secondary art educator and K-12 art curriculum coordinator for the Williamsport Area School District. She supports the art and education departments at Lycoming College and leads graduate students at The Art of Education University. McDonough is a successful grant writer with a passion for public art and the promotion of social and emotional learning through mindfulness and creativity. She holds a Pennsylvania K-12 Art Education Certificate and a Pennsylvania PK-12 Supervisory Certificate in Curriculum and Instruction.
McDonough’s current work is a continued exploration of art as mediation. Each piece or series of works embraces intuitive creation and experimentation with varied media. This process-based approach yields unexpected results and nurtures the habit of mindful art-making.
Manuel Moreno-Lee
“My work focuses on narrative-driven stories and themes of culture, nature, technology, and human identity using a wide range of mediums. While I prefer working on traditional techniques to create my films, the exploration of new technologies is essential in the development and creative process.”
Manuel Moreno-Lee, assistant professor of digital art, earned his B.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and his M.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology in Film and Animation. Moreno-Lee is a 3D generalist and artist whose work has been screened at festivals globally, winning several awards. As a freelance animator, he has worked in Boston, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Rochester, N.Y. He works in a wide range of mediums to create narrative-driven work in both 2D and 3D.
Andreas Rentsch
“For the past 12 years, I’ve been photographing extensively at Caumsett State Park on Long Island. My first project there was The Wanderer movie, composed of 2,800 still images. The work is both an homage to early German Expressionist cinematography and a remembrance of a kindred spirit that went through life endlessly searching.
In 2020, I collaborated with concert pianist Andreas Klein, projecting 80 photographs from my Wanderer series - many created specifically for that performance - while he played Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7.
This October, I was awarded an artist residency at Caumsett State Park, where I revisited The Wanderer figure, this time using a process entirely new to me: lumen printing. This method involves placing objects on traditional photo paper and exposing it to sunlight for 1 to 3 hours. Lumen printing is challenging to control; it feels like alchemy, and that’s what fascinates me.”
Andreas Rentsch teaches photography at Lycoming College. Having grown up on a prison compound where his father was the warden, Andreas’ work is an ongoing exploration of the connection of fate, geography and politics in the direction of justice.
His work is in many museum collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, in Houston, Texas, the Musée de la Photographie, in Charleroi, Belgium, Musée de l’Elysée, in Lausanne, Switzerland and the Museum at Checkpoint Charlie, in Berlin, Germany. His exhibits have spanned the globe. He is a recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships and two grants from the Polaroid Corporation. He earned the 2012 Goldberger Award from Stony Brook University.
The prestigious photography magazine, Aperture, published one of his portfolios. Other pieces have been published in numerous books and magazines including “The Polaroid Project,” book published as part of four museum exhibitions (2017), Better Photography, “13 Iconic Photographers on the Self Portrait,” Mumbai, India (2016) and other journals. In 2014, he was featured on Push/Pause FIOS Cable TV, “In the Art Studio with Andreas Rentsch,” and in art reviews by the New York Times, USA Today and other prominent media outlets around the world.
Howard Tran
Howard Tran, the Logan A. Richmond Endowed Professor, teaches sculpture, drawing, figure modeling and ceramics at Lycoming College. He received his M.F.A. in sculpture from Boston University. Tran exhibits his sculpture, painting, and mixed media work nationally.
Art at Lycoming College
The Lycoming College Art Gallery, located in downtown Williamsport at 25 W. Fourth St., contributes to the city’s arts culture and allows the College to become more involved with the surrounding community. Lycoming Art students have the opportunity to interact with visiting artists and learn first-hand the inner workings of an art gallery. The gallery is open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 4-8 p.m. For more information, please visit the gallery online at: https://www.lycoming.edu/art/gallery/22-23.aspx.