Handwerker Gallery solutes Emma Gregory (Utica NY) on her installation Queer in the Mundane [detail pictured above] which includes dozens of portraits of queer an non-binary classmates from Ithaca College. Each oil on canvas work is carefully crafted, and in the detail above - a spectrum of color and individuals are featured in a grid-based work that is part of a larger painting installation. In other works, Gregory shows close-up portraits of peers, also executed using a decidedly limited monochrome palette resulting in a vivd spectral picture of Ithaca College life.
A closer look: BFA Artists Emma Gregory and Peter Tristram Walz
Emma Gregory, Queer in the Mundane, oil on canvas, 2023
Emma Gregory, Queer in the Mundane, oil on canvas, 2023
Peter Tristram Walz, X Coclopae myopic, iteration 1, Urethane Foam, Wood, Coated Optics, 2023.
Peter Tristram Walz, X Coclopae myopic, iteration 1, Urethane Foam, Wood, Coated Optics, 2023.
The Handwerker also recognizes graduating senior Peter Tristram Walz (Ithaca NY), on his sculptural installations. His multi-media works ask questions about looking and watching through works that incorporate the lens as both medium and metaphor. Walz' X Coclopae myopic, iteration 1 turns its gaze toward the gallery goers and the works in the exhibition alike in this humorous multi-figure installation.