Hicks Art Center Gallery
Hicks Art Center Gallery provides a varied series of curated art exhibitions and related programming in support of the Arts Department and as an important educational and cultural resource for the community.
Charlotte Schatz: Indomitable
October 30 – December 9, 2019
Bucks Faculty Emerita and celebrated regional artist Charlotte Schatz explored issues of social justice and urban life as she moved effortlessly between sculpture, painting, and collage. Curated by Eleanor Schimmel, this exhibit brings together major works from throughout her artistic career.
Artist talk: Wednesday, October 30, 3:30 – 4:30
Gallery reception: Sunday, November 3, 1 – 3 p.m.
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Bucks County Artists: A Cross Section
January 22 – March 11, 2020
Reception: Wednesday, February 5, 5 – 7 p.m.
Artist panel: Wednesday, February 5, 3 – 4:30 p.m.
George R. Anthonisen, Richard Lennox, Mavis Smith and Emily Thompson bring a particular emphasis on representational content that also incorporates a measure of references and classical media (bronze, egg tempera, oils). Sculptor Anthonisen explores the drama and flair of the nude in all of her glory; Smith, who works primarily in egg tempera, creates meticulous, solitary, introspective figures set in surreal landscapes; painters Lennox and Thompson both revel in the linear aspects of architecture, articulating the framework of buildings and signage, their context in-situ, and the subject’s intrinsic abstraction. Together, the combined work contains a thread of elements which are reflective (both in a thoughtful way and literally as shimmering light echoes off of surfaces), evocative and familiar. Curated by Lisa Tremper Hanover.
25h Annual Bucks County High School Art Exhibition
March 28 – April 14, 2020
Gallery reception: Sunday, March 29, 2-4 p.m.
Congressional Art Competition award ceremony at 2:30 p.m.
High school art teachers throughout the county select their students’ best work for display and for submission to the Congressional Art Competition. Competitions such as this are held in each congressional district nationwide each spring. The first place winning artwork from this exhibition will be sent to Washington, D.C., where it will represent Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District and be displayed in the corridors of the Cannon Tunnel of the U.S. Capitol for a year.
55th Annual Student Exhibition
May 1 - 12, 2020
Gallery reception: Sunday, May 3, 1 – 4 p.m.
A showcase of the best work made by Arts students including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital media, two-dimensional design, three-dimensional design, sculpture, fine woodworking, ceramics, jewelry, glass, web design, graphic design, cinema/video, communications and music. Presented in conjunction with Arts at Bucks.
Gallery hours:
Monday & Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Gallery will be closed November 27 from 4:30 p.m. to December 2nd for Thanksgiving.
The Gallery is located in Hicks Art Center on the Newtown campus, the locus of the College's Arts Department.
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Fran Orlando
Director of Exhibitions and Artmobile
Fran.Orlando@bucks.edu
215-968-8432
Jennifer Garey
Exhibitions Associate
Jennifer.Garey@bucks.edu
215-504-8531
Hicks Art Center Gallery receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.