Contour: Selections from the Collection

September 4, 2024–March 1, 2025

Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery

View of the entrance to the gallery space for Contour: Selections From the Collection. A white wall includes the name and information about the exhibition. On either side, artworks are hung on the walls.

About the Exhibition

Providence College Galleries is pleased to present Contour: Selections from the Collection in Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery. Linguistically, the word ‘contour’ serves multiple functions–as a noun, adjective, and verb. Similarly, the prints, photographs, drawings, paintings, and sculptures selected for the exhibition offer distinct and contrasting formal and conceptual aesthetic processes to activate the notion of “form” in physical, geographical, and social dimensions.

Drawing primarily from the permanent collections, the exhibition includes work by German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), American artist Mark Tobey (1890-1976), along with contemporary living artists Elizabeth Atterbury, Vivian Greven, Susan Giles, Will Hutnick, Graham MacDougal, Miller & Shellabarger, Joiri Minaya, and Robert Wilson, among others.

Organized by PCG Director and Chief Curator Carol Stakenas.

An installation view of three drawings on a grey wall receding into space. The drawings are on white paper, consisting of quick marks of black, green, red and blue. — Three drawings by Robert Wilson completed during a performance at Providence College in May 2005. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.

A framed abstract artwork layered with blue, grey, and white overlapping shapes. The white shape is filled with erratic marks of blue and green, pink stripes, and yellow brushstrokes. — Will Hutnick, *Low Rising, Up Up Up*, 2016. Acrylic, colored pencil, paint marker and screen print on paper, 30 x 22 inches. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.

Art exhibition featuring two framed screenprints on a grey wall. The left depicts a green shape with red lettering that reads: I'M AS GOOD AS YOU ARE. The right depicts Urdu writing on paper under a pink pyramid. — Two works by Baseera Khan. *I’m As Good As You Are*, 2020. Six-color screenprint, 24 x 18. *ACT UP*, 2020. Five-color screenprint, 24 x 18 in. (Left to right). Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.

Self-portrait of two bald, bearded artists silhouetted in gray before an abstract background of blues, pinks, and darker grays. One poses with hands on hips; the other balances on one leg. — Miller & Shellabarger, *Untitled*, 2018. Pressure Print, 23.25 x 19 in. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.

A sculpture with two brown skyscrapers facing each other horizontally. They are mirror images of one another, both mounted on stands of grey concrete. — Susan Giles, *Petronas Towers/buttress*, 2015. Concrete and paper, 2.5 x 5 x 3.5 in. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.

Lying in the grass among blooming pink flowers, a figure is clad head to toe in a red, purple, and green floral ensemble that covers their body. — Joiri Minaya, *Container #4*, 2020. Archival pigment print, 40 x 60. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.

An installation view with a sculpture of two figures wrestling in the foreground. Behind is a larger artwork nex to two stacked smaller artworks hung on a grey wall. — Installation view of *Contour: Selections from the Collection* in PCG’s Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, 2024. Photo: Scott Alario

Self-portrait of the artists, rendered in gray, before a background of reds and deep purples. The bald and bearded Miller and Shellabarger are locked in what might be a dance. — Miller & Shellabarger, *Untitled*, 2018. Pressure Print, 23.25 x 19 in. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario

An installation view of two artworks on a white wall. The left consists of a red square and markings, the right has markings of beige on a grey background. — Two works by Elizabeth Atterbury. *Center Before Outside (24), 2019*, 2019. Chine collé and embossing with plates hand cut by the artist, 30 x 22.5 in. *River Poems (9)*, 2018. Chine collé and embossing with plates hand cut by the artist, 30 x 22.5 in. (Left to right). Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.

A two-dimensional bust of a figure looking to the left, with yellow hair and torso. The number three is cut-out from the figure's white and blue face. — Vivian Greven, <3, 2018. Oil on wood panel. Collection of Providence College Galleries. Photo: Scott Alario.

Supporters

Funding for this exhibition is provided by the Providence College’s Division of Academic Affairs. In-kind support provided by Providence College’s Department of Art & Art History.

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