Student-Artists Showcase Work in Fall Capstone Exhibition

Published Dec. 8. Submitted by Elmhurst College.

Elmhurst, IL - Elmhurst College art majors graduating in February will exhibit their final projects during the Fall Capstone Exhibition, a high point for every graduating art major.

For the Capstone Exhibition, each student works for the entire term to create a body of work in his or her area of concentration. Then the students plan the exhibition and design their postcard and poster.

Three students will present their work during this fall exhibition. Jonathan Glabus, of Lombard, has created a set of functional porcelain vessels inspired by the Japanese tradition of ceramics. The pieces, he says, “exist to be used together, enjoying the jokes, laughter and tales the users share with each other while sipping their nightcaps.”

In his project, Vincent Lotesto, of Chicago, juxtaposes Dashavatara, the 10 avatars of Vishnu, the Hindu god of preservation; and Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Using acrylic paint to emulate traditional Indian oil paintings, Lotesto depicts the avatars in a way that manifests a relationship between Dashavatara and Darwinism and how the two concepts pertain to individual existence.

Erica Nicole Smith, whose concentration is in graphic design, has created a series of pieces that describe what “Art is…”— auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, audible, cognitive, etc. Smith, of West Chicago, also is graphics editor for the Elmhurst Collegestudent newspaper, The Leader.

The Fall Capstone Art Exhibition runs through Saturday, Dec. 19, in the Barbara A. Kieft Accelerator ArtSpace (in the 200 block of West Park Avenue in Elmhurst, elmhurst.edu/campusmap).

The Accelerator ArtSpace is open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information, call (630) 617-5186 or visit elmhurst.edu.

The Fall Capstone Art Exhibition is one of roughly a dozen shows that ElmhurstCollege will present this academic year in three campus venues.

The College also exhibits more than 100 works in its Student Art Collection, which features selected exemplary work purchased from graduating seniors. The collection is on permanent display on the third floor and lower level of the A.C. Buehler Library.

The library also is home to the College’s unparalleled collection of Chicago Imagist and Abstractionist Art, which explores the vibrant, often outrageous, yet precisely crafted works of Chicago artists between 1950 and the present. The collection is displayed throughout the library’s first floor and lower vestibule.

The exhibits are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Suellen Rocca at (630) 617-6110 or srocca@elmhurst.edu.