SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
EXHIBITIONS AS GALLERY DIRECTOR OR CURATOR:
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1999
- MAKOTO FUJIMURA: July Hour, recent Nihonga paintings, including the large installation July Hour. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- ALBERT PEDULLA/ GALLERY INSTALLATION: Springbed of the Universe. A pendulum-driven drawing machine; a model of the universe started by fireworks (big bang) drew arcs on the gallery walls which contained gum bichromate photographic images. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- HANDMADE FOR A NEW MILLENIUM: A National Craft Invitational, Featured work by thirteen nationally known craftspersons in artists books, basketry, ceramics, glass, paper, quilts, weaving, and wood. Statements by the artists address the reality of making finely crafted objects of beauty at the turn of a new century. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1998
- THE ARTIST AS COLLECTOR, Twelve nationally known artists exhibit several works from their personal collections, along with an example of their own artwork. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- ALONG THE KINGS HIGHWAY: Photographs by Sam Fentress and David Herwaldt. Sam Fentress documentary photographs of roadside religious devotion, paired with David Herwaldts series of photos from a walking pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1997
- SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY INVITATIONAL III, Drawings, paintings, sculptures, prints, mixed media works, and computer-generated images by nine artist/educators from central PA. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- LANDSCAPES OF THE MIND: Painting, Sculpture, and Works on Paper by Tobi Kahn, Works curated from the artists studio in New York to complement the large national traveling exhibition. Presented in collaboration with The Trout Gallery at Dickinson College. D. Forsythe/ Organizer, Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- SONGS OF ASCENT: Sculpture by Loren Baker/ Works on Paper by Sandra Bowden, Two artists who integrate religious texts and poetic approaches to works in two dimensions (Bowden) and three-dimensions (Baker) Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- URBAN INITIATIVES: A Collaborative Exhibition on Diversity, Painted Self Portraits by children from a variety of Harrisburg schools, formed into a Diversity Quilt, and an installation piece made from over 10,000 donated family snapshots which formed a funnel cloud that projected out of the gallery and up into the atrium. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1996
- SEQUENCE: NEW YORK / NEW JERSEY, Photographs by George Segal, One of the first exhibits of photographs by this master of modern sculpture. Specially curated from an exhibition prepared by Curatorial Assistance, Pasadena, CA, in cooperation with the artist. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1996
- DEVOCIÓN DEL PUEBLO, FOLK ART OF GUATEMALA, An exhibition of 56 santo sculptures, accompanied by statements from the artists who made the work. Collected on two expeditions to find the work and interview the santeros. Jointly curated with D. Parkyn, L. Parkyn, C. Forsythe. D. Forsythe exhibition organizer and registrar. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1995
- A VISION OF PASSAGE: Drawings and Paintings by Ben Frank Moss III, Small graphite drawings and colorful paintings abstracted from landscape motifs by this artist from New Hampshire.
- THE CLOUDS OF UNKNOWING: Caroline Stone, Paintings of colored linen fibers on handmade paper which suggest clouds as harbingers of more than weather. Paper created at the Dieu Donne Paper Mill, New York , NY by the artist. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1994
- JOHN HERTZLER AND EUI SUK OH: Sculpture. Large scale carved wooden forms by Hertzler, an artist from Central PA, paired with simplified figurative pieces in unglazed red stoneware by Oh, a visiting artist from Korea. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- DRAWINGS/ INSTALLATIONS BY DAN CALLIS, Work in a variety of media that documents the interaction between this Southern California artist and members of the developmentally disabled community. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1993
- MIXED MEDIA: GUY CHASE AND ROBERT EUSTACE, Conceptual ghosts by Chase of art historical images painted in textured white paint on slide screens, and altarpiece constructions by Eustace created from found industrial materials. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- AMERICAN FOLK ART from the collection of Morehead State University, Kentucky, Thirty five pieces in a variety of media by some of the best known primitive artists from the South. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1991
- 22 x 30" WORKS ON PAPER: Christians in Visual Arts, A national traveling exhibition curated by D. Forsythe for CIVA, opens at the Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA, traveling through 1993
1987
- CONTEMPORARY CRAFT OBJECTS FROM THE SWAN GALLERY, PHILADELPHIA, PA, Works in glass, ceramics, fibers and wood, selected from the inventory of this prominent gallery . Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- EDWARD OBRIEN; DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS, Large scale charcoal value drawings and oil paintings of carefully observed childrens toys, by this realist artist from the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Philadelphia. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1988
- THE INTAGLIO PRINT: 20TH CENTURY INTERPRETATIONS, A second loan show from the holdings of the Dolan / Maxwell gallery, featuring works by Miro, Hayter, Hecht, Porter, Stella, Sorman, and many others. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1986
- THE SACRED IMAGE, Artists Loren Baker, Guy Chase, Robert Eustace, Sheila Keefe, Joel Sheesley, and Jeff Thompson exhibit pieces which integrate art and the Christian faith. Travels to Greenville College, Greenville, Il and Marketplace 86 in Chicago, IL. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1986
- PHOTOGRAPHS BY DOUGLAS GILBERT, Photographs from three bodies of work by this artist from New England. Formal portraits of historic architecture, images from the book, Flannery OConnor, Images of Her World, and works which depict nature overcoming man-made structures. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- ROBERT SCHMITZ: CERAMICS, New forms featuring original crystalline glazes by this master of modern ceramics and professor at The School for American Craftsmen, Rochester, NY. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- RICHARD W. BOCK: SCULPTOR TO THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL AND FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, original drawings, plaster studies, and sculpture by this pioneer of early 20th C architectural ornament. On loan from the Bock Museum, Greenville, IL. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
1985
- QUILTS FROM PENNSYLVANIA COLLECTIONS: IN THE AMISH TRADITION, Important quilts from several prominent Lancaster county collections, principally featuring pieces made before 1920. Several of the most famous and often published works from the history of quilting were included. Curated with C. Forsythe for Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
- WORKS ON PAPER FROM PHILADELPHIAS DOLAN/ MAXWELL GALLERY, Drawings, paintings, prints and mixed media works selected from the historic and contemporary departments at this major gallery. Aughinbaugh Art Gallery, Messiah College, Grantham, PA
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