Skepsis: Recent Work by Breon Gilleran

Thursday, October 1 – Friday, October 30

Rice Gallery, Peterson Hall

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 1, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., with a gallery talk at 6 p.m.

This exhibition originated when Steven Pearson, associate professor of art and art history at McDaniel and director of the college’s Rice Gallery, suggested that Breon Gilleran collaborate with McDaniel biology professor Katie Staab and students in her comparative anatomy classes. The result is a collection “of sculptural objects and works on paper installed alongside McDaniel students’ scientific works that will transform the Rice Gallery into a cabinet of curiosities,” according to Gilleran. She promises a “freewheeling exhibit integrating art and science in an encyclopedic collection of objects whose categorical boundaries are porous.”

Gilleran grew up in Detroit, and was raised in a family of artists. She began her own formal training at Cass Technical High School, an early prototype for a magnet school for the arts, and left Detroit in 1967 for California, where she was briefly caught up in the counter-culture in San Francisco. She moved to Baltimore with her now-husband in 1978 and continued her studies in painting at Maryland Institute College of Art, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting. She later returned to school and completed her Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture at the University of Maryland in 2002.

Gilleran, an assistant professor of art at Goucher College, maintains an active studio practice and exhibition schedule, as well as works with students privately and in workshops at Area 405 in Baltimore. http://www.breongilleran.com/