"Views and Reflections" exhibit opens Monday

ROME, Ga. -- Eckerd College Professor of Visual Arts Arthur Skinner will hold a gallery talk about his exhibit “Views and Reflections” at 7 p.m. Monday (Jan. 9) at the Berry College Moon Gallery.

 

This event, sponsored by the Fine Arts Department, is free and open to the public. Skinner’s exhibit of drawings and silver prints will run through Feb. 3.

 

Skinner, who received his bachelor’s degree in visual arts at Florida Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College), studied for a year at the Santa Reparata Graphic Arts Centre in Florence, Italy, and then earned his master’s degree in printmaking at Georgia State University. For the past 34 years he has been a member of the Visual Arts faculty at Eckerd College.

 

“A romantic at heart, I’ve long been fascinated with decline and ruin, and lately I’ve become intrigued with debris as a subject.  But these works are also about seeing light beyond the shadows, listening for moments of stillness amidst the cacophony, searching for remnants of order among the fragments, embracing humor in the face of despair, and finding beauty in unexpected places,” Skinner said.

 

His connections to Berry run deep. He is the son of James L. Skinner Jr., who, as architect with firm of Cooper, Barrett, Skinner, Woodbury and Cooper, designed a number of buildings on the Berry College campus including Hermann Hall. He is also a great-nephew of Olin Conway Skinner, who served as Industrial Manager and Dean of Labor at Berry from 1924-1948.