BATAVIA — “Portraits on Recycled Trash” features portraits created on recycled trash; empty cereal boxes, discarded furniture, and other non-traditional media deemed “trash” by society. In Hitchings’s Artist Statement, he describes his process of “break(ing) down pre-existing print, images and textures while allowing the type and pictures from the recycled objects to become organically part of the portrait” he creates with crayon, marker and other supplies.
The resulting portraits appear shattered and broken, often with missing pieces and “form a more powerful, interesting and often disturbing viewpoint” says Hitchings in his Artist Statement. More of Hitchings’s work is available on his website http://www.dionhitchings.com/.
Simultaneously, in the Stuart Steiner Theatre, “Landscape Interaction/ Intervention” – a photography exhibit featuring work of students in both GCC and RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia will be on display. Contributing artists will join the reception on August 30, 2018 at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.
The Roz Steiner Art Gallery is open to the public Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The gallery is also open during special events as published at www.genesee.edu/campuslife/arts. Admission is free. For more information, contact Gallery Coordinator Mary Jo Whitman at (585) 343-0055 ext. 6490, or via email: mjwhitman@genesee.edu.