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Home Body

Alex Russell // Summer 2022

This exhibition is experienced in two parts – Home, an indoor gallery exhibit at 3 Dots Downtown and Body, a walk in which viewers forage for artworks amidst Downtown State College. Home Body invites the audience to imagine the possibilities and consider the consequences of human and nonhuman interactions that create our lived environments.

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Landscape | Landuse

Chris McGinnis // Summer 2022

For over a century, artists have found inspiration in the nineteenth century expeditions of America’s southwestern frontier conducted by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). As both a romantic and scientific endeavor, these surveys and the dramatic photographs that accompanied them, inspired unprecedented westward expansion and nationalist fervor combined with a hunger for mineral wealth that continues to shape our relationship with the land. Landscape | Land Use includes a selection of artworks inspired by notions of landscape as both national inheritance and raw material, repurposing imagery from these surveys – along with historic mapping and modeling techniques used by surveyors themselves – to visualize the complex forces that shape our relationship with the land.

Previous Exhibitions

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Home Body

Alex Russell // Summer 2022

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The Dreamer’z Dojo

Bella Lucy // Spring 2022

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed, alone and hopeless in a world full of stress and division. Is that the only option? This exhibition explores that question by bringing to life an illustrated book.

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America’s Social Fibers

Kyle Marini // Spring 2022Focused on the time period before 1492, the pivotal year marking sustained contact between the Americas and Europe, this exhibit used fiber arts to recreate historic textiles that featured prominently in the myth-historic migrations and social cohesion efforts of the Aztec and Inca empires.

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The Molok

Sam Wilson & Xander Chauncey // Fall 2021The Molok is an interactive art installation that collects and archives the stories of its participants, by allowing the community to donate objects to The Molok, causing the exhibit to grow and change.

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Country Charm

Sanh Brian Tran // Fall 2021This exhibit examines what it means to be a queer Asian man living in rural America. After having lived nearly their entire life in cities, the artist found themself in a completely foreign American landscape amongst white faces, red barns, and camouflage when they moved to rural central Pennsylvania.

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Going Home

Ben Yan // Summer 2021An immigrant and nomad, Ben’s proclivity for self-reflection led him to use the camera as a visual notepad for contemplating belonging. This exhibit explores what it means to call a place home.

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Faux Venus

Leo Wang // Summer 2021This exhibit explored today’s social media and pop youth culture by projecting fabulousity and confidence filtered them through an ideal persona.

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The Works of Tiara Zhane`

Tiara Zhane` // Spring 2021Hung in our exterior windows during the pandemic, this exhibit explored issues of civil rights, police brutality, and the marginalization of women of color.

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Stimulus

Ian Brill // Fall 2020During the covid lockdown, we partnered with an artist to install LED panels that light up our public windows for an immersive art exhibit and light show.

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The Works of Geoffrey Hobart

Geoffrey Hobart // Fall 2019This show featured a local independent comic artist specializing in illustration with traditional and digital techniques.

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The Works of Barbara Metzner

Barbara Metzner // Fall 2019Featuring collections of her abstract work, this show highlighted a local artist characterized by inventiveness, a wide pallet of color, and the unexpected.

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The Works of Susan Smith Graham

Susan Smith Graham // Summer 2019Featuring Susan’s abstract expressionistic painting using acrylics, her paintings provoke a strong interaction between the intent and imagination of the artist, relative to that of the observer.