The Looking Glass Gallery is located on the first floor of the Plemmons Student Union Building, directly across from Crossroads Coffeehouse in the International Hallway.
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday from 8am - 10pm, Saturday from 9am - 10pm, and Sunday from 12pm - 10pm. For information on scheduled closings of the Plemmons Student Union, visit http://studentunion.appstate.edu/pagesmith/34.
ATTN: EXHIBIT YOUR WORK AT THE GALLERY
The Looking Glass Gallery is accepting exhibition proposals for Summer and Fall 2012!! Accepting work from ASU students, faculty, staff, groups, classes, and clubs!
Available Dates for Exhibition
Summer 2012: May 22 June 22 and July 2 August 3
Fall 2012: August 21 September 11 and September 18 October 9
Deadline to submit is Friday, April 27th!! Download a gallery application here.
And! SUBMIT TO EXHIBIT YOUR WORK IN The Artistic Rebuttal Book Project at Appalachian State University!!
Final deadline to submit is Friday, Oct. 5, 2012!! Download an application form here.
Current Exhibition
Portrait/Self-Portrait
a group photography exhibit by Kathleen Campbell's advanced photography class
March 19 - April 13, 2012
Image 2012 Tyler Robinson Scott and the Looking Glass Gallery
The Looking Glass Gallery presents Portrait/Self-Portrait, a group exhibition of photography work from ASUs Department of Art. Students exhibiting in the show include Phill Baldwin, Randall Dameron, Kelli Ensley, Bailey Ewing, Katherine Haugen, Tyler Robinson Scott, and Laura Seals. The show will be on view through April 13, 2012, with a reception held on Thursday, April 5 at 6pm 7pm in the gallery. The event is free and open to the public, with food and refreshments to be provided. The exhibition is curated by Dianna Loughlin, curator of the Looking Glass Gallery.
Portrait/Self-Portrait represents the work of students in Advanced Photography this semester at Appalachian State University. Kathleen Campbell, professor of photography in ASUs Department of Art, is using the class to inspire these students to explore their personal ideas, motivations, and influences that will prepare them for Senior Studio, their capstone requirement for a BFA degree in the arts. Artists always have to look inside themselves, as well as to the outside world, to find their personal voices, Campbell says.
These visual projects were accompanied by the requirement that each student articulate an artists talk sometime during the duration of the class, in which they explored the direction of their work, explained why and how it evolved, and discussed the work of other artists who inspired them. Students researched the work of new artists that they found compelling, and presented this information in their talks. Being able to create ideas and to communicate them verbally, in writing and visually, using form and context, constitutes a large part of the focus of their class.
For Portrait/Self-Portrait, students delved in experimental processes, both film-based or digital. As part of the assignment, each student found and experimented with a different photographic process and presented it to the class. Campbell then allowed each student to select whichever process they wanted to use for the assignment or find a new one. Thus, the work exhibited is very experimental and each piece is physically different from the others. I am very excited by the enthusiasm and hard work of my students in this class and the amazing quality of the work, states Campbell. They are inspired and hard-working, collaborating with and supporting each other. All of them are very excited about showing their work at the Looking Glass Gallery.
