LHU art professors Philip Huber, Kathryn Anderson, Vance McCoy and Ray Heffner all had work on display, each demonstrating their own respective fields and areas of expertise.

Philip Huber’s more natural works were based on the geography of his travels abroad. Huber’s landscapes were sight referenced paintings done on scratchboard and created with tools he made himself. He considers his works done abroad to fall into three categories: purely academic geological images like Thingvellir in Iceland and Skuleskogen I in Sweden, hang on the wall photos like his Spaces in Motion series done in London and Uzbekistan and his paintings. Huber also had a more satirical series of works called A Crossing of Zebras which come from his experience illustrating children’s novels.

Kathryn Anderson, the most recent addition to the LHU art staff, got to show off her work for the first time in the county with amnesia lesson no. 3 and amnesia lesson no. 5. These are just two of a seven to nine work amnesia series which are meant to relate to each other and tell a story. Kathryn hopes to capture a tactile element with her emphasis of mixed media including ballpoint pen, graphite, stitching and found media.

Vance McCoy was a big exhibitor having brought three sets of works including his craft driven pottery, which focused more on form and color rather than just utility, and a series of acrylic paintings on masonite panels and geometric sculptures which he called Extensions (Intensions). This series was not objectively inspired and McCoy took in formal and conceptual considerations rather than figurative. Of course, one of the most popular works of his that night belonged to no series and instead spoke for itself, that being The Rare and Elusive Armored Aardvark. This guy is a fictional hybrid created by combining qualities of the greater one-horned rhino and an aardvark.

RICK KESSINGER/THE EXPRESS The newest art professor at Lock Haven University, Kathryn Anderson, standing with two works from her Amnesia series.

Raymond Heffner presented his abstract expressionistic works which he called his Windows series. These pastel and charcoal pieces are made to have a particular setting in time and location despite being architectural spaces. Heffner hopes to conjure a mood with his drawings with them serving as metaphors for human experience and the emotions associated with events in life. His process involves using marks, lines and colors to direct that energy at the viewer.

The Lock Haven University Fine Art Society (FAS) also got a chance to display works of their own in what is usually a very rare occurrence outside of the university itself. Fine Art Society Vice President and art minor, Alexis Hynd, brought in works based on her interests in nature and music including Cozy Home and Forest Castle done in watercolor and ink, Rock Concert, a watercolor and gel transfer and Tiger Eye on scratchboard. Shatana Mone displayed a number of works focused on mental health of the black community, such as Temperate Embrace in watercolor, and Neo Nefertiti, Neo Anansi and Neo Masculinity done in acrylic. While not a student anymore, former president of the FAS and recent LHU graduate Danielle Page was there to show a few of her ceramics Buffalo Head Medicine Man and Bearded Drama King.

Students Nick Pompeo and Symone Terrell also had art on display but sadly could not be there that night.

Both the students and professors greatly appreciated the opportunity to display in the gallery and thought the opening night was a rousing success. This opening was particularly special because according to the president of the Clinton County Arts Council, Carol Cillo, this is the first time the full art faculty and the FAS have exhibited at the gallery together so that the talents of both could be admired. Cillo also added that felt that all the works on display worked very cohesively as one show. Come see the talents of the great minds of Lock Haven University now through Feb. 29 at the Lock Haven Train Station Gallery, 2 E. Bald Eagle St.

RICK KESSINGER/THE EXPRESS Members of Lock Haven University’s Fine Art Society, Alexis Hynd, Shatana Mone and recent LHU graduate Danielle Page were in attendance that evening.

RICK KESSINGER/THE EXPRESS From left to right Temperate Embrace, Neo Nefertiti, Neo Anansi and Neo Masculinity by Shatana Mone.

RICK KESSINGER/THE EXPRESS The Rare and Elusive Armored Aardvark by Vance McCoy.

RICK KESSINGER/THE EXPRESS An Army of Ants, Thingvellir and Skuleskogen I by Philip Huber.

RICK KESSINGER/THE EXPRESS Works from Raymond Heffner’s Windows series.

RICK KESSINGER/THE EXPRESS Rock Concert and Tiger Eye by Alexis Hynd.