SCAD painting professor and alumnus Gregory Eltringham (M.F.A., painting, 1990) builds layered forms in his figurative paintings using small staccato brush marks in luscious hues. A site-specific installation by SCAD printmaking professor Deb Oden employs dense, poetic layering of large-scale prints and personal photographs and items to create a bombastic, vibrant reading of the artist’s hand. In her sustainable practice, Victoria Wanjuhi (M.F.A. fibers; B.F.A., fashion, 2013) uses upcycled fiber swatches, bits of yarn, and other discarded fragments to piece together new forms. Large-scale paintings and installations by Patricia K. Hecht (M.F.A., painting, 2019; B.F.A., art history, 2007) employ floor plans of specific sites that are layered and repeated, creating a dizzying visual overload. Monica Cioppettini (M.F.A. painting) amasses heaps of garish costume jewelry to create glittering, yet aging sculpture and wall-based works. Paintings by Jeremiah Jossim (B.F.A. photography, 2010) and Laura Mosquera use complex patterning in bright hues, flattening the picture plane and creating rhythm and movement through formal means. And Daniel Basore (M.A. fibers; B.F.A., interior design, 2019) sources vintage photography from lifestyle magazines, which he collages into intimate and complex abstractions through historic quilt patterning.

Parts of a Whole is curated by Ben Tollefson, assistant curator of SCAD exhibitions.

Reception: Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Gallery hours: Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.