Gary Schubert is a multidisciplinary artist who works in traditional and non-traditional media and is known for blending approaches to artmaking in experimental ways. He finds freedom within self-imposed limitations and often asks, “What can my camera see that I can’t see?”
While making plans for a trip to France in 2019, he determined to bring only his iPhone and one small amateur digital camera. In this camera, the normal UV-blocking filter was replaced with a Super Blue filter, which allows only specific blue, infrared, and ultraviolet light frequencies to pass. The resulting color Super Blue interpretations and monochrome photographs are exhibited together, minimally edited, allowing viewers to see France in a different light.
Gary Schubert studied under Tom Nakashima at West Virginia University where he earned an MFA in painting (1980) and an MS in computer science (1980). He also studied with acclaimed French photographer Lucien Clergue. He has exhibited widely, and his work is represented in public collections such as the Huntington Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He retired from Alderson Broaddus University, Philippi, West Virginia, as an Associate Professor after more than three decades teaching art and computer science. He lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, with his wife, Alice.
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from The Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture & History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
The Opening Reception for this exhibit will take place on Friday, November 3, 2023, at 6 p.m.
“Let’s Make Friendly Pots”
The artist will speak about her work in a free public presentation on Thursday, February 8, 2024, at 7 p.m. Admission is free. Refreshments follow the presentation.
Dondero will contact a workshop at HMA from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, February 9, through Sunday, February 11, 2024.
About the Workshop
In this workshop, the artist will share her love of clay and design with the students. Participants will start with loosely thrown and hand built forms, leaving many traces of the process to be revealed in the finished piece, and will work through to surface design or the decision to leave the surface open. All these moments and choices along the way create a unique voice that the artist will help the participants find through lively discussions, writing exercises, and brainstorming activities about style and surface decoration choices. Throughout the workshop there will be demonstrations on the wheel, as well as constructing coil, slab and pinch pots. Pots will be decorated with slip, using different surface techniques to build up layers of interest, as well as demonstrations of sgraffito including discussions of timing for varying line qualities and results. The artist will also teach about underglazes and stains, with an emphasis on brush and application styles. Additionally, the artist will discuss and demonstrate her glazing technique.
About the Artist
Maria Dondero was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, the youngest of five children, and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, with her family in 1983. After high school, she spent more than a year living and learning in Latin America. She attended her first pottery class while in Guanajuato, Mexico, and went on to study ceramics at the University of Georgia, where she earned a BFA (2005) and an MFA (2008). In 2009 she opened Marmalade Pottery, a studio and gallery in Athens, Georgia. Then, in 2016, she renovated a former industrial space and established Southern Star Studio, a vibrant community pottery studio and gallery. She has taught at universities and led workshops across the country. In 2023, she and three other women began an international cooperative ceramics studio in Cortona, Italy. She is represented by prominent galleries nationwide and her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions.
“I love pots and am honored to make pieces that people bring into their lives. I love eating and am amazed at the way a delicious meal becomes an even more beautiful experience when served in a thoughtful, handmade dish. I love drinking tasty things and feel connected to the maker when I choose a particular cup. These daily rituals of creating beauty in experience have kept me interested in making pots for the last 20 years. I aim to create friendly pots that are warm, comfortable, loose, and vulnerable. Pieces that folks will enjoy having around. I connect to pottery for the long history of potters worldwide who have made art objects to be used in everyday life. I choose terracotta for the rich color and the likeness to Georgia Clay. I use a kaolin slip to add texture and a surface to draw back into. I respond to the form itself with imagery from my life and surroundings. I seek to balance the immediacy of quickly sketched drawings with the permanence of a piece of pottery that could be around long after I am.”
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from The Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture & History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
The Daytons’ interest in collecting art began in 1916 when they received the painting Munich Landscape, by Ross Sterling Turner, as a wedding present. The couple, both natives of Philippi, West Virginia, began seriously building their collection while living in Charleston, West Virginia, from 1923-1948. They purchased art from galleries and, over the years, cultivated a special relationship with MacBeth Gallery in New York City. They also bought from auctions, from prestigious exhibitions such as the Carnegie International, and purchased works directly from the studios of artists they admired – in the United States and abroad. They kept detailed records of where and when each object was acquired.
The Daytons were students of art history, especially 19th and 20th century American art. They shared a love of landscapes and were particularly interested in the work of academically trained artists working in the various schools of realism and American Impressionism. Their collection grew to include masterpieces by Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, Emil Carlsen, John Twachtman, Willard Metcalf, Frank Benson, Charles Davis, and works by “The Eight.” Early American modernists and the ideals expressed by those artworks were of little interest.
In 1929, Ruth purchased from MacBeth Gallery an etching titled Calvary Church in Snow by Childe Hassam and gave it to Arthur as a Christmas gift. Thus began a rich collection of engravings, etchings, and lithographs by American and European printmakers. The Daytons also had a penchant for small bronzes, especially by women artists working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Grace Helen Talbot, Harriet Frishmuth, Anna Hyatt Huntington, and Edith Parsons. A small collection of Lacy period glass was also part of the collection.
In 1948, Arthur Dayton died suddenly at the age of sixty-one. Wishing to share the collection with the public, Ruth Dayton turned a building on the property adjacent to their home in Lewisburg, West Virginia, into a museum. She called it The Daywood Gallery, combining Arthur’s surname (Dayton) and her maiden name (Woods). The collection continued to grow through purchases and donations, and The Daywood Gallery remained in operation from 1951 into 1966.
The Daywood Collection was donated to the Huntington Museum of Art in 1967 where it is the crown jewel in the Museum’s permanent collection. When Ruth Dayton gave the collection to the Museum, she expressed great personal satisfaction in knowing that it was going to be cared for and properly displayed, remarking that “the Daywood Collection will always have a home in West Virginia and will continue, through the years, to bring pleasure to art lovers in the State as well as to visitors from throughout the nation.”
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from The Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture & History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
This exhibit is presented by Truist West Virginia Foundation.
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from The Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
The Daytons’ interest in collecting art began in 1916 when they received the painting Munich Landscape, by Ross Sterling Turner, as a wedding present. The couple, both natives of Philippi, West Virginia, began seriously building their collection while living in Charleston, West Virginia, from 1923-1948. They purchased art from galleries and, over the years, cultivated a special relationship with MacBeth Gallery in New York City. They also bought from auctions, from prestigious exhibitions such as the Carnegie International, and purchased works directly from the studios of artists they admired – in the United States and abroad. They kept detailed records of where and when each object was acquired.
The Daytons were students of art history, especially 19th and 20th century American art. They shared a love of landscapes and were particularly interested in the work of academically trained artists working in the various schools of realism and American Impressionism. Their collection grew to include masterpieces by Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, Emil Carlsen, John Twachtman, Willard Metcalf, Frank Benson, Charles Davis, and works by “The Eight.” Early American modernists and the ideals expressed by those artworks were of little interest.
In 1929, Ruth purchased from MacBeth Gallery an etching titled Calvary Church in Snow by Childe Hassam and gave it to Arthur as a Christmas gift. Thus began a rich collection of engravings, etchings, and lithographs by American and European printmakers. The Daytons also had a penchant for small bronzes, especially by women artists working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Grace Helen Talbot, Harriet Frishmuth, Anna Hyatt Huntington, and Edith Parsons. A small collection of Lacy period glass was also part of the collection.
In 1948, Arthur Dayton died suddenly at the age of sixty-one. Wishing to share the collection with the public, Ruth Dayton turned a building on the property adjacent to their home in Lewisburg, West Virginia, into a museum. She called it The Daywood Gallery, combining Arthur’s surname (Dayton) and her maiden name (Woods). The collection continued to grow through purchases and donations, and The Daywood Gallery remained in operation from 1951 into 1966.
The Daywood Collection was donated to the Huntington Museum of Art in 1967 where it is the crown jewel in the Museum’s permanent collection. When Ruth Dayton gave the collection to the Museum, she expressed great personal satisfaction in knowing that it was going to be cared for and properly displayed, remarking that “the Daywood Collection will always have a home in West Virginia and will continue, through the years, to bring pleasure to art lovers in the State as well as to visitors from throughout the nation.”
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from The Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture & History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Alex E. Booth, Jr. joined the Board in the early 1960s and immediately began to steer the Museum toward contemporary art, first with a significant gift to help fund the purchase of an Alexander Calder mobile in 1964. He quickly followed this donation with the provision of funds to acquire a drawing by Georges Braque, as well as a gift of historic works by John Singer Sargent and Samuel F. B. Morse. His appointment as Building Committee chairman during the 1960s seemed to galvanize his resolve that the Museum’s holdings reflect the modernist spirit in 20th-century art.
His work with architect Walter Gropius during the design and construction of the Museum’s 1970 addition served as a strong inspiration, and he worked diligently to see that the new space would include work by contemporary artists. When the Museum sought to match acquisition funds that were available through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, he supplied the financial resources that allowed for purchases of work by contemporary sculptors Seymour Lipton, Leonard Baskin, Harry Bertoia, and others. He also provided funds to acquire paintings by two giants of mid-century American art: Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline. He later enriched the collection with an assortment of gifts that included an expressive George Bellows drawing, a painting by the American impressionist Edward Henry Potthast, and historic sculpture from Asia, ancient Rome, and the Americas that reflected his world travels.
A more recent gift, from 2004, was a pastel drawing that depicted Huntington’s Ritter Park. It was done by the artist Wolf Kahn while he was a workshop leader in the Museum’s Walter Gropius Master Artist Program in 1994. The Gropius program, which has brought contemporary artists to teach classes and exhibit their work at HMA for more than 25 years, was funded by a generous bequest from Alex Booth’s mother, Roxanna Y. Booth. The program acknowledged the inspiration that was provided by Gropius during his time in Huntington and his desire that art be taught, as well as exhibited, in the Museum. The Gropius program spurred an initiative to acquire representative works by visiting artists, again reflecting the desire of Alex Booth to see the Huntington Museum of Art embrace contemporary art.
This exhibit is presented with support from the City of Huntington Mayor’s Council for the Arts.
This exhibit is presented with support from The Isabelle Gwynn and Robert Daine Exhibition Endowment.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture & History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.