Linger is on view through March 7
February 2025 – Drew University’s art and art history department have welcomed Deborah Dancy as artist-in-residence. Her exhibition, Linger, is on view through March 7 at The Korn Gallery.
Emerita Professor of Painting at University of Connecticut, Dancy is a multimedia artist whose work includes paintings, drawings, photography, and small sculptures. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Yaddo Fellow, The American Antiquarian Society William Randolph Hearst Artist and Writers Creative Arts Fellowship, and The National Endowment of the Arts NEFA award.
The exhibition Linger presents a selection of Dancy’s oil paintings on canvas and acrylic works on paper from the past four years. The works are abstract fields of accumulated marks, displaying and obscuring the layered histories of their making. The surfaces showcase a range of painterly moves—from thick, muscular iterations to more fluid and elegant lateral sweeps.
“We are very pleased to have Deborah on campus to share her work and to speak with class groups,” said Associate Teach Professor of Art Jason Karolok, who curated the exhibition.
“The exhibition in the Korn Gallery focuses on her gestural abstract paintings and drawings, but she also has other really interesting bodies of work that connect to African American history, figurative representation, and Romanticism,” added Karolak. “Deborah will be giving three different lectures on her interdisciplinary practice to students and faculty across the curriculum.”
A reception and artist talk with Dancy will take place on Tuesday, February 11, from 4-6 p.m. in the Korn Gallery.
Darcy’s work is included in various collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The High Museum in Atlanta, The Baltimore Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Detroit Institute of Art, The Montgomery Museum of Art, Vanderbilt University, Grinnell College, Oberlin College Museum of Art, Davidson Art Center at Wesleyan University, and The United States Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe.
The Korn Gallery is located in the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts at Drew University and is open Tuesday through Friday from noon – 4 p.m. and by appointment.
