Past Exhibitions

Creating Movement and Flow - A Conversation of Form and Utility
Fall Exhibition featuring Errol Willett and Edward Feldman

Dowd Gallery opens fall semester 2025 with artists and educators Errol Willett and Edward Feldman. While engage in prolific studio practices, each has been building a tantalizing collection of artwork from peers, colleagues, and professionals in the field of ceramics. This exhibit demonstrates pieces that fracture the philosophical borders between form, function, utility, and the aesthetic virtue of sculpture. Parallel to the personal works of the artists, hand-selected pieces from both Willett and Feldman exemplify the boundary of artwork and functionality. These selections represent over 30 different artists living and working in contemporary ceramics and express the vast diversity of surface and form for the cup. Some selections of the artists also exist beyond the scope of function and represent the fundamental sculptural object, allowing viewers to examine the conceptual lines between form and function.

Student Select '25
April 23rd- May 9th, 2025

Dowd Gallery hosts spring exhibition "Student Select 25".

Dowd Gallery and the Art Exhibition Association invite you to "Student Select 2025," a juried exhibition of student artwork from the 2024-25 academic year.  This showcase of SUNY Cortland student artworks annually exhibits visual art including paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, digital media, fibers, prints and more creative works from the studios of the Art and Art History department. The exhibition is located in the main gallery and includes class highlights from graphic design, typography, and figure drawing.  

This years student works were curated by Sayward Schoonmaker, the Artistic Director of the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park.

Imagination Celebration
Cortland County K-12 Exhibition of Student Work

The Imagination Celebration is an annual exhibition that marks the recognition of accomplishment for Cortland County educators and students in creative arts. The exhibition opening reception is March 27 starting at 5 pm.  

Parts & Labor, and From the Vault
Dueling exhibitions featuring Mara Baldwin and works from the permanent collection.

Dowd Gallery presents a double exhibition spring opener.  Parts & Labor by Mara Baldwin shows in conjunction with selections by Allison DeDominick from the SUNY Cortland permanent collection invoking conversations between realism and abstraction.  (photo: Mara Baldwin, Investiture Dabbler, (Dabbler series) 2024, Color pencil and ink on paper (detail)

TIMESTAMPS
Paul Chambers and Allen Mooney Oct 21 - Dec 13, 2024

Dowd Gallery presents Timestamps, an exhibition of sculptures, drawings and paintings by Paul Chambers and Allen Mooney.  Curated by Wylie Schwartz and Scott Oldfield, the collections artworks engage in ideas of memory, metaphor, meaning and communication.  

Faculty Biennial 2024
August 26 - October 4, 2024

Dowd Gallery welcomes everyone back for the fall semester of 2024. Our first exhibition in the programming is Faculty Biennial 2024. The exhibition highlights artist-selected works using various visual art techniques in conceptual, formal, and functional forms. The diverse range of studio practices offers a glimpse into the research and craft of individual faculty and staff members with SUNY Cortland's Art and Art History department.  

Student Select 2024 and BFA thesis exhibition "In the Weeds," Dana Garrison
April 15 - May 3, 2024

Dowd Gallery hosts a dual spring exhibition. "Student Select"  and  BFA exhibition "In the Weeds."

Students Select is an annual exhibition of student artwork featuring a vibrant curation of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, digital media, fibers, and prints. It is a creative display of Cortland student artwork curated by artist and educator Carla Stetson.  The exhibition is located in the gallery's Main and East wings.

In the Weeds, a BFA exhibition featuring the paintings and mixed media drawings of Dana Garrison will be located in the gallery's West wing.  

Images:

Chloe Lowenguth "Neglecting Myself"

Sophie Marin "Conqueror"

Dana Garrison "Tears in my chemistry notebook" and "Like a dog with a bird at your door"

Kat McCormick "Reinventing Myself"

Eye Witness: Minna Resnick, Carla Stetson, Susan Weisend, Lin Price
January 22 - March 28, 2024

A group exhibition featuring Lin Price, Minna Resnick, Carla Stetson, and Susan Weisand. The artists present representational and imaginary works in painting, drawing, and sculpture. 

"Black Sun": Willie Binnie
September 5 - October 20, 2023

(dis)content: Alyssa Cusimano
April 24 - May 13, 2023

The body of work titled (dis)content, displayed on the east side of the Dowd Gallery, was produced as a part of a BFA thesis requirement by Alyssa Cusimano, a painting major in the Art & Art History Department. Cusimano's work examines the effects of the beauty industry and the unrealistic standards of beauty that are perpetuated through social media.