An exhibition of paintings by Tess Wei, Steve Sekula and Emma Kates-Shaw, all students of painter/professor Randall Exon at Swarthmore College, will be on display from February 4-29, 2016 at Swarthmore Borough Hall, 121 Park Avenue, Swarthmore.

The exhibit, entitled “Works from Ireland – A Group Exhibition,” presents selected works painted by the three artists while they were together in Ballycastle, County Mayo. Ireland during the summer of 2015.  Their work as a group has previously been exhibited at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation located in Ballycastle.

This group of works, while varying in medium and style, share the commonality that they were formed in response to the countryside surrounding the coastal village of Ballycastle in northwest Ireland, and its light, colors and atmosphere.  The exhibit provides an opportunity to appreciate the diversity of artistic response that can  occur in the contemplation of the same landscape.

Emma Kates-Shaw, a senior Studio/Art and Sociology/Anthropology double major at the College, uses painting and weaving to convey a sense of joy, wonder and appreciation for the everyday.

Steve Sekula, also a senior, originally from Bucks County, and double majoring in Computer Science and Studio Art, paints in layers of oil and acrylic on colored canvas.  His objective for these paintings is to convey a sense of the atmosphere and space in the Irish landscape.

Tess Wei is a junior from Philadelphia, majoring in Studio Art and double minoring in Anthropology and Art History, who paints with oils, applied with a palette knife to paper.

Please join us at the artists’ reception which is free and open to the public on Friday, February 5, from 6 to 8 pm.