CENTENNIAL FACULTY EXHIBITION
February 6 – March 30, 2026
Gallery Hours: M-F 10AM-5PM
University Gallery | Fulton Hall
As Salisbury University celebrates its 100th year, the fifteen exhibiting artists in the faculty exhibition —Jeanne Anderton, Edward Brown, David Bunting, David Gladden, Elena Greenwood, Jinchul Kim, Sally Molenda, John Mosher, Marley Massey, Jen Pepper, Brooke Rogers, David Smith, Elena Taylor, Cara Lee Wade, Laura West, and William Wolff—represent a broad spectrum of fields, approaches, and practices. Spanning painting, sculpture, ceramics, and drawing to photography, graphic design, and media arts, this diversity mirrors the University’s mission to be a “place where ambitions take flight” and help shape the future.
For many of the artists, the Eastern Shore remains a lasting source of inspiration; for others, their chosen medium serves as an ongoing site of research and inquiry. From this range of approaches, reflection emerges as a unifying theme. Images of the cosmos, nature, people, and objects act as connective threads, linking past and present while re-invigorating memory with fresh insight. Gladden channels his celestial musings into a single-channel video capturing the evolving universe. Brown revisits marshlands and forests—the former through sweeping watercolor vistas; the latter in intimate scenes rendered with acrylic pens. Greenwood weaves memories of Salisbury University into phenomenological layouts of cast glass and kaleidoscopic photographs to build hope and connectivity. Molenda blends intention and chance in diminutive, felted wool “sea creatures,” embedded with pastel hues. And Parsons finds solace in evoking the night sky and tidal patterns through painted ceramic tiles made from wild clay.
The human figure is also prominent in the exhibition. Rogers presents enigmatic painted tableaux that merge the everyday with art history and mysticism. West’s poetic installation of 3D-printed, colored scans of her walking foot explores specific memories from her Romanian journey. In her black-and-white portraits and still lifes, Wade conjures important women in her life at tender, fleeting moments, while in his shaped canvas and video installation with a female body, Kim mines questions of science, subjectivity, and public and private space. Mosher’s brightly hued paper collages coax gesturing humanoids from magazine clippings. Similarly, Smith evokes the figure with a human-animal face jug topping a fountain and a bed of ceramic shards. Elsewhere, the figure is felt through absence. Pepper’s thematic invitations spin narratives around clients’ rites of passage; Anderton’s orotone prints depict nature reclaiming weathered man-made sites; and Wolff’s sculptural and drawn arabesques seek to distill the essence of life itself.
By turns witty and pensive, this centennial exhibition boldly renders memory and time visible through diverse works marked by passion and fluid boundaries. In the artists’ imaginations, reflection fuels further experimentation and sparks a yearning for transcendent experience. At the same time, the exhibition affirms art’s vital role to nurture creativity, discovery, and community in students and the public alike.
Sarah Tanguy, guest curator
Free and open to the public.
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