Two art majors to showcase senior work

March 6, 2016

Exhibit: Senior show
Exhibit dates: Sunday, March 20 through Sunday, April 24
Reception date and time: Sunday, March 20, 2-4 p.m.
Closing Reception: Saturday, April 23, 2-3:30 p.m.
Location: Music Center’s Hershberger Art Gallery
Cost: Free and open to the public.

Two Goshen College senior art majors will showcase their work in the Music Center’s Hershberger Art Gallery between March 20 and April 24, 2016.

An exhibit opening reception will be held Sunday, March 8 from 2 to 4 p.m., and a closing reception will be held Sunday, April 23 from 203:30 p.m. in the Hershberger Art Gallery. All events are free and open to the public.

David Pauls, from Dallas, Oregon, is a senior art major with a concentration in sculpture and a minor in sustainability. Being close to the wilderness for most of his life has influenced his work in a variety of ways. His focus on drawing and steel sculpture in his upcoming show explores many of these influences through forms, textures and subject matter in abstracted uses of his chosen mediums, all of which strives to exhibit the forms of the natural world that have fascinated him for most of his life.

Ellen Schlabach, from Goshen, is an art education major. Her exhibit work features a series of prints and several paintings, which feature fine details and intricate line work of design elements, figures and plant life. Her paintings are large, bizarre compilations of buildings and architecture. Her work alludes to childhood forts and secret places. She works to portray a sense of personal sanctuary, exploring the idea that you can create a sense of home, comfort and ownership for your surroundings.