On Jan. 16, the Ashland University Art Department held their first art gallery of the semester. This art exhibit was of the faculty in the department’s art pieces. 

At the art gallery you were met with all kinds of different medias of artwork from scriptures to music videos. 

Cynthia Petry, an assistant professor of Art created many pieces of the show all using mixed media collages. 

Her newest artwork is “Untitled” and a piece she was wrestling with for a while. 

Petry said, “I wrestled with the making of it, it is a guitar back… I selected it for the segmentations of it, but I also hated that it was a guitar because I did not know if the viewer could get past that.” 

Like most of Petry’s artwork, the piece uses found and past photographs. Petry stated that the art is very feminine, and it relies on photos of women in the past. The artwork details the women’s bust and hands. 

Petry said, “It is almost like remixing it beyond superficiality of women’s lives in the past or the way they can be portrayed, stereotypes, we are more than the way we dress.” 

The faculty work exhibition will be available for perusal until Feb. 16. The next art gallery will be a Juried Student Art and Design Exhibition and will be having the opening on Tuesday, March 11.