Two student artists recently earned awards for their works in an exhibition at SUNY Fredonia. Kaylee Gabalski, an animation and illustration major from Jamestown, earned the President's Award; and Mathew Guerrero, an animation and illustration major from Long Island, received the Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery Award. The awards were sponsored by the President's Office and the Fredonia College Foundation's Cathy and Jesse Marion Endowment Fund, respectively.
Gabalski created a stop-motion animation and mixed media piece with cut-outs titled "Bells of War." Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Andy Karafa selected Gabalski's work for the President's Award, describing it as "striking in a number of ways." Guerrero's "Familial" series of acrylic and oil on panel paintings was selected for the Marion Art Gallery Award by Gallery Director Barbara Räcker. She cited the paintings' formal and expressive qualities.
The awards were selected in conjunction with the spring senior art show, titled "Hodge Podge," which ran from May 1-10 in the Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery on the Fredonia campus.
The "Hodge Podge" exhibition included paintings, animated short films (stop motion, 2D, and rotoscope), animatics, character designs and concept art for animation, mixed media sculpture, ceramic installations, and a puppet installation. 18 graduating seniors presented works in the exhibition.
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