Knight Gallery

The Mirror and the Window: Self-Portraits and Selected Works, 1970–2025 celebrates the vibrant life and restless creative spirit of Walter Pence (1942–2025). This eclectic, high-energy retrospective charts over five decades of Pence’s artistic evolution, using his own changing visage as an anchor for a lifetime of bold stylistic experimentation. While the self-portraits act as an intimate mirror into his shifting identity across different mediums and vivid colors, the exhibition introduces three vital departures: a singular landscape, a still life, and an abstract piece. Serving as windows into his broader mastery, these distinct works reveal how Pence engaged with the external world, objects, and pure form. The result is a kaleidoscopic, joyful tribute to an artist who never stopped looking—both inward at himself, and outward at the world.

Anderson Gallery

In Earthquake Trauma: My Path to Recovery, ceramicist Conrad Calimpong presents a deeply personal and visceral body of work that maps the journey from devastation to healing. Utilizing the raw, unpredictable nature of clay, Calimpong explores the psychological and physical aftershocks of trauma. The exhibition serves as a physical metaphor for the shattering of stability; vessels are intentionally fractured, warped, and torn, mirroring the chaotic upheaval of a seismic event. Yet, rather than leaving the pieces in ruin, Calimpong meticulously reconstructs them. Through the visible mending of cracks and the fusing of jagged edges, the artwork transcends destruction to celebrate resilience. This collection is not merely an archive of survival, but a profoundtestament to the slow, deliberate process of piecing oneself back together—proving that there is a distinct, enduring beauty in the scars we carry.

William Pierson, in this exhibit, is celebrating over 50 years of being an artist who uses a camera. This presentation chronicles an intense period of creativity in Pierson’s work that began in August 2024 with the creation of Raven Returning from the North Star. In the ensuing two years, over 60 works were created, 22 of which can be seen in this show entitled Transcendence.