Exhibition 2003

Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY

Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY (Jun 26 – Aug 11) — ExhibitsUSA tour

The tour’s fourth stop: the Mandeville Gallery in Union College’s Nott Memorial, Schenectady, New York, June 26 – August 11, 2003, free and open to the public (Union College news release, June 6, 2003). David Brickman reviewed it as “This Is Not the Academy.”

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Pictures · click to enlarge

Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY, 2003: photograph 1 (“Hellbound III,” 2001 — one of the two Sesow paintings on the tour) — “Hellbound III,” 2001 — one of the two Sesow paintings on the tour · Matt Sesow

Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY, 2003: photograph 2 (“Bunny Collector,” 2001 — the second Sesow painting on the tour) — “Bunny Collector,” 2001 — the second Sesow painting on the tour · Matt Sesow

Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY, 2003: photograph 3 (David Brickman, “This Is Not the Academy,” review of the show at the Mandeville Gallery, summer 2003) — David Brickman, “This Is Not the Academy,” review of the show at the Mandeville Gallery, summer 2003 · David Brickman

Saved web pages and links

Union College news release, June 6, 2003: “Revelations and Reflections” at the Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, June 26 – August 11 · Internet Archive copy · saved copy, full text
The full story: “Revelations and Reflections of American Self-Taught Artists,” the 2002–2005 ExhibitsUSA tour (all eleven venues, both paintings, reviews)

Research notes

“Revelations and Reflections of American Self-Taught Artists” was organized for ExhibitsUSA (Mid-America Arts Alliance) and travelled from 2002 to 2005. Matt’s paintings “Hellbound III” and “Bunny Collector” hung at every stop.
Matt was in Schenectady the month before, in May 2003, for his Juror’s Choice Award at Viewpoint Gallery — see the 2003 Viewpoint page.

Where this record comes from

history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-03)
history.sesow.com (live, 2026-10-11)
sesow.com/revelation.htm and press/2k2 scans (Las Vegas Mercury 9/11/2003; Brickman review; labels; slide #10; ExhibitsUSA catalog p.33)

Cite as: Sesow, Matt. “Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, Union College, Schenectady, NY.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, 2003. history.sesow.com/e/2003-mandeville-gallery-nott-memorial-union.html. Accessed [date].

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Mandeville show celebrates self-taught artists

Union College News, Schenectady, NY · June 6, 2003 · original address

Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, June 26 – August 11, 2003.

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Title: Mandeville show celebrates self-taught artists
Publisher: Union College News, Schenectady, NY
Date: June 6, 2003
Original URL: https://muse.union.edu/newsarchives/2003/06/06/mandeville-show-celebrates-self-taught-artists/
Also at: https://web.archive.org/web/20261011153915/https://muse.union.edu/newsarchives/2003/06/06/mandevilleshow-celebrates-self-taught-artists/
Why it matters: Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial, June 26 – August 11, 2003.
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Mandeville show celebrates self-taught artists
Posted on Jun 6, 2003
“Let Us Have Your Attention Now Baby,” painting by Ruby C. Williams
Mandeville Gallery in the
Nott Memorial will mount “Revelations & Reflections of American Self-Taught
Artists,” from Monday, June 26 through Monday, August 11.
Viewers first encountering
these works might aptly compare them to the more familiar output of Anna Mary
“Grandma Moses” Robertson. Such self-taught or late-in-life artists are those whose
intuitive creativity is “unspoiled” by formal training or any specific school or
category. Such rubrics include visionary, primitive, memory painting, and folk
artists.
This exhibit reflects religious
concerns or spiritual themes, many in vibrant African American tradition. The artists
express their often-rural “old-time religion” roots in Sunday school sampler-type
“fire and brimstone” simplicity. Others render whimsical moral commentary,
such as the bright red, pointy-tailed “Demon Family at the Art Gallery.”
The variety of medium used
is no less astounding than the final products – beaver-cut wood, corrugated
cardboard, masonite, marker pens, leather, crayon, and honeysuckle vine to name
but a few. These ingenuous works reflect their creators' passionate spiritual
underpinnings as well as their brilliant resourcefulness in transforming the
simple materials found in their daily lives into authentic and memorable art.
Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 9
a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 5
p.m.; Sunday, noon to 10 p.m. The exhibit is free and
open to the public.