Masked & Unmasked Exhibition Opening January 2026
Thank you to all who came out to join Jason Thompson & me at our Masked & Unmasked Exhibition Opening!
Check out the show excerpt and Q&A by Kim O’brien below:
“A new exhibition at the Winter Visual Arts Center spotlights two faculty artists, as well as the range of mediums and techniques students experience at Franklin & Marshall.
“Masked & Unmasked,” two parallel solo exhibits by Jason Thompson and Ashley Moog Bowlsbey, use unexpected materials to explore identity.
Thompson has worked as the Winter Center’s studio manager and sculpture technician for the past 10 years. Moog Bowlsbey is an adjunct professor of photography at F&M and nearby Pennsylvania College of Art & Design.
Thompson’s body of work – “a kind of accidental geometry,” he said – uses compressed shards, fragments and fibers encapsulated in acrylic. Geode-like forms protrude from the gallery’s floor and walls. Grid-inspired sculptures attached to a pulley system hang above prints bursting with bright acrylic, ink and other mixed media.
Moog Bowlsbey’s collection of large portraits feature models fully draped in discarded makeup wipes, collected from 100 women over three years. Titled “Second Skin,” the exhibit “takes away access to each model’s face and body to show the haunting reality of our emphasis on one’s outer shell,” Moog Bowlsbey said.
Below, get to know the artists:
https://www.fandm.edu/stories/studio-arts-faculty-spotlight-masked-unmasked.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stories&utm_content=ap_33yvwz7gnr
Images in the article & featured below are by Deb Grove.
