The Bowdoin Orient

April 6, 2001
Volume CXXXII, Number 20

"Ten Semesters": Five days to see it

   Already this year Bowdoin's Visual Arts Center has hosted a variety of exciting senior art shows. This trend continues with "Ten Semesters," which displays "recent work with a healthy mix of accumulated photos" by Nick Riggie '01 and Eric Drum '01.
   The show opens on Monday, April 9, when the photographers will host a dessert reception, from 7:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. in the VAC.
   The collection will remain up for five days, a lamentably short time to see some strikingly mature and reflective artwork.
  Drum's photos picture a variety of subjects, although a significant number of his works focus on tree branches weaving their way around power lines. Two of Drum's more striking photographs are his picture of a bending rural road in winter and his intimate image of an empty greenhouse.
   Riggie's portfolio is quite impressive, and provides an enlivening contrast to Drum's photos, as he focuses largely on people. A large number of recent works feature adolescents and teenagers at the Bath YMCA. Combined with his images of middle-aged Mainers, the viewer can perceive in these pieces a cohesive photographic perspective. The smudgy mustached teens and gap-toothed hunters he photographs would be easy subjects for the collegiate eye to rest patronizingly upon; but Riggie doesn't.
   Do not miss your opportunity to see this very earnest, artistic work.

Photo by Nick Riggie.

Photo by Eric Drumm.