Past Exhibitions

The themes of this exhibition revolve around memory and perception, roles within the nuclear family, gender roles and stereotypes, the relationship between abstraction and representation, and the psychological impact of paint handling

Between the pen and ink and the large-scale paintings themselves, this series featured work in response to Dabb's year as the Appell Arts Fellow.

This exhibition features artists addressing gender identity in a variety of ways that include examining their own relationship to established gender norms and expectations, responding to the heteronormative male/female binary, and asserting Queerness as a fluid alternative to the idea of a stable gender identity.

This exhibition explores “the big lie” behind the Stop the Steal movement, looking deeper into questions of who the country belongs to, who gets to protest, and what has been stolen from whom throughout American history.

The work of Taring Padi, an art collective in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, demonstrates the democracy of printmaking and collaboration, denouncing corruption, environmental exploitation, inequality and neo-imperialism while advocating for the poor and dispossessed.

Entang Wiharso has a multidisciplinary practice and is widely regarded for his unique depictions of contemporary life that employ a dramatic visual language, creating artworks that exist in relation to the mythologies of a centuries-old animist past and the high-speed, hyper-connected lifestyle of the 21st century.

This exhibition represents the culminating experience of the Appell Arts Fellowship, an 11-month artist residency awarded to a recent graduate of York College's art program.

Andi Simpson is an abstract painter/muralist based in York whose work often blends an ethereal sense of warmth and light with the chaos found in nature.

The Social Networking, community engaging, boundary breaking, human centric project developed and produced by Ophelia M. Chambliss.

This exhibition is a surrealist introspection into the constant work of understanding and reconciling the baggage of the past.

This exhibition showcases recent YCP graduate Jeannine Dabb’s senior body of work. Informed by her career as an aesthetician, this series of paintings uses thick layers of paint, gold, and glitter to explore the complexity of her subjects and the urge to embellish and conceal.

This exhibition features Baltimore-based artist Jessi Hardesty, an anxious mark maker who channels her need to liaise with the forgotten, the secret, and the macabre through the ritual labor of woodcut.

This exhibition, curated by Susanne Slavick, pairs work by contemporary artists with texts exploring how the reality or representation of trees can offer solace and space.

This exhibition captures the voices of those often unheard or misunderstood and the solidarity present at the recent Black Lives Matter event held at Continental Square in York, PA.

This exhibition is a product of the culminating experience of the 2019-2020 Appell Arts Fellow, Amber Wiesberg '19.