Kohl Gallery Past Exhibits
Play! & Bodily
Two Senior Studio Art Capstone Exhibitions
By Katelyn Reggie and Ziggy Love Angelos
Bodily
Squiggles
About the Artists:
Ziggy Love Angelos is a visual artist from Monkton Maryland and Chicago Illinois. Their works focus on explorations of the figure which reflect their deeply sensitive and spiritual nature. They are a Studio Art major and Psychology minor at Washington College (WAC), graduating in Fall 2025. During their time at WAC, their work has been exhibited at Kohl Gallery and River Arts Gallery in Chestertown. They have also served on campus as co-president of the art club, art director for the Collegian Magazine, and as a peer mentor. After college, Angelos has interest in exploring artist residencies and attending graduate school with a focus in Art Therapy to eventually support marginalized groups. Ziggy is a singer-songwriter both solo and as a member of the band DressCode where they play guitar, bass, and lead vocals.
"My work portrays strength in our most gentle truths.
As a deeply sensitive person, art has provided me a safe space to process and become
as self alongside my artistic creations. I have fallen in love with the process of
creation which has been a dear friend to me ever since I was young when I began questioning
how I take shape on this earth. I began making from a place of curiosity with the
figure as I approached my understandings of gender, size, presentation, trauma, and
societal roles and pressures. This practice has offered me the gift of exploration
and understanding of relationship with self both internally and externally. Therefore,
guiding me to a place of expressive empowerment. As I’ve aged, my works have acted
as time stamps in the development of my identity."
Katelyn Reggie is a process-based artist currently completing her last semester at Washington College. She is a psychology and studio art double major and exploring the interplay between her majors through her emotions and experiences. When she was younger she loved drawing and doodling, but stopped in high school because she chose music. In 2022 she began working in visual art again, with a focus on exploring installation and sculpture based work and has since expanded her work to include painting and collage techniques.
"I enjoy playing with different materials and focusing on the process behind getting to my final works. My artistic process unfolds intuitively, letting the materials guide me through the work. For the past few years I’ve worked with paints, paper, and rhinestones, as well as window screens, ceramic plates, and bright aluminum cans. Cutting up or breaking apart older works is something I often do to create new artworks. Lately, I’ve been playing with line and repetition to create works with bright colors (especially pink) adding a sense of playfulness and whimsy."
Earlier Exhibits:
100 Proof
The Annual Student Exhibition
March 21-29, 2025
The exhibition was juried by naturalist, writer, and artist Austen Camille, who wrote, “...What I was drawn to in these works was a real sense of an attempt to make sense of something, a working through, a feeling of problem solving, [and] trying to understand. The original meaning of 'understand' has nothing to do with 'under' - instead, it's everything to do with being 'in the midst of / between / among', and I think that's what I was coming across here.”
100 Proof featured work by: Ziggy Angelos, Brooke Bailey, Ella Baldwin, Erin Cooper, Jeremy Cress, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Erin Helgerman, Ella Humphreys, Elle Kavina, Morgan Link, Stevie Lyles, Madison Maguire, Rebekah McCreary, Sage McKim, Kaitlin Osucha, Liam Peregoy, Emily Polio, Ethan Ransom, Xavier M. Smalls, Eleanor Thibault, Heidi Tine Anna Treadway, Justus Williams, and Kit Yim
Drafting Dissent: The Use of Drawings in Cuba's Recent Activist Scene
Artworks by Camila R. Lobón, Raychel Carrion, and Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara
Curated by María de Lourdes Mariño Fernandez
February 6- March 8
Drafting Dissent illuminates the cultural and political discourse of a new generation of Cuban artists. Over the last six years, a wave of artists/activists residing in Cuba and abroad, have used a range of artistic techniques to raise attention to the political struggle of the Cuban people. Drawings have been essential throughout the development of this alternative cultural scene. The three artists introduced in this exhibition, Camila R. Lobón, Raychel Carrión, and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, are at the center of this movement.
Camila R. Lobón was a founder of INSTAR (Institute of Artivism Hanna Arendt), and is a central member of 27N, the activist group that staged the first public manifestation against political persecution led by artists and intellectuals since 1959.
Raychel Carrión, also a member of 27N and who resides in Spain, became an important voice in support of this movement through social media by sharing drawings where he narrates the current conflicts.
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, currently serving a five-year prison sentence in Cuba for his performative activism and participation in mass demonstrations, is a central figure of the cultural shift that characterizes contemporary Cuban art. Even from prison, Alcántara continues to be a fundamental force of the political and cultural struggle in the country.
Through these artists' exhibited drawings, Drafting Dissent represents the practice of conceptual meditation on the reality of political persecution, isolation, and overwhelming despair on the island.
above image: Raychel Carrión, Incendio/ Fire, from the series Sharing. Graphite on paper, 2020
Contextualizing the Exhibit:
The Cuba Experience
Professor Elena Deanda-Camacho
Curator María de Lourdes Mariño Fernandez
Sobia Ahmad: Devotions
Devotions is centered within Sobia Ahmad's ongoing connection to the Pando Forest in Utah. This ancient grove of 47,000 aspen trees is considered Earth's oldest living organism. Pando stretches over 100 acres and is unified by a single immense root system, making it ‘a forest of one'. In response to this unique and living site, Ahmad created One Big Eye. This hand-processed 16mm film transferred to HD was made in collaboration with Benny Shaffer and weaves scientific, folkloric, and mystical ways of relating to Pando. Writing about this forest and its broader influence on her artistic practice Ahmad shares: “I see Pando's root system as a guiding metaphor for interconnectedness. I am interested in the theme of entanglement through the lens of Oneness in Sufi mysticism, the power of film as a medium to remind us of our shared reality, and the political implications of relating to each other and a more-than-human world as an interconnectedness whole.”
Brandon Donahue-Shipp and Katie Pumphrey: Freestyle
Freestyle is an exhibition of recent works by Brandon Donahue-Shipp and Katie Pumphrey. Artistry and athletics are inextricably connected. Donahue-Shipp and Pumphrey extend this creative connection through their individual artistic practices.
Sizhu Li: MOONMENT
Moonment is a kinetic installation project inspired by a Chinese ancient poem “海上生明月，天涯共此时” by Tang poet Zhang Jiu Lin. This work describes a surreal and poetic night sea view that resonates with people of different locations. Aluminum sheets, programmed fans, and a heart-shaped, beating moon create a live, moving, percussive environment. People see the moon and hear the sound, thereby connecting to loved ones beyond time and distance. For more information visit the Moonment website.