Gallery showcases collaborative works in ‘An Echo and a Hum’

The Cornell College Peter Paul Luce Gallery will present “An Echo and A Hum” by artists Lila Shull and Muriel Condon from Jan. 17 to March 2. The pair will present a mix of prints, drawings, ceramics, paper pulp sculptures, and quilts that examine memory and how objects reflect time.

Shull and Condon will discuss their collaborative practice at an Artists’ Lecture on Friday, Jan. 17, at 3:30 p.m. in McWethy Hall’s Lecture Hall, Room 222. Following the lecture, a reception for “An Echo and A Hum” will take place in the Luce Gallery from 4 to 6 p.m. Both the lecture and reception are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday–Friday 9 a.m.–4 p.m. and Sunday 2–4 p.m.

Shull and Condon found each other as bookends of their graduate school years at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville with Condon just starting the summer after Shull’s graduation. They began working together through the pandemic with an oversized textile book project, making tongue-in-cheek compositions that held a sense of play and scrappiness. After finding ease and joy in working together, they continued their investigation on how material meaning and intentional color relationships can charge the work.

Muriel Condon

Condon graduated with an M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee- Knoxville in 2022 and a B.F.A. from Montana State University in 2016. Between degrees, she assisted at Frogman’s Print Workshops in Omaha, Nebraska, and was a postgraduate apprentice at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. She has been awarded residencies with Print Arts Northwest (Portland, Oregon), Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland, and the Morgan Paper Conservatory (Cleveland, Ohio.) She has shown internationally and participated in multiple print exchanges, including organizing a fabric-based quilt print exchange.

Lila Shull 

Shull is a printmaker based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Working in printmaking, painting, and quilting, her practice pays particular attention to the shift between objects and patterns related to memory. This work wrestles with the problems (and possibilities) that arise from unreliable personal narratives. Shull holds her M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and a B.F.A. from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. She has been awarded residencies at In Cahoots in Petaluma, California, Arrowmont School of Crafts in Gatlinburg Tennessee, and Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland. Her work has been shown nationally at the Foley and Unix Galleries in New York City, Coagula Curatorial in Los Angeles, California, Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Devos Art Museum in Marquette, Michigan.

For additional information, contact Luce Gallery Coordinator Brooks Cashbaugh.