Lady of the Lake (Deena) by Sarah Anne Frotscher, left, and Madonna by R.K. Dickson, right. 

Works by local artists featured at Kauffman Gallery

Prints and drawings by two local artists are featured at Kauffman Gallery in Huber Art Center at Shippensburg University through Feb. 24. Visitors to the gallery can view etchings by Sarah Anne Frotscher and lithographs by R. K. Dickson.    

 Frotscher was born in Georgia but has spent her life in Pennsylvania and lives near Newburg. She has served as an educator and artist in public schools in Pennsylvania and has a master’s degree in special education from Shippensburg.  Her work ranges from an etching of Big Round Top on the battlefield of Gettysburg to the etching “Boxwood.” According to gallery information, she believes her work challenges the viewer to return to the simplicity and beauty of natural forms.   

Dickson is a photographer, printmaker and associate professor of fine arts and chair of the fine arts department at Wilson College. He previously worked in geological and environmental sciences, including as a geologist conducting uranium and mineral exploration throughout the western United States and Alaska.  

According to gallery information, Dickson said his lithographs are abstract, non-objective imagery that still respects the traditional relationship of figure to ground. In his artist’s statement, he also writes that a portion of his lithographs feature iconic images from Renaissance and Baroque that he has reinterpreted.  

Lithographs and etchings are ancient forms of printmaking and continue to be an important mode of artistic expression today.   

Kauffman Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, from 9 a.m. to noon Fridays and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays. For more information, contact the art and design department at art@ship.edu.   

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