Kish art instructor shows work at gallery in Pa.

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Miles Halpern, full-time art faculty member at Kishwaukee College, has a solo exhibition of his works opening at the Doshi Gallery in the Susquehanna Museum of Art in Harrisburg, Pa. The exhibition, titled “Transitions,” opens today and will run through Oct. 18. Halpern will be at the Doshi Gallery to give a gallery talk on his works at 5 p.m. today.

Several pieces of Halpern’s work are currently featured in the Kishwaukee College Art Gallery as part of the “Artists/Educators” exhibition that will run through Sept. 30.

Halpern holds a Bachelor of Science in painting and printmaking from Skidmore College in Saratoga, N.Y., a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master of Fine Arts in painting from Pennsylvania State University. Halpern joined the Kishwaukee College art faculty in 2007 and teaches painting, drawing and design.

The “Transitions” exhibition at the Doshi Gallery showcases Halpern’s work in large-canvas oils and smaller-scale ink work. He has traditionally worked in oils, guided by the emotions of fear and hope and how they affect the human spirit, a recent news release explained.

“In my artwork, humans pursue hope in a world filled with fear,” Halpern said in the release.

He added that his paintings are carefully planned – working from drawings, photographs, collages and using a computer to organize his ideas.

His ink drawings, however, are more intuitive. He regularly carries a sketchbook and markers, doodling, sketching and drawing as he goes through his day.

“I decided to take the smaller-scale ideas from my sketchbook and work from them in ink,” he said. “In my more intuitive artwork, I follow my impulses as I strive for balance and unity.”

“Transitions” juxtaposes the large-scale, planned paintings with the smaller, intuitive ink drawings to create an atmosphere that depicts the gamut of the human experience and the change engendered within it, the release said.

“My art, like life, is an outlandish habitat, open-ended in meaning and suggestive to interpretation.”

For more information, visit www.mileshalpern.com. For more information on the Doshi Gallery and the “Transitions” exhibition, visit www.sqart.org/doshi/index.html.