Manhattan College To Host Art Exhibit To Coincide With Pope Benedict Xvi’s United States Visit

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Manhattan College will host the touring exhibit The Way of the Cross: The Passion of the Christ in Art on the fifth floor of O’Malley Library beginning Thursday, April 10. The exhibit will be on display to coincide with Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming visit to the United States.

Randall M. Good’s commissioned artwork of the fourteen stations of the cross, which will remain at the College through April 30, premiered at Blue Moon Gallery in Hot Springs, Ark., in March. A color booklet that contains images and notes by the artist will be available during a book signing and reception on Saturday, April 19, from 12:00-4:00 p.m., in O’Malley Library’s Internet Café.

The fourteen paintings were commissioned seven years ago for a church memorial to honor a family in Hope, Ark. Each station is an 11 inch by 14 inch oil on wood panel and together the pieces recreate Via Dolorosa, or The Way of Sorrows. The scenes themselves have been used as devotions in Catholic and Episcopal churches for hundreds of years.

“I made a conscious decision that each individual station would be a self-contained art form and that each piece builds on the emotions of the former and evokes a new emotional response, yet flows with the other pieces,” Good says.

Good received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas in 1991 and has focused his painting interests and techniques on the Italian Renaissance and Mannerist period. He has shown his artwork at Blue Moon Gallery, owned by Patricia Scavo and her daughter, Dishongh Scavo, since 1999. In 2002, through an exclusive agreement, the gallery became the premier source for works by the artist.

More information about the exhibit can be found at www.bluemoongallery.com.

Manhattan College is located at West 242nd Street near Broadway in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, one mile from the Westchester County line, and accessible by MTA subway line 1. For directions to the campus, visit www.manhattan.edu. 

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