William Blizard Gallery
The William Blizard Gallery is the primary art gallery of Springfield College. It is dedicated to showcasing the work of undergraduate and graduate students in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts as well as professional artists from the local community and beyond. The Gallery aims to be a creative community space which supports experimental work in the arts and fosters dialogue and programming in arts and culture.
If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to fully participate in any gallery events, please contact the Office of Visual and Performing Arts as soon as possible, at (413) 748-3930 to discuss your accessibility needs.
Valerie Lyons: Not All Birds Are Blackbirds
and Adam Viens: The Ethics of Ambiguity
March 2-April 3
The William Blizard Gallery presents two concurrent exhibitions that explore perception, meaning, and presence in a world defined by transience. Together, Adam Viens and Valerie Lyons lean into intuition as a mode of practice. Viens engages silence as structure through large-scale abstract paintings that suspend resolution and resist the overproduction of meaning. Lyons offers sculptural and sonic works that move through light, shadow, and care—acts of witnessing where perception itself becomes devotional. In the context of a college gallery, these exhibitions take on particular resonance. They invite students, faculty, and the wider community into a shared space of inquiry where art becomes both reflection and experiment. By foregrounding intuition, both artists resist the demand for fixed answers, instead modeling how creative practice can cultivate attentiveness, ambiguity, and relational understanding. Placed side by side, the exhibitions move through the complexity of contemporary life—between human and natural, reason and intuition, spirit and form. Art here becomes a pedagogical act as much as an aesthetic one: a meditation on how we remain present amid uncertainty, transformation, and change.
Join us for an Artist Talk and Reception at the William Blizard Gallery on Thursday, April 2. The Artist Talk will begin at 3:15 PM, followed by the Reception from 4:00-5:30 PM.
Painting by Adam Viens, Sculpture by Valerie Lyons
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