Philip Sugden, Bluffton University art professor, has an exhibit currently open at the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts' in Findlay.

The exhibit is in the Performing Arts’ Fisher/Wall Art Gallery. It is the current exhibition by MCPA/Fifth Third Bank Wall of Fame inductee, Philip Sugden, titled, “Inland Empire: Recent Work by Artist, Philip Sugden.”

About the artist
Born and raised in Swanage, Dorset, England, Sugden is a graduate of the New York School of Visual Arts and the Paris American Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Sugden’s work has been exhibited in more than 100 solo and 130 group shows internationally including galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Washington, D.C., Melbourne and Kathmandu. He is a professor of studio art and gallery director at Bluffton University.

Sugden’s exhibited artwork is inspired by experiences from 12 journeys to the Himalayas and Tibet where he and his wife, Carole, have produced several books, a PBS presentation, and worked, for years, with the Dalai Lama and Tibetan refugees.

Sugden’s subject of his paintings and drawings have become more internalized over the years and a vehicle for an inward journey.

The exhibit features the gallery’s first-ever installation piece, “Pages from the Manual on Dismantling God.” 

The installation is made up of 21 smaller works of ink and gouache on handmade Himalayan Daphne papers suspended from a 13-foot circular pipe structure on the ceiling.

About the Art Gallery
The Fisher/Wall Art Gallery is located on the top floor of Marathon Center for the Performing Arts at 200 W. Main Cross St., Findlay. This exhibit is free and open to the public Monday to Friday from 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.  now through June 30.