9 On the Arts
G Photograph by Kendall Mills ’05
Alumni Artists Grace Gruss
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Artwork by Alex Lin '14
G Above and top: paintings by Jane LaFarge Hamill ’99
ver Alumni Weekend, Lawrenceville’s Hutchins Gallery serves as a venue to highlight exceptional alumni contributions to the visual arts. This year’s show, featuring the work of Jane LaFarge Hamill ’99, Kendall Mills ’05, and Brocq Maxey ’09, was no exception, offering a diverse and dazzling array of work to be enjoyed by hundreds of visiting alumni. Hamill, the daughter of Trustee Leita Hamill H’65 ’88 ’89 P’96 ’99, studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College in London, Franklin College in Switzerland, and the New York Academy of Art. She has won numerous grants and residencies and has exhibited internationally. This is not the first time her paintings have been displayed in Gruss; Hamill was featured in last year’s alumnae exhibition to commemorate the School’s 25th year of coeducation. Mills, the son of Lawrenceville Science Master Ken Mills H’86 P’05, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in materials science and engineering from Rutgers University. Working full-time as an engineer for the U.S. Army, his photographs capture the beautiful landscapes in and around his native Blairstown, NJ, as well as the many places the Army stations him. Maxey, the son of Island School Director Chris Maxey H’95 P’07 ’09 ’13 ’14, has, not surprisingly, spent the better part of his life in, on, and around the ocean. What is surprising are his impressive, too-close-for-comfort photographs of sharks and other ocean predators. He is a part owner of a dive company in South Africa and has spent the past decade involved in various oceanographic and marine research projects.
F Photograph by Brocq Maxey ’09