Weyers-Sampson Gallery

Upcoming Exhibitions

Back and Forth: The Paintings of Kyle Utter and Clare Kambhu

February 11 – March 27, 2026

Gallery Talk and Reception :: Feb 13 @ 2pm

This exhibition at Thiel College features the solo paintings of Utter as well as a series of paintings made in collaboration with Clare Kambhu. In these works, Utter and Kambhu handed paintings back and forth, working intuitively and reacting to the others’ painterly maneuvers. Starting at 30 seconds, successively longer time restrictions were put on each maneuver made. These rules provided a game-like framework, which fostered a process that was simultaneously playful and structured.

Kyle Utter is a painter based in Queens, NY. He completed his MFA at Hunter College in 2018 and received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 2011. His work has been featured in the Bronx Museum’s 6th AIM Biennial and the SPRING/BREAK Art Show. He has been an artist in residence at the Blue Mountain Center and the Byrdcliffe Guild in New York State. Kyle Utter’s paintings depict chimerical landscapes and spaces rendered with mathematical perspective. They are populated with objects, letters, and signs drawn from memory, direct observation and found imagery. Both highly playful and insidiously unsettling, the tone of his work reveals itself slowly as the viewer continues to look.

Clare Kambhu is an assistant professor of art at Allegheny College. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Katonah Museum of Art, Artspace New Haven, and the A-Museum of Quickroots / Un-Museo de Raíces Movedizas on Governors Island. Kambhu is an artist who works in two modes, observation and abstraction. Her observational paintings draw attention to everyday, overlooked objects. Her abstract pieces come from a studio practice that provides a counterpoint to the slower, representational work. Through abstraction she attempts to challenge her intuition yielding compositions with a sense visual tension.

The Weyers-Sampson serves the college community and regional residential communities in NW Pennsylvania and NE Ohio. The exhibitions and gallery presentations are free and open to the public. Contact Prof. Sean McConnor for more information: smcconnor@thiel.edu.

The Weyers-Sampson Gallery is located on the first floor of the Howard Miller Student Center. Contact Prof. Sean McConnor at 724-589-2095 for more information.

Gallery hours

Spring 2026 hours are: Monday: 10am - 1pm & 2pm - 4pm | Tuesday: 1pm - 4pm | Wednesday: 2pm - 4pm | Thursday: 1pm - 4pm | Friday: 10am - 1pm & 2pm - 4pm
Or by appointment, contact Prof. McConnor at 724-589-2095 or smcconnor@thiel.edu.
Gallery closed during spring break - March 7th - 15th

Previous Exhibitions

Points of View: 20th Century prints from the Thiel College Permanent Collection

Aaron Pickens - Split P - A Solo Exhibition of Paintings (Sep 10 - Nov 21 2025)
Kyle Utter - Digressions (Jan 22 - Mar 08 2025)
Art and the Human Experience (Sep 26 - Dec 10 2024)
Student Art Show (March 26 - April 26, 2024)
Bobby Baker Portrait Drawings - Friends and Family in Prayer and Praise (January 24 - March 8, 2024)
Bill Mancuso – The Pleasures of Sketching (October 25^th – Dec. 8 ^th, 2023)
Highlights from the Marlin Casker Print Collection (Sep 6 – Oct 11, 2023).
Student Curated Print Exhibition: Selections from the Thiel College Permanent Collection (Oct 20 – Dec 5, 2022)
Sean McConnor : Sabbatical Works, Plus. (Sep 12- Oct 14, 2022)
20th-century prints from the Thiel College Permanent Collection (Feb 18 - Mar 31, 2022)
Black History Timeline (Feb 18 - Mar 31, 2022)
J.D. Titzel : Graphite Drawings (Oct 20 - Dec 1, 2021)
Points of View: 20th Century prints from the Thiel College Permanent Collection (Sept 8 - Oct 8, 2021)
Fred Staloff, Works on loan from the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio) (Jan. 22 - April 3, 2020).
Thomas McNickle, Works Revisited (Oct. 23 - Dec. 9, 2019).
Justus Cotterill, Emotional Rescue (Sept. 11- Oct. 18, 2019)
Corita Kent: Selected Works from the Thiel Collection (Feb. 28 - March 29, 2019)
Bill Simon and Nancy Connelly, Selected Works (Jan. 17 - Feb. 17, 2019
Selected Works on Paper (Oct. 23 - Nov. 28)
Mark Franchino and Jeremy Boyle, Contemporary Drawings (Sept. 12 - Oct. 12, 2018)
Shawn Williams, Sculptural Prints (Feb. 22 - April 5, 2018)
Truths and Fictions, Paintings and Drawings by Terry McKelvey (Jan. 18 - Feb. 16, 2018)
Images of Luther, Celebrating the 500th Year Anniversary of the Reformation (Oct. 31 - Dec. 1, 2017)
Women Printmakers, Highlights from the Thiel College Permanent Collection (Sept. 13 - Oct. 17, 2017)
Christopher Ryan, Lucid Moments & Liminal Spaces (Feb. 23 - March 31, 2017)
Benedict Oddi, Scouts and Nomads (Jan. 17 - Feb. 17, 2017)
Richard Mitchell, The Vaudeville Team of Jesse Block & Eva Sully: A Photographic Family Album (Oct. 25 - Dec. 7, 2016)
Thomas Paquette, Itinerant Views (Sept. 14 - Oct. 11, 2016)
Thiel College Professor of Sculpture Jesse Amar, M.F.A., Sabbatical Report: An Exhibition of New Sculpture (March 15 - April 8, 2016)
James Stewart, Philip Terman and Susan Frakes, Images for Philip's Poems and the Making of a Book (Jan. 20 - Feb. 26, 2016)
Jack Hayes, Dreams of Color (Oct. 28 - Dec. 4, 2015)
Christian Kuharik, Recent Works (Sep. 16 - Oct. 16, 2015)
Kristin Becker, Language Pieces (Feb. 25 - April 3, 2015)
George Schroeder, Painting and Collage (Jan. 21 - Feb. 20, 2015)
Dave Thomas, Ceramic Sculpture (Jan. 21 - Feb. 20, 2015)
Malcolm Christhilf, Form and Color (Oct. 22 - Dec. 3, 2014)
Rabecca Signoriello, Layers (Sep. 19 - Oct. 17, 2014)