OGDENSBURG — The artwork of SUNY Potsdam students is featured in a juried exhibit running Feb. 27 to March 28 at the Frederic Remington Art Museum.

The Remington 2021 College Student Juried Art Exhibition contains the work of 11 SUNY Potsdam students. SUNY Plattsburgh, Clarkson University and St. Lawrence University students are also represented in the show, which features a virtual open reception on Saturday, Feb. 27 from 2 to 3 p.m.

A Zoom invitation to the event can be obtained by emailing desmond@fredericremington.org.

The paintings, photographs and sketches grapple with sober as well as natural themes. Whether it's the hue of an empty classroom, the color of a lost handkerchief held by a dog, the reflection of water in a Canton gorge or the cast of inchoate grief-blue and much of what it can mean mark the student work. But so does the hope in sunflowers.

SUNY Potsdam students who had work accepted to the Remington show are Martin Arquitt, Lindsey Baker, Chris Falcon, Mara Frisbee, Liv Gonia, Chloe Koegel, Alexis LaBarge, Charlie Patterson, Allison Perham, Wanya Simmons and Krista Larock Wells. Many of the pieces will be on sale, with one third of the proceeds benefitting the museum and the rest going to the student artists.

LaBarge '21 went back 100 years to find inspiration in the American illustrator Coles Phillips and his "fadeaway girls," the subjects of Life Magazine covers popular in the early decades of the 1900s, with their edges always vanishing in the background of the illustration. The dissolution can represent the profound transformation and losses of World War I, the 1918 influenza pandemic, the advent of the automobile and the heavy industrialization that ended the "horse and buggy" sensibility of earlier times.

"What I'd like to pass on through 'Life 1926' is trying to bring alive Phillips' art techniques," LaBarge said. "Look at how simple his illustrations are, and they are still taking the world by storm."

SUNY Potsdam Presidential Scholar Marie Amell '21 was chosen to have her black and white charcoal drawing, "Elements of Nature," appear in the 120 Degree Intercollegiate Art Regional, a partnership of the Arts Center of the Capital Region, the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council and Saratoga Arts.

The juried fine art exhibition, running from March 5 to April 16, features the work of students attending an accredited college or university within 120-mile radius of Troy, Glens Falls or Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The exhibition travels to a different host site each year, highlighting the best of collegiate art students in the region. An exhibit reception and awards ceremony are set for March 26, from 6 to 8 p.m. The ceremony will be recorded live on Instagram and can be viewed by following @capregionartscenter.

More information can be found at www.artscenteronline.org.