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CLAUDIA CHASELING: SILENT SHADOWS OCTOBER 27 - DECEMBER 29
My current work was initiated in 2005 after seeing a documentary by Frieder Wagner addressing the use of depleted uranium weapons. I then looked into the related research of Prof. Dr Siegwart Horst Günther. A number of my works, from the Spatial Paintings to the graphic novels, deal with the factual realities and consequences of how in every conflict zone in which NATO or the US are involved, weapons are used that contain and distribute long-term radioactivity in the form of uranium and plutonium dust... |
UPCOMING
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DEREK CRACCO: IN A FLASH JANUARY 12 - MARCH 1, 2024 OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, JAN. 12 (6-8PM)
Everything from the quantum aspects of the photon, to more real world instances of aesthetic arrest caused by blinding light are studied. Influences range from astronomy to particle physics, shifting and oscillating between the macro and the micro, between the illusions of light in the works and the visual disruptions the images produce when viewed at close range. Some of the works use light’s ability to conceal to confront how our truths can obscure and how our beliefs can blind... |
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ANGELO GRANATA (1922 - 2009) JANUARY 12 - MARCH 1, 2024 OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, JAN. 12 (6-8PM)
Granata's work was included in the groundbreaking 1959 traveling exhibition Recent Sculpture U.S.A. at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA New York, alongside Ruth Asawa, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Jacques Lipchitz, Larry Rivers, David Smith, among others. Angelo “Jack” Granata came to The University of Alabama in 1949 as one of the founding faculty members of the art department. He was professor of sculpture until his retirement in 1988. |
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JAKOB DWIGHT: A TRILLION VERSES
OCTOBER 20 - DECEMBER 30, 2023
AT THE WIREGRASS MUSEUM OF ART IN DOTHAN, ALABAMA |
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NICO MUNUERA: ESSENTIA FORMALIS /
OCTOBER 20 - DECEMBER 30, 2023
AT THE GALERIA RAFAEL ORTIZ IN SEVILLA, SPAIN |
PAST
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MELISSA VANDENBERG: I LIKE THE WAY YOU PREY AUGUST 25 - OCTOBER 14, 2023
I like the way you prey. I like your fury. I like your precious things. Elwyn Brooks White says of Thoreau’s self-imposed exile into the forest…"Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives - the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight." I like the way you prey is born of both fury and confusion in what is worshiped and elevated to commemoration... |
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THE ALABAMA VISUAL ARTS NETWORK: CARE Packages AUGUST 25 - OCTOBER 14, 2023
The Alabama Visual Arts Network commissioned twelve acclaimed Alabama artists to create editions of ten artworks. Selected by program creator Paul Barrett, the artists work in a variety of media in all corners of our state. We are delighted to offer these works of art in ten exclusive sets, of which only a few remain available. 100% of all CARE Packages sales benefit the Alabama Visual Arts Network. |
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LUCA BUVOLI: DAY 12 - SPACEWALK MAY 19 - AUGUST 12, 2023
The silhouette of the astronaut is portrayed as an evanescent shape – not yet appeared or already disappearing. The traces of the heroic performance, painted with liquid (watercolor, gouache), solid (glitter, pencil, and resin), and gaseous materials (spray paint), are stitched with wires and sheets of thin metal that evoke the suit or ”armor” protecting the body from a threatening extraplanetary environment... |
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CATHERINE TAFUR: FLIGHT MARCH 10 - MAY 5
The cultural shock of childhood immigration can leave a deep psychic mark, and lead to a lifelong search for identity. My family was able to leave the violence plaguing Peru in the 80s and transplant me into the safety and promise of the US, one the greatest oppressors in the world. I need to know where I come from. I look back and see the Peru of my childhood, but when I look deeper and further back there’s pre-colonial indigenous Peru... |
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JAKOB DWIGHT: VARIOUS ANALYSANDS JANUARY 20 - MARCH 3, 2023
Described by intermedia art pioneer Claudia Hart as a classical romantic, Dwight's work often examines properties of the natural world like compression, scale, complexity in noise/turbulence (ie: fractalism), and the birth and evolution of form, often presenting deceptively simple and timeless seed or ovule forms... |
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WANG XIAOCHUAN: ABSENT! PRÉSENT! RÊVE ET RÉALITÉ JANUARY 20 - MARCH 3, 2023
I'm in search of my own identity, of my "psychic equilibrium" . To do so, it is important to take into account my memory (my "uncertain memories") - the various recent and past family problems who shaped the child that I was, the adult that I have become, and who still shape the man I would like to become...
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WE NOW, MUST SAY GOODBYE
A SELECTION OF WORKS BY MOSE TOLLIVER JIMMY LEE SUDDUTH ANNIE TOLLIVER WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY
DECEMBER 20, 2022 - JANUARY 6, 2023 |
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CLAYTON COLVIN: BOTS AND LOOPS OCTOBER 28 - DECEMBER 17, 2022
The recent paintings shown in bots and loops continue to investigate fragility and experience through the building and breaking of patterns, exposing and celebrating their inherent doom...
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TAJ MATUMBI: WESTWORD OCTOBER 28 - DECEMBER 17, 2022
History, pop culture, urban folklore, and improvisation drive my work as an image maker. I’m interested in how this source material translates to shape...
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ANYONE CAN MOVE A MOUNTAIN MICHAELA PILAR BROWN, RICHARD DIAL, JAKOB DWIGHT, ROSCOE HALL, SHAUN LEONARDO, UMAR RASHID, JERRY SIEGEL, LESLIE SMITH III, RENEÉ STOUT CURATED BY PAUL BARRETT AUGUST 19 - OCTOBER 15, 2022 |
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PULP 3 WORK ON PAPER | WORK WITH PAPER DWAYNE BUTCHER, LOUIS CAMERON, BETHANY COLLINS, WILLIE COLE, RODNEY EWING, PETER FOX, COCO FUSCO, GUERILLA GIRLS, KATIE HARGRAVE, JAMES HOFF, PREREGRINE HONIG, SCOTT HUG, HEDIEH JAVANSHIR ILCHI, DEBORAH KARPMAN, TAD LAURITZEN WRIGHT, ODILI DONALD ODITA, MICHELE PRED, PETE SCHULTE, LESLIE SMITH III, TRAVIS SOMERVILLE, MELISSA VANDENBERG AUGUST 9 - SEPTEMBER 7, 2013 |
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JUSTIN COOPER: THIN LINES MARCH 16 - APRIL 14, 2012 |
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SHANA ROBBINS: COME IN - OUT OF THE DARKNESS OCTOBER 28 - DECEMBER 3, 2011 |
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PULP WORK ON PAPER | WORK WITH PAPER DWAYNE BUTCHER, LARRY JENS ANDERSON, JOHN BAKSTON, DOUG BAULOS, JARROD BECK, SHANA BERGER & NATHAN PURATH, CECILIA BIAGINI, JUERGEN BOEHEIMER, SARA CANNON, JOHNNY COLEY, BETHANY JOY COLLINS, CLAYTON COLVIN, JUSTIN COOPER, DEREK CRACCO, N. DASH, JOHN FIELDS, JONATHAN GANN, MONIQUE GIVEN, DEBORAH GRANT, VALERIE GREEN, JONATHAN HICKS, PEREGRINE HONIG, BONARD HUGHINS, DEBORAH KARPMAN, CLAIRE LEWIS EVANS, AARON LOCKHART, SRDJAN LONCAR, TAMEKA NORRIS, AMY PLEASANT, RASHID GANDIL, BABS REINGOLD, SHANA ROBBINS, JOEL ROSS, SUZANNA SAWYER, ELLEN SIEBERS, KIL SOLTHON, VASILE TROIAN, MATT WYCOFF, JOHN WATERS JULY 29 - AUGUST 31, 2011 |
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YEON JOONG YUE: GREY AMERICAN LANDSCAPE JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 26, 2011 |
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JOHN POWERS: IMMATERIAL JULY 9 - AUGUST 28, 2010 |
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