Oct 19 – Oct 22
Fifteen-Minute Features: The Formalities of Seeing
Selected Works from the Collection of Stephen Mishol
Oct 5 – 30, 2009 | Lauren Kalman, Blooms, Efflorescence and other Dermatological
Embellishments | Read Press Release
Installation of Photographs and Objects
Reception: Oct 7, 3 – 5 p.m.
In Blooms, Efflorescence and Other Dermatological Embellishments skin diseases are replicated and transformed through illustration, jewelry objects and photography. The source diseases including acne, cancer, herpes and syphilis, are presented as jeweled infections, lesions, and sores. They are hybridizations of objects we associate with beauty, status, or wealth, and grotesque or undesirable aspects of the skin.
Sept 28 – Oct 15
Risk. Chance. Adventure
Lowell Friends of Photography Portfolio Exhibition
Curated by Lowell Friends of Photography
Organized by Giovanna Aviles, Class of 2010
The Lowell Friends of Photography are students, alumni, faculty, and staff of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, who share a common respect and love for the photographic processes. The members meet regularly to discuss art, life, and photography and show their work at exhibitions worldwide.
Sept 2 – Sept 25, 2009 | Jim Jeffers, Genii Loci (Ghosts of Protection) a solo exhibition
Reception: Sept 9, 3 – 5 p.m. | Read Press Release
Genii Loci (Ghosts of Protection) a solo exhibition by Jim Jeffers, features intermedia work coping with place; and the securing, knowing, comforting, building, improvising, deconstructing, reconstructing, and creating living / livable space in contemporary environments.
Both fictive and biographic, Jeffers explores: Housing – and that a house (or its value) may not be the some of its parts; War – and the "improvised device" and the foil to "explosive," i.e., comfort, shelter, food, et cetera; Security – and what it means physically, socially, or nostalgically; Interdependency and auto-reliance.
June 2009 – August 7, 2009 | Art Department Faculty Exhibition
Art Department Faculty Exhibition featuring select work from the full-time faculty
on view thru August 7.
Jan 26 – Feb 19, 2009
This is a picture of me
Self-Portraits & Other Photographic Series by Millee Tibbs
Related Events: Reception Saturday, January 31, 5 - 7 pm as part of Lowell’s Photography Weekend
+ Wednesday, February 4, 3 - 5 pm; Artist Talk @ 3 o’clock in O’Leary 222;
Gallery Reception immediately follows until 5 o’clock
Millee swinging from a vine at Joe Wheeler State Park,
7.30.78/2007, digital print, 11 x 14 inches Ering
The Art Department at UMass Lowell presents an exhibition of photographs by Millee Tibbs in the University Gallery from January 26 - February 19. In conjunction with the Lowell Photography Weekend, a special reception will be held on Saturday, January 31, from 5 - 7 pm. Events on Wednesday, February 4, include an artist talk in O’Leary 222 from 3 - 4 pm and a gallery reception immediately following until 5 o’clock. The exhibition includes a self-portrait series and other ink-jet photographic prints. This is a picture of me is a full-color series utilizing childhood snapshots. Each of twelve different images is duplicated side-by-side within one frame - the original photo of the artist as a child, alongside a digitally-altered image of the artist, as her adult self, re-enacting the original candid pose in every detail. In describing the idea behind the series, Tibbs states: " This series both evokes the impossibility of going back to childhood and questions the desire to do so. The reenactment of these gestures by an adult body transforms the seemingly innocuous childhood poses into suggestive and sexualized performances, which emphasize the unconscious influence of mediated images in vernacular photography.”
Millee Tibbs earned a B.A. in Hispanic Studies and Studio art at Vassar College. She earned an M.F.A. degree in Photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. She currently lives in Providence, RI and teaches art at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University.
sample images
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Mar 2 – Apr 2, 2009
An Art of Smallness
Collages, Prints & Miniature Books
by Karen E. Roehr
Reception: March 4, 3 - 5 p.m.
Taken for Granted, miniature book of landscapes
The Art Department at UMass Lowell is proud to present an exhibition by Art Department Professor Karen E. Roehr from March 2 – April 2, 2009. The exhibition, titled An Art of Smallness, features a variety of media, including collages and prints, but mainly miniature books. Prof. Roehr is a book artist, graphic designer, illustrator and writer. Her design work ranges from original announcements to poster art, while her illustration work combines ink, watercolor and monotype chine-collé. Roehr’s unique interest is in miniatures, particularly small-scale books. In describing this interest, she states: “The small size of my work is meant to deepen the relationship between the viewer and the art by inviting the viewer to move closer to it. The tiny books allow a viewer to hold an entire landscape in one hand. Whether the subject is Tom Thumb or a botanist’s detailed description of the inside of a tiny leaf, miniature worlds are experienced by readers and writers as unforgettably dreamlike worlds that invite the viewer to enter and inhabit them.”
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Apr 13 - May 13, 2009
Kayrock & Wolfy: When Art Imitates Life Imitating Art
featuring the art & designs of Karl LaRocca & Jef Scharf
Curated by Art Department Professor William Kaizen
Reception: April 15, 3 - 5 p.m.
Kayrock Screenprinting Inc. doorbell
Kayrock and Wolfy: When Art Imitates Life Imitating Art is an exhibition featuring the art and designs of Karl LaRocca ("Kayrock") and Jef Scharf ("Wolfy"). Kayrock and Wolfy co-own Kayrock Screenprinting Inc., a small silkscreen studio located in Brooklyn, New York. Their individual art practice overlaps with their work as silkscreen printers as well as their recreational activities playing in various post-punk bands. Like a hall of mirrors, distinguishing between amateur and professional, public and private, personal and political, and especially art and life becomes difficult in their work as each side of these dichotomies flip-flops in their practice. The exhibition will feature a wide selection of their prints (50+) as well as artwork made individually by both LaRocca and Scharf, and audio and video from their notorious band Roxy Pain.
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September 3 – October 2
Original Illustrations by Timothy Basil Ering
Featuring The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone
Artist Talk, Reception + Book signing: September 10, 3 – 5 p.m.
‘Standing Tall’ from The Story of Frog Bell Rat Bone
This series of 24 original illustrations from his popular children’s book, The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone, tells the tale of a boy who finds strange, speck-like treasures, and the unforgettable creature who watches over them while they grow. With subtle, delicate tones, fantastical creatures, and bursts of glowing color, the surreal artwork conveys all the whimsy of an inspired imagination.
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slides
October 14 - November 6
Selected Works by Blake Shirley
Artist Talk & Reception: October 15, 3 - 5 p.m.
Top-heavy, oil on canvas, 45 x 55 inches, 2008
This exhibition features large-scale paintings that straddle that curious space between figuration’s story telling and abstraction’s crashing waves of paint. These stylistic shifts create a sense of impermanence that references the history of painting and investigates how we exist in a state of flux. The series evolved as a reaction to the intricacies and complexities of life.
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November 17 - December 11
Grid by Jamey Morrill
Artist Talk & Reception: November 19, 3 - 5 p.m.
Grid (installation detail), PVC, wood, paint, dimensions vary, 2008
Grid is a modular site-specific installation made of PVC pipe and wood. Its floor-based, interconnected forms use a pared down aesthetic to represent engineering projects such as aqueducts, electrical substations and oil refineries. It is intended as a tribute to the natural evolution of complex infrastructure from simple forms.
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examples of work
December 16 - 18
Fall 2008 BFA Exhibition
The Senior Thesis Show featuring the Art & Design Bachelor of Fine Arts Candidates
Christine Buckland, Untitled, mixed media with handmade paper
Reception: Thursday, Dec 18, 5 – 7 p.m.
Lowell, MA - The UML Art Department and the College of Arts and Sciences, division
of Fine Arts, are pleased to present the Fall 2008 BFA Exhibition in the Dugan and
University Galleries from Dec 16 - 18, 2008. This biannual exhibition showcases the
senior projects from the Art & Design studios and features a variety of media including
advertising campaigns, animation, illustration, painting, photography, product design,
sculpture and web-site design. Please join us on Thursday, Dec 18, from 5 - 7 p.m. for a
reception to celebrate the accomplishments of these talented emerging artists. A buffet
of hot and cold refreshments will be served in both galleries.
The exhibiting Bachelor of Fine Arts seniors are: Liron Asher, Max Brissette, Christine Buckland,
Naella Dahood, Eric Demko, Stephanie Flynn, Nicole Grande, James Hill, Joshua Litchfield,
Denise Manseau, Kristin Morency, Derek Paul, Ryan Robertson and Phillip Stella
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Spring 2008
January 22 – February 21
Selected Works by Ellen Wetmore
Reception: Wed., Jan. 30, 3 – 5 PM; Gallery Talk @ 3:15
Ellen Wetmore, "The Joys of Lactation," Digital print, 2007
UMass Lowell is pleased to introduce the newest member of the Art Department faculty with this solo exhibition. Wetmore is a cross-media artist. Her current artwork examines the perks of motherhood; past work has included a talking carpet, insects, and mutant vegetables. She teaches video, digital art and foundations.
Wetmore earned a BFA degree in Sculpture at the University of Michigan and an MFA degree at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She is a member of the Boston Sculptor’s Gallery, and has exhibited regionally and nationally. Her work was recently featured in Trainscapes at the DeCordova Museum.
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March 3 – April 3
flora + fauna
sculpture by Michael C. McFalls
Reception: Monday, March 3rd, 3 – 5 PM
Artist Talk @ 3:15 in O’Leary Media room 327
(Gallery closed March 17 – 20)
Michael C. McFalls, (detail) "Space Oddity (Ground Control),"
various media and materials with toy spaceman, 2005
UMass Lowell is pleased to host an exhibition of sculpture by Michael C. McFalls, entitled, flora + fauna. The artist uses a variety of materials, beginning with multi-colored geometric bases of varying shapes and sizes containing stratum-like layers of intensely-pigmented plaster. This plaster base forms a luscious foundation for McFalls’ sculptural ‘landscapes.’ Additional elements include metal rods that are erected from the plaster foundation and provide structural support for additional surfaces that are attached at diverse angles. In this work, McFalls explores the idea of beauty as it pertains to the ‘cultural’ landscape.
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powerpoint presentation
April 14 – May 8
Materia Oscura/DarkMatter:
Photographs of Urban Africa & the Diaspora by Kerry Stuart Coppin
Reception: Wed., April 16, 3 – 5 PM
Artist Talk @ 3:15 in O’Leary 222
Kerry Stuart Coppin, "Untitled Black Men Learning to Fly,"
Giclee print, 38"x46", 2007
The Art Department at UMass Lowell hosts an exhibition of photographs by Kerry Stuart Coppin from April 14 - May 8 in the University Gallery. Coppin began the Materia Oscura/Dark Matter series in 1990 as a way to elaborate and celebrate positive aspects of the Black community experience. The large-scale black and white photographs portray Africans & African descendents and their environments. In his images of West Africa, Coppin offers an alternative view to the idea that Africa’s only reality is one of suffering. “If you make images that humanize the continent, it changes our perceptions of it,” he says, “it’s not just a place where everyone is running around with AIDS, and where the ones who don’t have AIDS are starving to death.” Within the Materia Oscura/Dark Matter series, Coppin presents a trans-Atlantic black African identity encompassing the Americas, the Caribbean and West Africa.
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May 22 - May 31
Reception: May 22, 4 - 8 p.m.
UMass Lowell Art Department presents:
Spring 2008 BFA Candidates Exhibition The Senior Thesis Show featuring the Art & Design Bachelor of Fine Arts Candidates
The UML Art Department and the College of Arts and Sciences, division of Fine Arts, are pleased to present the Spring 2008 BFA Candidates Exhibition in the Dugan Gallery and the University Gallery from May 22 - 31, 2008. This biannual exhibition showcases the senior thesis projects from the Art & Design studios and features a variety of media including advertising campaigns, animation, painting, photography, product design, sculpture and video.
Exhibition Venues: Dugan Gallery is in the basement level of Dugan Hall at 883 Broadway St., and University Gallery is on the First Floor of the McGauvran Student Union, 71 Wilder St.
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Fall 2007
Jim Jeffers, detail from "When Bullets Dream" , digital image, 2007
September 5 – 27
Group Biennial Exhibition
Featuring the Art & Design Faculty
Reception: Wednesday, September 12, 3 – 5 PM
Artists Introduction @ 3:15
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The University Gallery at UMass Lowell is pleased to present the Group Biennial Exhibition of artwork by the Art & Design Faculty. The exhibit will feature a variety of media showcasing the individual visual art talents of the entire Art Department Faculty. The represented faculty members are fully-engaged in the practice of teaching the wide variety of visual art disciplines required within the accredited art & design BFA program. All are practicing professional artists and designers working in a variety of diverse media, including 3-D animation, ceramics, drawing, professional design, painting, performance-based art, photography (traditional and digital), printmaking, sculpture, time-based media and web site design
October 9 – November 8
Untitled: Saddam Hussein
Paintings by Erik Bakke
curated by Prof. Bill Kaizen
Related Events: Wednesday, October 10, 3 – 5 PM
Artist Talk @ 3:15 in O’Leary 222
Gallery Reception immediately follows until 5 o’clock
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Untitled: Saddam Hussein features a series of 59 small-scale paintings by Erik Bakke. An unofficial video captured by cell phone of Saddam Hussein's execution provides the source material for the paintings. When Hussein was executed on December 30, 2006, the event was captured on an amateur 2-minute 38-second cell phone video which was then posted on the World Wide Web,
revealing the brutality of the moment and igniting world-wide controversy. Individual stills from the video are depicted by the artist, each on their own painted wood panel.
Bakke is a San Francisco-based artist, writer and curator. He earned a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley in 1987 and earned an MA in Studio and Environmental Art at New York University in 1994. He has written widely about contemporary art for numerous publications, organized critically acclaimed exhibitions and participated in many solo and group
shows, both nationally and internationally.
7B-349, Inkjet print on archival paper, 24 x 17 inches, 2006
November 14 – December 13
Richard Metzgar walkingposters
An Investigation on Urbanism
Related Events: Wednesday, November 14, 3 – 5 PM
Artist Talk @ 3:15 in O’Leary 222
Gallery Reception immediately follows until 5 o’clock
press release pdf The University Gallery at UMass Lowell is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by crossmedia artist, Richard Metzgar. This exhibit includes digital prints, digital maps on vinyl, along with audio/visual components. Metzgar works with painting, printmaking, photography, digital video, audio, and installation. His research interests include exploring indeterminacy through the use of scores and diagrams as an image building methodology. This body of work addresses a cycle of international investigations on urbanism as a primary space of cultural experimentation.
UMass Lowell Art Department presents:
The Senior Thesis Show featuring the Fall 2007 Art & Design BFA Graduates
December 20 - January 3
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 20, 5 - 8 p.m.
"Not a Toy," by Rob Carlson, 2007
The UML Art Department and the College of Arts and Sciences, division of Fine Arts, are pleased to present the Fall 2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition in the Dugan Gallery and the University Gallery from December 20, 2007 - January 3, 2008. This biannual exhibition showcases the senior thesis projects from the art & design studios and features a variety of media including advertising campaigns, color photography, animation, painting, product design, sculpture and video game design. Please join us on Thursday, December 20, from 5 - 8 p.m. for a reception to celebrate the accomplishments of these talented artists.
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Spring 2007(past exhibitions)
christy
still from Monitoring the Dunes, endurance performance, 2005
January 23 – February 23, 2007
Aural Revelations: Apparatuses + Machines
Sculpture by Christy Georg
Reception: January 31
Artist Talk @ 3:15 O’Leary 222; Gallery Reception 4 – 6 PM
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This exhibition includes work from the last five years and features a collection of objects that suggest archaic scientific devices. Georg transforms the hand-tooled objects into 'artifacts' to be classified and categorized, while inviting futher examination and study by the viewer. Drawing on the idea of fictionalized technological inventions, along the lines of H.G. Wells' literary fantasies, the artist's intent is for the viewer to interact and experience the 'apparatuses + machines' as hindsight-inspired innovations. Georg earned her BFA degree from Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston
thurston
Ouroboros, installation detail, cut paper
February 28 – April 4
Shadows
An Installation by Randal Thurston
Reception: February 28
Artist Talk @ 3:15 O’Leary 222; Gallery Reception 4 – 6 PM
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This installation of precision-cut paper forms by somerville artist, Randal Thurston, explores the cognitive process through a visual vocabulary that includes silhouettes of animals, insects, flowers, and human figures. The soild black shapes are united by a lush variety of decorative elements and elegant patterns as they float, twist, and undulate along the gallery walls. The artist's personal narratives investigate literary, historical and mythological themes and the relationships inherent in the subject matter. Examined issues include mortality, identity, loss and memory. Thurston earned his BFA degree from Southeastern Massachusetts University and his MFA degree from the Boston Museum School/Tufts University.
knep
Drift Grid, video installation, 2005 photo by: Michelle Higa
April 11 – May 11
Drift Wall 2007
An interactive video installation by Brian Knep
Reception: April 18
Artist Talk @ 3:15 O’Leary 222; Gallery Reception 4 – 6 PM
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In conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Drift Wall 2007 is an interactive video installation by Boston-based artist, Brian Knep. Using customized software developed by the artist, a grid of square panels is projected diigitally onto the gallery wall. The organic shapes within each panel react to the motion and movement of the viewer. The imagery drifts and changes, as it appears to cross over the individual panels of the grid. Although each panel begins identically, the images contine to morph over time in response to the viewer's reaction. Knep earned his Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Computer Science from Brown University.
Fall 2006 (past exhibitions)
Mishol
Squeeze, vinyl paint on paper, 21 x 22 inches, 2004
September 5 – October 6, 2006
Selected Works by Stephen Mishol
Reception: September 13, 2 – 5 pm
Artist Talk in the Gallery @ 3:15 PM
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UMass Lowell is pleased to welcome Assistant Professor Stephen Mishol as the newest member of the Art Department Faculty. The featured work in the exhibition includes paintings, drawings, wall sculptures, and digital paintings that represent manufactured urban landscapes. Mishol constructs his compositions in linear detail with an architect’s precision. The selected works demonstrate the artist’s developmental process and include preparatory drawings, three-dimensional forms, and reductive paintings, along with representational landscapes. Mishol received his MFA degree and BFA degree in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
Globalisation, poster expressing the dangers of rampant globalization
October 11 – November 10, 2006
The Conscious Eye
The Graphic Design of Chaz Maviyane-Davies
Reception: Thursday, October 12
Artist Talk @ 11 a.m. in O’Leary 222; Reception in the gallery immediately following until 3 o’clock
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This exhibition features a selection of posters from award-winning designer, Chaz Maviyane-Davies. Over the past two decades this controversial Zimbabwean designer’s work has focused on a variety of relevant social and political issues, including human rights, environmental concerns, discrimination, and global health. Maviyane-Davies is an Associate Professor of Design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. For more artist information & portfolio: www.maviyane.com
Numina (Purple), oil on linen, 26 x 26 inches, 2005
November 15 – December 15, 2006
Vicinity
Paintings by Rachael Wren
Reception: November 15
Artist Talk @ 3:15 O’Leary 222; Gallery Reception 4 – 6 PM
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This exhibition of abstracted landscapes examines ideas of memory, place and time. While inspired by the natural world, the physical space is transformed using the power of memory. Opposing elements – line & tone, form & formlessness – find equilibrium as a new place is “breathed into existence.” Wren received her MFA degree from the University of Washington in Seattle and her BA in Fine Arts & Communications from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She currently resides and maintains a studio in Brooklyn, NY. For more artist information & portfolio: www.rachaelw.com
UML offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in art with a concentration in either Design or Fine Arts and an emphasis in: animation, painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, graphic design, web design, and interactive-media.
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