University Art Department Gallery News

August 25th through September 22nd 
MICHELLE COURIER: RECENT WORKS
Artist Reception: Thursday, September 11, 4:30 - 7:30 pm

An exhibition of recent paintings by popular Bay City Artist Michelle Courier opens Monday, August 25, as the SVSU University Art Gallery begins its Fall 2008 exhibition season. The display will feature 25 canvases from the acclaimed artist's dazzling series of landscape paintings. While the landscapes at first appear realistically portrayed, the images shimmer with light and color, creating an idealized, almost dreamlike effect.

September 29th through October 25th
PAINTINGS BY ROBERT McCANN 
Artist Reception: Thursday, October 9, 4:30 - 7:30 pm

Robert McCann is an Assistant Professor of Art at Michigan State University. The ordinary mixes with the extra-ordinary in this new exhibition of paintings by Michigan State University art professor Robert McCann. The display features mural-sized oil paintings as well as preliminary figure drawings inhabited by figures both everyday and bizarre, placed in common American settings that belie the surreal subject matter. For more information on the McCann_Exhibit (1kB) . 

November 3rd through November 22nd 
"VISUAL ENGINEERING": PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS 
BY MIKE MOSHER 
Artist Reception: Thursday, November 13, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm 

In this group of works from or since Mosher's Fall 2007 Sabbatical, oddly-chromatic fashion models and exotic dancers bump against live or dead residents of Iraq or Afghanistan, archaic power plant and substation transformers, aged Detroit cars, while the entire ensemble is laced together with improbably electronic circuitry schematics. Mike Mosher is an Associate Professor of Art/Communication & Multimedia in the Department of Art at SVSU. For more information on this exhibit (177kB).

December 1st through December 13th
STUDENT BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITION 
Artist Reception:  Thursday, December 4, 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm

This exhibit will feature works of SVSU graduating art majors; Samantha Eurich, Caroline Heller, and Sara Lowthian. This exhibit will feature painting, drawing and sculptures works of these students. This serves as a completion of their B.F.A. program.   For more information on this BFA_Website_Info (788kB) .

January 12th through January 31st
MATT ZIVICH: RECENT WORKS FROM THE "AMERICANA" SERIES 
Artist Reception Date: Thursday, January 22, 4:30 - 6:30 pm

This exhibit is a series of art works with subjects for representation mostly but not exclusively depicted events in American history. Matthew Zivich is a Professor of Art in the Department of Art at SVSU. For more information on this exhibit (1,328kB).

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February 9th through March 7th 
"MORE ALTERNATE EXPLANATIONS": 
MIXED MEDIA WORKS by RANDAL CRAWFORD 
Artist Reception Date: Thursday, February 19, 4:30 - 6:30 pm

Randal Crawford is a Professor of Art at Delta College, where he teaches design and digital imaging. He is currently working with sculptures and fibers. Mr. Crawford recently had an exhibit at the Space Gallery in Midland. Mr. Crawford has a M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a B.F.A. from Philadelphia College of Art. This exhibit will feature mixed media work.   For more information on this exhibit (1kB).

March 16th  through April 11th
"DISSECTING PAINT, INK, & PIXELS": 
PAINTINGS AND PRINTED MEDIA by JESSICA GONDEK 
Artist Reception: Thursday, March 26, 4:30 - 6:30 pm

Jessica Gondek is from Montgomery Illinois, a western community outside of Chicago. Ms. Gondek has a M.F.A. degree in painting from Washington University in St. Louis Missouri, and a B.F.A.. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ms. Gondek is currently an Associate Professor of Fine Art at Loyola University Chicago, and teaches painting and drawing. Ms Gondek has received many awards and honors recognizing her paintings, woodcuts, and digital prints.   For more information on this exhibit (1kB).

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April 20th through May 2nd 
STUDENT BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITION 
Artist Reception: Thursday, April 23, 4:30 - 6:30 pm

This exhibit will feature works of SVSU graduating art majors; Lacresha Lincoln, Jacqui Walker and Karah Force. The exhibit will feature painting, drawing and sculpture works of these students. This serves as a completion of their B.F.A. program.   For more information regarding this exhibit (207kB).

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May 11th through July 1st
4th ANNUAL STUDENT ART SHOW 
Artist Reception Date: TBA

This exhibit will feature works from all medium areas of current SVSU Department of Art students.

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July 6th through August 24th
"INspire & mINnetrista": Selections from the INprint Group

INprint is a regional association of 25 fine art printmakers based in Central Indiana, formed in 1997 at the Indianapolis Art Center. The purpose of INprint is to share, create, educate, and promote the media of printmaking. Exhibiting members have degrees in fine art or significant studies, regularly exhibit in juried and one-person or group shows, and/or teach art in colleges, schools, art centers, or privately. Their artwork consists or original hand-pulled prints including etching, silkscreen, monoprint, monotype, collagraph, woodcut, linocut, lithography, and new non-toxic intaglio and relief.  For more information on this exhibit (1kB).