Wendy Red Star (b.1981), Yakima or Yakama – Not For Me To Say, 2015-16, three-color lithograph with chine-collé archival pigment ink photograph, 24" x 40", Purchased through the Edmund G. Miller Art Collection Fund, Collection of the Museum of Art, UNH, 2018.12
People, Places, and Things:
Recent Acquisitions 2014-2018
August 29 – October 20, 2018
Each year the collection committee meets to consider gifts and purchases of paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures. Over the past five years, the result has been the addition of hundreds of contemporary and historic works of art in a variety of media and styles presenting different points of view and artistic concerns to create a dynamic ever-changing collection.
Fahamu Pecou, the return, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 96" x 96", Courtesy of the artist
Fahamu Pecou: DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance
August 29-October 20, 2018
Fahamu Pecou is an Atlanta-based visual artist and scholar whose works combine observations on hip-hop, fine art, and popular culture. Pecou is profoundly involved in exploring the state of Black existence–life and death–in his work. Through performance, painting, drawing, music, and video, Pecou reframes our view, incorporating references from the West African Yoruba religion as well as Ifa rituals and integrates in his work both African cultural retentions found in hip-hop and the philosophy of Negritude. Through this, Pecou shapes a story that seeks to affirm life via an understanding of the balance between life and death.
Fahamu Pecou: DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual Resistance has been organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston, in collaboration with the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. Supported by the Rines Art Exhibition Fund, Museum of Art, UNH
Donald Williams, Aleppo, 2017, stoneware, metal, and ceramic shard, 13" x18" x 12"
The Artist Revealed
2018 Studio Art Faculty Review
November 1 – December 15, 2018
This exhibition of work by the artists who teach in the Department of Art and Art History reveals the breadth and range of the department’s studio art program with a special focus on the department’s newest instructor, Liese Zahabi, whose design work spans both digital and print.
Exhibiting artists include Sachiko Akiyama, Jason Bombaci, Jamie Bowman, Benjamin Cariens, Michael Cardinali, Bradley Castellanos, Brian Chu, Richard Fox, Grant Drumheller, Julee Holcombe, Jennifer Moses, Don Williams, Leah Woods, and Liese Zahabi.
Scott Schnepf, Fruit and Snake, 2011, multi-plate etching and engraving, 14.5” x 11”
Scott Schnepf: Four Decades of Printmaking
November 1- December 16, 2018
Throughout his distinguished career as an artist and teacher, Scott Schnepf, who taught in the Department of Art and Art History from 1981 to 2015, has developed a rich body of prints exploring techniques and subjects. This exhibition celebrates nearly forty years of printmaking including airy landscapes, intimate domestic interiors, and his well-known densely layered still life arrangements that reveal an observant and imaginative master draughtsman.
Yoav Horesh, Haim Ozer Street, Jerusalem. 3/2/2002, August 2003, Gelatin Silver print, 16”x 20”
Yoav Horesh: Aftermath
January 24- March 30, 2019
From 2002–2005, Yoav Horesh photographed hundreds of sites in Israel of suicide bombings, months and even years after the destructive blasts. The apparent return to normalcy or the abandonment of spaces reveals a society accustom to random violence on a massive scale. In an increasingly desensitized environment of war imagery, Horesh challenges us to think about the afermath.
Sheida Soleimani, Delara (2), 2015, Archival pigment print, 40" x 27"
Messengers: Artists as Witnesses
January 24- March 30, 2019
Ten contemporary regional and national artists create work that gives voice to others, acting as witnesses by recounting significant events and personal narratives that go beyond media accounts and by doing so acting as harbingers for social change. Themes addressed include incarceration, criminality, state-sanctioned violence, terrorism, and evil. Exhibiting artists include Sanford Biggers, Philip Brou, Daniel Heyman, Alix Lambert, Shaun Leonardo, Dan Mills, Cheryl Pope, Rudy Shepherd, Sheida Soleimani, and Stephen Tourlentes.
Sachiko Akiyama, Winter's Night ,2016, wood, paint, mixed media, 26” x 13” x 68”
Impact
April 12- May 17, 2019
The Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. recognizes the important contribution of working artists to the cultural life of the region by providing an annual financial award to promote the artistic growth of artists and craftspeople. The exhibition, Impact features Sachiko Akiyama Assistant Professor, UNH, 2018 award winner and finalists Tara Lewis, BA ‘92, and Jocelyn Toffic, BA ‘07.
BFA candidates,(L-R) Daniel Faiella, Rachel Goyette, Adeline Boysen, and Julianna Sagliano
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
April 12- May 17, 2019
This annual exhibition celebrates the achievements of the Master of Fine Arts degree candidates from the University’s Department of Art and Art History. Representing the culmination of their two-year program as candidates for the Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Department of Art and Art History, UNH; Jenna Smith, Belleville, IL, works will be on display in the Carter Gallery of the Museum of Art. This exhibition is supported in part by the University’s Department of Art and Art History.
Senior Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition
April 12- May 17, 2019
The Bachelor of Arts program prepares students for the commercial art field and provides them with a strong background in fine arts and a number of vocational opportunities for entrance to graduate school. The exhibit features works from graduating students representing concentrations in drawing, ceramics, painting, photography, and sculpture.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts curriculum provides training for students who plan to enter professional graduate school or pursue careers as professional artists. The Bachelor of Fine Arts Annual Exhibition features works from four candidates who draw upon their own experiences and interests to develop a body of work to present in this annual exhibition. Their areas of concentration feature a variety of works in ceramics, drawing, painting, and photography. The exhibit features bodies of work from the candidates, Adeline Boysen, Easthampton, MA, Daniel Faiella, Northwood, NH, Rachel Goyette, Plymouth, NH, Julianna Sagliano, Oxford, CT.
