Caleb Cole, Cilice, 2017, vintage motorcycle jacket, vintage hanger, wire, dressmaking pins, 23” x 26”, Courtesy of Gallery Kayafas
Made Masculine
August 30 – October 15, 2017
The thirteen contemporary artists in this exhibition accept the framework that masculinity is made, fashioned, and modified from generation to generation. Selected works of art explore the artifice of masculinity through themes such as strength, desire, and intimacy while posing the question: What does it mean to be made masculine or to make one’s own masculinity? Made Masculine exhibiting artists: Jesse Burke, Ria Brodell, Caleb Cole, Arthur Henderson, David Hilliard, Raul Gonzalez III, Tala Madani, Azita Moradkhani, Cobi Moules, Andrew Mowbray, Toyin Ojih Odutola, John O’Reilly, and Kledia Spiro. Guest curator, Lisa Crossman, Ph.D., Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum. Supported by the Valerie Wilcox England ’54 and Frederick J. England Fund.
Willie Cole, Loveseat, 2007, shoes, wood, pvc pipes, screws and staples, 39” x 65” x 43”
Willie Cole: On-Site
August 30 – October 15, 2017
Highlights from the body of work by contemporary African-American artist Willie Cole and features 13 artworks, a video, and includes an installation of a massive chandelier made of recycled water bottles. This traveling exhibition is organized by the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is co-curated by the David C. Driskell Center’s Deputy Director, Dorit Yaron, and Executive Director, Professor Curlee R. Holton.
David Katz, Every Which Way, 2016, Ceramics, mixed media
Flextime: David Katz:
Off-site at 3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St, Portsmouth, NH
October 14- December 8, 2017
Sculptor and ceramicist David Katz exploits the properties of wet clay to create complex web-like installations that push and pull against architectural elements, constructed spaces, and scaffolding. As the clay dries, cracks develop, exposing the fragile nature of the structural systems. Curated by Kristina Durocher, Director, Museum of Art of the University of New Hampshire. Supported by the UNH Arts Initiative Fund.
Stephen DiRado, Bell Pond series: Butch, Natasha, Krissy and Tony, August 25th, 1983, silver gelatin print, 10" x 12.5"
A Photographer’s Embrace: Stephen DiRado
October 26 – December 15, 2017 (closed November 22-26)
Featuring selections from the Worcester artist’s body of work and includes photographs, film, and projected images. Known for his humanistic outlook and photographic series, DiRado’s work evolved from straight photography of people and places to intimate, empathetic images made in collaboration with his subjects. This is the first museum exhibition devoted to the photographer’s thirty-five-year artistic career.
2016 Award winner, Carly Glovinski, Nature Library (The Forest), 2016, acrylic on wood, 8.5” x 11"
Impact
October 26 – December 15, 2017
This exhibition focuses attention on the recipients of the prestigious Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant awarded by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. Celebrating its fifteenth year, the grant recognizes the contributions 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. Supported by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
Selected works by Cathy McLaurin (2017), Carly Glovinski (2016), Cheryle St. Onge (2014), Lauren Gillette (2014), Justin Kirchoff (2013), Bear Kirkpatrick (2012), Kim Bernard (2011), Gail Spaien (2010), Lynn Szymanski (2009), Kirsten Reynolds (2007), Barbara Rita Jenny (2006), Tim Gaudreau (2005), Maureen Mills (2004), Katherine Doyle (2003), Gary Haven Smith (2002), will be on display (not exhibiting, Ross Cisneros, 2008). Works of painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media, video, and photography will fill the Museum’s upper-level Carter Gallery.
Andrew Witkin, Untitled, 2007–2017, newspaper clippings, shrink wrap, 12-ply museum board, frame, 24.13” x 31.75”
Syndicates: Andrew Witkin (among others)
January 25 – March 31, 2018
Boston-based artist Andrew Witkin’s studio practice involves aggregating, arranging, collecting, and/or fabricating everyday ideas, images and objects to investigate systems and frameworks of information and their intellectual and psychological effects in the world. Syndicates include text-based works, graphic elements, woven fabrics, and collages of newspaper photographs that collectively blur the systematic with the haphazard in which meaning is layered and elusive.
Anna McKee, WAIS Reliquary: 68,000 Years, (detail), 2013-15, include silk, glass, glacier water, wood frame, 22’ x 14.5” x 9’
Long Eye
January 25 – March 31, 2018
This exhibition presents sensory works of art created in response to the colors, shapes, sounds, and climate of both the Arctic and Antarctica. The work, most of which is time- or sound-based, stands as metaphors for the regions themselves—monumental, breathtaking, fleeting—creating impressions of places that can only truly be experienced in person. Exhibiting artists include Eric Aho, Resa Blatman, Wendy Jacobs, Andrea Juan, Anna McKee, Claudia O'Steen, and Aly Ogasian.
2018 BFA Candidates, digital image, photo credit: Julianna E. Sagliano ’19, BFA Photography
MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 13 – May 18, 2018
This annual exhibition celebrates the achievements of the Bachelor of Arts and 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; Paddy Aidan, Tatiana Makarova, and Ron Prigat 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 BA & BFA Exhibition
April 13 – May 18, 2018
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 one work from graduating students; Molly Anderson, Samantha Applegate, Beatrice Couser, Rachel Goyette, Kaiwen Li, Sebastian Mandino, Lauren Maurice, Jiacheng Xu, and Wenjie Xu, representing concentrations in drawing, 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 Exhibition features works from five 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, Samantha Elsaesser, Fairfield, CT, (photography), Hannah Lacey, Evergreen, CO, (painting), Patricia Leonard, Sanford, ME, (photography), Cierra Vigue, Manchester, NH, (ceramics), and Emily Wernig, Guilford, NH, (ceramics, drawing).
