Department of Art & Art History

August 18th

29th Invitational Frogman’s Portfolio

Each year the organizers of the prestigious Frogman's Print and Paper Workshop select the best printmakers from the workshop to contribute to a print portfolio. The department is pleased to present new work by outstanding contemporary printmakers. Featured artists include Brett Anderson, Michael Connors, Margot Ecke, James Ehlers, Aline Feldman, Brandon Gardner, Lari Gibbons, Jon Goebel, Virginia Green, John Hitchcock, Matthew Hopson-Walker, Margo Humphrey, David Johnson, Sarojini Johnson, Mary Jones, Joel Moline, David Morrison, David Teng, Olsen, Nancy Palmeri, Justin Quinn, Camille Riner, Daniel Rule, Roldolfo Salgado Jr., Blake Sanders, Brandon Sanderson, Jeffrey Sippel, Bonnie Stahlecker, Jon Swindler, Art Werger, and Koichi Yamamoto.

show runs Aug.18th - Sept. 20th in the Salmon Library Gallery

August 23rd

Faculty Show

This exhibition highlights the wide variety of media, styles and conceptual concerns explored by the UAH Art Faculty in their respective creative work. Come enjoy the witty, satirical and technically accomplished prints by Brandon Gardner, the intricate gestural mixed media paintings by Roxie Veasey and the experimental and lyrical photographs by José Betancourt. Kathryn Jill Johnson will be exhibiting her non-traditional drawings along with the mixed media assemblages of Monique Given and digital multimedia works by Professor Keith Jones. Plus a special sneak peek at visiting sculptor Jimmy Kuehnle will "blow" your mind!

August 23rd - September 17th

September 8th

Alison Miller Senior Exhibition

Allison Miller explores ideas of ornamentation, decoration and the significance of domestic spaces in her exuberant, witty and gorgeous mixed media work. Her pieces combine "craft" and "fine art" techniques to create a funhouse of decoration that embraces the excesses of taste, kitsch and "high art"and invites the viewer to revel in the "almost guilty" pleasures of the eye.

September 8th-23rd in Union Grove Gallery

September 22nd

Andrew England - Killer Robots Attacked out Hospital!

Most Outstanding Senior Andrew England displays intaglio, relief, lithographic and screen prints in his exit show. Andrew is an outstanding technical printmaker, and winner of numerous honors at both UAH and The Frogman’s Print and Paper Workshop. His narrative prints go beyond their technical mastery; they are vividly imaginative, witty and thought provoking.

show runs Sept.23 through Oct. 7th in Wilson Hall Gallery

September 27th

Matthew Knopps - Someplace Special

Mathew Leon Knopps is on a mission to rescue the vagrants of visual culture. Armed with the tools of the street artist and vandal, he finds abandoned and forlorn images (and abject objects) and modifies them into gloriously kooky original works of art. Families of cardboard TV-heads cheer him on as he wields his marshmallow gun and spray-paint can and leads us into a world that goes beyond the banal into unknown territory.

show runs from Sept.27th through Oct 13th in Union Grove Gallery

September 29th

Fields of Fire and Men with Custer: Archaeological Perspectives on the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn

Archaeological perspectives of Custer`s last stand examined by forensic specialist at UAHuntsville. Answers to what really happened during Lt. Col. General George Armstrong Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn might finally be clarified at a University of Alabama in Huntsville. (UAHuntsville) lecture conducted by renowned forensic archaeologist Dr. Melissa Connor.

lecture Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m., in the Chan Auditorium located in the Business Administration Building

Oct 15th

Alex Pate Senior Exhibition

Alex Pate’s sculptural and painted works highlight his love of visual pleasure and materials while drawing the viewer into a space for receiving and possibly experiencing emotional revelation. At times lyrical, often humorous, these works touch on both deep pain and the possibility of redemption through beauty.

show up October 15 through 29 in Wilson Hall Gallery

October 16th

Theresa Summer-Davis Senior Exhibition

Senior Theresa Summer-Davis investigates issues of the body in the context of feminine experience in this engaging show that is both documentation of many womens’ particular experience and arresting and beautiful photographic imagery.

show runs Oct. 16 though 29 in Union Grove Gallery

October 31st

Nice Centani

Nice Centani’s moody abstracted figures are reminiscent of German expressionism, yet express the experience of contemporary bodily experience. In her paintings, the figures push and pull at the edges of the picture plane, contained but not silenced. Through the use of energetic expressive brushwork, crude calligraphic line, and tense highly charged composition the paintings invoke the abject, the erotic and the complex relationship between body and mind.

show runs Oct.31-Nov.13 in Union Grove Gallery

October 13st

Megan White

Megan White's work reveals her evolving relationship with the material qualities of paint and the possibilities of both representation and abstraction. Color harmonies and rhythmic marks combined with personal imagery make these works aesthetically exiting and emotionally moving.

show runs Oct.31-Nov.13 in the Library Gallery

November 14th

Ankica Mitrovska

Ankica Mitrovska’s richly glazed rhythmic abstractions are seductive and sensual explorations of color, form and figuration. With a nod to urban art, she merges the flat patterns of grafitti and tattoo art with the elegant volumetric forms of traditional figure painting to create multi layered paintings that acknowledge the formal conventions of abstract expressionism, while creating something new. Each painting creates an ambiguous space that allows gesture to operate on form evoking a sense of time, movement and transformation.

show runs Nov.14 through Dec.3 in Wilson Hall Gallery

November 16th

Myrtle &Me Chesney Matthews

Chesney Matthews’' mixed media works explore the juxtoposition of texture, color and ornamentation in both 2-d and 3-d media. Her interest in fashion as a source of identity, a love of decoration and the hand made, and a playful quasi-nostalgic sensibility contribute to a sense of tactile beauty in her engaging work.

show runs Nov.16th - Dec.3rd in Union Grove Gallery

November 17th

Holiday Art Show & Sale

Begin your holiday shopping with original works of art and special craft items by our talented students and alumni. Sponsored by the student art organization, sales benefit both contributing artists and the organization. Treat your friends and family to one-of-a-kind gifts or treat yourself by starting or adding to your own art collection! If you aren't in the mood to shop, just stop by to treat your eyes to this exciting work and perhaps win some faculty art through our annual raffle.

Salmon Library Gallery from November 10, 11 am-6 pm November 11, 11am-6pm and November 12 Noon to 7 pm

November 22nd

Kaitlyn Christensen

show runs Nov.22 through Dec.3 in the Library Gallery

May 18th

2nd World

Graduating Senior Futa Bamba exhibits his richly colored dream-like paintings at the Connector Gallery in the Flying Monkey Arts Center at Lowe Mill.

show runs may 18th through the 28th, closing reception May 28th, 3-5 pm

May 24th

how I see it

... is an exhibition of photographs by Teri Bertolfo. Teri, who graduates this year, reveals her intimate examinations of the world around her in lush, formally beautiful photographs.

Show runs May 24th through June 4th

June 2nd

The Poetry of Wildness

Clayton Bass, co-founder of the Sanctuary Artists Group, presents a solo exhibition of his landscape paintings at the Wilson Hall Gallery from June 2nd-25th. His exquisitely composed images celebrate the beauty of the natural world with adept technique and lyrical sensitivity.

show runs June 2nd - July 25th

June 2nd

The Art of Nature

…a group exhibition by The Sanctuary Artists will open June 2nd in the Salmon Library Gallery in conjunction with group co-founder Clayton Bass’ solo exhibition in Wilson Hall. This group exhibition highlights the work of local artists who express their relationship to the natural world through a wide variety of media, styles and perspectives. Both shows continue through July 25th.

both shows continue through July 25th