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Reception and gallery talk: November 8, 5:30-7:30 pm Stephen L. Hayes, Jr. makes art—woodcuts, sculptures, installations small and large—from found materials that draw on social and economic themes ingrained in the history of America and African-Americans. His approach is simple: “If I can’t find it, I’ll make it. If I can’t make it, I’ll find... Read More →
121 Hanes Art Center Alex Da Corte explores the nuances of contemporary life in his videos, installations, paintings, and sculptures, which are often united together in richly-hued, dreamlike environments. With a keen attention to color and form, Da Corte draws from a wide range of sources, including popular and consumer culture, art history, and modern... Read More →
“Rivals on the Fenway: Isabella Stewart Gardner, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Destiny of the American Art Museum” Phillips Hall, room 215 Andrew McClellan is currently a Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the National Humanities Center and on leave from the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at... Read More →
Abigail DeVille’s most recent solo exhibition was Light of Freedom, organized by Madison Square Park Conservancy (2020-21), and traveled to the Momentary at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR (2021) and the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2021-22). Other commissions and solo museum shows include The American Future, Portland Institute for Contemporary... Read More →
James M. Johnston Center of Undergraduate Excellence, Graham Memorial Hall April 28-29, 2023 Through a generous gift to the UNC Arts and Sciences Foundation, William G. Rand established this lecture series in memory of his late wife, Bettie Allison Rand. This funding allows the Department of Art to bring one or more eminent art historians... Read More →
Reception at 5:30 pm | Artist talk and screening of “Morning Dew” 6:00-7:30 pm The Department of Art and Art History and the Carolina Asia Center of UNC-Chapel Hill are proud to welcome Soni Kum as a Hanes Visiting Artist in Fall 2023. Soni Kum is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Tokyo, Japan... Read More →
Reception: September 12th, 5-7 pm with gallery talk at 6 pm Artist Statement: My interdisciplinary practice utilizes critical studies and the surreal to explore ways in which Black physical, mental, and emotional states of being exist within and subvert the status-quo. I work with the notion of society as monstrous to question themes of power... Read More →
Central themes in Shimoyama's practice stem from his personal perspective on and experience with the Black queer male body. By asserting vibrant queer bodies in his works, he acknowledges the political aspects of being queer in this society. In some works, including his Barbershop series, he goes further to address the position of being queer... Read More →
Reception and gallery talk: October 24, 5:00-7:00 pm, with the talk starting at 6:00 pm--on that evening, there will be a one-night-only installation of his work Century Text Xeuwu Zheng examines history and contemporary experiences in a very personal way and thinks about the cultural relationships between the East and the West. He integrates philosophy,... Read More →
“Landfalls: Visual Politics of Place and Space in Aotearoa New Zealand” Zoom Register to attend here: https://unc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwof-iurzMiH9O6LAVItUCY5s-gFuJQ-d0x While art-historical accounts of imperial landscapes have typically focused attention on the myriad ways that European traveler-artists projected domination, the first British landscape artists in Aotearoa New Zealand exhibited a precarious presence in Māori-shaped environments. Early nineteenth-century artists... Read More →
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