2005CALENDAR
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Sheila Pepe
Mind the gap
Saturday, February 5 - Friday, May 13, 2005
(Closed March 12 - 20 for Spring Recess), 2005
Responding to the architectural idiosyncrasies of the space in which she works, Pepe creates site-specific installations that are a blend of sculptural and graphic elements. MORE…
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Sheila Pepe: Mind the gap
Opening Reception
Friday, February 4, 2005
from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Please join us in celebrating with the artist Sheila Pepe, the opening of the installation Mind the gap. The reception is free and all are welcome to attend. MORE…
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude form the Roof:
The Gates Project in Central Park
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Call the Gallery for details at 545-3670 from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm
SOLD OUT Join the Visual Arts Interest Group of the Friends of the Fine Arts Center in a unique experience as we meet on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to view the spectacular work of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. This two-week project, 26 years in the making, is the husband and wife's first temporary outdoor artwork in New York, their home of forty years. It consists of 7,500 saffron-colored gates (each 16 feet in height and hung with saffron panels placed at 12 foot intervals over 23 miles of pedestrian walkways that lace the park.) The installation will remain on view for only 16 days beginning February 12. Space on this trip is limited. Please call the University Gallery by February 3rd to make reservations. MORE…
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Ranjani Shettar Gallery Talk
Thursday, February 17, 2005
University Gallery 2:30 pm
Ranjani Shettar is currently in residence to install her work in the University Gallery and will give a Gallery Talk. MORE…
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Svetlana And Igor Kopystiansky
Tuesday, September 13 - Sunday, October 30, 2005
University Gallery
Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky have shown extensively around the world and are renowned for their ability to reveal the beauty in the everyday. MORE…
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The Miraculous In The Everyday
Tom Friedman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gabriel Orozco
Thursday, December 1 - Sunday, March 12, 2005
University Gallery
This exhibition explores the work of three renowned conceptual and installation artists -- Tom Friedman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Gabriel Orozco -- whose use of modest, humble materials celebrate the mundane in contemporary life.
(Closed December 15, 2005 - February 6, 2006) MORE…
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Looking Forward/Looking Back
In Conversation: Dr. Hugh M. Davies and Robert Irwin
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Fine Arts Center Lobby 5:30 pm
Robert Irwin, a pivotal American artist for more than 30 years, has become one of the most influential creators of the art of light and space, using ephemeral materials such as scrim, lighting and orientation to alter and heighten the viewer’s perception of the space in which they encounter his work. Dr. Hugh M. Davies, Director of the University Gallery from 1975 to 1984, is currently The David C. Copley Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. MORE…
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Film Screening
Russian, French and German 1920s Avant-garde Cinema
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Flavin Auditorium, School of Management, Umass 7:00 pm
A selection of newly released, digitally restored avant-garde short films from the 1920s will be screened, featuring such artists as Eggeling, Eisenstein, Epstein, Léger, Richter, and Ruttmann followed by a panel discussion with artists Svetlana and Igor Kopystiansky and Professor Barton Byg, Germanic Languages & Literatures, DEFA Film Library. Film screening by special arrangement with The Raymond Rohauer Collection/The Douris Corporation. MORE…
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Tom Friedman Artist Talk and Opening Reception
Thursday, December 8, 2005
Fine Arts Center Lobby and University Gallery from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Please join the University Gallery in celebrating the opening of the exhibition THE MIRACULOUS IN THE EVERYDAY with an Artist Talk with Tom Friedman at 5 pm in the Fine Arts Center Lobby and an Opening Reception at 6 pm in the University Gallery. MORE…
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