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Avery Preesman
Thursday, March 30 - Sunday, June 11, 2006
University Gallery
Fast-rising painter Avery Preesman is known for the open and original way in which he breaks new ground in Dutch abstract painting and for his invigorating approach to painting in general. Avery Preesman’s exhibition is part of the Museums10 Valley-wide Festival "GO DUTCH!" in Spring 2006 featuring art from the Netherlands. MORE…
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Looking Forward/Looking Back
In Conversation: Judy Pfaff and Helaine Posner
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall 5:30 pm
Judy Pfaff is an artist in the midst of a prolific career as a sculptor, installation artist, painter, and printmaker. At the heart of her work is her exploration of how to make painting more three-dimensional and sculpture more painterly. Helaine Posner, Director of the University Gallery From 1984 to 1988, is currently adjunct curator at the American Federation of Arts in New York. MORE…
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Reading by poets Galway Kinnell and Kirtland Snyder
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Fine Arts Center Concert Hall, UMass 7:00 pm
Galway Kinnell has published ten books of poetry, and has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He has also published translations of the work of Yves Bonnefoy, Francois Villon, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Kinnell is a former Vermont State Poet. He teaches at New York University, where he is the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing. Kirtland Snyder has published two chapbooks of poetry, one of them in collaboration with the American activist-painter, Leon Golub, and a spoken-word CD, Walking with Thoreau. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and is among the poetry considered in Susan Gubar's critical study, Poetry After Auschwitz. MORE…
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Karen Dolmanisth Slide-Talk
Thursday, March 2, 2006
University Gallery 5:00 pm
Karen Dolmanisth (MFA, UMass Amherst) has shown her work internationally in exhibitions from Exit Art in New York City to the Vienna Secession Museum in Austria. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the Academy of Fine Arts in the Netherlands. She will discuss her ephemeral constructions and meditative drawings in the context of The Miraculous in the Everyday. MORE…
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Word and Image: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Thursday, May 4 - Monday, June 12, 2006
Univeristy Gallery
The exhibition is curated by Lisa Amato, M.A.'06 in Art History. An illustrated brochure with text by Amato is accompanying the exhibition. Two gallery talks are occurring in support of the exhibition. MORE…
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Gallery Talk, by Lisa Amato
Thursday, May 18, 2006
from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Lisa Amato, curator of the Word and Image exhibition, will speak about the way artists have used text to political or didactic ends.
This program was made possible in part by a grant from the UMass Arts Council. MORE…
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Studio Visit with George Trakas
Sunday, March 26, 2006
8:00 am
Visit the studio of land art sculptor George Trakas with University Gallery’s Contemporary Art Circle. 2006 Fine Arts Center Artist of the Year, George Trakas, is graciously opening his studio to Fine Arts Center donors who have expressed a particular interest in supporting University Gallery and contemporary art. MORE…
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Beat Streuli
Cities 2001-2005
Wednesday, September 20 - Sunday, November 5, 2006
University Gallery
Streuli's images of people moving through and among each other blur a line between portraying anonymity and individuality. The dramatically slowed video images, which represent an ever-changing sea of pedestrians -- bodies and faces navigating through a given city -- offer a moving social portrait of contemporary society. MORE…
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Michael Fried
Beyond Street Photography: Beat Streuli
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Flavin Auditorium, Isenberg School of Management 7:00 pm
Distinguished guest speaker, Michael Fried, is J.R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and Director of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University. His recent books include 'Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews' and 'Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin'. He is currently writing a book on photography since Berd and Hilla Becher MORE…
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The Impossible Landscape
Wednesday, November 29 - Sunday, March 4 -closed December 19, 2006 - February 5, 2007
University Gallery
Photographs, drawings, paintings, sculpture, and film by well known and emerging British, American, and Canadian artists including Darren Almond, Tacita Dean, Janice Kerbel, Melanie Carvahlo, and others. MORE…
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Andy Jaffe Trio
Thursday, October 5, 2006
UMass ART HOP / Amherst ART WALK from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
UMass ART HOP / Amherst ART WALK featuring the Andy Jaffe Trio at the University Gallery MORE…
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Gregory Crewdson
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Herter Hall, room 321, 6:30 pm
Documentary screening and talk by the famous photographer Gregory Crewdson. MORE…
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Opening Reception
The Impossible Landscape
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
University Gallery from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Join us for the opening reception for "The Impossible Landscape". At 7pm there will be a talk with curator, Jodie Vincenta Jacobson, from the Horticultural Society of New York and artists Melanie Carvalho and Peter Coffin. MORE…
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