UWF ART Faculty Exhibition

The annual UWF Art Faculty exhibition showcases new works of contemporary art from Department of Art faculty and surveys the breadth of work currently produced by UWF Art professors. It is an opportunity for students and community members to gain a sense of the professional work produced by the department.

The UWF Art Faculty exhibition features the work of visual art professors Jim Jipson, Valerie George, Joseph Herring, Amy Ruddick, Dan Kelleher, John Markowitz, Sally Miller, Greg Saunders, Lyda Toy, Marzia Prendergast and professor emeritus Hank Heuler. The exhibition also includes the display of new publications by art historian Barbara Larson and the work of four new visual art faculty members: Thomas Asmuth, Gary Batzloff, Gina Cestaro and Adam Shiverdecker.

Pensacola Underground Film Festival

Gestural Pop

With Artists
Rachel Jones & David Sullivan

October 8-November 6 2009

Opening Reception

& Artist Talk

Thursday Oct 15 6-8pm


Formally trained painters, Rachel Jones and David Sullivan negotiate the complex relationship between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art; two major painting movements of the 20th century. Jones' murky figurative pastorals coupled with Sullivan’s neon color palette and inventive use of materials blur the styles of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. The formal and conceptual issues presented in the exhibition, Gestural Pop consistently challenge contemporary artists working today.

Genius Loci Lecture

Projected Landscapes

Projected Landscapes Opening Reception and Genius Loci Lecture Photos

Projected Landscapes

Opening Reception Thursday September 3, 2009

6-8pm

Genius Loci Lecture 4-5pm

Statement from the Curator:

            The 2009-2010 season presents a series of exhibitions featuring the visual and conceptual interplay between sets of two artists.  For each exhibition, the coupled artists were chosen for their differing motivations and varying use of materials.  These differences are to act as complimentary forces, which work to create a stimulating discourse between the artists and viewers within the transitory space of the gallery.  The artists are encouraged to converse before, during and after the installation of their work in the gallery.  This continuing dialogue, facilitated by the gallery space, is intended to form an active platform upon which dynamic and engaging explorations of contemporary art can develop.

 

Projected Landscapes: A Collaborative Exhibition

            The technological boom of the 21^st century has transformed social and aesthetic environments.   As a result, artists today are re-addressing and redefining “landscape” much like their 19^th century counterparts who explored, through the traditional genre of landscape painting, man’s relationship to nature in the wake of the Industrial Revolution.

In Projected Landscapes, contemporary artists, Courtney Egan and David Webber, explore differing iterations of “landscape” through atmospheric digital projections and video installations.  For the artists, the idea of “landscape” is not one of escapism as it was for their 19^th century predecessors, but of evaluation.  Egan's use of technology in her work supports an observational investigation of her personal environment in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Through digital media, she explores the collisions of human invention and organic processes.  Egan uses technology to visually slow time, capture and depict erosion, death and the inevitable transformation of landscape. 

Contrastingly, Webber turns inward and uses technology to map the shadowy terrain of memory and the subconscious.  He uses video as a means to visually record his recollections and then replay them as our subconscious replays memories in an effort to form and define the self.  Through these reflections, Webber’s work questions the accuracy of our memories and explores the way these fabrications and truths interact to form identity.

And She Lived Happily Ever After

And She Lived Happily Ever After... Angela Carter 

BFA Exit Show / Closing Reception / Thursday, August 27th 6-8pm

Update: Closing Reception Photos!

Call to Artists

Call to Artists:

 “Altered"National Juried Experimental Photography Exhibition  

Eligibility: The Art Gallery at the University of West Florida will host “Altered,” an experimental photography exhibition. Submissions should explore the realm of experimental photography.   Suggested approaches are (but not limited to) combining photography with various media, experimenting with process and inventive ways of shooting, contact-printing, cyanotypes, gum prints, photography as performance, photography as sculpture, collage, digital, mixed media, toys and other non-traditional cameras, transfer-printing process, etc. 

Note: sculpture and installation work must be ready to exhibit and cannot exceed sixty inches in any dimension unassembled. The work must be original, completed within the last three years, and not previously exhibited at The Art Gallery at UWF. The Art Gallery reserves the right to exclude any work that presents complex installation problems.

Juror: International artist Tomiko Jones

Awards: Merit awards up to $1600 are available.  All participating artists will receive an exhibition catalog that includes a juror’s statement, images of exhibiting artwork and information on participating artists.  In addition, The Art Gallery at UWF promotes all exhibitions through printed and digital material, which includes an exhibition postcard sent to our mailing list of over 3,000 recipients, a mass email newsletter, announcement on The Art Gallery website, and exposure on our blogsite.

For further information please visit our website at http://uwf.edu/art/art_gallery/CallToArtists.cfm

Deadline for entry: October 22, 2009

Notification date:  November 20 2009

Delivery dates: December 1-14, 2009

Exhibition dates: January 7-February 5, 2010

Opening reception: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 6-8PM

Pick up of work:                  February 11, 2010

Pre-paid artwork shipped: February 16, 2010

Engaging Abstraction

Engaging Abstraction
5 Young Painters

Friday, May 15th
5 - 9 PM

NE Corner of N. Palafox and Wright St.
(Formally Eat!)

An Exhibition of paintings by five young artists from the University of West Florida's Department of Art. This collection of works explores the expressive possibilities of abstract painting through a personalized formalism coupled with the sensuous process that are an inherent part of the discipline of painting.

Artist in the exhibition are Molly Bowen, Rezvan Farahany, Lauren Fogg, Chris Pichotta, and Pavel Protsyuk.

For any questions please contact: John Markowitz
Instructor of Art
University of West Florida
Phone: 850.474.2045
Email: jmarkowitz@uwf.edu

Special Thanks to Clay Roesch for his generous donation of property formally known as "Eat!"
Grover Robinson & Associates, Inc.
2268 La Vista Avenue, Pensacola, FL 32504
Phone (850)-433-8261 Fax (850)-433-2711

Clay@groverrobinson.com
Direct (850) 293-2529








Nouveaux Steps

May 15th, 5-9PM

Coco Design
222 Baylen St.
Downtown Pensacola

Come out for Gallery Night Friday, May 15, 2009, in celebration of the first public showing of works of art created by two UWF Art students. Artists Andy Beauchamp and Dawna Walther are working together for Nouveaux Steps. Nouveaux Steps is a collaboration of the best of Andy Beauchamp's paintings and Dawna Walther's ceramic pieces. Please bring a friend and come support Andy and Dawna for their first art show EVER!

Filmed by Bike

Special Thanks to the Lefferts L. & Margarete M. Mabie
Visual Arts Endowment
for funding of UWF Art Students video project

You Can Always Wear A Raincoat (running time 7:56)
John Dougherty + Jorge Torrens | Pensacola, FL
A documentary on bike organizations in the American South.

Florida's Art in State Program

Half a percent of a new state building's cost is set aside for a selection of artwork for purchase or commission. A local committee is selected to vote/select an artist or artwork (more info). Here are some projects that the UWF Art Department helped administrate.

UWF MAIN CAMPUS
CHILD CARE CENTER budget $10,700

Wonder Flight, Cecilia Lueza (St. Petersburg, Fl), 2009

UWF MAIN CAMPUS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING BUILDING

Site-specific work in progress entitled "Mind in Motion" by Tucson, AZ artist John Davis. Scheduled date for installation February 2010.

“The concept takes a cue from robotics and uses a representation of a robotic arm in an arrangement that appears to be in motion, but momentarily stopped. A large wheel forms the source for the robotic arm and rides on one end of a curved “inclined plane”. The robot arm pulls on the opposite and end of the curved plane. The arrangement of the curved plane and the cylinder beneath is based on the lever and fulcrum principle of elementary physics. The curving of the plane appears to be result of the forces of the robot arm while the large wheel may be rolling off the plane if not for the arm. The sculpture becomes, in one sense, a display of various forces relating to physics, mechanics, and robotics. On one level this illustrates the “hands on” project based learning that is the approach of the new school. The linearity of the arm elements and the roundness of the disc and plank are in keeping with the zero/one language of computers and the building itself. The curvature of the plank echoes a segment of the series of arcs that form the nautilus-the symbol of the university.” John Davis

Revisions of Nature

Lauren Fogg
BFA Exit Exhibition
UWF Gallery of Art

"Rather than painting a landscape as I first witness it, I use the imprint of the experience it leaves behind, fusing this imprint with past images to paint what is both influenced by the places I have seen and what a painting will become on its own. These paintings are not of actual places; instead they allow a new place to form."

Gallery Hours: Tues-Thurs 10am-5pm

Fri-10am-4pm

09 UWF Juried Student Art Exhibition

EYE on Art article by Mike Roberts

April 2nd - 17th

Creative Confections a local cake design company sponsored a beautiful cake for opening night

Creative Confections designer /UWF Student Jessica Nall/photo Ron Besser

Lefferts L. & Margarete M. Mabie Endowment Awards
distributed as 1st-3rd prizes, 3 Honorable Mentions

The Juried Student Art Exhibition is a chance for students from all across campus to display their artwork in a professional environment. The UWF Gallery of Art strives to foster student’s passion to create artwork and pursue further artistic endeavors. The Department of Art Faculty will select the artwork to be exhibited while invitational jurors, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts’ Curator/Artist Vivian Spencer and Plugged Art Collective Director/Artist Gina Cestaro will select awards for the student show. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday 10am to 5pm, 1 hour prior to all CFPA events and during Festival on the Green. The Gallery is free and open to the public.

Please visit the jurors websites:

Vivian Spencer

Gina Cestaro