Painting Exhibitions
Exhibitions and visiting artist lectures and critiques augment painting students' studio experience by providing opportunities to further engage contemporary practices and directions in painting. View current, recents and upcoming exhibitions below.
STRONGMAN: Rocky Horton and Thomas Sturgill
March 22 - Apr 25, 2024
Opening Reception: March 22, 2024, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery proudly presents: STRONGMAN: Rocky Horton and Thomas
Sturgill. This exhibition explores themes of Southern masculinity, humor, and mortality.
Each artist has long created works circulating this topic. As natives of small southern
towns, masculine identity championed sports, cars, and bravado. The works in this
exhibit humorously play with this criteria and offer vulnerability as an antidote.
Horton’s work explores his mortality, identity, and place in history. Each work presented
is a kind of self-portrait and thus a contemplation of silliness, seriousness, identity,
and ultimately, demise. Sturgill’s work centers on hubris, collecting, success, and
humor. The work is based on the simple feat of strength, each piece explores what
it means to succeed…what it means to attain.
Architecture of Layers: Yifat Gat and Lizzie Scott
February 2 - March 6, 2024
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery in collaboration with GUT Gallery proudly presents: Architecture of Layers: Yifat Gat and Lizzie Scott. These two artists use abstract processes as a means of accessing a deep, unspeakable experience of presence and connection.
Yifat Gat’s series of black and white paintings is based on hand made geometry that is playfully informed by structures, the heart, and feminine intuition and aims to achieve moments of connection to the personal, sacred, and universal.
Lizzie Scott’s painted textile constructions focus on color, flexible surfaces, and disorienting experiences of space. She combines visible sewing, recognizable materials, and colliding fields of color to create accessible experiences that can’t be described with words or iconography. They are what they are – odd, ebullient, unclassifiable.