Join us for a talk by Jenni Sorkin, Professor, History of Art & Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara: "Deviant Scale."Intense and immersive, the immediacy of cloth is its evocation of the body. Conveying abstraction, embodiment and corporeality in the shadow of U.S.-based Culture Wars, and the global AIDS epidemic, 1990s-era sculptural textile practices offered […]
Rare View Mirror is a series of photographs by Samuel Aye-Gboyin that investigates individuals who exist in the margins of society, the real heroes in Ghana’s small-scale industry. These images question how we think about power, commerce, and privilege. These photographs are used as vehicles of expression to create new possibilities by placing ordinary and […]
Uncertain Codes is an essay in the form of an exhibition by the artist and writer Julien Bismuth. The project is organized around a specific constellation of artworks, texts, and documents that engage with opacity, specifically the inherent opacities and ambiguities of language. Artists and writers will include Guy de Cointet, Constance de Jong, Mirtha Demisarche, […]
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 […]
Laurisabel Maria de Ana da Silva, Ph.D., EthnomusicologyFederal University of Bahia School of MusicSalvador, BrazilThis presentation will address reflections from research on carnival in the Nordeste de Amaralina neighborhood of Salvador inhabited by a Black majority who earn a minimum wage. The reflections comprise discursive associations made to support the maintenance of carnival celebrations sustained […]
Opening Reception: Friday, January 27 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.Residing from the rust belt of Toledo Ohio, ceramic artist Allison Burch explores the idea of deindustrialized spaces and their separation with the developing world. Mark-C. Hilbert explores new media techniques and their larger implications through strategies of humor and the uncanny. Together these artists […]
UF Guitar ExtravaganzaFestival and CompetitionFebruary 4 through 6, 2023 at the UF School of Music, MUB 101 and MUB 142A global guitar event with guest artists and students coming from around the world to perform, compete in the international competition, and teach/attend lectures and masterclasses. All events are FREE and open to the public. Schedule: Concert: Maharajah […]
At the Edge of Whiteness: Brown Feeling and the Public Life of Blackness in José Clemente Orozco’s U.S. based PrintsMary Coffey, Professor of Art History, Dartmouth CollegeThis talk explores the Mexican artist, José Clemente Orozco’s, US-based lithographs on the public life of Blackness, executed during his second and longest sojourn in the United States between […]
Featuring work by 444 IDK, Nicole Calderon, Laney Cardenas, Komal Goswami, Alex Kirkpatrick, Macy Lamers, Emmett Leevan, Alex Mendoza, Ben Mores, Zoë Naoumoff, and Alexa Rangel Krashenitsa.University Galleries Hours of Operation
Constance DeJong has worked for over four decades expanding the possibilities of narrative form, working in the intersections of literature, video art, sound and performance. An influential figure in the downtown New York spheres of avant-garde music and art, DeJong is considered one of the progenitors of video and media art and what can be […]