A beautiful exhibition of photograph by Jessica Gray is being displayed in the Trahern Living Gallery. The exhibition reflects the act of storing memories in a box.
The opening reception is on April 11th at 5pm. Stop by and see photographs by APSU student, Jessica Gray, int the Trahern Living Gallery.
Check out the awesome collaborative exhibit “Works” by Tyler Foster and Alexander Wurts in the Trahern Living Gallery. The opening reception is tonight at 5:00.
An awesome exhibition of graphic design works by APSU students Jordan Gibby and Chad Malone has opened in the Trahern Living Gallery. Featured in the exhibit is a collection of comics called “Socially Unacceptable” as well as an assortment of digital illustrations by Chad Malone. Also featured, by Jordan Gibby, is a collection of individual graphic paintings. Come by and check out these awesome works from Chad and Jordan. The exhibit will run from March 26th to April 1st, 2013.
Don’t Miss the 45th Annual Juried Student Art Show
Student Show PosterOpening and Awards Reception March 21st from 5-8pm.
The Austin Peay Downtown Gallery is proud to present The 45th Annual Juried Student Art Show. This annual exhibition features the work of current students in the APSU Department of Art.
“Its been a real pleasure to see the wide variety of works submitted by the students for this years show,” noted Jennifer Snyder, Downtown Gallery director.
The exhibit opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. on March 21, and runs through March 30th in the APSU Downtown Gallery. Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public.
Art students from all media and all classes submitted works and were juried by Nathaniel Hein, Assistant Professor of Design, Delta State University. This multidisciplinary show will feature more than 40 works by students in ceramics, painting, photography, drawing, printmaking and design.
For more information on the The 45th Annual Juried Student Art Show, contact Jennifer Snyder, APSU Downtown Gallery director and APSU assistant professor of art, at 221-7343.
Caitlyn Wilson’s charcoal drawings are
featured in the exhibit Citalopram
Austin Peay State University is proud to present Citalopram by artist Caitlyn Wilson at First Thursday Artwalk. Citalopram is part of an ongoing series of charcoal drawings that stared in August of 2012. Miss Wilson’s evident influences include artists such as Mark Rothko, Leonardo da Vinci, Cy Twombly and Joan Mitchell. Her drawings embody the essence of mark making and radiate strong emotional responses in the viewer while successfully rendering her state of mind with gestural yet meticulously drawn marks.
Miss Wilson is a senior at Austin Peay State University. Her art includes, but is not limited to, drawing, painting and photography.
The opening reception for Citalopram will be this Thursday, March 7 from 5-8pm.
Hey Art Students! If you are interested in a free studio this Spring term in our Living Gallery Studios then the deadline is today at 5pm. Applications are available in the Art Department office and online here.
Feel free to stop by the Art Department office in Trahern for a CD to burn your portfolio or for answers to any questions you might have.
Gabrielle Bomar’s Senior Exhibition, Photolucid, opens today in Gallery 108 in the Trahern Building. This exhibition will include multiple photographic series by Gabi. There will be a closing reception on Thursday from 5-7pm.
Hey APSU Art Students!
Come on and get your FREE STUDIOS for Spring 2013. Click here for the application.
All applications are due to the Department of Art Office November 15, 2012.
What a difference a few days make! We are 5 days into our Living Gallery Studio construction in the Trahern gallery and things are moving right along. The intrepid crew of APSU students Amber Kearns, Dennis Roman, George Harrison, Rina Gonzalez and Alex Wurts are making short work of this project. Click here or on the picture below to check out the video and watch for the following highlights:
The studios are set to open to participating students during the week of August 20th. Stay tuned for the announcement of our first public reception for all participating artists.
days 1-3 of our Trahern studio construction project
APSU student Steph Parkans has completed the third of three monumental student projects in APSU’s Trahern Gallery this summer. Her project, Evolution, traces the history of man’s conception of dinosaurs over the last 200 years through large scale wall drawings. Congratulations to Steph on her marvelous work!.
APSU student Amy Hall took over APSU’s Trahern Gallery this summer for a 3-week project, Calming Chaos. Hall is the second of three students who proposed incredible projects to take over the 2000 sq ft space of the Art Department’s Trahern Gallery over the summer months ( Nicole Santoyo’s Malediction happened last month and Steph Parkans’ project will open later this week).
The Art Dept held a reception for the project on July 12 that was attended by over 30 people. Check out the pictures below from Amy’s incredibly ambitious project.
Malediction by Nicole Santoyo opens in the Trahern Gallery June 22 from 6 to 8 pm.
Nicole was a student in Professor Paul Collins’s Special Topics Class, Introduction to Drawn Environments during Maymester 2012 and has transformed the Trahern Gallery in to one large environmental drawing.
From her artist statement:
“The choice of materials was meant to invoke a peculiar grungy plainness, one that is not quite like an urban environment, but evocative of a similar atmosphere. The walls of the gallery are covered in expressive marks and words, the very essence of graffiti, and a marker of human presence, as are the various human artifacts. In the process of brainstorming, I thought not only of the way of life that persists in the city, but the crime and suffering, which I worked into my composition in ways that are both subtle and overt. ”
Check out some pictures from Nicole’s incredible project.
Students tore down their pieces yet another time to begin the challenge of planning their final projects for a class that has proved to be a whirlwind of inspiration, creative problem solving, and hard, focused work.
"In Technicolor", by Jeffery Horton
Whether in the form of installation, large-scale wall drawing, or video and projection, the students’ pieces were unique and widely varying works that reflected an incredible diversity of opinion, personality, and artistic styles.
Participants in the fast-paced Introduction to Drawn Environments class executed these colossal wall works in only three days before taking them down, starting the series of transformations that the gallery and various spaces in the Trahern Building will undergo as the students work and construct their art pieces. Until June 1st, student work can be seen in the building in various states of completion.
Art students proudly displayed their finished work before tearing it down and beginning on a new piece. After beginning a drawing on location, they then blew up the drawing to an enormous scale by using a grid technique or projection. At such large sizes, the works took on a whole new attitude.
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