Please join us for an Opening Reception with a performance by exhibiting artist aricoco to celebrate the Mandeville Gallery’s new exhibition, EMBODY. Wine and light refreshments will be served. Visitors may view the exhibition, located upstairs in the Mandeville Gallery, during the reception and performance. This event is free and open to the public.
Please join the Mandeville Gallery and the Schaffer Library for an informal Artist Talk and Reception with Juan Hinojosa, the sixth artist presented through the Art Installation Series, as he discusses his participation in the Series. The talk will begin in the Learning Commons on the first floor of the Schaffer Library. Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public. The artwork will remain on display through March 2020.
Please join us for an Artist & Curator Talk & Reception in conjunction with the Mandeville Gallery’s new exhibition, A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas, which is organized by the Vincent Price Art Museum, California, and is curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas. Artists Pablo Helguera and Martine Gutierrez will join in a discussion with the exhibition curator, Pilar Tompkins Rivas.
Over the last decade, several artists with diverse backgrounds opted to move out of the conventional spaces of art to create experiences, relationships, actions and dialogues with individuals, often with the goals to contribute to particular social and political issues in their neighborhoods. This site-specific approach, working with specific communities and involving all aspects of the visual art discipline along with performance, architecture, urbanism and education, acquired the designation of socially engaged art or social practice.
Drawing from the hemispheric context of the Americas, and broad questions of civilization and culture, A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas presents recent works by artists from the United States and Latin America grappling with continued questions of colonialism and post-colonialism in an effort to locate “place” in contemporary society.
Jenny Kemp has been exploring the possibilities of organic abstraction for more than a decade. This fertile territory has afforded her the visual language and conceptual means to examine a collection of ideas, including biology and histories of modern abstraction. In Kemp’s vibrant paintings, space and light are built through the placement of intricate parallel lines that shift slowly in hue and intensity.
Please join us for an Opening Reception to celebrate the Mandeville Gallery’s new exhibition, Jenny Kemp: Slow Grow, which explores the fertile territory of organic abstraction in vibrant paintings where space and light are built through the placement of intricate parallel lines that shift slowly in hue and intensity. Wine and light refreshments will be served. Visitors may also view the exhibition, located upstairs in the Mandeville Gallery, during the event. This event is free and open to the public.
Utilizing the green space located in front of Schaffer Library, the Mandeville Gallery presents For Freedoms: 50 State Initiative, an event where participants are encouraged to produce and publicly display their own definition of freedom by completing signs that begin with the phrases: Freedom Of…, Freedom From…, Freedom For…, and Freedom To… The lawn signs allow every participant, in their own way, to articulate a vision of freedom.
Stacey Robinson, artist and assistant professor of graphic design at University of Illinois, and Jermaine Wells, singer and actor, will be mixing music in celebration of Robinson’s art installation currently on view at Schaffer Library, which illustrates the intersections of digital art, culture, and Afrofuturism through his vibrant prints and graffiti wall drawings. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.
Please join us for a roundtable discussion, as part of the Pizza & Politics Series presented by the Department of Political Science, with Union student Katie Casado ’19; Julie Lohnes, Director & Curator of Art Collections & Exhibitions; Stacey Robinson, 5th Art Installation Series artist and Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Robyn Reed, Head of Access Services Librarian; Jason Benitez, Associate Dean of Diversity & Inclusion; and moderator Joshua Plencner, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science.