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January 9 - March 16, 2023
Artist Lecture
Tuesday, March 16, 2023 at 4:30 p.m.,
PAC A-72
Closing Reception
Tuesday, March 16, 2023 at 5:30 p.m.,
Exhibition featuring works by Art Department Faculty & Staff. The following will be participating: Haelim Allen, Lee Benson, Steve Halla, Chris Nadaskay, Melinda Posey, and Paige Ward
Faculty and Staff Group Panel: April 20 at 4:30p in Harvey Auditorium
Hamlett Dobbins employs painting and abstraction to process experiences of pure consciousness. He has often been described as a "painter's painter” for his approach to shape and form, complex surface layering and adept color orchestration. His obsession with structure, texture and play began with his love of Legos as a child. Constructing images from basic shapes and colors allowed him to connect with his feelings in a physical way, discovering truths and narrating meaning behind once indescribable sensations. Since 2002, his paintings have been based on specific memories with family and friends. In the studio, Dobbins translates these feelings into compositions with palettes, parameters and complexities unique to the individual involved, denoted by the series of initials in their titles. Reflecting raw emotional energy, his paintings inspire the viewer to move from simply seeing to deeper perception and mindfulness.
Tennessee native Hamlett Dobbins received his BA in Painting from University of Memphis and his MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. He currently lives and works in Memphis, where he teaches full time at the University of Memphis. He was awarded the prestigious Rome Prize in 2013, which took him to the American Academy in Rome for a year’s study. From 2000-2012 he managed Clough-Hansen Gallery at Rhodes College, and from 2003-2009 he was Gallery Coordinator at Power House, Memphis. He has participated in exhibitions across the United States and abroad, including the Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville; Whitespace Atlanta; The Mississippi Museum of Art, Oxford; University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Louisiana Tech University, Ruston; American Academy in Rome; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville. He is the recipient of awards and residencies including the ArtsAccelerator Grant, ArtsMemphis; Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Residency, Omaha, NE; Vermont Studio Center, Four Week Fellowship, Johnson, Vermont; and Best of Show, Arts in the Park Juried Show, Jerry Saltz, juror. He received nominations for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. His work is in the collections of Baker Donelson, Memphis; Davidson Hotels, Memphis; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis; and the Plough Foundation, Memphis.
Chiong-Yiao Chen is a native of Taiwan; she received her undergraduate education from the National Taiwan Normal University with a major in Art with focus studies in Design and Secondary Education. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from SUNY Albany in 1985 with a concentration in Graphic Art.
Trained as a lithographer, Chiong-Yiao also experiments and teaches a variety of media ranging from relief, silkscreen, and intaglio to drawing and watercolor. Her experience prior to teaching in higher education included being an assistant to master printer Robert Blackburn in New York where she worked on lithography projects by nationally and internationally acclaimed artists such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, and Maqbool Fida Husain.
Chiong-Yiao has participated in over eighty exhibitions regionally and nationally, and has conducted numerous workshops and presentations for conferences, museums, and not-for-profit venues throughout the southeastern United States. Her relief prints are included in galleries, museums, and University print archives. Currently serving as Director of University Galleries at the University of North Alabama, Chiong-Yiao’s expanded educational interests include study abroad, gallery practice, applied design, and inter-disciplinary collaboration.
Visual artist Sandra Bowden has been interpreting Scripture and her own spiritual walk through mixed media for more than forty years. She has been acclaimed as one of the most unique, impressive and inspiring Christian artists in America. Bowden’s work has been featured in books, magazines and gallery shows across the United States, Canada, Italy and Jerusalem.
Her work fuses the vivid yet traditional imagery of the Old Testament – stone tablets and artifacts, Hebrew inscriptions, architectural depictions – with images of Christ’s passion, important music scores, and God’s natural creations. She has issued several series of artworks over the years: crucifixion scenes, artistic use of text and color, new interpretations of classic religious artwork, even altered books with applied textures and hues. God’s grandeur and creativity shine through in each piece of her art.
“My Christian faith has been the driving force behind my art,” Bowden says. “I look at the making of a piece of art as a kind of doxology, a prayer or conversation with God. I don’t mean this in any mystical way, but my ideas come out of my theology and thoughts about God. I am somewhat of a theologian, but one who translates those interpretations into visual form.”
Gallery Lecture: September 3, 4:30-5:30p – Harvey Auditorium, SUB
Union University is proud to present the 2020 BFA Show. The show features the work of Jessica Ferrari and Jessa Potts. Their works can be seen online at our website at uuartdept.com. The students will meet on Tuesday, April 28th at 5:30 pm (central) on zoom to answer questions and present their work digitally. We would love to see you in our virtual gallery space and congratulate these seniors on their final capstones.
Here is the zoom link to drop in is https://uu.zoom.us/j/91776647189. For etiquette in this gallery space please mute your audio while the speakers are presenting and ask questions over chat. Excited to see you all there!
Union University is proud to present the 2020 Design BFA Candidate Show. The show features the work of Eli Creasy, Giovanna De Souza and Emily Drost. The students will meet on Thursday, April 23rd at 5:30 pm (central) on zoom to answer questions and present their work digitally. We would love to see you in our virtual gallery space and congratulate these seniors on their final capstones.
Here is the zoom link to drop in. https://uu.zoom.us/j/96821303772 For etiquette in this gallery space please mute your audio while the speakers are presenting and ask questions over chat. Excited to see you all there!
In lieu of the Union University Symposium students enrolled in ART 499 will be presenting their research work for the semester in a digital zoom format. Those wishing to hear the presentations please feel free to tune in on -
Monday, April 20th beginning at 4:00 p.m.: 762-999-143
Wednesday, April 22nd beginning at 4:00 p.m.: 928-7636-4714
Be sure to follow your professor's instructions.
RON MAZELLAN EXHIBITION
WORK WILL BE SHOWN THROUGH SEPT. 27 - NOV. 30TH
LECTURE IS THURSDAY, SEPT. 27 AT 4:30 PM IN A72
RECEPTION IS THURSDAY, SEPT. 27 AT 5:30 PM IN GALLERY
Images from Fall 2017 art retreat. Looking forward to this years - hosted by artist Paige Ward.
PAIGE WARD EXHIBITION
LECTURE ON THURSDAY, SEPT. 20 AT 4:30 PM IN A72
RECEPTION ON THURSDAY, SEPT. 20 AT 5:30 PM IN GALLERY
WELCOME BACK PIZZA PARTY / REQUIRED OF ALL MAJORS AND MINORS / THURS. AUGUST 23RD AT 5:30 PM IN A72 IN THE PAC.
Steve Halla was born in 1972 and grew up in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. In 1998, he learned the art of woodblock printing under the tutelage of the late sculptor Carl Bindhammer (1940-2006) at the Carving Arts Center in Plano, Texas. In 2006, Steve earned a Ph.D. in Aesthetic Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas. Today, he and his wife, Kathy, and their two daughters, Evelyn and Cora, live in Jackson, Tennessee, where he serves as a Professor of Art at Union University.
Lecture: Thursday, March 1, 4:30 p.m. – A-72
Reception: Thursday, March 1, 5:30 p.m. – Gallery
For More Information, Contact:
Art Gallery, 731-661-5075
August 28, 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Come and see with the work for our BFA Candidates for the 2017 Spring Semester.
BFA SHOW / INSTALLATION #1 / Reception on April 20th / 5:30 pm / Barefoots Gallery
This show features the work of Ragan Williamson and Paige Smiley. As their BFA Senior Show, they will both be presenting pieces that reflect the techniques studied at Union University. Ragan is presenting oil portraits, and Paige is presenting ceramic wares.
BFA SHOW / INSTALLATION #2 / Reception on April 27th / 5:30 pm / Barefoots Gallery
This show will feature the design work of Song Kim, Kayli Sommers, Ricky Santos and Jessica Coats.
Friday, April 7th 9 to 4 pm in the SUB hallway
Please join us for a reception and artist lecture featuring the work Lauren Tilden on Tuesday, April 4th. Her lecture will start at 4:30 pm in A72, and at 5:30p we’ll meet with her in the gallery for opening reception.
We are excited to invite you to Chris Nadaskay’s art exhibition, “1000 Pardons: Art as Social Grace,” on March 28th-30th 2017 at Crosstown Arts. The exhibit will feature 1000 hand-made crosses, signifying various aspects of the Christian faith. 100% of the proceeds from each purchase will go to Advance Memphis and the 38126 community. The artist, Christopher Nadaskay resides in Jackson, Tennessee, where he serves as Professor of Art at Union University.
The exhibit at Crosstown Arts gallery will be open to the public at Crosstown Arts on March 28th-30th. The artist reception and art sale benefiting Advance Memphis will be held there on March 30th from 4pm-9pm. Pieces are available for purchase throughout the exhibition, but cannot be removed from the exhibition until the evening of the reception.
Here is the full schedule of events:
March 28th: 10am - 4pm at Crosstown Arts
March 29th: 10am – 4pm at Crosstown Arts
March 30th: 10am– 9pm (4pm to 9pm) will be the reception
The Union University Art Department is proud to host an Afternoon with Nigel Goodwin. Nigel Goodwin is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and he has worked in the arts for more than 40 years. He is the Executive Director of Genesis Arts Trust, which is an international ministry committed to encouraging and supporting Christian artists throughout the world. He is also a founder of the London Arts Centre Group and a trustee of the C.S. Lewis Foundation.
February 16, 2017, 4:30 pm lecture, 5:30 pm gallery
The Art Retreat is a department outing not to be missed. The retreat provides a relaxed outdoor experience to strengthen relationships with other art students, faculty & staff. The retreat is usually a multi-day event and is held at Chickasaw State Park near Bolivar, Tennessee.
Friday, October 7
Saturday, October 8
Sunday, October 9
Matthew Lee - Closing Reception at Logos
