Roy C. Moore Art Gallery
The Roy C. Moore Art Gallery is located on the Gainesville Campus in the Performing Arts Building. There are approximately six exhibitions annually including the BFA exhibitions. The gallery also hosts a Holiday Art Sale and a Spring Art Sale during the last week of classes and exams week each semester. This sale features original artwork by the talented students of the Department of Visual Arts.
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Fall Semester
The Melancholy of Objects by Dennis Ritter
August 23 – September 17
Artist Talk: Friday, September 17, noon – 1:30 p.m.
To join the artist talk and discussion via Zoom, please contact Victoria.cooke@ung.edu.The Melancholy of Objects is an extension of a larger body of work which explores the role of common objects - house plants, books, appliances, and keepsakes - as signifiers for personal and cultural identity through the lenses of domestic spaces, second-hand sales, and the personal collection. This exploration investigates the innate agency of “things” to affect our identify, memories, and recollections. In The Melancholy of Objects, the use of a monochromatic color scheme alludes to a darkness or an emptiness that can be found in the depths of isolation and nostalgia.
Zuzka Vaclavik: Light Year
October 11 – November 3
Artist Talk: Wednesday, November, 3 – 4:30
To join the artist talk and discussion via Zoom, please contact Victoria.cooke@ung.edu."During the past couple of years I, along with many others, have felt alone, sad, anxious, and an overbearing darkness as regards to the state of the world. This group of works created mostly during the pandemic, is a direct challenge to those feelings. On a planet where there is so much turmoil and suffering, these pieces function in direct opposition. A celebration of an emancipation of mind, universes found within, unencumbered creativity, and a kind of personal triumph are topics that I have explored in these pieces. After all, a light year is a measurement of distance traveled, not of time."
BA Capstone Exhibition
Juleah Edwards: Roads We Belong To
November 8 - November 19
Roads We Belong To is a physical embodiment of my summers throughout college spent road tripping the United States. These experiences traveling, camping, and learning about new places have consistently informed my work whenever I return home to Georgia. Memories traveling through these different places become a part of me and has led to this series of portraits, depicting the figure fused with the landscape. The mixed media works represents the miscellany of new perspectives that I bring home with me after my travels. Roads We Belong To is an eclectic narrative of paintings that encompass thousands of miles of backroads, vast natural scenes, years of exploration, human connection, and the feeling of home on the road.
Student Holiday Art Sale
November 29 – December 10
Spring Semester
Department of Visual Arts Faculty Biennial
January 17 – February 8
This Biennial allows the Department of Visual Arts to highlight recent work by the art faculty. Each campus has a remarkable array of talented people who are devoted to mentoring their students. In class and out, these teachers are also practicing artists whose work is featured in galleries, museums and venues around the country. During the Biennial, we celebrate the UNG faculty as professional artists by exhibiting their recent work here at UNG for the university community to enjoy.
Stacy Koffman Retrospective
February 28 – March 22
To join the artist talk and discussion via Zoom, please contact Victoria.cooke@ung.edu.DoVA Scholarship Award Winners
Dates will be updated here when announced
Spring Student Art Sale
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Wesley Harvey - Stupid Love
February 18 - March 12
Artist talk via Zoom on February 22, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Contact Victoria.cooke@ung.edu for more information on the Zoom talk.
Stupid Love continues Harvey’s exploration into the idea of the perfect relationship and his own constant want and need for the fantasy to come to life. Looking under the umbrella of Queer Theory, he examines the idea of the monogamous relationship in terms of gay male sexuality and whether it can or will exist for him. He focuses not only the normative behavior but also the deviant lifestyle that often gets neglected, chastised and frowned upon. Drawing on information found in personal ads posted on dating websites, mobile dating/sex applications, and chat rooms. He has found both the normative and the deviant behaviors that has inspired his ceramics works.
Scholarship Awards
On view March 16 - March 26
The annual Scholarship Awards Exhibition displays the work of those students who have been given scholarships for their academic excellence in art.Spring Student Art Sale
April 12 - April 23
Recent graduates and current students will be showing and selling their work to the public during our Spring Student Art Sale. 100% of the proceeds go directly to the students.Paintings and Prints by Angie Jerez
Exhibition opening: October 12
Angie Jerez moved to Atlanta from Bogotá, Columbia 8 years ago with a degree in graphic design. She has established herself as an illustrator and painter, creating detailed drawings, paintings and murals. She says, “I create drawings with detailed linework. My inspiration comes from random silly ideas, or from nostalgic memories. Sometimes, I find charm in objects and things that are usually ignored.”
Senior Capstone Exhibition Fall 2020
Exhibition opening: November 9-27
The Department of Visual Arts at the University of North Georgia is proud to present Stay Home, an exhibition showcasing seniors graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Studio Arts and Graphic Design. Seniors exhibiting include, Meagan Lafferty, Cassady Fulbright, Erica Carrillo, Magnum Brock, Natalie Davenport, Bobbi Johnson, Emily Jones, and Kaela Wagler. In preparation for their show the artists were supervised by the Professor of Visual Arts, Jennifer Graff.
Stay Home, will feature two group shows. The first group will be on view from November 9 through November 16. The second group will be on view from November 17 through the November 24. Both groups will be showing in the Roy C. Moore Gallery located in the Continuing Education/performing Arts building on the Gainesville campus. Due to Covid-19 there will not be a closing reception. Stay Home is a free exhibit and is open to the public. For more information, please contact the gallery at (678)717-3438 or by email gallery@ung.edu.
Roy C. Moore Art Exhibit Hours
- Monday 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Tuesday 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Wednesday 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Thursday 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Friday 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.