Gainesville Campus Exhibitions

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.

Upcoming and Current Exhibitions

Spring Semester 2022

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: Transitions

March 3 – March 22

To join the artist talk and discussion via Zoom, please contact Victoria.cooke@ung.edu.

This exhibition by former UNG art professor Stacy Koffman is called “Transitions”. According to Stacy Koffman, change is inevitable and all is temporary. That is where she finds her mind and her art. Her influences range from the practice of Buddhism to Aboriginal Art, the Quilters of Gees Bend and many creative groups. She feels that trying to name and define specific “meaning” within abstract imagery is often very difficult, if not impossible. She has paintings in her studio where the meaning changes as she changes. She embraces this transitional quality of both the work and her mind. There is meaning to the process as her mind comes and goes through different spaces. Perhaps the meaning “is” the process! Letting the thoughts come and go as in a meditation practice. Trying not to hold on to any one idea or thought, and simply “be.” This is where her best work comes from and the results surprise and fill her up. It is as if she is the witness to her own process! Those are the best days in the studio.

B.F.A. Senior Capstone Exhibition: Calli Buttrey, Sarah McPherson, and Sara Wagler

March 30 - April 13

Please join us in celebrating the three, graduating B.F.A. students on the Gainesville campus. This Senior Capstone Exhibition is the final step for our Bachelor of Fine Arts majors. This is a specialized, professional degree that offers students additional, upper level studio and art course to better prepare them for graduate school admissions and positions within the creative industry that demands advanced artistic expertise. This semester’s graduating seniors are: Calli Buttrey, Sarah McPherson, and Sara Wagler

DoVA Scholarship Award Winners

Dates will be updated here when announced

Spring Student Art Sale

Previous Exhibitions

2021

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.

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

2020

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.”