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We are so excited about this show! We hope you are too!

Living in Limbo

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We made a video for Carolyn Sherer’s groundbreaking exhibition “Living in Limbo”!

Follow this link to find out more about the exhibition! http://www.livinginlimbo.org/

The blog has been sort of neglected lately, but that’s because we’ve been really busy cranking out the awesome exhibitions! Check out the video preview for the Part I of the 2012 Spring BFA Exhibition!

BFA Exhibition Video Preview I

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Who is Dave Greber? All you need to know is that he is exhibiting an awesome video installation entitled “Brothy City” at the UAB Visual Arts Gallery!

Anything else you might want to know about Greber can be obtained from this informative video…

Andrew Au, an assistant professor of art at Miami University Middletown in Ohio, will display his latest body of works titled “Life Industries” at the UAB Visual Arts Gallery from March 16 – April 6.  These works include gouache paintings, silkscreen prints and sculptural representations of fictitious specimens that Au refers to as “life products.” The works explore the viability of auto assembly in manufacturing and its relationship to the natural chemical processes of complex living beings.

Au will give a talk about “Life Industries” in the UAB Visual Arts Gallery on Tuesday, March 13 at 10am. This talk is FREE and open to the public. Au will also be in attendance for the opening reception March 16, 5pm – 8pm.

Andrew Au received his BFA from Asbury College and his MFA from the University of Cincinnati. Au’s works have been shown ALL over the world, from California to South Korea and we are thrilled to have him here at UAB.

Click Andrew’s name to check out more of his work.

Babs Reingold received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from SUNY Buffalo. With studios in New York and Florida, Babs has extensively exhibited her work nationally and internationally for the past two decades.

Babs’ work for I have a secret wish… uses ‘hair doodles’ to track the aging process and explore notions of beauty presented by contemporary culture. Check out MUCH more of Babs’ work by clicking on her name above!

Gina Phillips received her BFA from the University of Kentucky and her MFA from Tulane University.

Gina uses fabric, string and paint to create 2 dimensional figurative works that explore life, death and nostalgia in America. The works featured in I have a secret wish… combine works from two separate series: Heroes and Villains and Cut-Outs. The juxtaposition of these works ponder the disconnect between contemporary culture and our not-always-pleasant history.

Gina shows at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans and her work was featured at the Contemporary Art Center as part of New Orleans’ Prospect 2. Gina has some Birmingham projects in the works for the near future, so come see her first at UAB!

Grace Mikell grew up on a farm in a small Southern town in north-central Florida. She studied religion and art at Stetson University and after graduating, moved to New Orleans in the summer of 2007 to teach in the Recovery School District and make art. Her work has been shown at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and published in Oxford American Magazine. She will receive her M.F.A. in Painting from Tulane University in May 2012 and has been nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Program.

Grace has two paintings featured in I have a secret wish… below is the artist talking about the series of paintings from which these paintings come.

“It started simply–three women in a house. They hide, cure, tell, keep. In peeking at their rituals, rites, and fears, this series meditates on the secrets of an insular world, but I believe that the presence of the body in these paintings can be a souce of emotional recognition. If there are mysteries in this house, I hope there are also moments of uncanny familiarity. While I don’t expect people to specifically recognize these scenes, I would like them to think, viscerally and abstractly: I’ve seen or felt or dreamed this before. The bodies in my paintings are depicted realistically, but outside of the body’s borders, fantasy intrudes, layering decorative patterns and dreamy color and light with markers of perspectival space. As these women are consumed by their routines and fleeting escapes, they no longer experience or perceive the physical world around them in “realistic” ways–their living space has become both their sanctuary and their crumbling dream world. Dichotomies of hope and despair, freedom and confinement, fantasy and reality, and exhibitionism and secrecy create spaces of tension in the paintings. The women seek safety and revel in possibility–but something darker lurks.”

  Hide Oil on canvas. 60″ x 72″. 2011