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Jenny Knavel - New Work
August 22 - September 16, 2016
Gallery C
Reception: Thursday, August 25, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

"I am inspired by and attracted to abraded surfaces. The natural world provides a wealth of inspiration for design and pattern."

"For this current body of work, I was interested in referencing and reinterpreting quilting concepts and aesthetics through a modern context. The work merges one of the most traditional American art forms with the impressive and exciting technology of the digital era. Utilizing Photoshop and digital cameras, I create invented patterns and simulated textures with computers.

My designs are printed onto cotton fabric, using large-format ink-jet printers. The fabric is then cut and pieced together into intuitively constructed compositions."

This exhibition is funded in part by a Summer Stipend Grant, awarded through the Office of Special ´ºÓêÖ±²¥s, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Illinois University.

Antoine Williams - The Ain't Gots
August 22 - September 30, 2016
Galleries A & B
Reception: Friday, September 9, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Artist Website:

"My practice is an investigation of my cultural identity through the exploration of societal signs as they relate to institutional injustices. I have created a mythology of images, which have become a narrative catalogue of loosely autobiographical hybrid humanoid beings that personify the complexities of perception, which can affect race, class, and masculinity.

My work is at the intersection of Ta-Nehsi Coats, Kendrick Lamar, and H.G. Wells. I believe themes in science fiction are analogous to the Black experience in America. Being the descendants of a people who were stolen from their home- taken to a new distant world and over generations evolved to survive their extreme circumstances. These entities are also in the vein of the Dadaist, who appropriated and re-contextualized images from society in order to make ‘anti-art’. Namely Hans Arp, who considered the destruction of ‘signs’ as a subversive act. The signs I’m interested in are the tropes associated with the Black body within the American psyche."

Richard Deon - Peace Deal: Paradox and Conformity
October 3 - November 4, 2016
Gallery C
Reception: Thursday, November 3, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Artist Website:

"My solo traveling exhibition 'Paradox and Conformity: Paintings, Prints & Planes by Richard Deon' borrows the visual style employed by illustrators of textbooks during the 1950s. I parody their methods and arrange seemingly familiar figures into paintings and prints that are full of easily discernible images and symbols, yet contain messages that often require a double-take. Viewers are invited to consider the mechanics of authoritative visual narratives and the complex role that images play in mass-communications."

Alicia Forestall-Boehm - Reimagining Space and Surface
October 10 - November 11, 2016
Gallery A & B
Reception: Thursday, October 20, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Artist Website:

"My encaustic and fiber sculptures reduce larger images and concepts into elegant simplified forms. I pare down basic elements of color, shape and movement to acknowledge another kind of space. My work elevates the humble cheesecloth. When married with encaustic it becomes surprisingly malleable allowing for a broad range of sculptural treatments. The resulting works are abstract representations of urban history that often explores the physical and mental boundaries of public and private spaces we inhabit.

"My decision to push the conventional parameters of the use of the encaustic medium by uniting it with fiber has resulted in innovative 3D forms often employing traditional weaving techniques in a way not previously utilized. Over time, my sculptures have gone beyond their initial traditional forms and have developed into new forms for expression. Exploring the infinite sculptural possibilities has proven to be a welcome challenge. I have developed this process for fiber and encaustic and enjoy improving upon it."

BA Group Show
November 14 - December 10, 2016
Gallery C
Reception: Thursday, November 17, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

BFA solo exhibition(s)
November 28 - December 16, 2016
Galleries A & B
Reception(s): TBA