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Resa Blatman – Deep
August 24 – September 22, 2017
Second Floor Gallery
Reception: Thursday, August 24, 4:30-6:00

"I work with various media to make installations, paintings, and drawings that consider the issues surrounding climate change, such as, a warming planet, invasive plant and animal species, rising tides, and their effect on and transformation of our landscape and natural resources, melting glaciers, etc. To reflect this concept visually, some of the artworks' subjects and surfaces are layered with cut forms that mimic coral, invasive plants, seaweed, and flora. In the paintings, there are cold weather animals trying to survive in hot, swampy environments, and walls of ocean water swallowing the landscape. The rectangular shaped paintings reflect this tragic reality through their dramatic skies, and anxious, yet lovingly painting birds. There's a physicality to the installation work in the way it just forth from the wall, creating a metaphorical sound like the rapturous violence of giant waves crashing into a calving glacier. We are living in uncertain times — a growing water world, with more droughts and dwindling fresh drinking water, as our need for it arises. My work inhabits the terrain between the poetry of art and nature, and the future of climate dystopia."

Shalya Marsh – Between the Surface and the Light
August 21 – September 28, 2017
First Floor Galleries
Reception: Thursday, September 28, 4:30-6:00

"In my work I strive to elicit a visual exploration of form and structure. Initial inspections lead to discoveries as the layering creates the opportunity to reveal what is hidden or induces frustration at not being able to access every aspect of the work. Faint impressions created by the physical impact of one surface on another heighten feelings of distance and tension. Physical manifestations of cast shadows serve to give substance to both objects and their voids but also raise questions as to what is real and what is not. Multiples and abstraction aid in reflecting or obfuscating what is seen, creating interactions that mimic our own inner and interpersonal relationships, interactions that are filled with tension and complexity."

Biennial Faculty Exhibition
October 9 – December 8, 2017
First Floor Galleries
Reception: Thursday, October 12, 4:30-6:00

Anna Campbell – Etiquette Kit
October 2 – November 2, 2017
Second Floor Gallery
Reception: Thursday, November 2, 4:30-6:00

"For Etiquette Kit, Anna Campbell places in conversation a series of found and fabricated structures whose reference to absent bodies is amplified by silhouettes of hands and arms.  These laser-cut, singed silhouettes preserve the gestures of the women whose lives and culture constitute the Lesbian Herstory Archives, while underscoring the loss, erasure and invisibility of queer life.  Framed by body language signaling care, eroticism, celebration, and labor, the scale model scaffold that supports a sash, the model chair that cradles a mirror ball, and the further accumulation of queered domestic forms and trusses work intimately to orient viewers to space that is as personal as it is political."

BA Group Exhibition
November 16 – December 8, 2017
Second Floor Gallery
Reception: Thursday, November 16, 4:30-6:00