Abstraction / Pattern / Geometry / Design
Masterpiece Gallery Berea, KY, United StatesABSTRACTION / PATTERN / GEOMETRY / DESIGN highlights a curated selection of over 60 artworks from the Berea College Art Collection that showcase how artists and makers utilizing different styles, methods, places, and time periods have relied on and experimented with abstraction, pattern, geometry, and design in their work, to different ends and for varying [...]
Margo Duvall & Katherine Strause: Around and Around Again
Lower Traylor GalleryCapturing ordinary moments with wit, sentiment, and tenderness, the artworks on view in "Around & Around Again" welcome us into conversation about the circularities of human experience that transcend both time and individual circumstance: the moments of full freedom felt by children at play; the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood; the associations of ‘home’ [...]
Meredith Setser: Immaculate Crude
Upper Traylor GalleryMeredith Setser, a fibers artist and art professor at Indiana University, creates large-scale abstract textile works composed of handmade felt that explore the current cultural landscape figuratively. On a visual level, the works in Meredith Setser: Immaculate Crude reference the history of textile craft and Setser's interests in geology and ecological sciences. Setser's work will [...]
Artist Talk with Meredith Setser
Upper Traylor GalleryPrintmaker and fibers artist Meredith Setser will be giving an artist talk in conjunction with the closing reception for the exhibition, "Meredith Setser: Immaculate Crude," which is on view at the Doris Ulmann Galleries through Friday,October 20. Setser's large-scale fiber installations incorporate handmade felt and draw inspiration from geological forms and human interactions with the natural environment. [...]
Sketch: Contemporary Artists in Conversation with Emily Grace Hanks
Lower Traylor GalleryThe Berea College Art Collection is home to over 250 artworks by Emily Grace Hanks (American, 1886-1962), an artist, educator, and inventor who specialized in observational drawing, painting, and illustration. Though Hanks or her work isn’t well-known today, her career was extremely multifaceted and provides an excellent case study of the pathways that were available [...]
Opening Reception and Artist Talk with Sara Olshansky and Esther Sitver
Lower Traylor GalleryArtists Sara Olshansky and Esther Sitver join the Doris Ulmann Galleries staff to discuss their work and the collaborative curatorial process behind the exhibition, Sketch: Contemporary Artists in Conversation with Emily Grace Hanks, which will be open in the Lower Traylor Gallery from October 25 to December 6. The Berea College Art Collection is home to [...]
Discoveries at the Doris Ulmann Galleries
Discover beloved artworks from the Berea College Art Collection and visiting artists at the Doris Ulmann Galleries through a guided tour of current exhibitions led by Ainsley Golden, BereaCorps Art Collection and Gallery Associate. Visitors will also have the opportunity to engage with a special selection of artworks chosen by our team and dive deeper [...]
Intimacy: Photographs from the Collection of Joseph Goins
The black and white photographs featured in this exhibition present images of intimacy, examining the spiritual, emotional, physical, intellectual and experiential aspects of this essential component of the human experience. A gesture, a touch, bodies leaning into one another; a white sun above the Pacific Ocean; a nude self-portrait hidden in the branches of a [...]
Opening Reception and Collector’s Talk with Joseph Goins
Presser Hall 128 and Doris Ulmann GalleriesJoin us for the opening of Intimacy: Photographs from the Collection of Joseph Goins, which will include a talk with Berea College graduate Joseph Goins (Class of 1986). The talk will take place in Presser Hall 128, just across the street from the Doris Ulmann Galleries, with a reception afterwards at the Galleries with snacks and [...]
Discoveries at the Doris Ulmann Galleries
Rogers GalleryDiscover beloved artworks from the Berea College Art Collection and visiting artists at the Doris Ulmann Galleries through a guided discussion led by Ainsley Golden, BereaCorps Art Collection and Gallery Associate. For November, the focus will be on Rembrandt van Rijn’s Self Portrait Drawing at a Window (1648), along with several other original prints by Rembrandt. “Discoveries” [...]