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2019 School of Art Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition
March 14 – April 4, 2019
Reception: March 21, 4 5:30pm
Lionel Rombach and Joseph Gross Gallery

The School of Art is proud to present the 2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition. The show takes place annually each spring semester to highlight the work of our studio undergraduates. Students were encouraged to submit a fully realized artist statement or design philosophy along with 6 works that display the professional skills developed throughout their course of study. Our distinguished faculty, and in the case of the 2D students, a guest juror reviews and selects art that highlights our students’ highest achievements from their degree pursuits.

This year’s exhibition will include work selected from over 80 students in Illustration + Design, 2D, Photo, and 3D Extended Media. ... See MoreSee Less

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4 weeks ago

School of Art Scholarship Exhibition
Lionel Rombach Gallery
Feb 19 – Mar 7, 2019

Please join the School of Art and the Art Advisory Board in celebrating the works of our accomplished scholars. The School of Art Scholarship Exhibition is the inaugural event showcasing the work of our 2018 -2019 endowed scholarship recipients.
The exhibition represents the breadth of visual art making, teaching, and scholarship from students at all levels of their academic program. The works pull from a variety of different concepts, themes, and materials from all divisions within the School of Art. The range of creation is just a small selection highlighting the contemporary issues our students are exploring within their studio practices.

caption: Trent Pechon, Bad Ideas (No. 1 – 5), 2018, Ink and graphite on paper ... See MoreSee Less

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I-10: Adrian Esparza
Jan 22 — Mar 7, 2019

The Joseph Gross Gallery is honored to present I-10 by Adrian Esparza. I-10 showcases traditional drawings along side several large-scale custom wall installations made from the unraveled remnants of traditional Mexican serapes. The artist employs a method likened to computer numerical control, a machine automated program that uses specifications to alter a blank space into an error-free design. In this case the process forms his unique direct wall geometric patterns.
I-10 also serves as a metaphor that connects Esparza’s exploration of his Mexican American identity, in the use of the serape, with the idea of displacement, as the object is undone in form and removed from its place of inception.
Adrian Esparza’s work has been exhibited globally in museums and galleries including: Rufino Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY; Museo del Barrio, New York, NY.
This exhibition has been made possible by a grant from the College of Fine Arts Bank One Visiting Artist Professorship Awards, with additional support from the Joseph F. Gross Endowment and the University of Arizona School of Art, Tucson AZ. ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

A Spectacle Notion
Feb 5 – Feb 14, 2019
Reception: Feb 6, 2 – 4 pm
Lionel Rombach Gallery

A Spectacle Notion is a show by Erin DiGiovanni and Marina Shaltout. “A spectacle notion” is the idea that something has qualities worth showcasing (odd, absurd, abnormal, or other). DiGiovanni and Shaltout use this term with ironic sentiment to speak about their past, traumas, and individual experiences. Some of these narratives are based on a single moment while others encompass overlapping recollections. The artists respond by way of fragmentation, narrative collage and image manipulation. Although their studio practices involve very different processes, these two artists share an interest in rescripting personal experiences.
Marina’s video installations are based on real experiences of her female family members while also referencing cinematic tropes of women throughout horror films. She showcases moments of destruction in order to validate all that is antithetic to female composure (erraticism, rage, mania, passion, and lunacy).
As a byproduct of loss, questions surrounding intimacy, relationships, and gender roles fuel Erin’s research. She studies, draws, and alters form and color within the familiar. This, in turn, creates new narratives for the domestic objects and spaces, which so often evoke dormant sentiments.
Marina Shaltout is a multimedia artist who combines sculpture/installation processes with video and performance. She received her BFA from the University of Illinois with an emphasis in metalsmithing. Marina has exhibited work in 8 states as well as Japan and Iceland and has completed artist residencies in Las Cruces, New Mexico and Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland. She is currently living in Tucson, Arizona and working towards her MFA at the University of Arizona.
Erin, who received her BA in Visual Arts from Northern Illinois University, is a second year MFA student in the 2D division. Her work primarily incorporates aspects from printmaking and drawing processes. While pursuing her degree at the University of Arizona, she instructs First Year Experience: Surface and has been a graduate assistant for multiple classes through the School of Theatre, Film and Television. Along with her academic and professional interests, Erin enjoys running and hiking the Arizona trails with her two dogs. ... See MoreSee Less

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