Exhibition is one of the confirming activities of the artistic process. Our Hiestand Galleries Exhibition Program is dedicated to promoting timely, enlightening, and challenging events which we believe connect students, faculty, and the University community as they encounter, consider, and participate in the possibilities of visual expression.

Hiestand Galleries serve as an extension of the classroom. The opportunity to view work from a diverse scope of artists, designers, architects, and others is invaluable as you observe varying uses of materials, concepts, and presentation. These visual laboratories can let you see the possibilities to which you might aspire. Our galleries work as well for the first-time student exhibitor as for the professional guest artist.

Exhibition opportunities are available in three galleries in Hiestand Hall and in the Art Building Lobby. Classroom projects are regularly exhibited throughout our buildings and studio work culminates in a series of senior exhibitions.

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Director
Ann Taulbee
513-529-1883
sfagallery@muohio.edu

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday, 9 am. - 4:30 pm
Other hours available by appointment

Galleries will be closed:

January 1-8, 2012 March 5-9, 2012 May 7-June 12, 2012 July 11 - August 26, 2012  

2012 Spring Season

North Gallery

  


Dec. 14 2011 - February 8, 2012

2012 Miami University Young Painters Competiton for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award

Juror: Irene Hofmann, Director, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico Friday, January 20 Juror Lecture:  4:00 p.m., Miami University Art Museum Friday, January 20 Reception:  5:15-6:30 p.m. Award Ceremony:  5:45 p.m.      Through the generous gift from William (Miami University Class of 1936) and Dorothy Yeck of Dayton, Ohio, Miami University has a unique opportunity to provide students and the community at large to develop a critical understanding of painting in the 21st Century. Each year's winner will be awarded the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award and the painting will become part of the Miami University's permanent collection.   This year's competition focuses on non-representational words.  


February 20 - 28, 2012

B.F.A. Capstone Exhibition

Reception:  Tuesday, February 21, 4:30-6:00 p.m.      Department of Art senior studio majors participating in the semester long capstone course feature their latest visual investigations.  


March 15 - 23, 2012

Samantha Skelton, MFA Metals

Recent Works Reception:  TBA      The basis of my current research is interaction. As a maker and craftsperson, Skelton is inspired by the connection between people and art.  By using contrasting elements found in nature, in conjunction with hinges and mechanical elements, I am inviting the viewer to become engaged; to hold and look through these prescious objects or to open and reveal something hidden.  


April 12 - April 20, 2012

Adewale Adenle, MFA Painting

Pipe Dreams and Realities Reception:  Friday, April 13, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.      My painting and drawings are paradigms of of socio-political interactions on constructed and deconstructed platforms, conveying the unevenness of the political terrain and paradigm shift in issues while de-apotheosizing socio-political objects and affiliations.  


April 27 - May 4, 2012

B.F.A. Graphic Design Exhibtion

Reception:  Friday, May 4, 4:30-6:00 p.m.      This annual exhibition includes recent works by Senior Graphic Design majors from the Department of Art. Package, identity, web and logo design are included in this exhibition.    

2011 Spring Season

Robert E. and Martha Hull Lee Gallery

 



Dec 16, 2011 - Jan 27, 2012

Bernie Lubell

Artist Talk, Thursday, January 19, 2012, 6 p.m., Art 100 Reception for the Artist: Friday, January 20, 2012, 5:15-6:30 p.m.      Bernie Lubell's interactive installations have evolved from his studies in both psychology and engineering.  As participants play with his whimsical wood machines, they become actors in a theater of their own imagining. Awards include a Guggenheim Artists Fellowship in 2011, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2002. Lubell will conduct critiques and workshops duirng his residence in the Department of Art, January 18-20, 2012.  


March 15, 2011 - March 23, 2012

Erica Uzmann, MFA Metals

Know Your Meat Reception: TBA      Through research and experimentation, my work focuses on the 'unnatural' aspects of the food industry. This ranges from the unnatural treatment of animals to the growing industrialization of the farming industry. We are so far removed from where we began with agriculture in this country that consumint meat has become a battle of ethics, politics, health and the environment.  

March 28-April 6, 2012

Alicia Obermeyer, MFA Painting

Implausible Dwellings Reception:  Thursday, April 5, 4:00-6:00 p.m.      Visitors are invited into a space transformed by sculptures that may or may not resemble lived-in shelters. It could be interpreted as a display of an implausible, imaginary utopia.  


April 12-April 20

Albert Webb, MFA Printmaking

War - Play Contested Territory Friday, April 13, 4:30-6:00 p.m.          My work reveals images that explore subjects inspired by personal fascinations with periods, places, people, and events that stem from an endless examination into human nature as it pertains to conflict. Subjects and themes arise from an internal struggle originating from childhood memories of a glorified concept of war versus my present adult understanding concerning the reality of war.  


April 25 - May 4

Brandon Cline, MFA Painting

Artifacts of Disconnection Reception:  Tuesday, April 26, 4:30-6:00      Cline's work is based on his experiences through the Iraq War and his uneasy transition back into society. These oil paintings on steel index his sympathy, rage, and remorse, inviting the viewer to experience an essence of detachment.