Art Gallery https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/ Fine art gallery at the University of Central Florida Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:02:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Show Review: A Cold and Overcast Day https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2016/06/29/show-review-a-cold-and-overcast-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=show-review-a-cold-and-overcast-day Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:41:59 +0000 https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/?p=3252 Here is a link to a review of our June-July Exhibition, A Cold and Overcast Day.

Article by: Adam Manno

http://www.nicholsonstudentmedia.com/life/a-cold-and-overcast-day-in-june/article_bb9447b8-395c-11e6-9787-676e13a60ce0.html

 

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UCF Photo in 60 https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2016/05/04/ucf-photo-in-60/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ucf-photo-in-60 Wed, 04 May 2016 14:31:13 +0000 https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/?p=2819 UCF Photo in 60, is a short series of interviews by Brooks Dierdorff, Assistant Professor at UCF.

He talks with exiting BFA students: Melissa Berrios, Heather Hubbard, and Jenn Allen about Photography at the UCF School of Visual Arts and Design.

 

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Zora! Exhibit on the News https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2016/02/24/zora-exhibit-on-the-news/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=zora-exhibit-on-the-news Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:54:39 +0000 https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/?p=2101 Here is a clip from Channel 13 News about our Zora Exhibition:

Art Gallery News Clip

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Dr. Phillips High School, Gallery Visit https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2016/02/08/dr-phillips-high-school-gallery-visit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dr-phillips-high-school-gallery-visit Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:44:04 +0000 https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/?p=1844 Read more »]]>
On Friday, January 29, the Dr. Phillips High School Art Magnet Program visited our Gallery at UCF! The students were given a tour of the art department and interacted with our Professors in a series of demonstrations and short class sessions. We are excited to have had the chance to show them what the School of Visual Design is all about!
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Piano Concert: R. Andrew Lee https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/11/23/piano-concert-r-andrew-lee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=piano-concert-r-andrew-lee https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/11/23/piano-concert-r-andrew-lee/#respond Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:25:25 +0000 https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/?p=514 The concert is in collaboration with TD Anderson and the UCF Music Department.

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Photos from Keep Her Safe https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/11/03/photos-from-keep-her-safe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photos-from-keep-her-safe https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/11/03/photos-from-keep-her-safe/#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2015 16:49:32 +0000 https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/?p=1383 ]]> https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/11/03/photos-from-keep-her-safe/feed/ 0 Arnold Mesches donates two Paintings to UCF Gallery https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/10/21/arnold-mesches-donates-two-paintings-to-ucf-gallery/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arnold-mesches-donates-two-paintings-to-ucf-gallery https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/10/21/arnold-mesches-donates-two-paintings-to-ucf-gallery/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2015 20:38:10 +0000 https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/?p=1328 Read more »]]>

 

We are very happy to share the exciting news that our permanent collection has been enriched by a donation of two paintings by eminent artist Arnold Mesches.

The legendary career of Bronx-born, Florida-based artist Arnold Mesches, now 92, spans six decades of studio work, four decades as Professor of Art at the University of Florida, and over 100 solo exhibitions.

Mesches received particular recognition for a series of highly charged politics: “The FBI Files” which were exhibited at P.S.1 in 2002. As a civil and human rights activist, he was considered a “person of interest” by the FBI, and was under surveillance for 26 years. Mesches later reclaimed his own FBI file and used them to produced The FBI Files” collaging these federal documents, along with sketches and vintage photographs.

The paintings we received are DOG EARED 2006 80” X 74” Acrylic on Canvas and IT’S A CIRCUS 2 2004, 80’’ X 110”, Acrylic on Canvas. There were gifted by novelist Jill Ciment, who is married to Arnold Meshes. The paintings belong respectively to the series: Anomie (1989-2006), and It’s a Circus (2004-2005), both of which are inspired, according to Jill Thayer at ArtPulse “theoretical touchstones of Mikhail Bakhtin, who signified carnivalesque humor as a participatory spectacle and social force in cultural transformation; and Bertolt Brecht, whose exploration of epic theater presented a social and ideological forum for political expression and critical thought.”

In all of his work, Mesches focuses on marginalized and forgotten characters- acrobats, waiters and busboys, martyrs and demonic animals. Mesches’s nightmarish visions of the modern world are articulated with dense fields of vividly colored brushstrokes. They are theaters of the surreal, grotesque and absurd, lamenting and satirizing society’s elite and the horrors of human cruelty.

Mesches was influenced by Brueghel and Goya; German Expressionists Ernst Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz and Anselm Kiefer; and Social Realists Ben Shahn, José Clemente Orozco. His paintings reveal opposing views on establishment issues concerning the working class, economic hardship, war, racial injustice, class structure and power; much like the works of post-World War II figurative Expressionist – Leon Golub.

Mesches maintains studios in Gainesville and Brooklyn, N.Y., which he shares with his wife, novelist Jill Ciment.

UCF Art Gallery is proud to receive these important works, and we are looking forward to offering them as a resource for our students.

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Breaking Boundaries (Reception Photos) https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/09/11/breaking-boundaries-reception-photos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-boundaries-reception-photos https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/09/11/breaking-boundaries-reception-photos/#respond Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:41:25 +0000 https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/?p=1142 ]]> https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/09/11/breaking-boundaries-reception-photos/feed/ 0 Eric Gottesman Artist Talk https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/09/01/eric-gottesman-artist-talk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eric-gottesman-artist-talk https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/09/01/eric-gottesman-artist-talk/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:44:26 +0000 https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/?p=1075 Artist Talk by Eric Gottesman

Monday, September 14, 2015 at the Center for Emerging Media in Downtown Orlando.

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Eclectic Knights VII (Open Call to Artists!!) https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/08/24/eclectic-knights-vii-open-call-to-artists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eclectic-knights-vii-open-call-to-artists https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/08/24/eclectic-knights-vii-open-call-to-artists/#respond Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:25:42 +0000 https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/?p=1062 Read more »]]> OMA
2416 N Mills Ave.
Orlando, FL 32803
Eclectic Knights VII
Thursday, Oct. 1
6-9 p.m.
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The Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) Associates invite you to participate in the 17th season of 1st Thursdays. Showcase your art as part of Orlando’s original art party at the Eclectic Knights VII art show. The annual event hosted by the UCF College of Arts and Humanities Alumni Chapter will feature selected works created by UCF alumni, faculty and staff in a variety of media.

Call for Artist Submission Deadline:
Sunday, Sept. 6 at 4 p.m.

Download and print the Call For Artists form and submit to OMA.

Questions? Call 407.896.4231 ext. 248.

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