University Galleries present three new exhibitions

November 13, 2006

Three new exhibits will be presented this month at the University Galleries and will be on display in each gallery space through Jan. 12. A joint public reception will be held at 7 p.m. on Dec. 1.

“Ten Plus Ten: Revisiting Pattern & Decoration (P&D)” opens Nov. 21 in University Gallery and features a modest sampling of works by 10 prominent artists who were part of a significant American art movement in the 1970s. The exhibition showcases two pieces of art from each artist. One is current work and one is from the P&D period — thus 10+10. The artists are Brad Davis, Valerie Jaudon, Jane Kaufman, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Kim MacConnel, Tony Robbin, Miriam Schapiro, Ned Smyth and Robert Zakanitch. This group of P&D artists “bucked the system” in the contemporary art world, predominantly in New York, by creating work that was lush, beautiful and ornate during a time period when minimalist, conceptual artwork was mainstream. Each is working in the art world today, achieving individual recognition.

Featured artist Robbin will give a brown bag talk at noon on Dec. 1.

The University Gallery, on the corner of 13th Street and Southwest Fourth Avenue, is open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Friday; and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

“Photographing Paris,” opening Nov. 15 in Focus Gallery, is a selection of the work produced by students enrolled in an Honors photography course held at the UF Paris Research Center during spring 2006. The class was designed to introduce students to the basic techniques of photography using the city of Paris as a playground for experimentation. The course covered topics ranging from the history of Paris in images of melancholy, surrealist photography and the mapping of the unconscious, voyeurism, street photography and the artist as the drifter, to postwar humanism and modernist conceptions of photography, realism, symbolism, opticality and abstraction.

Focus Gallery, near 13th Street and Southwest Fourth Avenue in the main lobby of the Fine Arts Building C, is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Grinter Gallery presents “Visual Communication with the Gods: Hindu Art in Context,” an exhibition curated by Jeremy Underwood for his museum studies thesis project, on Nov. 13. Through his selection of paintings and sculptures belonging to the Harn Museum of Art, Underwood, with help from Hindu devotees in the Gainesville community, illustrates the diversity and intimacy of Hinduism. The objects in the exhibition range from household shrine objects to grain measuring cups accompanied by contextual photographs of household shrines from India and Gainesville. “Visual Communication with the Gods: Hindu Art in Context” conveys the permeating existence of Hinduism in everyday life and endeavors to exhibit an honest and accurate portrayal of Hindu beliefs and practices through photographs and quotidian religious objects.

Grinter Gallery, in the main lobby of Grinter Hall, is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

For more information, contact Amy Vigilante or Yue Zhang at (352) 392-0201, ext. 229 or visit the University Galleries Web site at www.arts.ufl.edu/galleries.