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The 2009-2010 Season at the...

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The Durbin Gallery, located within the Kennedy Art Center/Azar Studios complex, provides our students, faculty and community with an outstanding resource of traveling, faculty and student exhibitions.  The various traveling exhibitions highlight the work of regionally as well as nationally recognized artists working in a wide variety of media.  Annual exhibitions include the work of the art department studio faculty, the Southeastern Regional High School Art Competition, the BFA senior exhibition. and a competitive Juried Student Exhibition open to all students enrolled in art courses during the course of each school year.

Gallery Hours

8:30 a.m. until 4:45 p.m.
Monday through Friday

Gallery Schedule 2009-2010

2009-2010

June 12 - July 3

The Inaugural BSC Visual Arts Open
Celebrating the Art in a Liberal Arts Education

September  3 - 24

Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books, Hui-Chu Ying: curator
Reception 6-8 Sept 3

October 2 - 23

Visibilities: The Art of Negotiating Identity, Tim Smith and Jim Neel: curators
Public Reception 6-8 Oct 2, and 6-7 Oct 10 (by invitation)

November 5-December 3

James Emmette Neel, Babel: a sculpture installation
Reception and pour, November 6, 5-8
Sloss Furnace Iron Pour (Friday and BSC Homecoming Saturday)

January 10 - 22 (Tentative Date)

Biennial Southeastern Competition (BSC @ BSC)

February 5 - 25

BSC Faculty: Venz, Spivey, Shook, Neel, Cole
Reception Feb 5, 6-8

March 5 - 25

BFA 1
Reception March 5, 6-8

April 1 - 15

BFA 2
Reception April 1, 6-8

April 22 (Honors Day) - May 14

Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition

 

Current Exhibit (Opens June 12)

The Inaugural BSC Visual Arts Open
Celebrating the Art in a Liberal Arts Education
An exhibition of works from Hilltop alums who craft, paint, carve, weld, weave, or throw.
June 12 -July 3, 2009

More Information.

 


Recent Exhibits

April 23- May 1
BSC Annual Juried Student Exhibition

Photos from this exhibit:
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April 3-17
2009 B.F.A. Art Exhibition featuring the works of Danielle Ferreira, Whitney Wesson, Matthew Oberneder, Grace Guyton, Lauren Kerwick, and Randy Lee.

Photos from this exhibit:
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March 6-27
Steve Cole, New Work

Photos from this exhibit:
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January 5-19
Ryan Spencer Reed, photojournalist, Sudan: The Cost of Silence

Photos from this exhibit:
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November 6 – December 2
Equilibrium: James Rodger Alexander

Photos from this exhibit:
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September 5-26
Houghton College Faculty Exhibition
Reception 6-8 Sept 5

Photos from this exhibit:
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February 8-29
BSC Faculty Exhibition

Pamela Venz, Kevin Shook, Cooper Spivey

Representative works from this exhibit:
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"Forever Young" by Cooper Spivey

"By The Pricking Of My Thumbs Something Atopic This Way Comes" By Kevin Shook


"Shower Composition #2" by Pamela Venz

 

Self Among Others: Recent Paintings by Cooper Spivey
November 3 through December 1
9:30 a.m. until 4:45 p.m.
Monday through Friday

Representative works from this exhibit:
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"War Party", 30x40", oil on polyester

"Doughnut", 30x40", oil on polyester

"Clotting Time", 30x40", oil on polyester

"Oedipus Searched for a Wormhole to Return to Mama",
57x43", oil on polyester

 


 

Domestic Light: Recent Work by Pamela Venz
September 8 through September 29

Representative works from this exhibit:

Venz photo1
Venz photo2
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Venz photo3

Unless otherwise stated, exhibits are displayed in the Durbin Gallery of the Doris Wainwright Kennedy Art Center and Azar Art Studios. Opening receptions are also held in the main art lobby. Exhibition hours are Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 4:45 p.m. For more information, please call 205/226-4928.

Students in the visual arts program at Birmingham-Southern College are both observers and participants in the specific disciplines of painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and art history.

For more information contact the Art & Art History Department Chair, Pamela Venz at 205.226.4933 or 800.523.5793 extension 4933.

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