Past Exhibitions

Spring 2011 Exhibitions

New Works by Dahae Noh & Dylan Languell

160,000 units By Dylan Languell

A collection of paintings and an animation by Painting and Printmaking student, Dahae Noh presented along side Art History student Dylan Languell’s 160,000 Units.

Opening April 1 at 7 pm.

April 1-15

Student Art Space | VCU Student Commons

907 Floyd Ave | Richmond, VA | 23284

Dahae Noh grew up in South Korea and moved to America to study painting at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her paintings and animations are reflections of diverse cultural backgrounds. She paints on shaped panels that mimic the images of her childhood and inspiration, evoking flowers and effigies of South Korean and Japanese culture.

“My life’s experience is an inspiration for my work; reflections on childhood, textures in nature, movies, digital design (animation), and emotions that I experience…

..By cutting out the shapes they become simpler, in focus, and have a stronger meaning than on a canvas. The colors I use are strong, pastel or neon colors that I saw growing up in Korea. The colors are from toys I played with, the neon city lights of Seoul, and surrounding nature. Having images on separate cut outs helps me to experiment more with different outlays. By juxtaposing the shapes in different ways a narrative can be created.”

Dylan Languell work 160,000 Units, page one of a series of mosaics done by the artist is made up cylinder plastic beads known as perls. The pallet displays a variation of 53 colors placed within square grids. Each grid consists of 900 beads, melted together presenting a landscape of over 60 color variations.

The work is referential to an impressionistic method. In that, the color formation persuades the viewer to fuse the combinations with the minds eye. Thus the interpretation animates the depth and range of the work. Continuing, the direction of medium, method, and imagery speaks to the capability of the unskilled populous.

CLAIRE BRAYSHAW AND AILEEN PAINTER

an installation by Claire Brayshaw and Aileen Painter

Student Art Space, VCU Student Commons

Richmond, Virginia

March 9 – 23, 2011

TURF

Photgraphs by William Douglas and Charles Monaghan

Student Art Space

VCU Student Commons, Richmond VA

February 20 – March 6, 2011

Calling all sculptors, painters, cinematographers, musicians, space cadets

The Student Art Space Spring 2011 call for entries is open! Proposals will be accepted until January 28th, 2011.

Refer to our submissions page for requirements and guidelines on how to apply.

Student Art Space

VCU Student Commons

Richmond, VA 23284

studentartspace@gmail.com

It’s a shame to let an empty glass case go hungry.

Nom nom nom….The Student Art Space Glass Case is hungry for modest sized art!

Peep the submissions page for suggestions and guidelines on how to feed it.

SAS Glass Case

VCU Student Commons

Richmond, VA 23284

StudentArtSpace@gmail.com

Fall 2010 Exhibitions

Thanks to all of our Artists who exhibited this Fall! We can’t wait to see your proposals for the Spring. Look for our call-for-proposals earlier in January.

Amber Erickson and Zoe Donald

December 10^th – TBA

Opening: Friday, December 10^th

Photos from exhibition:

New Work consists of paintings, prints, and sculptures by Painting and Printmaking students Amber Erickson and Zoe Donald. The exhibition suggests a conversation with the cycle of life and death. On a pedestal sits a large egg sculpture adorned with the image of a small child. Next to Donald’s portraits of semi-nude men and women is hung a grid of graphic printed images of dead humans. Erickson encourages viewers to take with them stickers of the images, affording the work a life beyond the gallery. In the back room is hung the above painting of an elderly woman and a video depicting smoke. On the near wall are Erickson’s etchings of bus tickets and Ethiopian money, suggesting the transient nature of life.

Cerealism

Christopher Carreon, Chris Page, Evan Sokal, Marshall Hawthorne, and Sean Sweeney

Monday, November 15^th -

Sunday, December 5^th

Opening: Thursday, November 18^th

Photos from exhibition:

Cerealism is an exhibition of painting, prints and drawings from Painting and Printmaking students Christopher Carreon, Chris Page, Evan Sokal, Marshall Hawthorne and Sean Sweeney. In the front room paintings encircle. They range from Sokal’s seemingly mundane recontextualizations, Sweeney’s abstract panels, Hawthorne’s pointillist style portraits, Page’s apparently simple but honest portraits. Carreon exhibited portrait drawings in the back gallery along with drawings and prints from the entire group.

more can be seen at http://cerealbreath.blogspot.com/

Two Weak Peek

Conor Backman and Ross Iannatti

October 25^th – November 14^th

Opening: Friday, October 29^th

Photos from exhibition:

Two Weak Peak is an exhibition combining sculpture, painting, and prints by Sculpture Students, Conor Backman and Ross Iannatti. The show bears an eerie affection with reduction and memory. Backman’s cereal box’s are stripped of their identity leaving the viewer to project upon them his/her own memories. Artist’s Trashcan at first appears as a normal wastebucket filled to the brim with castaway papers. Yet reveals its uncanny form to the viewer with unabashed honesty. Iannatti’s sloping lottery cards and prints reveal their own history yet are cast in a new light, giving them further life from their discarded end.

www.conorbackman.com http://rossiannatti.tumblr.com/

+Wall_Bulk

Patrick Quinn

October 4^th -October 24^th

Opening: Friday Oct. 8^th

+Wall_Bulk was an exhibit of paintings by Painting and Printmaking major, Patrick Quinn. Each piece bears a quality of immediacy but shear mass of paintings covering the wall exudes the prolific nature of Quinn’s work.

La Cara de Latinoamerica

Sandra Patricia Cornejo, Vreni Michelini-Castillo, and Sabrina Recabarren

September 25th – October 2nd

Opening: September 28th, 6PM

Photos from exhibition:

In the context of Hispanic Heritage Month, La Cara de Latinoamerica was an installation by Vreni Machillini, Sandra Cornejo, and Sabrina Recabarren. On the interior walls hung plaster casts of the faces of Seventy-two local people of hispanic heritage. They stood as lament and testament to a recent massacre of seventy-two innocent Latin and South Americans in Mexico. On the near wall a collaborative mural between the artist was painted.

Until We only Remembered

Egbert Vongmalaithong and Seychelle Stableford

August 26th – September 10th, 2010

Opening Reception: August 26th, 7PM

Photos from exhibition:

Until We Only Remembered consisted of three sculptures by Sculpture student, Egbert Vongmalaithong and a photographic series by Photography major, Seychelle Stableford. The works illustrate ephemeral memories with hints of repressed sensuality. The back room displayed a video of a veiled, tranquil Vongmalaithong, periodically revealing himself.

Thanks to Chris Conway from the CT for the great installation shots

Down to the Final Minute

Works by Robert Metzler

Closing Reception August 20, 2010, 7 PM

Down to the Final Minute is a collection of sculptures by Craft and Material Studies major Robert Metzler. Metzler uses bronze and stainless steel in his figurative sculptures of miniature humanoids locked in an existential struggle with contemplation and being.