University Art Gallery
Alva Taylor Hall
The University Art Gallery is located on the California State University, Chico campus in Taylor Hall at First St. and Normal St. The gallery is a student-centered exhibition space that focuses on original works by regional, national and international artists. Students, faculty and staff from throughout the University as well as visitors from the City of Chico and surrounding region utilize the gallery's resources. The gallery program seeks to demystify the arts by furnishing its visitors with a meaningful artistic experience and providing insight into the creative process. All gallery events are free and open to the public.
Call for submissions: 2008 Narrative Shorts Film + Video Festival
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Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday, 10 AM - 4 PM
Saturday & Sunday, Noon - 4 PM
Mailing address:
University Art Gallery
Department of Art & Art History
California State University, Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0820
Gallery Curator: Jason Tannen
Office: 530-898-5864
Email: jtannen@csuchico.edu
Currently on view: the gallery is closed for submission of artwork and installation of the Annual Student Exhibition (see below).
Coming soon:
Thursday, April 24:
Diana Daniels
Diana Daniels, Associate Curator, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Art Miami 2007: A World View
5:00 - 6:00 PM, Trinity 100 (Humanities Center Gallery)
Diana Daniels, this year's Annual Student Exhibition guest juror, will talk about the international arts fair Art Miami 2007, which featured thousands of works shown by over 90 galleries from 17 countries. On view were cutting-edge, contemporary and master works by Western, Latin American and Asian artists.
May 5 - 18
Fifty-third Annual Student Exhibition
Guest Juror: Diana Daniels, Associate Curator, Crocker Art Museum
Each year, the University Art Gallery presents this juried student exhibition of works by students enrolled in the Department of Art and Art History. The work, selected by an outside guest juror, represents a broad range of approaches and media, typically including drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, video, sculpture and glass. The juror also awards 4 prizes - 1st, 2nd, 3rd and a special Dean's prize - all of which remain a secret until they are announced at the gala College of Humanities and Fine Arts Celebration of Student Achievement.
This exhibition is funded by Student Instructionally Related Activities Fees.
Thursday, May 15:
7 - 9 PM, Reception at the University Art Gallery
7:30 PM, Prizewinners announced for the Annual Student Exhibition and Turner Annual Printmakers Invitational
June 16 - 27
The Bad Seeds
PVHS Fine Art students at work
The Bad Seeds features work by students enrolled in the Pleasant Valley High School advanced placement studio art class. The exhibition, the fourth in the gallery's series of summer high school art exhibitions, features works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture and mixed media. Note: please check with the gallery for special gallery hours during this exhibition.
Past participle:
August 30 - September 27, 2007
Binh Danh: Jungle of Memories
Binh Danh's Found Portrait, 2005
Binh Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977 before his family immigrated to the United States that same year. He received his BFA in Photography from San Jose State University his MFA at Stanford University in 2004. Danh has invented a technique for printing found photographs (digitally rendered into negatives) onto the surface of leaves by exploiting the natural process of photosynthesis. The leaves, still living, are pressed between glass plates with the negative and exposed to sunlight from a week to several months.
Wednesday, September 12:
Artist's Talk, 5 PM, Trinity 100 (Humanities Center Gallery)
Gallery Reception, 6:00 - 7:30 PM (University Art Gallery, Taylor Hall)
October 8 - November 1
Lucy Puls: Ad Huc Locum
Lucy Puls' Ad Huc Locum (Dragonflies), 2004
Lucy Puls examines the unwanted and discarded objects of present day culture. In this exhibition, she explores the proliferation of abandoned domestic items and appliances discovered in her own Berkeley neighborhood. These sculptures combine photographic documentation of these items in their displaced settings with 3D adornments that covertly reference the intended attributes of each item. Ms. Puls is Chair of the Department of Art & Art History, U.C. Davis.
Wednesday, October 10:
Artist's Talk, 5 PM, Trinity 100 (Humanities Center Gallery)
Gallery Reception, 6:00 - 7:30 PM (University Art Gallery, Taylor Hall)
November 13 - December 16
Conceptually Bound 3: an exhibition of artists' books
Penny Nii, PICT-TO-WORDS
Curated by Nanette Wylde
Throughout recorded history, books have been the containers that document and transmit human culture. It is no wonder that contemporary artists are taking their cultural production into book form, and as is the practice of art makers, pushing the concept of what defines a book beyond conventions and mainstream notions. The theme, Conceptually Bound, refers to the idea that the content of the book is in part expressed by the form the book takes. See more about this project at: http://conceptuallybound.org
Wednesday, November 14:
Curator's Talk, 5:30 PM (University Art Gallery, Taylor Hall)
Gallery Reception, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
January 29 - February 28, 2008
7th Biennial Janet Turner National Print Competition and Exhibition
Jessica Dunne, monotype.
Mark Hosford, screenprint.
In conjunction with the Janet Turner Print Museum, the University Art Gallery presents an exhibition of 25 prints in a variety of media by artists from throughout the United States. The prints were selected by guest juror Karin Breuer, Acting Curator, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco. Prints on view include linocuts, lithographs, woodblock and screen prints, etchings and monoprints.
Thursday, February 7:
Champaign reception, 5 - 7 PM, at the Chico Museum, 400 W. 1st Street
March 24 - April 17
Uncovered: The Department of Art & Art History Faculty Exhibition
Cameron Crawford
Sheri Simons
J Pouwels
Seventeen artists, two locations:
University Art Gallery
March 24 - April 17
Taylor Hall, Monday - Friday, 10 AM - 4 PM; Saturday & Sunday, 12 - 4 PM
1078 Gallery
March 26 - April 12
820 Broadway, Chico, CA, Wednesday - Saturday, 12:30 - 5:30 PM
Thursday, March 27:
Gallery Reception, 7 - 9 PM at 1078 Gallery
The University Art Gallery will be open during the 1078 reception.
