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 (unless otherwise noted).
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Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday, 10 AM - 4 PM
Saturday & Sunday, Noon - 4 PM
Location:
111 Taylor Hall, on First Street between Normal and Salem Streets
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
The gallery is currently closed for the summer.
2009 - 2010 Exhibition Schedule
Bay Area Glass
August 27 - September 24
John Lewis
Pamina Traylor
John Lewis and Pamina Traylor
John Lewis, one of the first artists to open a hot glass studio in the Bay Area, explores the possibilities of cast glass as a sculptural medium. Pamina Traylor creates solid glass forms juxtaposed with metal or wood structures.
Audio: On
Photo credit: Lori Eanes
October 8 - November 13
Pamela Z
A sound installation by Pamela Z, the internationally-acclaimed San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing and sampling technology.
2nd Annual Narrative Shorts International Film Festival
December 1 - 16
A program of film and video works that are narrative in structure.
On view at a special University Film Series screening Nov. 3, 7:30PM, Ayres 106 and continuously in the gallery Dec. 1 - 16.
Eighth Biennial Turner National Print Exhibition
January 26 - February 21
In conjunction with the Janet Turner Print Museum, the University Art Gallery presents an exhibition of prints in a variety of media by U.S. and international artists.
Gathering Light: Photographs from Chico Area Collections
Eugene Atget, Eclipse,1911.
Ruth Bernhard, In the Box, Horizontal, 1962.
March 2 - April 1
Photographs by Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, Ruth Bernhard, Kenneth Josephson, Edward Weston and others, from the University and private collections.
Master of Fine Arts Culminating Exhibitions
April 5 - 18
M.F.A. candidates to be announced.
Fifty-fifth Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Installation view, 2009 student exhibition.
May 3-16
Featuring works in a wide variety of media submitted by Chico State art students and selected by an outside juror.
Past 2008 - 2009 exhibitions:
Contemporary/Abstract
Ian Harvey, Richard Martinez, Kim Squaglia
Harvey
Martinez
Squaglia
August 28 - September 21
This group exhibition features 3 artists from the Sacramento area who each pursue an organic and biomorphic approach to abstraction. Their artworks transform the natural appearance of their subjects, giving visual form to non-visual ideas and expressions. Artworks courtesy of JayJay, a contemporary gallery located in Sacramento, California.
Thursday, September 4: Beth Jones and Lynda Jolley, JayJay co-owners, will give an informal gallery talk at 5 PM on September 4, followed by a reception.
Nature & Spirit: The Landscape Photographs of Ansel Adams
October 2 - 30
October 2: Michael Adams - Ansel Adams, A Son's Perspective, 5 PM, Trinity 100, followed by a reception at the University Art Gallery, 6 - 8 PM
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, 1940. Photograph by Ansel Adams
Photograph courtesy of the Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. Copyright the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
Guest co-curator: Tom Patton, Professor, Department of Art & Art History, California State University, Chico
Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) is the legendary photographer and environmentalist best known for his visionary landscape photographs, particularly those taken in California's Yosemite Valley. Adams' work transcended mere documentation: he pioneered the idea of previsualizing what the print should look like, based upon a desire to communicate his feelings about the actual scene. Alison Jaques, granddaughter of Ansel Adams and a Chico State alum (BS, Business '83), has graciously loaned the photographs on view in Nature & Spirit.
Special events - four presentations will take place Thursday evenings during the exhibition:
Michael Adams - Ansel Adams, A Son's Perspective, Oct. 2, 5 PM, Trinity 100, followed by a reception at the University Art Gallery, 6 - 8 PM
Byron Wolfe - Yosemite and Beyond: Revisiting Ansel Adams' Singular Vision, Oct. 9, 5 PM, Trinity 100
Tom Patton - In Context: Ansel Adams and the American Landscape, Oct. 16. 5 PM, Ayres 201
Linda Connor - LANDSCAPE: the Ground for Many Things, Oct. 23, 5 PM, Ayres 201
Narrative Shorts International Film + Video Festival
Special screening and reception: Tuesday, November 18, beginning at 7:30 PM, University Film Series, Little Theater, Ayres 106 ($3 suggested donation)
A program of film and video works that are narrative in structure.
November 4 - 20
Scott Eathorne: Selling Hopkins (8:20), 2007.
16 filmmakers, 15 films
On view in the gallery: November 4 - 20
Participating filmmakers: Terry Chatkupt, Los Angeles, California; Scott Eathorne, Melbourne, Australia; Jenn Figg, Jennifer Smith, Sean Stewart, Kristine Trever and Melinda White, Richmond, Virginia; Jelmar Hufen, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Aleta Lanier, Carbondale, Illinois; Riaz Mehmood, Montréal, Québec; R.T. Pannell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Julie Perini, Portland, Oregon; Christopher Robbins, Vranje, Serbia and Queens, New York; Eugene Rodriguez, San Francisco, California; Bradly Dever Treadaway, Brooklyn, New York; Lisa Vinebaum, Montreal, Quebec.
Please note: the gallery will be closed Tuesday, November 11, in observance of Veteran's Day.
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition: Still Point in the Turning World
Jennie Yates
December 1 - 7
Folded Circle Graph (detail), folded paper on panel, 95 x 190 in., 2008
About her work, Ms. Yates says: "My work is based on mark-making. The process of mark-making, and the significance of the mark, itself, are paramount. The folding of the paper with a bone folder is more subtle in result - the action is more of a focus, and the evidence is quieter, and because of the texture that results, more textural and palpable."
Wednesday, December 3:
Artist talk, 5 - 5:30 PM
Reception, 5:30 - 7 PM
Fecund Earth: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture
Patsy Cox, Juan Granados and Alison Petty Ragguette
Cox
Granados
Ragguette
January 29 - February 26, 2009
These three sculptors cultivate clay with the patterns and processes of nature to produce complex metaphors in their objects and installations. Their examination of humanity's relationship to its environment explores themes of growth, interdependence, cross-pollination, and mutation.
Monday, February 9th:
Lecture & workshop: exhibiting artist Juan Granados
Workshop: 9:00 - 11:00 and 2:00 - 3:30, Taylor Hall 103
Slide Lecture: 4:00, Ayres 201
About the artist: Juan spent his early years traveling throughout the southern half of the United States with his family as migrant farm workers. From these experiences, he learned to be observant of, and value the interdependence of nature. He completed his MFA at Ohio State University in 1991. Juan maintains an active exhibition record and his work has been featured in numerous publications. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Art at Texas Tech University.
Gallery Reception, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
This exhibition was funded in part by Student Instructionally Related Activities Fees.
Face: Contemporary Chinese-American Artists
Kevin B. Chen, Phillip Hua, Sylvia La, Niana Liu, Marcus Lo, and Lauren Wong
Kevin B. Chen
Phillip Hua
Sylvia La
Niana Liu
Marcus Lo
Lauren Wong
March 5 - 31
Wednesday, March 11:
The Chinese in 19th Century Chico: a Hidden History
Dr. Michele Shover, Professor Emeritus, Political Science
5:00 PM, Trinity 100 (Humanities Center Gallery)
Gallery Reception
6:00 - 7:30 PM, University Art Gallery
Jennifer Linnea Daly MFA exhibition
April 5 - 11
The temporal nature of things
Arctostaphylos Manzanita, Anthotype (spinach) on Fabriano Disegno Ecologico per Artisti, 2009.
Thursday, April 9:
Reception, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
This exhibition is funded by Student Instructionally Related Activities Fees.
Jeff Rindels MFA exhibition
April 13 - 19
Thursday, April 16:
Reception, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
This exhibition is funded by Student Instructionally Related Activities Fees.
54th Annual Juried Student Show
May 4 - 17
Guest Juror: Joseph Del Pesco
Joseph Del Pesco is a contemporary art curator (Artists Space, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco), arts writer (Shotgun Review; TENbyTEN Magazine); and founder of Collective Foundation, San Francisco.
Juror's Lecture:
Ancient History of the Distant Future
Thursday, April 23, 5 PM
Glenn Hall, Room 212
Thursday, May 14, 6 - 8 PM:
Reception, University Art Gallery
6:30 : Prizewinners announced for the Annual Student Exhibition and Turner Annual Printmakers Invitational
This exhibition is funded by Student Instructionally Related Activities Fees.
The Bad Seeds
Featuring works by Pleasant Valley High School students enrolled in THE ART STUDIO @ PV, a comprehensive studio and field practice program.
June 2 - 18, 2009
Closing reception: Thursday, June 18, 5 - 7PM
Special gallery hours: Monday - Thursday, 10AM - 3PM
