2020-21 Season

March 15 – April 9

Transy students! We want to see your art! We want to show your art! Let’s show your art to each other! Morlan Gallery is re-opening exclusively for the Transy community to host the annual Juried Student Exhibition. We will also be creating an online gallery to share with friends and family. 

Awards

• Best in Drawing – Cecile Tijou “March”
• Best in Painting – Emily Millard “do i look pretentious yet?”
• Best in Photography – Kaleigh Kinner “Fishing”
• Best in Ceramics – Maggie Muehelman “Intimacy in Green”
• Best in Video Art – Kaleigh Kinner “Found Footage”
• Best in Digital Art – Perry “Local Asian Grocery”
• Best in Sculpture – Zach Hall “Remains”
• Abbott Scholarship Recipient – Cheyenne Morgan
• Deans Purchase Awards
  Alma Valdez “Reef” and
  Bailey Guess “On Cloud 9”

An augmented circumstance occurs when something is changed or different than what is usually expected. These modifications come in many forms, such as perspective, process, material, treatment, or approach. While the changes can be exciting and for the better. They can also be challenging, as they disrupt what we understand as normal from past experience or points of view. 

Art is created directly from the circumstance of the artist and is directly tied to the context they inhabit. The artists in the Augmented Circumstance exhibition are seniors at Transylvania University who are both creating from and responding to a series of augmentations in their education, creative practices, and daily lives during the global pandemic. Through this alternative way of existing in the world, they have created the artwork and exhibition before you. On one hand, both art and exhibition are born from the highly unusual and unprecedented situations of the last year. On the other hand both are a response to the current moment, and in that way, these artists are doing what artists have always done. They are responding to their circumstances to create new ways of questioning and giving us a new way to look at and understand the world.

Exhibiting Artists

Emily Cecil, Bailey Guess, Zach Hall, Peyton Netherton, B Perry

Transy Students and Employees are invited to visit the Morlan Gallery in-person

Off-campus general public guests are encouraged to take advantage of our online gallery exhibitions.

October 26 – November 30, 2020

“Near and Far” is an exhibition of fine art prints created for an international print exchange hosted by Morlan Gallery. Print-based artists were asked to create works centered around the theme of: “How do we sustain ourselves and others emotionally and physically?” In the past several months, it has become increasingly important to understand our needs and seek to connect with and support each other. “Near and Far” showcases prints from a variety of printmaking media related to ideas such as home, isolation, place, play, monotony, longing, racial justice, vulnerability, distance, new and old habits, meditation, reading, gardening, safety, mental health, screentime, the collective unconscious, community, change, progress, separation, technology, and loved ones.

Lexington in the Time of COVID-19 is an ongoing project of uncertain length by social practice artists Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova. In essence, Kurt and Kremena document the ways members of the Lexington, KY community are enduring and sustaining themselves and others during the quarantine, while observing the governor-directed social distancing measures of the COVID era.  On March 16, 2020, Kurt and Kremena began photographing individuals, couples, and families outside of their homes, always from a safe social distance. During their visits, the collaborative artists spend time talking with the people they photograph, writing down notes to better understand and share our lived experience with distancing. These notes become stories that are shared on Facebook; they are the source of the text paired with each image in this exhibition. As presented by Morlan Gallery, Lexington in the Time of COVID-19 is a selection of images from Kurt and Kremena’s larger project which will be ongoing until we are no longer asked to socially distance and have put an end to the spread of the virus.

September 8 – October 9, 2020

The word “factitious” means artificial or manufactured – made by human beings, often in imitation of something natural and often made up for a particular occasion. Artists in this exhibition are pushing on and engaging with truth, fiction, facts, narrative, and source material from a variety of perspectives. Exploring the idea of what makes this moment so particularly relevant in terms of separating fact for the fictitious. These works allow us to reconsider, recontextualize, and analyze the world around us in new, unique and interesting ways.

Virtual Exhibition Programing 

• Wednesday, September 16 – 12:15pm-12:45pm – Factitious: Evaluating Information Sources in a Post-Truth Era
• Wednesday, September 23 – Democracy and the Informed Citizen, Through the Lens: Campaign Photography in a Digital World – Sharon Farmer, Ryan Morris, Chris Usher, Paul Morse
• Thursday, October 8, 7:00pm – Mock-Documentation with artist Beauvais Lyons

(Image by Micheal Jacobs)