March 24 – April 15, 2011
Lexington Gallery Hop: April 15, 5-8 p.m.
Transylvania University art majors mount their culminating exhibition . Works include the strongest work of their academic careers and their most recent investigations.
Season Archives
Dropping Stitches
January 19 –March 4, 2011
Lexington Gallery Hop: Feb. 18, 5-8 p.m.
The Empty Bowls Project
December 6 – 8, 2010
Memory of the Past: Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting
October 29 – November 30, 2010
Lexington Gallery Hop: Nov. 19, 5-8 p.m.
The Illustrious Horse: Kentucky Artists Respond to the Clara Peck Collection
September 15 – October 15, 2010
Lexington Gallery Hop: Sept. 17, 5-8 p.m.
In celebration of the World Equestrian Games, the Morlan Gallery proudly presents The Illustrious Horse, a small group invitational critically renowned contemporary artists from Kentucky. Twelve visual artists and one poet were asked to creatively respond to a horse image found in Transylvania University’s esteemed Clara Peck Collection. The Peck Collection, located in the Rare Book Room of Transylvania University’s Library, houses collectable books dealing with the history of the horse and natural history.
Continue reading “The Illustrious Horse: Kentucky Artists Respond to the Clara Peck Collection”SCAPE – Senior Thesis Exhibition
SCAPE features the work of four Transylvania University seniors — two studio art majors and two digital arts and media majors — Cabby Brown, Marissa Price, Meredith Moir and Zach Yacobozzi. Through a variety of media — including painting, sculpture, video, projection mapping and video game design — SCAPE explores different planes of understanding such as mindscapes, landscapes, e-scapes and escape. These works touch on themes of reality, grief, meditation, memory, mental health, identity and voyage.
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Scape Q+A
Scape Slide Presentation
2020 Juried Student Art Exhibition
Art majors and non-art majors alike contribute to work in a wide variety of media to inventive exploration of creativity.
Resilience 101
Work by Public Service Artists and Friends
January 14 – February 21, 2020
Closed Monday, January 20 for MLK Jr Day
Public Service Artists (PSA) and invited friends create an exhibition expressing societal, physical, generational, and environmental resilience. PSA is a Cincinnati-based group of political art activists interested in proactively changing the political climate through increasing voter turnout, identifying viable political candidates, and convincing a greater public to be politically active. They began in early 2018 and their interventions include yard signs, coasters, t-shirts and buttons, as well as interactive pop-up events and activities.
Continue reading “Resilience 101”If I Could Turn Back Time
Work by Aaron Skolnick, Forest Kelley, Jared Phillip Buckheister, Jonesy and Jaime C. Knight; Curated by Paul Michael M. Brown
October 25 – December 3, 2019Closed November 26-29 for Thanksgiving
If I Could Turn Back Time focuses on artists who employ queer archives and histories both personal and collective, informal and institutional, real and imagined as a starting point for their work. The artists on view alternately unearth, reinterpret, or invent queer historical narratives in an effort to destabilize mainstream understandings of the past.
Continue reading “If I Could Turn Back Time”Forest Portals by Zoé Strecker
September 10 – October 11, 2019
Forest Portals: Pine Mountain (Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall)is a sculpture that invites contemplation of the spectacular biodiversity in Kentucky’s old growth forests and the soil that supports them. The cracked screens are porcelain clay. Clay is dirt. Dirt is a foundation for terrestrial life, the shared site of the living and the transformed, home to human and non-human beings. This is a special Studio 300 exhibition located in Morlan Gallery’s side gallery. Studio 300 is Kentucky’s only digital arts and music festival and will occur on the campus of Transylvania University Oct. 3, 4. For more information visit studio300.transy.edu.
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