SEWANEE: The University of the South Art Gallery

University Art Gallery
SEWANEE: The University of the South
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The Carlos Gallery
Georgia Avenue
Sewanee TN 37383
Phone: 931-598-1223
Fax: 931-598-3335

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www.sewanee.edu/gallery

The University Art Gallery

Contact: Shelley MacLaren, Director
931-598-1223, sjmaclar@sewanee.edu

The University Art Gallery is located on Georgia Avenue between Guerry Hall and Convocation Hall. It is free, accessible and open to the public. Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday and Sunday 12 - 4pm, closed Mondays and during academic breaks.

Exhibition

Bryan LeBoeuf: Fight and Flight
December 2, 2011 –February 12, 2012

Sewanee’s University Art Gallery is pleased to present Bryan LeBoeuf: Fight and Flight.
LeBoeuf’s gorgeously painted figurative canvases depict complex relationships and open-ended narratives. The beauty and enigmatic subject matter of the paintings engage the viewer emotionally and intellectually. We empathize, identify, and wonder. What is happening? What will happen next? LeBoeuf and Dr. Lauryl Tucker, Assistant Professor of English at the University of the South, will discuss the work in a public dialogue on Friday, December 2nd at 4:30 in the University Art Gallery. The reception will begin at 4:15, and continue after the talk. The exhibition will be on view through February 12th, 2012. Please note that the gallery will be closed for the University of the South’s Winter Break, December 15th through January 18th.

A native of rural Gulf Coast Louisiana, Bryan LeBoeuf now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA from Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art, New York, NY. He primarily exhibits in New York, but he has also shown his work in the Realism Invitational in San Francisco, and in a solo exhibition at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA. LeBoeuf has received awards including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, the Prince of Wales Foundation Prize, and the Merreville Foundation Award. Several of his paintings have been acquired by public collections, including The Forbes Collection and The Flint Institute of Art. His paintings were featured in the 2004 film P.S..

The art program hosts a lively schedule of small exhibitions by visiting artists and art majors in the Carlos Gallery of the Nabit Art Building. The space was established in honor of Emeritus Professor Edward Carlos by many of his students, friends and colleagues.

GALLERY HOURS:
8AM – 5PM Monday- Friday
12-5 PM Saturday and Sunday

GALLERY CONTACT:
Greg Pond
telephone: 931.598.1870 e-mail: gpond@sewanee.edu

DIRECTIONS:
The Nabit Art Building is located at 105 Kennerly Road between Georgia Avenue and Kennerly Road, across from Courts Hall on the campus of the University of the South. Parking is available in the gravel parking lot behind the building, the parking entrance is on Kennerly Road. From Interstate 24: Take the Exit 134, US-64 W, in Monteagle onto US-41 (left turn from Chattanooga, right from Nashville). Veer right onto University Avenue at the main Entrance to the University. Turn left on Georgia Avenue at the stoplight. Turn right on Kennerly road. The parking lot entrance to the Nabit Building is the second driveway on the left or park in the blue–lined parking spaces anywhere on campus.

Exhibition

The Gathering, a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Robert Sparrow Jones, Assistant Professor of Painting at Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia.
January 18 – February 11, 2012

The Carlos Gallery in the Nabit Art Building at University of the South is pleased to present The Gathering, an exhibition of oil paintings by Georgia based artist Robert Sparrow Jones. In this new series, Jones explores a “Thoreauvian” attempt to coexist with nature. This fascination with the natural world, both delicate and enduring, forlornly strange and intimately known, is Jones’s response to, and escape from, the hyper-civilized, technology-saturated, globalized world.

Inspired by his upbringing in a small, valley town, and a passion for narrative, Jones’s paintings depict safe havens, such as tree houses and boats, amongst landscapes and waterscapes, reminding us that even in mMother Nature’s peril, meditative places exist and survive. In these timeless paintings, the new and old world overlap in a mixture of bucolic and cosmopolitan elements. Heightened color brings merges imagination with reality, and engages a perfect tension of psychology and emotional indifference. Ultimately, Jones wants his viewers to never forget the communal wild that we share with nature.

Robert Sparrow Jones is an artist whose work investigates the relationship between people and the natural world. Working in drawing, painting and print media, his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Some exhibitions include: The Paintings of Robert Sparrow Jones, Pratt Art Institute, Seattle, WA; Oscillating the Landscape, School 33, Baltimore, MD; The Birds of Robert Jones, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA; Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA; Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, WA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Cann Serrat, El Bruc Spain and The University of Hong Kong. He is also included in the Drawing Center Viewing Program.

Jones is an Assistant Professor of Painting at Piedmont College in Demorest, Georgia. He has previously taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art and Towson University in Baltimore, MD, the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA and the Museum of Glass, International Center for Contemporary Art in Tacoma, WA. He currently resides in Athens, Georgia.