Past Exhibitions

Exhibitions from the 2016–2017 calendar year

Artists

  • Mark Antes
  • Casey Babb
  • Haley Baldridge
  • Dante Barger
  • Crystal Burgess
  • Emily Carroll
  • Abby Chronister
  • Abby Fulk
  • Blake Hatfield
  • Kim Hawkins
  • Cody Heginbottom
  • Christine Jenkin
  • Shelby LePage
  • Tiffany Miller
  • Chris Moody
  • Linnea Nierman
  • Morgan Purvis
  • Brandi Swan
  • Kieu Tran
  • Allie Waters
  • Christine Wigginton
  • David Hough

Illustration and Graphic Design students in the Department of Art and Design scheduled to receive degrees in May 2017 will present their work in the Main Gallery. Exhibits will feature the best work from their college careers, along with projects developed in collaboration with faculty advisors.

Artists

  • Gage Bunting
  • Adam Hammerli
  • Kyra Gross
  • Rachel Pape
  • Katie Pitre

Studio Art and Art Education students in the Department of Art and Design scheduled to receive degrees in December will present their work in the Main and Outer galleries. Exhibits will feature the best work from their college careers, along with projects developed in collaboration with faculty advisors.

Artists

  • Halley Mayfield
  • Johanna Greenwood
  • Jiyong Kim
  • Nicole Napper
  • Sabrina Rowden
  • Cerys Bush

Interior Design students in the Department of Art and Design scheduled to receive degrees in May 2017 will present their work in the Outer Gallery. Exhibits will feature the best work from their college careers, along with projects developed in collaboration with faculty advisors.

Various Artists

49th ANNUAL CITATION SHOW with Juror, Melaney Ann Mitchell

The Citation Awards Exhibition is open to UCM art majors or minors, currently enrolled in an art class.

Awards will be given out in the areas of Design and Fine Art. An underclassman award for Design, an underclassman award for Studio Art, and Best of Show will also be awarded.

EXTENDED THROUGH MARCH 11

Through painting, I explore the subtlety and solitude found in often-mundane situations and places. In careful observations of light, shadow, and color, I perceive the deceptively complex and beautiful worlds that surround us.

These paintings depict the house where I grew up, common family gatherings, patches of ground, and stripped down landscapes. I am drawn to subjects that allow me to ruminate on their subtleties without the intermediaries of direct narrative or symbolism. Through careful and sustained looking, I try to find a fundamental character of the world around me and to reflect that character into the paintings.

EXTENDED THROUGH MARCH 11

John Rufenacht is based in Kansas City, Missouri but his interior design projects reach from Pebble Beach and Long Beach California, through Houston and Dallas Texas and into Aspen, Breckenridge and Denver, Colorado along with many Midwest projects.

His Midwest sensibility combined with smart urban style is rooted in his diverse life experiences. He was born on a farm in central Missouri and graduated from Central Missouri University (now University of Central Missouri) with a degree in Interior Design & Decoration. After an apprenticeship in Dallas, Texas he returned to the Midwest and opened his first studio in Kansas City in 1983.

In addition to his diverse professional portfolio, John has made a lasting mark on a number of community and professional organizations. He is a founding member of DIFFA/KC (Design Industry Foundation Fighting AIDS) and was an original founder of the preeminent event Dining By Design, which has grown to become a national event raising more than $20 million annually for AIDS charities. He has also contributed his creative energies to numerous other community charities including the Symphony Ball, The Camerata Orchestra, Crescendo for UMKC, Alvin Ailey and the Master’s Garden Tour. In 2008 John was honored with the first Edward Tanner Achievement Award for interior Design from the Design Excellence Awards, followed in 2010 with Gold honors in Traditional Interiors and Outdoor Landscape Design.

Artist Statement:
I remember vividly the first time I stomped through a perfectly formed sheet of ice, obliterating its crystalline structure. Sadness and exaltation bubbled within me simultaneously as I stood, ankle deep, in freezing water and watched the thin remnants disappear below. I had crossed a line, a mobile and intangible line.

That fine line that exists between the desire to preserve and the need to re-imagine, re-configure and re-contextualize is still a driving force in my studio practice. The daily interplay between past and present, imagination and memory, and our physical and intellectual relationship to landscape serve as reference points for my sculptures and for my dreams.

My work is based in my need to better understand sense of place and our relationships to the objects, landscapes and histories that surround us. I see each sculpture and installation as a way to advocate for a direct and tactile relationship with the world. Through the use of representational objects (daisies, cattails, locks, chains etc.) that are culled from my environment and remade in clay, I work to create symbolic relationships between these seemingly disparate elements. When objects’ material differences and functionality are negated, these elements take on new meanings and create new possibilities for evaluation and interpretation.

An exploration of touch and intuitive making is deeply embedded in my studio practice and in the community-based projects that I do. I believe that a simple interaction between hand and material can be unifying, transformative and impactful.

Clay serves as palimpsest in my practice; I seek its inherent variations in surface and texture, its ability to mimic, to be thick, thin, ephemeral or permanent. I seek to exploit the material’s innate relationship to land, human history, time and transformation. The physical recordings that come through rolling, tearing, squishing, dipping, pushing, pinching and scratching become representations of touch, of thought, of time spent.

Artists

  • Rachel Bland
  • Taylor Blakemore
  • Stephanie Bordner
  • Madison Jack
  • Christina Machado
  • Abigail Melliere
  • Stormi Ross
  • Merindia Wilson

Studio Art and Art Education students in the Department of Art and Design scheduled to receive degrees in December will present their work in the Main and Outer galleries. Exhibits will feature the best work from their college careers, along with projects developed in collaboration with faculty advisors.

Highways connect Los Angeles’ sprawling neighborhoods through a vast concrete infrastructure. Prints of deconstructed highway architecture are paired with drawings and photo transfers of single-family homes.

Photographic images are recorded through the lens of a camera, capturing a specific moment in time and place with a fixed point of view. The source photos for these images are panorama photographs captured through the window of a moving car. Variables of time and distance are added during the image creation that takes place in the camera’s processor. The scene moves past the car window faster than the camera is able to snap photos to seamlessly overlap and blend, subtracting slices of imagery and adding artifacts.

The focused mid-ground falls between the distorted foreground and background, keeping the inhabitable landscape at a distance, just as the aspirations of the American Dream have moved beyond reach for many. Written language becomes disjointed phonetic fragments, failing their original informative purpose as the forms dissolve into abstraction.

Representing the quick, mechanically photographed landscape through slow, hand-drawn processes adds subjectivity and mediation. The mechanical, fragmented shapes emerge from the organic, fluid rendering.

Bio:
Michelle Rozic is an Associate Professor of Art, printmaking coordinator and graduate coordinator at California State University, Northridge, with an MFA in printmaking from Indiana University, Bloomington, and BFA in fine art from the Columbus College of Art & Design. She served as president of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society from 2013–2015. Michelle’s work is held in national and international collections, and her work has been featured in over one hundred national, international and traveling exhibitions. Projects include curating Edge of Life: Forest Pathology Art, a collaborative, invitational, art and forestry exhibit and accompanying catalog.

Artist

Drawing inspirations from her diverse cultural background and personal history, Liao’s mixed media work is about the intimate yet universal concept of relationships.

Liao received her MFA in Painting from Boston University and BFA in Painting and Drawing from University of Washington, Seattle.

Liao is a recipient of various awards including the Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Grant, Artist Grants from Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Vermont Studio Center, and Jentel Artist Residency. Prior to coming to Missouri Western, she taught at Boston University, University of Washington, Seattle University, and DigiPen Institute of Technology, and Gage Academy of Art. Her works were exhibited nationally in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle.

Audience participation: November 2–5, 2016

Anne Harris has exhibited at venues ranging from Alexandre Gallery, DC Moore Gallery and Nielsen Gallery, to the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute, The Portland Museum of Art, the California Center for Contemporary Art and the North Dakota Museum of Art. Her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery and The New York Public Library. Grants and awards received include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship.

Harris currently teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She serves on the board of the Riverside Arts Center and is Chair of the Exhibition Committee. She also is the originator of The Mind’s I —a collaborative drawing project designed to investigate the complexities of perception and self-perception through drawing. The first iteration of this project took place at Julius Caesar Gallery in Chicago, Nov.-Dec. 2012.

Artists

Illustration and Graphic Design students in the Department of Art and Design scheduled to receive degrees in December will present their work in the Main Gallery. Exhibits will feature the best work from their college careers, along with projects developed in collaboration with faculty advisors.

Artists

  • Ashley Storm
  • Shelby Miller
  • Tara Atkins
  • Erin Peters

Interior Design students in the Department of Art and Design scheduled to receive degrees in December will present their work in the Outer Gallery. Exhibits will feature the best work from their college careers, along with projects developed in collaboration with faculty advisors.

Artists

  • Maryanna Adelman
  • Katie Carruthers
  • Mark Farris
  • Annie Helmericks-Louder
  • Joyce Jablonski
  • Allison Kerek
  • Megan Leong
  • Llaboratory Co (Marco Rosichelli and Ryan Peter Miller)
  • John Louder
  • Mick Luehrman
  • Sarah Nguyen
  • Haroon Sattar
  • Justin Shaw
  • Susan Stevenson
  • Matthew Zupnick

Sarah Hearn is an interdisciplinary visual artist and citizen scientist. Hearn’s work is idea driven and is strongly rooted in photography, drawing, installation art and participatory culture. To learn about ongoing exhibition and research activities, subscribe to the artists Newsletter.

Artists

  • Amanda Burnham
  • Daniel Fishel

Drawn Together: Installation by Amanda Burnham and illustrations by Daniel Fishel

Artists

  • Raudel Arteaga
  • Scott Freeman
  • Kysa Johnson
  • Tobi Kahn
  • Justine Kuran
  • Tashi Norbu

A new exhibition at the University of Central Missouri Gallery of Art & Design explores the subject of religion through the eyes of seven contemporary artists. Coinciding with the 225th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights and American Democracy Project grants to the university, the UCM Gallery of Art & Design will display the work of national and international artists with this exhibition. Works made on the subject of religion will be featured. Artists Raudel Arteaga, Chris Clack, Scott Freeman, Kysa Johnson, Tobi Kahn, Justine Kuran, and Tashi Norbu have created artwork for this exhibition meant to inspire, contemplate, and strengthen faith. Medium: Religion is made possible with support from the UCM Office of Student Experience and Engagement, UCM Department of Religious Studies, the Missouri Arts Council, and funding provided by a UCM Foundation Opportunity Grant.