Student Art Gallery

Spring 2023 - Beautiful Monsters: UNF Hybrid Poetry Graduate Showcase

Seven graduate artists intermingle poetry, lyric prose, and visual art whose juxtapositions question monstrosity, identity, humanity, and everything in between. 

 Artists:  Julia Croston, Heriberto Cruz, Sera-Ann Hargrove, Jack Henry, Bill Ectric King, Abby Nott, Joshua Smith 

Fall 2022 - Selections from the 70s: Works from the UNF Permanent Collection

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of The University of North Florida, Selections from the 70s features selected artworks from our permanent teaching collection produced around the decade of UNF's initial launch. The exhibited works demonstrate the idea that these artists were not creating in a vacuum, as they interacted socially and politically with past and present conversations.  This exhibition reflects notable happenings of the era and emphasizes critical junctions within the labyrinth of experimental art-making that defines this time period.

The contextualization of these works through the marriage of art and investigative study allows this exhibition to expand the breadth of fine arts at UNF and its intricate relations to the expansive 1970s. The featured artists highlight significant collaborations, such as Robert Rauschenberg's involvement with the Fluxus community and its notable members like John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Nam June-Paik, that were key in constructing developmental art of the era. In the evaluation of these artists, this exhibition dissects the social norms and crevices that directly influenced exhibited work. Drawing from the cultural magnitude of its span, Selections from the 70s presents an analytical space that asks the viewer to speculate how art converses and tethers through time. Jordy/n Bowen, UNF Gallery Assistant
 

Summer 2022 - Continuous Thought

"Continuous Thought" was a collaboration between many artists with unique styles, using journals made during Professor Beecham's Drawing Studio course. Students were taught how to bind their own books and expressed themselves freely on the pages. Experimentation was encouraged as students filled their accordion books with drawings that could be laid out in one continuous image or narrative.

Summer/Fall 2021 - Art & Feminism: Research-Driven Student Artwork

Showcase of final projects in a variety of media by students enrolled in the Summer 2021 Art, Art History, and Design Department course Art + Feminism.

Instructor: Jessica Borusky

Student artists:  Jordan Boutelle, Megan Ferricane, Sun Aggarwal, Gabe Melson, Rachel Porter, Hannah Rose Glaser, Daniela Imperato, Jaycie Nenninger, Gray Kinch, and Grace Komorny.

Spring/Fall 2020 – Ceramics Exhibition

UNF Ceramics students showcase their wood fired stoneware vessels created during the 2019/2020 school year, under the direction of Ceramics Professor Stephen E. Heywood.

Student artists:  Jacob Jones, Miranda Martinez, Bree Ford, Caileigh Davis, Ryan Greene, Caelen Proctor, Rose Fink, Connor Connealy, CJ Morgan, Madison Schott, Makayla Adams, Amber Maddox, and Korina Stone.

Summer 2019 – Summer Editions

A selection of prints by students taught by printmaking Professors Sheila Goloborotko & Andy Kozlowski.

Students enrolled in Intro to Printmaking ART 2440 in Fall 2018, and Spring 2019 created collaborative prints and used each other’s blocks to create rich imagery that explores formal graphic elements, use of color, transparencies, addressing numerous subject matters.

Some prints were created with the use of multi-layered carved linoleum blocks, others with added decorative papers bonded on top, a technique known as Chine-collé.