Green Mountains/Vermont, 2011

Robert Riseling Retrospective 1974-2011, A Founders’ Day Exhibition

Reception January 20, 5-7 pm

Memphis College of Art honors Professor Emeritus Robert Riseling in Robert Riseling Retrospective 1974-2011, A Founders’ Day Exhibition through January 29 in the Main Gallery, Rust Hall. Click here for the news release.

Click here to view the Robert Riseling Retrospective 1974-2011, A Founders' Day Exhibition catalog.

Whole Cloth

Reception January 20, 5-7 pm

Whole Cloth, featuring works by Lisa Tribo, BFA 2009, Drawing, continues on view in the Alumni Gallery at Rust Hall through February 12, 2012. The artist's reception is Friday, January 20 from 5-7 pm.

Image left: Grand Poobah

Jordan Hood, Covered Grass

This Must Be the Place

Reception January 19, 6-9 pm

Three 2011 BFA photography alumni, Anna Hollis, Jordan Hood and Tommy Kha are featured in This Must be the Place: Contemporary Photography in Memphis at the Dixon Gallery, 4339 Park Avenue. Meet the artists at Art After Dark at the Dixon Thursday, January 19, admission is free. The exhibition is on view through March 4. For more information, click here.

UPCOMING
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES

MCA's Visiting Artist Lecture Series is pleased to welcome two free and public lectures to Callicott Auditorium.

Mel Chin, MCA's Downing Pryor Visiting Lecturer, speaks Tuesday, February 7, at 7 pm.
Crosstown Arts presents Alan Boniface and Urban Magnets: Lessons in Sustainable Place-making Thursday, February 9 at 6 pm in Callicott. The lectures are free and open to the public.

HYDE GALLERY

Weeds (from the Suburb series) by Zoë Charlton. Copyright Zoë Charlton, Courtesy Conner Contemporary Art.

Facts, Fictions and Figures

Reception January 27, 6-9 pm

Facts, Fictions and Figures, curated by Rehema Barber and Jennifer Sargent, is on view in the Hyde Gallery, 477 South Main, January 25 through March 17. An opening reception is Friday, January 27, 6 – 9 pm. The exhibition includes works by artists Willie Birch, Zoë Charlton, Lester Merriweather and selected artists from the collections of James Patterson and Elliot Perry.

NEWS

MCA student Stephen Harris and alumna Eszter Sziksz were selected for the 54th Annual Delta Exhibition.

Work by Professor Cynthia Thompson was selected for the permanent collection at the Arkansas State Bradbury Gallery. Professor Susan Maakestaad is in a group exhibition Crossroads: A Shifting Landscape at Seton Hall University.

Photography students Yeiner Gonzalez, Elaine Miller, Brittney Scales and Stacey Taylor were selected to exhibit in Family Dynamics at the Kat Kiernan Gallery in Lexington, Virginia. Click here for the online gallery.