Coming in September: 妈妈的女孩!
的 Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University will present an art exhibition celebrating the life and work of Mary "妈妈的女孩" Onley (1953 - 2018) in the fall of 2024. 的 exhibition will be free and open to the public. Please add to our efforts by sharing your 妈妈的女孩 remembrances and thoughts at http://bit.ly/MamaGirl and please invite others to do so as well! 如果你愿意, you may mail your remembrances to: Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, 4509 Monarch Way, 诺福克, VA 23508.
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Photograph by Mark Atkinson.
Paintings from the Porch: Works by Jake McCord
一月展出. 2024年5月12日- 4日
Opening Reception: 1月. 6点11分.m.
Jake McCord (1945 - 2009) of Thomson, Georgia grew up planting and picking crops on his 家庭's farm. He later cut grass and drove a truck for that city, which recognized him as an exceptionally hard worker. In the mid-1980s McCord began to paint and took inspiration from his life and several television sets running simultaneously in his home. He installed paintings on his front porch for passersby to see and would allow them to be sold only after feeling they had been on view for the right amount of time. McCord described his depictions of people, 动物, scenes as jolly, which helped keep him company and which he hoped would help those who saw his work. This exhibition presents a number of those jolly paintings from the porch.
Living with Art: My Journey to Collect
Tuesday, March 12 at 12:30 p.m. 美国东部时间
Collector of self-taught, folk, outsider art, Chris Ross shares insights from his passion.
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2024 Juried Student Exhibition
Opening Reception: 2月ruary 29, 6 - 8 p.m.
展出时间:3月. 2024年4月1日. 6, 2024
Featuring artwork from students actively working in the ODU Art Department Studio 艺术 programs, selected by a juror who is an active professional within the Visual 艺术.
2月. 2023年5月6日
Sam Bartlett: Low Stakes, Plywood Cutouts & 每天的漫画
Opening Reception: 2月. 2, 6 - 8 p.m.
Sam Bartlett is an American folk artist, public-art instigator, 漫画家, 表演者, 音乐家, 和作曲家.
As an artist, Sam specializes in painting and cutting sculptures from salvaged wood. He derives inspiration from the naturally low stakes involved in using free materials.
Sam does virtually no planning or sketching for his artwork, preferring to try to harness the energy of a first take. Common themes in his work include complex physical relationships between people, things on top of other things, things being bitten and eaten, old-time and Irish music communities, 和死亡率. He has been strongly influenced by artists Peter Schumann, Howard Finster, and Gustav Vigeland.
具体的海洋: Works by Leigh Merrill
一月展出.12 through 2月 17, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, 1月. 6点11分.m.
“Culling through thousands of individual photographs and videos I make of architecture and landscaping; I digitally assemble these sources to create my work. Some images have veracity, 但更多的时候, they suggest a visual hyperbole – an embellished scene circulating around a small object or detail. I am continually fascinated with photography’s ability to be evidence of existence – creating an image with seeming veracity – and simultaneously, a system to mediate and construct reality. I use photography to observe and then digitally combine my photographs to construct spaces that do not exist, allowing the creation of images that, through metaphor and illusion, reveal both the desire and simulacrum present around us and within photography itself.”
机器人戈登
Affectionately nicknamed "Gordon" after the art galleries' namesakes—Baron and Ellin Gordon—this innovative telepresence robot allows remote visits from around the world.
Gordon can move around the space, raise and lower height, zoom in on art. 的 remote driver can interact live with staff in the galleries and also invite 朋友, 的同事们, students to join their visit.
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Proceeds support arts programming and educational opportunities at ODU.
1月. 2022年5月21日- 7日
Art from Guantánamo Bay
RESCHEDULED Opening Reception 1月. 27, 6 - 8 p.m.
Detainees at the United States military prison camp known as Guantánamo Bay have made art from the time they arrived. 的 Art from Guantánamo Bay exhibition features 101 of these evocative works, made by men held without trial, some for more than 15 years. 的 six artists include both current (Moath Al Alwi and Ahmed Rabbani) and former (Muhammad Ansi, Abdualmalik (Alrahabi) Abud, Sabri Al Qurashi, Mansoor Adayfi) detainees, none of whom have been charged with committing a crime.
Most pieces in the exhibition were taken from Guantánamo by the detainees' attorneys for this showing and following a laborious process of searching, 扫描, analysis for hidden messages by Guantánamo officials. A stamp reading "Approved by US Forces" signals that a work has been cleared, the stamp's ink often bleeds through to the image on the other side, creating a ghostly mix of art and authority.
Art from Guantánamo Bay includes drawings and paintings as well as sculptures crafted with the few materials permitted to detainees, including model ships made from shirt scraps, 祈祷帽, 剃须刀, 和拖把. As former detainee Mansoor Adayfi explains in his New York Times essay "In Our Prison on the Sea," the sea "means freedom that no one can control or own, freedom for everyone." Although detainees were held close to the sea, tarps blocked their view until they were removed for four days in 2014 in anticipation of a hurricane; after that, Adayfi回忆, "all of those who could draw made drawings about the sea."
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8月. 11月30日. 12, 2022
DesignHer: Works by Contemporary 女性 Graphic Designers
Closing Reception Nov. 10, 6 - 8 p.m.
DesignHer is an exhibition of contemporary graphic design focusing on women practitioners. Highlighting how women have been at the forefront of defining and challenging the conceptions of design, the exhibition presents a sampling of the various purposes design is put to in our culture and the motivations that prompted its use. Participants range from younger artists building a reputation to internationally renowned leaders in the discipline, works range from individually crafted objects to mass media campaigns.
Gain insight from juror Carl Floyd Medley III and students of the 2021 Juried Student Exhibition in this in-depth look at the show! Congratulations to students Lyn Dowling ('21), 安德烈·雅各布斯(Andre Jacobs)(21年), Korrine Maher ('21) whose artwork has been selected by the ODU President and First Lady from the Juried Student Exhibition for display in the Jacobson House presidential residence for the 2021-2022 academic year!
About the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries
的 Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries exhibit works by nationally and internationally recognized self-taught artists, contemporary artists working in all media, local and regional artists connected with Old Dominion University.