Department of Visual Arts at The University of Chicago

The Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts is pleased to invite Rachel Harrison to the University of Chicago to deliver this year’s Deborah Goodman Davis and Gerald Davis Lecture on the evening of May 13th starting at 6pm at the Logan Center for the Arts, Penthouse Room 901. Harrison will discuss “Sitting in a Room”, her 2022 solo exhibition at the Astrup Fearnley in Oslo, Norway, as well as other things.

Established in 2018, through the generosity of Deborah Goodman Davis, the Deborah Goodman Davis and Gerald Davis Lecture Series brings vibrant voices to the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts and the greater university community.

This event if free and open to the public.

Check out WORKS BY, a show at the featuring MFA alum Devin T. Mays (MFA ‘16) and faculty member Bethany Collins! Up until July 14th, 2024

Come join us next Monday for a special panel presentation by DoVA faculty member Scott Wolniak alongside DoVA alum Nicole Ma**er (2010), Maggie Crowley (2013), Marco G. Ferrari (2013), Paul Gerard Somers (2013), and Madeline Gallucci (2020) on the topic of artist-run spaces and curation. Each participant will give a brief overview of past curatorial projects taking us back to the 2000’s in Chicago, Kansas, the periphery of Rome, Italy, and back to present day Chicago while also discussing their motivations as artists to facilitate the public presentation of other artists’ work and the circumstances that have allowed them each to make such opportunities happen.

A group discussion and Q&A moderated by Scott Wolniak will follow.

**Free and open to the public.

Presented by the Open Practice Committee and Logan Center Exhibitions

Come join us on Monday, November 14 at 6pm at the Logan Center Penthouse Room 901 for a special panel presentation by DoVA faculty member Scott Wolniak alongside DoVA alum Maggie Crowley, Marco G. Ferrari, Madeline Gallucci, Nicole Ma**er, and Paul Gerard Somers on the topic of artist-run spaces and curation.

Each participant will give a brief overview of past curatorial projects and discuss their motivations as artists to facilitate the public presentation of other artists’ work and the circumstances that have allowed them each to make such opportunities happen. A group discussion and Q&A moderated by Scott Wolniak will follow.

**Free and open to the public.

Presented by the Open Practice Committee and Logan Center Exhibitions

DUE MONDAY 10/31!

UChicago’s DoVA is looking for an Assistant Professor in Painting! More information and application are available by following the link in our bio.

Applications due MONDAY 10/31!

UChicago’s DoVA is looking for an Assistant Professor in Painting! More information and application are available by following the link in our bio.

Please join us on Monday, October 17th, as the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago invites and welcomes artist, Kevin Beasley, to deliver this year's Deborah Goodman Davis and Gerald Davis Lecture.

Established in 2018, through the generosity of Deborah Goodman Davis, the Deborah Goodman Davis and Gerald Davis Lecture Series brings vibrant voices to the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts and the greater university community.

Monday, October 17, 6PM
Logan Center for the Arts, Penthouse Room 901

**This event is free and open to the public.

About the Artist: Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, VA) lives and works in New York. His practice spans sculpture, photography, sound, and performance, while centering on materials of cultural and personal significance, from raw cotton harvested from his family’s property in Virginia to sounds gathered using contact microphones. Beasley alters, casts, and molds these diverse materials to form a body of works that acknowledge the complex, shared histories of the broader American experience, steeped in generational memories.

Image: Kevin Beasley. Valentines Pines (residence), 2022.
Polyurethane resin, raw Virginia cotton, dye sublimation t-shirts, a housedress, dirt, guineafowl feathers, confetti t-shirts, altered housedress, confetti housedress, altered t-shirts, epoxy resin, carbon fiber. 74 x 167.25 x 2" / 188 x 424.81 x 5.1cm.
© Kevin Beasley. Courtesy of Casey Kaplan, New York.

Welcome to DoVA MFA class of 2024!

UChicago’s DoVA is looking for an Assistant Professor in Painting. More information and application are available by following the link in our bio.

OPENING TOMORROW @ KAVI GUPTA!

Jessica Stockholder: Specific Shapes

Opening Saturday, October 23, 2021 in Chicago

Opening Reception 5 - 8 PM
835 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL, 60607

Kavi Gupta proudly presents a solo exhibition of new works by Jessica Stockholder, acclaimed visual artist, elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellow, Anonymous Was A Woman grantee, and recipient of the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

OUT NOW! “The Escape: From a Seventeenth-Century Drawing Manual of the Face and Its Expressions” by David Schutter, featuring essays by Barry Schwabsky and Dieter Roelstraete! Follow link in bio to learn more.

Works by DoVA faculty Julia Phillips & Catherine Sullivan featured at the AIC as part of this year’s acquisition selection for the Society for Contemporary Art! 👏🤞

Welcome to DoVA MFA class of 2023! 🤙

"1. Why did you decide to go into teaching?
TRUTH IS I JUST NEEDED A JOB. REALLY BADLY."

Follow the link to read the all of Pope.L's office hours with A&E!

Office Hours: Pope.L: University of Chicago Department of Visual Arts - School Watch - Art & Education Office Hours: Pope.L: University of Chicago Department of Visual Arts // September 7, 2021 //

DoVA is looking for an Assistant professor in Painting! More information and application are available here: https://apply.interfolio.com/91653

Pope.L interview in The Guardian!

‘I’m not Jeff Koons!’ – the endurance crawls, weird texts and guerrilla brilliance of Pope.L Pope.L started out doing performance art because it was cheap, once crawling through a city in a Superman outfit. Now all the big museums want his often racially charged work. As a rare show opens in Britain, he looks back

The Long Day on view through the 27th at Logan Exhibitions. Reserve a timed ticket to view the work by the MFA Class of 2021.

The Long Day presents work from the 2021 MFA class. On view through June 27, book your timed tickets, link in bio!
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Please join us as the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago invites and welcomes interdisciplinary artist Nayland Blake to deliver our annual Goodman Davis Lecture. Full event details and registration info in link below!

Goodman Davis Lecture: Nayland Blake | Department of Visual Arts Goodman Davis Lecture: Nayland Blake Monday, April 26, 6PM CDT Zoom Webinar, registration required Please join us as the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago invites and welcomes interdisciplinary artist Nayland Blake to deliver our annual Goodman Davis Lecture. Since the 1980s, Na...