Past Exhibitions

Fall 2011 Exhibitions

August 24 – September 22

Gallery I: Wild Kingdom

Flora and fauna through a contemporary lens is the focus of Wild Kingdom, a survey of works by artists who use animal and landscape references to convey ideas of our relationship to nature and the wilderness. The exhibition includes work by Helen Altman, Audrey Barcus, Kate Breakey, Candace M. Briceño, Debra Broz, Malcolm Bucknall, Mark Calderon, Claire Cowie, Chad Curtis, Chris Engman, Claudia Fitch, Sol Hashemi, Victoria Haven, Valerie Hegarty, Roxanne Jackson, Jules Buck Jones, Lori Kella, MyeongBeom Kim, Ted Kincaid, Tania Kitchell, Charles Krafft, Leigh Anne Lester, Beauvais Lyons, Lisa Ludwig, Sherry Markovitz, Paul McMullan, Steven Miller, Leslie Mutchler, Robyn O’Neil, Joseph Phillips, Michael Roch, Francis Schanberger, Isaac Smith, Shawn Smith, Adam Sorensen, Erick Swenson, Maki Tamura, Darren Waterson, Paula Winokur, Alice Wheeler, Wayne White, Susan Whyne, Blade Wynne and Claude Zervas.

Some works appear courtesy of the following:Betty Moody Gallery, Conduit Gallery, D. Berman Gallery, Greg Kucera Gallery, James Harris Gallery, Talley Dunn Contemporary and Western Project

Gallery II: Up Against The Wall: Posters of Social Protest

Up Against the Wall: Posters of Social Protest is comprised of works by twelve graphic designers and one design team, who use posters to comment on and engage the public in important contemporary and social issues. Jointly curated by The Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts director Kate Bonansinga and University of Texas at El Paso graphic design faculty Antonio Castro, Clive Cochran, Anne Giangiulio and Albert Wong, the exhibition features the works of acclaimed graphic designers Fang Chen, Alejandro Magallanes, Seymour Chwast, Mirko Ilić, Paul Davis, Joe Scorsone/Alice Dreuding, Milton Glaser, Lanny Sommese, Brad Holland, James Victore, Yossi Lemel, Lourdes Zolezzi and Luba Lukova

Up against the Wall: Poster of Social Protest was organized by the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas-El Paso.