Mesaros Galleries
Fall 2022
Jun Lee Exhibition (Printmaking)
Exhibit: September 1 – 29, 2022
Lecture: Thursday, September 1, 2022, 5:00pm: Bloch Hall (Lecture & Reception)
Jun Lee’s body of woodcut attempts to evoke the different moments of our daily competitive lives through animal imagery as a metaphor for these struggles we all face; pieces that express the spectrum of competition from hiding away to preparing for a fight. Jun will discuss the relations between her print work and her obsession with competitive natures of animals and their meanings in cultural backgrounds.
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Stream Jun Lee Artist Lecture September 1 at 5pm
Zora J Murff: At No Point In Between (Photography)
Laura Mesaros Gallery
Exhibit: September 1 – 29, 2022
Lecture – Looking As A Radical Act: Thursday, September 29, 2022, 5:00pm, Bloch Hall (Lecture & Reception)
In "Looking As A Radical Act," artist Zora J Murff will discuss the history and evolution of American anti-Blackness and how phenomena like black codes, spectacle lynching, government-endorsed segregation, mass incarceration, state-sanctioned police murder, and socioeconomic disenfranchisement are all tied to the practice of chattel slavery. Throughout this violent history, individuals have employed the camera and image-making as a tool for social and political liberation. Murff will also explore the importance of intention to photographic seeing and how he continues this tradition in his own artistic practice.
The camera footage of the murder of Laquan McDonald incited a personal obsession with the nuanced relationship of identity politics and imagery. Primarily, At No Point In Between stands as a discursive narrative on the evolution and perpetuation of anti-Black violence. The works are assembled to create a disjointed time-experience, carrying the viewer through a history of white police murdering Black people, spectacle lynchings of Black people by white mobs, redlining endorsed by the federal government, and Black lives persisting throughout. Murff presents complicated connections between images and contexts to, “plot and give figurative shape to formless threats whose fatal repercussions are dispersed across space and time.” The work challenges the ways we choose to collectively believe in and, therefore, empower images. It highlights how social policy can be identified in physical phenomena. It re-writes complex American narratives about race, power, and violence outside of conventional understanding white gaze.
Stream Zora Murff Artist Lecture September 29 at 5pm
Marie Watt
Lecture: September 21 at 5pm in Bloch Hall, CCAC
(Lecture ONLY)
Stream Marie Watt Artist Lecture September 21 at 5pm
WVU Faculty Exhibition
Laura and Paul Mesaros Gallery
Exhibit: October 13 – November 10, 2022
Gallery Talk: Thursday, October 20, 2022, 5:00pm, Bloch Hall (Gallery Talk Reception)
An exhibition of work by WVU School of Art and Design Faculty.
MFA Exhibition: Shuhan Liu (Ceramics)
Exhibit: November 28 – December 8
Paul Mesaros Gallery
Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Exhibit: December 1, 2022 – January 12, 2023
Laura Mesaros Gallery
Reception: Thursday, December 1, 5:00pm: CAC Lobby (Reception ONLY)
The Annual Juried Student Exhibition is open to undergraduate and graduate art majors and minors currently enrolled in the WVU School of Art and Design.
Marie T. Cochran – notes on an affrilachian daughter
Laura and Paul Mesaros Gallery
Exhibit: January 26 – March 2, 2023
Deem Distinguished Lecture
Thursday, February 16, 2023, 5:00pm, Bloch Hall (Lecture & Reception)
A self-proclaimed “cultural pollinator”; Marie T. Cochran was born and raised in the Georgia Mountains. Cochran received degrees from the University of Georgia (BFA) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA). She is included in Southern Women: More than 100 Stories of Innovators, Artists, and Icons (Harper Collins 2019). She was the 2020-2022 Lehman Brady Visiting Professor, with Duke University’s the Center for Documentary Studies and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Department of American Studies. Cochran is the founding curator of the Affrilachian Artist Project which celebrates the intersection of cultures in Appalachia.
Stream Deemed Distinguished Lecture February 16 at 5pm
Mikey Burton (Graphic Design)
Lecture: Tuesday, February 28, 5 PM, Bloch Hall
Stream Mikey Burton Artist Lecture February 28 at 5pm
2 MFA Exhibitions
March 20 – 23, 2023
Laura and Paul Mesaros Galleries
March 23 (Reception)
Thursday, March 23, 5:00pm: (Reception ONLY: 2 MFA Exhibitions)
2 MFA Exhibitions
March 27-30, 2023
Laura and Paul Mesaros Galleries
March 9 (Reception)
Thursday, March 30, 2023, 5:00pm (Reception ONLY: 2 MFA Exhibitions)
BFA Exhibition
April 13 – May 12
Laura and Paul Mesaros Gallery
Thursday, April 13, 2023, 5:00pm: Reception: BFA Exhibition
Works on display are a culmination of coursework and explorations at West Virginia University by graduating BFA majors in studio art from the School of Art and Design. Participation in this exhibition is part of the requirement for their senior studio courses. Scholarly emphasis in these courses is in advanced visual and design research development, peer and professional collaboration, and critical thinking.
This exhibition features student work in ceramics, photography, sculpture, printmaking, graphic design, painting, drawing, video, and animation. The opening reception for the Senior BFA Exhibition will take place on Thursday April 13 at 5 p.m., This reception is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.
