Cress Gallery

Monica Cook <em> Milk Fruit </em> Spring 2015 Exhibition View (photo: NorthlightImaging.com)

Monica Cook, Spring 2015 <em>Milk Fruit</em> 2015, animation still <em>Crop Duster </em> 2013, Private Collection of Joshua Rechnitz, Ny, Ny

<em>Okay Mountain</em> exhibition view, Spring 2012

<em>21st Century Sculpture</em>: Mark Andreas / Ryan Wolfe / [dNASAb], Spring 2008

Jade Townsend: <em>Born Between</em>, Fall 2008

Sarah Wagner: <em>Nuclear Family</em>, Fall 2008

UTC Department of Art <em>Juried Student Exhibition</em>, Spring 2008

Johnston Foster: <em>Sticky Situation</em> & Chrisitine Gray: <em>Gazer</em>, Fall 2009

Jered Sprecher: <em>Drift</em> & Rob Nadeau: <em>Primal Scene</em>, Spring 2009

Kahn & Selesnick: <em>Apollo Prophesies</em> and <em>Eisbergfreistadt</em> Spring 2010

<em>“Le Deluge, Apres Mao” China’s Surging Creative Tide</em>, Fall 2010

Michael Vasquez: <em>What Comes with the Territory</em> & Rose Freymuth-Frazier: <em>Whispering Sisters</em>, Fall 2010

Wendy White, Fall 2011 Diane Marek Visiting Artist, discusses her exhibition <em>6 Years / 6 Works</em>

Ian Pedigo, <em>Living Daylights</em>, Spring 2011

Matthew Deleget <em>Color Vulture</em> from his Fall 2012 exhibition <em>Pictures at an Exhibition</em>

Michael Scoggins <em> A Day in the Life </em> exhibition view Fall 2013

Keetra Dean Dixon and JK Keller<em>We Keep Having this Conversation/<em> Sept 16 - October 21, 2014

Greg Smith <em>Breakdown Lane Orrery</em> October 28 - December 9th 2014 (Photo Credit Northlight Imaging)

Amy Elkins <em> Black is the Day, Black is the Night </em> & <em> Parting Words </em> Spring 2016 (photo: NorthlightImaging.com)

Conrad Bakker, Spring 2017 <em> Untitled Project: The Robert Smithson Library and Book Club </em> & <em> The Crystal Land </em> (photo: NorthlightImaging.com)

Carmen Papalia, UTC Diane Marek Visiting Fall 2015, <em> How To Close Your Eyes </em> general view (Photo: northlightimaginf.com)

Michael Scoggins <em>Dog Fight 2013</em> from his Fall 2013 exhibition <em>A Day in the Life</em>

Michelle Segre: <em>Sculpture and Drawings</em> exhibition view, Spring 2014

Summer Wheat:<em> Few and Far Between</em> exhibition view, Spring 2013

Events

January 09, 2018

The doors have opened for the 2018 UTC Department of Art Annual Juried Student Exhibition. This year's Juror, Melissa Vandenberg, artist and Associate Professor of Art at Eastern Kentucky University, returns Tuesday January 23, 2018, to present a public lecture about her own practice at 5:30pm in the Benwood Auditorium, Room 230 UTC EMCS Bldg., located directly across Vine Street from the Fine Arts Center, followed by a reception for the exhibition at 6:30pm and the Student Awards Ceremony at the Cress in the lobby of the Fine Arts Center!! For more information click the Exhibitions tab; for a list of students selected by this year's Juror click the News tab.

December 8, 2017

Final Days! "fearless & resilient" Open until 7:30pm weekdays & 1-4:00pm Sat&Sun. Last day Sunday Dec. 10. Featuring KEN GRIMES, LAURA CRAIG McNELLIS, & DAN MILLER! And in Gallery II, an exhibition of works by the emerging artists of Chattanooga's AIM Center, Inc., curated by Roger Ricco, an expert on artists with disabilities and co-founder of Ricco Maresca Gallery, NYC. Click the Exhibitions tab for more info.

November 22, 2017

The Cress announces holiday hours for "fearless & resilient" featuring Ken Grimes, Laura Craig McNellis, and Dan Miller, alongside a curated selection of works by Chattanooga's AIM Center, Inc Art Program Members. CLOSED Thursday Nov. 23 & Friday Nov. 24; OPEN Sat. & Sun., Nov. 25 & 26, 1:00pm - 4:00pm. For more information, click the "Exhibitions" tab.

November 16, 2017

Up next in the Cress: "fearless & resilient" Ken Grimes, Laura Craig McNellis, and Dan Miller! and in Gallery II a curated selection of works by the emerging Artists of the AIM Center Inc's Arts Program. SPECIAL LECTURE by Roger Ricco, gallerist, artist, author, and 2006 Diane Marek Series Visiting Artist, who will discuss his research and experiences with these and other remarkable artists with disabilities. Lecture Thurs., Nov. 16, 5:30pm, Derthick Hall, 624 Vine St., followed by Opening Reception at the Cress. Shuttle service available between Derthick and the Fine Arts Center. Exhibition dates: Nov. 16 - Dec. 10, 2017.