Events
All Cress Gallery events are free and open to campus and community.
Cress events range from artist's lectures, presentations, panel discussions, workshops, and gallery talks as well as informal receptions that provide an opportunity for one on one conversation with the artists in association with exhibitions of their work.
Upcoming Events
October 8 - 11, 2012
The Diane Marek Visiting Artist Series 2012-13:Matthew Deleget October 8 - 11, 2012
Artist's Lecture October 9, 5:30pm, UTC Fine Arts Center Room 356.
Merging painting with conceptual, process, and installation strategies, Matthew Deleget’s reductive abstraction creates a rich sensory experience in response to the broad plurality of our contemporary world. In addition to his artistic practice, Deleget writes, curates, and advocates for the arts, and is co-founder of the gallery Minus Space, a platform for the international promotion of reductive art located in Brooklyn, NY. (Full schedule of events open to the public to be announced soon.)
Upcoming: Summer Wheat: February 11 - 14, 2013
Artist's lecture February 12, 5:30pm, UTC Fine Arts Center Room 356.
April 16,2013
UTC Department of Art Senior BFA Thesis Exhibition: Show Two
Exhibition opens Tuesday April 16, 2013: Artist's presentations begin at 4:30pm, UTC Cadek Hall Auditorium located on Oak Street; followed by an opening reception at the Cress Gallery, lobby of the UTC Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine Street. Parking for this event on April 16 is free after 3:30pm in Lot 10 behind the Engineering Bldg, Palmetto and Vine Street and directly across from the Fine Arts Center, and in the Lupton Library Lots 11 & 12. See Cress Parking and Admissions tab for information about parking on other days, and see you at the Cress!
Exhibition opens Tuesday April 16, 2013: Artist's presentations begin at 4:30pm, UTC Cadek Hall Auditorium located on Oak Street; followed by an opening reception at the Cress Gallery, lobby of the UTC Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine Street. Parking for this event on April 16 is free after 3:30pm in Lot 10 behind the Engineering Bldg, Palmetto and Vine Street and directly across from the Fine Arts Center, and in the Lupton Library Lots 11 & 12. See Cress Parking and Admissions tab for information about parking on other days, and see you at the Cress!
April 2, 2013
UTC Department of Art Bachelor of Fine Art Senior Thesis Exhibition "Show One"Exhibition opens Tuesday April 2, 2013: Artist's presentations begin at 4:30pm, Cadek Hall Auditorium, Oak Street; followed by an opening reception at the Cress Gallery, lobby of the UTC Fine Arts Center, 752 Vine Street. Be there!!
March 9, 2013
Summer Wheat "Few and Far Between" will be open during the campus Spring Break as the Cress maintains its regular operating hours 9:30am-7:30pm M-F and from 1:00-4:00pm weekends! Parking should be a breeze offering you a chance to spend time with this acclaimed exhibition of work by 2013 Diane Marek Visiting Artist, Summer Wheat.February 12, 2013
Summer Wheat, 2013 UTC Diane Marek Visiting Artist, artist's lecture February 12, 5:30pm, UTC Fine Arts Center room 356, followed by a public reception and the opening of her Cress exhibition Few and Far Between.. (Cress Gallery homepage exhibitions image: Summer Wheat, detail: Mud Room 2012)January 14, 2013
Joseph Peragine, artist, Associate Professor of Art Georgia State University and this year's Juror for the UTC Department of Art Student Exhibition returns to campus: Artist's lecture, January 14, 5:30-6:30pm, Fine Arts Center Room 356; free and open to the public. Peragine will participate in a Professionalism Discussion with students Tuesday, January 15, 11:00am - 12:00noon, Fine Arts Center Room 339, and conduct studio visits and informal conversations with students throughout that day.January 14, 2013
Joseph Peragine, 2013 UTC Student Exhibition Juror, Artist, and Associate Professor of Art, Georgia State University, speaks to his own work within the contexts and complexities of contemporary art;5:30pm, Room 356 Fine Arts Center
January 08, 2013
UTC Department of Art Juried Student Exhibition Opening Reception January 8, 5:30-7:30pm; Awards at 6:00pm.Juror: Joseph Peragine, Artist and Associate Professor of Art, Georgia State University
