(COVID-19) STATEMENT:
In the spirit of working to maintain the health and well-being for our communities, the on-campus Galleries and Exhibitions including our downtown location, Project Space 340, are open by appointment only. Please email galleries@ringling.edu to request an appointment.
HOLIDAY CLOSURES:
All on-campus galleries + PS340 will be closed though January 11, 2021
Department of Galleries and Exhibitions Ringling College of Art and Design 2700 N. Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34234 941.359.7563 Tim Jaeger, Director + Chief Curator 941.359.7562 Valerie Strenk, Galleries Operations Manager 941.309.4036 Get social with the Galleries by clicking any link below: HOLIDAY CLOSURES: All on-campus galleries + PS340 will be closed though January 11, 2021
HOURS: Richard + Barbara Basch Gallery: Monday - Friday 10am-3pm Willis Smith Construction Inc. Gallery: Monday - Friday 10am-3pm Patricia Thompson Alumni + Skylight Galleries: Monday–Friday 10am-3pm Lois + David Stulberg Gallery: Monday - Friday 10am-3pm Crossley Gallery: Monday - Friday 10am-3pm William G. and Marie Selby Foundation Gallery: Monday - Friday 10am-3pm Project Space 340 (PS340, located downtown Sarasota): Monday-Friday, 9:30am-noon Closed weekends and all major holidays. The Galleries program of Ringling College of Art and Design includes exhibitions and activities that celebrate the work and production of students, faculty and alumni. Our six on-campus galleries also host one person, group and thematic exhibitions that include locally, nationally and internationally known individuals. You will always find an exciting new exhibition, artist talk, lecture, or event to attend. Whether you’re an aspiring artist or someone who is curious about new forms of creative expression, we welcome you to expand your perspective. Discover awe-inspiring work and thought-provoking insights from the art world. Ringling College Galleries are free and open to the public. The Galleries on the campus of Ringling College of Art & Design provide a calendar of activities that supports the academic mission and curriculum of Ringling College. For questions about an exhibition, gallery, or event contact us at: 941.359.7563 or galleries@ringling.edu. -------------------------- As an Art and Design College, Ringling is focused on education. Whether it’s a student or art enthusiast, its galleries afford the visitor the most direct engagement with art and ideas. The artistic vision for this year's program of exhibitions and events is not only to educate our visitors about the information emerging from the artwork and the facts related to it, but also provide cultural programs and exhibitions within the Galleries that will establish itself as a place to gather and share human experiences. Art exhibitions are a launching point to present and discuss matters with which communities wrestle with, by which they are inspired by, or simply enjoy. Understanding how others think, learning how to listen, and creating a space for empathy, energized by the power of art, are some of the greatest opportunities we can offer our visitors. Art in Action: Visionaries and Voices will go beyond the walls of our buildings. This exhibition season will establish lines of dialogue with our communities, deepening our relationships with them and generating authentic bonds, as we serve them with programs that resonate with their interests while maintaining a museum-quality product. The result is an environment of trust and unity in which our society and campus community can thrive. Our Galleries and related happenings are places where we connect our past and present, build trust, inspire and envision a hopeful future. -Tim Jaeger, Director + Chief Curator of Galleries and Exhibitions, Ringling College of Art and Design The Lois and David Stulberg Gallery is Ringling College’s premier on-campus exhibition space in the center of campus (#2 on our campus map) in the Richard and Barbara Basch Visual Arts Center. The gallery presents lively, rotating displays of contemporary painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and experimental work by student, faculty, emerging and established artists. Patricia Thompson Alumni + Skylight Galleries features rotating exhibitions by Ringling College Alumni from all majors on the first floor of the intimate and historic on-campus Keating Center. The Richard + Barbara Basch Gallery was established as a premier location for the exhibition of student, faculty, emerging, and established artists. Located on the bottom floor of the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center (#1 on our campus map), the gallery features 1200 sqft of exhibition space with an adjoining Harold + Ronald Kendall Atrium for hosting artist receptions and other events including the popular Annual Richard and Barbara Basch Glass Exhibition. As the second largest gallery located on the south side of campus, The Willis Smith Construction Inc. Gallery hosts rotating group and solo exhibitions showcasing various mediums and styles from contemporary and modern to traditional work by established artists, emerging artists, students, and faculty. This gallery is located on the bottom floor of the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center and is #5 on our campus map.
Project Space 340, Ringling College's newest gallery is conveniently located in the historic Rosemary District in the heart of downtown Sarasota and features exhibitions and events by Ringling College students, alumni, faculty, and visiting artists. Abbreviated as PS340, this off-campus gallery serves as a catalyst for expansive and sustained interactions; where ideas are germinated and dialogue is shared with a diverse set of local communities. PS340 exhibitions will run concurrently with the regular Ringling College Galleries and Exhibition's season, with a variety of opening receptions and programming. Project Space 340, 340 Central Ave., Sarasota, FL 34236 MISSION:
2020-2021 EXHIBITION SEASON STATEMENT:
Art in Action: Visionaries and Voices
Lois + David Stulberg Gallery
Patricia Thompson Alumni + Skylight Galleries
Richard + Barbara Basch Gallery
Willis Smith Construction Inc. Gallery
Project Space 340 (PS340)
Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach #2, 1990, silkscreen, 63" x 65", courtesy of ACA Galleries New York
Aminah Robinson, Come Sunday, 2005, black and white woodcut, 48" x 36", courtesty of ACA Galleries New York
THIS EXHIBITION IS ONLINE: https://www.ringgoldrobinson.com
A truly compelling narrative has transformative power. As stories become alive and engage they teach us about our communities, our histories and ourselves. Ringgold + Robinson: Storytellers, is a two-artist exhibition featuring a mini survey of mixed media artworks by legendary African American female artists Faith Ringgold and Aminah Robinson. This exhibition will be on view (in-person and online) from January 11 – February 12, 2021 in the Lois and Stulberg Gallery located on the Ringling College of Art and Design campus.
This exhibition courtesy of the ACA Galleries, NYC and sponsored by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County., SRQ Media Group, WUSF 89.7, Home Resource, and paid for in part by Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax revenues
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Faith Ringgold (1930-)
Storytelling is at the center of Faith Ringgold’s practice. For more than 50 years, she’s been creating, writing, and performing art that documents the American narrative. She’s explored segregation and the Civil Rights Movement, considered black pride and the politics of skin color, and reflected on her personal experiences—sharing how it felt to be a black woman in the 1960s and the decades hence. In recognition of her contributions as an artist and activist, Ringgold has received countless honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting, and an NAACP Image Award. Her work continues to be exhibited in major museums around the world.
Aminah Robinson (1940-2015)
For more than sixty years, Aminah Robinson created art inspired by the African concept of Sankofa: understanding the past in order to go forward. An artist, teacher, storyteller, messenger, and historian, her work reflects the drawing, papermaking, and needlework traditions that she learned from her parents and the training she received in art school. Aminah created sculpture, large complex work she called RagGonNons, rag paintings, paintings on cloth, drawings, and books about her family and community, African American history, her travels, and the stories she was told by her elders. Her goal was to inspire others to research and document the history of their families and communities for the next generation.
Appointments are required to view this exhibition.
To make an appointment, please email galleries@ringling.edu or call 941.359.7563.
Admission to this exhibition is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 3pm
Red Woman, detail, image courtesy of Sheryl Haler
THIS EXHIBITION IS ONLINE: https://www.sherylhalerart.com
Planting / Growing / Tree / Knowledge / Eden / Paradise / Reap What We Sow
Through the lens of now, going BACK TO THE GARDEN is reconnecting with nature, with culture, with religion, with science, with myth, with history, with knowledge, with the origin of our true self and our better angels.
This exhibition is sponsored by Herald Tribune Media Group and WUSF 89.7
THIS EXHIBITION IS ONLINE: https://www.baschgallery.com
Now in its 12th year, the Ringling College glass sculpture exhibition from the Richard and Barbara Basch Collection presents A Few of Our Favorite Things. This exhibition features some of the most exceptional examples of art glass and brilliant one-of-a-kind commissions by the greatest masters of the medium from around the world. It highlights the Basch Collection of more than 300 works of art glass by iconic artists, including: Giampaolo Amoruso, Martin Blank, Latchezar Boyadjiev, Peter Bremers, Lucio Bubacco, Dale Chihuly, Laura di Santillana, Laura Donefer, Robin Grebe, Colin Heaney, Shin-ichi Higuchi, Richard Royal, Lino Tagliapietra, and Bertil Vallien.
This exhibition is sponsored by the James and Maryann Armour Family Foundation Inc., Williams Parker, Sarasota Herald Tribune Media Group, WUSF 89.7, and paid for in part by Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax revenues
Appointments are required to view this exhibition.
To make an appointment, please email galleries@ringling.edu or call 941.359.7563.
Admission to this exhibition is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 3pm
Image: The Founder, painting on canvas, courtesy of Regan Dunnick
October 19, 2020 - February 12, 2021
THIS EXHIBITION IS ONLINE: https://www.plumbobsulysses.com/
Featuring original paintings and drawings by renowned illustrator and long-time Ringling College Faculty member, Regan Dunnick (Class of 1976). The Patricia Thompson Gallery features rotating exhibitions by Ringling College Alumni from all majors on the first floor of the historic Keating Center.
BIO: Regan Dunnick is an internationally known illustrator. He has won numerous awards and his works are in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. He has been selected to such major exhibitions as the United Nations Environmental Show, The New Pop Show — which toured Europe and chronicled innovators, American Illustration, and The Hiroshima Memorial Design Show (Hiroshima, Japan).
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January 18 - February 12, 2021
Celebrating its 11th year, the Type Club presents Ligature Show XI, a juried student exhibition of typographic work from all majors in categories such as Drop Cap, Type in Motion, Hand Lettering, and Editorial. This exhibition showcases the typographic excellence at Ringling College of Art + Design.
This exhibtion is sponsored by SRQ Media Group, and WUSF 89.7
Appointments are required to view this exhibition.
To make an appointment, please email galleries@ringling.edu or call 941.359.7563.
Admission to this exhibition is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am to 3pm
THIS EXHIBITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE AT www.warpaint.gallery
WAR PAINT: Profiles of Courage was created as a tribute to the bravery of veterans who have served and those currently serving our country. Ringling College of Art and Design students, faculty, and local artists will create portrait profiles of veterans in variety of mediums. The images tell stories from WW ll, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and current enlisted troops that will enrich the Ringling College community for years to come.
This exhibition will be held at Ringling College’s newest gallery, Project Space 340 (abbreviated to PS340), located in the Arcos Building at 340 Central Avenue, in the heart of Sarasota’s historic Rosemary District.
The exhibition, War Paint: Profiles of Courage, was organized by the Galleries of Ringling College and Matthew Troyer, president of the Ringling College Veteran’s Club. Matthew is a combat veteran, former combat photographer, and is currently majoring in Photography and Imaging.
Admission is free and open to the public. This exhibition is sponsored by the Gail Baird Foundation, Sarasota Herald Tribune Media Group, WUSF 89.7, and paid for in part by Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax
Image courtesy of the artist
October 19 - December 11, 2020
THIS EXHIBITION IS ONLINE: https://www.spettibonpersonalgeography.com
Image: Tony Rice, Mira, 2006-2020, 60" x 48"
This digital exhibition features recent work by accomplished faculty currently teaching at Ringling College of Art and Design. Featuring a dizzying array of media and artistic styles that reflect the breadth of art practices, this exhibition provides an important opportunity for art faculty members to share their work with students, colleagues, and the community.
Image: Keith Losh, Spilway, 2019, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
In addition to contributing to the day-to-day campus operations, Ringling College has a dedicated staff of studio artists. Collectively, their work represents a wide range of concept and material approaches. Join us as we celebrate exciting new works by Ringling College staff members, and instructors from Ringling College Continuing Studies and the Englewood Art Center in this fascinating digital exhibition.
Image courtesy of the Jack Davis estate
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Famed in particular for his speed and a tendency to create images overflowing with colorful characters, Jack Davis was one of the founding members of Mad Magazine's "Usual Gang of Idiots." He supplied covers for TIME and TV Guide, designed numerous album covers and movie posters, and, over his 60-year career, became one of the most in-demand caricaturists and cartoonists in the world.
This exhibition attempts to show Davis' range by bringing together a selection of his original work that demonstrates his breadth of subjects and his skills as an artist. This body of work focuses on American popular culture, diving deeper into his career than the sports and caricature work for which he is best known.
This exhibition is open by appointment only. Please email galleries@ringling.edu to request an appointment.
Illest of Illustration is an annual juried exhibition that showcases the outstanding works created by current Illustration students of Ringling College of Art and Design. Over 100 works were chosen from more than 200 submissions. The talented guest jurors, Justin and Annie Stegg Gerard, made their selections based on the quality of technique, concept, and skill of medium used.
Image courtesy of the artist
Open by appointment 8/28-10/1 Mon-Fri 10am-4pm. For appointment please email galleries@ringling.edu
Nostalgia can be a powerful trigger of emotions and memories, sometimes even invoking forgotten past events, places, and moments. Nostalgia also sells. Products replicating or calling back to the 1980’s and 1990’s have seen a surge (resurgence?) of popularity recently. These products are often marketed to younger generations who are fascinated with the decades, right along with the adults who actually owned the original items - or still do.
Dean photographs both the popular and old toys he still has from his childhood. Well-known toys that evoke nostalgia in others, the obscure tokens, and the items made by companies that no longer exist; all have histories which have been lost to time. In doing so, Dean found himself pondering the origins of the objects, who might have designed and created them, how many of them were made, the persistence of similar colors, and how many still exist. Over time, each object also picks up its own unique set of bumps and scratches, becoming tiny fragments of years that only grow more distant. Dean creates new art out of the mass-produced trinkets. He makes new memories out of the old, playing with color and shape; creating something for the viewer to enjoy looking through. Perhaps connecting with them as well by unlocking a buried snapshot of a distant time and place.
PRESS:
Nostalgicon Exhibition Tells a Millennial Toy Story, SRQ Magazine by Andrew Fabian, August 2020
New Ringling College exhibit celebrate nostaligic toys, Suncoast View, September 2020
ABOUT: The annual Senior Thesis exhibitions at the Ringling College of Art and Design give viewers the opportunity to experience new and innovative approaches to art created by each graduating class. Artists working in thirteen disciplines showcase their talents in exhibitions, screenings and presentations in the areas of Fine Arts, Photography & Digital Imaging, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Advertising Design, Motion Design, Film, Visual Studies, Illustration, Computer Animation, Game Art and the Business of Art & Design. Visitors flock to the campus each year to view stunning final projects created by Ringling College students embarking on careers in the arts.
PRESS:
Ringling College Senior Thesis Shows Go On, Virtually by Kay Kipling, Sarasota Magazine
Ringling College Launches Senior Show Online, Annette Gutierrez, SNN News 6
The Best of Ringling comprises work from all thirteen disciplines at Ringling College, ranging from Computer Animation to Fine Arts, Creative Writing to Graphic Design. Over a dozen jurors, well-known and respected professionals in their fields, participate in the vetting, selection, and awards process. These jurors also provide the criteria for selection and offer comment and critique for the students.
Image: Bill Mayer, White Rabbit, gouache on paper
January 13 - April 3, 2020
PATRICIA THOMPSON ALUMNI GALLERY in the Keating Center
Fusing charming portraits of wildlife with the severe trappings of historical costume, Bill Mayer (class of 72') creates dark dream characters in his detailed gouache paintings. The well-known artist lives in Decatur, Georgia and has had a long career as a commercial artist.
Admission to this exhibition is FREE and open to the public.
PUBLIC EVENTS:
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm
Sponsored by Ringling College Library Association, and Sponsored by NPR Radio Stations WUSF 89.7 and WGCU
Image: From the Ikebana series, Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941), 1993, 2009. Photo by Nancy Nassiff
January 13 - March 30 2020
RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH GALLERY in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
Now in its 11th year, the Ringling College glass sculpture exhibition from the Richard and Barbara Basch Collection presents Generations of Genius in Glass. This exhibition features some of the most exceptional examples of art glass and brilliant one-of-a-kind commissions by the greatest masters of the medium from around the world. It highlights the Basch Collection of more than 300 works of art glass by iconic artists, including: Oben Abright, Peter Bremers, Lucio Bubacco, Dale Chihuly, Monica Guggisberg and Philip Baldwin, Seth Randal, Richard Royal, Davide Salvadore, Archimede Seguso, Livio Seguso, Lino Tagliapietra, and Bertil Vallien.
Docent tours are conducted Wednesdays at 10:30 am by Mrs. Barbara Basch. No reservations required.
Admission to this exhibition is FREE and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm, closed on Sundays
Sponsored by Sarasota Herald Tribune, and Sponsored by NPR Radio Stations WUSF 89.7 and WGCU
February 28 - March 14, 2020
LOIS & DAVID STULBERG GALLERY in the Richard and Barbara Basch Visual Arts Center
Celebrating its 10th year, the Type Club presents Ligature Show X, a juried student exhibition of typographic work from all majors in categories such as Drop Cap, Type in Motion, Hand Lettering, and Editorial. This exhibition showcases the typographic excellence at Ringling College of Art + Design and was organized by 2019 Trustee Scholar, Martin Pohlmann and Noah Coleman.
PUBLIC EVENTS:
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm
Sponsored by Community Foundation of Sarasota County, SRQ Media, Home Resource, and Sponsored by NPR Radio Stations WUSF 89.7 and WGCU
February 28 - March 27, 2020
WILLIS SMITH CONSTRUCTION INC. GALLERIES in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
The Ringling College of Art and Design's Continuing Studies Annual Juried Exhibition provides its students the opportunity to exhibit their art work in a month long, juried, all-inclusive exhibition in Willis Smith Gallery located on-campus at Ringling College of Art and Design. The Galleries of Ringling College and Continuing Studies proudly sponsor this exhibition to foster and encourage our students as working artists and we celebrate their accomplishments! This exhibition will highlight a beautiful collection of artworks influenced by studies in multiple art and design classes selected, by an expert panel of judges with an evening reception, preview, and award presentation.
Reception: 2/28 from 5-8pm, remarks at 6:30pm
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm
Sponsored by NPR Radio Stations WUSF 89.7 and WGCU
Opening Receptions: Friday, February 28, 5-8pm
ALL CAMPUS GALLERIES
Ringling College of Art and Design’s Art Walks celebrate the work of exhibiting artists, College faculty, and students. Join us for an event-filled evening of art, food, and music. This event is family friendly, free, and open to the public.
January 24 - February 14, 2020
SELBY GALLERY in the Arland and Sally Christ-Janer Center
The Path of Most Resistance: New Works by Steven Strenk surveys a lifestyle surrounded by water and the journey of exploring remote surf locations. The work focuses on traveling through an old growth forest along the Oregon coastline, passing objects of civilization, surfboards, picnic tables, and campfires; truly putting things into perspective. This work mainly is addressing a partnership between location and object, pattern and mark, material and surface.
January 13 - February 14, 2020
WILLIS SMITH CONSTRUCTION INC. GALLERIES in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
While the techniques, materials and methods may vary, playfully employing word as image is a consistent theme in work created during the past 20 years at Springtide Press. Pushing the boundaries of traditional typographic composition, proprietor Jessica Spring coined the term “daredevil letterpress” while coaxing wood and metal type to dance in circles, curves and angles in her prints and artist books. The tools she invented for this purpose—called Daredevil Furniture—draw upon historic research and have been put to use by printers around the world. “Word Play” also features the Dead Feminists, a series of collaborative broadsides with illustrator Chandler O’Leary that began in 2008. These reproductions of original hand lettered, letterpress printed broadsides include quotes by historic women that highlight political and social justice issues. This cumulation of words and images—given voice at Springtide Press—plays well together.
Admission to this exhibition is FREE and open to the public.
PUBLIC EVENTS:
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Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm
Sponsored by Sponsored by NPR Radio Stations WUSF 89.7 and WGCU
Opening Receptions: Friday, January 24, 5-8pm
ALL CAMPUS GALLERIES
Ringling College of Art and Design’s Art Walks celebrate the work of exhibiting artists, College faculty, and students. Join us for an event-filled evening of art, food, and music. This event is family friendly, free, and open to the public.
Image: Romare Bearden, Jazz II Deluxe, 1980 Ed. 134/200, Serigraph, 31 x 41.5 in.
January 13 - February 6, 2020
LOIS & DAVID STULBERG GALLERY in the Richard and Barbara Basch Visual Arts Center
This exhibition shines a bright light on the spectrum of African-American artistic practices from the early 20th century to present day. We invite you to explore the stylistic evolutions powerfully expressed in the works of these 23 African-American artists. Including vibrant paintings, quilts, prints, sculpture, and drawings, this exhibition is a unique opportunity to view historical reflections and contributions of cultural importance.
Featured artists include: Benny Andrews, E.M. Bannister, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow, Joseph Delaney, Robert S. Duncanson, Gaye Ellington, Gale Fulton-Ross, Frederick Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Ronald Joseph, Jacob Lawrence, Richard Mayhew, Eleanor Merritt, Charles Ethan Porter, Faith Ringgold, Aminah Robinson, Therman Statom, James Van Der Zee, and Charles White.
Ringling College of Art and Design is grateful to partner with the ACA Galleries in bringing these exceptional works to Sarasota. We would also like to thank Mr. Warren R. and Marie E. Colbert, Mrs. Carol Camiener, and Dr. Lisa Merritt for the generous loan of artworks for this exhibition. Special thanks to Melanie S. Thomas, Greatness Beyond Measure, Newtown Alive, Sarasota African American Cultural Coalition, and Marie Selby Botanical Gardens for their support and partnership.
EVENTS:
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm
SELBY GALLERY in the Arland and Sally Christ-Janer Center
on view through January 10, 2020
This exhibition is a collection of some of the best visual development work created by Ringling College students over the past few years. The featured work centers around themes that are well-suited for the entertainment industry, specifically film, video game, animation, and graphic novel production. In these highly competitive fields, it is important for the work to stand out both in terms of the quality of the rendering, and in the quality of the underlying ideas and concepts. Students who work in this arena are less concerned with showcasing their work publicly than they are with communicating ideas and concepts to production teams. The ultimate goal of their work is to inform the visual aspects of larger-scale projects. This exhibition is a look at some of the fantastic work that often happens behind-the-scenes.
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Imagining Worlds: The Art of Visual Development will be on view from Monday, December 2 through Friday, January 10, 2020.
Opening Reception: Friday, October 18, 5-8pm
October 18 -December 17, 2019
PATRICIA THOMPSON ALUMNI GALLERY in the Keating Center
Florida has an industrial legacy of abandoned phosphate mines and company towns, which have become mythical ghost towns. Finding these gems or “time capsules” as photographer, Virginia Hoffman refers to them, can be by careful research or simply freewheeling from several years spent traveling the Florida back roads.
In the upcoming exhibition, Vanishing Old Florida, on view in the Patricia Thompson Alumni Gallery at Ringling College of Art and Design, Virginia Hoffman (class of 1978), features more than 2 dozen images of the bucolic geography and the mesmerizing clouds of the disappearing Old Florida vernacular Cracker houses and barns.
Hoffman’s approach to photography consists of a unique blend of traditional compositions captured through the new world of digital media. The featured works are a collection of archival digital prints, hand crafted platinum palladium and cyanotype prints. The later are classical archival photo processes developed by the inventors of early 19th century photo printing.
FEATURE: Vanishing Old Florida to Open at Ringling College Gallery by Robert Plunket, Sarasota Magazine
Image: Virginia Hoffman, Abandoned Main Street, Central Hill, FL (Demolished)
October 18 -December 6, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 18, 5-8pm
Evening Panel Discussion: Thursday, November 14, 6-8pm
LOIS & DAVID STULBERG GALLERY in the Richard and Barbara Basch Visual Arts Center
Famed in particular for his speed and a tendency to create images overflowing with colorful characters, Jack Davis was one of the founding members of Mad Magazine's "Usual Gang of Idiots." He supplied covers for TIME and TV Guide, designed numerous album covers and movie posters, and, over his 60-year career, became one of the most in-demand caricaturists and cartoonists in the world.
This exhibition attempts to show Davis' range by bringing together a selection of his original work that demonstrates his breadth of subjects and his skills as an artist. This body of work focuses on American popular culture, diving deeper into his career than the sports and caricature work for which he is best known.
REVIEW: Jack Davis and his mad, mad art by Marty Fugate, Sarasota Herald Tribune
FEATURE: Ringling College Introduces Us to the Pop Culture Art of Jack Davis | Suncoast View
October 18 -December 6, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 18, 5-8pm
RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH GALLERY in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
Hugh Davies was raised in Nigeria and England. He was educated in Somerset, studied fine art at Brighton College of Art, and earned his master’s degree in fine art from Chelsea College of Art, London.
As a student in the sixties, Davies moved from figuration to abstraction, returned to figuration in the eighties, and then painted images which depicted invented abstract spaces and structures, often located in landscapes after moving to Florida from London. In his own words, the works in this exhibition are an attempt to reconcile invention, abstraction, and representation.
Davies has served on the faculties of distinguished institutions including Chelsea College of Art, Oxford University, University of the Arts, London, and, most recently, Ringling College of Art and Design, where he worked for 12 years, retiring in 2019. Davies’ work has been exhibited in more than 60 group and solo exhibitions in significant galleries and museums internationally. READ MORE
Image: Untitiled 120" x 90", oil on canvas
October 18 - November 20, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 18, 6-8pm
Willis Smith Construction Inc. Gallery in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
How do you go from creative spark to creative business? An interactive multimedia exhibition and event series, Artists Minding Their Business takes us on the evolution from making art to making a living. Ringling’s Business of Art & Design Department and founder of Culture Hustlers, Lucas Spivey (BFA/MBA) have curated the Willis Smith Gallery into a visual showcase of the entrepreneurial journey. Inside interactive installations, visiting founders and creative entrepreneurs swap inspiring stories and provide visitors with practical advice.
Opening Receptions: Friday, October 18, 5-8pm
ALL CAMPUS GALLERIES
Ringling College of Art and Design’s Art Walks celebrate the work of exhibiting artists, College faculty, and students. Join us for an event-filled evening of art, food, and music.
October 11 - October 25, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 11, 6-8pm
WILLIAM G. and MARIE SELBY FOUNDATION GALLERY in the Christ-Janer Center
The Illustration Department is pleased to present the New Faculty Exhibition. This show will feature a stunning and diverse body of work from the new illustration faculty that were hired this year. Some of these featured faculty are new-hires, while some, though not new to Ringling College, are new to the Illustration Department or have assumed different faculty roles within the Department.
Come join us in welcoming the Illustration Department's newest faculty members. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
For additional information, please direct inquiries to Matteo Caloiaro: mcaloiar@c.ringling.edu.
Image credit top to bottom, left to right: Katie Cundiff - Tarpon Reflections, Matt Myers - Kismet, Michael Marsicano - Camille Paglia, Dominic Avant - Repose
August 12- October 18, 2019
BRIZDLE-SCHOENBERG SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CENTER, 2nd Floor, Alfred R. Goldstein Library
The possibilities surrounding food preparation and the dining table have long been a subject of interest to artists from Alison Knowles's Fluxus proposition "Make a salad" (1962) and its subsequent performances and Michael Rakowitz's socially-engaged Enemy Kitchen (2003-ongoing) that teaches Americans how to make Iraqi food to Judy Chicago's feminist-intervention-installation The Dinner Party (1979) and Joseph Grigely's Untitled Conversation at the Potato Cafe (1996), a tableau of remnants from a meal shared between dining companions.
The Kitchen Is Now Open takes a small shift from this trajectory to specifically look at the legacy of the cookbook as an expressive genre and the forms it has taken in the hands of modern and contemporary artists. The exhibition contains a selection of artists cookbooks, recipes, and food scores from 1945-2019. Readers will find recipe ideas ”practical, delicious, humorous, pointed” for every course.
Some projects approach cooking and art making as an act of radical hospitality, others draw attention to the hidden creativity of domestic labor, others share their embodied joy of eating. Themes include: At the Genetically Modified Table; Chewing on Globalization; The Memory of Dinners Past; The Art of Food Illustration; A Recipe of Romance & Heartache; Second Wave Feminism and the Terrain of the Kitchen; The Artwork Is and Is Not Really About the Food; Artists and Writers, Combine and Stir.
Image: Dorothy Iannone, A Cookbook, completed in 1969, published in 2018.
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For more information, contact Janelle Rebel, Digital Curation and Special Collections Librarian (jrebel@c.ringling.edu / 941.359.7583)
October 8 - 12, 2019
Opening Reception: Thursday October 10, 5-7:30pm
RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH GALLERY in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
In partnership with the School District of Sarasota County interior design students at Ringling College of Art and Design worked with teachers and students to re-design six classrooms. The goal of the project was to improve student literacy through a new innovative classroom design. Using evidence based design principles, creativity, and interior design knowledge, junior students produced unique solutions for three of Sarasota’s high schools; Booker High School, Riverview High School, and Venice High School. The exhibit is a culmination of this initiative, currently in the implementation stage by the district through support of the Barancik Foundation.
Student participants:
September 6 - October 4, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 6-8pm
LOIS & DAVID STULBERG GALLERY in the Richard and Barbara Basch Visual Arts Center
This exhibition features recent work by more than 30 talented faculty currently teaching at Ringling College. Featuring a dizzying array of media and artistic styles that reflect the breadth of art practices, this exhibition provides an important opportunity for art faculty members to share their work with students, colleagues, and the community.
Image credit: Joe Fig, 3 Portraits: Freud, Freud, Peyton, 9" x 12", oil on linen
ARTICLE: Art on the Horizon by Roger Skidmore
September 6 - October 4, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 6-8pm
RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH GALLERY & WILLIS SMITH CONSTRUCTION INC. GALLERY in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
In addition to contributing to the day-to-day operations, Ringling College has a dedicated staff of studio artists. Collectively, their work represents a wide range of concept and material approaches. Join us as we celebrate exciting new works by Ringling College staff members and instructors from Ringling College Continuing Studies and the Englewood Art Center.
Image credit: Jeffery Cornwell, Expanse, 48" x 60", acrylic on canvas
ARTICLE: Art on the Horizon by Roger Skidmore
September 6 - October 4, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 6-8pm
PATRICIA THOMPSON ALUMNI GALLERY in the Keating Center
As you enter Flamingo Inn, you will discover that the root of inspiration arrives from the displacement and dissembling of space. Only after you remove yourself from the references, such as the physical location, story, or myth, will you be able to examine the concept of the artists’ subject(s) and determine its relationship (and bridge) to you. Whether it’s the concept of paradise (as referenced in Morgan Janssen’s work), or the concept of space/nature and travel (as referenced in Shawn Pettersen's work), these artists propose multiple questions to the reality and perception of the world we inhabit.
Shawn Pettersen, Fine Art Class of 2003 and Morgan Janssen, Fine Art Class of 2013
Shawn Pettersen: Artist Statement and Bio
Morgan Janssen: Artist Statment and Bio
Image, left to right: Morgan Janssen, Backstage Sunset, sculpture, 2013
Shawn Pettersen, The Drowning Astronaut, digital print on polar metallic paper, 44" x 61", 2017
August 30 - September 27, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, August 30, 6-8pm
WILLIAM G. AND MARIE SELBY FOUNDATION GALLERY in the Arland Christ-Janer Building
This exhibition features plein air and reference photo paintings of horses, head studies, and Italian landscapes by Ken Spirduso. Spirduso has numerous credits for feature animated films and video games. He has created concept art and murals for theme parks around the world, and has painted book covers, illustrations, and fine art. READ MORE
Image credit: Ken Spriduso
ARTICLE: Art on the Horizon by Roger Skidmore
August 26 - September 13, 2019
Opening Reception, Thursday, August 29th, 4:30-8pm
CROSSLEY GALLERY in the Bayou Studios Complex
The Fine Arts Department of Ringling College of Art + Design is pleased to present the Second Annual Alumni Exhibition featuring the work of Omar Chacon, Matt Coombs, Chie Fueki, Muriel Holloway, Sooky Kim, Natalie Lerner, Tom Stephens, Kelly Sturhahn
The exhibition will include paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and works on paper by our prestigious alumni.
Image credit: Omar Chacon, Untitled no. 19, 2002, 37" x 37", acrylic on canvas
May 31-June 20
Opening Reception, Friday, May 31 5-7pm, Willis Smith Construction Inc. Gallery and Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design
The Beauty of Small exhibition will be presented by The Florida Artists Group (FLAG) at the Ringling College of Art + Design. The public is invited to attend the opening reception Friday, May 31st, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm, in the Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery and the Willis Smith Construction Gallery at the college. The exhibition, showcasing art in a range of mediums, none exceeding 26” in width and height, will run from May 31 to June 20 as part of the group’s 69th Symposium and Exhibition. Lisa L. Cyr will be the juror.
Galleries are located at 2363 Old Bradenton Road on the ground floor of the Academic Center building on the Ringling College of Art + Design campus. Docent Tours are Wednesdays, June 5 at 11:00 am, June 12 at 1:00 pm, and June 19 at 11:00 am. To arrange a tour, email Susan Turconi: susanturconi@gmail.com, or Lolly Owens: lolly@lollyowens.com . Hours: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Tuesday through Saturday. The galleries are closed Sunday and Monday.
About: The Florida Artists Group (FLAG) was incorporated as a non-profit organization of professional artists in 1949. Made up of artists whose work has attained national or state-wide recognition, the purpose of the group is to stimulate attainment of the highest standards of creative art within the State of Florida.
Members' Annual Exhibition: The annual exhibition is juried for awards (currently nine) that are presented at the Awards Banquet held as part of the Symposium. FLAG hosts an eminent artist, educator, curator or Museum professional to act as juror and Keynote Speaker at the Symposium.
Image credits: (Left to Right, Top to Bottom) Jospeh Melancon, Mystery Tree, Susan von Gries, Choosing the Right Path, Bettina Sego, Loosely in the Sky with Diamonds, John Hintz, Emerging
Links:
Press: FLAG Brings Annual Statewide Exhibition to Ringling College, SRQ Magazine by Phil Lederer
May 7: On-campus reception, 5-8pm, open to the public
The annual Senior Thesis exhibitions at the Ringling College of Art and Design give viewers the opportunity to experience new and innovative approaches to art created by each graduating class. Artists working in thirteen disciplines showcase their talents in exhibitions, screenings and presentations in the areas of Fine Arts, Photography & Digital Imaging, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Advertising Design, Motion Design, Film, Visual Studies, Illustration, Computer Animation, Game Art and the Business of Art & Design. Visitors flock to the campus each year to view stunning final projects created by Ringling College students embarking on careers in the arts.
Special Screenings and Events:
Locations of Exhibition by Major:
Gallery Hours:
May 6: 10am - 4pm
May 7: 10am - 4 pm
May 8: 10am - 4pm
May 9: 10am - 2pm
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The Best of Ringling juried exhibitions draw people from all over the world to discover new talent and take the pulse of innovation in Fine Art, Photography, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Advertising Design, Creative Writing, Motion Design, Film, Illustration, Computer Animation, Game Art, Virtual Reality, and the Business of Art & Design. Over a dozen jurors well-known in their respective fields participate in the vetting, selection and awards process. Each juror provides their criteria for selection and comments about the winners. The latest hardware and software applications are used to convey and promote the artists' ideas and present them to visitors. More than a thousand student participate in this annual competition and the winners are considered the best of the best.
April 2 & 3, 11am-7:30pm
Stulberg Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design
WAKU WAKU project is a design built project of Japanese culture that is held in Sarasota, Florida.
The goal of the project is to translate the experience of Japanese culture into the American context, we want the visitors to step into an unfamiliar world and to participate in its culture. Not only will you come to know Japanese culture, but also deepen your understanding of the history by physically experiencing this event. Entering the world of “Wa” will give you a special experience. This event consists of 4 exhibits and guests can explore freely, join us!
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/300981550572384/
January 8 - March 30, 2019
RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH GALLERY in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
10th Anniversary - GLASS - THEN AND NOW from the Richard and Barbara Basch Collection features stunning examples of previously exhibited work as well as new acquisitions. For the past decade Ringling Curator Mark Ormond has worked with Dr. and Mrs. Richard Basch to organize a rich variety of exhibitions focusing on subject matter, country of origin, technique and the work of acknowledged glass masters. The exhibition presents highlights from the Basch Collection and includes work by iconic artists such as: Oben Abright, Martin Blank, Lucio Bubacco, Dale Chihuly, Leslie Ann Genninger, Richard Jolley, Richard Marquis, Dante Marioni, Benjamin Moore, William Morris, Seth Randal, Richard Royal, Davide Salvadore, Alessandro de Santillana, Preston Singletary, Lino Tagliapietra, Bertil Vallien and Toots Zynsky.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10–4pm
Closed Sunday and Monday
Location: Basch Gallery is located on the ground floor of the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center at 2363 Old Bradenton Rd. on the Ringling College Campus. Link to campus gallery map
Docent Tours: Barbara Basch will give a free docent tour each Wednesday at 10:30 AM. No reservation is required, but please plan to arrive early since space is limited.
LINKS:
CHECKLIST: 10th ANNIVERSARY- GLASS Then and Now from the Richard and Barbara Basch Collection
ARTICLE: Clearly, Florida is a Showcase for Glass Art, by Peter Sanger, Wall Street Journal
Images: Top to Bottom, Left to Right, 1. Lino Tagliapietra, Florencia, 2018, 2. Installation view Basch Gallery, 3. Leslie Ann Genninger, Vetri Male-Detti III, L'amor no xé fato solo de amor (Love is not made only of love), 2017, Handblown antique Murano glass elements sculpture inscribed with Venetian proverb, Vetri Male-Detti IV,Zucaro in boca, veleno in cuor (Sugar in the mouth, but poison in the heart) 2017 Handblown antique Murano glass elements sculpture inscribed with Venetian proverb, Vetri Male-Detti VI, Chi no risccia no rosega (No risk, No reward), 2017 Handblown antique Murano glass elements sculpture inscribed with Venetian proverb 4. Lucio Bubacco, Donna Scorpioni, 1998, Lamp worked glass, 25" x 8", 5. Seth Randal, Tanga Lei, 2005, Glass, lost wax, pate de verre, 22 x 10 x 13 inches
March 28, 2019
Stulberg Gallery, 7-9pm
Type Club presents Ligature Show, an exhibition of typographic work from all majors in categories such as Drop Cap, Type in Motion, Hand Lettering, and Editorial. This exhibition showcases the typographic excellence at Ringling College of Art + Design and was organized by Michael Corey and Martin Pohlmann
NOW - March 16, 2019
LOIS AND DAVID STULBERG GALLERY in the Richard and Barbara Basch Visual Art Center
REAL Fashion Photography is an exhibition of images that portray the world of fashion in ways that resemble everyday life. A mixture of photographs that have appeared in periodicals with those that have appeared in galleries, REAL Fashion Photography brings together voices from creators in the industry with those who consume and critique its ideals and iconography.
These images include the glamorous banalities of Sloan Laurits, Hao Zeng, and Reed + Rader, and the self-referential, appropriated visual tropes of Natalie Krick and Emma Bee Bernstein. The result is an exhibition that presents the genre of fashion photography as being a function of today’s socio-economic norms, diverse communities, banal settings, and wide range of traditional and digital technologies.
Image: Hao Zeng, Zuoye, Manami, Gao, 2017
LINKS:
PRESS: Fashion gets "REAL" in Ringling College Photo Exhibit by Marty Fugate, Sarasota Herald Tribune
CATALOG: REAL Fashion Photography Publication
through March 1, 2019
This pop-up exhibition features work made in Liberal Arts Instructor Jennifer Vreeland-Dawson’s Ecology of Water class. Each student has considered the present state of water systems. Pollution of plastics and chemicals are negatively affecting the ecological and physical systems of both our fresh and salt water ecologies. Natural events such as red tides are becoming more frequent and more toxic by human driven activities causing fertilizer runoff and warming waters due to climate change. Students have made the art you see here about various forms of pollution informed by what they have learned in class and by communicating with experts in the scientific community.
LINKS:
Ringling College of Art and Design’s Art Walks celebrate the work of exhibiting artists, College faculty, and students. Join us for an event-filled evening of art, food, and music from 4-7pm.
1. Cooley Photography Center, Chroma, 2nd floor Cooley Photography Center
2. Patricia Thompson Gallery, RED TIDES and other BLUE Issues: communicating the present state of our water systems through art, in the Keating Center
3. Madeby Gallery, Theodore Morris, in the Madeby Gallery
4. Lois and David Stulberg Gallery, REAL Fashion Photography, in the Richard and Barbara Bash Visual Arts Center
5. Brizdle-Schoenberg Special Collections, Step and Repeat: Pattern in Artists’ Publications, in the Alfred R. Goldstein Library
6. Selby Foundation Gallery, Stratification: The Collaborative Paintings of Tim Jaeger and Steven Strenk, in the Arland and Sally Christ-Janer Center
7. Crossley Gallery, Double Spacing, in the Bayou Studios Complex
8. Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery, 10th ANNIVERSARY- GLASS Then and Now from the Richard and Barbara Basch Collection, in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
9. Willis Smith Gallery, Microplastics, in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
CLICK HERE FOR A MAP AND CHECKLIST
November 16 - December 14, 2018
Join us this Thursday, December 13, in a closing discussion with several of the artists involved in the show. Curators Tess Lockey and Mark Ormond will be leading a Q&A about the motivations behind their art and the ways Microplastics affect their lives. The discussion will run from 11:30am to 12pm in the Willis Smith Gallery at the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center.
Opening reception November 16, 5-7pm
WILLIS SMITH GALLERY in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
Modern society is immersed in plastic. From our household appliances to handheld gadgets. From our clothes to our food to our beds, lined with synthetic fiber, to our work tables laminated in plastic tops, it is all around us. Microplastics are small pieces of plastic 5mm or less, either manufactured that size or degraded from larger objects. Ingested by fish and other marine life, they infiltrate our tap water systems, and absorb chemicals in the water that surrounds them.
The MICROPLASTICS exhibition will serve as a bridge between objective research on Microplastics and the subjective response to it, awakening a sense of social responsibility and ecological awareness in the viewer. Multiple viewpoints will be presented and gallery visitors will be encouraged to share their thoughts through surveys before and after the exhibition.
More About the Exhibition:
Mark Ormond, Curator will be working with Tess Lockey a Junior Illustration major who was born in Hong Kong and raised in the Philippines and has lived near the sea all her life. She first learned about Microplastics in the fall of 2017, when her instructor Anamari Boyes invited Dr. Abbey Tyrna, Water Resources Agent of UF/ IFAS Sarasota Extension, to speak in her Ecology of Water class. The exhibition will promote awareness of the issue by representing diverse voices (through written/verbal statements, info-videos/infographics created by students, and physical samples of microplastics) and the artistic community (through created works of paintings, sculpture, stickers, posters.) Statements will be collected from Dr. Tyrna and Ms. Boyes. Artwork will be created by Ringling College students, with some works selected from final projects created for the Ecology of Water class. A visual survey at the entrance and exit of the exhibition will engage the audience and measure their awareness of Microplastics issues.
Links:
VIDEOS: Links to videos regarding Microplastics
ARTICLES: Links to articles regarding Microplastics
ARTICLE: Ringling College student starts a conversation with new Microplastics exhibit
ABOUT: Overview and Call to Artists Microplastics Exhbition
REFERENCE: Checklist for Microplastics Exhibition
VIDEO: Tess Lockey and Abbey Tyrna talk about the exhibition, Microplastics
October 12 - December 14, 2018
RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH GALLERY in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
Photographer Noelle McCleaf explores themes of memory, relationship, and identity in the southern landscape. This exhibition will survey two bodies of work including: A Bee in Her Bonnet (2010-2014), and Evie Lou and Laura Jane (2012-2016.) The prints are made from color film scans in dimensions of 32" x 40" or 30" x 40". This exhibition is curated by Mark Ormond.
Image: The Mother Fish (Bonita), from A Bee in Her Bonnet (2010-2014)
Events:
Links:
WEBSITE: Noelle McCleaf website
ABOUT: Bio
INTERVIEW: Noelle McCleaf talks to Mark Ormond about her upcoming exhibition
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Press:
Ringling College galleries open multiple exhibits, Thomas Bencel, Sarasota Herald Tribune
November 8 - December 7, 2018
WILLIAM G. and MARIE SELBY FOUNDATION GALLERY in the Arland Christ-Janner Center
This exhibition was created as a tribute to the courage of Veterans who have served our country. Ringling College students and faculty created portraits of local Sarasota Veterans to thank them for their service. Stories told from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and currently enlisted troops will continue to enrich the Ringling community for years to come.
The artist will give a lecture and be in residence during a portion of the exhibition period.
A Book Fair will be held on December 1, 2018 and will include a book signing of her latest publication.
Available in the Special Collections of the RCAD library for viewing now are the following publications by Sheryl Oring:
Berlin Wall 1961-1989, 2015, Writing Home: Conversations with our Ancestors, 2005, Rush, Dear Mr. President, 2004
Links:
ABOUT: Agitype/Sheryl Oring
WEBSITE: Sheryl Oring website
VIDEO: Sheryl Oring, Person of the Week
VIDEO: "I Wish To Say"
INTERVIEW: Sheryl Oring discusses upcoming exhibition
INVITE: Agitype exhbition announcement
SPONSOR: Euduz Hair Salon
BROCHURE: Agitype
Press:
Ringling College galleries open multiple exhibits, Thomas Bencel, Sarasota Herald Tribune
Sheryl Oring Exhibition Review by Audrey Warne, The Catalyst
Sheryl Oring shares what has changed in 15 years of typewritten letters from the public in the Washington Post
October 12 -December 8, 2018
Closing Reception with performances of After the Dinner Party and I Wish to Say, Dec. 7 from 4-7pm, Lois and David Stulberg Gallery
Sheryl Oring examines critical social issues through projects that incorporate old and new media to tell stories, examine public opinion and foster open exchange. Using tools typically employed by journalists (the camera, the typewriter, the pen, the interview and the archive) she builds on experience in her former profession to create installations, performances, artist books and internet-based works. The exhibition will showcase a selection of her past projects. It will include a new book by Oring printed at the Ringling College Letterpress & Book Arts Center. This exhibition is curated by Mark Ormond.
Public Events:
November 6 - 21, 2018
Crossley Gallery, Fine Arts Department
November 9, 4-7PM
ALL CAMPUS GALLERIES
Ringling College of Art and Design's Art Walks celebrate the work of exhibiting artists, College faculty, and students. Join us for a FREE event-filled evening of art, food, and music from 4-7PM
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October 12 - November 3
William G. and Marie Selby Foundation Gallery in the Christ-Janer Center
October 12- October 26, 2018
Reception Tuesday, October 16, 4-6pm
Willis Smith Gallery in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
This exhibition is a summary of a six year international collaborative art project between students and faculty from Ringling College of Art and Design, Sint Lucas College of Art and Design and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and several other prominent European Colleges of Art and Design. The concept of the project was to create a "map" of the two cities of Sarasota and Antwerp through the collective sensibilities of young artists and designers over a period of six years. The students were given a site and a concept each year to start their creative interpretations. The results took the form of still images, paintings, time-based work, sculpture, installations and performance. This exhibition presents an overview of the objects produced and the spirit of students from very different cultural contexts working together to explore both the expressive and descriptive possibilities of collaboration and mutual respect. The result is a very unique tale of two cities.
October 12, 4-7PM
ALL CAMPUS GALLERIES
Ringling College of Art and Design's Art Walks celebrate the work of exhibiting artists, College faculty, and students. Join us for a FREE event-filled evening of art, food, and music from 4-7PM
LINKS:
ARTWALK MAP and EXHIBITION DESCRIPTIONS
September 7 - October 5, 2018
SELBY FOUNDATIONS GALLERY
Opening Reception: Friday, September 7, 2018, 6–8 pm
Gallery Hours: Monday – 10am to 3pm, Tuesday – 10am to 7pm, Wednesday – 10am to 4pm, Thursday – 10am to 3pm, Friday – 10am to 4pm, CLOSED Saturday
Noted Illustrator, Regan Dunnick, is also an entertainer and astronaut with a world-wide following. He has worked with clients that include Pepsi, Taco Bell, Gallo Wines, and Macy’s. Editorial clientele include The New York Times, Time, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and Atlantic. He has illustrated books with book publishers Random House, Simon and Schuster, Penguin, and Amazon. When this artistic dandy is not busy, he’s relaxing in his spacious ranch house tending his sock puppet and vintage Whopper wrapper collection
Links:
WEBSITE: Regan Dunnick
August 31 – October 3, 2018
LOIS & DAVID STULBERG GALLERY in the Richard and Barbara Basch Visual Arts Center
Be inspired by the work of our talented Ringling College faculty in the exciting new Lois and David Stulberg Gallery in the Basch Visual Arts Center.
Image: Taylor Robenalt, Contrasting Swans, H25’’ x W14’’ x L 13", porcelain under glaze and luster cone oxidation
Press:
August 31 – October 3, 2018
WILLIS SMITH GALLERY in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
View exciting new work by Ringling College staff members and instructors from Ringling College Continuing Studies and the Englewood Art Center.
image: Elena De La Ville, Strata 21, Encaustic on Board, 20" x 20"
May 18 - September 21, 2018
PATRICIA THOMPSON GALLERY
Opening Reception: Friday, May 18, 2018, 4–6 pm
Summer Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 9–4
The insightful and absorbing illustrations of Octavio Perez will be the focus of this exhibition. Perez has worked at Hallmark Cards and created concept design and execution of editorial illustrations and news graphics for the St. Petersburg Times. His numerous national clients include GEAR Inc., Cabela's, and Humanities Magazine. The Patricia Thompson Gallery is located inside the Keating Center building on the Ringling College campus.
Links:
VIDEO: Octavio Perez, Cute Rhino
BIO: Octavio Perez
PRESS: Painting it Forward by Phil Lederer SRQ Magazine, June 2018
August 30 – September 13, 2018
CROSSLEY GALLERY
Be inspired by the work of our talented Ringling College, Fine Arts Alumni. This group exhibition showcases recent paintings, sculpture and prints from graduates spanning the past fifteen years. The exhibition was curated by Student Directors Savannah Bonnette and Meagan Hindel.
Crossley Gallery is a beautiful state of the art gallery and exclusively admisntered by Fine Arts students in collaboration with our faculty. The gallery provides students with real world, first hand experience in working within a professional gallery system.
August 31, 4-7PM
ALL CAMPUS GALLERIES
Ringling College of Art and Design's Art Walks celebrate the work of exhibiting artists, College faculty, and students. Join us for an event-filled evening of art, food, and music from 4-7PM
Links:
Press:
Ringling College Kicks Off ArtWalk Season with Six Shows by Phil Lederer, SRQ Magazine, August 2018
June 8 - August 10, 2018
LOIS AND DAVID STULBERG GALLERY
Summer Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 11–3
The Ringling College of Art and Design Board of Trustees annually awards its highest honor —the Trustee Scholarship—to an extraordinary group of rising seniors in each major and on behalf of the Office of Student Life. This year’s exhibition at the Lois and David Stulberg Gallery features the video proposals submitted by the honorees from each department.
The Lois and David Stulberg Gallery is located in the new Basch Visual Arts Center on the Ringling College campus at 1188 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Way.
Image: Matthew Holler, 2017-18 Trustee Scholars
June 29 - August 2, 2018
RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH AND WILLIS SMITH GALLERIES
Opening Reception: Friday, June 29, 2018, 4–6 pm
Summer Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 11–3
The Petticoat Painters is one of the oldest continuously exhibiting women's art groups in the U.S. This group was formed in 1953 to showcase the talents of female artists at a time when women had difficulty in finding venues to show their work.
Willis Smith and Basch Galleries are located on the ground floor of the Academic Center building on the Ringling College campus at 2363 Old Bradenton Rd.
Image: Meg Pierce, Lotus, 36”x36”, thread, pastel, graphite, acrylic on canvas
Links:
ARTICLES:
60 Years of Sisterhood, by Carrie Seidman, Herald Tribune
They Don't Wear Petticoats Anymore, by Roger Skidmore, Siesta Sand
This Sarasota Group Is One of the Oldest Women’s Arts Collectives in the U.S., by Audrey Warne, Sarasota Magazine
BIO:
May 18 - June 21, 2018
RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH AND WILLIS SMITH GALLERIES
Opening Reception: Friday, May 18, 2018, 4-6pm
Summer Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 11–3
As one of our annual community art exhibitions, Willis Smith and Richard and Barbara Basch Galleries will feature work by members of the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society.
The Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society (FSWS) was formed in 1983 with 17 charter members and 24 associate members. Today, FSWS has more than 250 members, many of whom have achieved Signature or Master status as well as statewide and national status. The FSWS Board strives to serve all members who live on the Gulf Coast of Florida by rotating the locations of its exhibitions and holding workshops in a variety of venues.
Willis Smith and Basch Galleries are located on the ground floor of the Academic Center building on the Ringling College campus at 2363 Old Bradenton Rd.
LINKS:
ALL ON-CAMPUS GALLERIES
Ringling College seniors are pleased to present their final projects in the annual Senior Thesis Exhibitions. Some events are one night only events and some are on-going exhibitions that will take place in the Ringling College Campus Galleries. Please see below for the full schedule of exhibitions, event dates, and locations.
One night only events:
Campus Galleries Exhibitions:
April 30-May 2, 10-4pm
May 3, 10-2pm
Opening Receptions for Campus Galleries: Tuesday, May 1, 5-8pm
We invite you to join us for opening receptions with live music and refreshments on Tuesday, May 1st, 5-8pm in all on-campus galleries. Free and open to the public.
Links:
Art Review: Students flaunt talents in 'Best of Ringling' exhibit by Marty Fugate
April 7 - 21, 2018
ALL CAMPUS GALLERIES
Gallery Receptions: Friday, April 6, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
The annual Best of Ringling juried exhibitions showcase the top art and design projects created by Ringling College students in every major. Opening Friday, April 6 with an evening awards ceremony followed by multiple gallery receptions, Best of Ringling serves as a campus-wide immersion into the year’s outstanding work selected by a jury of visiting artists and faculty members.
The exhibitions are free and open to the public, allowing members of the community to view a diverse range of work created by students in all departments.
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March 26 - March 30, 2018
CROSSLEY GALLERY
Closing Reception: Friday, March 30, 6-8pm
Ringling College of Art & Design and the Fine Arts Department are proud to present Vessel Manuals, a senior thesis exhibition featuring artworks from Danny Jeffers, Hayley Denham and Jordan Daher.
On a scale shifting between macro and micro, these three artists approach the many facets of the human condition: Jeffers, through his abstraction of everyday observations and politics, Denham, through her more or less evolved versions of humanity and Daher, through her alternative methods of working which remind us of our mark on the environment.
Vessel Manuals will be exhibited at the Crossley Gallery from March 26th to the 30th.
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 12–3pm
Links:
Ringling Fine Arts studnent show senior thesis exhibits in Crossley Gallery, by Elizabeth Djinis
VIDEO: SNN Art Gallery Guide, by Nancy O'Neil
January 9 – March 24, 2018
RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH GALLERY
This year’s exhibition from the collection of Richard and Barbara Basch features visually stunning creations by over two dozen masters of glass art including Peter Bremers, Václav Cigler, Irene Frolic, Richard Royal, Seth Randal, Sally Rogers and Leah Wingfield. Representing numerous examples, styles and methods of glass casting and etching, the exhibition provides visitors of all ages with an enlightening and inspiring experience. A series of artist talks and demonstrations will take place on the Ringling College campus. Barbara Basch will offer docent tours of the exhibition on Wednesdays at 10:30 AM.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday 10-7, Wednesday–Saturday 10–4, closed Sunday and Monday
The Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery is located on the ground floor of the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center at 2363 Old Bradenton Rd. on the Ringling College campus.
EVENTS:
Every Wednesday, January 10 through March 21 at 10:30am in the Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery- Barbara Basch conducts tours of the Glass: Cold, Cut and Cast exhibition.
Image: Irene Frolic, The Tempest, 2013, Cast glass, 17" x 12" x 6"
Links:
INFO: Glass Weekend Information
VIDEO: Mrs. Richard Basch introduces the GLASS Exhibition
REVIEW: The Mercurial Medium of Glass Art Shines Across Our Region by Marthy Fugate
BIO: Peter Bremers
Sponsors:
January 12– March 24, 2018
LOIS AND DAVID STULBERG GALLERY
About the Exhibition
This exhibition celebrates the ten-year anniversary of Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (ILSSA), a socially engaged art project founded in 2008 to investigate labor, time, and what we value. Currently taking form as a Union and Research Institute, the project creates opportunities for ILSSA members to nurture alternative, authentic value systems for their labor and their time. The exhibition will feature a selection of publications and ephemera from the first ten years of the project, as well as the interactive creation of a collaborative, community-based publication, produced on-site and facilitated by ILSSA co-founder Emily Larned, who will be in-residence in the gallery for the first two weeks.
EVENTS:
Wednesday, January 10, 11:30am, Lois and David Stulberg Gallery- Emily Larned will discuss the process of installing the exhibition, As Many Hours As It Takes.
Thursday, January 11, 11:30am, Larry R. Thompson Academic Center Auditorium-Music for Media: Analysis of a scene with composer Christopher Ruggiero.
Friday, January 12, 5-7pm, Lois and David Stulberg Gallery- Opening Reception
Wednesday, January 17, 11:30am in the Lois and David Stulberg Gallery-Emily Larned will speak about the exhibition As Many Hours As It Takes.
All events are free and open to the public
Press:
Ringling Features Impractical Labor, Sarasota Herald Tribune
Media sponsor:
January 19– March 23, 2018
PATRICIA THOMPSON GALLERY
Vibrant landscapes in oil and gouache by Ringling alumna Katie Cundiff, an internationally known wildlife illustrator and painter. A multi-talented artist with an acute eye for texture and light, Cundiff has won top prizes in the American Impressionist National exhibitions, Oil Painters of America, and the Forgotten Coast. She is a signature member of Plein Air Painters of the South East and recently studied at the Flemish Classical Atelier in Bruges, Belgium. Her work has been featured in Plein Air Magazine, American Art Collector and Artist’s Magazine.
EVENTS:
Friday, January 19, 4:30-7pm, Patricia Thompson Gallery in the Keating Center- Opening Reception
Monday, February 5, 11:30am-12:15pm- Katie Cundiff talks about her artwork in the Patricia Thompson Gallery located in the Keating Center.
image: Manatee Springs, 30" 40", oil on canvas
Additional Information:
Press:
Katie Cundiff's Work at Ringling College, Sarasota Herald Tribune
January 12– March 17, 2018
WILLIS SMITH GALLERY
Compelling artwork and ephemera from the living archive of the Peace Paper Project, located at the Robert B. Haas Family Library at Yale University. The Peace Paper Project is an international community-arts initiative that utilizes traditional paper making as a form of trauma therapy, social engagement, and community activism. Since 2011, the group has conducted over two hundred workshops worldwide in conjunction with community leaders, mental health professionals, and art therapists, and helped launch thirty-five papermaking programs that use paper making as a form of healing and community engagement. Because of the project's innovations in portability and interest in resolving current social issues, paper is no longer just a chapter in a history textbook, but a beacon for socially engaged art. Co-founders Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan will present talks and workshops in conjunction with the exhibition.
EVENTS:
Friday, January 12, 5-7pm, Willis Smith Gallery-Opening Reception
Tuesday, February 13, 11:30am-12:15pm, Larry R. Thompson Academic Center Auditorium - Drew Matott, co-founder of the Peace Paper Project will participate in a Skype conversation from Thailand about the organization's history, mission and ongoing projects.
Monday, February 19, 11:30am-12:15pm, Larry R. Thompson Academic Center Auditorium- Jae Jennifer Rossman, Associate Director for Special Collections & Public Programs, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University, will discuss the Archive at Yale and the Peace Paper Project.
Wednesday, March 14, 11:30–12:15, Academic Center Auditorium in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center Artist Talk, Margaret Sheppard, Co-founder of Peace Paper Project
Wednesday, March 14,4:00–7:00, Papermaking Workshop, Outside Willis Smith Gallery, Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Drew Matott story of the Peace Paper Project
Jae Jennifer Rossman Presentation Information and Bio
Artist Talk and Papermaking Workshop
Media sponsor:
March 16 - March 24, 2018
SELBY FOUNDATION GALLERY
Opening Reception: Friday, March 16, 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10–4
In this annual exhibition organized by the Illustration Department, gallery visitors will get an inside look into a variety of explorative approaches taken in visual journals created by Ringling College students.
The William G. and Marie Selby Foundation Gallery is located in the Christ-Janer building on the Ringling College Campus.
February 16 - March 3, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, February 16, 6–8pm
WILLIAM G. AND MARIE SELBY FOUNDATION GALLERY
The Selby Foundation Gallery's latest exhibition features the work of Illustration faculty member Joe Thiel and showcases his figurative illustrations created in a weekly faculty figure drawing session.
Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
The William G. and Marie Selby Foundation Gallery is located in the Arland Christ-Janer Building on the Ringling College Campus
February 19-23, 2018
CROSSLEY GALLERY
Artist Statements and Checklist
January 30 – February 14, 2018
CROSSLEY GALLERY
The Ringling College’s Fine Art and Illustration departments are pleased to present Will Cotton: Paintings, Prints and Drawing in the College’s Crossley Gallery.
Will Cotton is a painter’s painter. Working primarily with only five colors he creates lush paintings full of vibrancy and life. Originally inspired by the board game Candyland, Will paints utopian landscapes and portraits, composed of sugary desserts and candies, often inhabited by female figures. His work explores our relationship with gluttony, beauty, desire and indulgence. Widely recognized work of his includes the 2010 Katy Perry music video for “California Gurls,” for which he served as the artistic director.
The exhibition will include more than a dozen works ranging from oil paintings on linen and paper as well as sketches and prints. Along with finished works, the exhibition will emphasize his process and show how he goes about creating his work. Additionally, his monograph book Will Cotton: Paintings and Works on Paper will be available for signing and purchase.
Events:
For more information on receptions, talks and events, please call or email Joe Fig
941.309.4009
Crossley Gallery is located at 2400 Old Bradenton Road on the Ringling College campus in Sarasota, Florida. Vallet parking will be available for all events.
This exhibition is sponsored by Ringling College Advancement, Fine Arts and Illustration Departments of Ringling College of Art and Design.
Image: Will Cotton Katy Cupcake Dress, 2010 oil on paper 55 x 48 inches Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery
January 30 – February 10, 2018
SELBY FOUNDATIONS GALLERY
JEFFERY A. CORNWELL- PAINTINGS
PATRICIA THOMPSON GALLERY
Fine Arts alumnus Jeffery Cornwell draws inspiration from the natural environment and the relationship of sky to land.
Image credit, Jeffery Cornwell, Cows 1, 2, 3, 4, acrylic on museum board, 2015, 8 x 10 inches
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Hours
Monday through Friday
9am to 4pm
Interview with Marty Fugate, Sarasota Herald Trubune
Jeffery Cornwell Essay and Bio
Jeffery Cornwell studied at Ringling College of Art. He then apprenticed with Toro Yamamoto and honed his skills as a freelance painter.
His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in galleries and alternative spaces. His work has been represented by galleries in Florida, Georgia, Texas, and on the west coast of the United States. His work is in private collections throughout the United States and Europe. He is an active member of the SARTQ artists collective.
Cornwell is an Adjunct Art Instructor VPA program at Booker High School in Sarasota, Florida. As an educator, he teaches in the Teen Studios at Ringling College and is the coordinator of the College’s Summer Teen Studio program.
Beginning in October 2017 and running through May 2018, the Ringling College Galleries will offer a diverse array of exhibitions and related programs. The focus of these exhibitions will be to provide the visitors with numerous opportunities to engage with artists’ creativity.
October 17 – December 8, 2017*
LOIS & DAVID STULBERG GALLERY
This exhibition curated by the General Motors Design Archive & Special Collections features a firsthand look at the evolutionary creative
process of automotive design.
*Gallery closed for special events December 8-9
Images: General Motors Design Archive & Special Collections, and Karen Arango
Under the Hood by Phil Lederer, SRQ Magazine
Design in Mothion by Niki Kottmann, Observer Group
Visionary Art Exhibits Mark the Close of 2017 by Marty Fugate, Sarasota Herald Tribune
Ringling College Opens 3 Exhibits by Jimmy Geurts
Media sponsor:
Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
October 20- December 2, 2017
Freedom of the Presses is a collaborative exhibition co-curated by Marshall Weber of Booklyn, Inc. and members of the Ringling College of Art and Design community. The project focuses on the creative and democratic processes of 21st Century independent artist's publishing and offers models of empowering and educational art publishing practices. The exhibition will include a selection of artists' publications from Booklyn, Inc. and the Brizdle Schoenberg Special Collections Center at Ringling College of Art and Design. Highlights include the Streetopia artist’s book, alternative art fair, and text book project; performances and publications by Sheryl Oring; and community publishing projects from the multi-generational collective, Mobile Print Power. Artists’ books, zines, prints, and items of ephemera will be exhibited, along with a curators panel, book fair, and other events.
Calendar of Programs and Events related to the exhibition
Suncoast FYI with Nancy O'Neil
Media sponsor:
Changing Art and Design Education through Collaboration
October 20– Dec 2, 2017
Everything we do at Ringling College of Art and Design is for our students. So that they may be successful in their creative careers, we must prepare them in every way possible. One of the many innovative approaches setting us apart from our peer institutions is The Collaboratory Commitment. Inspired by President Larry R. Thompson’s visionary promise that each and every student has the opportunity to work with a real-world client on a real-world project by the time they graduate, various departments come together to provide formative and inspiring experiences for our students throughout their academic journey.
*The Collaboratory is a partnership between Ringling College of Art and Design and The Patterson Foundation.
WILLIS SMITH GALLERY, in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
2363 Old Bradenton Road
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE COLLABORATORY
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June 30 – October 6, 2017
RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH GALLERY
Drawn from a course in the Photography and Imaging major, this exhibition features fashion work by Ringling College’s emerging photographers.
Art and fashion-lovers join forces at Ringling College reception by Niki Kottman
Image credit: Frances Bukovsky, model Whitney Howell
Interview on ABC's Suncoast View with PH_ashion 121 organizer, Tom Winchester. Watch HERE.
Image: Nathan Skiles, Interlude
Aug 25 – Oct 4, 2017
LOIS & DAVID STULBERG GALLERY
Be inspired by the work of our talented Ringling College faculty in the exciting new Lois and David Stulberg Gallery in the Basch Visual Arts Center.
Media sponsor:
Image: Michael White, 32x40 pastel of Machiasport Maine
August 14 – October 4, 2017
WILLIS SMITH GALLERY
View exciting new work by Ringling College staff members and instructors from Ringling College Continuing Studies and the Englewood Art Center.
Ringling College Staff Exhibition by Jay Handleman
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June 12 – Aug 11, 2017
Opening reception: Friday, June 9 from 5 to 7pm
LOIS & DAVID STULBERG GALLERY
Abstract drawings and prints by Claudia Ryan will be featured in the college’s new gallery at the Basch Visual Arts Center. Ryan’s works on paper are densely layered and threaded with color, creating a map for a journey that becomes the viewer's own.
Image credit: Claudia Ryan, Untitled on paper
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Summer Gallery Hours
Through August 11, 2017
Monday through Friday
10am to 1pm and 1:30 to 4pm
Claudia Ryan Exhibition Checklist
Some thoughts about the work of Claudia Ryan by Mark Ormond
WILLIS SMITH GALLERY
This exhibition of sixty photographs documents Egypt in the 1950’s as seen by Jack Jonathan.
Exhibition generously sponsored by Flora Major and The Family of Carlo A. Marchetti
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Summer Gallery Hours
Through August 11, 2017
Monday through Friday
10am to 1pm and 1:30 to 4pm
Images left to right, top to bottom: An Eternal presence, Sheikh's daughter, Sheikh Muhammad, For a long life
Review by Elisabet Kirsch Jack's Journey
Egypt, The Eternal Spirit of Its People exhibition description
A tribute by Sheelagh Hope, Jack of all Trades
Stories of an Exhibition- Video: Interview with Jack Jonathan 17m 21sec
May 30 – June 22, 2017
Opening reception: Friday, May 26 from 5 to 7pm
RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH and WILLIS SMITH GALLERY
Located on the ground floor of the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
For our annual community exhibition, Willis Smith Gallery will feature work by the Sarasota chapter of the National League of American PEN Women, the oldest multi-discipline arts organization for women in United States.
Image credit: Jana Millstone, Everything happens for a reason
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Summer Gallery Hours
May 30 through August 11, 2017
Monday through Friday
10am to 1pm and 1:30 to 4pm
NLAPW details and Artist Biographies
SRQ MAGAZINE feature by Phil Lederer
Putting Pen to Paper: The Sarasota Pen Womne Celebrate 60th Anniversay by Niki Kottmann
Pen Women exhibit offers 23 flavors of art at Ringling College by Marty Fugate
ALL CAMPUS GALLERIES
Reception: Tuesday, May 9, 5–8 pm
Ringling College seniors are pleased to present their final projects in the annual Senior Thesis Exhibitions. View work in all media by graduating artists and designers in the campus galleries from Monday, May 1 through Thursday, May 11.
Exhibitions are free and open to the public. Catered receptions with live Reggae music will take place in the campus galleries on Tuesday, May 9 from 5–8 pm.
EXHIBITION LOCATIONS BY DEPARTMENT:
Advertising and Graphic Design
Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
Business of Art and Design
Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
Illustration
Lois and David Stulberg Gallery in the Basch Visual Art Center
Willis Smith Gallery in the Larry R. Thompson Academic Center
William G. and Marie Selby Foundation Gallery in the Arland and Sally Christ-Janer Center
Fine Arts
Crossley Gallery
Photography and Imaging
Judy Hughes Studio next to Crossley Gallery
Motion Design Screening
Goldstein Library, First Floor Tuesday, May 9, 5-8pm
ONE NIGHT SCREENINGS:
Game Art
Larry R. Thompson Auditorium and Lobby. Friday, April 28, Time to be announced
Computer Animation: Saturday, April 29 off campus. **Tickets by Invitation Only
Business of Art and Design: Goldstein Library, 2nd Floor Terrace, May 5, 5-7pm
Motion Design Screening: Goldstein Library, Third Floor Terrace, Friday, May 5
Film Screenings
Larry R. Thompson Academic Center Auditorium, Tuesday, May 9, 5–7 pm
Gallery Hours:
Smith, Basch, and Stulberg Galleries: Monday–Saturday 10-4, Tuesdays 10-7pm
Thompson Gallery: Monday-Friday 10-4pm
Crossley Gallery: Monday-Friday 12-3pm
Judy Hughes Studio: Monday-Friday 12-3pm
Selby Gallery: Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat. 10-4pm, Tues. 10-1pm
Closed Sundays
April 7–22, 2017
ALL CAMPUS GALLERIES
Award Ceremony: Friday, April 7, 5:00 pm in the Diane Roskamp Exhibition Hall
Gallery Openings: Friday, April 7, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
The annual Best of Ringling juried exhibitions showcase the top art and design projects created by Ringling College students in every major. Opening Friday, April 7 with an evening awards ceremony followed by multiple gallery receptions,Best of Ringling serves as a campus-wide immersion into the year’s outstanding work selected by a jury of visiting artists and faculty members.
The exhibitions are free and open to the public, allowing members of the community to view a diverse range of work created by students in the following departments:
Advertising Design, Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery
Business of Art and Design, Willis Smith Gallery
Computer Animation, Lois and David Stulberg Gallery
Film, Larry R. Thompson Academic Center Auditorium
Fine Arts, Crossley Gallery
Game Art, Lois and David Stulberg Gallery
Graphic Design, Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery
Illustration, Willis Smith Gallery & William G. and Marie Selby Foundation Gallery
Interior Design, Willis Smith Gallery
Motion Design, Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery
Photography & Imaging, Patricia Thompson Gallery
Location:
Ringling College of Art and Design
2700 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34234
For more Information:
January 9 – March 25, 2017
RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH GALLERY
Since 2010, Ringling College Curator Mark Ormond has worked with Sarasota arts patrons Richard and Barbara Basch to organize exhibitions from their extensive collection of glass art. Dr. and Mrs. Basch began collecting in 1993 by purchasing work from American artists. They soon expanded the scope of their collection to include artists from around the world. This year’s exhibition at Basch Gallery will feature work by Davide Salvadore, a master glass artist from Murano, Italy, and his sons Marco and Mattia. Selected works by Lino Tagliapietra will be included in the exhibition.
A series of artist talks and demonstrations will take place on the Ringling College campus throughout the exhibition.
Barbara Basch will offer docent tours of the exhibition on Wednesdays at 10:30 AM.
Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday 10–4, Tuesdays 10–7
(Closed Monday, January 16 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
Image: Davide Salvadore, Tiraboson, Amber murine, blown glass, 59.5 x 15.75 x 19.754 inches, courtesy of the Basch Collection
Paid for in part by Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax Revenues; Sponsored in part by WSMR 89.1.Sponsored by:
Image: Portrait in Studio, Davide Slavadore
DOCENT TOUR AND ARTIST TALK SCHEDULE
February 3 – March 27, 2017
Opening Reception, Tuesday, February 7, 4:30 - 6:30pm
PATRICIA THOMPSON GALLERY
Hours: Monday–Friday 9-4
Matthew Holler’s fascination with photography and the fashion industry led him to earn his BFA from the Ringling College Department of Photography & Imaging and pursue a career as a fashion and portrait photographer in Sarasota and New York after graduation. Heavily influenced by early to mid-twentieth century photography, Holler draws inspiration from Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe and Helmut Newton. The selection of works in the exhibition by this dynamic fashion and portrait photographer represents a wide range of his photographic approaches from 2011-2016.
Image: Matthew Holler: Untitled (Dancer), 2016
INTERVIEW WITH CURATOR, MARK ORMOND
MATTHEW HOLLER TELLS STORIES IN PHOTOS by Jay Handleman FEATURE IN SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE
Portrait of Matthew Holler provided by the artist.
February 20 – March 18, 2017
WILLIS SMITH GALLERY
Hours: Monday–Saturday 10-4, Tuesday 10-7
Programming:
Feb. 21: Opening Reception, 4:30–7:00 pm
Feb. 21: Andy Warhol Documentary Film, 7:00 pm, Larry R. Thompson Academic Center Auditorium
Feb. 23: Warhol Film Talk: The Films of Andy Warhol: "I Like Boring Things" presented by Ringling College Film faculty member Dr. Susan Doll, 6:30pm, Alfred R. Goldstein Library Auditorium
This thought-provoking traveling exhibition features silkscreen prints and original recordings, ranging from spoken word to music and sound, created by artists, writers and performers who were associated with or inspired by Andy Warhol. Included are Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Ivan Karp, Billy Name, Ultra Violet, Lawrence Weiner, Carter Ratcliff, John Giorno, Vincent Freemont, Alexander Heinrici, Brigid Berlin, Christopher Makos, Yura Adams, Nat Finkelstein, Connie Beckley, Susan Breen, Path Soong, and Jeff Gordon.
The exhibition was organized and curated by Jeff Gordon and Path Soong.
Exhibition Tour Management by Landau Traveling Exhibitions. Los Angeles, CA.
For more information on receptions, talks and events:
941.359.7563 galleries@ringling.edu
Image: Christopher Makos, Andy and John, Photograph of Warhol kissing John Lennon, 1978
Paid for in part by Sarasota County Tourist Tax Revenues
Sponsored in part by Sarasota Herald Tribune Media Group and WUSF 89.7
FEATURE by SARASOTA HEARLD TRIBUNE
WARHOL EXHIBITION-CONTEXTUAL RESOURCES
January 4 – February 11, 2017
WILLIS SMITH GALLERY
Hours: Monday–Saturday 10-4, Tuesday 10-7
The Ringling College of Art and Design Board of Trustees annually awards its highest honor —the Trustee Scholarship—to an extraordinary group of rising seniors in each major and on behalf of the Office of Student Life. This year’s exhibition at Willis Smith Gallery features the video proposals submitted by the honorees from each department.
Image: Matthew Holler, 2016-2017 Trustee Scholars, 2016
October 28, 2016 – January 27, 2017
Opening Reception October 28, 5–7 pm
PATRICIA THOMPSON GALLERY
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 9am - 4pm
Ringling Illustration alumna Jenny Medved studied traditional portraiture in Italy before earning her MFA in Figurative Painting. In 2015, she was featured as one of ten artists to watch by Watercolor Artist Magazine.
Image: Jenny Medved, Kahalepouli Kawaimapuna, 2016, Watercolor on paper, 30” x 20” Courtesy of the Artist
INTERVIEW WITH CURATOR, MARK ORMOND
Portrait of Jenny Medved provided by the artist.
November 30 - December 2
RICHARD & BARBARA BASCH GALLERY
Work created by Ringling College's very own Peter Herbert Barnaba encourages a responsive gallery in which viewers become the artists. The student organized exhibition explores millennials and their reflections of contemporary art. Viewer generated work will be archived in the constantly expanding exhibition by showcasing visceral creative reactions to color, shape and text.
October 14 – December 2, 2016
Opening Reception October 28, 5–7 pm
Willis Smith Gallery
Hours: Monday–Saturday 10-4, Tuesday 10-7
This exhibition organized by Mark Ormond features 15 large and small-scale works by an international roster of artists that includes Lucy Barber, Zhong Biao, Ester Curini, Lynn Davison, Michelle Doll, Kenny Harris, Mary Henderson, Ling Jian, Dustin Juengel, Bruce Marsh, Michael McNamara, John Moore, Hideo Ohya, Grace Graupe-Pillard and Jeffrey Ripple.
Focusing on the role of observation, reference, gesture and mark-making in contemporary painting, the exhibition presents a selection of figurative portraits, landscapes, interiors, wildlife and urban views that transcend realism to explore the intricate relationship between artist and subject.
Image: Ling Jian, The Sun, 2015 Oil on canvas, 78 3/4” x 70 7/8” Courtesy Klein Sun Gallery, NYC
PRESS: HERALD TRIBUNE LONGBOAT OBSERVER
November 3–19, 2016
RICHARD & BARBARA BASCH GALLERY
Opening Reception, Thursday, November 3, 5:00 pm
Artist Talk: November 3. 6:00 pm. Academic Center Auditorium
In collaboration with Ringling’s Letterpress and Book Arts Center, Basch Gallery will feature an original wall installation and printed materials by Kathryn Hunter, a printmaker and fine artist who runs Blackbird Letterpress in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Image: Kathryn Hunter, Reflection, 2015, Laser cut steel, wool, sewing, 29" x 35" Courtesy of the Artist
June 10 – Oct 21, 2016
Patricia Thompson Gallery
Hours: Monday – Friday 10–4
Patricia Thompson Gallery is pleased to host the work of alumnus Pedro Pérez, Class of 1996. Pérez is a founding partner of Nuevo Advertising Group and an adjunct professor of Global Brand Strategies at Ringling College. His multi-media exhibition on the Ringling College campus will include design work from various advertising campaigns and give examples of projects completed along the road to becoming a successful design professional. This exploration of the creative process will both offer final results and give insights into the decision-making and experimentation that goes on behind the scenes.
Pérez founded his first company, Merging Point Design, Inc., with fellow students while they were attending Ringling College. In 2004, Nuevo Advertising Group was formed, expanding the agency’s work to emphasize marketing to the Hispanic consumer both domestically and internationally.
The Patricia Thompson Gallery is located on the ground floor of the Keating Center on the Ringling College campus at 2700 N. Tamiami Trail.
For further information please visit: www.ringling.edu/galleries
Email: galleries@ringling.edu
Phone: 941-359-7563
September 16 – October 5, 2016
Opening Reception: September 16, 5–7pm
WILLIS SMITH GALLERY and RICHARD AND BARBARA BASCH GALLERY
Hours: Monday – Saturday 10–4, Tuesday 10–7
Be inspired by the work of Ringling College faculty teaching in Advertising Design, Business of Art and Design, Computer Animation, Film, Game Art, Fine Arts, Illustration, Graphic Design, Motion Design, Photography & Imaging, and the Liberal Arts Program.
Sheryl Haler's work in the Faculty exhibition won the 'Show Your World 2016' International Art Competition! Learn more here: http://www.reartiste.com/international-art-competition-show-your-world-2016/.
Image: Steven Strenk, Dunes, 2015 Plexiglass, found object and wood, 7" x 4" x 2" Courtesy of the Artist
May 20 – June 10, 2016
Willis Smith Construction, Inc. Galleries
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday 10-4
Opening Reception:
Friday, May 20, 2016, 5 -7 pm
For our annual community art exhibition, Willis Smith Gallery is featuring work by members of the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society.
This year’s juror is Rose M. Edin, an artist holding signature memberships in the American Watercolor Society and National Watercolor Society, as well as “Master” status in the Transparent Watercolor Society of America. The recipient of numerous awards, Edin has had her work featured on the cover of Splash, and was the subject of major articles in the French publication The Art of Watercolor in 2013 and 2014.
The Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society (FSWS) was formed in 1983 with 17 charter members and 24 associate members. Today, FSWS has more than 250 members, many of whom have achieved Signature or Master status as well as statewide and national status. The FSWS Board strives to serve all members who live on the Gulf Coast of Florida by rotating the locations of its exhibitions and holding workshops in a variety of venues.
Willis Smith Gallery is located on the ground floor of the Academic Center building on the Ringling College campus at 2363 Old Bradenton Rd.
For further information please visit: www.ringling.edu/galleries
Email: galleries@ringling.edu
Phone: 941-359-7563
May 2 - May 13, 2016
All Campus Galleries
Celebrations - Tuesday, May 10, 5:00–8:00 pm*
*Galleries also open on Wednesday, May 11 until 9:00 pm
Advertising and Graphic Design - Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery and 4th floor corridor in the Academic Center
Business of Art & Design - Richard and Barbara Basch Gallery and 2nd floor corridor in the Academic Center
Film - Academic Center Auditorium. Screenings on Tuesday, May 10 from 6-8 pm and Friday, May 13 from 1-4 pm
Fine Arts - Crossley Gallery
Illustration - Christ-Janer Gallery and Willis Smith Gallery
Interior Design - Patricia Thompson Gallery
Motion Design - 3rd floor corridor in the Academic Center
Photography & Imaging - Trustee Studio 101 (Bayou 1)
Sunday, May 1 and Thursday, May 12
Computer Animation and Game Art - By invitation only.
GALLERY HOURS:
Willis Smith, Christ-Janer, and Richard & Barbara Basch Galleries:
Monday–Saturday, 10–4, Tuesdays, 10-7
Patricia Thompson Gallery: Monday-Friday, 8:30-4:30, Saturday 10-4
Crossley Gallery: Monday–Saturday, 10–4, Tuesdays, 10-7
April 8 - 23, 2016
Campus Galleries
Best of Ringling juried exhibitions showcase the top work of Ringling College students in every major. A campus and community favorite, the Best of Ringling show serves as a campus-wide immersion into the very best student work Ringling College has to offer as selected by a jury of visiting professionals and faculty members.
Best of Ringling Awards Ceremony*
April 8, 2016
Roskamp Exhibition Hall, 5:00 pm
Join us for this red carpet event as we announce the best student work of the year for each major.
*Awards ceremony will be followed by opening receptions in campus galleries until 8:00 pm.
Best of Ringling Exhibitions
April 9 – 23, 2016*
*Campus galleries will also be open from 6-8 pm. for opening receptions after awards ceremony on April 8th.
Richard and Basch Gallery: Business of Art and Design, Advertising Design, Motion Design, and Graphic Design
Hours: Saturdays 10-4, Monday through Friday 10-4 and Tuesdays 10-7 from April 9-23.
Willis Smith Gallery: Computer Animation and Game Art
Hours: Saturdays 10-4, Monday through Friday 10-4 and Tuesdays 10-7 from April 9-23.
**Closed on Thursday, April 21 for private event
Keating Center Galleries (Patricia Thompson and Lobby Skylight Space): Photography and Imaging; Interior Design
Hours: Saturdays 10-4, Monday through Friday 8:30-4:30, from April 9-23.
Christ-Janer Gallery: Illustration
Hours: Saturdays 10-4, Monday through Friday 10-4 and Tuesdays 10-7 from April 9-23.
Crossley Gallery: Fine Arts
Hours: Monday through Friday 10-3, April 11-22
Academic Center Auditorium: Film
Hours of Film Trailer Screenings: Friday, April 8, 6-8pm, Saturday, April 9, 5-8 pm
Mike and Doug Starn
BB10-19-09-90642, 2009-12
K3 inkjet print on gelatin hand-coated Zerkal paper
42 x 42 inches
Courtesy of Mike and Doug Starn, Beacon, NY
March 4 – April 2, 2016
Willis Smith Construction, Inc. Galleries
Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday 10-4, Tuesday 10-7
This exhibition will introduce the work of sixteen artists whose ideas and concepts are manifest in film based media. The individual works for the exhibition were each chosen to focus on the singular contributions of each respective artist. Each artist approaches creating a single image or composite film or video in a different way. The artist may construct a fiction involving a person or individuals, objects in a setting, a location and/or a narrative. The artist may realize a concept through an invention or reinvention of a person, place or narrative. In each example the artist has been challenged to address purely formal issues as well, creating an invented image not seen before.
Curator Talk: March 30, 11:30 am
Ringling College Galleries Chief Curator Mark Ormond will talk about the works in the Photography & Film Constructs exhibition. Ormond will give insights into the artist’s subject choices and composition development and discuss the selection process behind this innovative exhibition featuring internationally acclaimed artists working in photo and film-based media.
Artist Talk: April 1, 11:30 am
Generic Art Solutions (G.A.S.) is the collaborative efforts of artists Tony Campbell and Mark Vis. Works featured in the Photography & Film Constructs exhibition include: A Study After the Innocent I & II, and The Sacrifice of Isaac. The New Orleans-based duo uses photography, performance and video to examine recurring themes of human drama and comment visually on contemporary society. They connect history to current events using Classical, Romantic and Baroque elements often in contemporary settings. Enjoy this rare opportunity to meet the artists on the Ringling College campus and hear them speak about their work.
Paid for in part by Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax Revenues; Sponsored in part by WSMR 89.1
In the Media:
SRQ Magazine
Untitled, 2015, digital photograph
January 22 – April 1, 2016
Patricia Thompson Gallery
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm
Opening Reception: January 22, 4:30-7pm, Patricia Thompson Gallery
Alumnus Ferenc Beleznay, who graduated in 2015, possesses a unique eye for composition, lighting and staging. The photographs in this exhibition demonstrate his gift of anticipation in knowing the exact moment to open and close the shutter.
Portrait of Ferenc provided by the artist.
January 9 - March 19, 2016
Basch Gallery
Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday 10am-4pm, Tuesday 10am-7pm
Docent Tours with Mrs. Barbara Basch every Wednesday at 10:30am.
From the collection of Richard and Barbara Basch comes an exhibition of over two dozen works of glass art inspired by nature. Artists include: Martin Blank, Dale Chihuly, Dan Dailey, Laura Donefer, Davide Salvadore, and Toots Zynsky, among others.
About the Basch Collection
Ticket Magazine: The Studio Art Glass Collection of Richard and Barbara Basch
The Observer: House of Glass - The Basch's Glass Collection
Sponsored by BMO Harris Bank
January 15 – February 20, 2016
Willis Smith Construction, Inc. Galleries
Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday 10am-4pm, Tuesday 10am-7pm
This selection of paintings highlights the various subjects that have occupied artist Amer Kobaslija over the last decade, including views of Kesennuma, Japan where the tsunami came ashore in 2011, his personal studio, Bathus' studio, and landscapes of Switzerland and Florida.
Preview & Artist Presentation with Amer Kobaslija: Thursday, Jan. 14, 6:30-8:00 pm (7:00 pm - presentation begins), Smith Gallery, Free and open to the public
Pizza & Gallery Talk with Amer Kobaslija: Friday, Jan. 15, 11:15 am-12:15 pm, Smith Gallery, Free and open to the public
Opening reception: January 15, 4:30–7 pm
Curator Tour: January 25, 11:30 am
November 20, 2015 -January 15, 2016.
Patricia Thompson Gallery
This selection of paintings recognizes a significant shift in Walter Matthews’ work since he attended Ringling College. Matthews acknowledges a “new immediacy” in these “fast” paintings. His paintings on wood panel with oil and other media manifest a “lightness.” They are no longer dependent on the “big stroke” of his previous work. This new work that is essentially abstract and may have some suggestion of reference investigates “how you address ‘real’ space in painting.” What is evident in this new work is “a level of restraint” with paint as his use of it is “economical” and serves his new aesthetic.
His palette can be muted or bold as he may be using high keyed Sharpies as well as neon yellow, orange, pink and blue paint. The intense colors are “modulated” as he does not use them straight out of the tube. Matthews is also using an airbrush that is giving him an extraordinary opportunity to create a mysterious sense of space where additional layers of media push and pull for attention. He is using the wood surface not only as a ground for the paintings but sometimes as an important part of the composition. By cutting into the wood or revealing its clean unmarked surface it becomes part of the construct of the work of art.
Mark Ormond, Curator of the exhibition, who has been following Matthews’ work since he enrolled at Ringling, sees “a dramatic and exciting advancement in the painting. Walter is constantly pushing himself to explore options, ask questions about the definition of painting and the process of painting. He is not adverse to risk taking. His detours from his previous marked accomplishments always lead him in a new direction that is exciting for the viewer.”
(All quotes are from studio visits and conversation with the artist in October 2015. An on-going series of collages that are not part of the exhibition were important in inspiring this new series of paintings.)
Walter Matthews is currently a Masters of Fine Arts degree candidate at the University of South Florida, Tampa. He graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2013.
November 6–December 9, 2015
Selby Gallery
In November of 2015, the Selby Gallery will present Cuban Art from the Collection of Jorge Reynardus, comprised of over 30 paintings and sculptures by renowned artists investigating their personal experiences with and relationships to their homeland, Cuba. Assembled in New York, this selection includes the works of Jose Bédia, Augustin Fernández, Wifredo Lam and Glexis Novoa.
Amassed over several decades and purchased directly through the artists themselves, this collection was built through the personal relationships Reynardus maintained with many of Cuba’s working artists and highlights the distinct experiences of being an artist in Cuba under the rule of Fidel Castro. Exploring the concepts of expression and freedom, these works create a first-person narrative about life, liberty, culture, and national pride.
Jorge Reynardus is a Sarasota resident and art collector.
Sponsored for in part by Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax Revenues.