Art Gallery

GVSU Art Gallery

Fall 2013:
 
Cyril Lixenberg:  An Artist’s Journey
Friday,  August 23- friday, November 1, 2013
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 5-7 PM
Cyril Lixenberg: an Artist’s Journey explores and celebrates 81 years of the life and work of the popular contemporary Dutch artist Cyril Lixenberg, whose monumental sculpture and eye-popping, colorful screen prints are exhibited throughout GVSU’s buildings and campuses. The exhibition will feature new gifts of paintings and works on paper including drawings, mono-prints, print editions, small sculptures, and archival material spanning his early career as a struggling and evolving artist from the mid 1950s to the present.  Multiple exhibition venues across West Michigan from GRAM to the Muskegon Museum of Art will simultaneously focus on particular aspects of Lixenberg’s art.
 

In addition to the GVSU Art Gallery exhibits, Grand Valley State University continues to showcase the works of graduating seniors from the Department of Art & Design and the School of Communications in a series of one and two-week exhibits at the end of each semester

 
BFA Exhibition:   Dillon Vrosh-Illustration
            Rachel Masincavage-Ceramics
Jodi Carpenter-Illustration
Paul Warfield-Sculpture
Monday, November 11 to Thursday, November 14, 2013
Reception:  Thursday, November14
 
 
 
Winter 2014:
 
 
 
 
In addition to the GVSU Art Gallery exhibits, Grand Valley State University continues to showcase the works of graduating seniors from the Department of Art & Design and the School of Communications in a series of one and two-week exhibits at the end of each semester.
 
 
 
Located at 1121 Performing Arts Center on the Allendale Campus. All exhibits and free and open to the public.

Red Wall Gallery

Fall 2013:
 
Home Run: Laker Baseball Goes to Cuba
Friday, August 23 to Sunday, October 27, 2013
 
 
Winter 2014:
 
Fishladder and Student Scholars Day Exhibit
Friday, March 28 to Friday, April 25, 2014
An exhibition of selections from the award winning Fishladder: Student Journal of Art and Writing celebrating the scholarship and creativity of Grand Valley State University students.  Fishladder is a student-run journal that publishes student fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, photography, and art. Students from all disciplines in the university are encouraged to submit work in all styles, genres, and forms. Fishladder student staff carefully consider submissions, and final decisions are made by the editors. The yearly print edition is unveiled every April, with copies available in Lake Ontario Hall and across the Allendale campus. The online edition is updated annually and archived continually.
 
Watch for this exhibit in Lake Ontario Hall, Allendale Campus
 
West Wall Gallery

Fall 2013:
 
New Selections form the Erwin Raible Collection of French Prints:
A Gift of Elaine Rutowski Shay
Friday, August 23 to Friday December 6, 2013
The Grand Valley State University Print and Drawing Cabinet now preserves a growing collection of more than 2,500 fine works of art on paper. Its holdings offer students of art and other academic disciplines rich opportunities of studying, learning and research. In 2009 Elaine Rutowski Shay generously donated a collection of Fin de Siècle French Prints with important work by Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vaillard and others. This exhibit was held in conjunction with GVSU 50th Anniversary.
 
 
Winter 2013
 
 

Located in the L. V. Eberhard Center, Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus

 

Thornapple Gallery

Fall 2013:
 
Cyril Lixenberg: Selections from the Print and Drawing Cabinet
Friday, August 23 to Friday December 6, 2013
Internationally acclaimed Amsterdam-based artist, Cyril Lixenberg is a printmaker and sculptor of monumental steel works who has played an important role in modern Dutch art movements.
Lixenberg has become a familiar member of the West Michigan art community. His most recent public sculpture commission, Steel Water, is located along the Grand River next to the downtown J.W. Marriot Hotel. Lixenberg has donated to Grand Valley State University’s Print and Drawing Cabinet an original of every print produced in the course of his notable 40-plus year career, as well as small models of his large-scale steel sculptures.
 
Winter 2014:
 
 
 
This gallery is located on the lower floor of the Russell L. Kirkhof Center, Allendale Campus
 

George and Barbara Gordon Gallery
Mathias J. Alten (1871-1938), American Impressionist
Mathias J. Alten (1871-1938) is a celebrated American regionalist artist, painting over 2500 works of art throughout his life.  Building from a traditional Barbizon and Tonalist landscape background, Alten began as a naturalistic scene painter and later transitioned into painting in an impressionistic style.
Grand Valley State University holds the largest public collection of Mathias Alten in the world, consisting of more than 70 paintings as well as his family’s archive collection of family photos and letters.  Private collectors George and Barbara Gordon determined that their Alten paintings should be on permanent public display made the lead gift to Grand Valley State University in 1999 and continue to build on that gift annually.

Located in the Richard M. DeVos Center, Building E, Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus.  Free and open to the public.  Hours are:  1 – 5 PM Fridays and Saturdays

 
 
ArtPrize 2013 at Grand Valley State University Venue
Wednesday, September 18 to Sunday, October 6, 2013
Hours:  Monday through Thursday - 5-8 PM
Friday and Satursday -12-8 PM
Sunday - 12-6 PM
 
Located on the grounds of the L. V. Eberhard Center, Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus

 

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