Trahern Gallery
Trahern Gallery
Located in the Margaret Fort Trahern Art and Drama complex, the Trahern Gallery opened in 1974. Since that time it has featured a wide variety of regional, national and international exhibitions. The active, exhibit calendar changes on a regular basis and provides students and the community the opportunity to view quality, original artforms, first-hand. Gallery hours: 9:00 am – 4 pm, Monday through Friday; 1 pm - 4 pm Saturday and Sunday.
Current Exhibition
Identify: B.F.A. Senior Design Exhibition
April 23-April 27
Opening Reception, 5PM Monday, April 23, 2012
Featuring: Brittney Addison, Sarah Dusenberry, Tracey Kyles, Seongji Leem, Alyssa Marie Roy and Amber Leigh Turner
The Department of Art at Austin Peay State University is proud to announce the B.F.A. Visual Communications Senior Exhibition for the spring semester entitled “Identify,” from Monday, April 23 to Friday, April 27 in the Trahern Gallery, located on the second floor of the Trahern Building. “Identify” will feature a wide variety of graphic and web design works from six seniors who will be graduating in May and August 2012. Opening reception will be held on Monday, April 23rd at 5pm in the Trahern Gallery.
Exhibit works include the culmination of thesis, personal, and professional work by the graduating seniors in different applications such as visual identity design, publication design, various forms of print design, website design and development, animation, and mobile application design and development.
Upcoming Shows
Trahern Gallery will operate as the centerpiece of the Department of Art's Living Gallery program next year. In addition to exhibitions space the gallery will serve as a studio for 25 art students. The public is welcome to visit during regular business hours. During the evening of the first Thursday of the month, we will hold a reception for all visitors fropm 5-8pm. Come visit our studios and exhibitions in Tarhern and all across campus from Sept 2012 through April 2013
2011 - 2012 Exhibition Schedule
Re-presentation New paintings by Wes Sherman
Sep 6 - 25, 2011 Trahern Gallery
7 pm, Tue, Sep 6, Trahern 401, Lecture by Wes Sherman
8 pm, Tue, Sep 6 Reception
Starting with a painting from history (e.g. painting by such artists as Corot, Daubigny, Inness, van Gogh, and many others), Sherman begins to abstract from it until he finds something new about color, space or paint. With his paintings he tries to pick paintings from history that will help him discover how history re-presents itself. Wes Sherman has been painting for 19 years and in that time has had 24 solo shows and has been include in numerous group shows.
Scale: aesthetic turbulence and the search for the flexible lifestyle
Curated by Ally Reeves
October 3-23 Trahern Gallery
7 pm, Mon, Oct 3, Trahern 401, Lecture by Ally Reeves
8 pm, Mon, Oct 3 Reception
The current and coming years of economic uncertainty are pushing not only our corporate and blue-collar workers, but creative as well into a requisite reconsideration of lifestyle. We find ourselves obliged as never before to make choices that encourage conservation, economic stimulation, and the free exchange of skills and information.
Scale: calls on artists and inventors of all ilk to rally to the purpose of envisioning new solutions to old questions: how do we live, how do we work, how do we create and grow in way that is productive, rousing and sustainable?
Scale: invites a group of 6+ artists and designers to disseminate innovations in the use of low cost, efficient, or highly durable approaches to making and living.
Homecoming Alumni Show
11am - 4 pm Sat, Oct 29, 2011 Trahern Gallery
This show features innovative and exciting works by emerging, mid-career, and established artists who are APSU Department of Art alumni.
The Urban Landscape
Curated by Warren Greene
Nov 7 - 23 Trahern Gallery
7 pm, Mon, Nov 7, Reception
The exhibit explores the visual experience of urban spaces through the medium of photography. Through the lenses of contemporary photographers, this assembly of work attempts to reinterpret and re-image the overlooked and often derided areas of our built environment.
B.F.A. Senior Design Exhibition Opening, 7PM Monday, December 5, 2011
Trahern Gallery Exhibit: December 5-December 9
TAKE CARE: Biomedical Ethics in the Twenty-First Century
Jan 17 - Feb 5 Trahern Gallery
5 pm, Tue, Jan 17, Trahern 401, Lecture by Adrienne Outlaw
6 pm, Tue, Jan 17, Reception
This exhibition considers civilization’s unease with modern family planning, maternal and fetal care, childbirth and child rearing. Take Care highlights modern bioethical dilemmas with the hope that the viewers will take the opportunity to better appreciate the complexity of these personal decisions in a rapidly changing world.
Text and Textiles {A SAMPLER } , 7PM Monday, February 13, 2012
Curated by Cindy Marsh and Paul Collins
Trahern Gallery Exhibit: February 13-March 2
Tue, 5 pm, Feb 13, 2012 Reception Trahern Gallery
This exhibition hopes to present work by a breadth of contemporary artists that have referenced the historic and/or vernacular use of text and textiles into their creative practices.
44th Annual Student Art Exhibition Opening, 5PM Monday, March 26, 2012
Trahern Gallery Exhibit: March 26-April 12
B.F.A. Senior Design Exhibition Opening, 7PM Monday, April 23, 2012
Trahern Gallery Exhibit: April 23-April 27
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