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Kelli Scott Kelley exhibit opens March 23, 2013 at Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston

Associate Professor of Painting Kelli Scott Kelley will have a solo show of mixed-media drawings, Twins and Other Curiosities, on display at Hooks-Epstein Gallery in Houston from March 23-April 20. The images, executed using collaged re-purposed papers, are mostly salvaged from Kelley’s son’s discarded school papers. “In culling through the piles of papers I’d kept [...]

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Artist collective with 13 Art MFA alumni members crowdsources funding for exhibition in Galway, Ireland

In less than a month the group Expanded Draught, which includes 13 MFA alumni of the School of Art at LSU, raised 2,052 Euros through the crowdsource site :fund:it. Sixty one funders from around the world agreed to assist with the cost of materials, installation, an exhibition opening, and promotion costs. Starting March 9th 2013 they will [...]

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School of Art profiled in Art Business Magazine, Fall 2012

Excerpt from story in the Fall 2012 issue of Art Business Magazine which features work by recent LSU alumni: Painting and Drawing student Leonardo Madriz with Reflection, part of a senior project installation, and Tide Proof Garden, located in a Mississippi River flood plain, created by Sculpture student Josh Berkley for a senior-level class “What [...]

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Ed Smith Exhibits Paintings in Solo Show at Cape Cod Museum of Art

Associate Professor of Painting Ed Smith currently has a solo show, Avian Dreams: 10 Years on the Gulf, at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis, MA. There will be a reception Friday, February 8, 5:30 – 7:30 pm, a gallery talk by Curator Michael Giaquinto Wednesday, February 20, 2 pm, and the show will [...]

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Santiago Pineda, Painting and Drawing Graduate Student, exhibits at Bridgette Mayer Gallery

Emerging Colombian artist, and LSU School of Art Graduate Student Santiago Pineda exhibited at Bridgette Mayer Gallery, November 6 – November 30, 2012. In the Vault: Santiago Pineda SUPPOSED HYBRIDS The interrelationships between vision, desire and language are the elements that drive my artistic practice. What is seeing? How is seeing related to desire? These questions are [...]

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Artist, Peter Shire Speaks January 30 at 5:00 p.m. College of Art + Design Distinguished lecture

The LSU College of Art + Design Distinguished Lecture Series presents Peter Shire, Wednesday January 30, at 5:00 p.m. in the first floor lecture hall (RM.103) of the Art + Design Building. Peter Shire graduated from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. His work crosses over the boundaries between sculpture, ceramics, furniture and interior [...]

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