University Hall Gallery
2020 Preview & 2019 Review
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installation view: From Theory to Practice, 2019
in situ, left to right, top to bottom: Alfredo Jaar, Jenny Holzer, Glenn Ligon, K8 Hardy, Mary Kelly, Mark Dion, Martha Rosler, Hans Haacke, and Pope.L
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Letter from the Director:
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To our valued audience members,
2019 was a fulfilling and dynamic year at the University Hall Gallery. We welcomed thousands of viewers, dozens of classroom visits, and hosted five original exhibitions at the gallery with several new and exciting projects to come in 2020. I would like to thank all of the students, visitors, artists, and collaborators who made our program such a success this past year. Your viewership and engagement complete our work. We could not do it without you.
As always, our exhibitions and events are free and open to the public. If you would like to support our mission to bring original art experience to the students of UMass Boston, please follow the link here to contribute. All proceeds go directly to supporting our program through artist honoraria, publications, and production costs for new exhibitions and events.
I hope you will all visit and participate in our program in 2020. On behalf of the University Hall Gallery, we wish you a happy and healthy New Year! Please read on for information on upcoming exhibitions and a review of some of the projects we produced in 2019.
Kindly,
Sam Toabe
Gallery Director
University Hall Gallery
Arts on the Point
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Dot Now
public reception:
01.30.20 | 4:30pm–7pm
on view through 03.13.20
Left:
Ngoc-Tran Vu
My Vietnamese Father, 2007
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Join us to celebrate the exhibition with the artists and community. Light food and refreshments will be served.
Artists include:
Marlon Forrester, Rixy Fz, Zach Horn, Andrew Mowbray, Ngoc-Tran Vu, Aiden Nguyen of Vănguard, Cristi Rinklin, Susie “Cookie” Smith, Deandra Shannon Spence, Joanna Tam, Jamal Thorne, and Joe Wardwell
About the exhibition:
Dot Now presents artworks made by artists based in our neighborhood of Dorchester. The exhibition seeks to foster a stronger sense of community between artists in the area and UMass Boston while celebrating their work within the Great Boston Area. Dot Now gathers a set of intergenerational artists who are working in a variety of media, connected through their locale and shared social concerns, but distinctive in their artistic practices and personal narratives. Supporting programming to be announced in the coming weeks will look at the ways in which artists in Dorchester are self-organizing to support and sustain the arts in their community by creating spaces, discourses, and contexts for their work and that of their peers.
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on view: April–May
Capstone 2020 is this year’s iteration of the Art Department's annual group exhibition of student artworks made during the course ART 380: Capstone, organized by Assistant Professor of Art Christopher Schade and Gallery Director Sam Toabe. The capstone course encourages students' professional development as they near graduation. For many students, this exhibition is their first time showing artwork outside of the classroom. This year, Capstone 2020 will give students a chance to think through the processes of displaying their artwork in public by curating, installing, writing about, promoting, and documenting their artwork in a professional gallery.
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Martha Rosler, Off the Shelf: War and Empire, 2008
Courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, © Martha Rosler
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From Theory to Practice:
Trajectories of the Whitney
Independent Study Program
Organized by John A. Tyson and Sam Toabe
On View: 1.14.19–3.8.19
Participating Artists: Gregg Bordowitz, Matthew Buckingham, Mark Dion, Brendan Fernandes, Victoria Fu, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Renée Green, Hans Haacke, K8 Hardy, Jenny Holzer, Every Ocean Hughes (f.k.a. Emily Roysdon), Alfredo Jaar, Mary Kelly, Sowon Kwon, Liz Magic Laser, Glenn Ligon, Park McArthur, Pope.L, and Martha Rosler
From Theory to Practice: Trajectories of the Whitey Independent Study Program is the first exhibition to survey the impact of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) on contemporary art. The exhibition was organized by Assistant Professor of Art, John A. Tyson and Gallery Director, Sam Toabe. You can read more about the exhibition here.
On 02.21.19, University Hall Gallery hosted a panel discussion featuring renowned artist Hans Haacke and art historian, curator, and writer Gloria Sutton. You can view it here via our YouTube page.
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Joiri Minaya: Gazing Back
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installation view: Joiri Minaya: Gazing Back, 2019
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Joiri Minaya: Gazing Back
on view: 03.18.19–05.04.19
About the exhibition:
I've learned there is a Gaze thrust upon me which others me. I turn it upon itself, mainly by seeming to fulfill its expectations, but instead sabotaging it, thus regaining power and agency. – Joiri Minaya
Gazing Back was the first solo-exhibition in New England by artist Joiri Minaya. The exhibition surveyed seven years of the artist’s practice in installation, sculpture, photography, video, and performance, focusing on the artist’s subversion of “the gaze,” which flips the role of power from the viewer to the subject.
Reviews:
"For [Minaya], it was a physical and tangible way to allow visitors to explore the ideas of negation and opacity. The tropical fabric is gay and lively, but with it comes an implicit warning: you can gaze as much as you want but there are some things you will never see." –Pamela Reynolds, The ARTery, WBUR
"...[the] show as a whole, forces viewers to confront not just the problem at hand, but their own role in it."
–Celina Colby, The Bay State Banner
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| Sarah Kanouse and Nicholas Brown, still from Ecologies of Acknowledgment, 2019 |
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LOCAL ECOLOGIES
Currently on view at UMass Dartmouth
November 7, 2019 – January 10, 2020
Traveling next to UMass Lowell
January 21, 2020 – March 6, 2020
Public reception: Tuesday Feb 25 from 4-6pm
Artists:
Dan Borelli, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Sarah Kanouse & Nicholas Brown, Plotform: Jane Marsching + Andi Sutton, Matthew Mazzotta, Evelyn Rydz, and Andrew Yang
about the exhibition:
LOCAL ECOLOGIES is an educational initiative, traveling exhibition, and set of public programs taking place across three University of Massachusetts campuses. Spanning Eastern Massachusetts, the campuses of UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth, and UMass Lowell belong to landscapes with diverse coastal and river ecosystems, as well as layered indigenous, colonial, and industrial histories. The LOCAL ECOLOGIES initiative presents contemporary, place-based art practices that bring our ecologies and land use histories into new focus.
Review:
"In Local Ecologies, an ambitious exhibition traveling among University of Massachusetts galleries, artists consider area lands, ecosystems, and histories." –Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe
LOCAL ECOLOGIES is organized by Kirsten Swenson, Art History, UMass Lowell; Sam Toabe, Gallery Director, UMass Boston; and Rebecca Uchill, Art Education, Art History, and Media Studies, UMass Dartmouth.
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Elizabeth Solomon (Massachusett) leading the discussion on shore at Deer Island as part of our first public program afield, Indigenous Boston Harbor, organized by Sarah Kanouse and Nicholas Brown. Read more about Indigenous Boston Harbor here.
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Professor Mitch Manning's Art and Literature students reading their manifestos on the future of art in our current exhibition Dot Now.
Classroom Visits
Art can be a powerful teaching tool. As an academic gallery, we are always happy to host classroom visit and collaborate with students and teachers to develop custom workshops that compliment their coursework within the context of our exhibitions and events. This last year we welcomed more classroom visits than ever before, facilitating discussions that focused on various subjects including art history, writing, biology, philosophy, and criminal justice.
To schedule a visit, email us at: UHGallery@umb.edu
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About the gallery:
The University Hall Gallery at UMass Boston was founded in the Fall of 2016. It produces exhibitions and events for the Art Department with a mission to make artwork accessible to the public and students across disciplines with an emphasis on pluralism and fostering visual literacy. Our program is supported by the Paul Hayes Tucker Fund, dedicated funds from the Paul and Edith Babson Foundation, with in-kind support from the College of Liberal Arts and UMass Boston.
The gallery is always free and open to the public.
For more information, or to schedule a private viewing, email us at: UHGallery@umb.edu
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