This year’s juror is Los Angeles-based artist Amanda Ross-Ho, whose new works will be shown in a companion exhibition. See art created by University of Alabama at Birmingham students when the 48th Annual Juried Student Exhibition opens Jan. 12, in UAB’s Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts.
Presented annually by the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Art History, the Annual Juried Student Exhibition is an experiential learning opportunity for students in art and art history and many other fields of study. All UAB students who have taken art and art history courses in the past two years are eligible to submit works for the show.
Jurors for the exhibition are professional artists from all over the nation. This year’s juror is Los Angeles-based artist Amanda Ross-Ho, whose new works will be featured in the AEIVA exhibition “Untitled Inventory (Catalogue Irraisonné).” AEIVA will also present the exhibition “Warhol: Revisited.” An opening reception for all three exhibitions will be from 5-7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 12, at AEIVA, 1221 10th Ave. South. The reception is free and open to the public.
AEIVA is open from noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Admission is free and open to the public. Visit uab.edu/aeiva for more information.
Ross-Ho is an interdisciplinary artist and a professor of sculpture at the University of California, Irvine. Ross-Ho has exhibited, lectured and taught internationally. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern California.
Every work in the “exciting” pool of student submissions for the Annual Juried Student Exhibition had value for the thought, effort and investment put into them, and in the end, many excellent works were not included, Ross-Ho said.
“For me, risk-taking and bravery of vision are as valuable and crucial as technical mastery of a medium,” Ross-Ho said. “I looked for works that seemed to pursue ideas, form, materials and images with a deep curiosity, and connected with a unique personal vocabulary or arena of thoughtful inquiry. I was excited by works in which artists expressed a sense of agency and urgency in terms of their politics, ethics, belief systems and joy.”
Students whose works were selected include Silvie Aumalis, Disney Bagwell, Brandon Beasley, Virgil Bragg, Geremy Cantrell, Gracie Chatham, Jenna Clark, Isabella Cottingham, Antoine Davis, Maisie Davis, Rachel Doyle, Thomas Fish, Juan Garcia, Harper Gordon, I$H, Josh Harris, Abby Henderson, Gracie Hollington, Jaymie Hornsby, Izabella Janush-Hernandez, Kristen Jones, Anna Kennedy, Anne Kerr-Brown, Wes Ladner, Alexa Lee, Brennan Lein, Kana Luecke, Megan Maddry, Darien Malone, Sydney Marlin, Moka Mccann, Samantha Mendez, Camp Metz, Nneka Onwuka, Darriann Pharr, Laura Pigott, Alex Pressnell, Leilaalsadat Rezaeidemneh, Sam Roberts, Thomas Rooney, Calliope Ross, Justin Ryu, Lawrence Shultz, Emily Slawson, Tait Soulis, Kara Theart, Arielle Tippett, Tayla Van Leeve, Haley Vinson, Grace Wildasin, Eel Williams and Audrey Womack.