Updated February 15, 2010

"With Our Head in the Clouds" by Derek Cracco. Download image.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Visual Arts Gallery will present a faculty exhibition Feb. 12 through March 6, at the gallery, 900 13th St. South. A reception for the show has been rescheduled from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, March 5 in the gallery. Admission is free. Call 205-934-0815.

The show will feature new works by faculty in the UAB Department of Art and Art History. Works will include sculpture, photography, painting, graphic design, new media, printmaking and drawing. 

Sculptors James Alexander, M.F.A., and John Douglas Powers, M.F.A., each will explore complex trends in three-dimensional expression. A work by Powers, "Field of Reeds," recently won seventh place at ArtPrize, an international art competition in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Photographer Sonja Rieger, M.F.A., will present two works, one a part of her ongoing series of works that consider the site and significance of Birmingham's The Club. Painting Professor Gary Chapman, M.F.A., will exhibit two large-scale paintings reflecting the intersection of realism and allegory. Graphic designers Erin Wright, M.F.A., and Doug Barrett, M.F.A., each will depict new modes of thinking about graphic expression, while Assistant Professor Doug Baulos, M.F.A., will present new, multimedia book-based works. Christopher Lowther, M.F.A., will present an interactive video installation that explores issues of desire. Assistant Professor Derek Cracco, M.F.A., who specializes in printmaking and digital photography, will present two new large-scale multimedia print-based works

About the UAB Visual Arts Gallery

The UAB Visual Arts Gallery showcases both historical and contemporary artworks by local, regional, national and international artists. Its exhibitions highlight works by faculty and students plus emerging and established artists in as many as a dozen regularly changing shows that always are free and open to the public.