University Galleries

"All Hearts Beneath the Sun" is not a chronological retrospective. Rather, pieces from University Galleries' permanent collection are grouped thematically based on aesthetic connections, plus influences visiting artists had on Illinois State students who went on to careers of their own.

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An exhibit and accompanying film screening at University Galleries share Chicago's 1970s "Imagism" movement. Though not a formal collective, the imagists share some aesthetic distinctions.

Curator Troy Sherman is rounding the bend on his first year at University Galleries, and the first show he’s curated opens next week. The show is called “simplenothingsimplesomething” — all one word — and features a multimedia installation by Portland-based artist Avantika Bawa.

Work by St. Louis-based photographer Jess T. Dugan blends photographs and text in an exhibit at University Galleries. Called "I Want Your to Know My Story," the show journeys through portraiture and still life with a queer lens — but it's not about queerness.

As Iranian visual artist Nazafarin Lotfi integrated with Arizona’s artist community, she noticed a lot of landscape painting and photography. It led her to think about how nations, including the two she’s lived in, define themselves by their landscapes — and eventually transpiring “A Garden to Build,” a solo art show on view now at University Galleries in Normal.

What happens when you get a bunch of teenagers in a room, feed them pizza and talk about art? As you might expect, they all have different ideas, but eclecticism and imagination have come together for “In Living Color" at University Galleries.

Unless it’s Black History Month, or she’s been invited to an exhibition about being a person of color, Brenda Pagan usually discovers she’s the only Black artist in a show.

Starting June 1, the works of 53 of Stefen Robinson’s students at Normal Community High School will be featured at University Galleries in Uptown Normal.

Poetry and textiles entwine in a new exhibition by an interdisciplinary artist who draws her inspiration from the words we read and the materials we…