Intersections: Art and Science is an exhibition of works by students, faculty and alumni in the Scientific and Preparatory Medical Illustration, emphasis area of the  Communication Arts department.

Diana Al-Hadid studied sculpture and art history at Kent State University in Ohio (BA and BFA, 2003), and earned her MFA in sculpture from VCUarts. Al-Hadid makes complex sculptures that seem in a state of flux, suggesting both incompletion and decay. Underlying her large-scale, baroque forms are a wide array of influences, including ancient Biblical and mythological narratives, Arab oral traditions, Gothic church construction, Western painting, Islamic ornamentation, and scientific advances in physics and astronomy.

The exhibition features a single new monumental sculpture—Trace of a Fictional Third—that interweaves landscape, architecture, and the human figure. It is accompanied by a selection of new, heavily worked graphite drawings that shed light on Al-Hadid’s creative process. Her work has gained international attention, including recent solo exhibitions at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Murcia, Spain; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. She currently lives and works in New York.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 6-9 pm

This exhibition features work by first year graduate students from the Department of Craft/Material Studies. Each of these students is associated with one of the five craft disciplines of clay, fiber, glass, metal and wood, which serves as the starting point in their individual pursuits as artists. Pause denotes a point of reflection in each student’s work at the midway point in the program.

Related Programming
Casting Workshop with Bebhinn Jennings & Shauna Kirkland
Clay Handbuilding Workshop with Sohail Abdullah & Lauren Miller
Abstract Embroidery Workshop with Rena Wood

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REFERENCE  is pleased to announce its final exhibition “VCU Police Presents” with an opening reception this Saturday, April 28th from 7-11pm.  Featuring new work by Conor Duggan Backman, Patrick Ross Iannatti, James Michael Shaeffer, and Edward Marshall Shenk.  The show runs through May 20th by appointment.

Page Bond Gallery presents a show featuring VCUarts Craft/Material Studies Fountainhead Fellows. The opening reception will be on Thursday, May 3rd 7-9pm with artist talk at 6:30pm. Featuring works by Stephanie Voegele and Ariel Rice.

Gallery Two Three presents “Emerging Printmakers,” a juried show of local Graduate & Undergraduate work in traditional printmaking. The opening reception is from 7-9pm on Friday, May 4th. The show runs through May 25th. If you miss the reception, stop by during our gallery hours–M,W, F 1:00 to 4:00 pm.

The Horticultural Society of New York is pleased to present Field Recordings, a multimedia exhibition of works by Saul Becker and Stephen Vitiello, Associate Professor in the Kinetic Imaging Department. The exhibition explores how both artists collect fragments of the natural world and restage them as altered landscapes presented in multimedia sculptures, photographs, video, and drawings.

Field Recordings centers on several collaborative works, which combine Vitiello’s atmospheric sound compositions with Becker’s electroplated wildflower sculptures.  The exhibition also includes Becker’s landscape drawings as well as a series of Polaroids and a Super-8 film by Vitiello. Collectively, their work presents a vision of landscapes that are familiar yet alien, acknowledging our current anxiety regarding the environment while reveling in the beauty and wildness of the non-human world.

Opening Reception Wednesday, May 9, from 6pm to 8pm . The Hort is located at 148 West 37th Street, 13th Floor (between Broadway and 7th Avenue) New York, NY 10018.

Candela Gallery presents UnBound, featuring work from over 50 contemporary fine art photographers including notable and emerging photographers Joni Sternbach, Louviere + Vanessa, Susan Worsham, Lex Thompson, Beth Moon, Michael Donner, Caleb Cole, Susan Burnstine.  The exhibition will open Friday, June 1st, with a reception from 5 to 9 pm, with many of the artists expected to be in attendance.

The UnBound  exhibition and UnBound  gala event will raise proceeds which will be used to purchase select works from the exhibition. Purchased works will subsequently be featured in Candela’s newly-founded UnBound Collection . The mission of the UnBound Collection  will be to support photographers through the purchase and collection of original photographic work while also actively pursuing opportunities to donate said work to notable art institutions.

July 20th, 7pm , Candela will host the UnBound  gala event with beer & wine, southern finger food, great music, door prizes and much more. Event tickets will be sold in advance and at the door; and will generate the funds toward purchase of the aforementioned UnBound Collection.