exhibitions

billboard gallery

UAC’s Billboard Gallery on Cleveland is a 432-square-foot showcase for new local artwork.

 
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About the UAC Billboard Gallery

UAC’s Billboard Gallery, located across from our office at 422 N. Cleveland, is a 432-square-foot showcase for new local artwork. This program is sponsored by LSI Graphics, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and ArtsMemphis.

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Past

Featured
Nelson Gutierrez
Nelson Gutierrez

Winter/Spring 2020

Nelson Gutierrez is an artist from Bogota, Colombia, who now lives and works in Memphis, TN, USA. Since the early 1990s, Gutierrez has focused on creating two and three-dimensional artworks, conceptual objects, and installations based on current socio-political issues. He uses a variety of different mediums - charcoal, ink, wood, blood, wax, glass, light - to tell stories that are universally understood, but experienced more intensely by a select few.

Chuck Johnson

Fall 2019

Chuck Johnson is an abstract painter whose approach to art making explores the conflicted relationship between the decorative traditions in geometric patterns found in other cultures and western modernism. His recent paintings avoid culturally specific subject matter in favor of a more elusive pictorial terrain of contemporary abstraction, in an attempt to reflect a broader generational curiosity where the familiar and unfamiliar converge.

Catherine Elizabeth Patton
Catherine Elizabeth Patton

Summer 2019

Catherine Elizabeth Patton is a fine art and portrait photographer from Memphis, TN. In her work, Catherine looks for elements that present her subjects in a light of honesty, in an effort to establish an empathetic and symbiotic relationship between herself, her subject, and her viewer. Her work aims to inspire personal and creative liberation through vulnerability and truth.

Terry Lynn
Terry Lynn

Spring 2019

For over a decade, Terry Lynn collaborated with his identical twin brother as TWIN, employing figurative painting with spirited gestures and textural layers of imagery to narrate his family’s history in the South. More recently, he has developed his individual practice with a deeper exploration of abstraction, expanded use of media, and the integration of provocative political and cultural commentary. Terry Lynn his BFA from the University of Memphis and his MFA from the University of Mississippi, and currently lives and works in Memphis.