Galleries & Exhibitions

“Synergy” is a group exhibition showing the works of 14 students from the Department of Art at Georgia College & State University. This exhibit as a whole covers works in illustration, graphic design, painting, photography, and installation. This exhibition will run through April 16, 2025, at the Leland and Underwood galleries.

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The Monuments Project 

Julia Morrisroe, Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Florida

January 13 - February 6, 2025
Dorothy Leland Gallery | Ennis Hall
GCSU Department of Art

A reception will be held on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 from 5-7p.m. with an artist talk at 5:30p.m. in Leland Gallery.

Funding Provided by the Mamie Padgett Foundation.

“Aspire” is a group exhibition showing the works of 4 students from the Department of Art at Georgia College & State University. This exhibit as a whole cover works in graphic design, illustration, print, multimedia and animation. This exhibition will run through November 15th 2024, at Leland Gallery in Ennis Hall.

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Capstone Exhibition

Class of 2024
Friday, October 25th - Wednesday, Nov 15th
Reception: Wednesday, November 13th: 5:00 to 6:00pm  

ETHIOPIC: Writing System of Africa

Abraham Abebe 
https://anbassadesign.com/

September 19- October 17
Reception, Wednesday September 25, 5pm-7pm

The project aims to develop a multi script type family for use in publication and way-finding system, supporting both Ethiopic and Latin. Its primary purpose is to ensure consistency, enhance aesthetics, improve legibility, facilitate navigation, and promote safety within the writing system. The typeface family offers a variable option, providing a range of weights to optimize performance and flexibility. 

Abraham Abebe was born and grew up in Ethiopia. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Art, Graphic Design at the Georgia College & State University.

As a studio artist, Abraham exhibits regularly both in the USA and abroad. His paintings, drawings, and installations have been featured in eleven solo and more than fifty group exhibitions. Abraham is the author of an experimental typography book, “Professor Fuzo: Poems and Short Stories”, published in 2018, and a book of poetry, “Eggmel”, published in 2012. Both books were written in his native language Amharic. Abraham holds an MA degree in Type and Media from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), The Netherlands, Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design from the Cooper Union, New York, Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art and Bachelor of Fine Arts (Cum Laude) with concentration in Graphic Design, Painting and Drawing from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Associate of Art Degree with Distinction from Truckee Meadows Community College as well as Diploma of Vocational in Business Office Technology from Sierra Nevada Job Corps Center.

Jaime Johnson Aelavanthara

https://www.jaelavanthara.com

August 19- September 12, 2024
Reception- Wednesday August 28, 5pm-7pm

Tethered, sepia toned photograph from the series Where the Roots Rise

Jaime(Johnson) Aelavanthara grew up in the woods of Mississippi where whippoorwills, coyotes, and other wild animals outside her window became her daily melody. Jaime received her B.F.A. from the University of Mississippi in Imaging Arts & completed her M.F.A. in Photography at Louisiana Tech University in 2014. Currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Tampa department of Art + Design, her work explores themes of the human condition and an interconnectedness with nature. She has actively exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as the Mississippi Museum of Art, SEITES Gallery, Canada, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Her work has been used as cover art for literary works including The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, NY), and Venus in Furs (Roads Publishing, Dublin). Most recently, Aelavanthara won SOHO Photo Gallery’s 2017 International Portfolio competition and was awarded a solo exhibition at SOHO Photo Gallery, NY. Jaime Aelavanthara has been recognized as a finalist in 2014 and 2015 for the Clarence John Laughlin Award, which recognizes photographers who utilize the medium of photography for creative expression. In 2015, Aelavanthara won the Grand Prize in Maine Media Workshops’ international competition Character: Portraits and Stories that Reveal the Human Condition. Aelavanthara's work has received past funding through a visual arts fellowship award from the Mississippi Arts Commission in 2016.Her work is in public and private collections including the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and the International House Hotel in New Orleans. 

Transeuntis Mundi Derive 01

Cândida Borges (Brazil/US) and Gabriel Mario Vélez (Colombia)
www.transeuntismundi.com
February 22 - March14, 2024 
Reception February 22, 5-7p.m.

Rowing Forward Looking Back

Works by Hannah Israel
https://www.hannahisrael.net
January 8, 2024 - February 6, 2024
Reception and Artist Talk, January 25, 2024, 5-7p.m.

Natural History Recomposed: New Paintings by T. David Downs 

September 7 - October 19, 2023, Underwood House Gallery

Sergio Suarez: As a Revelation, Time Presents Itself… 

August 21-September 14, 2023, Leland Gallery at Ennis Hall

Tear

Hannah March Sanders
September 21 – October 14, 2023
Reception and Virtual Artist Talk
October 5, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Virtual talk at 5:30 p.m.

As a Revelation, Time Presents Itself…

Sergio Suarez
August 21-September 14, 2023
Reception and Artist Talk August 24, 5-7pm

ESTEBAN PATINO

Visiting Artist Exhibition
February 16 - March 16  2023
Reception March 7 5-6pm
Leland Gallery

Horsepower

Cedric Smith
January 12- February 9, 2023
Reception January 12^th, 5-7pm