February 12 - March 8, 2025

Exhibiting Artists: Brandin Baron, David Benarroch, Jamaal Bonnette, Clara Bowe, Terry Brewer, Yvette Cummings Arendt, Tom Delaney, Ally DeRusso, Maryam Deyhim, Debra Disman, Jasper Duberry, Chad Erpelding, Sarah Fanjoy and James Labrenz, Irwin Freeman, Bugsy Gabriel, Dennis Gerwin, Mack Gingles, Julianne Hunter, Gerald Klein, Natalia Leigh, Nicole Lenzi, Benjamin Murphy, Lola Panco, Mary L. Peng, Victoria Perry, Millian Giang Pham, Shelby Scattergood, Jessie Shinn, Catherine Eaton Skinner, Donna Wolfe, Richard Yasko, Yicheng Zhu, and Stefan Zoller

The UNCP A.D. Gallery is proud to present the 14th Annual International Juried Exhibition - Pendulum. Gains/losses, highs/lows, submerge/emerge…our human experience swings on a pendulum. While we all aim for homeostasis, the moments the pendulum swings are often when we feel the most alive, when we are called to act or react.  In the past 20 years, we have faced major political, social, environmental, and personal shifts. These shifts have presented us with obstacles, challenges as well as moments for reinvention and emergence. This exhibition features work that visualizes a swing in the pendulum, a life altering moment, a shift in the trajectory. The artwork in the gallery includes drawing, sculpture, mixed media, painting, ceramics, video, printmaking, installation, and photography.

Our juror selected the following artists for special recognition:

First Place: Natalia Leigh, The Wall 

Second Place:  Bugsy Gabriel, Air 

Third Place: Jessie Shinn, The Edge of the Sea

Honorable Mention:  Donna Wolfe, Uvalde, Texas

Honorable Mention:   Lola Panco, Rupture

Juror: Emily Beck

Emily Scott Beck is an interdisciplinary artist and professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Design at the University of Notre Dame. Her work manipulates and re-contextualizes aspects of our identity that are often hidden within the layers of human communication and interaction. Using video, animation, photography, sculpture, fibers, installation, and sound, she captures experiences of emotional vulnerability, unrehearsed performances, gender construction, systems of belief, and women's labor and leadership. A focus on art as a powerful tool for visual communication and social change is a common thread between her studio practice and her teaching. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States, including the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, the South Bend Museum of Art in South Bend, IN, Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin Texas, and Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL. www.emilyscottbeck.com, @emilybeck_art 

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