April 4 – May 16
Reception: Wednesday, April 9th, 6:30-7:30pm
Location: Memorial Union Main Gallery, 800 Langdon St, WI
The Wisconsin Union Directorate Art Committee is partnering with The Art Department Visiting Artist Colloquium to bring alumna Tyanna Buie’s work to Main Gallery located in Memorial Union in a concurrent exhibition to her lecture with the Art Department Visiting Artist Colloquium. Buie’s Visiting Artist Colloquium lecture will take place Wednesday, April 9th from 5 to 6:15pm in the Elvehjem building room L160. The retrospective exhibition reception will follow the lecture from 6:30 to 7:30pm in Main Gallery at Memorial Union, with the exhibition on display from April 4th through May 16th.
Buie is a visual artist and printmaker who combines video, print media, painting, drawing, collage, screen-printing, and Deep-Fake technology constructed from excerpts derived from social media and Black popular cultural platforms to explore her own personal familial history while centering on themes of Black cultural significance. She earned her BA from Western Illinois University and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has attended artists-in-residency programs, such as the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, The Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York, the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, Project 1612 AIR in Morton, Illinois, and Hotel Pupik in Schrattenberg, Austria.
The Wisconsin Union Directorate Art Committee is dedicated to bringing novel and challenging exhibitions to the Wisconsin Union and advancing visual arts in the Madison community. This student-run committee strives to recontextualize standard approaches to the visual arts through collaborative and innovative exhibitions.
The Art Department Visiting Artist Colloquium is a series supported by the Anonymous Fund and the Brittingham Trust. Visiting Artist lectures are held every Wednesday during the academic year, and are free and open to the public. Discover the latest developments in Fine art, Craft, and Design at our free public lectures by some of the nation’s most prominent artists, critics, and gallery and museum directors.