Bradley University Galleries

Marion Belanger

Exhibition: August 29-October 7, 2022
Heuser Gallery

Lecture: September 22, 2022 – 5:00-6:00pm
Reception: September 22, 2022 – 6:15pm

Click here for a recording of the event

And here’s a link to a short interview with the artist for BU News

Lithospheric Shift visualizes the geologic landscape and cultural artifacts found along tectonic plate boundaries. The Red Zone of Vesuvius include photographs of Mt. Vesuvius, archeological fragments from Pompeii and Herculaneum.  Rift / Fault is a study of the two land-based edges of the North American Tectonic Plate: the San Andreas Fault in California and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Iceland.  Tectonic plates slide along the fluid mantle of our earth, underneath our oceans, our land, our homes.  Plate edges shift, erupt, and tremble. Their behavior is for the most part unpredictable, and wholly uncontainable. And while boundaries upon the land are often contested, politicized, and fought over, tectonic plate boundaries remain immune to human efforts of control. 

John Steck Jr.
(recent instructor of photography at Bradley)

Exhibition: August 16-September 29, 2022
Hartmann Gallery

Lecture: “A Silver Memory” September 29, 2022 – 5:00-6:00pm
Reception: September 29, 2022 – 6:15pm

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This exhibition brings together various projects of visual artist John Steck Jr. In the Shadow of the Bloom is an exhibition that uses plants and flowers in order to address larger themes such as time, memory, entropy, natural beauty, and decay. Steck is not a botanist, florist, or gardener, but rather someone who is interested in how we actively reference and work in conjunction with art history. Much of his work draws from the early practitioners of photography, such as Henry Fox Talbot and Anna Atkins, all of whom used the garden as a means for photographic investigation. Steck expands on those traditional processes by pushing their limitations in order to expand the boundaries of photography.

April 25 – May 14, 2022

Reception: May 6, 2022 5 – 8pm

Come see the work of this year’s fantastic seniors graduating with Bachelor of Fine Art degrees!

Featuring Artists:

Celia Compton, Photography
Deicide Huxtable, Painting
Sydney Morr, Graphic Design
Hannah Netherwood, Photography
Gracie Noble, Graphic Design
Benjamin Rodrigues, Graphic Design

May 9 – 13, 2022

Reception May 13, 5-7pm

Heuser Gallery

If you’re in the Peoria area, come and enjoy the creativity of todays graphic design seniors, tomorrows graphic design ‘stars’!

May 4 – 27, 2022

Reception May 7, – 2 – 4pm

Peoria Public Library – Downtown – Basement Gallery

2022 Photography Capstone Exhibition

Featured Artists:

Celia Compton
Anna Gerard
Ambrosia Griffin
Hannah Netherwood

May 6, 2022, 6 – 8pm

Studios on Sheridan at the Sunbeam Building
929 N Sheridan Rd.
Peoria, IL 61606

Heather Ford MFA Thesis Exhibition

APRIL 4 – 29

Heuser Gallery

Heather coordinates and teaches the User Experience Program for the Department of Interactive Media within the Slane College of Communications and Fine Arts at Bradley University. Her fine art, digital creative, and UI/UX design spans over 20 years of professional experience both in the commercial and academic sectors. Through visual communication, data visualization, user experience, and illustration, Heather combines consciousness, spirituality, and technology to create immersive experiences. Her design work merges the areas of traditional fine art and technology-driven experience design with science and spirit.

APRIL 7, 2022 – 5:00-6:00PM

GCC, Horowitz Auditorium

Carrie Lingscheit’s original intaglio prints exploit the subtleties of etching and mezzotint technique to explore themes of human behavior, interaction and the malleable nature of remembrance, presenting equivocal narratives that are often characterized by omission, distortion, and hyperbole. Her work has been included in numerous national and international exhibitions and in dozens of invitational exchange portfolios. Recent exhibitions include the 2018 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, the 3rd International Mezzotint Festival in Ekaterinburg, Russia; and the 2017 Washington Printmakers National Small Works Juried Exhibition in Washington DC. Lingscheit holds a BFA from The University of South Dakota (2006) and MFA from Ohio University (2010.) She currently lives in Urbana, IL.

Connecting the Dots: Not all Paths are Linear

MARCH 24, 2022 – 5:00-6:00pm

GCC, Horowitz Auditorium

Alli is a Chicago-based visual designer specializing in branding, web, and print design projects. She graduated from Bradley in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Graphic Design. Her design mantra is to keep it simple but have fun doing it. 

Over the past ten years, she has worked on a wide range of projects, including rebranding initiatives for nationwide companies, creative digital solutions, and print rollouts big and small. Some clients include: Nami Metro Suburban, Turano Baking Co, Connie’s Pizza, Greektown Chicago, Grounds & Hounds Coffee, and many more. After a few years in the marketing agency world, she got the opportunity to be the sole designer on JB Pritzker’s gubernatorial campaign. Their team ran one of the largest digital marketing campaigns in 2018. After the campaign was over, she went back to freelancing for a while, worked on another set of political initiatives, and then got back into the agency world. She is now a Senior Art Director at FCB Chicago, working on a newer team for Cox Communications.

MARCH 12 – APRIL 8

Hartmann Gallery

Tim Hutchings, Assistant Professor of Game Design, will be exhibiting three bodies of work, all from 2020 or later.  Lines drawn to solve the computer game Freeways are translated into paint, creating convenient nonrepresentational artworks reminiscent of Brice Marden.  Collages created to spur book-based game play have a very different presence in a gallery.  Amusing, playful processes make awful glitter scabs on panel.

A consistent theme across the work is a playful (or selfish, or commercial) rearrangement of when the artwork is actually experienced in its most intended form.