Department Archives: School of Visual Arts and Design

Want to impress your loved ones this Valentine’s Day? Give them a handmade card – made on a fine-arts letterpress at UCF’s Flying Horse Editions. The opportunity to create the cards will be offered during the facility’s periodic open house on Thursday, Feb. 7, when visitors can see the downtown Orlando fine-art research center and […]

E. Brady Robinson’s work featured in new exhibit at Shijiazhuang Contemporary Art Museum in China. This exhibit is curated by Yan Li and opens Feb. 1st for one month featuring Robinson’s photographic documentary Desks as Portraits: An Inside Look at the DC Art World. This work was first featured in the 2011 Lishui Photography Festival […]

A STEAM Exhibition of paintings and posters created by collaborative teams of UCF art and science students heads to the Orlando Science Center this weekend for Otronicon, an interactive technology expo. The event runs now through Monday, Jan. 21. The artworks are all inspired by cutting-edge, STEM-related research of leading UCF faculty and students. The […]

Associate Professor E. Brady Robinson’s photograph “Jerusalem Model A.D. 66” was featured in Washington City Paper recently as among the top ten photographs in Washington, DC exhibits 2012 by Art Critic Louis Jacobson. The photo, from Robinson’s series “Scenes from Jesusland,” was on exhibit in “Click: Space & Time” last summer at Addison/Ripley Fine Art […]

UCF alum Metrah Pashaee’s new experimental video Talking Me was selected from 350 international submissions to screen at the Microscope Gallery’s now what program in Brooklyn. Talking Me is a cinematic Dadaist collage comprised of appropriations from online videos. By subtly manipulating preexisting pieces and choreographing these images to a distorted soundtrack, the film creates […]

Associate Professor E. Brady Robinson’s documentary “Desks as Portraits: An Inside Look at the DC Art World” has been featured in the launch of Art Photo Index which includes nearly 3,000 vetted photographers and photo-based artists from 85 countries with 12,000 images. Art Photo Index is owned and operated by Photo-Eye and was conceived by […]

On the evening of December 5th, students in UCF’s Bachelor of Design in Architecture program presented the final projects from their Design Studio 5 courses to a panel of local professionals, graduate students from UF’s CityLab, and UCF faculty, including Provost Tony Waldrop and Dean Jose Fernandez. Held in the Gallery at the Center for […]

Associate Professor E. Brady Robinson will have a photograph from her series “Transfer” included in the 9th Annual Transformer Art Auction, on exhibit tonight, Nov. 30th 2012 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The auction is presented by Diplomatic Chair, The Ambassador of Spain, His Excellency Ramón Gil-Casares and features over 160 […]

When Pablo Picasso presented his first cubist paintings to the world, even most educated people thought them hideous and irrational, yet his peers saw them to be ingenious. Likewise, Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity was equally baffling to the uninitiated. But to those who were knowledgeable about both art and physics, parallels would have been […]

The work of David Haxton is featured in a new solo exhibition at Gavlak Gallery in Palm Beach. David Haxton: Selected Films and Videos, 1970 – 2012 is on display through December 12 with an opening reception on November 24. In the early 1970s, Haxton began making 16 mm films in his San Diego studio […]