Exhibition Archive - SPACE ONE ELEVEN ARTS CENTER

Left: E L Chisolm, 2024

“Humility”

Mixed media acrylic on wood

36 x 48”

Right: Erin LeAnn Mitchell, 2024

“Beat the Devil Out of It”

Fabric, buttons, glitter, yarn

64 x 92

My Yoke is Easy and My Burden is Light

Buoyed by our predecessors’ paths to joy and liberation, we transmute pain into progress and become a beacon. Illumination is our charge and our destiny.

The dual exhibition, My Yoke is Easy and My Burden is Light, features the works of Erin LeAnn Mitchell and E L Chisolm who delve into the fortitude and genius of Black womanhood.

In the face of systemic injustice, we resist with skill and style. These new artworks call viewers to act.

Erin LeAnn Mitchell is a textile artist from Birmingham, Alabama who received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Master of Arts in Art Education from Columbia College Chicago. Her work is an expansion of the southern quilting tradition, using a mixture of textiles and collage gathered in textile markets and fabric stores. These multidimensional assemblages render the realities of southern Blackness into radical new imaginings.

E.L. Chisolm (b. 1993) is an interdisciplinary artist, muralist, art activist, and creative placemaking consultant living and working between Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta, Georgia. Her work across mediums has activated public spaces in underserved communities to help decrease blight and increase walkability and wellness using tactical urbanism projects and public art. Guided by the belief that all people are equally as deserving of vibrant and healthy communities, the artist explores the strength and honesty that come from the natural world and seeks to illuminate the distinctive facial attributes of Black people, emphasizing texture and feature diversity in her mixed media paintings and murals alike.

Alabama Invitational 2023

September 21, 2023 – February 8 2024

An exhibition featuring work created by current and former Alabama artists in the mediums of sculpture, glass, photography, painting, and textiles produced by artists originally from or currently based in Alabama.

Exhibiting Artists: Soeun Bae, Ryan Carlson, Rene Culler, Susan Fitzsimmons, Ryan Foster, Sydney A Foster, Bryce Lafferty, Sophie McVicar, Elisabeth Pellathy, Renee Hanan Plata, Chris Boyd Taylor

In Case of Emergency, Break Glass

“In Case of Emergency, Break Glass” is the first public presentation of an ongoing series of new artworks by artist and educator John Fields. These works utilize drawing, painting, video, printmaking, found-object sculptures, and mixed media materials to provide a darkly humorous and critical examination of our country’s current cultural crisis at the intersection of Christian Nationalism and unchecked capitalism.

Surplus in Pantomime

Exhibiting Artists:
Caleb Jamel Brown, Rosa P. Duffy, Jaymerson Payton, Ezekiel Wright-Robinson, Hasani Sahlehe

Thought surrounding the ontology of the gesture, for most remains in abstract space. For black folks this discourse was waged violently upon our bodies. Thus, the notion of the abstract gesture cannot be, and is never neutral. – Y. Malik Jalal

Celebration, 35th Anniversary Exhibition IV

October 15, 2022 – January 6, 2023

Exhibiting Artists:
Larry Anderson, Anne Arrasmith, Doug Barrett, Pinky Bass, Jon Coffelt, Mary Ann Culotta, Peggy Dobbins, Laura Elkins, Ka ren Graffeo, Lonnie Holley, Janice Kluge, Cam Langley, Charlie Lucas, Mary Ann Sampson, David Sandlin, Bob Shelton, Scott Stephens, Larry Thompson, Toni Tully, Bryan Warren, Joseph Wheeler, Lela Marie Williams

As we celebrate 35 years as an organization, we look back at over 100 exhibitions of work by artists of regional, national and international significance.

Continuity, 35th Anniversary Exhibition III

January 21 – February 25, 2022

Exhibiting Artists:
James Alexander, Shana Berger, Billy Brown, Annie Kammerer Butrus, Margot Cooney, Chris Clark, Tim Denny, Patty B. Driscoll, Truman Grayson, Sydney Harrington, Bria Lewis, Jane Marshall, Kim Riegel, Amasa Smith, Anne Stagg, Jürgen Tarrasch

As we celebrate 35 years as an organization, we look back at over 100 exhibitions of work by artists of regional, national and international significance.

Relevance, 35th Anniversary Exhibition II

November 12, 2021 – January 7, 2022

Exhibiting Artists:
David Baird, Gary Chapman, Charles Collins, Caroline Cooper, Derek Cracco, Brad Daly, Allen Frame, Carolyn Goldsmith, Cassandra Griffen, Sally Heller, Darius Hill, Armor Keller, John Klosterman, Jim Neel, John Northrop, E. Bruce Phillips, Amy Pleasant, Amber Quinn, Sonja Rieger, Carolyn Sherer, Nic Tisdale, Pam Venz, Marie Weaver

As we celebrate 35 years as an organization, we look back at over 100 exhibitions of work by artists of regional, national and international significance.

Drawn Together, 35th Anniversary Exhibition I

September 17 – October 29, 2021

Exhibiting Artists:
Sara Garden Armstrong, Rachel Bates, Joe Bennett, Ann Benton, Tony Bingham, Beverly Erdreich, Rebecca Fulmer, Randy Gachet, Leah Hamel, Elaine Kinnaird, Melinda Matthews, Ann Moody, binx newton, Miriam Omura, Elisabeth Pellathy, Judy Rogers, Kevin Shook, Paul Ware, Collin Williams, Erin Wright

As we celebrate 35 years as an organization, we look back at over 100 exhibitions of work by artists of regional, national and international significance.

Just Injust

April 16 – May 28, 2021

Exhibiting Artists:
Neal Ambrose-Smith, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Kenya Buchanan, Joel Fuller, Ronald McKeithen, Celestia Morgan, Amber Quinn, April Shipp, José Torres-Tama

As a community partner with the Jefferson County Memorial Project, Space One Eleven presents “Just Injust,” an exhibition of works created by artists who are responding to our nation’s history of racial injustice.

Art on the Inside

February 21 – May 25, 2020

Space One Eleven and the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project present Art on the Inside, an exhibition of work created by those impacted by the system, people who stepped into classroom spaces where they could create stunning works of art despite a profound lack of resources. Their art allows us to connect to one another, to share stories and engage. The exhibition is a reminder that humanity persists in all places, and that we can see it flourish if given the space to grow. As one APAEP student wrote, “Creativity is what makes us truly human, a path to and from our soul.”

WE DARE DEFEND OUR RIGHTS: The Gun Show

September 6 – December 27, 2019

Exhibiting Artists:
Larry Jens Anderson, Derek Cracco, Jen DePlour, Darius Hill, Tom Hubbard, Valerie Mann, Jim Neel, Dread Scott, Kevin Shook, Larry Thompson

Ten artists, some of whom have been directly affected by gun violence, were invited to exhibit artwork in response to this issue. Artists in the exhibition are Larry Jens Anderson and Jen Deplour of Atlanta, Tom Hubbard of Attleboro, Massachusetts, Valerie Mann of Ann Arbor, and Dread Scott of Brooklyn. Birmingham artists are Derek Cracco, Darius Hill, Jim Neel, Kevin Shook, and Larry Thompson.

The Memory Palace

Alabama School of Fine Arts Creative Writing Student Exhibition

May 10 – May 17, 2019

Exhibiting Artists:
Baggett, Condrey, Coulter, Goldberg, Goldsby, Hill, Hoffman, Hosey, Mixon, Price, Putman, Ravizee, Reynolds, Serrag, Snellgrove, Spencer, Wilford

A three-dimensional poetry exhibit featuring work by creative writing students from the Alabama School of Fine Arts’ Creative Writing Department. The exhibit was comprised of original paintings, installations, photography and film.

the BOMB

January 25 – March 1, 2019

Exhibiting Artists:
Larry Jens Anderson, Temme Barkin-Leeds, Jim Braude, Sarah Emerson, Tom Ferguson, Richard Mafong, Kieran Barnett Moore, Chris Revelle, Claudia Smigrod, Jonathan Terranova, Brad Thomas/Thomas Gleaner, Mark Vallen, Stephen Wilkes

Born two years after the atomic bombs were dropped in Japan, guest curator Larry Jens Anderson grew up in the age of “duck and cover” and bomb shelters. Anderson notes that in his adulthood, he is now concerned about suicide bombers, IEDs, school bombings, who has a nuclear bomb and the fact they should not have one, and that his concern of this daily news is not unique to him. The exhibition explores ways artists have been processing this subject as a response to historic and current events. It is by using camp humor, plays on words, ironic twists and other creative methodologies that these artists have arrived at images.

Women with their Work III: Materiality

September 7 – December 28, 2018

Exhibiting Artists:
Sara Garden Armstrong, Erin Cunningham, Camille Goulet, Janice Kluge, Beili Liu, Shervone Neckles

Women with their Work was a series of all-women group art exhibitions, co-curated by Peter Prinz and Jessica Dallow, Ph.D, organized and presented by Space One Eleven in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Art and Art History. Women with their Work III: Materiality, the third exhibition in the series, featured work by Sara Garden Armstrong, Camille Goulet, and Janice Kluge of Birmingham; Erin Cunningham and Beili Liu of Austin, Texas; and Shervone Neckles of Queens, New York.

Origins & Future

Alabama School of Fine Arts Creative Writing Student Exhibition

May 11 – May 18, 2018

Exhibiting Artists:
Anderson, Blokh, Blomeley, Butcher, Dalzell, Dewberry, Fournier, Helms, Moore, Nesbitt, Sharp, Thompson, Baggett, Coulter, Goldberg, Goldsby, Hosey, Mixon, Reynolds, Serrag, Willford, Gilmer, Grizzard, Horn, McClinton, Putman, Spencer, Snellgrove, Sullivan

Women with their Work II: Reflections

February 26 – April 20, 2018

Exhibiting Artists:
Anna Campbell, Elisabeth Pellathy, Stacy Lynn Waddell

Women with their Work is a series of all-women group art exhibitions, co-curated by Peter Prinz and Jessica Dallow, Ph.D, organized and presented by Space One Eleven in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Art and Art History. Women with their Work II, the second exhibition in the series, featured work by Elisabeth Pellathy of Birmingham; Anna Campbell of Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Stacy Lynn Waddell of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Women with their Work I: Affect + Action

September 8 – December 29, 2017

Exhibiting Artists:
Catherine Cabaniss, Beverly Erdreich, Rosa Naday Garmendia, Melanie Grinney, Celestia Morgan, Miriam Omura, L.A. Watson

Women with their Work was a series of all-women group art exhibitions, co-curated by Peter Prinz and Jessica Dallow, Ph.D. The first group exhibition, Women and their Work I: Affect + Action opened Friday, September 8 from 5:30 to 7pm; artists addressed social issues ranging from institutionalized racism, water pollution, the atrocities of war, and the subjugation of female bodies (human and nonhuman) in a panel discussion. Artists in the exhibition were Catherine Cabaniss, Beverly Erdreich, Melanie Grinney, Celestia Morgan, and Miriam Omura of Birmingham; Miami artist Rosa Naday Garmendia; and L.A. Watson of Frankfort, Kentucky.

Chimera: Re-Imagined Memory

Alabama School of Fine Arts Creative Writing Student Exhibition

May 12 – May 19, 2017

Exhibiting Artists:
Brooks, Coulter, Fournier, Goldsby, Helms, Jordan, Lucia, Madden-Lunsford, Mixon, Morris, Sharp, Tate, Anderson, Blokh, Blomeley, Connolly, Scarlett, Dalzell, Dewberry, Long, Moore, Nesbitt, Tallaj, Donnelly, Pruitt

This exhibition focuses speculative poetry that re-investigates and recreates past, lived experiences. Like returning to a dream with power, we return to our past experiences and construct a different outcome that looks more like what we want. This work goes beyond the individual, imagining a world where specific historical events are re-written, and yes, re-imagined.

2017 NCCCIAP Student Exhibition

April 7 – April 8, 2017

Exhibiting Artists:
Jennifer Michelle Allen, Rebecca Allen, Delany Bal, Madeline Raye Bates, Eva Blockstein, Jesse Blumenthal, MyLieghn Bui, Brittany Clark, Kenly Cox, Anastasia Green, Alyssa Imes, Desmond Andrew Lewis, Benjamin MacKethan, Erica Mendoza, Jon Moreno, Brianne Nelson, Christen Parker, Jacob Phillips, Wes Rankin, Payton Reedy, Rachel Robinson, Heidi Rottman, Reid Sullivan, Danyelle Toombs, Curtis Turner, Nick Vialpando, Cecilia Whitney, Caleb Williams, Angus Willis

Space One Eleven presents the Student Exhibition during the National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices (NCCCIAP), celebrating the next generation of cast iron artists. The NCCCIAP is a biennial convergence of students, educators, academics and professionals dedicated to exploring and advancing cast iron art as a medium.

A significant array of cast iron and related artworks will be held at multiple locations, iFor more information about the NCCCIAP conference, related art exhibitions, panels, performances, workshops and more, visit h ttp://www.nccciap.com.

Alabama Clay Conference Professor and Student Exhibition

February 15 – March 15, 2017

Exhibiting Artists:
Annabelle Barrow, Aaron T. Benson, Kristen Berry, Meghan Biggs, Annie Campbell, Marcus Dorsey, Christopher Greenman, Stacey M. Holloway, Wesley Hooper, Wade Folger MacDonald, Scott Meyer, Matt Mitros, Shielen Montgomery, Rebecca Odem, John Oles, Larry Percy, Jacob Phillips, Mallorie Roberts, Amy Smoot, Tony Wright

Space One Eleven presents the Professor and Student Exhibition during the 2017 Alabama Clay Conference. This exhibition features pairings of artwork made by ceramic faculty from Alabama colleges and universities, and work from their students. The gallery exhibition shows the wide range of approaches to ceramic arts being taught around the state. The pairings of artwork provide an opportunity to see the ways student artwork compares to and contrasts with the work of their professors.

Let them eat red earth. Let them eat dirt.

Aisha Tandiwe Bell

September 9 – February 28, 2017

Space One Eleven’s fall 2016 Visual Artists Network (VAN) artist in residence from Brooklyn, New York, Aisha Tandiwe Bell creates myth and ritual through sculpture, performance, video, sound and drawing while exploring the shifting of the individuals’ identity to compensate for and navigate unequal relationships in race, sex and class. The exhibition title references the famous quote “Let them eat cake.” The title, both metaphoric and literal, finds its roots in our extremely unequal contemporary economics and the practice of largely lower income women and children around the world actually eating clay dirt.

59th Street Stories: The Ways of the Folk

Tony Bingham

September 9 – February 28, 2017

Birmingham artist Tony Bingham’s art making process involves engaging with the history of a place and its people, both past and present. “I engage in conversations and go where that leads me, weaving back and forth between people and places, such as churches, cemeteries, barbershops and farmers markets, junk yards and academic institutions.” Bingham works in cast metal/cast glass sculpture, pinhole photography, drawing, printmaking and installation. His site specific/community engaged sculpture Reunion Place was commissioned by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games in 1996.

Light and Terror

Alabama School of Fine Arts Creative Writing Student Exhibition

May 6 – May 13, 2016

Exhibiting Artists:
Carpenter, Donnelly, Hargett, Owens, Tucker, Connolly, Long, Tallaj, Blokh, Blomeley, Nesbitt, Thompson, Amin, Harper, Huie, Madden-Lunsford, Pruitt, Scott, Brooks, Jordan, Lucia, Tate

A three-dimensional poetry exhibit featuring visual poetry by creative writing students from the Alabama School of Fine Arts’ Creative Writing Department. The exhibit will be comprised of original paintings, installations, photography and film.

The Infantree Project

Larry Thompson

September 11, 2015 – April 29, 2016

Since September 11, 2001, The United States has been involved in two wars. 2.5 million American soldiers have or are serving in these wars, yet a large portion of our society is unaware of the effects war has had on these service members and their families. Space One Eleven exhibited an installation of artworks by artist Larry Thompson titled, The Infanttree Project, which is his response to America’s insulation from the carnages of war. As an artist, Associate Dean and Professor at the private liberal arts institution, Samford University, Thompson has long encountered students who are disconnected from our current wars. This disconnect is not contained to university students, but extends to the rest of the country and may be attributed to the lack of coverage by news media. In the news today, more attention is often given to who was voted off a reality television show than to the humans that died on a given day as a result of war.

Occupation

Ehren Tool

February 22 – April 29, 2016

Berkeley resident and Marine Veteran of the 1991 Gulf War, ceramic artist Ehren Tool will conduct a residency at Space One Eleven. By crafting ceramic cups with graphic images of soldiers or bombs, Tool hopes to inspire honest conversations about war and its implications.

Negotiated Identities/Saints and Tears

May 1 – May 22, 2015

American Artists:
Karen Graffeo, Gary Chapman, Anne Murray, Stephanie Baugh

Romanian Artists:
Karoly Feleki, Alexandru Radelescu, Dorel Gaina, Diana Dragen-Chirila, Eugen Moritz

Negotiated Identities/Saints and Tears examines how identities in Romania were negotiated before, during, and after communism. The exhibition also explores similar identity issues negotiated by authoritarianism and trends in the religion and politics of contemporary American society.

Quietly Making a Loud Noise: A Space One Eleven Retroperspective

January 23 – March 6, 2015

Quietly Making a Loud Noise displays works shown as Space One Eleven (SOE) during the past 28 years. This extraordinary exhibition showcases the works of over 700 artists and youth who have participated in SOE’s art education programs.

The Fountys

December 12, 2014

Featuring Artists:
Graham Boettcher, Lisa Cole, Ian Crawford, Leah Eiland, K.T. Elkins, John Gaiser, Katie Gaiser, Ann Hataway, Aaron Head, Chatham Hellmers, Heather Spencer Holmes, Andy Jordan, Sasha Kasman, Carrie Montgomery, Kristina O’Quinn, Celeste Pfau, Jonathan Purvis, Tony Rodio, Max Rykov, Mercedes Tarasovich-Clark, Lillis Taylor, Paul Cordes Wilm, John Lytle Wilson

Inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s infamous 1917 masterpiece, “Fountain” (the urinal), this award show features some of Birmingham’s most beloved artists and art enthusiasts dressed in costume as some of the most influential figures from the history of visual art. We’ll have Frida Kahlo, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keeffe, Salvador Dali, the Mona Lisa and many more presenting Fountys (small clay replicas of “Fountain”) to winners of categories like “Most Confusing to the General Public”, “Most Whimsical Representation of the Human Body.” “Most Posthumous Success,” and plenty more–all leading up to the final award of the evening, “Best Picture.”

Proudly presented by Space One Eleven and Max Rykov Productions

PUBLIC FORUM

Steve Lambert

September 4 – September 6, 2014

PUBLIC FORUM was created by New York artist and SOE’s 2014 artist in residence, Steve Lambert. Designed to create a large scale forum around current events and fundamental myths, PUBLIC FORUM asks you to vote whether the statement on the sign’s changeable marquee is true or false. Imagine a mix of Family Feud, Let’s Make a Deal, the front page of the newspaper, and the best college seminar class you ever took, while discussing topics that are important to you.

PUBLIC FORUM is designed to bring critical thought and movement to entrenched and fossilized ideas about our culture through community dialogue and participation, using the format of a game show.

Multiple Methods: A Print Exhibition

February 9 – May 9, 2014

Exhibiting Artists:
Pinky Bass, Derek Cracco, Darin Forehand, Jane Marshall, John Northrop, Sonja Rieger, Mary Ann Sampson, Melissa Springer, Scott Stephens, Erin Wright

From traditional printmaking processes to digitally derived art, this exhibition explores how artists are using the print process to produce their work.

Interchange

November 8 – January 3, 2014

Exhibiting Artists:
Derek Cracco, Darin Forehand, M’Kina Tapscott, Jürgen Tarrasch

Interchange was an exchange project between Space One Eleven (SOE) in Birmingham, Alabama and Project Row Houses (PRH) in Houston, Texas where the two organizations “put each in place of the other.” In March 2013, SOE sent two artists to PRH to create site specific works. The Houston artists are now joining the Birmingham artists for an exhibition at SOE.

Order and Chaos

December 6, 2013

University of Montevallo Professor of Art, Karen Graffeo, directed students from her course titled “Clothing as Art” in which students explore art and its relationship to clothing. Items range from garments that express the sacred, the playful, as well as clothing that makes social commentary. Garments include beautiful items and sculptural and challenging wearables.

1963: Where Were You? — 2013: Where Are You Now?

September 15, 2013

SOE commemorated Birmingham’s Civil Rights Movement and the courageous stance taken by those who were determined to end racism. Because of their acts, Birmingham became ground zero, with a message that reverberated around the world and inspired genuine, positive change.

In honor of The Movement’s heroes, SOE shrouded the facade of its building on Sunday, September 15, 2013 with a ceremony at 2 pm.

A funerary wreath, titled Bundled Flights of Words and Hope is the work of Birmingham artist and UAB’s Associate Professor, Doug Baulos. Honor students performed a wreath laying ceremony.

Posters Without Borders

September 6 – October 4, 2013

Space One Eleven presents Posters Without Borders, An International Poster Exhibition, organized by Erin Wright, Antonio Castro, and Eric Boelts. Acknowledging that immigration is not just a Mexico/USA issue, artists from around the world were invited to explore how geographic borders define and separate “us” from “other.”

Photo Retablos and Drawings: Somos Humanos/We are Human

Jose Torres-Tama

April 19 – May 17, 2013

Torres-Tama’s work documents the post-Katrina public demonstrations organized by the Congress of Day Laborers, and explores the struggle of New Orleans Latino immigrant workers in defense of their human rights. José Torres-Tama was Space One Eleven’s 2013 artist in residence. During his residency, Torres-Tama will be lecturing and conducting workshops at universities and organizations.

Red State Blues

John Northrop

April 19 – May 17, 2013

In his photo composite essay “Red State Blues,” Northrop casts a wry and sometimes acerbic look at Alabama history, culture, and politics.

WASH

Margaret Wrinkle

March 28, 2013

Space One Eleven hosts book clubs and small group discussions for Margaret Wrinkle about her debut novel, WASH. WASH has received rave reviews from Booklist, Publishers Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Vanity Fair, Shelf Awareness, Chapter 16, and was recently featured in People Magazine as its “Book Pick.” For full reviews, visit margaretwrinkle.com

Relationships

November 9, 2012 – January 2, 2013

Exhibiting Artists:
Toni Tully, Sara Garden Armstrong, Catherine Cabaniss, Carol Cooper, Beverly Erdreich, Scott Fuller, Rebecca Tully Fulmer, Betty Kent, Scott Stephens, Cumbee Tyndal, Ellen de Mello Weiland, Maralyn Wilson

Space One Eleven presents Relationships, an exhibition honoring Birmingham’s beloved artist, Toni Tully (1939-2010), a pioneer in Birmingham’s contemporary arts. Along with selected works by Toni Tully, including watercolors, fabric, and paintings, the show will feature works by her daughter, Rebecca Tully Fulmer, as well as some of the prominent artists who had close professional relationships with Tully.

Defeat the Ghosts

Steve Lambert

May 5, 2012

“Defeat the Ghosts” consists of two letterpress poster campaigns that seem to have appeared from the 1960s but address issues relevant to today. The project re-connects Alabama’s civil rights history to present day immigration issues. The project is very specific to Alabama; its history and present day politics.

Low Lives

Jonathan Sutton

April 4, 2012

On the surface, Tokyo’s train system appears to be completely chaotic, but once you understand its intricate layout and impeccable timing you see how truly remarkable it is.

Barriers

January 5 – April 20, 2012

Exhibiting Artists:
Larry Jens Anderson, Ann Benton, Shana Berger & Nathan Purath, Chris Clark, Derek Cracco, Thorton Dial, Derrick Franklin, Tia Gardner, Karen Graffeo, Lonnie Holley, Guido Maus, Jim Neel, Peter Prinz, Sonja Rieger, David Sandlin, Carolyn Sherer, Spencer Shoults, Jose Torres-Tama, Jurgen Tarrasch, Margot Wade

With an exhibition entitled “Barriers” Space One Eleven kicks off the “(re)Moving Walls” Project, a multi-year examination, both metaphorical and distressingly real, of the obstructions and restraints preventing the fulfillment of human potential for educated, caring, thoughtful, and progressive individuals.

Dark Morning (For Our Former Selves)

Sampler Pt. 1

September 1 – April 23, 2012

Not About Beauty

Sampler Pt. 1

Pretty/Much Collective

September 1, 2011 – January 4, 2012

820 Souls

July 1 – September 1, 2011

Bruce Lee Bombs the City

June 12 – June 15, 2011

Prison Show

February 11 – March 25, 2011

**RACESEXPOLITICS*RELIGION- or What Not to Talk About**

Found Around the South II

November 5 – January 28, 2010

Exhibiting Artists:
Larry Jens Anderson, Radcliffe Bailey, Michael Brown, Thornton Dial, Monica Ellis, Zachary Friedline, Stephen Hayes, Darius Hill, Christopher Hutchinson, Maria Kirby-Smith, Forest McMullin, Jim Neel, Elin O’Hara Slavick, Fahamu Pecou, Omar Richardson, Sonja Rieger, Jon Riis, Shana Robbins, Andrew Ross, Robert Sherer, Jonathan Terranova, Brad Thomas, Kara Walker

Race, sex, politics, and religion are all considered taboo topics in polite company, especially in the South. Space One Eleven invited artist/curator Larry Jens Anderson to create an exhibit that places these forbidden subjects onto a pedestal, compelling the audience into an open conversation. This exhibit is second in the “Found Around the South II” exhibition series.

Betty Kent Show

Betty Kent

May 7 – June 11, 2010

As an important Alabama artist and cultural trail blazer, Betty Kent’s mastery of jubilant color, extraordinary textures, and amusing yet thoughtful collages smartly referenced the 1980’s, until her last definitive public works in 2007.

Pubic Places Private Spaces: A Work of Friction

Margot Wade

February 4 – April 6, 2010

The Compassion Project

Shana Berger and Nathan Purath

November 6 – January 8, 2010

A three state public art billboard project (Georgia, Tennessee and Louisiana) including a Space One Eleven exhibition all accompanied by public lectures, community engagements (example: Birmingham Urban Ministries) and a youth program event by the artists entitled The Compassion Project. The Compassion Project, which references previous well known religious ad campaigns, honors multiple ideas of god by drawing from a Buddhist legend. The project embraces compassion as a broad spiritual principal, true to the values of Jesus as a historical, political, and spiritual figure.

2009 Found Around the South II (series): The Compassion Project (2009), RaceSexPoliticsReligion-What not to talk about (2010/2011), Aiming for a True South: A Carpetbaggers Search for the Southern Aesthetic (2011), LoveShack (2011), Project Row House (2012), and South Will Rule! (2012).

Double Wides

April 24 – May 8, 2009

Mostly Metal

Artists at Sloss Furnaces

April 24 – May 8, 2009

Hellfire

March 6 – April 17, 2009

The Palimpsestuous

binx newton

March 6 – April 17, 2009

endless statistics on aging confine and paralyze the public. ostensibly, these life support – or rejection – systems are constructed by science and perpetually filled by the media. trapped in freedom by myths and fear, ageism and stereotypes, our conflicting reports about the body’s varying states of decay are matched only by the depletion of savings in the quest for eternal life.

Confederate Daughters

December 4, 2008

Cupcakes!

Randy Shoults

November 7 – December 12, 2008

Self Redaction

November 11 – December 12, 2008

The F Words

November 11 – December 12, 2008

Upstream

November 11 – December 12, 2008

It is Difficult

Lecture Series

March 24 – March 28, 2008

Abstraction: A New Look

Beverly Goldsmith

February 7 – April 25, 2008

Questions to the New South: Shifting Planes

November 2, 2007 – January 25, 2008

Time Paths – Structure Sequences

April 13 – May 31, 2007

Tlak/Pressure

Bedrîch Kocman, Kevin Shook

April 13 – May 31, 2007

Questions to the New South: Now… and Then

February 2 – March 16, 2007

Art on the Inside

November 3 – December 31, 2006

Questions to the New South: Politics, Politics

April 14 – May 28, 2006

Questions to the New South: Suspended in Conflict

November 18, 2005 – January 30, 2006

Graffeo/Trobaugh

2005

In This Place

February 11 – April 31, 2005

Art in AID

2005

Day Without Art

2005

Bama

November 12 – December 30, 2004

Those Who Can

2004

A nomalies: Departure from the Regular Arrangement

June 26 – August 1, 2004

Hot

April 26 – April 28, 2004

Genetic Revelations: Reinterpreting Science and Art

2004

Color into Cloth

November 6, 2003 – January 30, 2004

Lily Pond Dream Fraery

November 1, 2003 – January 1, 2004

The Artists and Residents of the Metal Arts Program

April 1, 2003

Exhibiting Artists:
Matt Eaton, John Stewart Jackson, Joe McCreary, Vaughn Randall, Julie Ward, Anthony Williams, Antoinne Williams

Sloss Metal Arts is rooted in Birmingham’s historic connection to iron and steel. The city owes its existence to these metals and to the forming and processing industries that grew up around them. Although such industries are no longer the dominant forces they once were, they are still an important part of the city’s economic life and offer tremendous resources for the production of metal sculpture. The Metal Arts has used these local resources to develop a unique sculpture studio, art foundry, and education program that promotes the creation of metal art in all the basic metal forming processes. The aim of the Metal Arts is to help artists work, to provide the physical space and technical resources they need to create sculpture on a scale they could not achieve or afford.

Quaint

March 1 – September 1, 2003

Project Row Houses: A Sampler

January 1, 2003

Personal Rights

November 8, 2002 – January 23, 2003

Recent Works

Jurgen Tarrasch

November 4, 2002 – January 3, 2003

I Fall to Pieces

September 6 – October 25, 2002

Chicago, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Birmingham

2002

Magic City Three

2002

Residue

May 3 – June 28, 2002

Full Well Exhibition

March 18 – April 12, 2002

No Place Like Home

2002

Drawings: Littoral Series (Excavated Landscapes)

2002

Built Structures for a Rose

2001

Too Many Windows Watched

2001

Breakdown

2001

Lonnie Holley

2001

Transcendence and House and Home

2001

Graphically Speaking Women of Alabama

January 20 – April 16, 2001

International. Behind the Bar Code Exhibition

Peggy Dobbins

November 24, 2000 – January 24, 2001

Industrial Reformation

2000

House and Garden: Twists on Domesticity

September 15 – December 7, 2000

Birds of the Sea and Birds of the Air

2000

Cast in Iron: Sculpture by Sloss Emerging Artists

2000

Southern Digital By-Ways: Round Table Discussion with Steve Dietz and Marth Wilson

2000

Spontaneous Combustion: Igniting the Creative Spark at Mid-life

March 17 – May 12, 2000

This exhibition features three talented Alabamians — Thornton Dial, Sybil Gibson, and Melinda Mathews — who came to art-making at midlife. Their work celebrates many lifetimes’ worth of passion and commitment, yet each presents a different and unique perspective.