UC Blue Ash Art Gallery is now presenting a new exhibit, called “Memento Mori: A Reminder of Death, of the Perishable and Transitory Quality of Life.”
The UCBA Department of Art and Visual Communications has been working hard to bring new art to the campus, and the new exhibit is the latest example. Thanks to John Shore, who donated the works on display to the College, there is now more creativity running through UCBA.
The new exhibit offers a collection of etchings that chronicle a friend’s death from AIDS. The artist is James Hansen, recognized as an accomplished painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Hansen was a professor at Yale and Brandeis universities, and his work was exhibited widely.
He was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a fellowship from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. Hansen was also a forceful AIDS activist, but he died of AIDS himself in 1997 at the age of 45.
His work is in permanent collections of the Boston Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis, Portland State University and others.
This exhibit will run from September 15 to October 15 and is free for all students and staff. The UC Blue Ash Art Gallery is located in the UCBA Annex (on the corner of Cooper and Plainfield). The Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and Saturday 2-5: p.m.
Part of artist James Hansen’s work on display in Memento Mori