July – September 2008 
Steve DiBenedetto and Keith Edmier (Main Galleries)

October 23 - December 21, 2008 
Steve DiBenedetto and Keith Edmier (Main Galleries)

Straight Face: Portraits from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections (Main Gallery/First Floor)
Andy Warhol: Portraits from the Warhol Photographic Legacy Program (Main Gallery/Second Floor)
Andy Warhol: Outer and Inner Space (West Gallery)

Straight Face: Portraits from the University Art Collections  
Featuring works by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Larry Clark, Ralph Gibson, Lotte Jacobi, Alex Katz, Mary Ellen Mark, Helmut Newton, Edward Steichen, among others.

Andy Warhol: Portraits from the Warhol Photographic Legacy Program
Featuring 102 original Polaroids and 51 gelatin silver prints from a recent gift to the University Art Collection from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in honor of the Foundation’s 20th anniversary. The gift comes to the museum through the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program with the goal of providing greater access to this important yet relatively unknown body of Warhol’s artwork.

Andy Warhol: Outer and Inner Space
Warhol’s pioneering double-screen film of Edie Sedgewick in a dialogue with her own video-taped image is considered a masterpiece of video art. First shown in 1966, and made before the term even existed, Outer and Inner Space has informed video art from the 1970s on.

February 3 – April 5, 2009
Jason Middlebrook: The Spires of Albany

Middlebrook will build a series of towers in the University Art Museum using recycled materials including a several tons of cardboard collected on campus. Using both drawn and sculptural models, The Spires of Albany will explore the history of the UAlbany campus as a significant example of public architecture by Edward Durell Stone including Stone’s interest in Islamic architecture. Through a series of proposed drawings of flora and fauna synonymous with the Pine Barren on which the campus is built, Middlebrook will focus on his personal misgivings about the advances of human society at the expense of nature.
 
The Spires of Albany fulfills Middlebrook’s stated ongoing artistic and environmental goal, “to reduce the amount of debris that eventually ends up in a landfill”, and it presents an opportunity for the rest of us to focus on the University at Albany’s architectural antecedents, its current place in the modernist dialogue, and its yet unclaimed future.
 
Middlebrook will be working with UAlbany Fine Arts students during the Fall 08 semester as well as the UAlbany Offices of Environmental Sustainability and Grounds Management to collect cardboard and other materials to create the exhibition.

May 1 – May 17, 2009
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

The Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition features work produced by candidates for the University at Albany Art Department’s three-year, 60 credit hour program of intensive training and study in contemporary fine art practices.