Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body: The Work of RaMell Ross

• February 20-March 21, 2025
• Opening Reception – Thursday, February 20th, 4-7pm
• Artist Talk  â€“ Tuesday, March 18th, 5-6 PM

RaMell Ross – artist, filmmaker, writer, and liberated documentarian – released his Academy Award-nominated documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening in 2018, filming and photographing the residents of a rural community in the Black Belt region of Alabama that Ross calls his adoptive home. Through his large-format color photographs, he explores the meaning and mythology of the American South and of Black identity. Ross released his first photo book Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body in 2023 and presents a truncated look at this series with a new exhibition of large-scale photographs and mixed-media sculptures for Bannister Gallery at ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ. RaMell Ross is an Associate Professor of Visual Art at Brown University and received his MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. His latest film, Nickel Boys, earned nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2025 Academy Awards.

Lani Irwin & Alan Feltus - Selected Works

• April 3-25, 2025
• Artist Talk - Thursday, April 3rd, 4-5 PM, Alex and Ani Hall 138
• Opening Reception – Thursday, April 3rd, 5-7pm, in the gallery

Both Lani Irwin and Alan Feltus paint stunningly beautiful figurative paintings that always compel the viewer to stop and contemplate. They are quiet paintings that are both formally impeccable and psychologically intriguing. Feltus’ figures, both male and female, are ambiguously gendered and strangely simultaneously aware and unaware of each other. Irwin’s figures -– mostly female – are powerful magicians that confront the viewer head on. This exhibition presents the works of these two exceptionally accomplished artists – who are married to each other – together in the same space, allowing the viewer to consider their paintings in conversation.

Alan Feltus, born in 1943 in Washington, D.C., has been represented by Forum Gallery in New York City since 1976. Lani Irwin, born in 1947 in Annapolis, MD, has exhibited widely in both the US and in Italy. Both artists’ work can be found in many public collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. They have lived and worked near Assisi, Italy, since 1987 and have two sons. 

2025 Graduating Art Students’ Exhibition

• May 8-23, 2025
• Opening Reception – Thursday, May 8th, 4-7pm

The Bannister Gallery is pleased to present its annual exhibition of work by graduating seniors in the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Art Department. Various studio concentrations represented include ceramics, metalsmithing, painting, printmaking, digital media, graphic design, photography and sculpture. Degrees earned through the Art Department include a B.S. in Art Education, a B.A. in Art History, a B.A. in Art Studio, and a B.F.A. in Art Studio, the latter of which requires students to develop a stylistically accomplished and conceptually focused body of work.