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Exhibitions - Spring 2026

Andy Gambrell, Art for Humanity’s Sake 

Hoffmaster Gallery 

is an American abstract painter and educator. His painting practice was shaped by formative years spent in Miami within a community of abstract painters that included late modern masters such as Darby Bannard and Jules Olitski.  Gambrell also worked in dialogue with alumni of Black Mountain College, and he champions human experience and human expression as legacies of the historic school.

Gambrell’s contemporary work renews and extends American abstract painting through his use of a laser eye-tracking viewfinder to make digital drawings of the path of his eyes while experiencing the landscape. Whether viewing fresh winter snow at dawn in Plover or the summer moon over Stevens Point, this process of abstract painting results in a fresh, beautiful celebration of the Wisconsin landscape.

For the past several months, Susan Gingrasso has collaborated with Andy Gambrell by choreographing and Motif Notating dance performances in response to the artist’s paintings. Gingrasso is a University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point Emeritus Professor of Dance and serves as the Executive Director of the Language of Dance® Center. She was recently awarded the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Dance Education Organization. Student dancers from UWSP and �������ý��Ƶ will perform Gingrasso’s works at Gambrell’s artist talk and opening reception. The dancers are Billy Greene and Madison O. Tracy from �������ý��Ƶ and Veronica Petrach, Graceanne Rendernick, Marcella Rose, and Maddie Wallace from UW–Stevens Point. �������ý��Ƶ Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Mauriah Donegan Kraker has also supported the project as rehearsal director.

The �������ý��Ƶ Art Collection

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This exhibition of works in the will remain on view during most of the academic year, from September to May. A new direction for the gallery schedule, this exhibition showcases the breadth and depth of the collection, built from donations by generous alumni and friends of LU, and connects it concretely to curriculum across the university. The exhibition is organized around four themes: Light, More Light!, Displacement, the Unknown, and Empowerment, which have been conceptualized and curated by Val Muzzarelli ‘27 as a LU Research Fellow in summer 2025. Exemplary artworks by well-known historical and contemporary artists will also be on view. The exhibition will change slightly over the course of the year, so be sure to return often to see new objects.