Approaching 30 years in business, Union Gallery has historically held a fundraising exhibition highlighting donated work of student and professional artists alike.
Union Gallery is set to showcase a diverse range of 124 art pieces from Jan. 16 to Feb. 10 as part of their lottery-style fundraising raffle. In the past, the fundraiser was known as “Cézanne’s Closet,” but has been newly renamed “side by side.”
The Journal spoke with co-curators Bailey Laing, MA ’24 and Re Parsons, MA ’24 about the unveiling of Union Gallery’s wide-ranging exhibition featuring work donated by 60 different artists.
“There’s a lot of different pieces in a really great space close together—all different sizes, mediums, subject matters,” Laing said. “Everyone’s welcome to come in and check it out.”
The exhibition’s featured pieces represent the diversity within the artistic community, with work made by artists of differing ages, backgrounds, and career levels, bringing them all together, to stand “side by side.”
“We curated based on that idea of an interdisciplinary show and bringing in different pieces from different mediums, themes, and artists,” Parsons said.
Along with the exhibition, there is a virtual ticketed event on Feb. 10, where participants may purchase a ticket of $100 or $200 value.
The live event features a lottery style raffle, in which ticket holders’ names are drawn to establish the order participants may select artwork they would like corresponding to the dollar value of their ticket.
What was once Union Gallery’s fundraiser titled “Cézanne’s Closet,” the current fundraiser has rebranded itself with its new name to represent the changes the gallery has undergone and the way it’s embracing collaboration in an artistic space.
“I think [Union Gallery] wanted to shift towards something that represents all of where this history has culminated to this very point in time,” Parsons said.
The curatorial duo emphasized the power of the collaborative process this name change indicates, as their team have been working “side by side” to celebrate the exciting changes being brought to the gallery’s nearly 30-year-old annual exhibition.
“We just built from our friendship together and we relied on each other equally throughout the whole process,” Parsons said.
“It really personified the meaning of ‘side by side’ in that we collaborated and everybody from the Union Gallery team came together and ed each other throughout this change.”
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