Maus Contemporary

Please join us this Friday, March 20 (6-8pm) at Maus Contemporary for the opening reception of LINE | SPACE.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.
- Paul Klee

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LINE | SPACE
March 20 - May 1, 2026

Akiko MASHIMA | Irene GRAU | Nico MUNUERA | William DOOLEY | Ivan KLIUN (1873-1943) | Willie COLE | Ana PEREZ VENTURA | Luca BUVOLI | Clayton COLVIN | Barbara and MIchael LEISGEN | Derek MAINELLA | Angelo GRANATA (1922-2009) | Melissa VANDENBERG | Peter FOX | Leslie SMITH III

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Join us this Friday, Jan. 23 (6-8pm) for the opening reception of William Dooley’s inaugural exhibition with Maus Contemporary.

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“It is a matter of navigating a populated visual landscape of art and life that influences my attraction to design elements such as stripe, repetition, shape, and color that all offer compass and path. The synthesis of many histories in painting and drawing takes place at uninterpretable levels, and it is in these conditions that I seek common ground and the echo of kinship.”

- William Dooley

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William Dooley is Professor of Art at The University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History, and serves as director of the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art.

He teaches in studio foundations and pursues ongoing studio art research in painting and drawing. He joined the university in 1988, moving from Charlotte, North Carolina to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Dooley has received degrees in studio art from Georgia Southern University and University of South Carolina.

His work is in the permanent collections of the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Meridian Museum of Art, MS; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL and the Paul R. Jones Museum of American Art at the University of Alabama, AL, and has been featured in numerous exhibitions throughout the U.S.

this Friday!
L.C. SINCICH: SPEECH ACTS
All proceeds of the exhibition SPEECH ACTS will be used to create an endowment for a Graduate Scholarship in Vision Studies, directed toward understanding the perception and interpretation of our world bathed in light. The scholarship will support Masters or Doctoral students working in the vision sciences and the visual humanities.

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“There is a wide reservoir of pictorial culture where images and words commingle, declare, assert, question and dissimulate. In this series of paintings, each image contains a sentence with all of the letters superimposed, drawn in the order they would occur if written normally.

This writing shares a feature of speech that is often overlooked, the fact that a spoken sentence disappears once uttered.

Here, what was said and why it was said remains embedded within each painting, but when viewed naively those words are inaccessible, canceling any opportunity of participating or knowing.
However, a dilemma is raised, a risk proposed. Because the sentences are preserved on the back of the panels, they allow any owner to choose to become an overhearer - potentially altering their relationship to the work.
What ensues?”

- L.C. Sincich

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L. C. Sincich is an educator with an active research program in vision, currently working in Birmingham, Alabama.

All proceeds will be used to create an endowment for a Graduate Scholarship in Vision Studies, directed toward understanding the perception and interpretation of our world bathed in light. The scholarship will support Masters or Doctoral students working in the vision sciences and the visual humanities.

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Join us this Friday, Jan. 23 (6-8pm) for the opening reception of William Dooley’s inaugural exhibition with Maus Contemporary.