We're kicking off MCAC's 41st year with some BIG announcements & reveals!

MEET MCAC's 2024 FEATURED ARTIST
Bryce Speed, Tuscaloosa, AL
ART: "Ship Shape", acrylic on canvas, 46"x58", 2022

It’s our distinct pleasure to announce that Bryce Speed, Associate Professor of Art in Painting at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, has been selected as the Featured Artist of MCAC’s 41st year happening April 26-28, 2024 at Sloss Furnaces.

“I use an interplay of universal shapes on simple grounds to evoke palpable experiences of the horizon, language, and architectural spaces. These, in turn, become metaphorical agents of possibility and surprise, as well as depictions of openness (and closedness) in the visual and social worlds alike. In this way, painting acts a bridge to the concerns of everyday life.”

In 2006 and 2011 his work was selected for publication in New American Paintings Southeastern and Western editions. Bryce’s paintings have also been included in numerous exhibitions over the years. In 2014, he was part of a three-person exhibition at HERE Art Center in New York, NY, titled Suburbia: Is Anyone There? In 2015-16 he exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition in Edinburgh, Scotland and at the Visual Art Exchange’s Contemporary South Exhibition in Raleigh, NC. In 2022, his work was curated into the exhibition A Plot, Hatched by Two at the Warbling Collective in London.

Read more about Bryce and see additional works on MCAC's 2024 Featured Artist Website Page.