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Current Exhibitions

Sara Garden Armstrong

Virtual Exhibition / May 2020
This exhibition will be shared through HPL Galleries on Instagram

Sara Garden Armstrong is a multimedia artist whose work ranges in scale from atrium sculpture to artist books. Her installation work can be large and engulfing, requiring you to enter and become part of it. Her intimate artist books allow the viewer to have a more personal experience.

Chance and change drive her artwork as she explores and pushes the possibilities of materials. In the finished work you see movement, repetition, transparency and layering with organic shapes and forms, often with a focus on flow and transformation.

Barbara Hirschowitz

Plaza Gallery / Mar 3 - Apr 30, 2020
[Extended - closing date TBA]

Barbara Hirschowitz studied painting under Alabama artists and educators, Edith Frohock and Alvin Sella. Under Frohock’s guidance, Hirschowitz learned to stretch her thinking and skills. She utilizes canvas and paper to visualize her work from a history of living moments. With confident and colorful layers, she describes hybrid spaces and unknown places – rendered in a familiar manner – often prompting the viewer to question if they may recognize it from their own past. The element of space has always been present in her work, and her current projects evoke simplicity and reduction.

HPL Kids Celebrate Black History Month

George P. Farmer Gallery / Feb 8 - April 30, 2020
[Extended through May]

The Fine Arts Department and HLP Kids collaborated to produce this Black History Month exhibition and art class. On February 4th, the Children’s Department led an art class, open to children ages 7-12, where students completed an art project based on the artwork of African-American painter, educator and Expressionist, Alma Thomas. The work of the students will be on display in the George P. Farmer Gallery through April. When the exhibition concludes each student will receive their framed artwork provided by the Hoover Public Library.

Upcoming Exhibitions

Painting at ASFA

The Alabama School of Fine Arts is a public school authorized and funded by the Alabama Legislature to provide tuition-free instruction for impassioned students, grades 7-12. The school provides focused specialty instruction in Creative Writing, Dance, Mathematics and Science, Music, Theatre Arts and Visual Arts. Artist and ASFA Visual Arts Faculty, Anne Herbert, collaborated with the Hoover Public Library Galleries to organize this student show and survey of contemporary painting in Alabama.

 

Virtual Exhibition / Jun 1 - Jul 30, 2020
This exhibition will be shared through HPL Galleries on Instagram
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ASFA
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Lijun Chao & Andy Holliday

Virtual Exhibition / June 2020
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Lijun Chao
Andy Holliday
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Michelle Jones

Virtual Exhibition / July 2020
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Michelle Jones
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Bryce Speed

Friends Gallery / Sep 1 - Sep 30, 2020
Plaza Gallery / Oct 1 - Oct 31, 2020
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Bryce Speed

Past Exhibitions



About the Hoover Public Library Galleries

Visual art is an integral to the Hoover Public Library. We have a vast permanent collection ranging from purchase awards from our Southern Voices featured artists to pieces selected to complement our facility. Through our partnership with the Bluff Park Art Association, we sometimes host pieces from their permanent collection. We have a Frank Fleming sculpture on permanent loan from them as well.

We own two photography collections, Chip Cooper's Alabama Troubadours collection and photos of Joe Minter's Sculpture garden. These travel for display throughout the Hoover/Birmingham area.

To encourage art for all ages, the Hoover Public Library displays artwork by children from Hoover schools.

We rotate the displays in our other galleries to exhibit nationally and regionally juried artists (Friends Gallery and Plaza Gallery) as well as up-and-coming local artists (Administrative Gallery).



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