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Department of Art & Art History
Wanda Sullivan | Garden Anthology

Painting by Wanda Sullivan of an iris in bright pink hues on a gray background. Artwork information: Radioactive Iris, 2024, oil on panel, 16 x 16 inches.

Image, courtesy of the artist: Radioactive Iris, 2024, oil on panel, 16 x 16 inches

 

Solo exhibition featuring works by Wanda Sullivan.

September 3 – 25, 2025

In a recent body of work, Mobile-based artist and longtime Alabama college-level art educator Wanda Sullivan cuts apart, layers, and pieces together her observations of florals and garden insects. Jewel-like, kaleidoscopic paintings draw attention to lesser-noticed shapes of floral anatomy.  Expressive colors, often too beautiful to register immediately as uncanny, subtly allude to the effects of human activity on the natural world. 

 

Artist Lecture & Closing Reception:

When

Thursday, September 25, 2025

5:00 – 7:00 pm CDT

Where

Artist Lecture: 005 Biggin Hall

Reception: Biggin Gallery, 101 Biggin Hall

This event is free and open to the public. 005 Biggin Hall and Biggin Gallery are handicap accessible.

 

About the Artist

Wanda Sullivan is a professor of art and the director of the Eichold Gallery at Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL. She received an MFA in painting from the University of Mississippi, and her BFA from the University of South Alabama.

Sullivan has two children, Addie and Dash, who grew up in her studio at Spring Hill College. Her husband of thirty-four years, Brian, has been known to tie paintings that are too big to fit inside the car to its top to drive artwork to shows. She is an avid gardener, and most of her artwork imagery comes from her large midtown-Mobile yard, or the campus of Spring Hill College.

Sullivan has exhibited her work regionally and nationally in galleries and museums such as the Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL; the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University, Roanoke, VA; the Santa Clara University Gallery, Santa Clara, CA; and the Xavier University Art Gallery in Cincinnati, OH, among many more. In 2022, she exhibited a solo show at the Mobile Museum of Art, with an accompanying catalog. A college-level art educator for more than thirty years, Wanda Sullivan’s students inspire and challenge her; she introduces herself to them as, “Art Mom.”