Lambla Gallery

Located in the Thomas I. Storrs Building on the UNC Charlotte campus, the Lambla Gallery showcases professional and student work relating to the curriculum in the School of Architecture and the creative endeavors of the College of Arts + Architecture. The gallery was named the Lambla Gallery on May 14, 2021, in honor of Ken Lambla, professor emeritus and founding dean of the College of Arts + Architecture.

Lambla Gallery is open Monday-Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Visitor parking is available in the East Deck 1. See a campus map here.

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Fall exhibitions

In 2017, Anna Garner witnessed a fall from a shifting boulder in the Southern California desert. The experience sparked her curiosity about the volatility of a form normally assumed as being stable. A large rock that was mistaken as steady, despite its mass and solidity, despite its stationary appearance, was moved by the imbalance caused by the weight of a human body. Garner took the incident into her studio and began dissecting it philosophically. She gradually began interpreting it as a metaphor for the photographic image and how its documentary status often fails to match objective reality.

In Misplacing the Concrete, Garner combines linear and non-illusionistic photographs with sculptural works to investigate stability of verticality, the fixed photographic viewpoint, and the body’s containment within and by geometric forms that seek to further destabilize scenes of imbalance.

Anna Berenice Garner is an artist working in performance, sculpture, photography, and video and is based in México City. One person exhibitions of her work have been presented at Lateral, México City, México (2024); Lighthouse Works, Fisher’s Island, NY (2022); and ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA (2019). Anna’s work has been included in thematic exhibitions Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2021), Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium (2019); The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (2019); and Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (2016). She has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2014), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2016), and Art OMI (2019). Her work is held in the collections of The San Diego Museum of Art (San Diego, CA), The Federal Reserve Board (Washington DC), The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX), and The National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC).

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Each year, the Global Studies exhibition provides us with very tangible evidence of the importance that study abroad and other international opportunities bring to the curriculum and the student experience. The work displayed in the gallery represents the perspective, exploration, interpretation, cultural learning, and investment in a different way of understanding that can only come from stepping out of one’s cultural and social norm and into a new environment.

As Ansel Adams is credited with saying, “In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” And it is exactly the exploratory aspect of an international experience that makes this such an important piece of a creator’s development. These students have explored their creative medium(s), their host environments, their own understanding of the world around them, and, perhaps most importantly, how they understand themselves as the person arrived abroad from their home culture but now sees home through a different and broader prism.

The work here demonstrates early steps in careers that will seek to solve the world’s toughest challenges and address global issues we may not even know yet exist. The high impact practice of study abroad prepares students to take on these challenges and to do so with a broader view as to what makes humanity function. Enjoy what is offered here and know that it represents so much more than a class or an assignment.

Brad Sekulich, Director, UNC Charlotte Office of Education Abroad

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Come celebrate the incredible work of our graduating senior BFA students! This graphic design exhibitions will be on view November 21 – December 5.

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Past Exhibitions

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