The College of Southern Nevada, School of Arts & Letters, and Department of Fine Arts will host an exhibition of acrylic paintings that employ an interplay of universal shapes on simple grounds to evoke palpable experiences of the horizon, language, and architectural spaces by University of Alabama Associate Professor of Art, Bryce Speed. Bryce Speed: Chip Off the Old Block will open on Friday, July 11, 2025, and will run through Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, in the Artspace Gallery on the North Las Vegas Campus of the College of Southern Nevada.

Speed earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Mississippi, his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama, and continued his postgraduate studies at the College of Saint Mary. He taught painting at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and is currently an associate professor of art in painting at the University of Alabama. Speed’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions. In 2006 and 2011, his work was selected for publication in New American Paintings Southeastern and Western editions. In 2014, he was part of a three-person exhibition at HERE Art Center in New York, New York, titled Suburbia: Is Anyone There?  From 2015 to 2016, Speed exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition in Edinburgh, Scotland, and at the Visual Art Exchange’s Contemporary South Exhibition in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2022, his work was curated into the exhibition A Plot, Hatched by Two at the Warbling Collective in London. Speed’s solo exhibition, Multi-Family Home, was held at the Brownsville Museum of Art in 2024.

Speaking of his work, Speed says, “Creating a painting or drawing is a good vehicle for slowing down and reflecting on the rapid pace at which we now experience images in our world. In an era of instant access, analogue processes such as painting seem well situated for new intersections to develop within contemporary visual expression. Using a collage-like sensibility to lay out this work, with its fluidity and maneuverability, I seek to represent how both internal and external forces shape relationships between idea and form.”

The CSN Artspace Gallery is free, family-friendly, and open to the public. Gallery hours are from 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The Artspace Gallery is upstairs above the main entrance lobby on the North Las Vegas campus, located at 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., one mile east of I-15 North. Support for this exhibition was provided by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama.

For more information, please call 702-651-4146 or visit http://www.csn.edu/artgallery.