A.D. Gallery Announces Winter Exhibition: Wanda Sullivan: Cultivated

The A.D. Gallery at UNC Pembroke is pleased to announce its 2025–2026 Winter Exhibition, Wanda Sullivan: Cultivated, a vibrant and contemplative body of work by painter and educator Wanda Sullivan.

The exhibition is currently on display and will continue through February 4, 2026, with a closing reception and artist talk scheduled for February 4, from noon to 2 p.m. The gallery will be closed during winter break.

Sullivan, a professor of art and the director of the Eichold Gallery at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, brings more than three decades of teaching, studio practice and artistic exploration to this exhibition. Working primarily in oil paint, she draws inspiration from her lush midtown Mobile garden and the campus landscape of Spring Hill College. Her work combines close personal observation with imaginative reinterpretation, creating images that are both familiar and otherworldly.

Sullivan holds an MFA in painting from the University of Mississippi and a BFA from the University of South Alabama. Her work has been exhibited widely across the country in galleries and museums, including the Alabama Contemporary Art Center, the Eleanor Wilson Museum at Hollins University, Santa Clara University Gallery and the Xavier University Gallery.

“Inspired by the approach of Dutch Golden Age painters, I aim to show my subjects not as they are but how I perceive them,” Sullivan said. “Rather than depicting flowers in a true-to-life way, I reinterpret them through digital manipulation — altering their construction, color and arrangement.

“This transformation allows me to craft visual narratives that explore themes of beauty, impermanence, grief and the poetic potential of nature,” Williams said.

“My work bridges past and present by merging historical influences with contemporary techniques, offering a meditative reflection on our evolving, often destructive relationship with the natural world.”

For more information about Wanda Sullivan and her work, visit her website or
Instagram: @w.sullivan_art.