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BIVOUAC’S LAMENT
Anne Herbert, Bethany Moody, Verena Raban
Nov 6 – 21, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 5 – 7 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, November 21, 3 pm
Anne Herbert is a painter whose practice links the physicality of painting with intuitive impulse. Through searching, experimentation, loss, and discovery, Herbert makes paintings that embrace uncertainty but are tied to universal experiences of being. Recent activities include Homily for a Pink Moon, a two-person exhibition at the Gadsden Museum of Art in Gadsden, AL, in 2025; A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, a group exhibition at Nature Of Things in Dallas, TX, in 2025; and Ways of the Circle, a solo exhibition at Room 412 in Birmingham, AL, in 2024. She received her BFA from the University of Montevallo in 2007, and her MFA from the University of Alabama in 2013. Herbert resides in Birmingham, AL, where she teaches and serves as Gallery Director at the Alabama School of Fine Arts.
Bethany Moody (she/they, b. 1989) is an educator and interdisciplinary artist working between sculpture, textile, and two-dimensional methods. Together, the histories of these processes are used to critique systems of manufacture, consumption, and socialization in playful yet subtle ways. Born and raised in suburban central Alabama, Moody received her BFA from the University of Montevallo and her MFA from the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Recent exhibitions featuring her work were held at Bunker Projects (PA), Wiregrass Museum of Art (AL), and the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Arts (AL). Recent residencies include Prairie (NC), Vermont Studio Center (VT), and Troy University (AL). In 2025, Moody was honored with the Individual Artist Fellowship in Craft from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Currently, Moody teaches foundations at the University of Alabama.
Verena Raban (b. 1987, Los Angeles) is a writer and mixed-media artist currently based in Birmingham, AL. Most often beginning with a word or phrase, then moving on to more concrete articulations, she uses poetry, with its capacious nature—a synthesis of sound, rhythm, image, and language—as the foundation for her visual practice. Raban’s work is a note to the Void, to the beloved Other, to the possibility of being left bereft of absence amid absurdity. Her work moves between attempts to convey the ineffable aspects of affinity, those moments that exist in the symbolic realms of spirit and emotion, and the representational beings experiencing those states, her Characters of Ennui. Raban’s poetry, prose, and art can be seen in Action Spectacle, Thin Air Magazine, Slipstream, Fruitslice, and other publications. She is an Anaphora Arts Fellow, former SVA Multimedia Arts resident, former Art Editor for the Northwest Review, and holds an MFA in Writing from Pacific University, where she studied poetry.
Image: Anne Herbert