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August 26 - November 9, 2009
Michael Jones McKean (Assistant Professor of Sculpture)
Exhibitions:
August 26 – September 11, 2009
Objet Petit A
curated by Matthew Jacques Dupont and Dayton Castleman
Spoke Gallery
119 N. Peoria St.
Unit 3D
Chicago, IL 60607
http://www.spokechicago.blogspot.com/
September 11 - October 31, 2009
Strangers in Conversation
Inman Gallery
3901 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77002
http://www.inmangallery.com/
September 17 - 20 , 2009
ArtVerona, with Project Gentili
Project Gentili
Prato 59100
Via del Carmine 13
0574 400445
http://www.artverona.it/cat_gallerie_items/catalogue_detail/906
October 6 - November 5, 2009
HCC 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Houston, Texas
Houston Community College
Central Fine Arts
3517 Austin at Holman
Houston TX, 77004
http://central.hccs.edu/central/academic-transfer/fine-performing-arts/central-fine-arts-30th-anniversary
Speaking engagements:
September 14, 2009
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
Public lecture discussing the upcoming project Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms, a large-scale public rainbow project slated for the spring of 2010.
http://www.bemiscenter.org/get_involved/index.html?req=calendar/event&eventUniqID=17004-0--&month=9&day=1&year=2009
September 28-29, 2009
University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
Public lecture.
http://www.colorado.edu/arts/
October 20-21, 2009
University of Oregon, Eugene, Eugene, Oregon
Public lecture discussing the upcoming project Certain Principles of Light and Shapes Between Forms, a large-scale public rainbow project slated for the spring of 2010.
http://art-uo.uoregon.edu/
November 9, 2009
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Public lecture.
http://www.temple.edu/tyler/
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Tyler School of Art, Temple University Announces Finalists in Inaugural
Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts
World's Largest Juried Individual
Fine Art Prize
Sanford Biggers (Affiliated Faculty), Michael Rakowitz, and Ryan Trecartin
Finalists Exhibition at Temple Gallery
October 1 - 31, 2009
Opening Thursday, October 1, 2009,
6-8pm
Recipient to Receive 150,000 USD Prize
At Reception Thursday, October 22, 2009
http://www.temple.edu/tyler/wolginprize
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July 18-August 23, 2009
Milos Chlupác Fellowship
LILY-COX RICHARD (MFA 08) has been awarded the Milos Chlupác Fellowship to spend 5 weeks in
Salzburg, Austria living in a quarry and learning to carve stone.
This Stone Sculpture Symposium is part of the 2009 Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
http://www.summeracademy.at/en/grants-detail.php?id=9\
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July 11 - August 15, 2009
The Space Betwixt
CLAIRE WATKINS (MFA)
2008 Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellow
http://www.claire-watkins.com/
The Picture Gallery
United States Department of Interior
National Parks Service
Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
139 Saint-Gaudens Road
Cornish NH 03745
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July 17 - August 14, 2009
ART & SCIENCE
Graphite drawings by Shelia Gallagher and kinetic sculpture by Claire Watkins (MFA)
Claire Watkins presents an exhibition of impossibly delicate, mesmerizing kinetic sculpture inspired by nature, the human body, and scientific phenomena.In the series Watkins hides a magnet and a rotating motor behind the front surface of a box. On the box's front face she "places" magnet shavings, which hypnotically swirl in the direction of the motorized magnet on the back. If Watkins scatters the shavings, interrupting their path, on the surface, they migrate back to their previous central axis, and begin their slow rotation, yet again. Visually, the shavings resemble shapes and organisms in nature, from sea anemones to lichen growing on rocks. Watkins's sculptures visually incite the same amazement and sheer fascination one experiences when learning about natural and scientific phenomena for the first time.
Cynthia-Reeves
535 West 24th 2nd Floor
New York NY 10011
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July 25- August 14, 2009
good people, bad behavior
Presented by the Homo Fabers:
Tim Bearse, Nicholas DesCognets, Benjamin Jurgensen, Ian McMahon, Nataliya Slinko, Hannah Walsh (all MFA students)
Read a review of the exhibit from The Washington City Paper
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June 18- August 12, 2009
White Noise
Curated by Elyse Goldberg and co-curated by Jessica Lin Cox
Artists include: Lucas Ajemian (BFA) and Jason Ajemian, Laurie Anderson, Ronnie Bass, Joseph Beuys, Nick Cave, Martha Colburn, Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Tacita Dean, Simon Evans, Brendan Fowler, Rodney Graham, Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg, Jay King and Mario Diaz de León, Jutta Koether, Jim Lambie, Louise Lawler, Christian Marclay, David Moreno, Robert Morris, Yoko Ono, Raymond Pettibone, Jack Pierson, Robin Rhode, Jamie Shovlin, Robert Smithson, Meredyth Sparks, Reena Spaulings, Emily Sundblad, and Fred Tomaselli.
James Cohan Gallery announces White Noise, a group exhibition featuring works that exist at the intersection of visual art, music and sound by artists of different generations. In the exhibition, there will be sounds to be looked at and objects to be heard. It will explore how sound can obliterate as well as elevate; how silence can involve both absence and presence.
James Cohan Gallery
533 West 26th Street
New York NY 10001
212.714.9500
http://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/2009-06-18_white-noise/
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July 11- August 1, 2009
True Colors (solo show)
Becca Midwood (BFA 1990)
Presented by:
835 Larkin St
San Francisco, CA
(415) 931-1500
http://www.whitewallssf.com/gallery.php?artist_id=142#
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August 8, 2009
Mildred's Lane
Guest Chefs Liz Chaney (BFA alumna), Rebecca Henderson (BFA student), & Berangér LeFranc (BFA student) provide dinner to those touring Mildred's Lane and attending a slide/slam with artists Mark Dion and Robert Williams.
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June 20- August 1, 2009
Group show with Sharon Lockhart, Juliana Paciulli (BFA), and Caecilia Tripp
Curated by Grégoire Maisonneuve
Juliana Paciulli's video The Other Side, March 1994 is influenced by both autobiographical as well as pop cultural sources. Her intimate portrait of a young girl’s infatuation with Jim Morrison explores the relationship between female desire and rock music while sensitively examining the ineptness to convey feelings via language.
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August 2009
R. Robot Saves Lunch
Written and illustrated by R. Nicholas Kuszyk (BFA)
"It’s a hectic day at the robot factory—one of the robots has gone missing and Big Cooker Robot is jammed up. That’s where R Robot comes in. He’s the perfect man for the job. After all, he can walk the dog, take a shower, eat breakfast and get dressed— all at the same time! Surely he won’t disappoint a whole cafeteria full of hungry robots!
This inventive, eye-popping picture book by a talented new author-illustrator stars a cast of quirky multicolored robots, all bursting with personality. Readers will pore over the detailed illustrations, laughing at clever touches like R Robot’s robot dog and Big Cooker’s creative method of serving lunch."
Can be purchased from Penguin Books
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June 25- July 31, 2009
Image Search
Curated by Jamie Sterns
Aids-3D, Colleen Asper, Aleksandra Domanovic, Christoph Draeger, Daniel Everett, Oliver Laric,
Jason Lazarus, Abigail Lloyd, Lucky Dragons, Jill Magid, James Shaeffer (BFA student) ,
Suzanne Treister, and Conrad Ventur
P.P.O.W.
511 West 25th Street, Room 301 (at 10th Ave)
New York, NY 10001
http://www.ppowgallery.com/exhibition.php?id=34
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July 13- 31, 2009
Dana Parlier (BFA 1985) has three pieces on exhibit.
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July 24- 29, 2009
Presented by the VCU departments of Painting & Printmaking and Sculpture + Extended Media
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July 10 – 27, 2009
Browser, Inter-actor, Coauthor, Producer, Nomad
The exhibition is curated by Lauren Ewing, a sculptor and member of the summer FAWC faculty. The title is a non-hierarchical string of terms that apply to all participants in media society. We are all browsers,
inter-actors, coauthors, producers and nomads and it is the intention of this exhibition to produce that awareness and enactment in the viewer. Ewing assembled the artists and curated their work with the “criterion of coexistence” as the organizing principle. None of the artists or their work has its own segregated space in the gallery, rather they are commingled throughout the exhibition space. The exhibition is more of a concert than 6 individual songs given their own time and place. There is much magic, lyricism and puzzlement through which the viewer can browse, interact and produce meaning. Some of the elements are a breeze, gifts, roaming drawings, a ‘chimney bride’, fluttering newspapers from around the world, and ‘a breve with pianisssimo’ (a rest).
The featured artists are Ellen Driscoll, Adam Frelin, Maryalice Johnston, Michael Jones McKean (Assistant Professor of Sculpture), Minako Shirakura, and Grace Sullivan, all former Visual Arts Fellows at the Work Center.
Fine Arts Work Center
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
24 Pearl St.
Provincetown, MA
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June 26 - July 25, 2009
...For Lovers
Recent MFA graduates of Virginia Commonwealth University's Department of Sculpture + Extended Media
Sami Ben Larbi, Patrick Cadenhead, Lily Cox-Richard, Mia Feuer, David Grainger
Eli Kessler, Julie Ann Nagle, Chris Mahonski, Maria Pithara, Jesse Robinson
James Sham, and Brian Taylor
Kim Foster Gallery
529 West 20th Street
New York, New York 10011
212.229.0044 | info@kimfostergallery.com
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June 26 - July 25, 2009
Almost Famous
A group exhibition including Patrick Cadenhead (MFA)
Reynolds Gallery
1514 W. Main St.
Richmond, VA
(804) 355-6553
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June 4– July 24, 2009
By A Thread
Mike Asente ( BFA ), Elisa D'arrigo, Mary Carlson, Lesley Dill, Elana Herzog,
Holly Miller, Edward Shalala, and Ann Shostrom
Elizabeth Harris Gallery
529 W20 street
New York, NY 10011
212. 463.9666
http://www.elizabethharrisgallery.com/by_a_thread/bat.html
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June 6−July 19, 2009
Overture to Whirl
Janelle Iglesias (MFA)
For Janelle Iglesias' new work, she mimics the construction strategies of the bowerbird to create an
immense, intricately adorned, sculptural environment. The bowerbird, an avian "installation artist", is known
for its obsessive scavenging of detritus to decorate elaborately designed habitats, or bowers. Accordingly,
Iglesias collected materials from her neighborhood, as well as on the grounds of Wave Hill and its
immediate vicinity, to create her own bower in the Sunroom. In the process, she marries natural elements
with synthetic ones, configuring a scavenged coat rack into a tree-like armature woven with felled branches
and discarded umbrellas. Inspired by a tree house built by Mark Twain in 1902, as well as by the bird life
and beehives on Wave Hill's grounds, she intends for the piece to have a frenetic, whirling quality. To this
end, she hones in on unexpected, quirky details, such as pinwheels of coffee stir-sticks and brightly colored
feathers. This project also demonstrates a conscious effort to make artwork with environmentally and
socially responsible intentions. In repurposing these objects, Iglesias employs a resourcefulness of means
that allows even the most unwanted refuse to become something distinctly beautiful.
WAVE HILL SUNROOM PROJECT SPACE
West 249th Street and Independence Avenue (front gate)
675 West 252nd Street (mailing)
Bronx, NY 10471-2899
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May 15- July 17, 2009
Internal Compasses
Derek Cote (MFA)
As part of Internal Compasses , SPACES Gallery, in Cleveland, will feature a new installation entitled Starchitecture and the Bean Stalk this May. Derek Cote and Nicole Baumann have been collaborating on this installation of large format photographs and sculptural objects for 18 months and are very excited to install it for the first time at SPACES.
SPACES
2220 Superior Viaduct
Cleveland OH 44113
http://www.spacesgallery.org/2009/exhibitions/internal_compasses/index.html
http://www.derekcote.com/home.html
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July 16, 2009
Guest Lecture
Sanford Biggers (Assistant Professor of Sculpture) will be giving a lecture at MICA at 4:30pm.
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July 7, 2009
Performance Sculpture by Krzysztof Zarebski
With cameo performances by Brendan Coyle (BFA) and Amanda from the Assembly Room
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July 2009
The Art of MoCCA's Volunteers:
Tim Anderson, Hanni Brosh, Brendan Coyle (BFA) , Shreya Dasgupta, Michael Diaz, Gary Dunaier, Max Foxman, Sam Marlow, Louis Spano and Will Tutino
Artist Lecture:July 23, 7-9
Brendan Coyle will explain some scenes in the comic to a powerpoint presentation of the images. Brendan's The Musterd Man comics are also for sale at The Assembly Room, please come grab a copy or three and check it out online at www.musterdman.com
The exhibition is curated by Naiika Alfred, Tim Anderson and Sam Marlow.
Supprt for MoCCA and Meanwhile... at 594 Broadway comes from the Will and Ann Eisner Foundation
and the members of MoCCA.
MOCCA (Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art)
594 Broadway, Suite 401 (btwn. Houston and Prince)
New York, NY 10012
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June-July 2009
Alida Barden (BFA)
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June 18- 28, 2009
The Glasgow School of Fine Art, MFA Degree Show 2009
Christian Newby (BFA)
Tramway 2
25 Albert Drive
Glasgow
G41 2PE
Email: info@tramway.org
http://www.gsamfa.com/2009/2009_intro.php
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May 30- June 28, 2009
Hidden City
Sanford Biggers (Assistant Faculty)
Various Locations
http://www.hiddencityphila.org/
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June 22- 27, 2009
003D
Galway Arts Centre presents 003D: a collaborative exhibition between the Galway based artists collective Expanded Draught and Masters degree students from Louisiana State University, curated by Gina Ruane (Galway) and partly funded by LSU.
Artisits:
Lindsey Maestri, Arkansas, (LSU Ceramics) & Joanne Dolan, Co Galway (Printmaking)
Kit French (VCU BFA), Virginia,(LSU Sculpture) & Dave Callan, Dundalk (Sculpture)
Tyler Mackie, Oregon, (LSU, Painting) & Breege Hynes, Co Galway (Printmaking)
Cody Arnall, Oklahoma, (LSU, Sculpture) & Colin O Brien, Dublin, (Sculpture, graphic design)
David Carpenter, Arkansas, LSU, Sculpture & Alwyn Reville, Dublin, & Allison Regan, Galway (Sculpture, LSU)
Kit French, Virginia, (LSU Sculpture) & Dave Callan, Dundalk, (Sculpture) are exploring ideas of communication, copyright, appropriation and displacement. Their process so far involves juxtaposing the use of modern tools of communication such as skype with outmoded devices such as records and tapes.
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May 21- June 27, 2009
"Nostalgia for Infinity"
DAVID HERBERT (MFA)
Postmasters Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by David Herbert. The show titled “Nostalgia for Infinity” will open on May 21 and will be on view until June 27. The reception is scheduled for Thursday, May 21 between 6 and 8 pm.
David Herbert’s sculptures, video installations, paintings and drawings combine images of pop culture and American history with a fearless use of materials. In earlier works Herbert created his transformed versions of the Black Monolith from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Superman, Hindenburg Zeppelin, the Bates Hotel, Sleeping Beauty's Castle, and Starship Enterprise rendered in fabric, plexiglas, aluminum, sculpey, paper pulp, cement, and conduit pipe.
In the current show, Herbert’s second with Postmasters, he continues this exploration into pop images and materials by focusing on the creations of illustrators and animators as a point of departure to navigate the slippery divide between fact and fiction, decay and resurrection, past and future, and comedy and tragedy. He pulls works of fantasy down to earth and levitates the mundane. In Herbert’s work apocalypse meets hope and exuberance.
A centerpiece of “Nostalgia for Infinity” is “Monarch” (2008) – a monumental, twice the human scale sculpture of a silver bodied creature from the movie "Alien" made from chicken wire and spray foam that sits, slumping, in a rocking chair. The chair, made from layered plywood, has been weathered and is visibly repaired with rusty steel strips and mounds of oozing glue. Resting on the alien's hand is a butterfly. This regal, larger-than-life husk of an soulless killer alien, is part Grandma Moses and part tragic Shakespearean figure. It evokes existential turmoil and resignation but also hope and resilience.
Postmasters Gallery
459 West 19th Street (at 10th Avenue)
New York, NY 10011
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May 23- June 20, 2009
Nerves
AJ Liberto (MFA) & Shannon Keller
http://www.ajliberto.com/aj.html
SHOW CAVE Night Gallery
1930 Echo Park Ave
Los Angeles, CA
http://showcave.org/exhibitions_Nerves.html
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June 1- 19, 2009
Disengaged: Songyi M. Kim Works on Paper
SONGYI KIM (MFA 03)
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists
237 South 18 th St. The Barclay, Suite 3A
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Gallery Hour: Monday – Friday, 10 am - 4 pm (other hours by appointment)
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May 31 – June 17 2009
'IN FLUX' Seoul Art Collective group exhibition
‘In Flux’ group exhibition presents the constant flow of artists in and out of the country through pieces reflecting the surge of dynamic temporally charged moments in the artist’s lives. The rush of inspiration and geographical location of the artist in today’s world is in continual motion. Some pass through today’s world quickly, while others form a more permanent relationship, becoming tributaries leading to the mainstream of Korean visual culture.
Zachary Eichelberger, Annabel Fenn, Matt Flanagan, Surya Gied
Zarha Jaan, TAMMY KIM (BFA) , Roxana Manouchehri, Ryan McLay
Jeffrey Morabito, Loren E. Rudisuela, James Topple, Melissa Wyman
The DOOR gallery
010-9441-9335
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May 9 - June 13, 2009
FOON SHAM (MFA)
Project to presents a solo exhibition by Washington DC based sculptor Foon Sham.
From their overall composition to how each component fits together, Foon Sham’s intricate wood sculptures utilize principles of design and nature to create a complex,
synthetic poetry. In his deepening study of structure the work has become more architectural in its reference to building as well as to the human body and the environment.
Glenn Harper, editor of Sculpture Magazine, writes, "...it is clear that Sham's work always approaches the viewer with more than a discrete aesthetic experience. His work approaches you through multiple perceptions and cognitions, channeled through the artist's as well as the viewer's conceptual and palpable experience of the world...the smooth and rough, the laminated and carved, the singular and the stacked, the minimal and the multiple are all integral aspects of the work."
Sham's current body of work continues this exploration of space through material by appropriating recycled phone book pages into the sculptural forms. The project began in China as a comment on population and identity, but has evolved into a conversation about his preferred medium, wood, and its relationship to the environment.
http://project4gallery.com/invitations/foonsham/index.html
Project 4
1353 U Street NW, 3rd floor
Washington, DC 20009
tel: 202 232 4340
Read a review in the Washington Post
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June 13, 2009
"The Boy with the Long Nose"
Amanda Curtis' finely crafted debut performance piece, which stars Brendan Coyle (BFA) and a real barbershop quartet known as Nu Millennium
South Beach Boardwalk
300 Father Capodanno Boulevard
Staten Island, NY
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May 9 - June 6, 2009
Worlds Apart
Andy Holtin (MFA) and Galo Moncayo (MFA) , working together as CausalityLabs, create works that explore the nature of the world through a kind of mechanical theater with humor and mimicry. Their collective works dig into materials and events to get at our notions of meaning, sequence, and cause and effect.
Andy is Assistant Professor and area head of Sculpture at American University in Washington, DC. Galo is currently a member of the Studio Hadid master class at the Universität für Angewandt Kunst in Vienna, Austria.
The Front
4100 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117
Saturday & Sunday 12 to 5 pm
Read a review from The Times Picayune
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June 2009
Summer Residency & Show in Germany
Johnston Foster (BFA & Adjunct Faculty in Sculpture)
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Summer 2009
Recent Work
by Chris Taggert (BFA)
ACE Gallery
Institute Of Contemporary Art
@ The Wilshire Tower
5514 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323.935.4411
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Summer 2009
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June 2009
"TEXAS BIENNIAL"
By Frances Colpitt
Review of 'Texas Biennial' and one of the artists, William Cannings (BFA)
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May 13- 30, 2009
Joy of Life
New Sculptures and Drawings from Sto (BFA)
Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art
1086 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 1H8
T: 416.993.6510
http://www.katharinemulherin.com/
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May 1- May 30, 2009
Beast of Eden
Curated be Melissa Roberts
Johanna Dery, Kate Horne (BFA), Kelie Bowman
Tyler Thomas, Ryan Mclennan, Christian Newby
Nate Rappole , Amie Cunningham (Adjunct Faculty)
Metro Space Gallery
119 W. Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220
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April 29- May 30, 2009
Crossing Art is pleased to present the group exhibition, Recess . The exhibition will subversively examine theories as of how and why the economy collapsed by examining different types of structures and systems. Recess will feature works by Chen Gang 陳剛 , Chris Coffin, Carl Eckhoff, Gabert Farrar, Ben Grasso, Michael Greathouse, He Diqiu 賀棣秋 , Timothy Hutchings, Scott Kiernan, Rachel Kohn, Jon Laustsen, Paris Mancini, Meridith Pingree, Patrick Resing, Adam Thompson, and Kai Vierstra (MFA).
Crossing Art
136-20 38 th Avenue, 4 th Floor (Main Street & 39 th Ave)
Flushing, NY 11354
212-359-4333
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April 14- May 30, 2009
The Happening
Kinesics As Art Object
Group exhibition featuring Wayne Hodge (BFA), Jessica Lagunas, Regina Rocke, Lerato Shaoi,
Ezra Wube, Keith Anderson, and Johannes Deyoung
526 West 26th Street, Suite 311
New York, NY 10001
212-691-9552
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April 24 -May 29, 2009
Sculpture and Drawings
Danese
535 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
Larry Bell
John Chamberlain
Mark diSuvero
Dimitri Hadzi
Bryan Hunt
Craig Kauffman
Elizabeh King (VCU Sculpture faculty)
Alain Kirilli
Jacques Lipchitz
Roberto Matta
John Newman
Richard Serra
Joel Shapiro
David Smith
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May 15 & 22, 2009
recent works by Diana Caramat Cavanaugh(Sculpture and Painting BFA)
and Chinonyeelu Uchechi Amobi (Painting BFA)
1605 Hull Street
Richmond, VA
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April 14- May 15, 2009
A group exhibition of designed objects
Corinne Farmer, Eric Hotchkiss, David Krell, Lynn Lim, Emily Powell, Michael Savona,
Stacey Sirow (BFA), Qing Chang Wang, and Amy Wiggins
First year students in the Master of Design in Designed Objects program at School of the Art Institute
of Chicago are beginning to feel at ease in the studio. Making Home represents their natural next step
in putting the design porcess into pratice beyond the classroom.
280 S Columbus Drive, #113
Chicago, IL 60603
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May 8, 2009
VCU SCULPTURE MFA CANDIDACY SHOW
1621 WEST MAIN ST.
PRESENTED BY THE HOMO FABERS:
tim bearse. nicholas des cognets. benjamin jurgensen.
ian mcmahon. nataliya slinko. hannah walsh.
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May 1- 8, 2009
A three person exhibition featuring new works from BFA students:
Blue Clements, Whitney Rainey, and John Ziol
321 W. Broad Street
Richmond, VA
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May 2009
Plaza/Pyramid Atlantic Artist Residency
MEGAN MUELLER (BFA)
Pyramid Atlantic offers Artists Residencies to emerging and established artists of all disciplines. Our goal is to provide resident artists with a stimulating and nurturing environment through discussion, collaboration, and full staff support. Artists-in-residence receive technical advice from master printmakers and papermakers; the space to create one-of-a-kind works up to 4 x 8 feet or editioned works in paper, print, or artist books; and studio time to work without interruption.
We are pleased to announce the selection of Megan Mueller as the Plaza/Pyramid Atlantic Artist in Residence. Ms. Mueller was selected from over 40 submissions and is funded via a joint program between Plaza Artist Materials and Pyramid Atlantic.
Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring MD
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May 2009
Stu Hollins (BFA), Sandra Luckett, Lisa Rundstrom, Kristin Beal-DeGrandmont, Suzanna Fields, Matt Kenyon, Barbara Tisserat, Carrie Dyer, Peter Baldes, Vaughn Garland, Ginnie Baer, Bryan Condra, Kirsten Kindler, Langdon Graves, and Rachel Hayes
ADA Gallery
228 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA
PRESS! Check out an article in RVA Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 1
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March 28 - May 3, 2009
Carnival Within - An Exhibition Made in America
Curated by Sabine Russ and Gregory Volk (VCU Sculpture and Painting Faculty)
in collaboration with Uta Grundmann
Participating artists:
Janine Antoni, Joe Amrhein, Tracey Baran, Sanford Biggers (VCU Sculpture Faculty), Laura Bruce, chameckilerner, Anne Chu, Spencer Finch, David Herbert (MFA), Joan Jonas, Nina Katchadourian, Yvette Mattern, Karyn Olivier, Joyce Pensato, Peggy Preheim, William Pope.L, Nadine Robinson, and Lawrence Weiner.
Carnival Within – An Exhibition Made in America is the visual arts component of Discover Us!, which also includes a program of experimental jazz and experimental poetry from the United States.
UferHallen
Uferstrase 8-11
13357 Berlin
www.discover-us.org
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April 24 - 26, 2009
VCU Sculpture + Extended Media 2009 Senior Show
in conjunction with the VCU departments of Craft/Material Studies, Kinetic Imaging, and Painting & Printmaking
1000 W. Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23284
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April 3- 25, 2009
Matt King (VCU Sculpture Faculty)
Science Diet
Fourteen30 Contemporary
Portland, OR
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April 24, 2009
Mike Muelhaupt (BFA)
Matt Brett (BFA)
Rachael Starbuck (BFA)
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January 30 - April 19, 2009
The Sizes of Things In the Mind's Eye
Elizabeth King (VCU Sculpture Faculty)
Artist Lecture: January 28, 2009, 6pm
Elizabeth King will give a talk on her provocative work, which challenges commonly-held notions of reality and artifice.
Telfair's Jepson Center for the Arts
912.790.8800
www.telfair.org
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Press & Exhibition
"A to Z: A Beautiful/ Decay Retrospective"
Beautiful/Decay Magazine
Issue Z
Summer 2009
For this one-of-a-kind feature, twenty-six past featured artists were hand-picked to create unique works inspired by the publication’s name, Beautiful/Decay.
Featuring SunTek Chung (VCU BFA) (adjunct faculty)
http://beautifuldecay.com/current-issue/
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February 21- April 18, 2009
Beautiful/Decay: A To Z
Curated by Amir Fallah, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Participating artists include: Aaron Noble, Ai Kijima, Ala Ebtekar, Alex Trochut, Aya Kato, Barnaby Whitfield, Charlie Roberts, David Shaw, Eric Yahnker, Erik Parker, Erika Somogyi, Gary Taxali, Jacob Magraw, Julia Randall, Mark Schoening, Michael Scoggins, Pearl C. Hsiung, Pepe Mar, Robbie Conal, Scott Anderson, Scott Treleaven, Simmons and Burke, Skwak, Suntek Chung (BFA), Stella Lai, and Wendell Gladstone.
Kopeikin Gallery
8810 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069
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March 6 - April 17, 2009
2009 Core Exhibition
featuring the work of the 2008-09 Core artists-in-residence
Natasha Bowdoin, Jillian Conrad, Lily Cox-Richard (MFA 2008), Kara Hearn, Andres Janacua, Lauren Kelley, James Sham (MFA 2008), and Sergio Torres-Torres
The Core Program
Glassell School of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
5101 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006-6534
http://www.core.mfah.org/home.asp
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"Art as Bridge, Enabling the Sciences"
lecture: Charlie Ponticello (MFA)
Mattin Center, SDS Room
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
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April 11, 2009
a night of performance: in accordance with necessity
Five Three Three is pleased to announce a night of contemporary performance entitled in accordance with necessity. A performance event featuring the work of 12 Los Angeles based artists.
Curated by: Dawn Kasper (BFA)
Nathan Danilowicz, Joe Deutch, Corey Fogel, Veronica Gelbaum
Dawn Kasper (BFA), Yasmine Kittles, Christopher Kreiling
Lawrence Regent, Oscar Miguel Santos, Brooke Smiley, Samuel Vasquez
Five Three Three
533 South Los Angeles Street, Second Floor
Los Angeles, California
http://www.fivethirtythree.org
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April 8 – 11, 2009
MFA thesis exhibitions
Alida Barden (BFA)
http://alidabarden.com/artwork/707961_MFA_Thesis_Exhibition.html
Matthew Ritchie, Painting (BFA)
Temple Gallery
Tyler School of Art
2001 N 13th St
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.temple.edu/tyler/exhibitions/mfa2009/index.html
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March 6 - April 11, 2009
Urban Fossils
Red Door Gallery Presents sculptures by Paul DiPasquale (MFA)
RED DOOR GALLERY
1607 W. Main St.
Richmond, VA 23220
(804)358-0211
Read a review in the Washington Post
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March 6 - April 10, 2009
everything, you believe... and the rest we didn't know.
new drawings and a collaboration with the students of Flagler College
The Crisp - Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College presents new drawings by George Ferrandi (BFA)
Flagler College
48 Sevilla Street
St. Augustine, Florida
904.826.8530
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Lecture Series, Elizabeth King (VCU Sculpture Faculty)
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March 6 - April 18, 2009
EVER EXPANDING
New Works by Susann Whittier (VCU Sculpture Faculty)
Quirk Gallery
311 W. Broad Street
Richmond, VA
804.644.5450
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April 16 & 17, 2009
CONUNDRUM
Sanford Biggers (Faculty)
Featuring Imani Uzuri, Martin Luther, Terry Adkins, Mark Hinds, dre.dance and other special guests
Curated by Rashida Bumbray
Visual artist and musician Sanford Biggers ' work examines the complex collisions between culture and commodity in contemporary society. For these evenings, Biggers presents a unique mash-up of improvised music, live video mixing, and text, with a small ensemble of dancers whose choreographed movements cast geometric light patterns throughout the space. Drawing from ancient African and Buddhist spiritual traditions, Dadaist theory, YouTube music culture, and John Biggers' afro-futurist paintings, Biggers explores the specific cultural concerns of the contemporary political climate, using the socio-spiritual meanings of coded symbols and geometries to transform the mundane into the remarkable. These performances feature Biggers (keyboards, laptop), Mark Hinds (video), Imani Uzuri (vocals), Martin Luther (guitar and vocals), and Andrew Palermo and Taye Diggs' dre.dance (dance) alongside several other guest performers.
The Kitchen
512 W 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-255-5793
info@thekitchen.org
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March 14 – April 5, 2009
DISPLACEMENT
Mia Feuer (MFA anticipated 2009)
Curated by Angela Jerardi
FLUXspace
3000 N. Hope St.
Philadelphia, PA
Read the review at The Artblog
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April 4, 2009
UCSD OPEN STUDIOS 2009: New Approaches to Ideas, Materials, and Sites
featuring VCU alumni:
Leigh Cole (BFA)
Zac Monday (BFA)
Claire Zitzow (BFA)
Visual Arts Facility (VAF)
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
http://ucsdopenstudios.com/2009/
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March 20 - April 1, 2009
VCU Painting & Printmaking Department Honors Studio & Guests
Dexter Booth, Jamie Felton, Roberto Jamora, Sabrina Recabarren
Deborah Shapiro, Edwards Marshall Shenk, Geoff Smith
Henry Winfiele, Chino Amobi, Matthew Brett (BFA 2009)
Sandra Patricia Cornejo, Kelsey Hulvey, Paul Kehrer, Vianney Paul
Deepa Swanson, and Stephen Williams (BFA 2009)
Project Space at Plant Zero
0 East 4th Street
Richmond, VA
(804) 231-6500
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March 6- 31, 2009
R. Nicholas Kuszyk (BFA)
Jammer Slammer: The Evalation
McCaig-Welles Gallery
129 Roebling Street, Suite B
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718.384.8729
http://www.mccaigwelles.com/
McCaig Welles Gallery is pleased to present Jammer Slammer: The Evalation, a solo exhibition of paintings by R. Nicholas Kuszyk. The exhibition is a continuum of Kuszyk’s robot paintings that explores the evolution of visual media, the environment, rituals, and the human condition. New paintings along with some works spanning nearly ten years, will be on view.
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March 4 - March 29, 2009
Curated by Eun Young Choi
Ivin Ballen
Calvin Burton
Ethan Greenbaum
Varanda Jain
Benjamin S. Jones (MFA 2007)
Ruby Palmer
Aili Schmeltz
Jeremiah Teipen
Satori Gallery
164 Stanton St.
New York, NY
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March 6-28, 2009
Metro Space Gallery Presents:
"Faux Naturel"
Larger than Life Sculpture and Paintings by Chris Bolduc (BFA) and Jenn Figg
Metro Space Gallery
119 W. Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23220
(804)643-7125
www.metrospacegallery.com
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February 21- March 28, 2009
Drawn
Featuring works on paper by Michael Jones McKean (VCU Sculpture Faculty),
Bettina Sellmann, Jared Sprecher and Kevin Zucker
Kinkead Contemporary
6029 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA
http://www.kinkeadcontemporary.com/exhibitions/
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February 5- March 28, 2009
"Figuring a Brilliant Point"
a new work by Gabrielle Teschner (BFA 2003)
presented in the Musée D'Honneur Minuscule
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
http://www.newlangtonarts.org/view_event.php?category=Gallery&archive=&&eventId=423
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February 13 – March 22, 2009
"LoVE is a smoke made with the fume of sighs…"
A Solo Exhibition by Fernando Mastrangelo (MFA 2004)
KUMUKUMU
42 Rivington Street
(Bet Forsyth & Eldridge Streets)
New York, NY 10002
T: 212.677.5160
http://www.kumukumugallery.com/
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February 24 - March 21, 2009
Imaginings
Works by Christy DeHoog Johnson and George Ferrandi (BFA)
Kendall Gallery at Kendall College of Art and Design
17 Fountain St. NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503-3002
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Grace Johnston (BFA student) won 1ST PLACE in:
The Uncommon Thread Wearable Art Show
FORCE 2008
October 18, 2008, 8:00 pm
Louisiana State Museum
660 North Fourth Street
Baton Rouge, LA
www.culturecandy.org
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January 9 - March 20, 2009
Structural Vision
Featuring:
Morgan Craig
Tim DeVoe (Adjunct Faculty)
Sangbin Im
Courtney Jordan
Tricia Keightley
Carroll Square Gallery
975 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
http://www.carrollsquare.com/gallery.html
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February 12 – March 19, 2009
The Grand
Curated by: Eun Young Choi
SunTek Chung (BFA), Ben Grasso, Daina Higgins, Larry Lee, Miyeon Lee, Andrea Loefke, Rita MacDonald, Alejandro Almanza Pereda
Amelie A. Wallace Gallery is pleased to present The Grand, an exhibition organized around the idea of beauty and the sublime in a contemporary context. We often associate beauty and the sublime with eighteenth-century concepts despite their prior histories. However, depictions of grand cathedrals, sublime landscapes, mythical legends, monumental events in history, and heroic portraits are very common themes explored throughout history. Such grand subject matter aim to evoke feelings of pleasant adoration or quiet wonder. According to Kant the sublime can be divided into three kinds: noble, splendid, and terrifying. The artists in The Grand explore ideas of the monumental that evoke joy and splendor while toying dangerously close to the idea of sublime terror.
Amelie A. Wallace Gallery
Campus Center, Main Level
SUNY College at Old Westbury
Route 107, Old Westbury, NY
516.876.3056/2709
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Who do you think you are
Suntek Chung (BFA)
Fernando Mastrangelo (MFA)
Opening reception March 16th
Rhys/Mendes Gallery
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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January 23 - March 15, 2009
Stephanie Bingham (current BFA)
Derek Cote (MFA and Sculpture Adjunct Faculty)
Miriam Ewers (MFA) **FIRST PLACE WINNER 2009**
Contemporary Art Center of Virgina
2200 Parks Avenue
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
757.425.0000
http://www.cacv.org/
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March 7-8, 2009
Open Studios at Smack Mellon
Smack Mellon's Artists in Residence invite you to visit their open studios.
Artists: Chitra Ganesh, Wayne Hodge (BFA), Jennie C. Jones, Carlos Motta, Ginger Brooks Takahashi
92 Plymouth street, on the corner of Washington Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
F to York or A/C to High Street
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March 5-8, 2009
FELIX
The work of Fernando Mastrangelo(MFA) will be presented by RHYS/MENDES gallery at Volta NY art fair.
Citizens of developed countries live largely estranged from the conditions that provide their most basic commodities – oil, sugar, coffee, iron, rice, corn, etc. – commodities which function as the underpinnings of complex economic markets. My work over the past two years has focused on the use of such materials as media which I use to create cultural objects that propose a narrative of commodity production and the invisible labor force behind it.
VOLTA NY is located directly across from Manhattan's classic icon, The Empire State Bldg.
http://ny.voltashow.com/5101.html
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March 5, 2009
Make Art History
Luminaria is San Antonio’s own city-wide arts festival and is shaping up to be a fabulous one-night event in March. Bismarck Studios is supporting three local artists in their Luminaria projects by sponsoring a ONE NIGHT ONLY, limited edition print sale, March 5, 2009. You can collect the work of these three well-known artists at a fraction of their normal selling price.
Katie Pell, Ansen Seale and Kate Terrell (BFA) are each making a limited edition print which will sell for $150 each only on Mar. 5. The final number of the edition will be 20. The work of these artists usually sell for hundreds of dollars more than this special price.
Buy one and YOU JUST MADE ART HISTORY by supporting the Arts in San Antonio!
Bismarck Studios
930 Proton, Suite 202
San Antonio, TX 78258
Phone: 210.314.7747
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March 2009
Habitat For Artist
Marnie Hillsley (MFA) is part of a collective of artists involved in a project called "Habitat For Artist" that will be on display at ecoartpsace.
ecoartspace
53 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10013
917.743.8275
http://www.ecoartspace.org/
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February 26 - 29, 2009
BURN OUT Part II: A Response
Alex und Morgaen
Till van den Bergh
Julia Bodemer
Winfried Bodemer
Peter Folie
Chris Kasper(BFA)
Behrang Karimi
Lisa Klinkenberg
Florian Kuhlman
Veit Landwehr
Oona-lea von Maydell
Oliver Schulze
Invited by Timothy Shearer (BFA)
BLAST
Venloer Str. 24
Cologne 50672
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February16 - 28, 2009
Leigh Cole (BFA 2008)
I'll show you mine...
Marcuse Gallery
UCSD Visual Arts Facility
9500 Gilman Drive
LaJolla, CA
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February 6- 27, 3009
James Sham (MFA)
Close Caption
Public Space One Gallery
Opening 02.06.09 7-9pm
115 East Washington St., Iowa City, IA 52245
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Fall/Winter 2008 -2009
SPOT Magazine
Fall/Winter 2008- 2009
"Interdisciplinary Approaches to Phtography: Ramblings on Interpretation and Self-Reflexive Practices"
By Ragan Cole-Cunningham
Featured artist: Suntek Chung (MFA), featured piece Suburban Fury, 2005
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January 16- February 28, 2009
Peculiar Institutions
Solvent Space at Plant Zero Arts Complex
0 East 4th st. (Hull St/Fourth) Richmond, VA
Solvent Space is pleased to present Peculiar Institutions by Sanford Biggers (VCU Sculpture Faculty). His multi-disciplinary works are known for their meditative rigor and improvisatory nature. Drawing from his experiences living in Japan, his work is influenced by Buddhist aesthetics. In addition, hip-hop and urban culture infuse his work with a vibrant edge. For Peculiar Institutions Biggers reflects on the history of Richmond's slave market, mediating the experience through historical and contemporary iterations of race relations and history. Peculiar Institutions is an engaging and thought provoking installation that emphasizes Biggers' ability to blend meditative, historical and contemporary issues.
Solvent Space is an exhibition space located in the Plant Zero arts complex at 0 East 4th Street, between Hull and Fourth Streets, Richmond, Virginia. Solvent Space is a project of the School of the Arts and the Department of Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, in cooperation with Plant Zero. Gallery hours are Tuesdays 12-4, Thursday 3-7, Saturdays 12-4 and by appointment. Closed for holidays.
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February 20, 2009
VICTOR CHARLIE UDON I
1st year grads' sculpture show
presented by the HOMO FABERS
Tim Bearse
Nicholas DesCognets
Benjamin Jurgensen
Ian McMahon
Nataliya Slinko
Hannah Walsh
1517 Hull Street
Richmond, VA
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January 10 – February 13, 2008
R. Eric McMaster (Adjunct Faculty)
Unquestionable Acceptance
Richard Levy Gallery
514 Central Ave SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present, Unquestionable Acceptance, a multimedia installation by emerging artist, R. Eric McMaster. Utilizing video, rapid prototyping, and traditional processes such as casting and photography, Eric McMaster creates a world that is grounded in both state of the art digital technology and traditional arts.
Rapid prototyping is a computer automated manufacturing process typically employed by architects, scientists, and industrial manufacturers to create 3 dimensional forms. McMaster is at the forefront of contemporary artists who use this technology as an artistic medium. For Unquestionable Acceptance, Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to debut a limited edition sculpture, Lawn Ornament, where a lone figure is perched like a flamingo on a bed of Astroturf. McMaster begins with a three-dimensional scan of himself and manufactures a rapid prototype from this digital information. He then uses the prototype to create a mold from which he casts multiple figurines made of dyed polyurethane. His process explores the question of what is lost when a living being is reduced, through means of mass production, to a plastic object.
McMaster will also create a foosball game with figures from his scans of day laborers that he hired to play a soccer match. The game will be accompanied by a video of the match, and life size 3-d prints of some of the players.
McMaster received an M.F.A in Sculpture from Arizona State University in 2008, and a B.F.A from Pennsylvania State University in 2003. He is currently teaching sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University. McMaster was awarded with the exhibition Unquestionable Acceptance by Richard Levy Gallery as first prizewinner in The Harwood Art Center’s June 2008 Crossing exhibition.
http://www.levygallery.com/exhibitions/current_shows.html
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January 26 - February 7, 2009
John Ziol (Senior)
Reverb Instincts
VCU Student Commons Art Space
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
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December 2008- January 2009
Monumental Gallery
(an independent gallery run by Sculpture BFA student Conor Backman)
2800 Monument Ave Apts 3 + 4, Richmond VA
Open on exhibition nights or by appointmen
http://www.monumentalgallery.com/homepage.html
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November 8 to December 21, 2008
Elizabeth King (VCU Sculpture faculty)
The Sizes of Things in the Mind
David Winton Bell Gallery
List Art Center, Brown University
64 College Street
Providence, RI 02912
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November 10- December 12, 2008
Allegation of Use
Ephraim Russell (BFA)
Saint Joseph's University
Univeristy Gallery- Boland Hall
Lapsley Lane at City Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19131
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November 9 – December 1, 2008
This Already Happened
MICA students in an exchange show curated by VCU Sculpture + Extended Media Graduate Students:
Jamilah Abdul-Sabur, Paul Crump, Lee Freeman,
Jong Sun Lee, Shane Morrissey, Claire Taylor
VCU School of the Arts Gallery
1000 W. Broad St., 1st floor
Richmond, Virginia 23284
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November 2008
Group Show
Featuring work by Richmond's emerging artists, including the following VCU Sculpture BFA students:
Conor Backman, Matthew Brett, Katie Conor, Jaclyn Cummings, Stephen Decker, Peter DeJong, Jessica Dodd, Mike Drake, Caleb Flood, Rebecca Hendderson, Josie Justice, Carlton Morgan, Tim Rusterholtz, James Shaeffer and Stephen Williams
Monumental Gallery
(an independent gallery run by Sculpture BFA student Conor Backman)
2800 Monument Ave, Apts 3 + 4
Richmond VA
Open on exhibition nights or by appointmen
http://www.monumentalgallery.com/exhibitions.html
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November 7- 30, 2008
Myron Helfgott (Professor Emeritus)
What Women Have Told Me
Art 6
6 East Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Phone: (804) 343-1406
Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12 to 4 p.m.
The recent work of Myron Helfgott has been influenced by literature, film, and architecture. Through the use of audio devices, photos, and traditional sculptural materials, he attempts to address such subjects as the self-portrait, landscape painting, cultural and aesthetic questions, and gender and age transformation. Professor Howard Risatti has said that this recent work relies "on a direct and often brutal honesty" that is "clear in the way he assembles his visual and aural components to unflinchingly probe areas and feelings that are often of a deeply personal nature and yet, still have relevance for the beholder."
From 1968 until 2003, Mr. Helfgott was a professor in the department of sculpture and extended media at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has had numerous one-man exhibitions throughout the United States and his work is in both public and private collections, including the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Corcoran, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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January 7-24, 2009
RETRACTIONS
An exhibition exploring notions of vacated information
Curated by Whitney Lynn (BFA)
Root Division presents an exhibition of 30 artists exploring notions of vacated information. Highlighting the content of absence, these artists work with themes of censorship, value, memory and loss.
Using techniques of erasure, displacement, cancellation and extraction, the act of taking out information often gives new meaning to what is left. Simplifying or abandoning material can highlight essential content, provide codification, or stand as a subversive gesture.
VCU Alumni include: James Davis, Peter Baldes, Michael J. Ryan ('Metal Mike'), Jennifer Maria Harris and a Jon Clary & Bruce Wilhelm collaboration
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 10, 7-10 pm
Exhibition Dates: January 7-24, 2009
Sliding Scale Suggested Donation: $2-$20
ROOT DIVISION GALLERY
3175 17th Street (at S. Van Ness)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.863.766
www.rootdivision.org
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December 13, 2008 - January 11, 2009
LOOK OUT
Becca Midwood (BFA) & Colette Miller Present LOOK OUT
Reception: Saturday, December 13, 7 – 11 pm
Edgar Varela Fine Arts
542 S. Alameda St. Los Angeles, CA 90013
Reception: Saturday, December 13, 7 – 11 pm
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November 21, 2008 – January 10, 2009
Pleasing Punch
AJ Liberto (MFA 2007) & Jesse Robinson (MFA 2008)
They discovered that a smaller diameter cyclone gives greater centrifugal force. So they developed a way of getting 45% more suction than a Dual Cyclone vacuum and removing more dust, by dividing the air into 8 smaller cyclones. Cyclones appear, sealed within the vacuum. Something contained and yet terrifying, a collection of stuff thrust into this space.
Pleasing Punch is just such a space. Celebration and violence are hard to tell apart in both Liberto and Robinson's endeavors. Their work realizes the gravitational force of objects, that link that holds together and creates disastrous collisions, despair, and ultimately a drifting blissful calm.
Opening Reception: Friday, November 21, 2008, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
John M. O'Quinn Gallery
Lawndale Art Center
4912 Main
Houston, TX
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November 20 - December 31, 2008
The Ambient Texture of Urbana
Photography and Collage Paintings by Simon Scott, Ryan Spoto and Christi Shingara
Lisa-Thi Beskar (BFA 1995) is pleased to present The Ambient Texture of Urbana, featuring work from local artists Simon Scott , Ryan Spoto and Christi Shingara. Presenting the group exhibition in a non-traditional arena, it will be hosted by Enve Beauty Lounge in the Lower East Side of New York City from November 20 to December 31, 2008. New York City plays the role of muse, landscape, backdrop and physical material for the work shown in this group exhibition.
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 20, 2008 8pm - 11pm
Art & Design Industry Opening: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8pm-11pm
Location: Enve Beauty Lounge
121 Ludlow Street, 3nd floor
New York, NY 10002
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday Noon - 7 PM
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November 21, 2008 - January 10, 2009
Les Lettres Tristes
Foxy Production presents Les Lettres Tristes, a collaboration between New York-based artists Lucas Ajemian (BFA 1997) and Julien Bismuth investigating the creative potential of detours through language, action and image. Taking the experience of distraction as their starting point, the artists discursively explore the experience of being diverted from one's train of thought.
Les Lettres Tristes (The Sad Letters) refers to the Lettristes, the members of the avant-garde group, established in mid-century Paris, who used letters, hieroglyphics and other graphic symbols to create wildly experimental films, poetry, and art-works. Like a snapshot of Lettrisme itself, the exhibition combines key features of a number of Modernist movements, including Abstractionism, Dada, and Situationism, to generate a constellation of inter-related writing, films and objects.
FOXY PRODUCTION
623 WEST 27TH ST.
NEW YORK NY 10001
p: +1 212 239 2758
f: +1 212 239 2759
http://www.foxyproduction.com
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October 19, 2008 - January 9, 2009
Waoohhh!
CRAC ALSACE
18, Rue du Château
68130 ALTKIRCH, FRANCE
Alice Anderson
Michel Blazy
Nicolas Darrot
Johnston Foster (BFA)
Christian Gonzenbach
Gaëlle Hippolyte et Lina Hentgen
Vincent Kohler
Zoë Mendelson
Bruno Pelassy
Pierrick Sorin
Stéphane Thide
João Pedro Vale
Virginie Yassef
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November 22, 2008 – January 3, 2009
ANTHOLOGY
Diana Al-Hadid (MFA 2005)
Otero Plassart is pleased to present ANTHOLOGY, a group exhibition that takes its name from Alejandro Jodorowsky's Antología Pánica. El Pánico was a movement created during a time of crisis in the 1960's, which sought to reinvent scandal as the main weapon of the avant-garde - horror and spectacle were used to spur an audience into a state of anxiety and revolt. ANTHOLOGY unites artists with a diverse range of practices whose interstices collide in an affirmation of the creative impulse and of that divine madness that lies at the crux of change
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November 22 - January 4, 2009
The Original Comedy
Wayne Hodge (BFA 1999)
String Quintet for 2 Cellos, 2 Violas and a Corpse collaborative project featuring original music composition by Masami Tomihisa, commissioned by Joanna Malinowska.
Smack Mellon
92 Plymouth Street @ Washington
Brooklyn, NY 11201
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October 16 - December 30, 2008
Johnston Foster (BFA)
Foster's sculptural installations are created from scavenged, recycled and redefined materials to form Pop Art-inspired animals and people. The artist humorously examines American popular culture, appropriating refuse and shaping it into sculptures that relate to urban myths.
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
2200 Parks Avenue
Virginia Beach, VA
757.425.0000
http://www.cacv.org/exhibitions/one.asp
link to Newport News Daily Press Review
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November 14 - December 28, 2008
Unsung: new work by George Ferrandi and John Orth
Cinders Gallery presents Unsung: new work by George Ferrandi (MFA 1994) and John Orth
We invite you to come see Unsung. This installation is the first official endeavor of the collective known as "88's" – short for "88's and good numbers" which is CB lingo for "Best Wishes and Regards." The work in Unsung started with conversations concerning the current presidential campaign. Our plea for a massive paradigm shift had 88's collective members George Ferrandi and John Orth contemplating what parts of their own psyches could use some serious shifting. They started with the imagery they associated with grassroots revolution – daggers, dynamite, pistols, the felled heads of toppled statues, and the closed eyes of innocents. Then they created painted, cast plaster and carved wooden forms that relegate the physical violence of uprising safely to the realm of metaphor, but still speak to a simmering volatility and to the potential for cataclysmic change.
Cinders Gallery 103 Havemeyer St. (btwn. Hope and Grand)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
718.388.2311
http://www.cindersgallery.com
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November 13 - December 23, 2008
Rest (in 3 rhythms)
Project Room: Rest (in 3 rhythms) Invited by E. Pujol: Stephanie Diamond, Rosemarie Padovano (MFA), Joy Whalen
Ramis Barquet
523 W. 24th Street, New York
Opening November 13, 6- 8 pm
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October 24 - November 29, 2008
Matt King (VCU Sculpture and Art Foundation Faculty)
Blister Pack
Werkstätte
55 Great Jones Street
New York, NY 10012
www.werkstattegallery.com
tel 212 228 2996
fax 212 228 9806
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October 10- November 29, 2008
FALL SOLOS 2008
Arlington Arts Center
3550 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22201
Hours: Tues-Sat 11am-5pm
FALL SOLOS 2008 highlights the best emerging and established contemporary
artists in the Mid-Atlantic region. Nine artists will be featured in seven
separate galleries. Artists include Katie Creyts, Lily Cox-Richard (MFA 2008),
Ben Pranger, Andrea Chung, Morgan Craig, and Robin Dana.
http://www.arlingtonartscenter.org/exhibitions.htm
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September 9 - November 26, 2008
Mike Ellyson (BFA 05) has completed a residency at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. His work will be on view from September 9 - November 26, 2008.
As a young child, sculptor Michael Ellyson was diagnosed with both Tourette Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Rather than defining him, Ellyson embraces his maladies in a quest to better understand both himself and the world around him, which is, after all, both the common goal and the common gift of all art.
From kitschy collections of the common artifacts of childhood to weightier examinations of religion, the artist is forever wielding a mirror - first to himself, then to the outer world. Repeat ad infinitum.
An array of deconstructed baseball cards becomes a dizzying cacophony of disembodied parts and a disassembled jumble of toy cars is transformed into an abstract m�©lange where only memories persist. An obsessive repetition of materials - never resembling their original state - reflects a world where, in more ways than one, behavior is not always the result of cognitive choice.
Ellyson studied in Lima and Cusco, Peru before earning sculpture degrees at Virginia Commonwealth University (BFA - 2005) and at the Cranbrook Academy of Hari in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (MFA - 2008).
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 South 12th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
12th and Leavenworth
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November 4th, 2008
AFI film festival
Melanie Mandl (BFA 1991) will be screening her stop motion animated short this week at the AFI film festival in Los Angeles.
http://filmguide.afifest.com/tixSYS/2008/filmguide/films/1117
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November 7- November 16, 2008
NZ Sculpture OnShore 2008
Gabriel Montejo (BFA - 2000)
Fort Takapuna Historic Reserve
Vauxhall Road
Devonport, North Shore City
http://www.nzsculptureonshore.co.nz/
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October 31, 2008
2009 Texas Biennial
William Cannings (BFA 1995) is one of 4 selected regional artists for the 2009 Texas Biennial. The 2009 Texas Biennial takes great pride in announcing our four hand-selected regional artists. As an exciting component to this latest edition of the Biennial we have incorporated four, more focused, solo shows awarded to individuals representing North, South, East, and West Texas. These focused exhibitions were added in an effort to solidify the geographical weight of each region and further investigate the artist's specific environmental and cultural influences within our large state. Each will have the opportunity to exhibit independently in one single venue in Austin to showcase a more complete body of work. Our 2009 partnering venues for this component are Gallery Lombardi, Okay Mountain, Big Medium, and MASS Gallery. Throughout the last six months our guest curator, Michael Duncan, took a concentrated examination of the art making in Texas and culled a list of 35 artists to seriously consider for the solo exhibitions. After many studio visits all over Texas, the final selection has been determined and the Biennial is pleased to present four artists who, in one way or another, embody the creative ingenuity that makes our state so exceptional.
The Texas Biennial
5305 Bolm Rd #12Austin, TX 78721
512.385.1670 (voice)
info@texasbiennial.com
www.texasbiennial.com
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October 27 - November 14, 2008
God Is Canadian
Derek Coté will be in a three person exhibition at Sam Houston State University this week, and giving a talk about the multi-media work entitled God Is Canadian, a sculptural and 5-channel surround sound installation.
www.derekcote.com
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October 20 - November 5, 2008
The Same Thing Is Happening Twice
VCU Sculpture + Extended Media Graduate Students in an exchange show curated by MICA:
Mia Feuer
Maria Pithara
Julie Ann Nagle
Patrick Cadenhead
Chris Mahonski
Brian Taylor
Middendorf Gallery at MICA
1300 West Mount Royal Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21217
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October & November 2008
The Rema Hort Man Foundation presents:
The Voting Booth Project
assume vivid astro focus, Sanford Biggers (Sculpture Faculty), Marcel Dzama, Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli
5 commissioned artworks using actual voting booths from West Palm Beach County in Florida during the 2000 presidential election. Proceeds support grants to caner patients and visual artists.
David Zwirner Gallery
533 West 19th Street
October 14-25, 2008
Lehmann Maupin Gallery
201 Chrystie Street
November 7-8, 2008
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October 4 – October 26, 2008
John Arndt | Tyler Britt | Gary Cannone | Carl Diehl | Danielle Gustafson-Sundell | Laura Mackin | Noah Rorem | David Schutter | Mindy Rose Schwartz | William Staples | Brian Taylor (current MFA candidate)
Alogon Gallery
1049 N. Paulina 3R
Chicago, IL
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September 19 - October 26, 2008
Buckets of Water
curated by Brad Birchett and Vaughn Garland
featuring work by:
Heather Gray
Lynn Gufeld
Jodi Hays
Susann Whittier (BFA)
RED DOOR GALLERY
1607 W. Main St.
Richmond, VA 23220
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October 11 - 25, 2008
ANNA HELWING GALLERY presents
Going Out of Business
Anna Helwing Gallery would like to announce its final exhibition, titled Going Out of Business, a group show organized by Karl Haendel and featuring Emilie Halpern, Skylar Haskard, Dawn Kasper (BFA), Lutz/Guggisberg, Spandau Parks, Robert Russell, Maya Schindler, Mindy Shapero, and Mario Ybarra Jr.. Closing the doors for good, Anna Helwing and her daughter Louisa will move back to Switzerland to be closer to family. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, October 11, 2008 from 6 to 8 pm.
The gallery is located on 2766 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90034. Regular gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm. Going Out of Business will run through October 25, 2008. For further information, please contact Anna Helwing Gallery at 310.202.2213.
Anna Helwing Gallery
2766 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, California 90034
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October 4 - 16, 2006
Alida Barden (BFA 2006) is featured in a group show:
Famous World's Best
1503 South 5th Stree
Philadelphia, PA
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September 4 - October 9, 2008
Diana Al-Hadid (MFA 2005)
Solo exhibition:
Reverse Collider
Perry Rubenstein Gallery
527 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
Tel (212) 627-8000
Fax (212) 627-6336
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August 9-October 19, 2008
Unknown Pleasures
Curated by Matthew Thompson.
Aspen Museum of Art
Aspen, CO
Music has become both an aesthetic device and an imortant touchstone for may artists, and uses of emotive and psychological properties of sound also coincide with a current reinvestigation of the romantic notion of melancholy - historically identified as a state of malaise, disaffection and inactivity. UNKNOWN PLEASURES features a number of international contemporary artists working in a variety of media, who explore the connections between music and melancholy, but instead focus on its generative potential.
Artists featured in the exhibition include Sanford Biggers (Sculpture Faculty), Anne Collier, Jesper Just, Tim Lee, Euan Macdonald, Susan Philipsz, Ugo Rondinoe, Melanie Schiff, and Wilhelm Sasnal.
http://www.aspenartmuseum.org/
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September 5 – October 18, 2008
In Residence: Recent Projects from Sculpture Space
A Collaboration between The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and Sculpture Space, Utic
Curated by Christa Erickson and Patterson Sims
Jae Hi Ahn, David Bowen, Carlos Ferguson,
Abe Ferraro, Wennie Huang, Takafumi Ide,
Las Hermanas Iglesias (Jnel Iglesias MFA 2006) , Beth Krebs,
David McQueen (MFA) , Sterz, Jina Valentine, Maria Velasco
Curatorial Consultants:
Michelle Levy, Program Director, EFA Project Space
Sydney L. Waller, Executive Director, Sculpture Space
EFA Project Space (formerly EFA Gallery) is pleased to announce In Residence: Recent Projects
from Sculpture Space, a collaboration between The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and Sculpture
Space, Utica. The exhibition, co-curated by Christa Erickson and Patterson Sims, will be on view from
September 5, 2008 through October 18, 2008.
By partnering with Sculpture Space on this exhibition, EFA Project Space begins to fulfill its goal to
provide a unique space for collaboration with other art and cultural organizations, thus expanding
audiences for the arts while bridging gaps in the art community. Sculpture Space is a nonprofit artists'
workspace dedicated to the needs of artists whose focus is sculpture. It is unique in North America for
its service to sculptors and the individual support given to artists who come to Utica, NY to make new
work. The program currently selects 20 artists per year for two-month residencies and has helped
advance the careers of over 400 national/international artists since 1976.
Surveying work made by Sculpture Space artists over the past five years, In Residence: Recent Projects
from Sculpture Space celebrates the crucial role residency programs play in the cultivation of an artist’s
creative process.
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September 1- October 18, 2008
Building Steam
An Exhibition of Emerging New York Artists
Curator, Mike Homer
Benjamin Butler, Jose Luis Cortes, Peter Garfield, Anna Von Mertens, Ryan Mrozowski, Rosemarie Padovano (MFA 2007), Duke Riley, Eliza Stamps, Kako Ueda, Joy Whalen, Will Yackulic
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September 5 - October 11 2008
ALMOST FAMOUS
A group exhibition including Sami Ben Larbi (MFA student in Sculpture)
Video piece on view at:
Reynolds Gallery
1514 W. Main Street
Richmond, VA, 23220
(804) 355-6553
Projection piece on view at:
9 South Harvie Street
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September 12 - October 7, 2008
2 person exhibition: Tim Harriss vs. J. Pocklington
Jamie Pocklington (BFA, 1992)
Eric Schindler Gallery
2305 E. Broad St.
Richmond, VA
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September 4 - October 4, 2008
Johnston Foster (BFA and Adjunct Faculty)
Solo Exhibition:
Summertime Blues
Rare Gallery
In his third solo exhibition at RARE, Johnston Foster continues his signature style of creating sculptures out of discarded materials that he finds strewn across highway medians, tossed into dumpsters, and abandoned in alleys. From this cultural detritus he takes an alchemist's approach in creating work with open-ended narratives and imagery that at once celebrate, critique, and question the fragility and transitory nature of beauty and order in our world. In Summertime Blues, which takes its name from the rebellious rock 'n roll classic about the trials and tribulations of teenage life in the perceived golden age of the 1950s, Foster shines a metaphorical light on worldwide unrest at a time of unprecedented technological advancement and wealth. The themes of social discontent, dissent, uprising, rebellion, and impending chaos permeate the four featured sculptures.
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August – October 2008
Daily Constitutional
By Proxy
Issue 6, Summer 2008
Printed Matter, Inc. is pleased to announce a launch for Issue 6 (“By Proxy”) of the Daily Constitutional, a bi-annual magazine devoted to providing a platform for artists projects and writings.
Hot off the presses is the newest issue of the Daily Constitutional! “By Proxy” retains the features that one has come to expect with the periodical, like the Editor's Letter, Dear Mom (by Derek Coté (MFA 2007), Manifestoes (by Willow Fox, Justin Lincoln (BFA and Adjunct Faculty) & John Henry Blatter (current MFA student)) and two new items, a column by Edward Winkleman and Suggested Readings (by William Platz). The Chorus contains opinions, rants, works, stories, interviews, friction, mania & fodder by Justin Lincoln, Nick Thurston, Evertt Beidler, Carl Gopalkrishnan, Chris Clarke, Sanders Watson, Noel Fignier, Isabelle Webster, Mark Cameron Boyd, Megan Webb, Stephen Ausherman, Anne Rook, Leo Kogan, Blair Butterfield and Barry Hughes. The magazine also features special projects by David Opdyke, and Jack Wax.
SoundCast
The Resonance of the Intimate Sound (Online)
Daily Constitutional presents the third in a series of downloadable sound exhibitions at http://www.dailyconstitutional.org/soundcast.html SoundCast is an online exhibition of unlimited edition downloadable sound art from around the world, curated by John Henry Blatter (current MFA student) . Our third exhibition entitled "The Resonance of the intimate sound", will be featured through October and includes works by M, Anita Panton, Kevin Logan, Ed Osborn, Sorin Paun, Fabio Paolizzo, Sean O'Neill & Susan Wishart Halawi.
Support the Daily Con: The Daily Constitutional is an artist run and artist funded project that is only possible with your support, submissions and interest. We would like to thank some of our supporters who helped to make this issue possible; ADA Gallery, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, The Camargo Foundation, Katra Gala, Quirk, Main Art, Marc de Puechredon and VCUarts.
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September 19 - 26, 2008
“The Insistence of Memory”
featuring work by Durango artists Sandra Butler (MFA 1986), Debra Greenblatt, Maureen May, Karen Pittman and Jules Masterjohn.
The Durango Arts Center
802 East 2nd Ave.
Durango, CO 81301
(970) 259-2606
http://www.durangoarts.org/gallery.cfm
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May 17 – September 30, 2008
Habitat for Artists
Marnie Hillsley (MFA 1982) is featured as one of 11 artists in a project of ecoartspace.
Spire Studios
45 Beekman Street
Beacon, NY 12508
www.habitatforartists.blogspot.com
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July 11- September 28, 2008
TRANSFORMED
Mix it up at TRANSFORMED with DeeJay Tanner and graffiti artists who will be working throughout the night. Purchase a custom t-shirt printed on-site by ELM & OAK of Norfolk.
Artists in the exhibition include: Matt Calderwood, YaYa Chou, Tim DeVoe (MFA 2005), Tara Donovan (MFA 2000) , Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Tom Friedman, Robert Lazzarini, Steven Siegel, Yuken Teruya, Shirley Tse, Fischli & Weiss, Rachel Perry Welty
Transformed is a group exhibition of two-dimensional, sculptural, installation, and video works that address the unrestrained potential of the mundane. Familiar, domestic, and mass-produced goods become sublime environments and art objects that transcend their former everyday roles in our lives. Elevation of the ordinary to the status of art challenges our understanding of the physical and conceptual potential within the objects that engage us on a daily basis.
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
2200 parks avenue
virginia beach, va
757.425.0000
http://www.cacv.org/exhibitions/upcoming.asp
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May 4- September 28, 2008
Sculpture at Evergreen 2008
Evergreen Museum & Library's
Fifth Biennial Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
Jeannine Harkleroad's (BFA + Visiting Full Time Faculty) installation brings the indoors outside through the intermediary of an all-weather LCD television. Using the conventions of cinema, the video becomes a narrative extension of the sculpture and performers in the artist's studio.
John Hopkins University Museums
4545 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210
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September 5- September 27, 2008
TRANSMISSION GALLERY proudly presents
"MYTHMAKER"
Sculptures and prints by KATE HORN
TRANSMISSION
321 Brook Rd.
Richmond, VA 23220
804.200.9985
Kate Horne (BFA) is a modern cavewoman who returns to a place where the primitive natural world is fearlessly created in humble materials. Themimages that prevail are animals who have the authority and power to exist as comrades, vicious enemies and favorite lovers with all the tension and folly that can occur in the awkwardness of this precariousnposition where humans and animals share space.
For more information, call 804.200.9985
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August 31 - September 27
Ropes Used to Dig Deeper by Stephanie Bingham (BFA student in Sculpture) won 2nd place in the juried show:
Personal Commentaries
Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts
813 Sophia Street Fredericksburg, VA 22401 - (540) 373-5646
http://fccava.org/2008_exhibits.html
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August 23 - September 27
Ahh... Decadence
Sanford Biggers
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Sullivan Galleries
33 S. State Street, 7th floor
Chicago, IL
www.saic.edu/exhibitions
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SAIC Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series: Sanford Biggers
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 6pm
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Opening the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's new Sullivan Galleries on August 23 and running through September 27 will be "Ahh. . . Decadence!," curated by Lisa Wainwright, with design by internationally recognized artist and SAIC alumnus Sanford Biggers. Over forty Chicago artists explore decadence as associated with excessively ornamental expressions that suggest decay, the nonrational, pleasure, sex, and death. Recalling a style that reached its height in Europe during the 1890s, the work in this exhibition reflects a careful and critical perspective on conditions that encourage its return in contemporary art. Biggers, who often incorporates performance into his sculptures and installations and is known for his improvisatory edge, here takes on his first role as exhibition designer. "Ahh. . . Decadence!" is supported in part by The Kristyna M. Driehaus Foundation.
Also on view:
Jun. 27-Sept. 21, 2008 NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith
The Menil Collection
Houston, TX
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August 2- September 27, 2008
Seven Below Arts Initiative residency at The Barn:
Thordis Adalsteindottir and David Herbert
Thordis Adalsteindottir and David Herbert (MFA 2006) are a collaborative team whose work comments on the history of the clergy working with artists and architects to communicate to a broader audience. They will construct a church fully furnished with stained glass windows, to be displayed on the second or third floor of a parking lift in lower Manhattan.
http://www.treyanastasio.com/nonprofit/artistresidence.html#5
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July 10 to Sept 27, 2008
Local Produce
"Local Produce is a summer cornucopia, brimming with work of exquisite taste and dangerous spines. From the delicate, furious illustrations of Hayv Kahraman to the expansive crop sculptures of Matthew Moore, from Angela Ellsworth's drawn, sewn, and enacted reflections on home and family to Carrie Marill's paintings on excess and celebrity, from James Turrell's atmospheric poetry to Gregory Sale's (BFA 1987) pop experiments, each bite of Local Produce is personal and organic, and best consumed immediately… During the Summer Spectacular Artwalk, the cornucopia of art spills out onto Marshall Way with a performance of Love Buttons by Gregory Sale, a temporary public art project co-sponsored by the Scottsdale Public Art Program."
Lisa Sette Gallery
4142 N Marshall Way
Scottsdale, AZ
http://www.lisasettegallery.com/current.htm
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September 8 – September 26, 2008
Oh No Wonder
Project Space (G101)
LASALLE College of the Arts
SINGAPORE
Tay Choon Kok Taiten, Sima Salehi, Nah Yong En, Suhirman B Sulaiman, Micheal Larsson, Yentri Tan, Patrick Storey (BFA 1996) and Jon Chan
Curated By: Rofan Teo
In Oh No Wonder artists create works of art centralising around themes of the often over-romantised identity of artists in the contemporary world. The works of art are a tongue-in-cheek critique of the artistic means of the production of art. These representations expose the artworks and the artists, demystifying the artistic process and the artist themselves as they lose their often-glorified status of present day “celebrities”.
http://www.lasalle.edu.sg/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LASALLE.woa/wa/page?pid=770
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August 2- September 20, 2008
Working Space 08
Claire Watkins (MFA 2004) is featured in a group show at the Cuchifritos Gallery. Cuchifritos is an art gallery/project space located right inside the Essex Street Market in New York City.
http://www.aai-nyc.org/cuchifritos/
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June 21 – September 20, 2008
La vie en Rond
features the work of Sculpture alumni Monique Luchetti (BFA 1983) and Mike Asente (BFA 1982).
H29
Rue Hennebicqstraat
1060 Brussels, BE
Phone (32) 474 716 196
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September 6, 2008
Tele-caste system: site (un) scene:
A multi-media installation by Amorette V. Garza (MFA 1998) and Shreepad Jogiekar
K Space Contemporary
415 D. Starr St.
Corpus Christi, TX
361-887-6834
info@kspacecontemporary.org
Opening: Saturday, Sept. 6th, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Tele-Caste System: site (un) scene, a multi-media art installation including life-size sculpture combined with drawing, photography and video. The exhibition is the collaborative effort of artists Amorette Garza of Corpus Christi and Shreepad Joglekar of Victoria. Scroll below for more info about the artist workshops with Amorette and Shree!
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September 5, 2008
First Annual InLight Richmond
This juried, light inspired art exhibition and event will take place from sun-down to midnight between the 100 and 400 blocks of Broad Street in downtown Richmond, and is open to the public. A longtime tradition of 1708, Wearable Art, has been incorporated into this event as Wearable InLight, featuring light-inspired fashion.
Among the local artist groups participating, Diana Cavanaugh, (BFA student in Sculpture + Extended Media and Painting and Printmaking) and Worn Gallery bring us “Brilliant Beacons.” Representatives of the gallery will actually wear miniature illuminated installations as they roam the area, spending the evening as both spectators and spectacles. Cavanaugh is a recipient of a 2008 VMFA Undergraduate Fellowship in Sculpture.
More than 40 artists are participating, including Miriam Ewers (MFA 2006), Travis Fullerton, Bruce Hornstein, Christopher Wiedeman, David Grainger (MFA 2008), Justin Lincoln (BFA and Adjunct Faculty), Henry Gwiazda, Michael Filimowicz, Janpim Wolf, Amie Oliver, Gilberto Martinez, Megumi Akiyoshi, Damian Yanessa, Tatiana Ginsberg, Amy Glengary Yang, Sabrina Cordovana, Arielle Angel, Clay McGlamory, Scott Kyle, Jessica Bauserman, Jackie Mancini, Matt Greer, Linda Sheridan-Nay, Craig Pleasants, John Blatter (current MFA student), Solar Sculptors United Now, Leah Jacobson, Manica Zander, Robbie Kinter, Thea Duskin, Megan Vernon, Slash Coleman, Anne Savage, the Art Cheerleaders and Michael Lease, and Diana Cavanaugh's (current BFA student) Worn Gallery.
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August 15- 29, 2008
Gabriel Bennett (MFA 2005) is featured in a group show:
Luhring Augustine Presents
Luhring Augustine
531 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
Tel: 1-212-206-9100
Fax: 1-212-206-9055
info@luhringaugustine.com
www.luhringaugustine.com
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August 8- September, 2008
Houston Center for Photography's 26th Anniversary Juried Exhibition
Derek Cote (MFA 2007) received a curator's commendation and will present a selection from his "22 Hideouts" series.
Houston Center for Photography
1441 West Alabama
Houston, TX
713.529.4755
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July 26-31, 2008
The VCU Summer Studio Program proudly presents:
Treading Water
July 26-31 2008
Opening Reception SATURDAY JULY 26th from 6-9pm
1000 W. Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23225
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July 24- Aust 29, 2008
SUMMER MIXTAPE VOLUME: the Get Smart edition
Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue (at 36th Street)
New York, NY
Artists: Martin Basher, Colby Bird, Tyler Coburn, Corey D’Augustine, Sarah Davis, Jason Duval, Cacy Forgenie, Donna Huanca, Rashid Johnson, Jayson Keeling, Joyce Kim, Dorota Kolodziejczyk, William Lamson, Kalup Linzy, Jeffrey Lopez, Marisa Olson, Rosemarie Padovano (MFA 2007), Alyssa Pheobus, Thabiso Phokompe, Fay Ray, Ted Riederer, Jacolby Satterwhite, Xaviera Simmons, Nick Stillman, Thomas Torrescordova, Lan Tuazon, Yuh-Shioh Wong
Curators: Herb Tam, Associate Curator, and Lauren Rosati, Assistant Curator.
Long after the cassette tape has become an obsolete relic of a clumsier analog era, the essence of the mixtape lives on through CDs and MP3 playlists. Summer Mixtape Volume 1: the Get Smart edition pays tribute to this vital form of popular expression with a group exhibition that compiles some of the hottest work from the New York area that the curators have seen all year. The curators looked back through previous calls for submissions, canvassed other curators and artists for recommendations, visited dozens of artists’ studios, and saw hundreds of shows to wind up with the 27 artists that make up Summer Mixtape Volume 1. The works in the exhibition cover a vast array of themes and mediums, mirroring the diverse mix of sights, sounds and cultures on the streets of New York. The show also features a jukebox programmed specifically for the exhibition that includes mixtapes and cover art produced by the artists and some special guests.
Audio mixes are still made for long road trips, disc jockey sets, as mood-setters for parties, as surrogate love letters, and as outlets to hear the latest hip-hop hitting the streets. Yet despite its cultural ubiquity, the mixtape remains a durable emblem of the counter culture. Drawing on these influences, Summer Mixtape Volume 1 materializes the mixtape’s spirit of appropriation, customization, unabashed nostalgia and relaxed fun.
http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/mix_tape_2008/index.htm
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July 14 – August 1, 2008
Technical Instructors’ Exhibition
The Art Students League of New York
Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery / Art Students League of New York
215 West 57th Street
New York, NY
http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/
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July 11- September 5, 2008
Space and Place
National Open Exhibition presented by the Manchester Craftmen's Guild and the Society of Sculptors
1815 Metropolitan Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15233
MCG is especially excited to announce its first collaboration with Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors—Space and Place: SOS@MCG—a local rendition of their annual national open exhibition. The highlighted works include carved, cast and assembled forms that span experimental processes to traditional object-making featured within and outside our 1815 Metropolitan Street facility on the North Shore. Historically sculpture has been about creating forms and volumes. Using additive and subtractive processes, sculptors manipulate plastic materials to express ideas, tell stories, commemorate history and tradition, or express qualities of the human spirit. Artists today, and particularly sculptors, have become increasingly engaged with the function of their work and the context in which it is viewed—whether decorative, expressive or conceptual.
Featured artists include Atticus Adams, Jan Barone, Peter Calaboyias, Yi-Chuan Chen, Dennis Childers, Laura DeFazio, Elizabeth Asche Douglas, Tom Estlack, Ilena Finocchi, Sarika Malik Goulatia, Adrienne Heinrich, Stanley Koepke, Michael Leahy, David W. Martin (MFA 1989), Duncan MacDiarmid, Kyle Milne, Ronald Nigro, Terri Perpich, James Rettinger, James Shipman, Cydra Vaux, Hugh Watkins, Paula Weiner and Gary Zak.
http://www.manchesterguild.org/
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July 10- August 30, 2008
INTRANSIT
MOTI HASSON GALLERY is very pleased to announce the opening of INTRANSIT, an exhibition featuring 30 artists curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud. The exhibition runs from July 10 to August 30, 2008. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, July 10, from 6 to 8 pm with a performance by Micki Pellerano at 7:15 pm.
Moti Hasson Gallery will present a group exhibition of works by artists JORGE ABUNDIS, OLGA ADELANTADO, REMY AMEZCUA, INA DIANE ARCHER, NINA LOLA BACHHUBER, ANDREA CLAIRE, MICHAEL DELUCIA, ADRIANA FARMIGA, BRENDAN FERNANDES, AUNRICO GATSON, BEN GODWARD, WAYNE HODGE (BFA), TONY INGRISANO, JAYSON KEELING, LARRY KRONE, JULIA KUNIN, MOLLY LARKEY, SIMONE LEIGH, BRIAN LUND, FERNANDO MASTRANGELO (MFA 2004), TED O'SULLIVAN, ROSEMARIE PADOVANO (MFA 2007), MICKI PELLERANO, JOSE RUIZ, PEPO SALAZAR, JOAQUIN SEGURA, SCOTT TAYLOR, JUANA VALDES, and MAIA VALENZUELA.
INTRANSIT brings together 30 artists working in different media such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, film and video. To deal with the cracks in the urban landscape and its decay, the artists have built cross-sections of ecological, racial, and identity issues as metaphors. These meditations, rife with ethnographic, historical and natural symbolism, help to reinforce a position amidst surmounting struggles – for instance, the fight against global warming and the disappearing ideal of the globalized world – to assert their multi-faceted voices and identities. This show presents a dynamic look at today's society, a complex and poetic visual journey.
For more information or to receive images, please contact the gallery at 212-268-4444 or email info@motihasson.com.
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July 10- 27, 2008
ARTISTIC COLLABORATORS:
Mona Lisa Arias Musical Accompaniment
Cecilia Cackley Stage Manager
Niell DuVal Carpentry Assistant
Lane Pianta Dramaturgy & Montage
Cort Smith Videography Assistance
Alessandra Torres (MFA 2005) Scenic & Object Design
Brendon Vierra Lighting Design
Carmen C. Wong Producer & Press/Marketing
Funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (Young Artist Program Award)
Presented as a part of the 2008 Capital Fringe Festival.
For more information, visit www.capfringe.org.
http://www.banishedproductions.org/hijos-release.pdf
http://www.alessandratorres.com/
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July 5—July 27, 2008
BACON AND HAMMERS
Jeannine Harkleroad (BFA 1998)
THE SELDEN GALLERY
208 E. Plume Street 2nd Floor
Norfolk, VA 23510
757.664.6880
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June 30-July 31, 2008
FULL CIRCLE
Full Circle, an exhibition at Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College in conjunction with Artscape, explores the use of the circle in a variety of media and includes works by Mary Early, Carol Miller Frost, Tim Horjus, Kate MacKinnon, Hadieh Marjan Shafie, Renee Rendine (MFA 1999), John Ruppert, and Youngmi Song Organ.
Rosenberg Gallery
Goucher College
1021 Dulaney Valley Road
Baltimore, Maryland 21204-2753
410.337.6477
http://www.goucher.edu/rosenberg
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June 20- August 15, 2008
Relevé
Relevé, an exhibition exploring the metaphor of lifting or re-lifting, of being brought out of the ordinary moment to the extraordinary, of moving from an impossible darkness into the light. Curated by Jessica Murray the exhibition will feature works by Fritz Chesnut, Brady Dollarhide, Chris Doyle, Daniel Joglar, Todd Knopke (BFA 1995), and Jennifer & Kevin McCoy.
Todd Knopke's fantastical fabric assemblage Ascension creates an elusive but familiar narrative. Purposefully climbing a tree, his figures are hidden amongst a tangle of branches and foliage, their destination or particular goal uncertain. The association of military camouflage further embellishes this tense but lush emotive dream. As with many of Knopke's works, the artist weaves his contemporary figures with iconic story telling imagery, enacting, in the end, the universal longing for personal place and meaning.
Andrew Edlin Gallery
529 W. 20th St., 6the floor
New York, NY
http://www.edlingallery.com/
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June 19- August 1, 2008
Bonnie Collura (BFA) and Stan Narten in 2-person exhibition at KRAVETS | WEHBY
Sculptor Bonnie Collura and painter Stan Narten toy with the distinction between figuration and abstraction. Both Collura and Narten strongly reference film as a starting point, yet the results yield a physical presence unique to the style and media each works in.
Bonnie Collura received her MFA in sculpture from Yale University and her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout New York, France and Germany. In 2005, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Award for sculpture.
KRAVETS | WEBHY
521 West 21st Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10011
Tel: (212) 352-2238
Fax: (212) 352-2239
info@kravetswehbygallery.com
http://www.kravetswehbygallery.com/shows.php?id=93
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June 17-23, 2008
KAVA LOUNGE
Reception June 20th, 7pm - 9pm
2812 Kettner Blvd., San Diego, CA
June 17th - June 23rd, 2008
Gallery Hours:
Weekdays 8-11pm, weekends 1-5pm
Featured artists:
Susy Bielak
Leigh Cole (BFA 2006)
Nico Herbst
Zac Monday (BFA 2006)
Claire Zitzow (BFA 2006)
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June 14th through July 19th 2008
ANGSTROM Gallery: Los Angeles
From Panic to Power!
curated by Brian Bress
Artists include:
Jonathan Baldock, Kate Barclay, Michael Berryhill
Leigh Cole (BFA 2006), Evelyn Donnelly, Peter Harkawik
Katie Herzog, Luciana Lamothe, Jessica James Lansdon
ANGSTROM Gallery: Los Angeles
2622 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90034
www.angstromgallery.com
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June 6- August 31, 2008
THE HAGUE SCULPTURE 2008
FREEDOM - American Sculpture
http://www.denhaagsculptuur.nl/2008uk/freedom%20images.html
In the summer of 2008, The Hague Sculpture's exhibition FREEDOM will be drawing attention to American sculpture. From June 6 until August 31 works from artists who have been active in or since the second half of the last century will be exhibited on the Lange Voorhout and its surroundings. In addition to sculptures made by world-renowned artists, several talented young artists were asked to create new works for this exhibition. With FREEDOM, The Hague Sculpture wishes not only to illustrate what freedom means for the artists involved, but also to reflect on what the concept of freedom can mean for each one of us.
Participating artists The Hague Sculpture 2008 (among others): Barbara Bloom, Mathijs Bosman, Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars, Paul McCarthy, Anna Craycroft, Sam Durant, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Keith Haring, David Herbert (MFA 2006), Jenny Holzer, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Donald Judd, Louise Nevelson, Matt Mullican, Sol Lewitt, Julian Schnabel, Joel Shapiro, Roxy Paine, Bernard Rosenthal, Kiki Smith, Mark di Suvero, James Turrell, Bill Viola, Kara Walker, Meg Webster, Lawrence Weiner and the winner of the Aanmoedigingsprijs Rabobank The Hague Sculpture 2008 (Rabo Bank Incentive prize 2008)
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June 6-August 2, 2008
Squirrel-O-Rama
The Squirrelly Girls will be communing with nature, in a landscape installation of varied interpretations of the outdoor experience. Bring a camp chair & sit around the fire. As always, there will be performance & unexpected pleasures.
James Busby, Melanie Christian, Sandra Luckett & Katie Shaw-Sweeney (BFA)
Artists contributing to landscape installation and events include:
Ginnie Baer, Vaughn Garland, Llewellyn Hensley (BFA), Ron Johnson, Kirsten Kindler, Rock Koplin
Cupid Ojala, Jennifer Rospert, Virginia Samsel, Joy Seward (BFA), Carolyn Smith & Elena Tejada
1708 Gallery
319 W. Broad St., Richmond, VA 23220
804-643-1708
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June 1- August 31, 2008
Janelle Iglesias (MFA 2006) is a fellow at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
in Omaha Nebraska June 1, 2008 through August 31, 2008. Taylor Baldwin (MFA 2007) and Mike Ellyson (BFA 2006) will become fellows later this year.
" Few programs exist either on the national or international level where the sole mission is to support the creativity of artists. From the beginning, the art-making process has been the highest priority at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, where both the atmosphere and environment offer ideal situations for creative growth and experimentation. We address the practical aspects of this mission by providing well-equipped studio spaces, living accommodations and monthly stipends. Located in two urban warehouses totaling 110,000 square feet, our facilities are designed to foster creativity and the productive exchange of ideas. Artists from around the world come to the Bemis Center to work in this supportive community and confront new challenges.ffers a unique residency for writers and visual artists in the crucial early stages of their careers."
For more information about this program go to www.bemiscenter.org.
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June 27, 2008
Michael Jones McKean (VCU Sculpture Faculty)
In residence and solo exhibition
ThreeWalls
119 Peoria #2A/2D
Chicago Illinois
Opening reception: June 27, 2008 6-9pm
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June 4 – August 7, 2008
OTHER, OTHER…
Janelle Iglesias (MFA 2006)
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
450 Grand Concourse at 149th Street
Bronx, NY 10451
718.518.6728
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May 17-June 21, 2008
David Herbert at Postmasters Gallery, NYC
May 17- June 21, 2008
opening Saturday May 17 6-8 pm
"AMERIKA: Back to the Future"
DAVID HERBERT (MFA 2006)
ANTHONY GOICOLEA
MARCUS KENNEY
JENNIFER and KEVIN MCCOY
set to the music of RAMMSTEIN and KIMYA DAWSON
Imagine Starship Enterprise re-purposed by future cavemen.
American icons transformed. Dark, but not entirely hopeless visions of past and future becoming one. Represented by new works of David Herbert, Anthony Goicolea, Marcus Kenney and Jennifer & Kevin McCoy. Set to the music of Rammstein and Kimya Dawson.
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Magdalena Sawon
Postmasters Gallery
459 W 19 Street
New York, NY 10011
phone 212 727 3323
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May 22-June 21, 2008
James Davis at RARE Gallery, NYC
James Davis, Message Mountain (2007), Outdoor reader board with letters, acrylic glue, 40" x 10" x 72"
Another Time's Forgotten Space
RARE Gallery
521 W 26th St.
New York, NY
May 22 - June 21, 2008
Opening: Thursday, May 22nd 6-8pm
In his solo show at RARE Gallery, James Davis (BFA 2002) exhibits labor-intensive work that explores the space between contemporary technology and the experience of nature.
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May-June 2008
Matthew Damian Ritchie (BFA) is featured in the following events:
Art Star Art Bazaar
May 31 and June 1, 2008
Penn’s Landing
Philadelphia, PA
http://www.artstarcraftbazaar.com/
Tyler Alumni Exhibition 1988-2008:
Twenty Years Fast Forward
June 09 - July 03, 2008
Opening Reception: June 1, 2-5pm
Current work by Tyler School of Art’s 1988 Graduating Class
Cheltenham Center for the Arts
439 Ashbourne Road
Cheltenham, PA 19012
http://www.cheltenhamarts.org/ExhibitEvent.html
In Between Gallery will be opening its doors for the first time on Friday, May 23rd at 5 p.m.
328 Main St., Rockland, Maine
Featured artists include fletchy0, Becky Danielson, Jamey Hodgdon, Matthew D. Ritchie, and Rose Sampson McClure.
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May 3, 2008
SkowheganTALKS: Sanford Biggers and Paul Pfeiffer
Saturday, May 3 at 3:00 pm
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
SkowheganTALKS is free with admission to P.S.1
Artists Sanford Biggers (Associate Professor Sculpture + Extended Media) and Paul Pfeiffer will present the third talk in a new series of conversations, SkowheganTALKS. The series features emerging artists who are recent Skowhegan alumni “interviewing” established artists who have been faculty at Skowhegan. While the association with Skowhegan is the common factor among all the artists, the conversations focus on subjects of broader interest including the participating artists’ current and past work and the challenges and opportunities inherent in the experience of working as an artist today. The format of SkowheganTALKS is an extension of the non-traditional teacher student model that is at the core of the Skowhegan experience, one that stresses collegiality over a hierarchical construction.
Skowhegan is pleased to present SkowheganTALKS at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an institution whose embrace of new ideas and trends in contemporary art mirrors the spirit of experimentation and risk-taking that distinguishes Skowhegan.
Upcoming SkowheganTALKS:
Saturday, May 31 - Ellen Altfest (‘02) and Robert Storr (Alum ‘78, Faculty ‘02, and Skowhegan Governor)
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, 11101
Banner Caption:
Image #1: Sanford Biggers, The Something’ Suite, 2007, performance at The Box, New York, featuring Biggers’ Cheshire, 2007 video and Imani Uzuri. A PERFORMA Commission. Courtesy PERFORMA and Mary Goldman Gallery. Photo copyright Paula Court
Image #2: Paul Pfeiffer, Live from Neverland, 2006. Installation at Thomas Dane - two channel video installation. Duration: 10 minutes 18 seconds. Dimensions variable. Ed. of 3, 1 AP. Courtesy the artist and The Project Gallery, New York.
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April 11-June 15, 2008
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia: New Waves
2200 Parks Ave.
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
757.425.0000
http://www.cacv.org/NewWaves.asp
The Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia's 13th annual juried exhibition, highlights and supports Virgina artists while providing an opportunity to purchase art from the museum and build a collection. This year's exhibition features paintings, drawings, photographs and installation works by contemporary artists across the Commonwealth.
Juror Anne Surak, director of Project 4 in Washington, D.C., chose 50 works from 17 artists:
Mickael Elliot Broth Jingjing Gong
Christine Carr Philip Holman
Travis Childers Chris Norris (BFA)
RJ Clark Tate R. Pray
Derek Cote (MFA) Shane Rocheleau
Amanda Dalla Villa (BFA) Bryan Rojsuontikul
Susan Y. Elder Thomas Siegmund
Suzanna Fields Pamela H. Viola
Jenn Figg (PhD candidate)
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May 2008 Art in America on the Whitney Biennial
Gregory Volk (Sculpture + Painting Faculty)
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May 10-24, 2008
Focusing on issues of place, time, fragility, security and fantasy
Two-site exhibition featuring 17 artists
Derek Cote (MFA 2006+ Adjunct Faculty), Mia Feuer (MFA candidate)
& Paul Shoemaker (BFA candidate)
May 10-24, 2008
Transformer
1404 P Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Special Program:
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 4pm
Performance by artist Paul Shoemaker
1840 14th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
About the Artists:
Derek Cote studied at Virginia Commonwealth University and Western Washington University where he received his BFA and MFA respectively. He has exhibitednationally and internationally including exhibitions at
the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington; Exit Art and Roebling Hall, New York; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, Delaware; Contemporary Art
Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Scope Art Fair Special Projects in New York and Miami; Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey; and appeared on Artwave Radio in Athens, Greece. In addition, Derek was included in the
2007 Young Sculptors Competition and Exhibition at Miami University of Ohio, is a recipient of a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and was Artist-in-Residence at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. www.derekcote.com
About his work, Derek states: “My sculptures, installations, and drawings explore notions of memory and gestalt as a function of architectural relationships, geography, and place dynamics. Investigations into universal place as well as personal displacement are arranged by recreating familiar instances that employ scale shifts, the collision of metaphors, and posing interior versus exterior. The social and cultural landscape is a recurring theme that is at once personal and foreign. Through the investigation of general and specific sites, I present conditions that provide a platform for questioning individual place, displacement, and what it means to belong. By encouraging conceptual versatility and flexibility, I am able to employ a range of relevant media from wood, plastic, and cardboard, to light, sound, and video, as a function of their inherent ability to communicate.”
Mia Feuer was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada. She received her BFA with a
major in sculpture from the University of Manitoba in 2004 and is currently a 2009 MFA candidate in the sculpture program at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the recipient of numerous grants from the Winnipeg Arts Council and the Manitoba Arts Council. Before moving to Richmond, VA to attend graduate school, Mia spent time living in the West Bank, an occupied Palestinian territory where she facilitated “on the street” sculpture workshops with Palestinian children using next to no resources. Through her work, Feurer investigates the illusion of security and the idea of systematic dehumanization through architectural form. Informed by time she spent in the West Bank, Feurer searches for an understanding of barricades both as signs and as physical realities which restrict freedom and deeply affect people’s lives.
Paul Shoemaker was raised in Virginia and is receiving his Bachelors of Fine Art this year from Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2005, Paul was selected as a representative to the Tasmeem Design Conference in Doha, Qatar. The following year he worked as an intern in the Photography Department at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden under Lee Stalsworth and Amy Densford. In 2007, he studied abroad in Stockholm, Sweden for five months. While studying at VCU he received the James Bradford Scholarship (2006), won the Virginia Museum of Fine Art’s Portfolio Review (2007) and the Richard Carylon Research Fund (2008).
For Here & Now, Paul is presenting his new work, Pennies from Heaven. Paul states: “‘If you want the things you love, you must have showers,’ is a remarkable line that comes from my performance and installation “Pennies from Heaven.” The desires and fantasies we all strive to fulfill or experience are continuously being bombarded by the realities of our lives. Meaning is subjective but experience, especially in a live performance becomes a shared moment. For my piece, this shared moment of a performance along with allusions to abstracted historical references is meant to be a bizarre and theatrical spectacle. The life of a dream is metaphorical to the ephemeral act of a performance while artifacts seemingly from a distant time period try to ground the piece into a familiar reality.”
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April 28-May 22, 2008
Ohio State Graduate Exhibition
Featuring Michael Ohgren (BFA 2006)
OSU Urban Art Space
50 West Town Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215
614.292.8861
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May 8-17, 2008
Tammy Kim (BFA)
California College of the Arts MFA Exhibition
May 8-17, 2008
CCA San Francisco campus
1111 8th St. San Francisco, CA
Opening reception: May 8, 6-9 p.m.
Hours: 10 a.m.- 6 p.m.
Info: 415.551.9214
http://www.cca.edu/calendar/all/1946
http://sites.cca.edu/gradthesisevents/finearts.html
http://www.thetammykim.blogspot.com
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May 9th – May 18th, 2008
MFA Thesis Exhibition (Round 2)
MFA Thesis Exhibition (Round 2) May 9th – May 18th, 2008
Opening reception: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
VCUarts Anderson Gallery
The Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition is the final requirement for students earning a master’s degree in the fine arts and design departments from VCU. The exhibitions provide a forum for emerging artists to display their work and give viewers a “preview” of new directions in the visual arts. Each of the participating artists will exhibit work that represents the culmination of their 2 year masters program in one of the following disciplines: Painting and Printmaking, Sculpture and Extended Media, Communication Arts, Crafts/Material Studies, Photography and Film, and Interior Design. “These exhibitions provide an excellent opportunity for viewers to invest in up-and-coming artists, as many of the pieces on view will be available for purchase,” remarks Amy Moorefield, Anderson Gallery Assistant Director and Curator of Collections.
MFA Sculpture + Extended Media candidates Jesse Robinson and James Sham (MFA candidates) will have work on display in this exhibition.
The public is invited to attend all receptions and exhibitions. VCUarts Anderson Gallery is free and open to the public. Operating hours are Monday – Friday 10 am–5 pm and Saturday and Sunday 1– 5 pm. For more information, please call the Gallery at (804) 828-1522 or visit our website at: www.vcu.edu/arts/gallery
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May 11, 2008
Goethe-Institut New York, 1014 Fifth Avenue (83)
Sunday May 11, 2008
7:00 pm
Gregory Volk (Sculpture + Painting Faculty) and Sabine Russ are part of a public dicussion with German painters Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy. This discussion concides with Neo Rauch's exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery, opening on May 12, and Rosa Loy's exhibition at Andre Schlechtriem Gallery, opening on May 10.
http://www.goethe.de
http://www.davidzwirner.com
http://www.andreschlechtriem.com
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May 3 – 7, 2008
2009 Sculpture MFA Candidacy Exhibition
Opening Reception
May 2 7 – 10pm
Central National Bank Building
Third and Broad Street (enter on Third)
Richmond VA
May 3 – 7, 2008
Hours by appointment
773.715.2872
(MFA candidates) Partick Cadenhead, Mia Feuer, Chris Mahonski, Julie Nagle, Maria Pithara and Brian Taylor.
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May 2 - 18 2008
Terminal - MFA Thesis Exhibition (Round 2)
Off campus, MFA Sculpture + Extended Media candidates, Sami Ben Larbi, Lily Cox-Richard, David Grainger, and Eli Kessler (MFA candidates) , exhibit their thesis work in an Annex Exhibition at 209 North Foushee Street
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May 2, 2008
SHOPPING FOR GURSKY
Shopping for Gursky
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
7:00 pm to 11:00 pm
A color based installation by Matthew Brett (BFA candidate). The entire market will be rearranged by color in an aesthetic manner similar to painting. Come participate in a community based art happening that will support a local business and be a lot of fun! Refreshments will be provided by Allstar Market. (donations welcome!)
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May 2, 2008
FEAST at ADA Gallery
Chris Norris (BFA) and Becca Witt (BFA candidate), members of the collaborative group Feast:
ADA GALLERY
228 W. BROAD STREET
RICHMOND, VA 23220
(804) 644-0100
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November 13, 2007-May 2, 2008
"Interstices"
The American Center for Physics
Sarah Tanguy, Guest Curator
November 13, 2007- May 2, 2008
Reception and Gallery Talk November 13, 2007,5:30-7:30pm
The American Center for Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD20740
For viewers information call Eva Adams at 301-209-3125
www.acp.org
Participants:
Jim Condron
Tess Cummins (BFA 1985)
Keith Sharp
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November 20, 2007–April 27, 2008
Tara Donovan (MFA) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Modern and Contemporary Art, Lila Acheson Wallace Wing, The Gioconda and Joseph King Gallery
Tara Donovan (American, b. 1969) is known for working with commonplace manufactured materials such as tape, Styrofoam cups, or drinking straws to create abstract sculptural installations that often take on a biomorphic feel or resemble topographical landscapes. For a new work conceived specifically for this exhibition, the artist uses Mylar tape to create a wall-mounted installation that encompasses the entire gallery. Through a vast accumulation of webs of metallic loops, laboriously assembled, Donovan transforms the space into a unique phenomenological experience for the viewer. This exhibition is the fourth in an ongoing series featuring the work of contemporary artists.
Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1000 Fifth Avenue - New York, New York 10028.
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July 19 - October 12 2008
Elizabeth King (VCU Sculpture faculty)
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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April 25th from 5 PM - 8 PM
2008 SENIOR SHOW
Senior Summit!
Featuring the Seniors from the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media
VCUarts Senior Show: opens April 25 at 5:00 pm and runs through April 26
Opening Reception: Friday, April 25th from 5 PM - 8 PM
Fine Arts Building
1000 W. Broad St.
Richmond, VA 23284
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April 1 - May 1 2008
Elizabeth King (VCU Sculpture faculty)
Jaffe-Friede Gallery
Dartmouth College
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March 1, - May 31, 2008
John Henry Blatter (MFA) completed a residency at
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska: http://www.bemiscenter.org/residency/index.html?index_item=28936&db_item=listitem
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March 2008
Katie Cirasuolo: MFA Thesis show at MICA
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February 21 - March 27th 2008
The sunshine of our last day
a new project by
Michael Jones McKean (VCU Sculpture faculty)
Februay 21 - March 27th 2008
Artist talk and opening reception 5:30 - 8pm, February 21st
University Illinois at Springfield
Health and Sciences Building 201
217.206.6506
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A video project by
Sanford Biggers (VCU Sculpture faculty)
lluminations brings together five film and video works that explore gestures, objects and spaces that shape or express belief. The title refers both to the light generated by projected images in a darkened gallery and to metaphorical states of enlightenment attainable through faith.
Belief – be it spiritual, philosophical, cultural or scientific – is a means through which individuals recognise and make sense of the world. It can be resolute or instinctive, questioning or blind, reasoned or irrational, individual or collective. In this exhibition, artists Lida Abdul, Dan Acostioaei, Sanford Biggers, caraballo-farman and Valérie Mréjen explore how belief is articulated through places, symbols, words and actions. Their work captures incidents and gestures that relate to rituals of commitment and revelation. Viewed through the media of video and film, belief is presented as an intrinsic feature of daily life, which can provoke reflection and transformation. Through a range of strategies, including documentary and observation, the artists examine the position of the individual within communal frameworks that order moral and social behaviour.
Illuminations is the second in a series of four related exhibitions in the Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern’s dedicated space for contemporary and emerging international artists. The series explores ideas of citizenship through themes of economy, belief, the state and the individual. The first exhibition in the series was The Irresistible Force. The Level 2 Gallery programme is conceived and led by Tate Modern’s Assistant Curators, in dialogue with Catherine Wood, Curator.
Illuminations is curated by Lucy Askew and Ben Borthwick
Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
020 7887 8888
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/illuminations/default.shtm
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January 19 2008 - March 8 2008
THE WAKE THE SAINT THE SOUND THE BRANCH
a new project by
Michael Jones McKean (VCU Sculpture faculty)
For his European debut, McKean fills the gallery with a large scupture containing a mound of clay, an abstact whale form on a skeletal wood armature, a flower arrangement, 1976 Ocean Pacific windbreakers and a 1980's boombox among other objects and material abstractions. McKean's ongoing project foregrounds the struggle to reconcile materals, representation, abstraction and meaning - a struggle echoed within the sub-narratives of his work.
Project Gentili / 13 Via Del Carmine / 59100 Prato / Italy
T: +39 05740400445
F: +39 0574 443704
www.projectgentili.com
info@projectgentili.com
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David Winton Bell Gallery
Brown University
November 1 to December 22
Artist Talk: Tuesday, April 1 4:30pm
Loew Auditorium
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