Friday, June 25, 2010
UArts Alumna called 'lowbrow' in review!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Gettin' the work out there
Okay, you missed auditions for Work of Art, but there's still time to make the deadline for Vox Populi's 6th jureid exhibit, cleverly titled...(wait for it) Vox VI.
Follow this link to post your work for on-line judging. May you not be found wanting.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
2010 "Food for Thought" Lecture Series
MFA Visiting Artist Lecture Series
.JUNE 18 * (This Lecture is on Friday at 6 PM)
LYNN GUMPERT, Director, Grey Art Gallery, NYU-Lynn Gumpert has been Director of the Grey Art Gallery, New York University’s fine arts museum, since 1997. Previously, she has worked as a writer, consultant, and independent curator, organizing shows in New York, Japan, and France. Among the over thirty exhibitions she has overseen at the Grey are The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, and Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka, 1954–1968. From 1980 to 1988 she was Curator and Senior Curator for the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Ms. Gumpert also authored the first major monograph on French artist Christian Boltanski (Flammarion, 1992) and has contributed essays to numerous publications.
SIMPARCH, Matt Lynch and Steven Badgett, Art Collective- The American artist collective SIMPARCH that was founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1996 is presently organized and maintained by Matthew Lynch and Steve Badgett. Their practice involves large-scale, usually interactive installations and works that, as the group's name suggests, examine simple architecture, building practices, site specificity and materials that may be salvaged, recycled or generally brought together with a kind of d.i.y. attitude. Often collaborating with other artists, builders, art critics, graffiti artists, filmmakers, and skate boarders, and musicians, SIMPARCH works at providing sites which allow for social interaction and experimentation with design and materials.
HOON LEE, South Korea- Hoon Lee is the coordinator of the ceramics program at Grand Valley State(MI) University’s Department of Art & Design. The Korean-born artist works primarily at performance-based installations, though his vast interest and experience in ceramics play a role in many of his projects. Lee earned his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in New York, and a master's degree in ceramic art and industrial design from Seoul National University of Technology, in Korea. He has exhibited in 17 solo shows or projects nationally and internationally, and he recently received the Martin Luther King, Jr.-Cesar Chavez-Rosa Parks Grant.
STUART ELSTER, New York- Stuart Elster is an Assistant Professor, and the coordinator of the Painting and Drawing department at The University of the Arts, and a Critic in the University of the Arts Summer MFA program. He received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from The University of the Arts and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art.Stuart has been represented by Lucas Schoormans Gallery in New York, and has participated in two person and group exhibitions at Tate, Marvelli, and Schroeder Romero Galleries. Nationally he has participated in exhibitions at the Happy Lion Gallery in Los Angles, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and DePaul University Art Museum in Chicago, and the Herter Gallery at the University of Massachusetts. Internationally his work has been shown in Italy, France, and Austria and in 2008 to 2009, Stuart was included in the traveling exhibition titled Islands and Ghetto’s shown in both Heidelberg and Berlin Germany.A selected Bibliography of Stuart’s work includes, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and Tema Celeste magazine. Artist’s profiles and interviews in Heeb magazine and the Kunstforum International.Stuart has been a visiting artist and quest critic at Yale University, Yale University Norfolk summer program, School of Visual Arts, DePaul University, and the School of the Art institute of Chicago.
FRANCIS CAPE, New York- Francis Cape apprenticed with master carver Dick Reid before receiving his MFA in 1991 from Goldsmiths College, London. In 1993 he moved to the U.S. where he has exhibited his work extensively, including at Propsect 1, New Orleans; the St. Louis Art Museum; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; the Public Art Fund, New York; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; and in galleries in Germany and the United Kingdom. He was the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2001, and of a Henry and Natalie E. Freund Fellowship in 2003. He is represented by Murray Guy, NY; and lives and works in Narrowsburg, NY.
JOAN LINDER, New York- Joan Linder is best known for her labor-intensive drawings that transform mundane subjects into conceptually rich images. Life size representations of figures and objects explore themes such as the banality of mass produced domestic artifacts; the politics of war; sexual identity and power. Linder has exhibited throughout the US and in Brazil, Germany, Israel, Japan and Korea at venues including White Columns, NY; the Queens Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Gwanjgu Art Museum, Korea. Awards include the Lucas Fellowship at Montalvo, CA; MacDowell Colony Residency; The Foundation of Jewish Culture’s Ronnie Heyman Award; and a grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Born in New York, Linder attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999 and received and MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Tufts University. Linder is an Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Buffalo and is currently represented by Mixed Greens Gallery in New York City.
KATHLEEN GILRAIN, Director, Smack Mellon Gallery, NY- Kathleen Gilrain joined Smack Mellon Studios as Executive Director in October 2000. As the Executive Director she oversee all aspects of Smack Mellon programming. Kathleen was the Director of Socrates Sculpture Park in LIC, Queens, NY from 1995 to 2000. Curating exhibitions for galleries, institutions and organizations including Smack Mellon, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus outdoor public art program, Kathleen Gilrain is an artist who has created site-specific public sculptures for: Savannah, GA; the City of Ulsan, South Korea; the South Carolina Botanical Garden, SC; the City of Chicago, IL; The Fields Sculpture Park in Ghent, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park in New York City; the City of Providence, RI; the Connemara Conservancy in Dallas, TX; Klenova Castle in Klenova, Czech Republic; and Cergy Pontoise, France. Ms. Gilrain holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from The University Massachusetts, Amherst.
WALTER McCONNELL, New York- Walter McConnell is a ceramic artist residing in Belmont, New York. His unfired ceramic installations addressing the relationship between nature and culture have been exhibited nationally and internationally. McConnell states of his work: “My work is a mediation on my relationship to nature within a culture decisively alienated from it. In a technological age, where contact with nature is at best indirect and our experience of it variously defined and mediated by the culture we inhabit, my work is a site where I negotiate conflicting ideas about the natural world and forge a connection to it.” McConnell currently serves as an Associate Professor of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, in Alfred, New York. McConnell was born in Philadelphia and attended the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where he received a BFA in Ceramics and Painting in 1978. McConnell earned his MFA in ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1986.
MEL CHIN, North Carolina- Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas and began making art at an early age. Chin’s art, which is both analytical and poetic, evades easy classification. He is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that conjoin cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas. He developed Revival Field (1989-ongoing), a project that has been a pioneer in the field of "green remediation," the use of plants to remove toxic, heavy metals from the soil. Chin is well known for his iconic sculpture, works that often address the importance of memory and collective identity. Chin’s socially engaged projects also challenge the idea of the artist as the exclusive creative force behind an artwork. “Sometimes, the survival of my own idea may not be as important as a condition I might create for others’ ideas to be realized,” says Chin, who often enlists entire neighborhoods or groups of students in creative partnerships. From 1995-1998 he formed the collective the GALA Committee that produced In the Name of the Place a conceptual public art project conducted on American prime-time television. Chin also promotes “works of art” that have the ultimate effect of benefiting science, as in Revival Field, and also in the recent Fundred Dollar Bill/Operation Paydirt Project, an attempt to make New Orleans a lead-safe city (see Fundred.org.)
LINN MEYERS, Pittsburgh, PA- Linn Meyers received her BFA at The Cooper Union in NYC and her MFA at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She has been the recipient of many awards and fellowships. most recently she received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and in 2008 she was Artist In Residence at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC (2007-2008) . Meyers’s work is in numerous private and museum collections and has been featured in exhibitions in museums and galleries internationally. Museum venues include The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan, The Hirshhorn Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art and The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, The Frick Museum, The Mattress Factory Museum and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in Pittsburgh, PA, and The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose CA. Meyers is represented in Philadelphia by Gallery Joe.
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