February 9, 2012
Robin Street-Morris Featured
“Fourche La Fave River” and “Starling Circle with Morning Star (at Cahokia Mounds)”, two works by Robin Street-Morris (BFA 2000) have been juried into EAC:II, opening at Edwardsville Arts Center on February 17.
“EAC:TWO” All Media Juried Exhibit, February 17 - March 16
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Juror: Robin Hirsch, Associate Director & Gallery Director of Art St Louis
The Edwardsville Arts Center is proud to exhibit its 2nd All Media Competition, juried by Robin Hirsch of Art Saint Louis.
http://edwardsvilleartscenter.com/2012/01/12/eactwo-juried-show/
February 7, 2012
Wildwood Press: Eva Lundsager
Wildwood Press, founded by A&D Alumna Maryanne Ellison Simmons (BFA 1971), is hosting artist Eva Lundsager’s newest print collection, Works in Progress. The collection consists of seventeen one-of-a kind prints. The exhibit will open on Thursday evening, February 16, 2012 from 5:30 - 8:30 pm at Pele Prints, 9400 Watson Road, Crestwood, Missouri 63126.
Eva Lundsager: Untitled 12
January 30, 2012
Science Gallery Serves Up “A Taste of Things to Come”
As members of the Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Zack Denfeld (MFA 2007) and Cat Kramer have curated a new exhibition for the Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin which opens Feb. 9th 2012.
Edible: a Taste of Things to Come will explore how we reshape the planet through the food choices we make. The Center for Genomic Gastronomy have assembled a diverse group of artists, scientists, restaurateurs and foodies whose work is set to challenge our perception of what ‘edible’ really means. The show runs through the biodiversity of the kitchen and includes ingredients like mutagenic peppermint, transgenic zebrafish, 8 fermenting fruits, 10 heirloom potatoes and desserts that let you taste smog. The exhibition also includes 3-D printed insect snacks, an edible wall of seaweed and a range of centrifuged foods. At twice-daily feeding times, visitors will have a chance to sink their teeth into a vegan version of the cruelest recipe ever invented, dine on the kimchi quesadilla and sample other recipes especially created for EDIBLE by artists, chefs and scientists.
http://www.sciencegallery.com/
January 30, 2012
Shannon Kohlitz: Toronto International Film and Video Awards
Shannon Kohlitz (BFA ‘11) has won the award for Best Experimental Film from the Toronto International Film and Video Awards.
Her piece used a series of kinetic sets, culminating in a screening and an installation about immigration, love and World War II. Over 500 films were submitted in a variety of categories.
January 27, 2012
Margaret Parker featured in Momentum
The Women’s Caucus for Art is having its 40th anniversary show “Momentum” from February 17 - March 2 to coincide with “Pacific Standard Time”, a Los Angeles region-wide celebration of art. It gathers work from across the country curated by Rita Gonzalez, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Ann Arbor artist and A&D alumna Margaret Parker’s installation, Kali: she who destroys regenerates, will be part of the exhibition.
Parker’s work has been gaining attention this year: in February, a piece was featured in “HiddenCites” at New Century Artists Gallery in NYC. Her large installation C’ood: a democracy experiment, first seen at ArtPrize in 2010, was displayed in Lansing for three months in “City Streets” sponsored by the Lansing Art Gallery. Her work was also featured in a four-person show at Flint’s Buckham Gallery, where two large installations and 3 smaller pieces made from cutup cotton T-shirts were shown.
“T-shirts are like our second skin,” Parker says, “they’re the generic shape of the human torso. But when they’re cut apart,they can become anything, they allow me to explore what humans can become. I carve into them, but always leave them in one whole piece. Viewers recognize the familiar shirt, imagine the original shape, and then figure out the steps in between. The imaginative process that the viewer goes through makes the art work theirs.”
Parker was also one of only eight Americans to have work featured at the 2011 Windsor Biennial in Windsor, Ontario, curated by Ian Baxter, professor of art at University of Windsor School of Visual Art.
http://www.margaretparkerstudio.com
January 20, 2012
Jana Bisset: Auto Part Jewelry on Dateline Detroit
Jewelry created using auto parts by artist/photographer Janna Bissett was featured on Dateline Detroit Primetime Edition. The jewelry was created for former Miss Michigan and Channel 4 Traffic Reporter Ashlee Baracy to wear to the Auto Show Charity Preview. Bissett has been creating jewelry out of vintage machine parts and sells her work at http://shoplilacpop.com, http://ustrendy.com/lilacpop, and in local stores such as Yellow Door Art Market, Ann Arbor Art Center, and more. She is also a fashion, fine art, and real estate photographer and recently had work accepted at Italian Vogue.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/Dateline-Detroit-Car-ture/-/1719418/8266792/-/lujnx5/-/index.html
January 13, 2012
Sarah Bereza Exhibits at WWA Gallery
Sarah Bereza will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at WWA Gallery in Culver City, CA. Aptly titled About Face, this exhibit is a contemporary look at the classic genre of portraiture. Exhibiting alongside Bereza will be some of the most diverse and much talked about artists of the day. Works featured will range from the surreal and vivid to the dark and macabre. With constant advances in digital photography and the instant gratification it brings, the painted portrait is often overlooked. However it’s quite possibly the one genre that ties all artist together. From Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Warhol’s Marilyn Monroes, the classic painted portrait stood as a reflection of society and culture through a reflection of the essence of its subjects and the artist as well. After all, we are our own favorite subjects, and in the era of Facebook and Twitter this has never been truer.
Opening Reception, Friday January 13th, from 8- 11pm
WWA Gallery
9517 Culver Blvd Culver City, CA 90232
(310) 836-4992
January 10, 2012
Michael Borowski Exhibits in Netherlands
Photographs and video documenting Michael Borowski’s (MFA 2011) “Window/Seat” will be included in Global Village 2012, on display at Projekt 072 in Alkmaar, Netherlands from Feb 3rd to March 11th. The opening reception is Friday, Feb 3rd 7:30 - Midnight. The exhibit will travel to France and Denmark later this year.
http://www.stichtingwhitecube.nl/globalvillage/algeng.html
December 15, 2011
Sarah Berkeley and Reed Esslinger-Payet Perform
Sarah Berkeley (MFA 2011) and Rachel (Reed) Esslinger-Payet (MFA Candidate 2012) will perform at Chicago’s Enemy Sound on Friday, December 16th. The performance draws on Reed’s artistic research in fibers and the emotional and corporeal experience of belonging while repeatedly immersing oneself into foreign cultures and immigrant communities. The malleability of language and the subjectivity of ethnographic writing provide the basis for the sound component of the performance.
Enemy Sound
1550 N. Milwaukee, 3rd Floor.
November 29, 2011
Andrea Claire Maio: Back to Your Senses
Created by filmmaker and Ann Arbor native Andrea Claire Maio (BFA 2001), “Back to Your Senses” is a video series about people who are “leaving the safety of what they know, for the sake of what they love” in a time of economic uncertainty. As a platform for her work, Andrea has teamed up with a new crowd-funding website for independent TV called Mobcaster.com, started by another University of Michigan alumna, Aubrey Levy (BFA 2004, Theatre).
Andrea is currently raising resources through Mobcaster in order to produce the pilot episode of her show - an episode that will feature Michigan residents who are changing their lives. by turning their passion into their vocation. They are farmers, artists, scientists and entrepeneurs, who represent an unaffiliated nation-wide movement of people who are coming back to their senses; using their uncertainty about the future of our country’s economy as a fuel to make their dreams come true, and showing the way for those of us brave enough to do the same.
Mobcaster is like Kickstarter for TV - it has the potential to help build audiences for content that networks might not take a risk on. It gives people the opportunity to fund what it is they want to see, and to see it through multiple phases of production. Like with Kickstarter, no money changes hands unless the project meets its fundraising goal. Unlike Kickstarter, if the project does reach it’s goal, the final product gets broadcast on Mobcaster.
The fundraiser for Maio’s Back to Your Senses lasts through January 8th - visit http://www.mobcaster.com/project/back-to-your-senses to find out more or contribute.
For more info about the project and Andrea, visit http://www.backtoyoursenses.org or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
November 28, 2011
Gilleran Crow at Anton Art Center
Peter Gilleran (A.K.A. Peter Crow, BFA 1976) is featured in a solo show of drawings, paintings and works on paper at the Anton Art Center’s Petitpren Community Gallery in Mount Clemens, Michigan, from November 18-December 22, 2011.
November 15, 2011
Ruth Taubman Open House
Ruth Taubman (BFA ‘81) will present her 2011 fall jewelry line at an open house in her Ann Arbor studio December 1-3. To receive an invitation or more information, please visit http://www.ruthtaubman.com and click on “Contact Us.”
November 11, 2011
Chin-Azzaro Art & Design Firm Featured
Chin-Azzaro, the new Ann Arbor art & design firm launched by A&D alums Nick and Yen Azzaro (BFA 2003) , is featured in a profile on AnnArbor.com.
The two University of Michigan School of Art & Design graduates spent seven years after graduation sharpening their skills in Chicago - Nick as a commercial and art photographer and Yen as director of a gallery and consulting on fine art.
But the couple recently returned to Ann Arbor and this month launched what they say is a unique collection of art and design services under their business banner, Chin-Azzaro. Chin is Yen’s maiden name.
The new art and design firm offers a plate full of services, including commercial and portrait photography, commercial and residential mural painting and appraising and consulting about art. They even have services for young customers, Chin-Azzaro Kids, with bedroom murals, custom party invitations and family and child photo portraits.
“We want to be trendy, but not in a fad kind of way. Very contemporary, but based on art history,” Yen said.
Image: Janet Miller, for AnnArbor.com
November 8, 2011
Cathy VanVoorhis: Stand in the Place Where You Live
Artists support environmental preservation of land for
Work by Cathy VanVoorhis (MFA 1986) is featured in Stand in the Place Where You Live, a collaborative benefit for Legacy Land Conservancy of Southern Michigan and Chelsea Center for the Arts celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Legacy Land Conservancy.
Exhibition runs Nov. 13, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012
Opening reception: Friday, December 2, 6 - 8 pm
Chelsea Center for the Arts
400 Congdon St., Chelsea, MI 48118
Over the past 40 years, Legacy Land Conservancy (Ann Arbor) has helped protect over 4,500 acres of forests, prairies, farms, wetlands, and waters. To celebrate this achievement and inspire future conservation efforts, Chelsea Center for the Arts and Legacy Land Conservancy commisioned a small group of selected artists to create original works of art about specific local public and private lands preserved through the Conservancy.
Participating artists: Barbara Bushey, Deborah Campbell, Nancy Feldkamp, Steve Gilzow, Birgit Hutteman-Holz, Angelis Jackowski, Janet Kohler, John Lloyd, Nancy McKay, Brenda Miller, Susan Moran, Lynn Quick, Anne Rubin, Cathy VanVoorhis, Nora Venturelli, Elaine Wilson
http://www.legacylandconservancy.org/index.php/news-and-events/view/stand
November 8, 2011
Michele Oka Doner: Exhaling Gnosis
Michele Oka Doner: Exhaling Gnosis
November 29, 2011 – April 28, 2012
Opening reception: Monday, November 28, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Miami Print Shop
3000 N. Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida 33127
The Miami Biennale is pleased to host Exhaling Gnosis, the first major exhibition of works on paper by Michele Oka Doner, opening Monday, November 28 and on view through 28 April, 2012.
The exhibition will include sixteen 40 x 60 inch handmade abaca paper pieces made at the Dieu Donné Papermill in New York City, seven totemic relief prints from organic materials produced at Wildwood Press in St. Louis, a series of prints made with Dykem spray paint on kraft paper, and two oversized books.
The installation, conceived by curator Peter Menéndez, emphasizes the captivating beauty of these feral, organic works of art as they reflect on the imagery of the natural world, of plants, animals, insects, and are transformed into visual statements that take a Rorschach-like quality. As such they project a powerful psychic interiority that unleashes the viewers interaction with the work.
For Michele Oka Doner the natural world is an integral part of her visual vocabulary. Following her recent show, Neuration of the Genus at Dieu Donné, this exhibition reflects and expands on structure, patterns in nature and wordless texts, an understanding that allows the artist to use the substantive endowment provided by nature and materialize it into notes for her “songs.”
The abaca pieces and Palm Book incorporate organic palm material, often with tremendous texture and density, directly into the paper, producing a highly charged relationship between the objects they are and the images they create. Similarly, the relief prints are made directly by skillfully arranging various roots, vines and seaweed on the printing plate and inking them. Within these works the specific plant forms Oka Doner chooses and the arrangements she achieves are both suspended in an ethereal veil of sublimity within the abaca sheets and deeply embossed into the diaphanous fibrous essence of the paper; we sense Oka Doner’s transformative hand.
These dramatic works express a devotion to nature’s detritus and a clear understanding of the distinct, almost hieroglyphic, form of language they represent. The artist uses these materials as a sculptor does, creating a series of unique works that capture the spirit and form of the natural world.
The second oversized book, What is the White, a limited edition artist book published by Dieu Donné Press, sensuously explores the nature of whiteness. The artist tells her story through a convergence of exquisite materials – translucent and opaque papers, sumptuous waxes and felts, original prose letterpressed in the artist’s hand – aptly described by the art historian Pari Stave as “an artic jewel box.” Forming an exquisite and meditative object, the book transports the viewer from the systematic theories of whiteness, color and perception to nature’s more spiritual rewards.
About the artist: The artist is well known for her numerous public art installations, including A Walk on the Beach and From Sea- shore to Tropical Garden at Miami International Airport and Healing Plants at the UMDNJ University Hospital Center in Newark, NJ. Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Miami Art Museum, and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, among others. Included in her many publications are three monographs: Natural Seduction (2003), Workbook (2004) and Michele Oka Doner: HumanNature (2008). Oka Doner is represented by Marlborough Gallery.
http://www.micheleokadoner.com/
About Miami Biennale: Miami Biennale is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to promote the arts. Our mission is to advocate creative dialogues between Miami’s multi-layered community and an international audience, stimulating public/private initiatives and funding that generates projects with interactive platforms for education and community transformation through culture.
Exhibition Hours: Thursday through Saturday 10 am – 4:00 pm. These hours apply only during exhibition dates. Gallery tours or informal viewings for groups of 5 or more by appointments. http://www.miamibiennale.org/miami_biennale_events1_okadoner_intro.html
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