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2010-2011 Visiting Artists & Scholars
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Thur, May 26, 2011 Haunted Houses
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Tue, May 10, 2011 1:30 PM Mitchell Auditorium, Seigfred Body and the Bird
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Artist talk about Labyrinths May 5, 2011 5PM, Room 540, Seigfred Hall |
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Terry Fortkamp, Painter May 5, 2011, 5:30 – 6:30 PM KENNEDY MUSEUM OF ART |
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James Benning, Director April 25, 2011, 4:00 PM Walter Hall 135 James Benning is a pioneering independent filmmaker whose meditations on the environment combine rigorous structure with a vision that is simultaneously critical and lyrical. Throughout his long career, he has been a restless experimenter and innovator exploring the impact of history and politics on the American landscape in such films as Landscape Suicide, American Dream, and Deseret. More recent works including California Trilogy, 13 Lakes, and Ten Skies have examined the relation of place, space and time in images that embody and encourage a thoughtful, attentive attitude to the human and natural world. He has also created a number of installation pieces and has begun to make High Definition videos, some of which he will be screening at the Athens Film Festival along with Ruhr, his film about Germany's Ruhr Valley. Born and raised in Milwaukee, James Benning currently teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. He has shown his work in a wide variety of venues including the Dia Art Foundation, Pacific Film Archives, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tribeca Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, the Whitney Museum, and the British Film Institute. He is the subject of a film by Reinhard Wulf and a collection of essays published by the Austrian Film Museum. "I have a very simple definition of an artist. An artist is someone who pays attention and reports back." |
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J.F. Grossen FROG Design in NYC Wed, April 20, 2011 7:00 PM 135 Walter Hall |
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Wed, April 13, 2011 6:30 PM Mitchell Auditorium, Seigfred Hall threshold spaces and landscapes
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Jon Jager, Illustrator April 7, 2011, 5:30 – 6:30 PM KENNEDY MUSEUM OF ART |
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Visiting Artist Lecture February 24, 2011, 6 - 8 PM Juror for 2011 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Dina is head of Online Education, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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John Silbert March 3, 2011, 5:30 – 6:30 PM Inside/Outside: Art Talks at Kennedy Museum of Art |
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August 27, 2010– January 2, 2010 KENNEDY MUSEUM OF ART This photographic exhibition presents a haunting yet exquisite visual documentary of the architectural decay of |
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July 9 – January 16, 2011 Kennedy Museum of Art A selection of works by Harvey Breverman, Ohio University alumnus ‘60, calls attention to the artist’s mastery |
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Burhan Dogancay: Urban Walls September 14 – November 20, 2010 OHIO UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY |
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Richard Pegg Issues of Identity in East Asia: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maps in the MacLean Collection, Chicago.
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John Roloff: October 6 - Visiting Artist Lecture, BENTLEY HALL 132, 6 – 7 PM |
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Visiting Artist Lecture: Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens: Assuming the Ecosexual Position: Adventures of the November 3, BENTLEY HALL 240, 6 – 7:30 PM November 5, EMERITI POND, 1:30 – 3 PM November 4 – January 27, 2011, TRISOLINI GALLERY, 6 8PM November 6 – Artist Performance, GALBRETH CHAPEL, 2: 30 – 6:30 PM Artists Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens invented a new field of research they coined “Sexecology” which |
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2009-2010 Visiting Artists & Scholars
Mark Dion September 24– November 29, 2009 Mark Dion's spectacular and often fantastical curiosity cabinets, modeled on Wunderkabinetts of the 16th Century, exalt atypical orderings of objects and specimens. By locating the roots of environmental politics and public policy in the construction of knowledge about nature, Mark Dion questions the authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society. Learn more about this artist at: |
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The course of Dewitt Godfrey's work marks a trajectory that simultaneously shifts away from strongly declarative, autonomous, individual projects to structures that emphasize the relational existence of forms to contexts: material, process, place and collaboration. Godfrey's most recent work has moved into public space, bringing a new set of conditions into play. |
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Dan Price: The Necessary Friction of the Machine October 27, 2009 –January 24, 2010 KENNEDY MUSEUM OF ART |
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Nato Thompson Seigfred Hall Rm. 401 January 14, 6pm Nato Thompson is a Chief Curator at the renown non-profit public art organization Creative Time in New York City. Since arriving at Creative Time in 2007, Thompson has organized major projects including Democracy in America: The National Campaign (2008) and Paul Chan’s acclaimed |
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Danette Pratt: Drawings February 18 – April 3, 2010 Reception: Tuesday, February 23, 6 - 8 PM Danette Pratt is a graphic artist and biological illustrator at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Pratt has illustrated numerous species for biomedical researchers whose articles are published in scientific journals such as American Scientist, Journal of American Zoologist, Journal of Morphology among others. The exhibition Biological Illustrations as Art in Trisolini Gallery highlights over twenty years of Danette Pratt’s illustrations. |
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David Harp: Living on the Edge: Man, Nature and Chesapeake Bay February 5 - April 11, 2010 Public lecture: February 16, 2010, 6 PM David Harp will talk about his work on the Chesapeake Bay and about "passion for place." Harp dedicated a large part of his working life to photographing the people, animals and landscapes of Chesapeake Bay. The work illustrates the Bay's opposing opportunities, its joy and struggle, through images of the people, animals and landscape in the watershed. |
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Pascual Sisto: RIGHT ON TIME February 26 – March 12 KENNEDY MUSEUM OF ART Public lecture: February 23, 7 PM, Seigfred Hall 401 Artist workshop: February 25 |
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Catherine Evans: Shout Freedom! Why the Photo League Matters Public lecture: February 24, 1:15 PM, Seigfred Hall 401 Undergraduate Student Juried Exhibition March 4 – April 8, 2010 A highly competitive juried exhibition featuring the artwork created by School of Art undergraduate students Reception: March 4, 7 - 9 PM (Award notification 7:30 PM) Juror: Catherine Evans, Chief Curator, Columbus Museum of Art |
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April 1, 2010, 2pm, Seigfred Hall 401 Architecture Beyond Building Aaron Betsky is the Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum and was the Director of the 2008 Venice Biennale in Architecture. |
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April 8, 6PM, Seigfred Hall 401 Everything Else Has Failed! Don't You Think It's Time For Love? Using video, performance, and installation, artist Sharon Hayes investigates relations of history, politics and speech. She employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from artistic and academic practices such as theater, film, anthropology, linguistics, and journalism. |
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April 9 – June 13, 2010 Cultural Order, Natural Chaos Sculptures and Drawings by Sunkoo Yuh Sunkoo Yuh’s ceramic art reflects his Korean roots and the Western influence on his work and the mixed cultural impact created by both of these experiences. The figures he creates are simple, sometimes whimsical, sometimes serious depictions of everyday life. |
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 7:00pm - 9:00pm, Siegfried 401 Sino Society will be hosting a two-part lecture series on the topics of children in Chinese art and contemporary art in China. Ms. Wong’s art transcends both disciplinary boundaries in studio practices and cultural demarcations of different nation-states. Returning recently from a year’s stay in Taiwan, China and Asia, Ms. Wong will lecture on both her recent art and the art scene in Taiwan, China and Asia. |
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2008-2009 Visiting Artist and Scholars
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February 5 – March 7, 2009 |
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September 4 – October 25 |
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Catharina Manchanda Senior Curator of Exhibitions, Wexner Center for the Arts will lecture on work of South African artist Robin Rhode. Lecture: Tuesday, April 28, 2pm lecture, Mitchell Auditorium, Seigfred Hall
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As a model of self-portraiture, Michael Minelli’s works elaborate identity as an improvisational act of self-analysis, a story in a constant state of elaboration. While the mark is given relative short shrift in these works, his investment in the act of drawing is crucial. Minelli casts its practice as a mode of thinking and a critical tool for sifting through the flotsam of popular culture. Lecture: Sept 25, 6 - 7 PM, Seigfred Hall 519 |
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Lizzie Scott is an interdisciplinary artist who uses found materials and fabric to make objects, installations, and performances about urban space. Juxtaposing the flexible and permeable fabric against the rigid architectural structure, Scott explores the idea that function is excessive whereas decoration is essential. |
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Initially trained as an architect and best known for his architectural scale constructions in weathered steel, Godfrey explores the space between seriality and singularity, and between chance and artistic necessity. His work locates the space between armored strength and fragile contingency. |
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Inspired by the industrial and commercial structures from his environment, Stephen Talasnik developed an interest in rendering architecture and engineering. His drawings and sculpture translate the architecture of bridges, tunnels, and stadiums into abstracted structures that echo boyhood imagination, fantasy, and invention. |
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Laylah Ali creates her small figurative gouache paintings on paper with meticulous precision, as she plans out every aspect of her work, from subject matter to choice of color and the brushes that she will use. Ali achieves a high level of emotional tension by juxtaposing violent subject matter that speaks of political resistance, social relationships, and betrayal. |
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Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, he says, is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention. Appropriating archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Lecture: October 28, 2008, 6 PM, Seigfred Hall 519 |
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2007-2008 Visiting Artists & Scholars
Rina Banerjee Banerjee's drawings, video and instalation works record the history of leaving her home in India for America. Banerjee explores the dislocation and loss of identity as complex experiences through systems of assemblage. |
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Exhibition at the Ohio University Art Gallery January 8th to February 28th Terry Rosenberg has explored the human form in motion for more than twenty years with a unique emphasis on dance. Working directly from figures in rehearsal or in improvised movement, he integrates the explosive energy of dance with the emotional intensity of action painting, creating a synthesis of light, color and dynamic structure. |
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Juror for the School of Art Undergraduate Student Exhibition Jordan McKenzie has exhibited both nationally and internationally developing his practice within a variety of contexts. His work explores the relationship of drawing and the process of mark making to the body. His research is concerned with making critical and artistic investigations into the performativity of drawing. Mark making is explored as a process of mapping the body within space, a way of tracing its movements and plotting its absences. McKenzie's work crosses the lines of performance, drawing, installation and sculpture seeking to explore the undecidable, a point where the body and the mark (drawing) break through the terrain of traditional definition and establish new dialogues and relationships. |
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Juror for the School of Art Undergraduate Student Exhibition Public Lecture: Monday, March 3 Christine Heindl’s mixed media paintings own a playful engagement of surface, use of collage, and a concern for exploring space within the abstract. She received her MFA from Cornell University in 1994 and her BA from Empire State College in New York City in 1992. She has had several one-person shows, including at White Columns in New York. Her work has been represented in over twenty group exhibitions at such venues as Curt Marcus Gallery in New York, Artemesia Gallery in Chicago, and the Columbus Museum of Art. Heindl was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting in 2001 and has been reviewed by Art in America and other publications. She taught with the Ohio University School of Art for almost a dozen years ending in 2005. We happily welcome her back to Athens! |
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Rick Lowe Project Row Houses is a neighborhood based art and cultural organization located in Houston's Third Ward. PRH was established in 1993 on a site of 22 abandoned shotgun houses (c. 1930) to connect the work of artists with the revitalization of our community. It was inspired by the work of African-American artist Dr. John Biggers who celebrated the social significance of the shotgun house community in his paintings. After a decade of successfully generating programs that combine arts and cultural education, historic preservation, and community development, the future of the Third Ward is threatened by gentrification. To preserve and protect the irreplaceable historic and cultural legacy of our community, PRH spawned a sister organization, the Row House Community Development Corporation. |
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Mark Van Proyen "Greeting the Circus with a Scowl: Art Criticism in the age of Art Spectacle" Mark Van Proyen is associate professor in the Painting department and in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. He is an artist and critic whose visual work has been exhibited widely. He is a columnist and critic for Artweek, a contributing editor for Art in America, and has contributed writing to Art Issues, and Bad Subjects. Art Criticism dedicated an entire volume to his Administrativism and Its Discontents (Volume 21, Number 2) 2006, published by the Department of Art, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Visiting Curator and Art Critic based at Yale University Public Lecture: Monday, March 3th at 6pm in Mitchell Auditorium 519 Seigfred Hall |
2006-2007 Visiting Artists & Scholars
Maternal Metaphors II: Artists/Mothers/Artwork Fall Quarter October 7 - November 4 |
Michael Olijnyk Michael Olijnyk is the Mattress Factory's Curator of Exhibitions. He has worked closely with more than 150 artists (including James Turrell, John Cage, Bill Woodrow, Yayoi Kusama and Ann Hamilton) since 1982. He has also coordinated, designed and installed exhibitions for other museums, galleries, art centers and festivals. He served on the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) Visual Arts Program panel in 1988-89, and has been a member of the Interdisciplinary Arts Program panel since 1992. He studied design, painting, and sculpture at Carnegie Mellon University and has shown his own work in group and solo exhibitions. |
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Miwon Kwon Lecture: February 27, 2007 in Mitchell Auditorium Miwon Kwon received her Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory at Princeton University in 1998, the same year in which she joined the faculty at UCLA as Assistant Professor of contemporary art history (post 1945). Her research and writings engaged several disciplines including contemporary art, architecture, public art, and urban studies. She is a founding editor and publisher of Documents, a journal of art, culture, and criticism, and serves on the advisory board of October magazine. She is the author of One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity(MIT Press, 2002). For 2003-04, she is on leave to do research for her new book at the Getty Research Institute. |
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Clarina Bezzola Clarina Bezzola was born in the German speaking part of Switzerland. She came to New York at the age of 20 to study at Parsons School of Design. Bezzola graduated with a metal-smithing and furniture design degree, giving her the basic technical vocabulary to continue her work of translating "the unexplainable" of our psychological universe into visual sign and symbols. "Art has to be alive and not locked up"--so she continued her education, shifting focus to performing arts. She presently studies classical voice with Pamela Kucenic in New York, a discipline she already studied in high-school back in Switzerland. As her vocal and visual repertoires broaden they also move closer bringing her into the discipline of performance art. Over the years Bezzola has shown her work and staged her performances in many group and solo shows in various galleries and museums across America and has just introduced her new body of work in Berlin, Germany. |
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