2009-2010 Visiting Artists & Scholars
Mark Dion September 24– November 29, 2009 Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1961. Dion received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford School of Art, Connecticut. His 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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Dewitt Godfrey The course of Dewitt Godfrey's work marks a trajectory that simulatneously shifts away from strongly declarative, autonomous, individual projects to structures that emphasize the realtional 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. Learn more about this artist at: http://people.colgate.edu/dgodfrey/ |
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Dan Price: The Necessary Friction of the Machine October 27, 2009 –January 24, 2010 |
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2007-2008 Visiting Artists & Scholars
Rina Banerjee |
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Terry Rosenberg Exhibition at the Ohio University Art Gallery from 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. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited widely, in the USA and abroad, and can be found in numerous distinguished museum collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, and Brooklyn Museum of Art. 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. His focus has included many leading dance groups such as: American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Mark Morris Dance Group, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Mr. Rosenberg lives and works in New York City. For more information about Terry Rosenberg please visit: www.terryrosenberg.com |
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Jordan McKenzie 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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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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