Kim Beck, Associate Professor of Art, will present a window installation titled, Everything Must Go! at MIXED GREENS GALLERY, 531 W 26TH Street NYC. The site-specific piece will involve a cacophony of hand-drawn for sale, for rent, clearance and similar signs in the ground floor and first floor windows. The exhibition will run October 13 - December 13, with a reception on Thursday, November 12, 6–8 pm. Last month Kim Beck was invited by The Kitchen, NYC to participate in their annual Kitchen Block Party.

Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, recently completed the permanent public art work titled "Onda (Wave)", a visual intervention on the façade of the new General Studies Building at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. The work, produced in collaboration with Toro Ferrer Architects, consists of a 200 ft. wide structure that acts as a translucent screen covering the front of the building. It is made out of hundreds of perforated aluminum pieces of multiple sizes and colors. Nayda Collazo-Llorens' work is currently part of Gestures: An Exhibition of Small Site-specific Works at The Mattress Factory; and Transfer Lounge at Forja Arte Contemporaneo in Valencia, Spain, and at SPACE in Pittsburgh. "ESCaperucita & LIttle Flying Hood", a complex multidisciplinary project consisting of a series of 26 prints on paper, a single-channel video, and an intervention with adhesive vinyl on the façade of the building, was included in this year's 10th Havana Biennial in Cuba. This text-based work explored post-alphabetic communication, hyperconnectivity and noise as systems of information. An artist book, a limited edition multiple, and a bilingual catalog were also produced as part of this project. Collazo-Llorens also had a solo show at LMAKprojects, NYC, in April 2009; this was the artist's second solo exhibition with this gallery. Upcoming projects include screenings at Optica Festival in Gijón, Spain and at the Camaguey International Video Festival in Cuba later this Fall.

Andrew Johnson, Professor of Art, and Susanne Slavick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art, exhibit in The Pandemic Show at Overtones Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, November 14 ­ December 19. Slavick also presents R&R(&R) at "Visions of War: artists represent conflict at the School of Visual Arts 23rd Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists" in NYC, October 21-23. She is also a panelist on Art in Pittsburgh for the National Association of Schools of Art and Design’s (NASAD) 65th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh on October 16.
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/ug/index.jsp?sid0=1&sid1=46&page_id=497;
http://nasad.arts-accredit.org/index.jsp?page=NASAD%20Annual%20Meeting%20Information;
http://www.overtonesgallery.com

Elaine A. King, Professor of Art History & Theory, guest curates the exhibition Likeness: Transformations of Portrayal After Any Warhol, on view through March 21, 2010 at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. This group exhibition aims to examine human depiction in a post-Warholian era in which new technology has played an influential role. It includes the work of artists Jim Campbell, Paul DeMartinis, John Herschend, Nikki Lee, Joe Mannino, Greta Pratt and Tony Oursler. King's review "Dawn Black at Curator's Office, Washington, DC", appeared in the MAY/JUNE 2009 issue of Art Papers. Masks and dramatic costumes are signature elements in Dawn Black's watercolor, ink, and gouache wash drawings on tea-stain-colored paper. The work of this emerging artist evinces a refined draftswomanship and an astute understanding of power of masquerade, make-believe, and farce. King also was a guest speaker at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York on July 21 and did critiques with the students in the art school's summer program. In her talk titled, "Art in the Global Realm: Biennials—Carnivals, Spectacles of Banality, or Get in Line First at the Bank" is linked to the theme of that week's programs that centered around the topic of the Ethics of Capitalism. In her paper she discussed the structural paradigm of Biennials and raised questions about how such sweeping international exhibitions are influencing artists and flattening creative production. She raised the question: Are such global spectacles contributing to the demise of contemporary art because of their redundancy and interconnections with world art markets? Are educators and the institutionalization of contemporary art contributing to the creation of a new generations of artists whose work evince a FLAT homogeneous quality? http://www.mattress.org

Golan Levin, Associate Professor of Electronic Art, will direct "Mobile Art && Code: Interactive Arts and Mobile Telephony", a conference from November 6-8 at Carnegie Mellon about the aesthetic and tactical potentials of mobile, networked and locative media. The event will feature practical, arts-oriented programming workshops for popular mobile platforms (such as the Apple iPhone, Google Android, and SMS hacking) along with a symposium that contextualizes the use of these technologies in a variety of contemporary artistic and critical practices. Golan Levin's own work appears in See This Sound, a large survey of 20th-Century and 21st-Century audiovisual art, at the Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria, through January 2010; in Collider: Interactivity + New Media, at the Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, through October 31; in Hybrid Geographies, an exhibition and event series at the SUNY Stony Brook SAC Gallery, from October 22 - December 11; and in Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, from December 8 - April 11, 2010. Golan also presented a keynote lecture and workshop at the Future Places digital media festival, in Porto, Portugal, from October 12-15; and a lecture about new media arts education at the annual conference of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD), on October 22. http://artandcode.ning.com;
http://www.see-this-sound.at/en; http://www.tweak.ie; http://www.vam.ac.uk/files/press_release/59159_press_release.pdf;
http://www.futureplaces.org;
http://icfad.arts.usf.edu/content/templates/conferences.aspx?articleid=76&zoneid=5

Ayanah Moor, Associate Professor of Art, is exhibiting in TRANSFER LOUNGE, a group show addressing mobility and transition by artists from Spain and the U.S. The project is currently on display at Forja ArteContemporáneo in Valencia, Spain and SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Moor’s solo show entitled, Souljah-Sotomayor, opens October 23 at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her new series of photographs, video and text based works explore the relationship between popular culture, popular media and the politics of speech. "http://www.uica.org

Melissa Ragona, Assistant Professor of Visual Culture and Critical Theory, presents and curates a program of film and video for Anthology Film Archives, NYC entitled "Abigail Child:Beyond Gendered Sound Noise Film, Scratch Video, and the New Psychedelic Acid House Vulnerability", on November 6 from 6:30-10:30pm. This program both contextualize and illustrates the legacy of the work of experimental filmmaker, Abigail Child (currently Rome Prize recipent). Included in this program will be works by Jacob and Jessica Ciocci, Kalup Linzy, Martha Colburn, Elisa Ahtila (Finland), Charles Atlas, Dara Birnbaum, and Geroge Barber (UK). This is part of a series celebrating the publication of the book that Ragona contributed an essay to "Women's Experimental Cinema" (Duke University Press, 2007).
http://www.abigailchild.com; http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org;
http://ourlittlemovieclub.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/abigail-child-beyond-gendered-sound

Jon Rubin, Assistant Professor of Art, was named Pittsburgh Artist of the Year for 2011. There will be an exhibition of his work at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts in 2011. Rubin recently received a project grant from the PA Council on the Arts for the Waffle Shop, and a commission from the City of Denver to create a public performance project this summer. He will be giving a lecture at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, on November 10 and will have an exhibition there in March 2010. http://www.waffleshop.org

Stephani Syjuco, Kraus Visiting Professor F08, created a large-scale commissioned project of knock-offs for the Frieze Art Fair in London, recently profiled in the Guardian UK, and two new works for the exhibition 1969 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in NYC. She has also been awarded a 2010 Artadia Artist in Residence fellowship at the ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program) in NYC for three months in the summer of 2010. This funded residency includes studio space and housing stipend. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/14/frieze-art-fair-london; http://www.artadia.org; http://www.iscp-nyc.org; http://www.stephaniesyjuco.com

Skarstedt Gallery in New York City presents Ladies and Gentlemen, a solo show of Andy Warhol's (ART '49) work through October 24.
http://www.skarstedt.com/index.php?mode=current

Janice Colker (BFA '51), a life-long professional artist who received numerous awards, died at her home in Pittsburgh in August 2009 of cancer at the age of 80. Janice began her art career after graduating from Carnegie Mellon while raising her four children. She exhibited work in the Annual Associated Artists Exhibits at the Carnegie Museum, winning a Jury Award in 1966 for a painting that was purchased by One Hundred Friends of Pittsburgh Art for exhibition in the Pittsburgh public schools. One of her works will appear posthumously in the upcoming 2009 Associated Artists Exhibit at Carnegie Museum. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E3DE133AF933A2575BC0A96F9C8B63

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) exhibits in Word, a group show at William Shearburn Gallery in Saint Louis, MO, through October 31. Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, IL, presented his solo show, Blah, Blah, Blah, this past summer and his work is in Contemporary Works fro the Cleve Carney Collection at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Elmhurst, IL, through January 3, 2010.
http://www.shearburngallery.com; http://www.rhoffmangallery.com;
http://www.elmhurstartmuseum.org/exhibitions.html

Barbara Rosenthal (BFA '74) will represent the United States in Performance Art and Text-Based Art at the Fourth Prague Contemporary Art Festival, TINA B, which festival director Monika Burian of Galerie Vernon explains, "stands for 'This Is Not Another Biennial'." There will also be a solo mini-retrospective screening and discussion of Rosenthal's videos at Skolska28, a
space for New Media in Prague. The festival runs October 7-25 with wall art, performances and videos throughout the city. http://www.tina-b.eu/en/stranka-programme-4;
http://www.skolska28.cz/info.php?event_id=273

Linda Trunzo (BFA '79) exhibited this August in Alter Ego (A.K.A.) at Queen's Nails Projects and in Root Division's 7th Annual 3-Minute Film Festival, both in San Francisco, CA.
http://queensnailsprojects.com/contents/?cat=3

Ebon Fisher (BFA '82) is continuing to cultivate The Nervepool and its system of network ethics, the Zoacodes, concentrating on pre-production for a video series. He has collaborated with NPR commentator, Andrei Codrescu, on the creation of a new Zoacode, "Signal Strangely" (2006), and has inducted students into his Nervepool world from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (2006-07). He was featured in, and discussed the new documentary film, "Brooklyn DIY," directed by Marcin Ramocki, during its world-premiere showing at the 2009 edition of Documentary Fortnight, the Museum of Modern Art's annual showcase of nonfiction film and video.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebon_Fisher

John Currin (BFA'84) was elected a member of the National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, NYC. His work is included in Something About Mary, a show of contemporary artists creating work about Mary Magdalene in connection with the Metropolitan's production of Puccini's Tosca at The Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met at Lincoln Center, NYC through January 2010. http://www.nationalacademy.org;
http://www.gagosian.com/news/2009-09-22_currin-and-vezzoli;
http://www.art.cfa.cmu.edu/news-events-and-calendars/soa-in-the-usa/soa-in-nyc

Geraldine Ondrizek (BFA '85) presents The Sound of Cells Dividing, a solo exhibition at The Western Gallery, Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, through November 25. http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/1538/310177

Daniel Mark Duffy (BFA '87) exhibits in Outwin Boochever Portrait Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC, October 23 - August 15, 2010, and in Nude, a 2 person show of works on paper at The Tramyard Gallery, Dublin, Ireland October 15 - November 12.

Elaine Erne (BFA'88) participates in Philadelphia Open Studios Tours October 3 & 4. She presents a solo show of drawings and prints at Rowan University Art Gallery in Glassboro, NJ, October 15 - November 14. http://www.philaopenstudios.com; http://www.elainemerne.com; http://www.rowan.edu/colleges/fpa/artgallery/exhibitions/current.cfm

Ryan McGinness (BFA '94) has an upcoming solo show Studio Franchise at La Casa Encendida in Madrid, February - March 2010. He also exhibits in Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, curated by AA Bronson, including work by Associate Professor of Art Kim Beck, Matt Keegan (BFA '98), and Temporary Services (Marc Fischer (BFA '93) among others. The show ran this summer at Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, Germany, and is currently at P.S. 1 through January 4. http://www.lacasaencendida.es; http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/307
http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de/index.php?Direction=Contact

Jen Urso (BFA '96) recently completed an 82 mile walk from Reading, PA to Lansdale, PA for her project "White Space". From August 27–September 7, people were invited to follow her via photos, drawings and blogs created daily from the road. After i returned to Phoenix, i began "memory logs" recalling the days of my trip exactly 2 weeks after—creating additional drawings for each day. Photos, video, sound, writing and drawings will be distilled into a future installation involving a model railroad, video, animations and a full series of drawings. Urso will also include the video of her performance "Evidence of Intention" in 'Her Work' is a Red Herring: Video Art by Women at The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress in Tucson, AZ. October 24, at 7:30pm.
http://jenniferursoart.com/WhiteSpace; http://ws-whitespace.blogspot.com
http://www.dinnerwarearts.com/index.html

Leah Piepgras (MFA '97) presents Ecstasies, a solo show at Hallspace in Dorchester, Massachusetts, October 17 - November 28. http://www.hallspace.org

Matt Keegan (BFA '98), editor of North Drive Press, participated in the "Words Without Pictures" panel discussion, presented by Aperture with The New School, the Photography Department at Parsons and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics on September 17 at the New School in NYC. http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=578

Zoë Woodworth (BFA '99) designed video projections for "Lizzie Borden", a rock musical currently running at the Living Theater in NYC until October 17. She was also artistic director and video designer for the play Forest Maiden, which debuted in August in the NYC Fringe Festival.
http://www.lizziebordentheshow.com; http://www.ninamorrison.com/forestmaiden

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) exhibits in Dissolving Views, curated by Kim Ju-won for the 6th Cheongju International Craft Biennale, touted as the world's largest, at Cheongju Arts Center in Cheongju, South Korea through November 21. She also exhibits in She Will Always Be Younger Than Us at Art
Gallery of Calgary in Alberta, Canada and in Craftwerk 2.0 at Jönköpings läns Museum in Jönköpings, Sweden, both through January of 2010. http://www.cheongjubiennale.or.kr/eng;
http://www.jkpglm.se/se_o_gora/2009/Handmade_english.html;
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2009/09/148_47234.html

Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) presents I'll Start Again, a solo show at Ratio 3 in San Francisco, CA, September 11 - October 24. http://www.ratio3.org; http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134123331882&ref=mf

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) co-curated Distortions: Contemporary Art from Mexico for the College of New Jersey Art Gallery in Ewing, NJ, October 28 - December 2. He also presents Breaking News, a solo show at Buffalo Arts Studio, NY, now through October 31, exhibits in Return to Function at Des Moines Art Center in Iowa through January 10, and speaks in the University at Buffalo Visual Studies Speaker Series on October 19. http://www.tcnj.edu/~tcag/current.php;
http://www.buffaloartsstudio.org/ge_current.html; http://www.ambriente.com

Jina Valentine (BFA '01) was awarded a 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and a Cité International Paris Residency from Stanford University.

Carrie Schneider (BFA '01) exhibited this summer in Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture, a curatorial survey by Front Forty Press at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, IL.
http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2009/07/signs_of_the_apocalypserapture.php

Emily de Araujo (MFA '01) presents Negative Space, a solo show at LAAA/Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, CA, through October 9. http://www.laaa.org/solos/araujo_e.html;
http://www.emilyaraujo.imagenoir.com

Elizabeth Deasy (BFA '03) presents a solo show of paintings titled Day Of at The Wild Project in NYC, November 3 - December 12, with a reception on November 10 from 7-9 pm. The Wild Project is the city's first gallery / performance space that is 'green' operating with a rooftop garden and solar panels. http://www.elizabethdeasy.com; http://www.thewildproject.com

Lara Hoke's (BFA '03) exhibits in Le Roman du Lievre: MARGINALIA, an experimental group exhibition of local Alaskan and international artists, co-curated by Leslie Rosa-Stumpf and James Riordan at MTS Gallery in Anchorage, AK. http://leromandulievre.wordpress.com/marginalia;
http://mtsgallery.wordpress.com

Gretchen Winterkorn (BFA '03) earned a masters degree in social work at Hunter College, NYC, and is currently working with LGBT teens. http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/download/REFLECTIONS.pdf

Clare Parry (BFA '04) presents her MFA thesis exhibition, Ruin and Restoration at UC San Diego's Marcuse Gallery, CA, opening Friday, November 6, 2009.

Jessica Vaughn (BHA '06) exhibits a solo exhibition of her print work at the Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland College Park. The exhibition includes 23 mixed media prints. The exhibition is on view from October 14 - December 18, 2009. There is an opening and artist
talk on Friday October 23, from 5-7pm. http://www.thestamp.umd.edu/gallery

David W. Halsell (MFA, '07) has been invited as an associate at Gloria Bornstein Studio to develop new media approaches to public commissions. http://www.gloriabornstein.com; http://www.dwhalsell.com

Ben Kinsley (MFA '08) will give an artist talk/performance at the Office of Collective Play, an informal series of artist talks, events, and programming in conjunction with the exhibition Descent to Revolution at the Columbus College of Art and Design, OH, on October 16 at 6:30pm. His project "Street With A View," a collaboration with Robin Hewlett (BFA '04) is on view as part of the group show Manipulating Reality at the Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina in Florence, Italy, on view through January 17, 2010. http://www.descenttorevolution.info;
http://www.strozzina.org/manipulatingreality

Riley Harmon (MFA '12) exhibits in Space Invaders at FACT, Liverpool, UK, from December 2009 - February 2010. The exhibition is a study of game environments and the next levels of representation in the gaming world. From minimalist Ataris to the mazes of Pac Man to the detailed cities of Grand Theft Auto, the computer game environment has progressed towards increasing levels of realism. But what happens when game space and real space are confused? The show finds artists exploring these environments at each stage, whether through exploiting untapped artistic potential (Marc Essen); building temporal, endlessly modifiable universes (Bill Viola, Brody Condon); or modding and mapping (Ian Dallas, Player Map Archive). http://www.fact.co.uk; http://rileyharmon.com

Nina Sarnelle (MFA '12) exhibits in the group show, PAPER in MOTION, at the Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH, opening October 16 from 6-8pm. On view through November 28, the exhibition features new work by three female artists, Rian Brown-Orso, (Oberlin), Nancy Baker Cahill (Los Angeles) and Nina Sarnelle (Cleveland-Pittsburgh). Collectively, their work examines notions of destruction and creation, violence and healing through the process of stitching, shooting, spinning and pulling apart in collage, painting, video and installation. http://www.morganconservatory.org

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