Elaine A. King's review Olafur Eliasson was published in the December issue of Sculpture. Also, she was interviewed by Quenepon, an electronic art journal in San Quan, Puerto Rico on the subject of ethics and the arts today. King is currently compiling an anthology entitled Doing it Right? A Reader on Ethics in the Visual Arts.

Suzie Silver is exhibiting her multi-channel video installation at Allegheny College Art Galleries in Meadville, PA, January 20 through February 11. The opening reception and lecture by the artist is Tuesday, January 20, 7:30-9:30pm.

Lance Winn and Simone Jones will be exhibiting a collaborative piece in Machine Life at the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, February 6 through April 18. It will be accompanied by an illustrated 60-page publication (with CD) that traces the history of and current tendencies in robotic and interactive art through examination of the motivations and means. http://www.queensu.ca/ageth/exhibitions/upcomingexhibitions.html

Bruce Erikson will particpate in a group exhibition at Dension University in Granville, Ohio entitled Unseen Forces: Re/Creating Human Identity. The exhibit features two 15-foot triptychs and some smaller figurative works. The exhibit opens January 30 and runs until April 1.

Mary Hood and graduate student, Mario Marzan, are exhibiting in Encoded at Fe Gallery in Pittsburgh, opening January 10, 6-9pm through February 14. Fe Gallery is located at 4102 Butler Street.

Philip Pearlstein (A'49) has a solo exhibit January 8 through February 7, 2004 at Robert Miller Gallery in New York City. A reproduction of his painting, Model with Dreadlocks and Kimono with Swan and Renaissance Bambino, is on the inside cover of the January 2004 issue of Art in America. http://www.robertmillergallery.com

Jo Ellen Silberstein (BFA '68 Design and Graphic Arts) had a solo exhibit, Law and Art, this past December at Provenance Gallery in Sarasota, Florida. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, Silberstein began her professional career as an illustrator and designer in New York where she continued her studies at the School of Visual Arts. The exhibit included work from this period along with more recent watercolors and acrylics. Silberstein received her law degree from the Jacob D. Fucshberg Law Center (Touro Law School) in Long Island, NY in 1987 and began practicing law in New York as a litigation associate and staff court attorney. In 1994 she resumed painting and continues to pursue both law and art, now in Sarasota where she practices appellate law. Her new series of paintings relate to the integrity of the law profession. Her work has won awards in juried exhibitions in New York City, First Prize at the Court Attorneys Art Show of the New York Supreme Court, and Third Prize at the Association of the Bar of New York City. She has also exhibited at the Sarasota Arts Center and her work has been collected by several law firms there.

Mark Perrott (BFA '79) has a solo exhibit of photographs at the Butler Institute of American Art's Beecher Center in Youngstown, Ohio, January 18 through April 4.

John Currin (BFA '84) is featured in Designing Women, an article by Richard Lacayo in the December 15 issue of Time Magazine.

Kurt R. Rath (BFA '84) and his brother Christopher Rath (Drama '88) opened a "traveling" gallery based in Sherman Oaks, CA, presenting weekend art exhibitions at different venues, featuring mostly oil paintings. Kurt's wife Harriette, a former professor of sculpture and Otis School of Design graduate, will contribute bronzes and paintings to the exhibits. Services include interior design, fundraisers, house warming parties, custom paintings and framing, set dressing, staging for real estate and delivery. They have shown in California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, North Carolina, Arkansas and Florida. Submit portfolios to KurtRathInc@aol.com. The brothers will open a permanent location soon.

Michel Mangiafico (BFA '85) has work in the second annual Glass Birthday Suit exhibit, which opens with a reception on Friday, January 16 from 6-8pm in the Hodge Gallery at Pittsburgh Glass Center. Glass Birthday Suit is an exhibition of contemporary glass art that was created by students and instructors at The Center in 2003. The exhibition will be on display from January 16 to February 28.

Pat Barefoot (BFA '87) has a solo show Anatomy/Autonomy at The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, January 10-March 14, opening on January 9, 5:30-8pm. Her large-scale drawings and mixed media works composed of materials such as wallpaper and medical documents explore the external and internal structural makeup of the human female, reflecting her reverence and respect for the human body and nature's "design." Related activities include an artist's talk, On the Human Figure, with Pat Barefoot, Richard Claraval, and members of the Craftsmen's Guild of Pittsburgh, January 24, 2pm; Dawn Patton, poet, will host a Poetic Response to Anatomy /Autonomy on January 31, 1-4pm.

Temporary Services (including Marc Fischer BFA '93) is exhibiting in Borne of Necessity, a thematic exhibition that considers the conditions and effects of poverty, at Weatherspoon Art Museum at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, January 18 through April 11.
http://www.weatherspoon.uncg.edu

Andres Tapia-Urzua (MFA '94) co-directed and co-produced When Video Came with Ralph Vituccio. The 42 minute video looks at the history of video art from the critical perspective of seminal media artists in the U.S. It will premiere on January 28 at the Pacific Film Archive as part of the They Might Be Giants: Seminal Video Works program. http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa_programs/giantsvideo/index.html, http://www.planznow.com/video.html

Jennifer Urso (BFA '96) has a solo show, disordering orderly disorder, at Icehouse Arts, Phoenix, AZ, January 2-24 that includes interactive sculpture and installation. She has a solo show of 2D work at The Orange Table Cafe, Scottsdale, AZ in January 2004 and an interactive piece, static cling, included in the eye lounge (an artist collective) exhibit at Celebrating the Visual Arts in Downtown Phoenix at the Herberger Theater Center opening January 7, running through March 29.

Grace Summanen (BFA '96) is exhibiting in Equilibrium, an exhibit with Susan Munoz in which two painters explore the micro and macro patterns of nature. The exhibit opens January 16 from 6-9pm at The Courthouse Gallery at The Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Street, New York City, and runs through January 25.

Marinda Stretavsky (BFA '00) exhibited paper pulp and mixed media works entitled Honoring Louise Bourgeois #1 and Honoring Louise Bourgeois #2 at Fe Gallery in Lawrenceville as part of the recent Group A show December 20 through January 7.

Alexandra Herrera (BFA '03) has relocated to Washington, D.C. where she is working for Friends of the Arts and Preservation in the Embassies.

Adam Davies' work was selected by Peter Schjeldahl (art critic for the New Yorker) for Critical Mass at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA this January. He received a $500 Graduate Student Assembly Conference Fund to attend the exhibit and related professional activities.

Carolyn Lambert (MFA class of 2005) and Fereshteh Hamidi Toosi (MFA class of 2004) will present a paper entitled Searching for the Fourth River: Creative Tactics for Gathering and Disseminating Stories (and Information) at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 8-11, 2004. In their presentation, Lambert and Toosi will address how their recent Fourth River Project combined performance and the gathering of oral histories. They will discuss how art practice can affect or be affected by a city's identity, the artist's relationship with a site, and the use of pretense as a way of negotiating public interactions. They have been selected to receive $500 each in Graduate Student Assembly Conference Funds to attend this conference

Ashley Brickman and Ashley Harwood are exhibiting in Glass Birthday Suit, an exhibition of contemporary glass art created at The Pittsburgh Glass Center. The exhibit opens January 16, 6-8pm at the Center's Hodge Gallery and runs through February 28.

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