Carnegie Mellon School of Art will be well-represented in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, an exhibition presenting prominent artistic trends in new intergenerational work. Mel Bochner (BFA '62) and Katie Grinnan (BFA '92) are included as is Golan Levin, Assistant Professor of Art in the Electronic and Time Based Art area.

Joe Mannino spoke at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of Holy Cross on October 27. The lecture was titled Robert Arneson: A Sculptor's Perspective and accompanied the exhibition Big Ideas: The Maquettes of Robert Arneson.

Bob Bingham has been awarded a grant from the Berkman Faculty Development Fund for his proposal, Prototype for Sustainable History Interactive Project for the Sara Heinz House in Pittsburgh.

Fabian Winkler and Golan Levin are both exhibiting in Replay at Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, November 14 through December 31, 2003. http://www.pgharts.org/art/ex_details.cfm?id=83.

Elaine A. King, delivered a paper on November 12 titled A Cultural Tapestry, in an After Post Present at the 37th annual Congress of the Association of International Art Critics in Bridgetown, Barbados. She has been invited to be a plenary speaker at the forthcoming AICA Congress in Taiwan.

Mary Hood, Visiting Assistant Professor, and Rick Gribenas, Miller Gallery Exhibitions Coordinator, are exhibiting in the 2003 Projects Artist Exhibition at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh, opening December 6, 7-9pm.

James Duesing served as a panelist for the 2003 film and video artists grants awarded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Patricia Burson (BFA '71) had two paintings juried into the Cambridge Art Association's Energy exhibit, one of which, Dangerous Crossroads, took second prize. Energy runs through December 5, 2003. For more information: http://www.cambridgeart.org and http://www.bursonstudios.com.

Mary Mazziotti (Drama '72) exhibited in The Importance of Food at Mendelson Gallery in Pittsburgh last February. She had a solo exhibit, Figurative Paintings, at Borelli-Edwards Gallery in Pittsburgh this fall and will exhibit her cowgirl paintings at OK Harris in New York City next year. This month, she will be an artist in residence with the Icelandic Visual Artists Association in Reykjavik, Iceland.
http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20030216rubin0216fnp1.asp.

Deborah Kass (BFA '74) is portrayed in Patricia Cronin's life-size, carved marble sculpture of themselves. Entitled Memorial to a Marriage, the sculpture is installed in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Jerry Saltz explains in the Village Voice how Cronin plays not only with art history but also with the law, and in the process subverts both. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0344/saltz.php.

Kathy Skerritt (Mead) (BFA '80) debuts in New York City with a solo exhibition of recent mixed media paintings November 15 -30 at the Coda Gallery in Soho at 472 Broome Street. In February, Skerritt's work will be presented at the 2004 International Art Expo in New York City at Javits Center through the Evolution Art Group in the Platinum Section, Booth 1414. Skerritt's portfolio of recent work may be viewed online at http://www.evolutionartgroup.com along with the October 2003 editorial on Skerritt and her art from Art Business News.

Christopher Priore (BFA '81) has a solo exhibit, Drawing Upon Structure, at Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts in Wilmington, DE, November 25, 2003 - January 25, 2004. The opening reception is December 5, 2003, 5-9pm. http://www.thedcca.org.

Boris Bally (BFA '84) had his work reproduced in the October 26 "Boston Globe Magazine" article, Road Show. His work was also featured in a fictional gallery on ABC's All My Children during May and June of this year. He has a solo exhibit, De-Sign: Boris Bally's Exploration of the Available, at Kendall College of Art in Grand Rapids opening December 15, 2003 -February 20, 2004. His work is currently in several group exhibits at: Martina and Company in Providence, RI through December 30;Velvet DaVinci Gallery in San Francisco through November 30; and Jewels & Gems, Works from the Permanent Collection at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in DC through February 8, 2004. Bally also had work in American Democracy Under Seige at Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI this fall. For details view: http://martina-company.com and http://www.velvetdavinci.com/show.php?sid=33. Additionally, his Home for Holy Birds is included in Texas HELP Out of the Nest: Artists' Birdhouses, Exhibits USA, curated by Robert Logan. The exhibit is touring September 1, 2003 - August 30, 2007 and is accompanied by a catalogue. http://www.maaa.org/exhi_usa/texashelp/index.html.

Michael Parker (BFA '88) had a solo exhibit, Nudes, at Adams Art Gallery in Dunkirk, NY, September 19 - November 1, 2003. http://www.adamsart.org.

Nicole Herz (BFA '89) is exhibiting paintings in The Urban Show at The Hay Gallery, in Portland, ME. The show runs from October 28 - November 23. In January she will be exhibiting several paintings in a show in New York through the George Billis (BFA '88) Gallery.

Juliette Borda (BFA '89) is a New York City illustrator. She is featured in an article, Juliette Borda, for whom God is in the details, by Noreen O'Leary in the May/June issue of Communication Arts and was recently a contributing artist to the Chicago published magazine Context: Where Strategy and Technology Meet. Her paintings have been exhibited at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA and her work is included in the permanent collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art. Borda's illustrations have been consistently recognized by Communications Arts, the Society of Illustrators, the Society of Publication Designers and American Illustration, which celebrates the nation's finest commercial and fine art. http://www.julietteborda.com/.

Katie Grinnan (BFA '92) has a solo exhibit, Katie Grinnan: Adventures in Delusional Idealism, through January 4, 2004 at Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria. Evoking contained, self-sustaining ecosystems and utopian communities, Katie uses moldable plastic and computer-altered images of corporate spaces to create large-scale photo sculptures and installations that incorporate and envelop the architecture of the Whitney at Altria Sculpture Court. http://www.whitney.org/exhibition/index.shtml. Katie also exhibited at ACME in Los Angeles this spring. This solo exhibit, Free, Free for All, Free Fall, was reviewed by Bruce Hainley in the summer issue of Artforum. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at such venues as: Pond, San Francisco, CA; Galeria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy; Exit Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ; and UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

Melissa Thorne (BFA '93) lives in Los Angeles after receiving her MFA from CalArts in 1996. She continues to paint and is currently teaching at Otis College of Art & Design as "the typical freeway-commuting multiple part-time professor" with previous positions at CalArts and University of Southern California. She is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and by Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston. She also relays that Paige Clark continues to paint along with her second career as a professional belly dancer.

Andrew Johnson (MFA '94) and Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) collaborated with Millie Chen and Ann Marie Lepkyj on PED.Hamilton for the exhibit, Re:Cycle at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, October 6 - November 16, 2003.

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) is participating in the following events/openings/exhibitions: Postcards from the Edge: Benefit for Visual AIDS, Galerie Lelong, 528 W 26th, NYC, http://www.visualaids.org, November 20, 6-8pm; Framing Architecture, curated by Daniel Marzona, at Elga Wimmer Gallery, 526 W 26th. #310, NYC, http://www.elgawimmer.com, November 21, 6-9pm; Too Fresh, Nurture Art Gallery, 475 Keap St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, http://www.nurtureart.org, Night of 1000 Drawings Benefit, Artists Space, 38 Green Street, NYC, http://www.artistsspace.org; RubberBar video salon by Normal Group for Architecture, Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway, with Patrick Meagher and Dave Shim collaboration DVDs, http://www.swissinstitute.net; Clear Cloud solo show, selected by Uta Grosenick, Comme ci Comme ca III Maison d´Art, Eifel, Uxheim, Germany, October 26 - December 14, 2003, http://64.227.46.201/ 011.49.26.96.93.15.88.

Steffi Domike (MFA '97) has developed a board game about the USA Patriot Act that is being marketed as the politically correct holiday gift. This game will give you insights and make you want to find out more about how the Act has altered what it means to live in a "free society." More about the game at http://www.gotrights.net. Steffi also collaborated with Gary Huck, Bill Yund and Jim Hohman on Free Speech Denied, an installation at the Skinnybuilding, Pittsburgh, September-October, 2003.

Ricardo Miranda Zuniga (MFA '99) is exhibiting a new version of his Vagamundo project as part of the L Factor, November 22, 2003- February 15, 2004 at Exit Art's new location, 475 Tenth Avenue (corner of 36th St.). Vagamundo is a mobile public art project designed for on the street interaction to create temporary public commons. Through a mobile cart resembling an ice cream cart, pedestrians are invited to play a video game that reflects the plight of undocumented immigrants in New York with audio by John Arroyo (E'99), the project was supported by Harvestworks Media Center.
http://www.exitart.org/lfactor/l_factor.html.

Nicole Magnani (Design '00 and former employee of the School of Art) is head designer and founding partner of Bacca. The New York City firm offers a line of professional and casual clothing for full-figured women. Magnani has spent the last two years working with designers, including Alice Roi, to develop new textile patterns. http://www.bacca.com.

Carrie Schnieder (BFA '01) and Laura Domencic (BFA '96) are exhibiting in Generation ART: The New Breed of Pittsburgh Artists at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, November 20 - December 27, 2003. The opening reception is November 20, 5:30-8pm.

Carrie Schneider's photographs explore the social context of her subject matter. Playing on the intention of traditional anthropologists to produce objective data on a foreign people or place, she presents her work as a visual specimen, as evidence of a larger trend to be extrapolated by the viewer. Carrie is an Artist Educator at the Andy Warhol Museum, assistant adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, a freelance arts writer for Pittsburgh's City Paper, and an artist member of Pittsburgh Filmmakers. Carrie recently received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts project grant, an Emerging Photographers Grant from Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and is a co-recipient of an artist-project grant from the Animating Democracy Initiative, sponsored by the Andy Warhol Museum.

Laura Domencic's religious, philosophical and alchemical search for physical and spiritual purification has led her to focus on the relationship between the rituals and objects of spiritual life, and the routines and tools of daily life. Through combining architectural elements with atmospheric layers of paint, Laura explores the relationship between man and the universe. In the past seven years Laura has worked as an artist, educator and administrator for a variety of non-profits in Pittsburgh, including the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Society for Contemporary Craft and Sweetwater Center for the Arts. She also acts as art director and graphic designer for Act One Theatre School.

Rhys Conlon (BHA '01) is exhibiting in Exhibition 17 at 14th Street Painters, 114 W. 14th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues) in New York City through November 26.
http://www.14thstreetpainters.org/gallery/conlon/rhc1.html

Jill Palermo (BFA '02) has her first solo show, Out of Nothing, at SPRINGBOARD Space, Terminal Way on Pittsburgh's South Side. From the gallery press release: "Cellular biology, ecological systems, and quantum physics are the inspirations for Jill's paintings. She often refers to her work as "Cellular Portraiture." Cellular structures are at the heart of today's biotechnical research, pinpointing our genetic make-up as a source of explanation and a vehicle for manipulation. As a result, we have all become more aware of how our microscopic, molecular material reality renders us vulnerable. Jill's paintings testify to these emotions. As she puts it: "I strive to create a sense of submersion, mystery, and history, alluding to the depth of experience and process of evolution each cell and organism undertakes." Compared to the microscopic matter she depicts, her canvases are very large, transforming her subjects into spatial experiences the size of our bodies -- or larger. She often starts a canvas with a single gesture, creating an almost sculptural line to differentiate the spaces that get built by layers of different colors to create a sense of depth and richness. Palermo calls this building process "quite architectural" in nature. Jill has studied in Barcelona, Spain, and lived in an intentional community in Southwest Oregon, learning about sustainability, organic gardening, animal husbandry, and forming community. Two years ago, she started The Copper Onion, a handmade jewelry business, exhibiting at art festivals and galleries around the country. Jill has received five fellowships and grants and is represented by Take Two Gallery in East Stroudsburg, PA. She is a native of Cleveland, OH, and recently moved back to Pittsburgh, to the burgeoning Lawrenceville neighborhood."

Ruth Stanford (MFA Class of 2004) has a solo show at Benedum Center for the Visual Arts at Shadyside Academy in Pittsburgh through December 1, 2003.

Lilith Bailey-Kroll and Ruth Stanford (MFA Class of 2004) are exhibiting a collaborative piece in November 22, 1963: Image, Memory, Myth at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, November 22 through March 21, 2004.

Carolyn Lambert (MFA Class of 2005) and Fereshteh 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.

First year graduate students Matt Barton, Takehito Etani, Jesse Hulcher, Thomas Sturgill and Tiffany Sum joined senior Linda Liao and junior Isaac Dorfman with others in Go...Go..., at Future Tenant, 801 Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh on November 20, 2003. Go...Go... was a one night performance of student work from Robotic Art Studio, an interdisciplinary and experimental class offered by Visiting Assistant Professor Fabian Winkler in the School of Art. http://www.futuretenant.org

Andrew Klein and Josh Johnson received a spring 2004 Small Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG) for their collaborative animation project, The Middle, (The Second Animation Production by Vacuums to Heaven Studios).

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