Two artists affiliated with Carnegie Mellon's School of Art are represented in the Whitney Artport, the Whitney Museum Portal to Net Art. Assistant Professor Golan Levin's AxisApplet was launched as part of an artport exhibit, CODeDOC in September of 2002. CODeDOC takes a reverse look at 'software art' projects by focusing on and comparing the 'back end' of the code that drives the artwork's 'front end'--the result of the code, be it visuals or a more abstract communication process. Levin's work can be viewed at: http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/levin.shtml. Alumnus Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) received a commission from the Whitney for its December 2003 Gate Page which can be viewed at: http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/december03.shtml.

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) has a solo exhibition, Red Mesa: Recent Metalpoint Paintings and Drawings, at Cervini-Haas Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ, December 16, 2003 through January 8, 2004. The reception is January 8, 6-8pm. Her work will also be included in the National Drawing Invitational at the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, January 14 through February 29, 2004.

Diane Thodos (BFA '85) is an artist and art critic living in Evanston, IL. She writes reviews for artcritical.com at http://www.artcritical.com. Her painting may be viewed in Chicago Art Open 2003 at: http://www.caconline.org/open2003/artist.asp?varID=266

Clyde Forth (a.k.a. Jessia Reeves BFA '91), Jeff Konigsberg (BFA '91) and Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) are showing with three other artists in Knots'n'Structure, a works on paper on view December 5 - January 6, 2004 at Gallery Evan, at 300 E.95th Street, New York City. http://www.galleryevan.com.

Katie Grinnan's (BFA '92) work in Los Angeles exhibits was cited among Bruce Hainley's Best of 2003, in the December issue of Artforum. He writes: "Trippy, haunted, and weird, with photography as its fundament, Grinnan's second show pushed her concerns of photographic and actual spatiality to richer, trickier ends. She then went on to take the prize in a lovely group show, curated by Katie Brennan, at The Project, with a huge wacky sculptural affair that used a guitar as its inspiration and became something cyclonic, a white vortex where sound shaped space."

Mia Brownell (BFA '93) is exhibiting in Fabrication, at Edinboro University's Bruce Gallery in Edinboro, PA through January 22, 2004.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93) will be participating in Dim Sum NYC - a project organized by Red76 Arts Group. His piece is titled A Collection of Religious Tracts About Suicide and Death
(For the Holidays). December 19-21.

Andrew Johnson (MFA '94) served as a panelist for the 2004 Ohio Arts Council Artist Fellowships.

Patrick Meagher (BFA '95) just released his first artist's book, Nausea & Euphoria, published by Navado Press, Trieste, Italy. The book contains photos of landscape and architecture from Cologne, Basel and London, which are being shown in accompanying solo shows in New York and Cologne and in Houston in March 2004. The book will be available in 2004 at Printed Matter on 22nd Street in NYC. In April 2004 Patrick will present his work in London in a lecture at the Laban Centre (by Herzog & DeMeuron) alongside a parallel art exhibition in Berlin. Patrick is currently exhibiting in Framing Architecture, a show of architecture-related art curated by Daniel Marzona at Elga Wimmer. 526 West 26th St. #310, New York City. http://www.elgawimmer.com/.

Laura Domencic (BFA '96) will present Dream Sail, an interactive installation in Pittsburgh's First Night Celebration at the Three Rivers Art Gallery, 707 Penn Avenue, December 31, 2003, 6pm - midnight. http://www.firstnightpgh.com.

Jennifer Urso (BFA '96) is showing mixed media paintings and interactive sculpture in what you see when you're looking at Central Gallery, Burton Barr Central Library, Phoenix, AZ from November 21 through December 28, 2003.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) is exhibiting a new installation at Daimon Media Center in
Hull, Quebec, December 7th through the 21st. He is also presenting two versions of Vagamundo: A Migrant's Tale (http://www.ambriente.com/cart/) at The American Museum of the Moving Image starting December 10th, through the next three month's in AMMI's <ALT Digital> gallery, as well as at Exit Art's L Factor exhibition.

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) exhibited in Attack -- The Kult 48 Klubhouse, curated by Scott Hug for Deitch Projects, 110 N. 1st Street, New York City, November 21 - December 14, 2003.

Jina Valentine (BFA '01) co-curated The New Acropolis, an exhibit of works by the next generation of Philadelphia artists at Fleisher/Ollman, 1616 Walnut Street, Suite 100 in Philadelphia. The exhibits includes "clinically cute hospital contraption paintings" by Kim Brickley (BFA '02), "lushly rendered, emotionally ambiguous painting' by Michael Sullivan (BFA '02) and "manipulated paper ephemera and remixed silent film" by Jina Valentine. The exhibits runs December 12, 2003 through January 24, 2004.
http://www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com/newacropolis/PRESS.html

James Pastorius (BFA '01) received screen credits for visual effects in Universal Studios' Cat in the Hat. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312528/fullcredits.

Theresa Marchetta (BFA '02) and Michael Sullivan (BFA '02) are publishing reviews and articles for The Philadelphia Independent, a young local newspaper.

Peter Burr (BFA '02) has joined artists from Chicago, New York and Lubbock to convert a part of the Federal North Medical Facility to a "showspace party zone." They exhibited paintings, moving images and sculptural installations with live music in easy does it on December 13 on the North Side of Pittsburgh.

Brooke Singer (MFA '02), Beatriz da Costa (former exchange student) and Jamie Schulte (CS '01) have received a commission for February 2004 from Turbulence, funded by the Jerome Foundation. Turbulence is a project of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. which fosters the development of new and experimental work for radio and sound arts.

Adam Grossi (BFA '03) is exhibiting new mixed media drawings and paintings in Building Blocks at the Crazy Mocha Coffee Shop, 4521 Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield through December 31, 2003. http://adamart.ice.org.

Takehito Etani, first year graduate student in art, will have his The Third Eye Project shown as part of Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media, January 15 - 18, 2004 in Stuttgart, Germany. It has also been nominated for The Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art and will be exhibited at the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art in Kawasaki, Japan.http://www.filmwinter.de
http://www.taromuseum.jp/english/d_a.htm.

First year graduate student Jesse Hulcher had work in the December 13 traveling video/live performance show, The Unprofessionals, curated by Lindsay Sampson for Garfield Artworks in Pittsburgh. The event included a special live music video dance party collaboration featuring Jesse Hulcher and two second year graduate students, Blithe Riley and Jacob Ciocci.
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/film/story.cfm?type=Film%20Reviews#1196.

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