Golan Levin lectured at "DesignWeek Monterrey," November 13 at the Centro de Estudios Superiores de Diseno de Monterrey, Mexico, and exhibited in the First International Digital Art Festival Taipei 2006, Taiwan. His work is currently exhibited in Cybernetic Sensibility: The Computer and Art at the Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea through January, 2007; Engaging Technology: A History and Future of Intermedia, Ball State Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana, through March 2007; and in the ComputerFineArts collection at the Berlin Digital Art Museum [DAM]. Levin also performed various audiovisual works for a benefit at the Europa Polish-American Discothque in Greenpoint, Brooklyn on December 7.
http://www.dwm.org.mx/dwm06_golan.php;
http://www.dac.tw/daf06/main-e.html; http://www.daelimmuseum.org/exhibition/now_view.jsp;
http://www.bsu.edu/uc/article/0,1371,41740-5356-47693,00.html; http://www.dam.org/berlin/index.shtml?item=38; http://www.monkeytownhq.com/mtholidayparty.html.

Kim Beck exhibited drawings with Los Angeles-based gallery, Bank, at Aqua Art Miami, a new art fair taking place concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach, December 7-10. She was also recently awarded a Citation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Elaine A. King gave a talk in December titled, "SO WHERE NOW? Artists and Art After" for the Centro Arte, Perugia, Italy.

James Duesing had a retrospective screening of the past twenty years of his animation work in Puchon, Korea, at PISAF. PISAF is one of the largest animation festivals dedicated to student competition. It selects established animators and presents career retrospectives of their work outside of competition, http://www.pisaf.or.kr/film/trend_list.asp?boardkey=6&disflag=6.

Andy Warhol's (ART '49) work is featured in several exhibits: Living with Pop at Max Lang in New York, December 1 - January 20, 2007; and The Studio at Hugh Lane and Dublin City Gallery in London, December 1 - February 25, 2007; and Andy Warhol: 1948-1960 at Timothy Taylor Gallery in London, January 25 - March 3, 2007.

The Telfair Museum of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia is adding 7 silverpoint drawings by Janet Culbertson (ART '53) to their collection. Recently they exhibited her drawings along with a number of other artists in an exhibition called the Luster of Silver: Contemporary Metalpoint Drawings. Culbertson’s billboards works were also exhibited in the Hunterdon Museum’s environmental exhibit called Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape, located in Clinton , New Jersey. Another of her environmental works is on view in the National Drawing Exhibit at The college of New Jersey in Ewing.

Mel Bochner (BFA '62) exhibits in Nothing and Everything: Drawing, Painting, Photography & Sculpture 1896-2006 at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco through January 27, 2007, http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=396&cid=111002.

Two alumni are featured among Artforum's "Best of 2006" choices of top exhibitions of the year. Chrissie Iles chose Mel Bochner's (BFA '62) exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago and Alison M. Gingeras chose John Currin's (BFA '84) debut show at Gagosian and among their top ten picks. An image from Bochner's show is among the collection on the cover of the December issue of the magazine.

Claire Rosenfeld(CFA '64) will have her work on view in the Broome Street Gallery Invitational Show in New York from December 19 - January 7, 2007.

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) presents a solo exhibition, Interior and Exterior Cartographies at Kenyon College in Ohio through December 16. Her work is also included in Ten Plus Ten: Revisiting Pattern and Decoration through February 2 at the University Gallery of University of Florida in Gainesville; The Eye Of The Collector: The Jewish Vision Of Sigmund R. Balka through January 30 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum in New York City; and in Global at the Westport Art Center in Connecticut through December 22.
http://www2.kenyon.edu/ArtGallery/exhibitions/0607.htm; http://www.arts.ufl.edu/galleries/calendar.html;
http://www.huc.edu/museums/ny/; http://www.westportartscenter.org/ev?genre=art.

Katherine "Kay" Morgan's (BFA '67) one woman show, Photographic Expressions of Katherine Morgan, opened on December 2 and will run through December 30 at Boca Raton Gallery Aquarian Age. Morgan was juried into the New York Times competition Journeys 2007 with her images of "Elements", "Locked Out" and "Destination", and she will be present at the opening reception on January 5, at the Artful Gardens Mini Museum. Last Year Ms. Morgan won Best in Show in the New York Times Journeys 2006 with her work "Cooperation". She also has a new website in the works for 2007.

Dara Birnbaum (A '69) has work in First Generation: Art & Moving Image (1963-1986) at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid on view this month through April 2, 2007, http://www.museoreinasofia.es.

Deborah Kass (BFA '74), known for her series of paintings that give a gay feminist spin to Andy Warhol's oeuvre, is now represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery and Vincent Fremont, the Andy Warhol Foundation's agent for the sale and exhibition of Warhol paintings (who also works independently with other artists). Kasmin is exhibited new works by Kass at the Frieze Art Fair in London this past October, and plans a show at his Manhattan gallery in September 2007,
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews10-10-06.asp.

Taryn FitzGerald (BFA '84), has work in 122 for $122, the 25th anniversary benefit show featuring works on paper priced at $122 by artists associated with PS 122 Gallery. The exhibit will run from December 8-17, http://www.ps122gallery.org.

ROY (BFA '84) is exhibiting in Trashformations which has traveled since 2005 including the American Museum for Wine, Food & Arts in Napa, California as one venue. She also exhibited in The Martini Show at Gallery I/O in New Orleans this fall. Her work has entered the collections of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City (as part of the Kevin L. Gallagher, and Robert Long collection) and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (as part of the Daphne and Peter Farago Collection). She will participate in a group invitational at Hiko Mizuno Jewelry College in Tokyo, Japan, May 21 - June 2, 2007.

Independent curator Laurie Mancuso (BFA '91) has opened a new performance and art venue, Dorothy 6, located on the first floor of the John Fetterman's (the Mayor of Braddock) residence, at 424 Library Street, Pittsburgh, PA. The first show, The T- Shirt Show II , includes works by Ed Bucholtz (BFA '93) and Thommy Conroy (BFA '02).

Katie Grinnan's (BFA ¹92) solo exhibit, Cheerleaders and Bandwagons at ACME in Los Angeles was reviewed by Christopher Miles in the December issue of Artforum.

Stephanie Serpick (BFA '93) exhibited in a group show this fall at Julie Nestor Gallery in Park City, Utah.

Ryan McGinness (BFA '94) exhibits in 25 x 25, curated by Matthew Higgs and Amie Scally for Cereal Art in Philadelphia through January 17, http://www.cerealart.com.

Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) is exhibiting "FALLOUT: Nicaragua and Its Diaspora" at the Miamid-Dade's West Kendall Library Branch, through January 7, 2007, Miami, Florida. "FALLOUT: What's Left" was recently on view at the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) Art Fair, presented by Momenta Art, December 6-10, at The Ice Palace, also in Miami. Documnetation of both works can be viewed at http://www.ambriente.com/miami/ and http://turbulence.org/Works/fallout/installation.php.

Marinda Stretavsky's (BFA '00) solo show, Autobiographie, is currently on view at euope'Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, through the month of December.

Thommy Conroy (BFA '02) has opened La Vie, a venue for specialty and vintage clothing and jewelry, art and paper products, custom floral arrangements and holiday decorations by Pittsburgh artists at 3609 Butler Street in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh. Email: laviepittsburgh@gmail.com.

Jacob Feige (BFA '02) is currently exhibiting a solo painting show, Nearly Falling, at Lombard-Freid Projects in New York. The show will be on view through January 6, 2007, http://www.lombard-freid.com/home.htm.

William Kofmehl ('02) gave his performance Dear Miami, I just googled you for Art Basel Miami Beach on December 6. He is currently represented by Lombar-Fried Projects in New York, http://www.lombard-freid.com/home.htm.

Lara Hoke's (BFA '03) solo show, Lara Hoke: Recent Paintings, is currently on view at BAX/BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE through January 27, 2007, with an opening reception on Saturday, December 16 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m, http://www.larahoke.com.

Cassandra C. Jones (MFA '04) exhibited in Cinema-Scope Best of the Best at SCOPE MIAMI In collaboration with GEN ART and PERPETUAL ART MACHINE "I REGRESS", curated by Christina Vassallo. The work was screened at the Wynwood Art District in Miami on December 7.

Fereshteh Hamidi-Toosi (MFA '04) is a contributer for the latest issue of LTTR artist journal with the theme "Positively Nasty". She will hold a performance at the NYC opening reception on December 18. LTTR is a feminist genderqueer artist collective with a flexible project-oriented practice. The group produces an annual independent art journal, performance series, events, screenings and collaborations. Also, she and fellow CMU grad Carolyn Lambert (MFA '04) are exhibiting their collaborative video and wall display, "Tea Party" in Portal Spaces at Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan, from December 8 - March 9, 2007, http://www.uica.org/visualArts.html.

Margaret Graham (BFA '05) first solo show at Modern Formations Gallery opened on December 1 as part of Pittsburgh's monthly First Friday's Unblurred event.

Kazumi Itoh (exchange student '05) is participating in an exhibition at the Nagoya branch of the national TV station NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) in Nagoya City, Japan, through December 25. In Kazumi's words, "The purpose of this exhibition calls for a helpfulness to each other. The artists learned about a warming phenomenon of the earth, and the necessity of support to a developing country, organ donation, a fund-raising campaign, and others. After that, we selected a theme as each, produced an art work, and made a illustrated book of our work that is being distributed freely in the street." http://www.nhk.or.jp/nagoya/heartproject/index.html.

Lauren F. Adams' (MFA '07) installation, COOPERATEXCOMPETE, is on display in the Zebra Lounge in the College of Fine Arts of Carnegie Mellon. The projected wall mural, rendered in gouache, will be on display through mid-December, 2006.

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