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| FACULTY and STAFF ACTIVITIES | Elaine A. King's anthology of essays Ethics in the Visual Arts is scheduled for publication by Allsworth Press in 2006. She and Gail Levin are co-authors and editors of this volume. James Duesing is exhibiting in the 9th Manchester International Short Film Festival, UK, February 21 - 27, 2005. Duesing is also serving as Panel Advisor for Individual Artist Grants for Media for the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He has licensed three of his animations for 6 years to MOOV HD, High Definition Arts Channel, USA. http://www.moovlab.com. Duesing was awarded a 2005 Individual Creative Artists Fellowship in Media Arts from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Andrew Johnson was awarded a 2005 Greater Pittsburgh Artist Opportunity Grant. He is exhibiting Pressed: When Words Were Earth at A Space Gallery in Toronto, opening Friday, February 25 and running through March 26. http://www.aspacegallery.org/ Mary Weidner and Patricia Barefoot (BFA '87) present works in Cluster, a group exhibit at A.I. R. Gallery, opening Thursday, February 10, 6-8pm, and running through March 5 at 511 West 25th Street. http://www.airnyc.org/. Golan Levin has works in the following exhibits during
February or March: You Are Here: The Design of Information at
the Design Museum in London; Art Meets Media: Adventures in Perception
at the NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo; Making Things Public:
Atmospheres of Democracy, at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany; New Media:
What at the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, New York; and
Bis Repetita Placent (Concerning Repetition), Rurart Espace d'Arts,
Rouille, France. He is also lecturing in the Slash Arts Lecture Series
at Princeton University and the ALT.terrain Lecture Series at the College
of Santa Fe in New Mexico. |
| ALUMNI ACTIVITIES | |
Andy Warhol (Class of '49) has work included
in exhibits around the world: The Whole World Is Rotten at Jack
Shainman Gallery in New York City; feminae at Galeria Pepe Cobo
in Madrid; and Skulls: Images in the Face of Death at Schonewald
Fine Arts in Xanten, Germany. Elizabeth Asche Douglas (BFA '51) exhibited her work at The Campbell Memorial Gallery of Sewickley Academy, 315 Academy Ave, Sewickley, PA, February 1 - 18. The show was mounted as part of the observation of Black History Month. http://www.douglasartgallery.com/events.html Mel Bochner (BFA '62) is exhibiting in Logical Conclusions: 40 years of Rule-Based Art at Pace Wildenstein in New York City, February 18 through March 26. His 36 Photographs and 12 Diagrams was reproduced and discussed in Image Structures by Mark Godfrey in the February issue of Artforum. Sandi Seltzer-Bryant (BFA '74) was featured in a January 13 article by Arlene Nisson Lassin in the Houston Chronicle. Her exhibit at McMurtrey gallery was also discussed in the January 20 Houston Press. Bryant and her husband are getting ready to travel for eight months on a sabbatical to Freiberg, Germany, where she will rent studio space and continue her work. http://www.mcmurtreygallery.com/ArtistReviews.asp?artist=Sandi%20Seltzer%20Bryant%202005 Alan SyCip (BFA '76) is exhibiting his newest paintings
in a solo exhibit, Fierce Nature, at the new Ayala Museum in
Makati City, Philippines, February 10 through March 2, 2005. Mark Perrott (BFA '79) presents Swimmers, an exhibit of photographs at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, February 19 through April 3, 2005. Thomas Brown (BFA '80) is Assistant Professor of Painting at George Washington University in D.C. Katie Grinnan (BFA '84) has work in Treehugger: Now/Romantic/Nature opening February 25 as part of MAMA Showroom for Media and Moving Art's first show in their double space in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She also had work in this January's biennial exhibition, Art on Paper, at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC. http://www.showroommama.nl/treehugger.htm. Sarah Stengle (BFA '84) has a solo exhibit, Quatrains and Other Drawings, at the Erdman Gallery at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ though April 3. Boris Bally’s (BFA '84) P is for Platter appears in The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, published by Lark Books. His works also appear in Creative Metal Crafts: 25 Beautiful Projects for Your Home, by Joanna Gollberg, published by Lark Books. Steffany Hannan (A '90) lives in Manhattan Beach, CA
and changed her name to Kiki Candela shortly after marrying Dan Candela
(E '92). She has been working in the field of digital effects as a technical
director for Weta Digital, the New Zealand-based effects company behind
the look of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. She spent more than a year
working on the character of Gollum. She began her career in animation,
first on the feature James and the Giant Peach, before moving
into live action work for Robert Zemeckis’ Contact and
Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man. Teri Rueb (BFA '90) is currently professor in the Graduate
Department of Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her
large-scale responsive spaces and location-aware installations explore
issues of architecture and urbanism, landscape and the body, and sonic
and acoustic space. She is currently working on an interactive sound installation
to be installed in and around Boston Common in April 2005. In 1999 she
launched her first interactive sound installation Trace set along
a network of hiking trails in the Canadian Rockies (through Banff Centre
for the Arts). She recently launched Drift an interactive sound
installation set along the tidal flats of the Wadden Sea in Cuxhaven,
Germany for the exhibition Ohne Schnur: Art and Wireless Communication.
Rueb is also founder and CEO of a technology innovation studio that specializes
in the design of experimental interfaces. http://www.ohne-schnur.de; Andres Tapia Urzua (MFA '94) of Plan Z Media presents My Terrorism Video Festival in collaboration with Pittsburgh Filmmakers at Melwood Screening Room on Saturday, March 5 at 8pm. For more information contact: andres@planznow.com. The festival includes works by by Tapia-Urzua, Carolina Loyola-Garcia (MFA '00) and Richard Pell (BFA '99). Anne Lopez (BFA '96) is exhibiting paintings in Hot Dotz/Cool Dotz at Bossa Nova, 123 7th Street, Pittsburgh. http://www.annelopez.com. Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) is exhibiting in YOUgenics 3.0, through February 25, 2005 at the Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. YOUgenics exhibitions showcase visual and performance projects that critically engage genetics, biotechnology and related issues. He was recently awarded a Computer Fellowship by the NY Foundation for the Arts. This past year, he has also exhibited in several art galleries and museums, including La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; Bialystok, Poland; Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA, and WebLab, Orlando, Florida. Vanouse co-authored the 2003 book, A Recombinant History Apparatus Presents Terminal Time, published by John Benjamins Publishing Co. http://arnimal.com/events.html; http://www.noemalab.org/sections/arte_detail.php?IDArts=1500. Christina Hung (MFA '97) has a solo exhibit, Colonies and Cultures, at Off Grounds Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia, March 4 through April 1, 2005. The opening reception is Friday, March 4, 4-7pm. Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga (MFA '99) is exhibiting in the exhibition When Living Was Labor at the Bronx Museum February 3 through May 29, curated by Erin Salazar. Nathan Martin (BFA '99) and Glen Johnson (BFA '99) as members of Carbon Defense League, exhibited video documentation of the project Re-Code.com as part of Wayward Economy at Main Trend Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan, which opened January 21, 2005. Nathan, Glen and former student Greg Baltus will exhibit, as members of Carbon Defense League, a robotic visualization called MapMover alongside their software MapHub as part of Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, opening March 18, 2005 at ZKM_Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, Germany. The show was curated by Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour and runs through August 7. Joseph Hocking (BS Biology '01) is completing his MFA
degree in Digital Media this May at Rhode Island School of Design, where
he is currently teaching Introduction to 3D Digital Media. Ross Christy (BFA '03) is living in Portland, Oregon and is working as a teaching assistant for an afterschool arts program. His work is currently on exhibit in Domestic Politics at SPACE in Pittsburgh and in the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art Biennial in Loretto, PA. Adam Grossi's (BFA '03) film, Young Sun, has been accepted for the 2005 Brooklyn Underground Film Festival. The festival runs April 20-24 at The Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn, NY. http://www.brooklynunderground.org/; http://adamart.ice.org/. Elizabeth Deasy (BFA '03) is exhibiting in a two-person showUpsy Daisy! curated by Alex Smith for the Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery in Pittsburgh from March 11-April 30, 2005. An opening reception takes place Friday, March 11, from 5:30-8pm, with a matching reception on Friday, April 22, 5:30-8pm, as part of a downtown "gallery crawl." http://www.artsfestival.net. Dan Barrett (BFA '04) is Director of Summer Camp at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Janine Biunno (BFA '04) is teaching a photography studio class at Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA. |
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| UNDERGRADUATE ACTIVITIES | |
Jessica Jagtiani, Matteo Orsini, Travis Reik are exhibiting in 3 ME d-I-a at the University Center Gallery. Exploring the question of identity, this exhibit runs in conjunction with 'Making a Living, Living a Dream', a forum for students and arts professionals. Shirley Ng, former exchange student from Hong Kong, exhibited in a group show this January at Hui's Gallery in Hong Kong. |
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