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Associate Professor Kim Beck exhibits in Data Panic, a group show at Cuchifritos, Lower East Side NYC, on view through April 18. http:/www.aai-nyc.org/cuchifritos/titlepage.html
Professor Bob Bingham, Joey Hays (MFA ¹09), Claire Hoch (BHA '08) exhibit an array of
greenscaping in Vertical Gardens, the third exhibition of SEA
(Social-Environmental Aesthetics) in Exit Art's, "Exit Underground," a new
initiative and archive dedicated to work that addresses or suggests a
solution for social and environmental issues. Vertical Gardens is an
exhibition of architectural models, renderings, drawings, photographs and
ephemera that depict or imagine a vertical farm, urban garden, green roof or
poop tower, onview through May 9.
Bob Bingham, Ally Reeves, Adjunct faculty (MFA ¹08), Robin Hewlett (BHA '04)
spent Spring Break camped out, in residency, at the Coleman Center for
the Arts in York, AL, to continue the next installment of the One Mile
Garden project by planting food crops and fruit trees with the participation
of local residents.
Bingham recently attended the "Global Green USA: Green Urbanism Leaders
Summit" in Los Angeles, CA, to dialogue with thirty other environmentalists,
architects, urban planners, writers, critics, etc. in order to create a
manifesto, with guidelines for the design of sustainable cities.
Visiting faculty Jacob Ciocci (MFA '05) performed on March 21 with his group EXTREME ANIMALS along with Antoine Catala, LoVid, and NAUM in "PreDrive: News Music + Media" as part of the exhibition PreDrive: Art After Technology, curated by Melissa Ragona, on view at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, through April 5. Ciocci and Shana Moulton (MFA class of '04) show with Ryan Trecartin in Deterioration, They Said at Migros Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, May 16 - August 16. http://www.migrosmuseum.ch/home/?lang=en
Professor Elaine A. King's review of Franz West's retrospective, To Build A House, You Start With the Roof, Works, 1972-2008, organized by the Baltimore Art Museum appeared in the January/February 2009 issue of Art Papers. West, a Vienna based artist, is considered one of the most important living artists whose extraordinary work since the 1970's has influenced artists aligned with Relational Aesthetics. In addition, her review of the Carnegie International, Life on Mars, appeared in the March 2009 issue of Sculpture Magazine. Also, King is a manuscript critical reader for Oxford University Press and most recently contributed to the evaluation of the newly revised volume, "Themes of Contemporary Art, Visual Art after 1980."
Associate Professor Golan Levin will present artist lectures in the Utah State University Visiting Artist Program, in Logan, UT, on April 8, and at Flash in the Can (FITC), in Toronto, Canada on April 26. Levin's artworks appear in Point A to Point B, an exhibition at Lamar Dodd School of Art Gallery, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, from March 20-28; at the Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Australia, as part of the Experimenta Playground National Tour, from April 25 - June 7; in the Pictopia Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, from March 19 - May 3; in the STRP Festival, Eindhovn, Netherlands, April 2-13; and in Notation: Kalkül und Form in den Künsten at the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany from March 1 - July 26. An exhibition of works by Casey Reas and Marius Watz, Code and Form, curated by Levin, continues at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts through April 19. http://www.usu.edu/calendar/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=4450&day=8&show=oneday&year=2009&month=4; http://ideasforcreativeexploration.com/announcements/?p=413; http://www.bendigoartgallery.com.au; http://www.experimenta.org/playground-touring; http://exhibition.pictoplasma.com/pictopia; http://www.hkw.de/en/programm2009/pictopia/_pictopia/projekt-detail.php;
http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/6453; http://www.pittsburgharts.org/gallery_upcoming.php
Assistant Professor Melissa Ragona reviews sculptor Matthew Day Jackson's concurrent shows at Peter Blum and Martha Klagsburn, NYC, for FRIEZE magazine, Issue 121, March 2009. http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/matthew_day_jackson1
Associate Professor Suzie Silver and Hilary Harp screen "Nebula" as part of the Visual Music Marathon at the School of Visual Art¹s Visual Arts Theater, NYC, on Saturday, April 11. "Robot Love" has been selected to screen at the European Media Art Festival, in Osnabrück, Germany, April 22 April 26. http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2849; http://www.emaf.de
Aaronel deRoy Gruber (BFA Costume Design '40) presents The Analytical Eye, a solo show of photographs at Silver Eye Center for Photography, March 18 - June 27. Aaronel won a 2006 Alumni Achievement Aawrd from CMU. http://www.silvereye.org
Harvey Breverman (BFA '56) exhibited this winter in group shows at
University of Buffalo's Anderson Gallery, NY, and the Woodbury Invitational at
Orem Arts Council, UT. He lectured this February at Southern Utah
University in Cedar City.
http://explorewesternnewyork.blogspot.com/2008/11/art-event-at-ub-gallery.html;
http://www.uvu.edu/museum/exhibitions/current.html; http://www.suu.edu/pva/pdf/pressreleasebreveman.pdf
Mel Bochner (BFA '62) presents a solo exhibit at Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, IL, May 13 - June 26. http://rhoffmangallery.com.19.m6.net/exhibition.asp
Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) presents Interior Voyages: Recent Silverpoint Paintings, a solo show at Simon Gallery in Morristown, NJ, March 17 - April 18. http://www.simongallery.com
Dara Birnbaum's (B.Arch '69) dialogue, "Do It 2," with Cory Arcangel is the cover feature article in the March issue of Artforum.
Barbara Strasen (BFA '72) exhibited last year in Immigration: A Transfusion
for the Body Politic at the The USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art
Gallery and in Stimulating Consumption at Heineman Myers Gallery in
Bethesda, MD. She exhibited with Jagged Art this January at the The
London Art Fair.
http://caltek.net/igm/files/view/visions-and-voices/Immigration_-_The_Exhibit_Sponsor_Pack_8.pdf; http://www.jaggedart.com/events.htm
James Welling (BFA '73) has been named a Spring 2009 Pilara Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellow at the San Francisco Art
Institute. The U.S. Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics
(AICA) chose his recent show at Regen Projects in Los Angeles, CA, as the best
show in 2008 in a commercial gallery outside of New York. Welling presents Notes on Color, his sixth solo show at Wako Works of Art in Tokyo through
March 14. His work, along with Ryan McGinness (BFA '94 Design with Art Minor) was also
included in the group show The Garden at 4 AM at Gana Art, NYC, through early March.
http://www.sfai.edu/News/NewsDetail.aspx?newsID=1328&navID=214§ionID=8;
http://www.wako-art.jp/top_en.php;
http://calendar.artcat.com//event/view/1/8858
Paul Glabicki (BFA '72) presents Accounting for..., a solo show of drawings at Kim Foster Gallery in NYC, April 4 - May 9. http://www.kimfostergallery.com
Deborah Kass' (BFA '74) exhibits in sh(OUT): Contemporary art and human
rights at Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art April 9 - November 1.
http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/showExhibition.cfm?venueid=3&itemid=235
Sandi Seltzer Bryant (BFA '74) is into the final round of judging for the Hunting Art Prize. The $50,000 winner will be announced during the Hunting Art Prize gala on Saturday, May 2, 2009. http://www.sandiseltzerbryant.com
Marlena Novak (BFA '82) and Jay Alan Yim screened their work on Ottiva TV Contemporary Art Channel at Bettler Bankside Centre in London on March 4. http://www.ottica-tv.com
Sarah Ratchye (BFA '83) exhibited this January in Coming Attractions, a group show at Bucheon Gallery in San Francisco, CA. http://www.bucheon.com
Carolyn Speranza (BFA '85) exhibits Hand Cut Paintings during Unblurred at International Children's Art Gallery on April 3 at 5020 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, from 7-10pm.
Laura Karetsky (BFA '87) had her recent solo show at Lora Schlesinger in Los Angeles, CA, reviewed by James F. Cooper in the Winter 2009 issue of American Arts Quarterly. http://www.studio259.net
Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) has a solo exhibition of paintings on view at McKenzie Fine Art, NYC, through April 25. http://www.mckenziefineart.com
Carolyn Muskat (BFA '87) celebrates 15 years of printmaking, fun, and ink in Somerville, MA, in Muskat Studios' four exhibitions highlighting the work of artists who have been interns at the shop, beginning with Working Proof I on view through April 25. http://www.muskatstudios.com
Yaming Di (MFA '95) is living with his wife and daughter and working in Nanjing, China for Adia Digital Art Co., Ltd. a professional game outsourcing company.
Leah Piepgras (MFA '96) exhibited last month in Natural Wonders, a three-person show at Hess Gallery at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA. http://leahpiepgras.com
Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '97) presents a solo exhibit at McKenzie Fine Art, NYC, March 5 - April 15. http://www.mckenziefineart.com
Arden Bendler Browning (BFA '97) presents a solo show at Abington Art Center, as part of the Solo Series 2009 program, on view through March 27. Arden also has work in 3 juried group shows: The Visual Arts Center, NJ; The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; and the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA. Arden's work has been selected for inclusion in New American Paintings Issue #81, expected to be available at the end of April. http://www.abingtonartcenter.org; http://www.artcenternj.org; http://www.thedcca.org; http://www.woodmereartmuseum.org; http://www.newamericanpaintings.com
Mitzi Pederson (BFA '98) exhibits with Lotte Gertz in a two-person show at
The Approach in London through April 12.
http://artnews.org/gallery.php?i=108&exi=14835;
http://www.theapproach.co.uk/exhibitions/gertz-pederson
Seldon Yuan (BHA '98) exhibits his work at the Hunter MFA Open Studios on April 3 from 6-10pm with a Silent Auction from 6-9 pm, and on April 4 from 2-6pm, at 450 West 41st (btwn 9th/Dyer + 10th Ave) Studio 414, NYNY. http://www.seldonyuan.com
Lynn Lu (BFA '99) performed and lectured as artist in residence at Unitec AIR in Auckland, New Zealand, March 8 - 15. She subsequently lectures at Massey University in Wellington before traveling to Munich to perform and lecture at the Rathausgalerie in an April show curated by Peter Pinnau.
Mitzi Pederson (BFA '99) shows with Tony Feher and Allsion Miller at ACME in Los Angeles, CA, May 30 - June 27 2009. http://www.acmelosangeles.com
Cat Mazza (BFA '99) exhibits in Dritto-rovescio in the Triennale di Milano
in Italy through March 29 and in She Will Always Be Younger Than Us at the
Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto through January of 2010.
http://www.triennaledesignmuseum.it/mostre.php;
http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=exhibition.detail&exhId=297
Brett Milspaw (BFA Class of '02) directed Sahra Motalebi's 'Secret' video from her forthcoming Tender Mortal Means, EP 2008/2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPb_FTQ0-dQ; http://www.staticrecital.com/staticindex2.htm
Abraham Orden (BFA '02) is co-author of "Muntean & Rosenblum," an illustrated book published this March on the occasion of the exhibition Muntean / Rosenblum, 2008 at Arndt & Partner in Berlin. http://www.cornerhouse.co.uk/books/info.aspx?ID=2860&page=0
Laura Gonzalez (BSA '02) has been Creative Director for the Regenerative Medicine Partnership in Education, working on the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh since 2005. She has also worked as videographer and animator for Rosetta@home Outreach Video for the Biochemistry Department at University of Washington and as visiting faculty in the Immune System Project Class at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. http://www.lauralynngonzalez.com
Adam Grossi (BFA '03) presented his work in an MFA Thesis show at University of Illinois at Chicago's Gallery 400, March 17-21. http://www.uic.edu/aa/college/gallery400
William Earl Kofmehl, III (BFA '03, fifth year scholar) on invitation by Anna Kanai, opens his first international solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland. Kofmehl performed opening night with both his father, "Colonel Kofmehl" and Sam, "Samboloni/Sambo" Sigg. A video loop of Colonel Kofmehl's discussion of both global strategies and application to tactics in the Swiss sphere of operations will be presented, accompanied by illustrative embroideries and bronze sculptures which amplify his solution to the challenge. The exhibition runs through April 5.
Siobhan Rigg (MFA '04), Assistant Professor of New Media at George Washington University, received a grant of $5,000 from the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities.
Shana Moulton (MFA '04) screened 4 of her videos at the Stan Brakhage Symposium, March 14 & 15 in Boulder, CO. She currently has a video installation at the Bluecoat in Liverpool on view through May 10, and is performing in Madison at Starlight Cinema on March 26, in New York at Harvestworks on March 30, and at the Transmodern Festival in Balitmore, MD, on April 2. http://shanamoultonweb.com; http://www.colorado.edu/FilmStudies/brakhage/brakhage-final.2009.pdf; http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk
Jeffrey Augustine Songco (BFA '05), under the sobriquet, Gus23, exhibits his Mouse Drawings in Digital Ritual, a group show at Open Concept Gallery in Grand Rapids, MI, April 2 - 21. http://www.gus23.com
Sarah Koljonen (BFA '06) is currently launching an artist in residency program in Hong Kong. The Artist in Residence Scheme 2009 is a partnership program between Hong Kong Graphic Society and Hong Kong Visual Arts Center (HKVAC). This residency provides artists with the space and equipment to pursue printmaking at HKVAC, with the mission to promote the appreciation and understanding of printmaking in Hong Kong. The program will begin in May 2009. This year, three local Hong Kong printmakers and three regional printmakers will be selected. The program will highlight a series of lectures, workshops, and print demonstrations from resident artists.
Jessica Vaughn (BHA '06) is part of the group exhibition LATITUDE curated by Nico Wheadon at RushArts Gallery, NYC, on view through March 27. Additionally Jessica has organized a group exhibition Surface Matter/Printed Matter in conjunction with the 2009 Southern Graphics Printmaking Conference. The exhibition will be held at Marwen, in Chicago, IL, from March 20 - May 4. The exhibition includes alums Christopher Kardambikis (BFA '05), Adam Grossi (BFA '03), and Pittsburgh-based artist collective Encyclopedia Destructica. http://www.rushartsgallery.org; ,http://www2.colum.edu/sgc/Exhibitions.html; http://jessvaughn.com
Danielle Saudino (BHA '08) photographed "Divine Cupcakes: a Book of Temptation", by Tamara Jane. The book will be released in New Zealand and the United Kingdom on April 1, 2009. It will be available at all major booksellers. http://www.fleckstudio.co.nz
Ben Kinsley (MFA '08) participated in the Nes Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland for the month of February where he was awarded a stipend from the Cultural Committee of Northwestern Iceland. For the months of March and April he is attending the Skaftfell Artist Residency in Seyðisfjörður (east Iceland). He will exhibit in a two person show with Jessica Langley titled The Thirteenth Day at the Skaftfell Art Center which runs April 11 - June 7. His project "Street With A View" (collaboration with Robin Hewlett - BFA '04) continues to receive press and has been featured in recent articles in the Washington Post as well as included in Rhizome's "Highlights from 2008."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/04/AR2009020404124.html;
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2256; http://www.skaftfell.is; http://www.streetwithaview.com;
http://www.bkinsley.com
Nicholas Sean Glover's (MFA '11) work is included in the April issue of New American Paintings #81 for the mid-atlantic region. http://www.newamericanpaintings.com
Carolyn Clayton (BFA Class of 2009) participates in EXHAUST EXHAUST: POTLUCK VI, a group show hosted by Compound Warehaus in Philadelphia, PA, opening Friday, April 3. POTLUCK DIALOGUES between New York City and Angers, France happens in NYC on Saturday, April 25, 6-8pm. On May 9, POTLUCK holds a brunch and roundtable discussion between French artists in Paris and American artists at Artists Space in NYC. http://www.artistsspace.org; http://www.betonsalon.net
Congratulations to Anna Navasardian and Alexandra Rubinstein (BFA '10)
on their nomination as CMU candidates for the Yale at Norfolk Summer
Program. They will enter the next phase of the selection process, and
hopefully the School of Art can repeat the success it had last year with the
selection of R.J.Tripodi (BFA '09).
For information on making a gift to the School of Art, please contact: Wayne Savage, School of Art Business Manager: 412-268-8180, email: ws2p@andrew.cmu.edu.