Kim Beck's solo show, Looked Overlooked, which developed from a residency with Artists Image Resource through support of Heinz Endowments Creative Heights Grant, opens April 26, with a reception from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA. Current group exhibitions include Gangbusters at Plane Space in NYC and Shuffle, a show of artists' books at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, KY. Kim Beck had work included in an exhibited portfolio at the Virginia Commonwealth University Southern Graphics Conference. Her work will be in the upcoming 2008 Pittsburgh Biennial at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Kentucky Derby at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY, and at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art in NYC. Her new artist's book, "the grass is greener", is being published and presented by Moroso at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2008 in Milan. She is also giving a lecture and working with graduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was accepted into The Space Program, a highly competitive residency in New York with Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation for next year, as well as awarded a Visual Artist Fellowship at Yaddo for this summer.

Bob Bingham's installation "Green Horizons" is exhibited as part of Sublime Climate III/III, a group show in three parts addressing global warming, on view through June 10 at the Thompson Gallery, The Cambridge School of Weston, MA. An artists' reception will be held on April 11 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. and a Gallery Talk on March 17 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. http://www.csw.org/arts/thompsongallery

Andrew Johnson and Susanne Slavick presented their work at "Intended to Provoke: Social Action in Visual Culture[s]," The Fifth Annual Visual Cultures Symposium at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, on March 27.

Andrew Johnson presents Airborne, a solo exhibition a Bradley University's Hartmann Gallery in Peoria, IL, April 9 - May 1. This May, he exhibits sculpture in Political Craft at the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston, MA, May 9 ­ July 27. He will also present Cleavage for the Technology and Collage/Montage Roundtable at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association at New York University, May 22-24. http://www.societyofcrafts.org/, http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm

Elaine A. King presented a paper titled "Biennials-Cultural Carnivals, Spectacles of Banality or, Get First in Line at the Bank?" at the American Culture/Popular Culture Conference in San Francisco, CA, on March 20. She also chaired the panel "American Art as Spectacle." She has also received a 2007-8 Faculty Research Grant from Carnegie Mellon's Center for Arts in Society for her proposed book, "Taking Positions: Arguing Critical Criteria." The purpose of the book is to argue for the need for critical criteria by exploring the range of criteria to which works of contemporary art in the post-production era may be held and the proposed values such arguments are meant to sustain, contest or introduce. Additionally, it is anticipated that this research will be developed into journal articles and papers.

Golan Levin's work appears in Art in Mobile, at Galerie De Meerse, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands through April 30; in Holy Fire: Art of the Digital Age, at iMAL Gallery, Brussels April 18-30; in the Pittsburgh Biennial, at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts May 3 - August 24; and through May 5 in the Bitland exhibition at the Danfoss Universe Experience Park, Nordborg, Denmark.
http://www.artinmobile.com/?cat=33, http://www.imal.org/HolyFire/en/?page_id=28, http://pittsburghbiennial.org/bios/bio_levin.html, http://uk.danfossuniverse.com/page2451.aspx

Jon Rubin has received a 2007-8 Faculty Research Grant from Carnegie Mellon's Center for Arts in Society for "Other Options Pittsburgh," a symposium and project-based exhibition organized by Rubin's Carnegie Mellon-affiliated project TENT SHOW, Pittsburgh-based artist group ReTool and Chicago-based curatorial team InCUBATE. The symposium, which occurred April 11-13, was comprised of an exhibition, project-based collaborations between local and visiting artists, a panel discussion, artist presentations and a cottage industry expo. The project collaborators share an interest in creating alternative infrastructures for supporting and producing art, culture and resistance. Through art-based activity, Other Options Pittsburgh incubates tools and strategies with the potential to effect meaningful change for individuals and society, and bring together artists and community organizers to investigate, imagine and enact alternative economic models.

Suzie Silver is the Spring 2008 Distinguished Visiting Alumna at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). On April 25 silvertron and boyd [Silver and Terry Boyd (BFA S'09)] will present, I Heart Robots 2.0: A Spacedelic Video Dance Party, as part of the SAIC MFA exhibition opening celebration. During the party Silver will will also perform an excerpt from the the Harp & Silver collaboration, AV Lodge presents: Fruit Machine. On May 3 silvertron and boyd will present I Heart Robots 2.0: A Spacedelic Video Dance Party at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, as part of the opening events for the Pittsburgh Biennial. Harp and Silver's video "The Happiest Day" will be included in the group exhibition, under current, at the the Claremont Graduate University Gallery opening on May 16. She has also received a 2007-8 Faculty Research Grant from Carnegie Mellon's Center for Arts in Society for "AV Lodge Presents: Fruit Machine", a ten-part, evening-length media performance, taking a bawdy look at diverse sexualities. Sections of the project have already been presented in performances at galleries in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, IL. The full-length performance will premier in July 2008 as part of the Pittsburgh Biennial at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA, and will be performed again in November 2008 in San Francisco, CA.

Chris Sperandio and Simon Grennan's "Rubbing Shoulders" is the winner of the £5000 Futuresonic 2008 Art Award Commision. This new work will launch in Manchester, England, on April 30. Grennan and Sperandio also just won The Lowry's first Transformations commission, a three year programme of new site-specific art work. Grennan & Sperandio's new series of inflatable sculptures will be shown at The Lowry in Salford, England, from May 3 - June 29. Season two of Sperandio's TV reality series ARTSTAR will premier on GalleryHD on May 29. This 12 part series will follow recent MFA students from the School of the Art Institute as they make new work in New York, and then exhibit that work at the Scope Art Fair in Miami.

David Stanger exhibits in the group show Doc., new works by Robert Fundis, Paul Gabel, and David Stanger. at Spool Mfg., Johnson City, NY. The show runs from April 5 - May 17, with an artist's talk on Saturday, May 17 at 7:00 p.m. http://www.spoolmfg.org

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) presents a solo show at Galerie Mourlot, opening from April 15 -May 31. The reception is April 17 from 6-9pm. A catalogue is available just contact the gallery.Galerie Mourlot, 16 East 79 St. between Madison and Fifth Ave. (212) 288-8808 ny@galeriemourlot.com http://www.galeriemourlot.com

Katherine Morgan (BFA '67) has been juried into the "SPRING 2008 IMAGES" Gallery of the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Mizner Park with her works "Party Animal" and "Formal Wear" on view through May 7. Her cyclamen petals series of PINKS, as well as the award winning "Nosey" and 2006 Hortt56 Best in Show "Namaste", will be on view at GALLERY ONE from April 5 - July 6. Additionally, Aquarian Age gallery in Boca Raton, FL, will show a select few of Ms. Morgan's works from April 16 - June 1. http://www.kmorganphotos.com

Tom Norulak (BFA '71) presents etchings in the 2008 Regional Juried Art Exhibition at: the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts in New Castle, PA, April 15 - May 17; the 80th Annual International Juried Exhibition at the Art Association of Harrisburg, May 9 - June 12; and in the Westmoreland Museum of American Art Biennial in Greensburg, PA, May 11 - June 8.

James Welling (A'73) presents WORKS 1980-2008, a solo exhibit at David Zwirner, April 5 - May 3, in NYC, http://www.davidzwirne.com

Deborah Kass (BFA '74) exhibits in Just Different at the COBRA Museum in Amsterdam, June 14 - September 21. http://www.cobra-museum.nl/en/exhibitions.html

Joel David Abramson (BFA '78) recently exhibited his "Nature Path" series at the Penn/Lake Library, Bloomington, MN. http://www.joeldavidabramson.com.

Hugh Watkins (BFA '81) has created a sculpture for the new Animal Friends Headquarters, now known as the Carol Gates Gluck Resource Center on Camp Horne Road in North Hills of Pittsburgh, PA. The life-size figures are cast in polymer / gypsum bonded bronze and were featured on the live annual Animal Friends telethon on WTAE Channel 4. Cast cement copies of the dachshund component are available at the gift shop; proceeds from sales will be shared with Animal Friends. http://www.hughwatkins.net

Geraldine Ondrizek (BFA '85) will present a fabric installation about DNA fingerprinting at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, IL, August 1 - October 17. She presented a paper, "The Issues of Inheritance, Disease and Identity: Using the Visual Structure of Genetics," at the 2nd International Conference on the Arts in Society last summer in Kassel, Germany, http://www.imss.org/upcoming.htm; http://academic.reed.edu/art/faculty/ondrizek/;
http://a07.cgpublisher.com/proposals/141/index_html.

David French (BFA '87) presents his sixth solo exhibit, Painting Sedition, at Montage Gallery, Baltimore, MD. The show, which includes recent paintings and sculpture, runs from April 22 - May 31 with a reception on Saturday, May 10, 5:00-7:00pm. He is also exhibiting at The Academy of Fine Art in Lynchburg, VA through April 26 where he won a Juror's Choice award for his
painting "Sensuous Immediate." George Billis (CFA '89) of George Billis Galleries, NYC & LA juried the show.

Elaine Erne (BFA '88) exhibits in Emerging to Established: Twenty-five Years of the Center for Emerging Visual Artists at the The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Director's Gallery, PA, April 5 - July 6. http://www.philamuseum.org

Mia Brownell (BFA '93) has been promoted to full professor at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT. She is showing at: PULSE NY, presented by Margaret Thatcher Projects; Pretty Things: Confronting the Sensuous at Artspace in New Haven, May 15 - July 14; Local Growing Conditions at Westchester Arts Council Arts Exchange in White Plains, NY, May 16 - June 15; and The Westchester Biennial 2008 at Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle. http://www.thatcherprojects.com, http://www.artspacenh.org

Marc Fischer (BFA '93), with Temporary Services, exhibits in Personal Plastic in OFF THE GRID at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, NY, March 30 - June 1. http://www.neuberger.org

Rachel Schmeidler's (BFA '98) "Hollywood Most Wanted" series has received much media coverage in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and CNN. http://www.hollywoodmostwanted.com/abouttheartist.shtml,
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-celebrity16mar16,1,7112642.story

Lynn Lu (BFA '99) presented her thesis show, an idealized moment when everything is simple and secure, an Installation / Durational Performance and Artist Talk earlier this month at Musashino Art University, GFAL; Tokyo, Japan. http://musabi.ac.jp/e-home/location/index.html; http://www.lynnlu.info.

Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga (MFA '99) presented a solo installation On Transmitting Ideolog in March at Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA. The installation included eleven wooden guns outfitted with radios broadcasting declarations on freedom and transformation in our society. He also participates in a group exhibition, Art as Function, curated by Jane Simon for the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. http://www.voxpopuligallery.org/vox.php

Carrie Schneider (BHA '01) presents Elaborate Flirtations, a solo exhibit at Galleria FAFA in Helsinki this May. In October she presents another solo exhibit at Monique Leloche in Chicago, IL. http://www.moniquemeloche.com/

Bianca Beck (BFA '01) exhibited in the MFA Painting 2008 thesis show at Yale School of Art's Green Hall Gallery, April 5-12, in New Haven, CT.

George Magalios (MFA'01) and William Earl Kofmehl III (BFA '02) will teach this fall 2008 at Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in France. http://www.pontavensa.org/id16.html

Evan Tapper (MFA '01) is a Sessional Lecturer in Integrated Media at the Art Department of Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto. He participated in Off the Wall: Artists at Work at the Jewish Museum in NYC this March. http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/site/pages/onlinex.php?id=190&live_stat=OffTheWall

Emily de Araujo (MFA '01) recently exhibited in Go Native: Installed at Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery825 in Pasadena and in Artslant at Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, CA. http://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/9712-all-in-juried-art-exhibition

William Earl Kofmehl III (BFA '02) exhibited in Ornithology: Looking at Birds at The Contemporary Art Galleries (CAG), in collaboration with the University of Connecticut¹s Departments of Art and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in Storrs, CT.
http://news.uconn.edu/2008/February/rel08010.html

Semi Ryu (MFA '02) has had her paper, "Redefining 'puppet': paradoxical relationship between human and object," co-authored with Stefano Faralli, Paolo Bottoni, and Anna Labella, accepted at the conference of the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 in Singapore from July 25 - August 3. Her installation, "SAE-Gurimja: three shadows" was presented this March at the Computer Art Congress 2008 in Mexico City. http://www.isea2008.org/page/20/, http://europia.org/CAC2/exhibition.html

Cay Yoon (BFA '04) has been admitted to the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA, and will enroll this fall.

Shana Moulton (MFA Class of '04) and Tara Mateik perform for the annual multimedia festival Media Archeology, presented by Aurora Picture Show & Diverse Works on April 19 in Houston, TX. http://www.diverseworks.org/index.php?pgid=3&subid=8&cid=147, http://www.aurorapictureshow.org/

Takehito Etani (MFA Class of 2006) premieres his new work "Mandalaparallax" on the runway in two performances in Second Skin: Imaginative Designs in Digital & Analog Clothing, an evening opening that fuses science/technology and art/fashion at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA, April 25, 7:00-11:00 p.m.

Amos Levy (BFA '07) is the Outreach Program Coordinator for the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon. http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/aflevy/portfolio/index.html

Doug Fritz (BFA '07 and BS '08) has been accepted into the Ambient Intelligence Research Group at MIT Media Lab and will enter the Media Arts and Sciences degree program this September

Lauren Frances Adams (MFA '07) presented a lecture entitled "A Select and Somewhat Narrative History of Self-Portraiture" at the University of Chicago, IL, in March. She has also been accepted into the Jentel Artist Residency Program in Banner, WY, for the month of June-July. http://www.jentelarts.org

David Halsell (MFA '07) is currently teaching experimental video at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), Univresity of Washington.

Eileen Maxson (MFA '08) has an upcoming solo screening at Pittsburgh Filmmakers on May 29 as part of the Pittsburgh Biennial, PA. Also this month, Aurora Picture Show, Houson, TX, is realeasing her DVD "Lost Broadcasts: Video Works by Eileen Maxson." http://www.eileenmaxson.com

John Pena (MFA '08) has been awarded a Skowhegan residency for Summer 2008. http://www.skowheganart.org/, http://www.johnpena.net/

Michelle Fried and Chris Beauregard (both MFA '08) exhibit this month at New Insight, an exhibition of artwork by promising young contemporary artists curated by Susanne Ghez, Director of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL, and coordinated by Sarah Krepp, Artist and Professor at UIUC. All of the artists featured at New Insight will be on hand for a town hall-style meeting on Friday, April 25 from 1-2:30 p.m. at the NEXT Talk Shop on the 7th floor, Marchandise Mart. New Insight is comprised of artwork from 24 graduate students at 12 of the country’s most influential Master of Fine Arts programs: California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), Carnegie Mellon University, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Hunter College (City University of New York), Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), and Yale University. http://www.artchicago.com

Jenn Gooch (MFA '09) will display a collection of the gloves and notes from her onecoldhand.com project, a site for the collection, and hopeful reunion, of Pittsburgh's dropped gloves, at 820 Liberty Ave. on April 25 from 5:30-9 p.m., as part of the Downtown Gallery Crawl, Pittsburgh, PA. http://www.onecoldhand.com, http://www.jennifergooch.com

The School of Art BFA 2008 Thesis Exhibition: MAYDAY 2 opens May 2 at the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell Center for the Arts, CMU, with an opening reception from 6:00-9:00 p.m. Congratulations to our 2008 BFA/BSA/BHA candidates! BFA: Hye Sung An, Jose Baez, Emily Bellingham, Emily Berezin, Ben Bigelow, Dan Buchanan, Yvonne Chan, Theresa Chen, Monica Cho, Amy Conroy, Jake Cox, Emilia Edwards, Caroline England, Giana Gambino, Amy Johnson, Nicoletta Karvelas, Gene Kim, Elin Lennox, Spencer Longo, Michael Mallis, Jon May, Michael Pisano, Amy Pischke, Andrew Shedd, and Audrey Szeto. BSA: Alison Margolskee and Victoria Spindel. BHA: Claire Hoch, Rebecca Jan, Julia Kamper Stein (aka JULIAKS), Michael McParlane, Danielle Saudino, and Conor Sites-Bowen. For more information visit http://www.cmu.edu/millergallery or http://news.art.cfa.cmu.edu.

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