Professor of Art Jim Duesing presents his animation, Tender Bodies, at the 16th World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb, Croatia (June 14-19); ARCIPELAGO - International Festival of Short Films and New Images (June 4-10, 2004) in Rome; and in Seoul, Korea where he presents three programs at the Seoul Animation Center on June 11, 12 and 13. Duesing's animation was selected for the Short Film Market at Cannes in the Clermont-Ferrand section. http://ani.seoul.kr/FrontOffice/english/default.aspx;
http://www.arcipelagofilmfestival.org; http://www.animafest.hr/.

Patricia Bellan-Gillen, Dorothy Stubnitz Professor of Art, will open a solo exhibit at Artists Image Resource in Pittsburgh on August 7, from 7-9pm. The exhibit runs through August 28.
http://www.artistsimageresource.org/upcoming/upcoming.html.

Shawn Lawson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, is presenting Wu-Wei at Hotcakes Gallery's installation exhibit, Transported, June 4 - 13. http://www.hotcakesgallery.com.

Rick Gribenas, Miller Gallery Exhibitions Coordinator, is moving to Chicago this summer to attend the University of Illinois to earn his MFA in studio art. He has a CD coming out this fall under the group name Antennacle. Members include Eric Wood and Nathan Martin (BFA '99), currently a fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry. The recording was the result of a live performance made from an east coast tour in mid-April. An LP, Genealogies and Collaborations (an effort with a local Pittsburgh hard core band He Taught Me Lies [HTML]), was released in April on the Hope and Hard Travelin' Record labels. The Pittsburgh performance was at the MR. Roboto Project on June 3. Rick will be touring the U.S. this summer in support of it. He also performs in Chicago on June 10 at Dead Tech, a media arts gallery. http://www.deadtech.net/. He is also exhibiting in Jersey City, NJ at the Brunswick Window - a rotating community project run by Roger Sayer, an artist who exhibited at the Miller Gallery.

School of Art faculty, alumni and students are part and parcel of the 2004 Three Rivers Arts Festival. Storefront installations at 907, 916 and 922 Penn Avenue alternate between psychedelia, trompe l'oeil horticulture and nostalgia with: Paper RAD (Jacob Ciocci, MFA Class of 2004 et. al.) presenting sooner or later, it all gets real, described by art critic Mary Thomas as "a regurgitated consumer monster battling against late-night TV meltdowns in infinite fluorescent cartoon universes"; Sam Wheeler's (BFA '01) untitled tendril climbing from a schematic interior; and William Cravis' (MFA Class of 2006) 1946 nostalgic image of an idealized American family printed on hundreds of plastic motor oil containers. The Annual Exhibition at 937 Liberty Avenue includes works by Professors Clayton Merrell and Ayanah Moor, Studio for Creative Inquiry Fellow Stephanie Flom, adjunct faculty Jeremy Boyle and Rick Gribenas, graduate student Mario Marzan, and alumni Peter Burr (who won an Award of Distinction), Elizabeth Deasy, Laura Domencic, Jennifer Morris, Jill Palermo, and Terry Young. On June 4, Future Tenant at 801 Liberty presented Diamond Eyes, Crystal Visions, with graduate student Shana Moulton's performance, Decorations of the Mind, that alternated between trance and a quiet hilarity, complete with magic eye projections and Angela Lansbury's motivational moves. Across the street, SPACE Gallery continues Pin Up, a show of the photographically inclined, co-curated with alumna Jen Saffron, that also includes a host of School of Art alumni and students. And down at Point State park, undergraduate Corey Gavin participated in the Graffiti Mural Invitational. All of these exhibits remain on view through June 20. See Festival Performers Take Over the Streets, by Mary Thomas in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette at: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04160/328389.stm; http:// www.artsfestival.net.

Philip Pearlstein (BFA '49) has a solo exhibit of oil paintings, watercolors and drawings at Telluride Gallery of Fine Art in Colorado from mid-July to mid-September. http://www.telluridegallery.com. He also has a retrospective this June and July at Galerie Haas & Fuchs in Berlin. http://www.haasundfuchs.de.

Andy Warhol's (A'49) Hammer and Sickle is on view at Haunch of Venison in London through June 15.
http://www.haunchofvenison.com/.

Arthur B. Ostroff (A '56) recently completed a mixed media illustration, South Port Development, for the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority. The scene depicts the proposed enlargement and development of an existing Philadelphia port, and will be used at an upcoming European trade fair and other publicity initiatives over the next five years.

Mel Bochner's (A'62) work is discussed and reproduced in Jeffery Weiss' Language in the Vicinity of Art: Artists' Writings, 1960-1975, in the Summer issue of Artforum.

Joyce Kozloff (BFA '64) has been selected as a recipient of a 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Susan Schwalb's (BFA '65) collaborative book, Flume, is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Wynn Kramarsky donated the work as part of his collection to the museum, a gift discussed in a May 14 New York Times article.

Claire McConaughy (BFA '81) exhibited paintings and monoprints with Curcio Projects gallery during the Scope Art Fair in Los Angeles at The Hollywood Standard, May 21-24. http://www.scope-art.com.

John Currin (BFA '84) is featured in A Painter in Midcurrent by Raphael Rubenstein in the June/July Art in America.

Katharine Kuharic's (BFA '84) solo exhibit, Throb, runs at P.P.O.W. Gallery at 555 West 25th Street, May 27 - June 25. http://www.ppowgallery.com/main.htm; http://www.ppowgallery.com/artists/KatharineKuharic/index.html.

Sarah Stengle (BFA '84) exhibited collages this May in Visual Poetry at Pringle Gallery in Philadelphia. http://www.pringlegallery.com/.

David French (BFA '87) is featured in Stretching the Boundaries, an exhibition of his new paintings and sculpture at The Montage Gallery on Federal Hill, 925 South Charles St., Baltimore, MD. The show runs through June 30, 2004. http://www.montagegallery.com.

Juliette Borda (BFA '89) exhibits in Hello Chelsea at Bellwether's new location at 134 Tenth Ave in New York City. Bellwether is directed by Becky Smith (BFA '96). http://www.inch-inc.com/borda/bellwether.html.

Anna Conway, who studied at Carnegie Mellon's School of Art in the mid-90's, received her MFA from Columbia in 2002. She exhibited in Abeyance at Zieher Smith last January and will exhibit this June 3 - July 16 (with alumnus John Currin, BFA '84) in She's Come Undone at Artemis Greenberg Van Doren.
http://www.agvdgallery.com//flash.htm.

Mia Brownell (BFA '93) exhibits in two group shows this summer: Shifting Affinities, curated by Paul Clabby (BFA '91) at Yale University School of Art's Green Hall Gallery (June 11 - July 2, opening June 12, 3-6pm); and Second Nature, curated by Linda Dennis at Fish Tank Gallery in Brooklyn (June 18-July 19, opening reception June 18, 7-9pm). Recent paintings by Mia can be viewed at the online curated artist registry by White Columns in NYC, to be officially launched June 16. http://www.fishtankgallery.com;
http://www.artidea.org; http://registry.whitecolumns.org/view_artist.php?artist=293.

Andrew Johnson (MFA '94), Ruth Stanford (MFA Class of 2004), Adam Davies (MFA Class of 2005) and William Cravis (MFA Class of 2006) exhibited in LOOM 3: Labeler at the Chatham Label Mill in Pittsboro, North Carolina. The exhibit in the expansive former factory was reviewed by Caitlin Cleary in the May 26 The New Observer, and ran May 22-29. http://www.newsobserver.com/features/story/3605334p-3206619c.html; http://loom3.org/index.php.

Phoenix artist Jen Urso (BFA '96) is displaying her slowly deconstructing sculptural work, falling to pieces, in the Dirt Gallery located in front of the historic Icehouse, 429 W. Jackson, Phoenix, AZ. Her works embody ideas of change, destruction and growth. Fragile cement structures will decompose over time leaving a shadow of its former presence. The work will remain up throughout the summer until the pieces fall apart. Jen has also been accepted into the Virginia Commonwealth University's Summer Studio program for sculpture.

Paul Vanouse (MFA '96) is exhibiting in Join Us: Calls to Ecstasy from the Edge of Oblivion at Grand Arts in Kansas City through July 24. http://www.grandarts.com.

Rachel Schmeidler (BFA '98) is presenting the work of Austrian artist, Gottfried Helnwein, this June at her new West Hollywood gallery, Schmeidler-Goetz Gallery. She is also actively exhibiting in Los Angeles, maintaining a studio in Santa Monica. Her work was reviewed this April in COAGULA- a Los Angeles Art publication. This June, she is exhibiting in Abstract Elegant II at Don O'Melveny Gallery in Los Angeles. http://artscenecal.com/Announcements/0504/SchmeidlerGoetz0504.html.

Cat Mazza (BFA '99) is in the MFA IEAR program at Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy, NY, scheduled to graduate in 2005. For more on her work, visit: http://www.microrevolt.org.

Richard Pell (BFA '99) begins a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor position this fall at University of Michigan School of Art and Design.

Evan Tapper's (MFA '01) Sick Day is part of Elmgreen and Dragset's inauguration of the Tate Modern's new Untitled project space in London. Elmgreen and Dragset selected Tapper's work for the Building Identities program which includes films and videos that examine architecture's complicit role in defining our enactment of psychological states.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/elmgreendragsetident.htm.

Zak Jones (BFA '02) is currently a consultant for IT Systems at Washington Penn Plastics, Inc. This April, he gave a presentation, The Macroscope: Scales of Perception and Phenomenon, for the Theosophical Society in Pittsburgh. Zak begins graduate study this fall at Arizona State University's Master of Fine Arts program in Arts Media and Engineering through the Institute for Studies in the Arts. An overview of his work can be found at: http://www.newalexandria.org. He will also be giving a presentation this summer at Carnegie Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry on work that he's doing with Stephanie Flom for the Persephone Project.

Beatriz da Costa, former exchange student, and Brooke Singer (MFA '02) have work on the June Gate Page of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Artport. http://www.whitney.org/artport/gatepages/june04.shtml. Their Swipe was also presented this May at a conference, Freedom 2.0: Distributed Democracy, Dialogue for a Connected World, at the Washington Club in D.C. and was covered on the radio and print publications. NPR's April 1 All Things Considered and Wired Magazine's February 4 article, Great Taste, Less Privacy, discuss the work in greater depth. http://www.epic04.org/; http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=1806119;
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,62182,00.html?tw=wn_polihead_4.

Brooke Singer is co-curating Spectropolis, a three-day event this fall with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. The event includes 10 wireless projects and takes place in City Hall Park with off-site panels and workshops scheduled. Spectropolis examines the expanding use of wireless technologies in urban environments and underscores their implications for art, aesthetic play, community, and shared space. It is part of LMCC's larger program titled The New Lower Manhattan and Its Digital Futures, a year-long effort that brings together arts and music events, conferences, a think tank and web portal, to explore, demonstrate, and celebrate the role of information technology and interactive media in re-imagining the future of Lower Manhattan.

Tak Noguchi (MFA Class of 2003) has been awarded a Fulbright to study in India. As an artist whose work combines public art and technology, Tak will use the Fulbright award to explore the relationship between Information Technology workers in India (mainly those working in call centers) and end-users living in the U.S.

Shana Moulton (MFA Class of 2004) and her flower costumes for the Warhol Museum's Garden of Earthly Delight party were featured in the May 17 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Seen column, along with first year graduate student, Take Etani performing as a pollinating hummingbird and second year graduate student, Blithe Riley as curious onlooker. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04138/317363.stm; http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/style/columnists/horne/s_194424.html.

Fereshteh Hamidi-Toosi (MFA Class of 2004) and Matt Keegan (BFA '98) will both participate in Explosion LTTR at Art in General Project Space in New York City. Explosion LTTR focuses on artists working together and a community dedicated to critical feminist practice. Matt collaborates with Xylor Jane on July 19 and 20, while Fereshteh collaborates with Aisha Burns on August 4 and 5. The entire series of projects runs July 17 - August 5. The web site of the host group is: http://www.lttr.org/.

Ruth Stanford, (MFA Class of 2004) is teaching an Eco-art course this fall at Chatham College in Pittsburgh.

Several collaborative groups including School of Art alumni are exhibiting in The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere that involves contemporary artists who utilize strategies of art to address non-art audiences. These groups include subRosa (members include Steffi Domike (MFA '97), Laleh Mehran (MFA '97), and Hyla Willis (MFA '99) and Studio for Creative Inquiry Fellow, Faith Wilding), Critical Art Ensemble (with former professor Steve Kurtz and exchange student Beatriz da Costa), and Institute of Applied Autonomy including Richard Pell (BFA '99). The exhibit opened May 30 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA.
http://www.massmoca.org/visual_arts/visual_arts_future.html.

Kristina Lazar (BFA '04) is having a show at Modern Formations Gallery and Performance Space, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh. Opening reception, July 2, 7-12pm.

Lauren Adams, incoming first year graduate student, collaborated this Mother's Day with Victor Lytvinenko, (together, they are also known as BarnRaisers) to install the Million Stories Quilt at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The quilt was part of the Mother's Day Rally for Assault Weapons Ban and was reproduced in the May 10 New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/national/10MOMS.html?ex=1085206944&ei=1&en=1ba495a883ca7840.

Bill Cravis (MFA Class of 2006) was awarded 2nd Place in the Sculpture category of the Art of the State exhibition, at The State Museum in Harrisburg, PA, which also purchased his work, Factory. Bill also received a ProArts/Greater Pittsburgh Artist Opportunity Grant ($500) toward project expenses for his Three Rivers Arts Festival storefront installation, Nostalgia. Additionally, Bill will be teaching a Sculpture I course this fall at Chatham College in Pittsburgh.

Adam Davies, third year graduate student, is exhibiting in Remember My Name at Momus Gallery in Atlanta, GA, July 16 - August 13. http://www.momusgallery.com/.

Corey Gavin (BFA class of 2007) is participating in the Three Rivers Arts Festival's Graffiti Mural Invitational. The 120' graffiti wall was installed in Point State Park in late May. The mural includes graffiti artists from Ohio and traditional and figurative artists. http://www.artsfestival.net/annual_festival/2004/public_art.html.

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