Kim Beck, Associate Professor of Art, was awarded the 2009 Prix Award of Distinction at Ars Electronica for her project with recent Visiting Faculty, Osman Khan, "when laughter trips at the threshold of the divine." She spoke in the Ars Electronica symposium and exhibits at the OK Center for Contemporary Arts in Linz Austria. Beck's work is also featured two shows in Baltimore, MD: a solo exhibition titled Ownership Society at the Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola College, as well as in In Our Nature a group show at the Maryland Art Place. There will be an Artist Talk / Reception Thursday, September 24, 4-6pm at Loyola, and a reception at Maryland Art Place the same evening from 6-8pm. Her work is also on view in Reanimation Library: Center City Branch at Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA. This summer she created an installation at Incident Report in Hudson, NY.

Bob Bingham, Professor of Art, Robin Hewlett (BFA '04), and Ally Reeves (MFA '08) are exhibiting the 'One Mile Garden' project at the Coleman Center for the Arts, in York, AL. The exhibit is a culmination of a two year project to catalyze a food production and distribution system in small town USA. The opening reception is September 25. http://onemilegarden.com;
http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~bingham/archive/onemilegarden.html

John Carson, Regina and Marlin Miller Professor and Head of the School of Art, performed with his group Johnny and the Wags in the Blackppol Pet-tastic, London UK. Carson also exhibits his work in The Visual Force, from September 18 - November 7, at The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland. Curated by Slavka Sverakova, The Visual Force is the sixth installment in the series Collective Histories of North Irish Art. Taking Joseph Beuy's visit ti Belfast in '74 as a starting point, the exhibition features the work of 21 artists across three generations whose artworks were in some ways a landmark in their fields including: film, photography, painting, drawing, scuplture, installation, and performance work. http://www.gtgallery.org.uk

Elizabeth Raymer Griffin, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, is in the group show, Digital to Daguerreotype: Photographs of People at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Works on Paper Gallery, on view through January 31, 2010, with a CMOA Lunch and Learn Program (Artist Talk), Thursday, September 17. Join curator of photography Linda Benedict-Jones for an illustrated talk on the ways people have been presented in photography throughout the history of the medium. After lunch, get a guided look at the exhibition with Raymer Griffin and other local photographers Charlee Brodsky and Dylan Vitone. Raymer Griffin also exhibits in Silver Eye at 30: Self Portrait Show through September 12 at Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA. http://www.cmoa.org/exhibitions/exhibit.asp#digital; http://www.cmoa.org/programs/adulthistory.asp; http://www.silvereye.org

Elaine A. King, Professor of Art History & Theory, guest curates the exhibition Likeness: Transformations of Portrayal After Any Warhol, opening October 9 at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. This group exhibition aims to examine human depiction in a post-Warholian era in which new technology has played an influential role. It includes the work of artists Jim Campbell, Paul DeMartinis, John Herschend, Nikki Lee, Joe Mannino, Greta Pratt and Tony Oursler. King's review "Dawn Black at Curator's Office, Washington, DC", appeared in the MAY/JUNE 2009 issue of Art Papers. Masks and dramatic costumes are signature elements in Dawn Black's watercolor, ink, and gouache wash drawings on tea-stain-colored paper. The work of this emerging artist evinces a refined draftswomanship and an astute understanding of power of masquerade, make-believe, and farce. King also was a guest speaker at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York on July 21 and did critiques with the students in the art school's summer program. In her talk titled, "Art in the Global Realm: Biennials—Carnivals, Spectacles of Banality, or Get in Line First at the Bank" is linked to the theme of that week's programs that centered around the topic of the Ethics of Capitalism. In her paper she discussed the structural paradigm of Biennials and raised questions about how such sweeping international exhibitions are influencing artists and flattening creative production. She raised the question: Are such global spectacles contributing to the demise of contemporary art because of their redundancy and interconnections with world art markets? Are educators and the institutionalization of contemporary art contributing to the creation of a new generations of artists whose work evince a FLAT homogeneous quality? http://www.mattress.org

Golan Levin, Associate Professor of Electronic Art and Director of CMU's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, will direct "Mobile Art && Code: Interactive Arts and Mobile Telephony", a conference at Carnegie Mellon November 6-8 about the aesthetic and tactical potentials of mobile, networked and locative media. The event will feature practical, arts-oriented programming workshops for popular mobile platforms (such as the Apple iPhone, Google Android, and SMS hacking) along with a symposium that contextualizes the use of these technologies in a variety of contemporary artistic and critical practices. Levin's own work appears in See This Sound, a large survey of 20th-Century and 21st-Century audiovisual art, at the Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria, through January 2010; in the Tweak Festival, in Limerick, Ireland, from September 21-26; in Collider: Interactivity + New Media, at the Emily Davis Gallery, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, through October 31; in Hybrid Geographies, an exhibition and event series at the SUNY Stony Brook SAC Gallery, from October 22 - December 11; and in Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, from December 8 - April 11, 2010. Golan will also present a keynote lecture and workshop at the Future Places digital media festival, in Porto, Portugal, from October 12-15; and a lecture about new media arts education at the annual conference of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD), on October 22. http://artandcode.ning.com;
http://www.see-this-sound.at/en; http://www.tweak.ie;
http://www.vam.ac.uk/files/press_release/59159_press_release.pdf;
http://www.futureplaces.org;
http://icfad.arts.usf.edu/content/templates/conferences.aspx?articleid=76&zoneid=5

Richard Pell, Assistant Professor of Art, will be lecturing on his project, "The Center for PostNatural History", at the Natural History Museum (Naturalis) in Leiden, Netherlands on Friday, September 11. Later in the month he will be exhibiting the show SEIZED with Critical Art Ensemble at Art Laboratory in Berlin, Germany.

Susanne Slavick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art, Herb Olds, and Mary Mazziotti (BFA '72) exhibit in Invisible Threads & Common Ground, an art exhibition curated by Vicky A. Clark, that originated last spring at Indiana University of Pennsylvania Museum, and currently travels to Clarion University Gallery, September 8 - October 16. http://www.iup.edu/newsItem.aspx?id=63657&blogid=6121; http://www.clarion.edu/114956

Stephanie Syjuco, Kraus Visiting Professor F08, exhibits in Craftwerk 2.0 at Jonkoping Lans Museum, Sweden, September - January 2010; We Must Indeed All Hang Together at Sullivan Gallery, School of the Art Institute Chicago, IL, August 22 - September 26; 1969 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC, October 24 - April 10, 2009; Frieze Projects at Frieze Art Fair, London, October 14 - 17; One A Day at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC, November 7 - December 19; and Craftivism at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, December 11 - February 14, 2010. Syjuco is currently Visiting Faculty at UC Berkeley and the California College of the Arts, Graduate Fine Arts Program, San Francisco. She recently received a 2010 International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) Artadia residency award in Brooklyn, NY, and is reviewed in Art Papers magazine for her solo exhibition Unsolicited Fabrications at Pallas Contemporary Projects and Space 126, Dublin, Ireland, May 1 - May 31, 2009. She will be a guest columnist for SFMOMA "Open Space" blog, September 09 - January 2010. http://blog.sfmoma.org; http://www.steohaniesyjuco.com

Susan Schwalb (BFA '65) exhibits her work in Re-Inventing Silverpoint: An Ancient Technique for the 21st Century at Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, through October 25, with a reception on Friday September 11 from 6-9pm, and a curator's talk by Margaret Mathews Berenson on October 10 at 4pm. The show tours to the Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT, from November 4 - December 10, with an opening reception on November 11 from 5-6pm. http://www.kentlergallery.org/index.html; http://www.conncoll.edu/artsculture/artsculture_fac_art_galleries.ht

Rita Baragona (BFA '67) exhibits with St. Clair Sullivan in A Marriage of Two Minds at Antoine Dutot Museum & Gallery in Delaware Water Gap, PA, September 26 - October 11. She will exhibit with Tony Serio at Bowery Gallery in NYC, December 1 - January 2. http://www.dutotmuseum.com/gallery/2009/baragona.htm;
http://www.bowerygallery.org/index.html

Patricia Colvin Burson (BFA '71) presents Five Easy Pieces at the Lakes Gallery in Meredith, NH, through September 29. Burson's paintings will also be on view in New Gallery Artists at South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, MA, September 18 - November 1.
http://ssac.org; http://www.chi-linasianarts.com/exhibitions.html

Deborah Kass (BFA '74) participates in The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, a group show at Cheim & Read, NYC, through September 19.
http://www.cheimread.com/exhibitions/2009-06-25_the-female-gaze

Barbara Rosenthal (BFA '74) exhibits work in the inaugural show at Central Booking in Brooklyn, NY, opening September 17. Her work is also available for viewing at Kentler International Drawing Space's Flat Files, Printed Matter's Artists Bookshop and MoMM (Museum of Modern Media), all in NYC. http://centralbookingnyc.com

Vivian Tsao (MFA '76) presents a solo exhibition of paintings and her book "The Mark of Time: Dialogues with Vivian Tsao on Art" in New York at the National Museum of History in Taiwan, October 2-25.
http://www.nmh.gov.tw

Renee Stout (BFA '80) curated the group exhibition Six in the Mix for Hillyer Art Space in Washington D.C. which closed on August 28, 2009. An online article," TO SPEAK BETWEEN: THE ART OF RENÉE STOUT" by Phoenix Savage appears in Art Voices. Her work is currently on view in Decade, the 10-year anniversary exhibition for McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, through January 9, 2010.
http://annemarchand.blogspot.com/2009/07/six-in-mix-selections-by-renee-stout.html;
http://www.artvoicesmagazine.com/news/18/67/reneestout;
http://www.mccollcenter.org/site/nav.cfm?cat=16&subcat=73&subsub=0&CFID=5688876&CFTOKEN=730e093f80a85f0e-5661E8C6-8A14-0C97-256CA3228F49E955

Charles Ritchie (MFA '80) presents a solo exhibit Charles Ritchie: Books and Pages, 2004-2009 at Bravin Lee programs in NYC, opening October 23 - November 28. http://www.bravinlee.com

Marlena Novak (BFA '82) presents digital videos and photographic prints at Magyar Möhely Galéria in Budapest, Hungary, September 16 - October 16.

Laura Sharp Wilson (BFA '87) presented a solo show, Spiritual Showgirls, at Friesen Gallery in Sun Valley, ID, July 29 - August 31. http://www.friesengallery.com/exhibit_artist.htm?eventID=67

Robert Dunn (MFA '91) is a digital artist and adjunct assistant professor at Duquesne University where he also directs TeleCommunity, an outreach studio experience in computer graphics for area youth. He is also President of non-profit Arc Vertuel, Inc. which designs museum-based educational software utilizing rich 3D computer graphics, animations and interactivity involving archaeology, architecture and artifacts / collections. His solo show, EverPresentPast, is on view through October 11 at the Pittsburgh Filmmakers with an opening reception on September 11, 6-9pm. http://web.mit.edu/solardecathlon/dunn_photography.html
http://www.telecommunity.org

Castaneda/Reiman (BFA '92) present Sculptures of Paintings of Places We've Never Been, a solo show at DCKT in NYC through October 11. http://www.dcktcontemporary.com/home

Julie Vinette (BFA '93) presents a solo show of her latest oil paintings and works on paper at Albright Art + Craft, Concord, MA, September 16 - October 18, with an opening reception on September 17 from 5:30-8pm. Some of the new work in this exhibit uses postcards from past art gallery exhibits and found scratch tickets to lament the loss of things past. Vinette is interested in the way we attempt to attach meaning to the inexplicable.

Marc Fischer (BFA '93) presents the work of Temporary Services in Revolutions in Public Practice, curated by Nato Thompson for the Creative Time Summit, co-presented with Live from the New York Public Library, October 24 & 25. Fischer and Temporary Services also participate in Free as Air and Water, a group show at The Cooper Union School of Art, NYC, September 16-24. http://www.cooper.edu/month.html; http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2009/summit

Dana Kleinman (BFA '97) and her sister (KX2) will be representing the United States in Gen Next IV opening October 1 at the Aakriti Gallery in Kolkata, India. http://www.kx2art.com

Christina Nguyen Hung (MFA '97) recently presented an artist's lecture at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung City, Taiwan, where her artwork, "American Vectors" appeared in FREEZE - 2009 MedTech Art Show. Hung will present new work as part of "Decodings" the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) annual conference. http://freeze.ntmofa.gov.tw/en/index_en.html

Seldon Yuan (BFA '98) participates in Nightshift III, a group show at Hudson Guild Gallery, NYC, on view through October 6. http://www.hudsonguild.org/programs_art01.html

Peter Coffin (MFA '00) exhibits in FAX, curated by João Ribas for the Torrance Art Museum I Torrance, CA, January 16 - February 20, 2010. http://www.torranceartmuseum.com/future.php#

Carolina Loyola Garcia (MFA '00) is working in collaboration with several artists and curator Ima Picó on Transfer Lounge, a project that opens September 17 - October 23 at Forja Arte Contemporáneo in Valencia, Spain and on October 2 at SPACE in Pittsburgh, PA. http://transferlounge.blogspot.com/2009/06/transfer-lounge.html

Kim Brickley (BFA '02) exhibited this summer in Syn-chronic, a solo show at Amos Eno, NYC. She also exhibited in two group shows, Where There¹s Smoke, There¹s Smoke, at Michael Steinberg, NYC, and in Fragmented Territories at Rodger LaChapelle Gallery in Philadelphia, PA. http://artlog.com/events/4137-syn-chronic;
http://www.michaelsteinbergfineart.com/exhibitions/press_release/36

Jacob Feige (BFA '02) exhibits in Super City at University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs, CT, October 19 - December 4, and in Next Wave at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, curated by Dan Cameron, October 3 - December 20. His work is also included in the soon-to-be-released Painting Abstract: New Elements in Abstract Painting, by Bob Nickas, published by Phaidon. http://www.contemporaryartgalleries.uconn.edu;
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1404

Brooke Singer (MFA '02) presents a Demolition Drugstore workshop at Conflux 2009, the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography on September 17-20, headquartered at NYU Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions, 34 Stuyvesant Street. http://www.undesigning.org; http://confluxfestival.org/2009/about

Cassandra C. Jones (MFA Class of '04) produced Send Me a Link, a solo exhibition of new works that ran August 1 - September 5 at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA. She was recently featured on BoingBoing Video. Her work is currently on view in Camera/Chimera, curated by Ethan Ham at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ, through October 3.
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-07-31-22-10-03-baer-ridgway-exhibitions-opens-cassandra-c-jones-send-me-a-link.html; http://www.dailyserving.com/2009/08/cassandra_c_jones_send_me_a_li.php; http://beautifuldecay.com/2009/08/03/cassandra-c-jones;
http://www.aferro.org/websitebaker/wb/pages/exhibitions/upcoming.php

Mark Baugh-Sasaki (BFA '04) was awarded a residency to create a permanent installation at I-Park in Connecticut, September 2-16. There will be an opening reception on September 19 and a catalog produced at the end of the residency. http://www.i-park.org; http://industrialforest.blogspot.com

Siobhan Rigg (MFA '04) and Carolyn Lambert (MFA '05) lead a group of 30 to 40 hardy people through an all-day tour of the the Northwest Passage and the melting Arctic Circle on August 15. This event "From Solid to Liquid" was part of the "Going Places, Doing Stuff" series of bus tours by the Flux Factory. http://www.fluxfactory.org

Jeffrey Augustine Songco (BFA '05), under the sobriquet, Gus23, was announced the winner of the Global Geek Week YouTube video contest for his video on 'Geek Art'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdTuad3x8Wo

Stephanie Armbruster (BFA '06) hosted NIGHT OUT: BRADDOCK a party to celebrate one year of events at UnSmoke Systems Artspace, Braddock PA, on August 15. Participating artists: Barb Antel, Stephanie Armbruster, Emilia Edwards (BFA '08), Jeanine Hall (MAM '09), Eric Harberle, Marc Nieson, Tara Powley, Fitzhugh Shaw, Josh Tonies, and Paulina Wilkowska. http://www.unsmokeartspace.com

Ali Spagnola (BFA '07) who works as a designer for Schell Games & Sim Ops Studios Inc., was recently contacted by the Director of Mobile Platforms at Google to use one of her songs as a ringtone for the new T-Mobile MyTouch G3. "Radiation by Spagnola" is now one of the default ringtones. The track is also available in iTunes.
http://www.t-mobilemytouch.com; http://alispagnola.blogspot.com

Michael McParlane (BHA '08) has been accepted to a seven week residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City, NE, through October. http://www.michaelmcparlane.net; http://www.khncenterforthearts.org

All 18 MFA Candidates will present their recent and upcoming work on September 21 in "G18: Earth & Space", from 6-9pm in Kresge Theatre, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. This annual presentation by graduate students offers the public a sneak peak into each students' creative processes as they develop a body work over the course of this 3 year program. (MFA '10) Brian Brown, Leslie McAhren, Amanda Long, Gian Carlos Silva de Jesus, Jonthan Trueblood, Derk Wolmuth (MFA '11) Courtney Dow, Jesha Chen, Sean Glover, Daniel Luchman, Rob Southard (MFA '12) Jonathan Armistead, Agnes Bolt, Sung Rok Choi, Jesse England, Riley Harmo,n Oscar Peters, Nina Sarnelle.
MFA profiles at http://www.art.cfa.cmu.edu/people/graduates

Nicholas Sean Glover (MFA '11) exhibited his work in two San Francisco shows: This & That, a group exhibition at Triple Base Gallery curated by Christine Wong Yap, August 7, and Annual Biennial group show at Michael Rosenthal Gallery, August 1. http://christinewongyap.com/work/2009/thisandthat.html; http://basebasebase.com; http://www.rosenthalgallery.com/Shows-Detail.cfm?ShowsID=31; http://www.rosenthalgallery.com

Riley Harmon (MFA '12) will exhibit in the Future Places Festival, October 13-17, Portugal. http://colab.ic2.utexas.edu/futureplaces; http://rileyharmon.com

Amanda Long (MFA '10) screens her work during InLight Richmond 2009, the second annual exhibition of outdoor light-inspired contemporary art, on September 25 in downtown Richmond, VA. InLight Richmond is an exploration and celebration of contemporary art free of charge for the whole community. Facades, walls, storefronts, doorways, parking lots and other unexpected places will be transformed by 27 international (US, Australia, Canada and Germany) emerging and established artists with video projections, sculptures, installations, multi-media art works and performance arts. http://www.1708gallery.org/inlight; http://www.amandalong.org

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