Department of Fine Arts and Art History > Events > Spring 2009
Painting One: Sixteen Students, Eight Assignments,Thirty-Five Paintings
An exhibition of work from a Painting One class.
South Gallery, Smith Hall of Art
through January 12 2009
Hours: M-F, 9-5
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Student Gallery Meeting
Tuesday, February 10 at 6PM
4th Floor Student Lounge
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Crowded Spaces
An exhibition of current Presidential Scholars in the Arts
2 – 13 February 2009
Classroom 102
First floor, Smith Hall of Art
9 AM – 5 PM, Monday – Friday
Closing reception: 12 February, 5 – 7 PM
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Comparing Notes is an informal evening lecture series featuring current MFA and MA students. It gives students the opportunity to present their own ideas, gain public speaking experience, and receive constructive feedback on their projects from a varied audience of both artists and art historians. This series also presents the audience with the knowledge of what others are working on, and will hopefully catalyze future collaborations among individuals with similar interests and concerns.
Comparing Notes: MFA/MA Spring 2009 Lecture Series
Room 115, Smith Hall
Session 1
Wednesday, February 11th
5:15pm-6:15pm
Moderator: Landis Carey
MFA: Teresa Sites
Sensuality of Synthetic Public Spaces: Love Paintings and Other Works
MA: Chesnee Klein
Elliott Daingerfield's Spiritual Visions
Session 2
Wednesday, February 25th
5:15-6:15pm
Moderator: Josette Allen
MFA: Patrick McDonough
A Consideration of the Effects of Leisure Studies on Contemporary Art
MA: Elizabeth Berler
Charles Willson Peale's Mordecai Gist
Session 3
Thursday, March 12th
5:15-6:15pm
Moderator: Jordan Amirkhani
MFA: Steve Ioli
A Talk by Steve Ioli
MA: Emilie Kretchmar
The Beast in the Garden: Vernacular Literature and the Monastic “claustrum”
Session 4
Wednesday, April 1st
5:15-6:15pm
Moderator: Margaret Collerd
MFA: Ding Ren
Make Me A Mix Tape: Nostalgia, Punk Rock & Cultural Criticism
MA: Faye Gleisser
Life of the Party: What Happens to Art when Museums Celebrate
Session 5
Monday, April 6th
5:15-6:15pm
Moderator: Allison Benkovic
MFA: Sarah Koss
Thoughts on Thoughts
MA: Lindsay Amini
Éva Gonzalés: Manet's Protege, Morisot's Competition or Someone Else Altogether?
Session 6
Thursday, April 23rd
5:30-6:30pm
Moderator: Giselle Larroque Obermeier
MFA: Chanan Delivuk
When Science, Technology, and Art Collide: Blurring Disciplines
MA: Lindsey Bieber
The Male Modern Dancer: Contextualizing Katherine Dreier’s Portrait of Ted Shawn
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Slide Demonstration and Presentation by Gwen Bragg, NWS
Topic: Lee Weiss technique
When: Thursday, February 19 at 2 pm
Where: Smith Hall of Art, Room 401B
This event is open to the public.
About the presenter: Gwen is a signature member of the National Watercolor society and a teacher at both the Alexandria Art League and Lorton Workhouse Art Center. She was juried into a studio space there as well. Gwen has a BS and MFA from James Madison University. She exhibits in national and international shows and has won many awards for her work. Her web site is http://www.gwenbragg.com.
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SUBMIT WORK TO THE UPCOMING UNDERGRAD ART SHOW!!
We are currently calling for all undergrads interested in submitting work to the next Fine Arts Department show to submit entries on Tuesday, February 17th. All work should be dropped off in Classroom 102 that day, as it will be open specifically for that purpose.
The show will be running from that Tuesday, until February 26th when there will be a closing reception for the show.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A FINE ARTS MAJOR OR MINOR TO SUBMIT WORK!
As long as you are an undergraduate student at the George Washington University, and the work is completed, in good condition, etc. the curators of the exhibit will consider it to be part of the final show selection.
PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR WORK and be part of our gallery!!
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MFA Open Studios at George Washington University
Saturday, Feb 28th, 1-4 pm
Smith Hall of Art
2nd, 4th, 5th Floor Studios
801 22nd Street NW
Washington DC 20052
Participating Artists:
Celina Amaya
Chanan Delivuk
Steve Ioli
Sarah Koss
Jacqueline Levine
Patrick McDonough
Maureen O Connell
Ding Ren
Teresa Sites
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Joan Kee on The Curious Case of Contemporary Ink Painting
Wednesday, March 11 at 5:30pm
Smith Hall of Art, Room 115
Joan Kee is an Assistant Professor of History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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International Sculpture Center Student Competition
Please submit 3 jpegs, artist statement, and CV to art@gwu.edu for consideration.
Deadline: March 13th
Nominees will be notified by March 23rd
Accepted applicants will then be required to individually complete submission process by April 27th
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Got an eye for art? Show off your skills with recycled materials! You can win up to $500 from Colonial Challenge by creating eco friendly art work and submitting it to the RecycleMania Art Challenge! Group submissions can walk away with $500 for their winning entry, and individuals can win up to $200 for their personal entry. Submissions must meet the following criteria and be submitted to Colonial Challenge no later then 5 pm, March 20th, 2009. All submission must contact Colonial Challenge (colonial@gwu.edu) to schedule a drop off time for their work.
ART SPECIFICATIONS
1. Materials that would have otherwise been trash.
2. Media of your choice. If you opt to use media of your choice, the piece must use the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) message by using recycled materials in the finished product.
3. There is no size limit, however items that are not able to be delivered by hand to Colonial Challenge must be stored by the artist.
All other pieces submitted to Colonial Challenge become property of Colonial Challenge and Recyclemania.
JUDGING & AWARDS
All contestants will be judged on the following criteria:
A. Use of Recyclable materials
B. Creativity
C. Originality
D. Level of Effort
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Announcing: An opportunity to donate your own original art as part of a charity auction called “Artists for Art,” which is being held in Richmond, VA.
The auction is intended to raise money for two mission trips: the first will be to New Orleans to help Hurricane Katrina victims; the second will be to Belize, where they will be working on establishing a summer art, music, and sports program for children in the country.
What to do: Any type of art donation is appreciated, large or small, and all donations are tax deductible. Art will be priced according to the value you wish to provide, and no bids will be accepted below your price. Any unsold art will be returned to you. Artwork should be submitted by APRIL 3RD.
When/Where: The auction will be held on April 17th at Grace and Holy Trinity Church. The church is located at 8 North Laurel Street, Richmond, VA. It will last from 6-8 PM, and there will be live music, wine, and hors d’oeuvres.
Here is the donation form. If you are interested or if you have any questions, please email Mary Williams at margib82 at gmail dot com.
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Tuesday, March 31 at 6:30pm
Smith Hall of Art, Room 114
“One has no choice,” writes the artist Candice Breitz “if one lives in large urban centers, but to consume the cultural produce of global capitalism. But consumption must be followed by digestion and then excretion.” By these lights globalization is both a somatic experience and a bodily process. But does what passes through us in the guise of global culture leave some structuring trace? When does performance stop, if at all? Like Everyday People, a companion lecture to be presented on March 30 at The Phillips Collection, Behaving Globally considers various contemporary efforts to figure these issues, not least through what sets them apart from the main assumptions of1970s approaches to cultural imperialism. Globalized behavior, it seems, cannot simply be understood as hegemonically imposed.
Anne Wagner is Class of 1936 Chair and Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Announcing…
The Spring 2009 New York City Bus Trip!
Friday, April 10, 2009
Leave Foggy Bottom (in front of Gelman Library) @ 7 AM
Arrive Chelsea (23rd and 10th) @ 11- 12 noon
Leave Chelsea (23rd and 10th) @ 8 PM
Free for all students currently enrolled in a Fine Arts or Art History class
$25 for non-FAAH students (one-way or round trip)
Sign up in Smith A-101!
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Computers Can't Play Jazz:
an MFA Thesis Exhibition
by Steve Ioli
March 30th-April 10th
Closing Reception April 9th from 5-7
Classroom 102
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Consumer Society and Recycled Mania
Through April 18th
M - F, 9 - 5
Smith Hall of Art
This exhibition focuses on our present society and consumerism. Once we stop buying the economic engine stops; consequently we enter a recession. This is something all of us are witnessing right now.
Whether or not the economic growth is good for the earth is another problem. Definitely, air pollution was a much lesser problem 100 years ago. On the other hand, it is good that we have more convenience and comfort today compared to living 100 years ago. We love anything fast and easy. We can no longer give up computers, cell phones and cars for our daily lives.
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MFA student Ding Ren has her first solo show, HERE/THERE, at the University of Maryland Stamp Gallery this week. The show is curated by Megan Rook-Koepsel and Jennifer Quick. Please read the press release for more information.
Opening reception: Wednesday, April 8, 6-8pm (with performance by Ding’s band, Bible Kiss Bible)
Please follow this link for directions to the gallery:
http://www.union.umd.edu/gallery/directions.html
The Stamp Gallery
1220 Stamp Student Union
Adele Stamp Memorial Union
The University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
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"one to one"
Ding Ren
MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 13 - 24, 2009 - Classroom 102
Reception: Wednesday, April 22, 6-8pm
www.dingren.net
read the press release here
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Meredith Martin: "Indomania at Versailles in 1788"
Wednesday, April 22 at 5:15pm
Smith Hall of Art, Room A-115
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Contemporary Art Think Tank
APRIL 24-25, 2009:
www.cattdc.org
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The 2009 Contemporary Art Think Tank meeting takes place April 24th and 25th. This years topic is Formalism in Contemporary Art. Core group participants include: Kate Butler, (Curator, Wash U Art Gallery), Noah Chasin (Asst. Prof of Art History Bard College), Harry Cooper (Curator, National Gallery of Art), Anne Goodyear (Curator, National Portrait Gallery), Joan Kee (Asst. Prof. of Art History University of Michigan), Michelle Kuo (Senior Editor, Artforum International), Bibi Obler, Lane Relyea (Asst. Prof. Northwestern University), Irene Small (Asst. Prof. of Art History University of Illinois), and Matthew Witkovsky (Curator, Art Institute of Chicago).
Graduate students from GW, Univ of Illinois, and Univ. of Maryland will participate in two graduate student only sessions on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. They will then join the core group for the Saturday afternoon session. Graduate students will also come to a catered dinner with core participants on Friday evening.
The Contemporary Art Think Tank meetings provide an exciting outlet for engaging in stimulating conversations, interacting with both graduate student peers as well as leading contemporary art historians, curators, and critics, and learning about cutting edge developments in the field.
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden:
Tuesday, Feb. 17; 7 p.m.
Meet the Artist: Ori Gersht
Join London-based Israeli artist Ori Gersht for our first Meet the Artist talk of the season. Gersht will lead an informal discussion of his photographic series and film work in the museum's Lerner Room. Two of his films, "Pomegranate" and "The Forest" (both 2006), are currently on view in the Black Box. This program is free and presented in conjunction with the Embassy of Israel. Meet the Artist is made possible through the generosity of the Steven and Heather Mnuchin Foundation.
Thursday, Feb. 26; 7 p.m.
Lecture: Donald Kuspit on The Phallic Woman: Conflict and Fragmentation in Louise Bourgeois' Conception of the Female Body
Donald Kuspit, professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and contributing editor at "Artforum," discusses the tensions between the phallic and the womanly in Bourgeois' work and interprets the artist's understanding of the nature of the female body and the character of female selfhood. This program is free.
Thursday, Mar. 12; 7 p.m.
James T. Demetrion Lecture: James Turrell
Since 1979, James Turrell has been working with light and space on an enormous scale, turning the 400,000-year-old dormant volcano near Flagstaff, Ariz., into a work of art. Roden Crater is a kind of celestial observatory with spaces that engage the viewer with the light of the sun, moon and stars. Richard Andrews, president of the Skystone Foundation, which administers the crater project, joins Turrell for a discussion of the artist's career, particularly the development of the massive undertaking that is Roden Crater. This program is free and made possible by the Friends of Jim and Barbara Demetrion Endowment Fund, established in 2001 to celebrate Jim Demetrion's seventeen-year tenure as the Hirshhorn's second director.
Thursday, March 26; 8 p.m.
An Evening with David Polonsky
Award-winning Israeli illustrator/animator David Polonsky discusses his work as art director and lead artist on Ari Folman's film "Waltz with Bashir" (2008), an animated documentary that relates Folman's recollections of serving as a soldier during the 1982 war in Lebanon. This program is free and presented in conjunction with the Embassy of Israel.
Friday, April 3; 12:30-1 p.m.
Friday Gallery Talk:
GWU Professor of Art History Alexander Dumbadze on Hans Haacke
Location: Meet at the Information Desk
Friday, April 10; 12:30-1 p.m.
Friday Gallery Talk
Director Heidi Bardot and Professor Lisa Garlock of GWU's Art Therapy Program on Louise Bourgeois
Location: Meet at the Information Desk
Friday, April 24; 12:30-1 p.m.
Friday Gallery Talk
DC-area artist (and GW Ceramics Instructor) J.J. McCracken on Louise Bourgeois
Location: Meet at the Information Desk
Friday, May 8; 7 p.m.
Meet the Artist: Gary Simmons
New York-based artist Gary Simmons has been making "erasure" drawings since the early 1990s, when his studio occupied a former school. Simmons discusses this trademark process of using chalk on prepared panels that mimic schoolroom chalkboards, like in the Hirshhorn's "Blackboard (Triple-Eyed Maestro)" (1993), to confront the racial stereotypes that are still prevalent in today's popular culture. This program is free. Meet the Artist is made possible through the generosity of the Steven and Heather Mnuchin Foundation, with additional supoort from Henry Thaggert.
Friday, May 29; 12:30-1 p.m.
Friday Gallery Talk
Curatorial Research Associate (and GWU Drawing instructor) Ryan Hill on "Directions: Walead Beshty"
Location: Meet at the Information Desk
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National Portrait Gallery:
Please join us on Friday, March 27, for these exciting programs, held in conjunction with the opening of the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition "Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture" (March 27–August 2, 2009). Both will be held in the McEvoy auditorium of the Donald W. Reynolds Center at 8th and G Street, NW. Both are free and open to the public. RSVPs are appreciated. Those interested in attending may RSVP or find more information by contacting NPGPrints@si.edu or 202-633-8330.
- "Conservation Panel: New Research on Marcel Duchamp Portraits by Jean Crotti" features conservators and curators from the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery who discuss new research on portraits of Marcel Duchamp by his brother-in-law, Jean Crotti. Time: 10:00–11:30 a.m.
More information on these and other programs is available at www.npg.si.edu.
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The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art presents
Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
Immersion: Visuality from Slavery to Katrina
Friday, April 24, 12 p.m.
Lecture Hall, 950 Independence Ave, SW
In the context of Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas, Nicholas Mirzoeff shall show how modern visuality has imagined the division between the sea and the land in a series of crises of "immersion" that draw spectator into the work of art. Taking as key examples Joseph Turner's Slavers (1840) and Spike Lee's film document of Katrina When the Levees Broke (2006), he will show that visuality can be challenged from the place of sea.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Jean Shin: Common Threads
Friday, May 1 at 7 pm
Renowned artist Jean Shin speaks about her recent work and the process of installing her new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Reception to follow
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Center for the Study of Modern Art at the Phillips Collection:
Wednesday, January 28
5:30pm
Fred Wilson
Wednesday, March 4
5:30pm
Eli Sudbrack
Wednesday, April 1
5:30pm
Joel Ross
Wednesday, April 15
5:30pm
Jorge Pardo
These programs take place at the Center, located in the Carriage House behind the museum. Free; registration required: kstilwill@phillipscollection.org or 202-387-2151 x286
Center programs are made possible by a generous grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston.
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Dean Kessmann’s “Architectural Intersections” at the Conner Contemporary (April 4- May 23) was written about in the latest Columbian College of Arts and Sciences newsletter. Please click here and here for additional information on this exhibition.
Conner Contemporary (1358-60 Florida Ave, NE): Erik Thor Sandberg: Cyclical Nature, Dean Kessmann: Architectural Intersections, Isaac Mailselman: Entre el Dios, El Diablo. April 4 - May 23, 2009
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G FINE ART is pleased to announce (GW Photography Instructor) CHAN CHAO: Six Years Eight Months, April 18 – May 23, 2009. Opening reception Saturday April 18, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm
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Eligibility
The show is open to all GW students who were or currently are enrolled in Fine Arts courses within the current academic year 2008-2009 or whose works have been produced since April 2008 in conjunction with a GW course.
Conditions of Entry
Eligible artists may submit up to three works. Each work must have one copy of the entry form attached to the back. The other copy of the form with duplicate information must be turned in to department staff when the work is dropped off for jurying. All works, if chosen by jury for inclusion in show, must be ready for hanging on proper hanging devices and installed by the artist on the 30th of April and 1st of May. All accepted art will remain in the exhibition for the duration of the show.
All submissions must have the following information attached: your name, class year, phone number, email address, title of work, size, medium, and date completed. Please also give this information to the staff in the Smith Hall of Art main office.
Calendar
Monday, April 27 — Submission of artwork for jurying to Classroom 102 (10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Tuesday, April 28 — Submission of artwork for jurying to Classroom 102 (10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Wednesday, April 29 — Jurying and subsequent notification of students if work is not accepted into exhibition.
Thursday, April 30 and Friday, May 1 —Installation in Classroom 102; all students selected for exhibition must install their work in the gallery on these days.
Thursday, April 30 — Pick-up work not selected for exhibition from Classroom 102 (10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.)
Tuesday, May 5 — Opening reception, Classroom 102 (5:00 - 6:00 p.m.)
Friday, May 29 — Pick-up artwork from exhibition from Classroom 102 (10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Monday, June 1 — Pick-up artwork from exhibition from Classroom 102 (10:00 am - 5:00 p.m.)
1st place: $1,500
2nd place: $1,000
3rd place: $750
GW Alumni: $800
Singamann (for design and/or watercolor): $600
Steck (sculpture): $1,000
Barbie (sculpture): $1,000
Toel (MFA photography): $800
Classroom 102
Department of Fine Arts and Art History
2009 Annual Awards Show Prizes
(Prizes Awarded by Sarah Newman, April 29, 2009)
96 entries
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1st Place
Patrick McDonough – 092704-awning
2nd Place
Maureen O’Connell – Parallel
3rd Place
Celina Amaya – Landscape Intervention
GW Alumni Award
Patricia Nowlan – Match
Julian H. Singman, Esq. Prize (for design and/or watercolor)
Jacqueline Levine – The Dream Sequence
Steck Award in Sculpture
Hannah Byam – Islands
William C. Barbee Prize (sculpture)
Steve Ioli – Which
Toel Award (MFA photography)
Ding Ren – Untitled (Tennis Court 1)
Photos from the show, installation, and opening reception:
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From Sketchbook to Suspension: Trajectories in the Age of Synthesis
May 21-June 11, 2009
Mitchell Gallery
St. John's College
Annapolis, Maryland
Panel Discussion
May 31, 3:00 PM
Opening
May 31, 4:00-6:00 PM
Helen Frederick: Curator
Yuriko Yamaguchi's participatory installation is drawn from the following: "What is the purpose for galleries and museums? Mostly we go to see artists' productions and remain as viewers. But is it possible for a gallery or a museum to become a place for individuals to participate in the activity of 'praying' and be a gathering space for those people? With such a hope I would like to offer all the materials and tools and call for participation. Usually we meet and separate. How about letting things happen and creating a form as a locust of people's prayers? I choose not to control; rather, I am interested in observing the process and progress throughout the exhibition. It is absolutely unpredictable work. We will find a true beauty that is a culmination of people's power to pray and hope for our better future."
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Celina Amaya
Untitled and Unsung: Acts of Futility in Painting and Drawing
MFA Thesis Exhibition
June 1 – 19, 2009
Reception: Monday, June 1, 7-8pm
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Professor Ozdogan is a part of the Korean Embassy's Korus Cultural Gala:
Five Different Expressions: Clay, Metal, and Wood Sculptures
Opening Reception with the Artists: Tuesday, May 19 @ 6:30 pm
Exhibit Dates: May 19 – June 24, 2009
(9:30 am – 5:30 pm Mon.-Fri.; closed Memorial Day, May 25)
Location: KORUS House, Embassy of the Republic of Korea
2370 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington D.C. 20008
Free and Open to the Public; RSVP Required
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The Twelfth Man
June 12 - July 12
Opening Reception: June 12, 7-9pm
Gallery Talk: July 12, 5pm
Work by Patrick McDonough and Kenny George
Curated by Faye Gleisser
District of Columbia Arts Center
2438 18th St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
www.dcartscenter.org
This exhibition was recently featured in The Washington Post:
Galleries: Kenny Hunter at the Conner; Patrick McDonough and Kenny George at the DCAC
By Jessica Dawson
Special to The Washington Post
June 19, 2009
'The Twelfth Man'
In "The Twelfth Man" at DCAC, the sport-art divide crumbles as two smart young artists address athleticism and play.
Patrick McDonough refracts the art world through sports metaphors in a mix of works that use fantasy football, picnicking and former NBA star Chris Mullin as fodder. A series of four drawings where McDonough drew concentric lines around vintage pictures of sports heroes literalize the fan's awe. Two bloated, oversize trophies wryly address the competitive field for young artists as well as our self-congratulatory society. One is a lemon-yellow, chest-high behemoth. Vinyl letters spell "YOUNGER THAN JESUS ARTIST" across its front. The reference is to the exclusive triennial of young artists now on view at New York's New Museum. McDonough's piece is a plaint and a gibe.
Where McDonough speaks to spectatorship, fandom and belonging, Kenny George addresses couch potatoes. His message: Get moving. Here he presents photographs by looking from three different angles. We're forced to move across his pictures to take them in. As we do, we move with the artist -- he's in all his pictures -- across the frame.
What's George up to? Riding a unicycle in front of a work site, popping up and down on a pogo stick in the woods, jumping off a trampoline. Acting in urban parks and on city streets, George adds a sense of play to everyday life. George's earnestness makes the perfect foil for McDonough's more knowing gestures.
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MFA student Jacqueline Levine has an upcoming exhibition in New York City:
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Prof. John James Anderson has a new body of work on exhibit at the Glenview Mansion Art Gallery this month. Also on exhibit are works by urban photographers D.B. Stovall and David Feltenberger
The new work, Maintenance Required, is a documented exploration of Washington, DC neighborhoods, with the broken fire hydrant as muse. While the fire hydrants are objects of a crumbling infrastructure, they also represent elements within the city that are often overshadowed by the monuments and government buildings that so readily identify DC.
Opening: Sunday, July 5th, 1:30 - 3:30
Gallery Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm; Tuesday and Thursday: 9:00 am - 9:00 pm. Gallery is closed holidays and weekends.
http://www.rockvillemd.gov/arts/exhibits.htm
GLENVIEW MANSION ART GALLERY
Glenview Mansion at Rockville Civic Center Park
603 Edmonston Drive Rockville, Maryland 20851
For information, call 240-314-8682 or 240-314-8660.
For recorded directions, call 240-314-5004.
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from the Transformer Gallery's web-site, featuring former MFA student and current photography instructor Ding Ren:
Transformer is proud to announce our sixth installment of The Exercises, a unique peer and mentorship program for emerging artists:
E6: in situ
Guest Curated by Brandon Morse
July 11 – August 15, 2009
OPENING DAY ARTIST TALK: July 11, 2009, 4pm
OPENING RECEPTION: July 11, 2009, 5 – 7pm
(click here for full press release PDF)
This 6th installment of Transformer’s Exercises for Emerging Artists program, guest curated by artist Brandon Morse, focuses on time-based media. Exploring notions of communication, commodity, transformation, and situation, artists Jeremy Haik, Clive Leung, Erik Loften, and Ding Ren employ video as well as digital animation techniques, and utilize installation practices that make the way they display their work essential to the work itself.
“Tasked to further develop and focus their existing formal and conceptual concerns, each of the artists were asked to spend considerable time investigating how setting and presentation may be used to further the strengths inherent in their work. While this may seem to be a self-evident concern for any artist, the very aspect of working with time-based media in a physical space presents unique obstacles and opportunities. Each of the artists took up this challenge, and their completed works are comprised of integral conceptual and physical components.” – Brandon Morse
Launched in March 2004, Transformer’s Exercises For Emerging Artists was created to support artists at critical points or crossroads in their professional growth and development, to advance their creative careers. Consisting of a series of two-hour, bi-weekly gatherings at Transformer spanning three months, the program is designed to stimulate and encourage participating artists as they create new work. In addition to peer critique sessions, the participating artists received mentorship and critical feedback on their work from Leigh Conner, Director of Conner Contemporary Art & *gogo art projects, artist Richard Chartier, along with Dawn Gavin, artist and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland.
EXHIBITION HOURS: Wednesday – Saturday, 1 – 7pm & by appointment.
Images (details, left to right): Erik Loften, Clive Leung, Ding Ren, Jeremy Haik.
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In his first solo exhibition with Civilian Art Projects, artist Ryan Hill curates content from the “digital museums” of Google, YouTube and Flickr and reassembles it as works on paper in the gallery space. Quoting, tracing, and drawing from internet images, the artist describes his intimate installations as “a free range of associations, from the gothic to the absurd.”
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ACADEMY 2009 : August 1 – September 4, 2009
9th annual MFA/BFA survey
Saturday, August 1, 2009
WPA workshop: 4 - 6pm.
exhibition opening: 6-8pm
PULSE Presents: emerging artist award - 7pm.
Conner Contemporary Art is very pleased to announce ACADEMY 2009. Exhibition founder, Jamie Smith, Ph. D., is the curator of our 9th annual invitational survey of outstanding work by recent fine art graduates of regional college art programs.
Participating artists: Celina Amaya, Danny Baskin, Alan Callander, Charles Clary, Margot Ellis, Kyle Ford, Jeremy Flick, Corey Grimsley, Steve Ioli, Casey Reed Johnson, Jin Young Kang, Patrick McDonough, Aziza Murray, Igor Pasternak, Ding Ren, Alex Roulette, Andrew Schrock, Ryan Schroeder and Rafael Soldi.
Represented institutions: American University, Catholic University of America, Corcoran College or Art and Design, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Maryland Institute College of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, University of Maryland
Conner Contemporary Art
1358-60 Florida Ave, NE
Washington, DC 20002
v: 202-588-8750
www.connercontemporary.com
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Please see this Washington Post article featuring 2001 GW graduate Ian Whitmore:
A Larger Canvas
A New York Career Beckons Some D.C. Artists
It's the standard advice to give to a Washington artist.
"Head to New York. That's where your future is."
But do any of us advice-givers look into what happens when an artist takes it?
The past few months have brought that question home. First, there was the latest show by Ian Whitmore, one of Washington's most promising young painters…