Past Events: Spring and Summer 2008

Transformer, in partnership with George Washington University, is pleased to present:
FRAMEWORK Panel #7 - Art School, Confidential: Rethinking Art Education
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008, 6:45 - 8:15 pm
Smith Hall of Art, Room 114
801 22nd Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052

Pdf for the Art School Panel

How Many Walls Are There?
Dimock Student Gallery
Lower Level, Lisner Auditorium
January 15th-18th: 11 am - 3 pm
January 15th: 5-7 pm, Opening Reception
The exhibition and opening reception are free and open to everyone. This group exhibition, curated, organized, and supported by the students in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History, is a thematic show based upon the concepts of walls, perception, and participation.

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Siebren Versteeg
Visiting Artist Lecture
Friday, February 15th
Smith Hall of Art, A-114
3:35 pm - 5:00 pm

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Katherine Sherwood
Visiting Artist Lecture
Friday, February 8th
Smith Hall of Art, A-115
2:30 pm
socrates.berkeley.edu/~sherwood/sherwood/sherwoodhome.html

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January 29-February 1: Tim Barry's Thesis Exhibition
Drawing: From Doodles to Visual Dialogue
Opening Reception: Tuesday, January 29, 5-7 pm
Open Tuesday-Friday 11 am - 3 pm

February 12-15: YeonHee Ji's Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: Monday, February 11, 5-7 pm

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Kerry Brougher on The Cinema Effect
Saturday, February 23
2 pm, Ring Auditorium
Cinema was the unrivaled art form of the twentieth century. Film, as awell as later incarnations like television and the internet, has penetrated to the culture's core so that the very boundaries between "real life" and make-believe have become at least blurred, if not indecipherable. Acting Director and Chief Curator Kerry Brougher presents an illustrated talk on the themes behind the exhibition The Cinema Effect: Illusin, Reality, and the Moving Image.

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February 26-29: Gina Tibbott's Thesis Exhibition
Tibbott Family Pet Burial Recovery Project
Contemporary Archaelogical Excavation of Domesticated Fauna
TIBBOTT FAMILY PET
BURIAL RECOVERY
PROJECT
Artist's reception Friday, February 29, 5-7PM

The Tibbott Family Pet Burial Recovery Project
(TFPBRP) was carried out in August and September 2007
and January 2008. Trained archaeological researcher
Gina Tibbott examined six contemporary burial sites of
various domestic fauna located on the property of her
childhood home in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Included
as part of the recovery project: Laddie (1988 ? 2004);
Maverick (1985 ? 2001); Daisy (1974 ? 1991); and three
pet rats (Max, the mean one that bit people, and the
one with three legs ? all deceased mid-late 1990's).

TFPBRP was developed upon the realization that several
of the pet graves she had meticulously marked and
maintained in youth were still identifiable and prime
for anthropological analysis of contemporary suburban
pet burial practice. Tibbott's research project
examines the schism between the methodological
practice of archaeology and those things that can
never be known, no matter how much digging is done.

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IN MEMORIAM

Dr. Marcella Louis Brenner, a long-standing benefactor of the
department, passed away in December 2007 at the age of 95. Dr. Brenner
funded the annual Morris Louis Fellowship in painting, which enabled us
to attract talented and highly dedicated MFA students. For almost twenty
years, Dr. Brenner’s quiet, unfailing support provided Morris Louis
Fellows the means and opportunity to devote themselves fully to their work.

Patrick McDonough, a current MFA student and current Morris Louis Fellow, remembers Dr. Brenner:

"The late Dr. Brenner was a tireless advocate for the arts in the
District, a quality which was readily apparent to anyone whom had
contact with her.  I was fortunate enough to attend a lunch with Dr.
Brenner, where I was struck by her wit and spirit, as well as her
unwavering belief in the unique power of an artistic studio practice. 
Due to the Morris Louis fellowship, I have been put in the privileged
position to assemble this type of focused studio practice, and my work
has grown demonstrably as a result.  Even beyond this specific luxury I
am immensely grateful for this fellowship, because it was this in
particular which facilitated my move from Wisconsin to Washington, a
place which I am now proud to call home."

Sara Hubbs, a current MFA student and recent Morris Louis Fellow,
remembers Dr. Brenner:

"I was so nervous to meet Marcella Brenner at the Fellowship luncheon. I
really didn't know what to say or how to act around someone who had
blindly provided me with such an incredible opportunity; her generosity
was overwhelming. I wanted her to see my personality and sense my
intelligence and drive so she would know that her money was not wasted.
I wouldn't be at George Washington or in Washington, DC without her…. At
the luncheon, she asked me very pointed questions, said what she meant
and expected the same. My impression was she didn't waste or mince words
and was clear in her vision and devotion It seems the majority of scholarship monies are dispersed to the fields of business, science, and law, so I realize how fortunate I am that Dr.Brenner chose to support education and the arts."

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CERASOLI gallery presents;
Inaugural Group Exhibition: 'FRESH': Gallery Selections 2008
Including the work of Dean Kessmann
February 9 - March 8, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday February 9, 6-8 pm
8530-B Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
(310) 558 - 0911

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Wangechi Mutu
Thursday, January 31
7 PM, Ring Auditorium
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Independence Avenue at 7th Street, SW

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Portraits
G Fine Art
January 12 - March 1, 2008
Opening Reception January 12, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Curated by Phyllis Rosenzweig
Portraits includes the work of contemporary photographers, Chan Chao, Rineke Dijkstra, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Collier Schorr, Malick Sidibe, Alec Soth, and Beat Streuli. Rosenzweig writes in her essay for the show, "The artists in this exhibition plumb various, even contradictory, conventions in the history of portraiture and photography - the formal portrait, the ethnographic study, and the snapshot - and stand them on their heads. In doing so they create images that are often formally beautiful yet also disconcerting. Difficult to read, they deny traditional expectations of what a portrait should be while, ironically, confirming its most traditional, ceremonial function."

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GW's Program Board Arts announces their first annual Student Art Gala!
7th Floor of E-Street in the City View Room
March 28th from 8 - 10:30 pm
Through this event the Program Board Arts hopes to give the GW community a chance to experience many local flourishing artists. The Board is hoping to have all artists and pieces confirmed by March 1st. Questions? Please feel free to email arts@gwupb.org or call the Program Board office at 202-994-5956.

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Spring 2008 FAAH New York City Bus Trip---Friday, March 28th
Open to all current students, faculty, staff and alumni
$25.00 one-way or round-trip
Leave DC at 7 AM in front of Gelman Library at 22nd and H St
Leave NYC at 8 PM from 23rd and 10th Avenue
47 Seat Bus: first come, first serve
To reserve seat and submit payment (cash or check) drop by the main office

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Perceptions and Experiences:
Martin Puryear in Conversation with Ruth Fine
Sunday, March 30, 2008
2:00 pm
National Gallery of Art
East Building Auditorium
District of Columbia native Martin Puryear has achieved international acclaim for the distinctive body of sculputre, primarily in wood, that he has created over some four decades. The artists combines a deep respect for the craftsmanship embedded in objects from around the world-such as baskets and furniture-with the challenge to create meaningful sculpture that reflects the chaotic era in which we live. The conversation will touch upon the range and evolution of Puryear's mysterious forms, his attitude toward materials and processes, and his thoughts on the traveling retrospective exhibition of his sculpture, organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and on view at the National Galery from June 22 through September 28, 2008.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. The East Building of the National Gallery of Art is located at Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW.

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Standard Ceramic presents
Remnants
Ceramic Show featuring 14 artists including FAAH's Joe Hicks
Reception: Friday, March 21st 5-7 pm
Exhibit: March 19-22, 2008
1 Walnut Street
Carnegie, PA 15106
(412) 276-633

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Gallery Strokes presents:
"Open, Simsim!"
Aliza Lelah
February 22 - March 22
Opening Reception: Friday, February 22, 7-10 pm
261 Walker Street SW
Atlanta, GA 30313

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At noon on Wednesday, April 2, senior fellow David Bjelajac of George
Washington University will speak on “Mercury's Tortured Flesh: The
Alchemic Crucible of John Singleton Copley's /Watson and The Shark/.”
His talk will argue that this painting is an alchemical allegory of
commercial, homosocial culture, medical healing, Christian salvation,
and civilization's westward progress. He will examine how this picture
follows a spiritual trajectory from humble fact to sublime spiritual
truths, and the Christian missionary charge to build a new Jerusalem in
the West. Copley's Brook Watson is represented as a Christianized pagan
god, who more than survives a shark attack.

The Archives of American Art, National Portrait Gallery, and Smithsonian
American Art Museum sponsor this informal lunchbag lecture series for
Smithsonian staff and area scholars. The talks are held in the Archives
of American Art's Executive Conference Room on the second floor, suite
2200, of the Victor Building, 750 Ninth Street NW. Please feel free to
bring your lunch.

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Gina Tibbott's Thesis Exhibition
February 26th-29th
Dimock Student Gallery
Tibbott Family Pet Burial Recovery Project
Contemporary Archaelogical Excavation of Domesticated Fauna

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How Many Walls Are There?
Dimock Student Gallery
January 15th-18th
This group exhibition was curated, organized, and supported by the students in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History.
It was a thematic show based upon the concepts of walls, perception, and participation.

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Sara Hubbs and Ding Ren
Critical Practices Fall 2007 Exhibition
First Floor Hallway in Smith Hall

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"When The Horse Is Dead, Get Off"
Michelle McAuliffe, MFA Exhibition
April 1-4
Gallery hours: 11 am - 3 pm
Opening Reception: 5-7 pm April 1st
Free and Open to the public
Dimock Gallery
Lower Level of Lisner Auditorium
730 21st Street @ H Street

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Marginalia
Teresa Sites
Smith Hall of Art
First Floor Gallery
March 25 to April 5
Gallery Hours: 9 am to 5 pm

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Drift/Order
Teresa Sites and Celina Amaya
January 28 through April 12
First Floor, Gelman Library
Celina Amaya and Teresa Sites’ exhibit, titled "Drift/Order," explores these two artists' dialogic expression of the vital information within the artists' painting palette through actual artists' palettes and paintings inspired by the artists' palette in terms of color and gesture. As studio mates, Teresa and Celina constantly exchange images and ideas. This conflation spawns an evolution of thought we call “Drift/Order,” the drifting of logical order toward organic development of ideas, which inspires proliferation on a similar theme.

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Sara Hubbs
As Is
MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 14-18
Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 15, 5-7 pm

Hubbs' work stems from an intuition rooted in a long history in the desert and a family business of material experimentation and invention. Through sculpture, painting, and video she explores the ways material mediates the perception of environment, linking aesthetics to a personal, metaphorical, and conceptual realm.

She manipulates plastic, tape, spray-on wall texture, wax, plywood, floor trim, latex, and found objects.  In the grist between the old and new, Hubbs experiments with all types of ephemera in her studio, combining objects to watch how they react against one another, take on new connotations, age, and decay.  By confronting the valuable, historical, spatial, and temporal aspects of objects, her work strives to comprehend a sense of ritual and place, specifically the specter of the Southwest.

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Diane Ramos
Polarican
MFA Thesis Exhibition
April 5 - 18, 2008
Artist Reception: Saturday, April 5, 2008, 4pm - 7pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 4:30pm

March 26, 2008 (Washington, DC)—Galería Uno at the L.A.Y.C. Art + Media House is pleased to host Polarican, the M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition of Diane F. Ramos from The George Washington University.  Through photography and installation, Ramos provides herself with a means to vent the tension and exclusion she experiences due to her dual ethnicities (Polish and Puerto Rican) as well as presents an aspect of society to her audience that is often overlooked: latent and overt racism.

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LANDSCAPE PAINTING NOW: Benjamin Edwards
Edwards will be joined in discussion by Professor Alexander Dumbadze of the George Washington University and Professor Suzanne Hudson of the
University of Illinois
Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
The Art Gallery at University of Maryland
Art-Sociology Building, Room 2203
The event if free and open to the public
http://www.artgallery.umd.edu

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/Conversations/
Six MA/MFA collaborations
Smith Hall of Art, 1st floor
through April 19

Included in the exhibition are:

Celina Amaya
Linday Amini
Kay Brungs
Landis Carey
Faye Gleisser
Sara Hubbs
Steve Ioli
Patrick McDonough
Ding Ren
Teresa Sites
Jenny Stettler
Rachel White

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"Mercury's Tortured Flesh: The Alchemic Crucible of John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark"
A Lecture by FAAH Professor David Bjelajac
Thursday, April 22nd
5:00 pm- 6:00 pm
Small Lecture Room 115, Smith Hall

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Open Model Sessions
Mondays 5 - 9 pm (starting Monday, January 28)
4th Floor: Undergraduate Painting Studio
Open to all current Fine Arts and Art History Students as well as alumni
Bring your own materials
Questions?
Email Stephen Ioli (s.ioli@hotmail.com) or Celina Burns (celinaburns@gmail.com)

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Here and Now
An art exhibition hosted by Transformer Gallery during the month of May.

Mandy Burrow--current Fine Arts adjunct Professor--will be installing a site-specific piece, This Place, which will be located on the second floor of 1840 14th St. (on the corner of T&14th Streets, NW). 

The initial opening will take place May 10th, and on May 17th Mandy will participate in a public conversation with Kristen Hileman, assistant curator of the Hirshhorn.

For more information:
http://www.transformergallery.org

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DISCOVER SWEDEN
Artistic Entrepreneurship
May 13
9:30 am - 1:00 pm
The Embassy of Sweden, the Region Vastra Gotaland in Sweden and the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts invite you to a seminar on Artistic Entrepreneurship. How do American and Swedish universities prepare their art students to earn a living from their skills? Which demands are made on higher education in artistic entrepreneurship - in the United States and in Sweden? At this seminar representatives of universities, public and private cultural institutions in Sweden and the US will exchange views and compare the current conditions in both countries.

RSVP by May 11 to:
rsvp-hos@foreign.ministry.se

House of Sweden
2900 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 467-2671

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Stephanie Kozemchak
Elusive Perception
MFA Thesis Exhibition
May 12-17
Opening Reception: Friday, May 16, 5-7 pm
Monday-Friday: 11-3
Saturday: 11-2

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The Smithsonian American Art Museum invites all interested staff and
colleagues to attend the Smithsonian Fellows Lectures in American Art
from 12:30 to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, May 15 & 16. The
lectures will take place in SAAM's Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium at
Eighth and G Streets NW. Smithsonian staff are invited to join their
colleagues for a glass of wine following the last presentation on
Friday. No reservation is required. A schedule is below:

 THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2008

 12:30-2:30 p.m.
 Jennifer Van Horn, Terra Foundation for American Art Predoctoral
 Fellow, University of Virginia
"The Mask of Civility: Colonial Women and the Masquerade Portrait"

Marie-Stephanie Delamaire, Terra Foundation for American Art
Predoctoral Fellow, Columbia University
"Contested Realities: the Painting and the Print in
Mid-Nineteenth-Century America"

Dalila Scruggs, Terra Foundation for American Art Predoctoral Fellow,
Harvard University
"'Daguerre in Africa': Augustus Washington's Photographs as 'Biography
 of Things'"

3:00-5:00 p.m.
Jennifer Raab, Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, Yale University
"'Precisely These Objects': Seeing Detail in the Landscapes of
Frederic Church"

Melody Barnett Deusner, Terra Foundation for American Art Predoctoral
Fellow, University of Delaware
"Aestheticism and the American Businessman"

Adam Greenhalgh, Predoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland
"An Archaeology of the Blur: Portrait Photography Around 1900"


FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2008

12:30-2:30 p.m.
Asma Naeem, Sara Roby Predoctoral Fellow in American Realism,
University of Maryland
"The Problem with Sound in Dewing's 'A Reading'"

Prudence Peiffer, Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
"The Cartoon and the Canvas: Ad Reinhardt's Modernism at War"

Adrian Kohn, Patricia and Phillip Frost Predoctoral Fellow, University
of Texas at Austin
"Donald Judd on Visual Phenomena"

 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Johanna Burton, Predoctoral Fellow (Archives of American Art),
Princeton University
"The Trouble with 'Pictures': New York, 1977"

Jobyl A. Boone, Predoctoral Fellow (National Portrait Gallery),
University of Delaware
"On Land, in Water: Christo and Jeanne-Claude and American
Environmentalism"

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2008 Annual Awards Show
Luther B. Brady Gallery
Article on Art Show by The Daily Colonial

2008 Annual Awards Show
Juror Victoria Reis
April 2 through May 2, 2008 at the Brady Gallery
http://www.gwu.edu/~bradyart/

2nd Prize in Fine Art
Ryder Haske - Free Runner and A Final Resting Place

3rd Prize in Fine Art
Sara Emily Hubbs - Arizona Wall
                
GW Alumni Award
Ding Ren - 100 Positive and Negative Bursts

M.A. Langenkamp Undergraduate Prize
Jena Renae Curtis - Spring Wedding

Julian H. Singman, Esq. Prize
Teri Kaplan - Peeping Tom

Joseph P. Ansell Award in painting
Jackie McGeelan - My Diary: Submission
                                                         
Robert N. Alfandre Purchase Prize in Drawing
Olivia Louise Krueger - Drawing based on Collage

Morris M. Aein Memorial Prize
Anthony Elia - Back of the Mind
         
Julian H. Singman, Esq. Prize
Stephanie Kozemchek - Place and Reverberation

Toel Award in Photography
Diane Ramos - Hate Mail and Experimental Control     

William C. Barbee Prize
Yeonhee Ji - Quivering in the Wind and Toward Equity: Something that even I don’t really grasp

Steck Award in Sculpture
Merrill Kassan - Zipped up or Unzipped

Nuri Ozdogan Ceramic Prize
Gina Tibbott - TFPBRP08: Plot D

Outstanding Fine Arts Major
Hartwell Durfor

Outstanding Art History Major
Rebecca Rodgers

Outstanding Combined Art History and Fine Arts Major
Jayme Schomann

Lader Award: Outstanding 1st Year Graduate in Art History
Faye Gleisser

Leitze Award: Outstanding 2nd Year Graduate in Art History
Michele Pollak

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Scion and The Pink Line Project present:

Art-O-Sound

Come to the 6th floor Scion lounge at Artomatic and enjoy some great
performance art, music, video, and beer!

Thursday, June 12, 2008
7:00pm - 9:30pm

Artomatic 2008
1st and M Street, NE (Metro: Red Line, New York Ave. stop)
Washington, DC

Performance art:
7:30 Ding Ren - "Bible Kiss Bible"
7:45 Lauren Bender - "Translation Day"
8:30 Matt Sargent - "Living In the Pulsing Light"
8:45 Bonner Sale - "Lonely Heavy Gunner"

Video installation:
David London - "Imagine"

Music:
Invisible Flow

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The Accessibility Program in partnership with VSA arts invites you to a
slide illustrated discussion by artist Kevin Connolly on Monday, June 2,
12:00 – 1:30 p.m., in the Discovery Theater, Ripley Center Room 3111.
Connelly, who was born without legs, will speak about “The Rolling
Exhibition,” a profound series of photographs he took as he skateboarded
through 31 international cities. Connolly captures the stares of others
in “that one instant of unabashed curiosity.” Through his work, Connolly
reflects upon the stories created by people in different cultures and
settings when they encounter him. Whether hypothesizing a shark attack,
war injury, car accident, or illness, people construct their own story
of how he became disabled. These individual encounters inspire Connolly
in creating an anthropological study of disability through photography.
“The Rolling Exhibition” will be featured in the Kennedy Center Hall of
States from May 29 – July 20, 2008.

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THE BOBBY FISHER MEMORIAL BUILDING PRESENTS
GIRLISH WAYS
THE NEXT GENERATION OF FEMALE ARTISTSA selection of twelve artists under the age of 35 investigate how contemporary lifestyles effect and re-define the women of this generation.

Curated by Rachel Fick and Marissa Botelho
Sponsored by ArtCadeForum.com and the Pink Line Project
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 28th, 7-10pm with live performance art and local music talent
1644 North Capitol Street NW, Washington DC 20002
June 28th-July 13th, Open on Saturday and Sundays 12pm-5pm, and by appointment