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Recent Events and News

 

Visiting Artist: John Gerrard

John Gerrard is coming to campus this Friday, November 6, for critiques with our MFA students. His work will also be featured at the Hirshhorn.

 

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We have recently learned that Prof. Mary Coble's Professional Practices course has a blog! As a group, they have started the blog to compile information about what's happening in and out of DC, critical thoughts on all things of interest to them, and a space to stay connected.

 

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There is another bus trip to Philadelphia on
Saturday, November 21!

FREE for current Fine Arts & Art History students
$25 for non-FAAH students (one way or round trip)

Leave from Gelman at 8am
Arrive at the Philadelphia Museum of Art around 10:30
Leave at 8pm

Limited space available. Sign up in the main office or e-mail art@gwu.edu

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Recent Alumni Event in New York City

Here are a couple pictures from a recent alumni event with Prof. Bibi Obler at the Kandinsky exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum. Alumni gathered for a lecture with Prof. Obler and then toured the show.

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Welcome to all our new graduate students!

Our new MA and MFA students came to GW for orientation during the last week of August. This orientation included meeting with their advisors, touring the department and the library, and a welcome lunch.



 
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Current Campus Exhibitions:

 

play.games.man.

 

An MFA Thesis Exhibition of works by Patrick McDonough

Classroom 102

 

Oct. 27th – Nov. 6th, 2009

Reception: Thursday, Oct. 29th, 5:30-8:30 pm

 

Special Saturday Hours: Saturday, Oct. 31st, 11am-5pm [Artist will be present]


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South Hallway:

"Maps" - Lindsay Routt

 

 


Upcoming Campus Exhibitions:

Making Muses

An Art History/Fine Arts Collaborative Exhibition

November 9 - 20

Opening Reception: November 10, 5-7pm

 

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Please also see Classroom 102's site

 


Current Off Campus Exhibitions:

 

Prof. Janet Pihlblad is part of a group show at the Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago.

As We Live and Breathe

Exhibition: Examining "Green-ness" in the contemporary visual environment.

September 11 to November 14, 2009

835 W Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il 60607


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Strange Bodies
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
December 11, 2008- early 2010
Lower level galleries

Figurative art plays an important role in the Hirshhorn's collection.
"Strange Bodies," on view from Dec. 11 to early 2010, brings together
some of the most celebrated examples of figuration from the museum's
holdings to examine how and why artists depict and distort the body.
Organized by associate curator Kristen Hileman and located in the
lower-level galleries, the installation comprises more than 40 works,
with a rotation of works occurring midway through the show. The
exhibition also includes a gallery devoted to a survey of the museum's
unique, in-depth holdings of works on paper and paintings by George
Grosz, which demonstrate a socially charged use of the human form.

National Gallery Current Exhibitions
4th and Constitution Ave, NW

The Phillips Collection Current Exhibitions

21st and Q Street, NW

Smithsonian American Art Museum Current Exhibitions
8th and F Street, NW

 
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Upcoming Off Campus Exhibitions:

 

from the Flashpoint Gallery website:

Kenny George: Pacguy
November 12 – December 19, 2009

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 12, 6-8pm

Kenny George crosses the line from fine art to mainstream consumerism, to transform and commodify his work and himself into objects from popular culture. The focal point of Pacguy, part of FotoWeek DC, will be a cocktail-style arcade game that borrows its format from the ubiquitous Pacman game. George uses an image of himself to replace the Pacman icon and to merchandize a fictionalized caricature throughout the exhibition. In addition to the video game, which visitors will be invited to play, Pacguy will feature lenticular flip animations, a retrofitted slot machine and a computerized pogo stick.


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featuring sculpture professor Yuriko Yamaguchi:

Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery

2009 Daryl Reich Rubenstein Memorial Guest Artist Yuriko Yamaguchi
October 27 - December 10, 2009

Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery
The Kogod Center for the Arts
Sidwell Friends School
3825 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016

More information: Linda Swan, 202-537-8145, swanl@sidwell.edu
Gallery hours: 8:30am - 3:30pm M-F

About the Artist

“Understanding ecological interdependence means understanding relationships.  It requires the shifts of perception that are characteristic of systems of thinking – from parts to the whole, from objects to relationships, from content to patterns.  Sustainable human community is aware of the multiple relationships among its members…”  from Web of Life by Fritjof Capra

- Yuriko Yamaguchi

Yuriko Yamaguchi was born in Osaka, Japan.  She has lived and worked in the United States since the early 1970s.  She received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park.  She also studied with Lucio Pozzi and Joan Snyder at Princeton University.  She has received numerous awards and commissions and has exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world.  Her work has been collected by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the National Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and other museums and private collections.  She is also on the faculty of the Studio Art program at George Washington University.

The exhibit at Sidwell Friends will include sculpture and works on paper.  For more information about the artist, please visit the artist’s website http://yurikoyamaguchiart.com/.




Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Upcoming Exhibitions
Independence Ave at Seventh St, SW


The National Gallery Upcoming Exhibitions
4th and Constitution Ave, NW

The Phillips Collection Upcoming Exhibitions
21st and Q Street, NW

Smithsonian American Art Museum Upcoming Exhibitions
8th and F Street, NW

 

Upcoming Campus Lectures:

 

Visiting artist Lincoln Schatz will lecture from 2:30 - 3:30 in Smith 114. All are welcome!


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The GW Classics department is offering these lectures in conjunction with the Archaeological Institute of America's Washington DC Society. Both events are free and open to the public.



Tuesday, December 1, 2009
7:00 - 8:30 pm in Smith 114
Andrew M. Smith II, Assistant Professor of Classics and History, GWU
"Bir Madhkur, Petra, and the Incense Trade through Arabia"
This lecture will be associated with Prof. Smith's course: CLAS 105, 10 Ancient Identity: Greeks, Romans, and Others


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Upcoming Off Campus Lectures:

 

WYETH LECTURE IN AMERICAN ART
 
Minstrelsy "Uncorked": Thomas Eakins' Empathetic Realism 

Richard J. Powell 
Duke University 

Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:30 pm 
East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art

Reception to follow 
Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW 
Washington


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Brice Marden on Art
November 22 at 2:00 pm

Artist Brice Marden will make a rare public appearance for the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series on Sunday, November 22, in conversation with Harry Cooper, curator and head of the department of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art.  Part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series, This lecture is also held in conjunction with the exhibition, The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works, which features many of Marden’s works, including Picasso's Skull, 1989-1990.



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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden:

 

 

 


Past Events:

Fall 2009

Spring and Summer 2009

Fall 2008
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