Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Kelly O'Brien and Sam Parker at Kibbee Gallery

Current Sculpture graduate student, Kelly O’brien will be exhibiting new work at Kibbee Gallery in November. She will be joined by Drawing Painting and Printmaking alumni Sam Parker. Feral Flirtations opens on November 6th from 6-9PM and features animal inspired sculpture.






Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Stephen Rosner


Mr. Stephen Rosner, who we all know, has been especially cautious this spring.

Mr. Rosner has combined his love of scuba diving and bicycling in his attempt to fight the battle against Atlanta's fall pollen season.

Here is is seen readying for a quick lunch break.

James O'Donnell at Eyedrum

Drawing, Painting and Printmaking MFA candidate James O'Donnell presents a spoken-word performance *Love Letters to the Sea* at Eyedrum Gallery at 8p.m. Sept. 9 In his powerful and deeply personal performance "Love Letters to the Sea," O’Donnell recounts his discovery of 15 journals left behind by his deceased mother who suffered from schizophrenia. Searching for meaning in madness, James relives childhood traumas in his journey to discover a woman he never really knew, and perhaps even salvation. Through spoken-word, video, and performance, O’Donnell brings to life the hidden world of his mother from two radically different times in her life. Desperately seeking answers, he explores memories, life, death, and ultimately love. Don’t miss the performance called "unforgettable," "achingly beautiful" and "devastatingly stunning". Free and open to the public. Eyedrum Gallery is located at: Suite 8, 290 MLK Jr. Dr. SE, Atlanta, GA 30312. For questions or information: 404.522.0655 or jamesodonnellart@gmail.com

Dahlan Foah at Emory University


MFA candidate Dahlan Foah (Graphic Design) is scheduled to direct a theatrical concert on September 28 at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Dahlan and his wife Honora, in partnership with Emory University’s Ethics Center, are presenting “Testaments of the Heart.” a unique concert featuring musical performances written by composers while they were in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. This event is a world premiere of many of the pieces. The opening inaugurates a year-long program, Creativity in Captivity. To learn more about the program, visit the website: www.mythicimagination.org. The concert is partnering with Dr. Francesco Lotoro, a concert pianist and professor of music in Italy, to insure the permanence of the archive and to help continue his research and recording, as well as bringing the work to America and creating performances. Michael Palmer, a Georgia State Associate Professor and Charles Thomas Wurm Distinguished Professor of Orchestral Studies, has also contributed to the project over the past three years. Additionally, the GSU music department is hosting Dr. Lotoro for a master class in piano. Tickets to Testaments of the Heart are now available by contacting the Emory University Box office at 404 727 5050

New Mural in Art Office


The Spring graduate seminar class (Interior Design and Graphic Design) completed a mural for the main office of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design. The class was challenged to capture and communicate the essence, shape and movement of the space visually over three adjacent walls. Led by Assistant Professor Tim Nichols, Interior Design; graduate students Cat Normoyle, Maryam Alainati, Jim Chapman, Meta Gary, Cynthia Lakshminarayanan and Dahlan Foah completed painting the mural during the summer. Please stop by the office and see the graphic mural.

Bemis Residency for Christina West

Christina A. West, Assistant Professor of Ceramics and recipient of the Southeastern College Art Conference Artist’s Fellowship Award, is scheduled to exhibit her installation, “What a Doll: The Human Object as Toy,” at the 2010 conference in Richmond, VA October 18-23 at the Fine Arts Building Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University. The project is also supported by Georgia State University’s Welch School of Art & Design as well as by The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, where Christina was in residence from May-August 2010.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Phoenix Savage: Fulbright Recipient!


Phoenix Savage, a second year GSU sculpture grad, received notice last week that she was tapped to be among the esteemed Fulbright Scholars for 2010-2011.

The Fulbright Scholars program was established in 1946 under legislation submitted by then Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. As part of a flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government, participants are selected for their academic merit and leadership potential with the opportunity to teach, study and exchange ideas contributing to the finding of solutions to shared international concerns.

Prior to landing at Mississippi Valley State University, Savage earned an Associate’s degree from the prestigious Art Institute of Philadelphia. Upon completing her degree program at MVSU, Savage continued by earning two Masters of Arts degrees from the University of Mississippi at Oxford, 2001 and Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA, 2008. She is currently completing her Master of Fine Arts degree at Georgia State University, with a concentration in sculpture. Savage plans to pursue her international work in the West African country of Nigeria. “While in Nigeria I will be exploring and creating a new body of work based on the Yoruba concept of Ori. It is a concept fundamental to their religious and cultural positioning in the world as human beings. In short, it is believed that prior to birth, you enter a room and select a head, then you enter a second room and select a destiny, your human experience deals with how well you join these two forms of being so that you can have a good life. I will explore very reflective works in that I will keep a journal as to how I am adapting to my new environment and how my head is considering these various encounters. My sculptures will be the visual manifestations of these experiences.”

For more information, please contact Phoenix phoenixsavage@gmail.com and see more of her work at http://www.phoenixsavage.com/

Monday, April 19, 2010

Visiting Artist Lecture & Demo

Visiting artists Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish will be on campus Thursday, April 22nd from 2:00 PM- 5:00 PM, to talk about their work and conduct a workshop that will be open to grads and advanced undergrads interested in performance and dance.

Please contact Photo GLA Calvin Burgamy (cburgamy@gmail.com ) if you're interested in attending. First to respond, first in line. 15 students maximum for the workshop.

http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/wabios/goatisland.html

Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish led the performance collaborative, Goat Island, from 1987 to 2009. Hixson received a MFA in 1980 from Otis Art Institute; Goulish received a BA from Kalamazoo College. Based in Chicago, Goat Island performed a personal vocabulary of movement that was dancelike and pedestrian, incorporating historical and contemporary issues. Hixson and Goulish have recently started a new entity, Every house has a door, to explore project-specific works that include intercultural collaborations. Hixson and Goulish teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, and are visiting faculty at Stanford University.

Monday, April 12, 2010

2010 MFA SHOW: Call for Works

2010 MFA Show
Call for Works

Summer 2010 Exhibitions @ Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design
May 17-June 9, 2010

CALL for recent works in all media that have been created by Georgia Sate MFA candidates. Large works and series highly encouraged!

Image Submissions Due: May 17th, 2010 5:00 PM
Drop Off Works: May 10th-May 12th, 2010

Submission Guidelines:
Images should be saved in JPEG format at 100 dpi, less than 3MB. Email all submissions to artgallery@gsu.edu cc: ceramicsubmissions@gmail.com and with "MFA" in the subject line.

Entrants are responsible for shipping or transporting their work to and from the show.

Work must remain at the Ernest G. Welch Gallery for the duration of the exhibitions; no early withdrawals will be permitted. The Gallery will not be responsible for work that arrives damaged, but all pieces will be insured for the duration of the exhibition.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Alumni Highlight...

Undergrad Alumni Highlight :

After receiving his BFA in Ceramics from GSU, Andrew Sloan Jackson has been teaching in Fulton County public schools for the past two years and now plans to pursue his MFA in Ceramics at Ohio University this Fall 2010. In 2008, he was an artist-in-residence at Roswell Clay West, a ceramics studio and gallery in Roswell, GA & is now collaborating with fellow GSU alum Kelcy Chase Folsom on establishing Ladyboy Presents, focusing on issues of gender and sexuality through installation, performance, and craft materials.

Artist Statement :

I am interested in evoking an alternative to the "human" world as it presently exists. Rather than a world in which the natural is subjugated to the human hand, through my work I wish to evoke an alternative environment where man and nature come together with less conflict in a harmonious symbiosis, whether by design or natural evolution. By mimicking organic textures and shapes in settings of varying complexity, I hope to suggest in my work the geometry of nature, in particular biology and genetics. I often create the same forms in different scales, mediums, or contexts suggestive of lineage or evolution. In most works, I strive to keep the installation free of overt references or judgments allowing the viewer to interpret the meaning of the work in light of their own personal experience. I also want the work to retain its looseness, as I am drawn to simple, direct processes and materials.

My current work in progress and in my portfolio exemplifies my interest in and exploration of ceramic and mixed media to explore ecology, organic processes and the concept of transhumanism. I am especially drawn to exploring the possibilities of a transhuman future where technology and biology blend to change the bodies we now inhabit in ways we can only begin to imagine. Through visual media I intend to explore the questions and issues raised when we are able to manipulate the form and abilities of our bodies. I wonder whether humanity will react with horror or accept these changes as the logical next step of evolution.


Monday, March 1, 2010

MFA Thesis Exhibition...

Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of artist Jessica Orlowski’s MFA thesis exhibition Ties That Bind.

Ties That Bind is an alluring and playful exhibition comprised of ceramic figure sculpture and interactive toys. This work offers playful memory triggers and empty spaces in which viewers can deconstruct the building blocks of their social persona.

Jessica’s work has been frequently exhibited both nationally and internationally and is a part of prominent collections such as The Porter Price Collection in Columbia, SC, and the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute Collection in Jingdezhen, China. Locally, Jessica’s work was recently seen at Beep Beep Gallery’s 1st sculpture exhibition Material and will also be included in a month-long exhibition at Kibbee Gallery in April.

Ties That Bind will be on view from March 22nd-26th. A closing reception will take place March 26th, 5- 7pm. The show is free and open to the public.

For more information please contact the GSU Gallery at artgallery@gsu.edu or Jessica Orlowski at Seraphim205@yahoo.com

MFA Thesis Exhibition...

In A Strange Place : An examination of modern life through self-portraiture
Mixed Media works by Ben Goldman

Opening Reception Friday, March 5th 6:00 PM - 10 PM
Artist Contact : ben@bengstudio.com 404.271.6340

Kibbee Gallery
(behind Fellini's Pizza on Ponce)
688 Linwood ave
Atlanta, GA 30306
404.839.0331

MFA Thesis Exhibition...

Stories from a Chair: A Life Exquisite

The works of Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn

March 15th - 19th

Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design is proud to present Jessica Elaine Blinkhorn's Master of Fine Arts Thesis Show, Stories from a Chair: A Life Exquisite. Her drawings, performances, and written works have been called truthful visual documentation, small works with large emotional impact, visually jarring, brave, and abrasively comical. Making the artwork even more compelling is the story it tells. Blinkhorn was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a form of Muscular Dystrophy, at nineteen months. Having lost the ability to walk at age five, Blinkhorn received her first of many chairs. Her drawings are small visual documentations render true to life on a 5’’ x7’’ and/or 2’’ x3’’ scale and speak of her life contained within a genetic cage.

Blinkhorn's work will be on display from March 15th - 19th, with a reception on Friday, March 19th, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

Free and open to the public.

MFA Thesis Exhibition...


The Pink Passenger

An exhibition of art works by Samuel Parker

March 15th - 19th

Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design is proud to present Samuel Parker’s Master of Fine Arts Thesis Show, The Pink Passenger. Parker has created a series of paintings based on critical dialogues in which individual paintings act as finished responses as well as transitional points for further dialogue. The show explores Parker’s filtering of graffiti, tattooing, and underground comics through the critical exchange of the academic arena.

Artist contact: Samuel Parker at ceroakb@gmail.com

Parker’s work will be on display from March 15th - 19th, with a reception on Friday March 19th from 7pm- 10pm.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Ceramics grad named NICHE finalist...


Jessica Orlowski, a third year GSU Ceramics grad, was recently named a 2010 NICHE Student Awards Finalist.

Two works by Orlowski,
Discovered and Good Little Girls, were selected as finalists in the Ceramics: Sculptural category. Only 70 entries out of nearly 800 submissions were named as finalists in this year's competition. The awards program is sponsored by NICHE magazine, the exclusive trade publication for independent retailers of fine craft.

The NICHE Awards program began in 1990 to recognize the outstanding creative achievements of American craft artists who produce work for craft galleries and retail stores.

Winners of the 2010 NICHE Student Awards will be announced at a ceremony in Philadelphia on Friday, February 12, 2010, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, held in conjunction with the Buyers Market of American Craft.

For more information or to obtain images of finalists' works, email jeant@rosengrp.com or visit
www.NICHEAwards.com.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

While In Class...

While In Class, an invitational exhibition at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago juried by Lily Mayfield, will feature first-year DPP grad In Kyoung Chun's piece Buford Santus

For more information, email gallery@womanmade.org.

Gallery Hours: 
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 12-7 PM
Saturday & Sunday 12-4 PM

Woman Made Gallery:
Address: 685 Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642
Phone: 312.738.0400
Email: gallery@womanmade.org
website: www.womanmade.org

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Limitless...

Limitless

Exhibited Artists:
Didi Dunphy
E.K. Huckaby
Lee Kean
Klimchak
Joe Peragine
Martha Whittington.

Limitless is inspired by the 400th anniversary of the invention of the telescope by Galileo Galilei.

As Galileo embodied a pure spirit of the liberal arts with his holistic approach to discovery through creativity and imagination, the artists in Limitless ‘reveals hidden worlds’ by taking wide-ranging approaches to art making while using an expansive scope to view the universe. Blasting off through conservative lines of boundary, their inventiveness takes them beyond tradition. In Limitless, modes of play, listening and looking—and a general draw on the senses—are primary.

This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Exhibit Dates: Thursday, January 28th- Sunday, March 7, 2010
Gallery Times: 10:00 AM-4:30 PM
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 28th 6:00-8:00 PM
Location:
Dana Fine Arts Building, The Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College

For more information, please call 404 471-5361 or e-mail daltongallery@agnesscott.edu

Leftovers...

Leftovers, a group art show of group art shows, will combine work from three December exhibits from three Atlanta galleries: Young Blood, Kibbee, and Beep Beep. The show will feature a diverse array of hundreds of works by local Atlanta artists, including many by GSU grads.

Join us for a closing reception on January 29th from 7PM - 10PM. Beer and Wine will be provided. Fun and excitement will be assumed.

Date: Friday, January, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM (closing reception)
Place: Aurora Coffee L5P, 468 Moreland Ave.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Exhibit Opening & Symposium...

Disobedience: Art as Agent of Change pairs the exhibition of Disobedience Archive, an ongoing, internationally focused video library tracing the relationship between artistic practice and civil and social disobedience, with a collection of documentary photos of the civil war in Argentina titled En Negro Y Blanco (In Black & White). Disobedience Archive presents itself as a comprehensive map of social conflict and as a network of contemporary activism. These exhibitions examine the role of the artist as political activist and explore the historic and
contemporary functions art can play in political discourse.

December 14, 2009 - January 27, 2010
Disobedience: Art as Agent of Change
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery

Join us on January 15, 2010 for a Symposium exploring these issues from 1pm – 5pm at the Rialto Center for the Arts.

Speakers include:
Marco Scotini, Independent curator, Director of BA & MA Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies,
NABA, Milan, curator of the
Disobedience Archives;
Fernando Reati, Director of the Center for Human Rights at GSU;
Kara Walker, Contemporary artists and MacAurthur fellowship recipient;
Tami Randahl Morris, expert in Peruvian arpilleras (political quilts);
Moderator: Sylvie Fortin, Independent curator, art historian, critic and editor of Art Papers


Also a Gallery reception will follow from 5pm – 7pm in the gallery lobby.

This event is free and open to the public.

Visit our websites for more details.
www.gsu.edu/artgallery
www.arts.gsu.edu/7506.html