Fine Arts Center Gallery

The exhibition will take place May 13 – July 19, 2013.

The Fine Arts Center Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of current MFA students. The exhibition will present work in a wide range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and video.

The exhibition will take place May 6 through May 11, 2013.
Gallery reception will take place on Friday, May 10 at 5 p.m.
Gallery will be open on Saturday, May 11 from 12 noon to 5 pm.

The Fine Arts Center Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of the 2013 BFA Graduating class. The exhibition will present work in a wide range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture, as well as graphic design.

The exhibition will take place Monday, April 29 – Saturday, May 4, 2013
Awards will be presented at the closing reception on Friday, May 3 at 5 p.m.
Please join us in honoring our students at this event.

The Department of Art is pleased to present a group exhibition of current BA and BFA students.
This exhibition will be comprised of work from all media, showcasing each department within the College and will highlight the multidisciplinary talents our students possess. Specific works will be selected for awards and scholarships. Please join us for the awards reception on Friday, May 3 at 5 pm for the announcement and presentation of these awards. The exhibition will be open to the public during the ARTwalk on Saturday May 4 from 2 to 5 pm.

Dilenia Garcia
Toile
Exhibition dates: Monday, April 1 – Friday, April 5, 2013
Reception: Friday, April 5, 6-8 pm

Toile, an exhibition of artworks which explore material culture in combination with the application of paint as a generative and transformative process.

Nichole Howard
Cycle
Exhibition dates: Monday, April 8 – Friday, April 12, 2013
Reception: Friday, April 12, 6-8 pm

Cycle presents the culmination of a year-long project in which the artist explored the process of growing her own food and medicinal herbs. Using material culture as a physical and conceptual platform, Howard inverts the meaning of objects through material and offers a radically different view of their form and substance. Plaster molds of “Big Gulp” plastic cups are transformed into terra cotta seedling pots, seeds then germinate inside these objects and those plants are then used as gardens where healthy food and medicinal herbs can be accessed. The “Big Gulp” object is a part of mainstream culture currently in the throws of political warfare. For Howard, the activity surrounding it is a marker in identifying Americans relationship to food.

Samantha Dixon
Tethered
Exhibition dates: Monday, April 15 – Friday, April 19, 2013
Reception: Friday, April 19, 6-8 pm

Tethered alludes to the innate fear of forgetting where an individual’s family originates, both physically and historically. Dixon, after recently discovering that her family was almost completely annihilated by the Holocaust, began this visual documentation of the aftermath on families of survivors. Her work is highly influenced by her research on her grandmother’s experiences as a Mauthausen concentration camp survivor and her experiences being raised by a survivor.The knowledge of the imminent loss of memory initiates an instinct to repetitively record and remember personal history. Numerous memories have been forcefully buried in the darkest recesses of the minds of many family members— they continuously surface through communication with her mother and grandmother. As personal memory is collectively shared, psychological effects of the survivor pass on through storytelling. As each of her works develop, Dixon continues to search for threads between history, place, and identity as a way to demonstrate a new reality, a struggle, and a story.

Kat Wilson
Portrayal
Exhibition dates: Monday, April 22 – Friday, April 26, 2013
Reception: Friday, April 26, 6-8 pm

Kat Wilson will also have work on display at Arsaga’s Depot on Dickson Street.
Reception at Arsaga’s: Friday, April 26, 9 pm

Portrayal examines the relationship between an artist’s work, an
artist’s public self, and the gossip surrounding the artist’s public
and private life. The goal of this series is to visually immerse each
artist within his or her own artwork, thus personifying the relationship between
the artist and the body of work. Portrayal examines the lives of individuals as observed through the eyes and lens of the artist— Wilson’s photographs reflect her respect and admiration for each subject. These staged photographs portray Wilson’s own knowledge of her subjects and demonstrate her ability to make them feel comfortable enough to reveal their true self. The portraits evoke a cinematic quality and appear to capture a lifetime in one single frame.
Portrayal is ultimately a study of the juxtaposition between the public and private life of an
artist who must reveal the private in their art and protect the private in public realm.

Lecture: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 5:30pm in Stella Boyle Auditorium, FNAR

Leonardo Drew is known for his dynamic large-scale sculptural installations. On the one hand, Drew’s sculptures can be seen as exercises in formalism rooted in the very experience of looking. On the other hand, these works explore memory by employing a wide range of material to evoke common elements of the human experience and of our diverse histories. Drew has been making artwork since childhood, and first exhibited his work at the age of 13. He went on to attend the Parsons School of Design and received his BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and art in 1985. Since then he has shown in a variety of institutions such as The Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, Ireland, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Miami Art Museum, and the St. Louis Art Museum. He has also collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and has participated in artist residencies at ArtPace, San Antonio and The Studio Museum of Harlem in New York City, among others. Drew’s mid-career survey exhibition, Existed: Leonardo Drew, debuted in 2009 at the Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston and traveled to the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA. A monograph of his work was published in conjunction with the survey by Giles, Ltd., London.

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Lecture on Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30pm in room 213 FNAR
Mr. Brooks will conduct a workshop with Professor Alissa Mazow’s class on Monday, March 11 and Wednesday, March 13, 2013.

David Brooks (b. 1975 Brazil, Indiana) is an artist whose work considers the relationship between the individual and the built and natural environment, and investigates how cultural concerns cannot be divorced from the natural world. Brooks has exhibited at the Miami Art Museum, Dallas Contemporary, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Bold Tendencies London, Sculpture Center, New York and MoMA/PS1 where he had a two-year major installation. In November of 2011 Brooks opened Desert Rooftops in Times Square, a 5000 sq. ft. earthwork commissioned by the Art Production Fund. The Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK, commissioned large-scale works in the summer 2012. His work has also been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Changwon Sculpure Biennale in South Korea, Blank Beijing China, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, as well as Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, and Marlborough Chelsea in New York City.
Brooks received his BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA from Columbia University. In 2009 he received a Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship, and a research grant to the Peruvian Amazon from the Coypu Foundation. In 2010 he received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a research grant to the Bolivian Amazon from the Explorers Club in 2011. Brooks lives and works in New York City.

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Lecture on Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30 pm in room 213 of FNAR
Mr. O’ Neil will conduct a silkscreen printing workshop on Wednesday, March 6 from 1:20-4:30pm in the printmaking studio of FNAR

Dennis B. O’Neil is professor of Art in the Fine Arts Department at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. He received his BA from Muskingum College in 1969 and graduate studies in Printmaking at Ohio University, Athens, OH. 1969-70. In 1973, O’Neil founded and remains the director of the non-profit Hand Print Workshop International, (HPWI) a collaborative printmaking studio in Alexandria, VA. In 1991 he co-founded the non-profit Russian-American printmaking workshop, Moscow Studio in Moscow, Russia, until 1996. Grants received by O’Neil on behalf of the workshop include: National Endowment for the Arts, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, Abramson Family Foundation, Soros Foundation’s Open Society and USIA’s “Arts America Program,” among others. O’Neil has organized national and international museum exhibitions around HPWI projects, including, “The View from Here” at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, in December, 2000. His works and those of his artists with whom he collaborates have been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions, including the recent Museum of Modern Art exhibition, EYE ON EUROPE. The Library of Congress and numerous other museums collect the varied and experimental works for which his studio is known. Mr. O’Neil’s work is a leading force in redefining the nature and use of contemporary screen-printing today.

Information in the Hand print Workshop can be found at:
http://www.hpwi.org/

March 4—29, 2013
Visiting Artist Lecture: Thursday, March 28 at 6:30 pm in room 213 of FNAR
Closing reception on Thursday, March 28 at 6 pm in the Fine Arts Gallery

Beneath the waters surface, a condition of buoyancy, fluidity and weightlessness ensues. Unlike the open sea, a pool of water offers ambiguous spatial depth with colors ranging from deep indigo to vibrant cerulean. The color blue is a mindset for the artist; it speaks of desire, daydreams, blue gestures and blue thoughts. Surrounded by fabric and tulle, the figures in these images emerge from this blue field. It is in this state of being submerged, that sensory awareness and uncertain reality are imminent. Light, reflections and the confusion of figure and ground produce a world both mysterious and defined by light.

Kenda North is professor and head of photography at UT Arlington, where she has been on the faculty since l989. She has received recognition for her teaching and advocacy, including Honored Educator for the Society for Photographic Education South Central Region in 2009 and Outstanding Volunteer of the Year in Education from the Volunteer Center of Dallas County in 2002. She has served on the boards of many non-profit organizations including the Texas Photographic Society, the Society for Photographic Education, the Dallas Talented and Gifted Foundation, and the National Council of Art Administrators. She has had over forty solo exhibitions and over one hundred group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her dye transfer work from the late ‘70’s was recently included in a major exhibition and catalog, Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography 1945-1982 at the Palm Springs Museum of Art. Her work is in major collections throughout the US and Europe, is currently represented by Craighead-Green Gallery in Dallas and can be viewed at www.kendanorth.com.

The Fine Arts Center Gallery presents a month of dynamic programming orchestrated for the University and the community-at-large. Below is the listing for the month of February beginning on February 7 and ending on February 27. Please join us for these exciting events.

Lecture is rescheduled for: Thursday, April 4, 5:30 pm, Stella Boyle Auditorium

Dr. Leslie King-Hammond

Dr. King-Hammond joins us as part of the University of Arkansas’ programming honoring African American History Month.
In 1976, Dr. Leslie King-Hammond was appointed Dean of Graduate Studies at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland where she administers 200 students in eleven degree programs. She maintains a constant teaching schedule in the Art History Department. In 2008, she retired to become Graduate Dean Emeritus and was appointed the Founding Director of the new Center for Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She received Mellon Grants for Faculty Research in 1988, 1989, and 2005. In 1985, she was honored with the Trustee Award for Excellence in Teaching. As a member of the “Girls of Baltimore,” she was awarded an NEA artist grant in 2001. In the spring of 2006, King-Hammond was appointed Chairperson of the Collections and Exhibits Committee at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture and in January 2007 became the Chairperson of the Board of the Lewis Museum. Additionally, she sits on the Board of the Creative Alliance for the Artists in Baltimore.
Between 1985 and 1998, Dr. King-Hammond became the project director for Ford/Phillip Morris Fellowships for Artists of Color at MICA (including Yale School of Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and California Institute of the Arts). She sits on juries, boards, organizations, and art commissions including Executive Board, International Association of Art Critics (2000-2003); President, College Art Association (1996-2000); Board of Overseers, Baltimore School for the Arts (1996-1999); Vice-President, Jacob Lawrence Catalog Riasonne Project; Trustee, Baltimore Museum of Art (1981-1987); Center For Emerging Artists (2005-2007); Advisory Board, Edna Manley School for the Visual Arts, Kingston, Jamaica (1988-Present). Major publications include Gumbo Ya Ya; An Anthology of Contemporary African American Women Artists (Midmarch Arts Press, 1995); Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox; Vice-President and essayist for the Jacob Lawrence Catalog Riasonné Project, Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence (University of Washington Press, 2000).

Dr. King-Hammond has garnered such prestigious awards as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Studio Museum in Harlem, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Art Caucus-College Art Association, and in 2010 the Alain Locke International Prize, among many others. She has curated numerous exhibitions including The Global Africa Project which explored the impact of African visual culture on contemporary art, craft and design around the world at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and most recently Ashe to Amen— African Americans and Biblical Imagery at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York City.