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Gallery Program Schedule | Gallery Hours: | Mon. & Thur. 10 to 5 Tue. & Wed. 10 to 7 Fri. & Sat. 10 to 2 | |
Spring/Summer 2009 & Fall 2009 Graduate Thesis Exhibitions May 4-15
May 11-22 June 15-19 July 13-17 July 20-24 August 10-14 August 16-21 August 14-19 August 18-28 September 3 - October 2 Featuring the work of nationally and internationally acclaimed photographers Angie Buckley, Angela Faris-Belt, Mark Klett, Thomas Kellner, Alida Fish, Cynthia Greig, Carol Golemboski, Mark Eshbaugh, Alexandre Orion, and Byron Wolfe, Elements of Photography explores technical, creative, and conceptual approaches to contemporary photography. The exhibition is based on the Faris-Belt’s The Elements of Photography: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images (Focal Press, 2008). September 8 - October 2 Hatfield and Meiser investigate humanity’s method of coping with the unknown. Through vastly different and mutually complementary strategies, they question the ability of either science or religion to provide the truth of human experience. Both also ask the basic question of what it means to know something at all. Hatfield examines scientific explanations about the world and visually contemplates the terrifying beauty of the sublime. Through his “Transcendence Research,” Meiser creates ostensibly utilitarian objects as vehicles for catharsis or for use in life-altering rituals. As each negotiates between his own idiosyncratic understanding of the world and explanations offered by authoritative institutions, a complex dialogue arises about who gets to decide what is real. Hatfield and Meiser both received their M.F.A. degrees from Ohio University, and both have shown extensively nationally. Joe Meiser in on the art faculty of Bucknell University Wednesday, September 30, 7 p.m. Brody Condon re-purposes existing video games or game structures to create sculpture, performance art, and video installations. Extending software hacking logic learned directly from on-line subcultures, Condon often “modifies” historical events, recent cultural artifacts, as well as other artworks. A recent series used late Medieval Netherlandish painting to explore issues of violence prominent in video games and in human history generally. Born in Mexico in 1974, Condon lived for many years in the Netherlands and is currently based in New York. He received an MFA from University of California, San Diego, and held residencies at the Skowhegan School and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. His work has been shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Austria, and The Netherlands, among many others. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Art Department, the College of Technology, and the School of Technology Studies. October 5 - November 5 Contemporary Sculpture Curated by John DeHoog and Brian Nelson, Contemporary Sculpture shows the work of eight established and emerging sculptors who address such current issues as consumption, waste, science, the body, war, and commoditization. Despite their topicality, these sculptures are largely abstract and highly attentive to the formal aspects of sculpture. Each artist represented acknowledges the traditions of sculpture while managing to upend customary expectations. Eileen Doktorski (Utah) and Mike McFalls (Georgia) use trash as both subject and medium, while Stephen Cartwright (Illinois) employs laser etching and rapid prototyping to explore the time honored subject of the natural landscape. Technically, the works range from the virtuosic precision of Dustin Farnsworth’s (Michigan) bentwood forms to the improvisational freedom of Travis Townsend’s (Kentucky) whimsical constructions. Other artists included in the exhibit are Maki Hajikano (Texas), Dora Natella (Indiana), and Anthony Cervino (Pennsylvania). Contemporary Painting This invitational survey of contemporary painting features the work of artists from across the nation working in a variety of paint media and approaches. Curated by EMU faculty, Michael Reedy and Amy Sacksteder and featuring the work of local, regional and national artists, the exhibition will investigate the role of painting in today’s art world with no restrictions on scale, media, and subject matter. 
November 9 - December 19 Winner of the 2008 Kresge Foundation Detroit Eminent Artist Award, Charles McGee is one of the most important Michigan artists of the last century. His work pulses with the energy of life, and he sees the world as a wholly interconnected global thicket in which all species are equal and interdependent. His art is, thus, intensely relevant today as it artistically addresses our environmental crisis and calls for respect among all ethnic, racial, and religious groups. Through high quality and representative works of art, this sixty-year retrospective will document all phases of his work. McGee has received numerous honors and awards during his lengthy career, including the 1978 Governor’s Michigan Artist Award and the1989 Michigan Artist of the Year Award. Since 1971, he has completed numerous, large-scale public commissions in Michigan and Ohio. His work is in hundreds of museums, galleries, art centers, and private collections in Michigan and throughout the U.S. Tuesday, November 10, 6 p.m. Steven Assael is an eminent figure painter and contemporary realist. Working from direct observation, Assael paints large-scale, multi-figure compositions with subjects ranging from nudes to elaborately dressed and studded Goths. He also creates highly rendered, intimate drawings. In both forms, the individual is paramount. Assael has had numerous one-person exhibitions. He is represented by Forum Gallery, which recently hosted solo shows of his work in Los Angeles and New York. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design and The Columbus Museum of Art. Steven Assael was born in NYC, graduated from Pratt Institute, and currently has a studio in Brooklyn. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts and the Pratt Institute in New York. Tuesday, December 1, 12:30 pm Writer and visual artist Yedda Morrison combines photography, sculpture, and text in thought-provoking installations. Her books include Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Editions, 2008), My Pocket Park (Dusie Press, 2007), Co (Collaboration with Bruce Andrews, Roof Books, 2006) and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). From 1998-2005 Morrison co-edited Tripwire: a Journal of Experimental Poetics and Visual Art. Represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC, she has exhibited her visual work in the US and Canada. Morrison was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area is currently living and working in Montreal. This lecture is co-sponsored by the creative writing program’s BathHouse Events and art department. Ford Gallery and University Art Gallery Hours:
Website: http://emich.edu/fordgallery 734-487-0465, 734-487-1077 larry.newhouse@emich.edu |
| E.M.U.'s Art Department is the repository for a large number of lithographs by renowned printmaker Emil Weddige. These works are available for purchase at fair market value. All proceeds from the sale of these works will go into the scholarship funds of the Art Department and Music Department at Eastern Michigan University and the Art Department and Music Department at The University of Michigan. The collection may be viewed using the link below. For further information or to purchase prints contact Larry Newhouse. |
| For further information contact: | larry.newhouse@emich.edu |
| Phone: | (734) 487-0465 |
| | Larry Newhouse | Colin Blakely |
