Friday, January 4, 2008
Julie Ault: Wednesday, February 14, 6:30 PM, Meadows Museum, SMU
John Byrd, Chris Gustin, and Ayumi Horie, February 20, all day in Doolin Gallery; evening lecture in Meadows Museum, TBA
Roger Tibbetts: Thursday, March 6, 6:30 PM, Meadows Museum, SMU
Jill Magid: Wednesday, March 19, 6:30 PM, Meadows Museum, SMU
Michael Smith: Wednesday, April 9, 6:30 PM, Meadows Museum, SMU
See the following posts for descriptions of each visiting artist.
Websites for visiting artists in ceramics: John Byrd, Chris Gustin, and Ayumi Horie
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Thursday, January 3, 2008
Julie Ault (In conjunction with Collecting and Collectivity Exhibition)
February 14, Meadows Museum, 6:30
Julie Ault is an artist who frequently assumes a curatorial role as a form of practice, individually and collaboratively organizing exhibitions, multiform projects and publications. Her work emphasizes interrelationships between cultural production and politics. She is the co-author of Critical Condition: Selected Texts in Dialogue, (2003) with Martin Beck and the editor of Alternative Art New York 1965–1985 (University of Minnesota Press and The Drawing Center, New York, 2002), an in-depth history of New York’s alternative art scene. Ault co-founded Group Material, a New York-based artists collaborative that produced over fifty exhibitions and public projects exploring relationships between politics and aesthetics between 1979 and 1996. She has collaborated with Martin Beck to create projects including Social Landscape at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, 2004, and the exhibition Outdoor Systems, Indoor Distribution at the NGBK, Berlin, 2000. She has taught at Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva, UCLA, the Rhode Island School of Design, CalArts, and the Cooper Union. Ault’s visit is co-sponsored by a Meadows Foundation grant for her participation in the Collecting and Collectivity Symposium being held in conjunction with the College Art Association national conference in Dallas.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Roger Tibbetts, CSII Symmetry, etching and aquatint printed in white ink on black Hanji chine collé, 2006
Roger Tibbetts, Thursday, March 6, Meadows Museum, 6:30 PM
Roger Tibbetts is an artist working In sculpture and painting to explore patterns of shape. He is a professor of Fine Arts at Massachusetts College of Art and has exhibited at the Bernard Toale Gallery In Boston, the Ruggiero Gallery in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Rose Museum at Brandeis University. He has received two NEA Individual Artist Grants, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and a Guggenheim Foundation Grant. He received his Diploma in Art from Wolverhampton College of Art and his Higher Diploma in Art from the Chelsea School of Art, both in England before relocating to the U.S., where he earned his MFA at the Yale University School of Art.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Michael Smith and Joshua White, Quin Quag, 2001, video still
Michael Smith, April 9, Meadows Museum, 6:30 PM
Michael Smith has made some 30 years of videos, installation environments, and other performance-related materials detailing the adventures of his alter ego “Mike,” a sweet but hapless Everyman character created by Smith, and his hilariously awkward and ineffectual search for a piece of the American Dream. Smith received his B.A. from The Colorado College and attended The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York City and has taught at numerous art schools and universities including University of California at Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts, Cranbrook, Art Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, The Royal Danish Academy, Pratt Institute, and Yale University. He has exhibited extensively around the US, Canada and Europe at a variety of venues from museums and galleries to nightclubs and television. His works are in the permanent collections of the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Museum of Radio and Television in New York City. Since 1997 he has collaborated with Joshua White on several large-scale installations that were shown at The New Museum and the Christine Burgin Gallery in New York City, The Vienna Kunsthalle, Art Metropole in Toronto, the Hales Galley in London and at the Basel Art Fair. In addition to his collaborative work with Joshua White, Smith has had recent solo exhibitions at Dunn and Brown Contemporary in Dallas, Galleria Emi Fontana in Milan and at Ellen de Bruijn Projects in Amsterdam and was recently selected for the 2008 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Incident Retreived. DVD, Edited CCTV. 7 min.
Jill Magid: Wednesday, March 19th, 6:30 pm, Meadows Museum
“To seek intimate relationships with impersonal structures” is how Jill Magid describes her own artistic intentions. In recent years Magid has worked with secret services, CCTV, police and forensic identification experts to further penetrate these systems of control. For her project System Azure, Magid developed her own company System Azure Security Ornamentation and elaborately decorated the security cameras at the Amsterdam Headquarters of Police. Auto Portrait Pending is a work in the guise of a contract stipulating that the artist’s remains be turned into a diamond when she dies. Magid received her MFA at Cornell University, her MS in Visual Studies at MIT and was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and at Eyebeam in New York. Her solo shows include those at Sparwasser HQ in Berlin, the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona, and Gagosian Gallery in New York. She teaches sculpture at Cooper Union and has upcoming shows at Artists Space in New York, Momenta Art in Brooklyn, and Stroom with the Dutch Ministry of Interior in Hague, Netherlands. Jill Magid’s visit is sponsored by SAA, the Student Art Association.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Kim Davenport: Tuesday, September 18, 6:30 PM, Meadows Museum, SMU
Sabrina Gschwandtner: Tuesday, October 16, 6:30 PM Meadows Museum, SMU
Frank Porcu: Monday, October 22, 9 AM & 12PM, Doolin Gallery , SMU
Hanneline Rogeberg: Wednesday, November 14, 6:30 PM, Meadows Museum, SMU
See the following posts for descriptions of each visiting artist.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Kim Davenport: September 18, 6:30 PM, Meadows Museum, SMU
Kim Davenport is the director of the Rice Gallery at Rice University in Houston, which under her guidance is the only university venue in the country dedicated to installation art. The gallery funds large-scale projects for the space from invited emerging and established artists, with over forty installations commissioned since 1995 and over 40,000 visitors annually. Recent exhibitions at Rice that she has organized have included works from Judy Pfaff, Eve Sussman, Alyson Schotz, Barry McGee, Jennifer Steinkamp, Tara Donovan and Jessica Stockholder, who is featured installing at the Rice Gallery in PBS’s acclaimed series art:21. She received an M.Div. from Yale University and has worked in research and curating for the Yale University Art Gallery and the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Jessica Stockholder
Sam Ran Over Sand or Sand Ran Over Sam
2004
Installation at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Sabrina Gschwandtner: October 16, 6:30 Meadows Museum, SMU
Sabrina Gschwandtner is a New York-based artist who works with film, video, photography, performance, sewing, crochet and knitting. After studying at Harvard University and the Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst, she received her BA in art/semiotics from Brown University, and an MFA from Bard College. Her artwork has been exhibited at various international museums and galleries, including the Museum of Arts and Design, SculptureCenter, Artists Space, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Anthology Film Archives, and is currently on view at Extreme Crafts at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania and Common Threads at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Prince Edward Island, Canada. In 2002, she founded KnitKnit, a limited edition arts journal dedicated to the intersection of fine art and handcraft. She has curated and organized numerous exhibits and events around the themes and issues raised by the publication. Sabrina Gschwandtner’s visit is sponsored by the Student Art Association.
Crochet Film, 2005
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Frank Porcu: On October 22, 23, and 24th, Frank Porcu worked with students in the Division of Art and the Guildhall program at SMU.
Painter and sculptor Frank Porcu is an anatomy instructor at New York Academy of Art and the Art Students League and has taught anatomy at the Chelsea Art Program, the BOCES Cultural Arts Center, Grand Central Academy of Art, and the Muttontown School of Fine Arts. Porcu studied with Salvatore Montano and Alfredo Cardenas, earning his BFA from Pratt Institute and his MFA from the New York Academy of Art’s Graduate School of Figurative Art. He is a recipient of the James Amster Memorial Award from the National Arts Club and he has participated in group exhibitions in New York, Long Island, Cortona and Paris.
Frank Porcu, Anatomical Drawing
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Hanneline Røgeberg: November 14, 6:30 PM, Meadows Museum, SMU
Norwegian-born artist Hanneline Røgeberg works mostly in painting exploring the possibilities and limitations of figuration, skin being the key element. She believes that the information gathered by touching another person is equally important to that gained through sight. In her work, touching becomes a vital metaphor for a profound and meaningful kind of communication, which requires a deep level of trust. She has exhibited nationally and internationally with one person shows at Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Vancouver Art Museum and Henie-Onstad Kunst Senter, Oslo, and group shows at MIT List Center, Whitney Museum, Aldrich Museum and National Academy of Arts and Letters, among others. Røgeberg received her B.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute and her M.F.A. at Yale. She received a WESTAF-NEA Fellowship in 1996, a Guggenheim fellowship in 1999 and an Anonymous Was a Woman grant in 2003. Røgeberg teaches painting and has served as Graduate Director for the Mason Gross School of the Arts since 2002 and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to Rutgers, she taught at University of Washington, Cooper Union, and Yale University School of Art.
Balzac II, 2007
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