God Bless America,
digital photo mural print, 2002.
August 25-September 26, 2004
A Common Hour Conversation: Thursday, September 9, 11:10 am, Olin Auditorium
University of Oklahoma, Osage writer and scholar, Robert Warrior will discuss with Heap of Birds his Denver Art Museum outdoor sculptural installation, Wheel, which tells the story of Colorado's past and present Native American population.
Artist talk by Edgar Heap of Birds: Thursday, September 9, 7:30 pm, Higley Auditorium
Opening reception follows in Olin Art Gallery
Eagles Speak is a collaborative exhibition honoring the unity of eagles, featuring work by indigenous artists from the United States and South Africa. Edgar Heap of Birds, a Cheyenne/Arapaho artist, conceived of the project and exhibition at the RISD Art Museum, Providence, RI, in 2002. In the Cheyenne tradition, the eagle is a messenger and leader. Heap of Birds calls upon the eagle to encourage cross-cultural communication. Other artists include: South African Thembinkosi Goniwe; Cynthia Ross-Meeks, a Narragansett/Wampanoag; and Tall Oak, a Mashantucket/Pequot/Wampanoag
At Kenyon College, thanks for assistance and supplementary funding are extended to Marcella Hackbardt/Art Department; Susan Spaid/Faculty Lectureships; Janet McAdams/Hubbard Fund, English Department; Roy T. Wortman/History Department; and Chris Kennerly/Multicultural Affairs.A black and white interpretive brochure accompanies this exhibition.
Pipo Nguyen-duy, AnOther Western
series, toned gelatin silver print, 1998.
September 30-October 30, 2004
Artist Slide Talk: Thursday, October 14, 7:30 pm, Olin AuditoriumOpening reception will follow the talk in the Olin Art Gallery.
Pipo is Associate Professor of Art at Oberlin College. Born in Vietnam, the artist humorously negotiates cultural borders and personal history in his series of photographic self-portraits appropriating the tintype AnOther Western.
Squeak Carnwath, Winter/Spring (ed. 40), color
sugarlift aquatint and hardground etching on
paper, 19" x 18", 2002
November 4-December 11, 2004
Gallery walk-through and talk with Squeak Carnwath: Thursday, November 11, 7:30 pmOlin Art Gallery
Opening reception follows in the gallery
Emerging in the early 1980s, painter Squeak Carnwath, a Professor in Residence at the University of California at Berkeley, has evolved a number of vocabularies with which she explores "with understated humor" the dilemmas of the self in relation to a larger world. Carnwath combines luminous color with handwritten notations, hieroglyphic symbols and the delineation of everyday objects. Meaning is not read literally or narratively from her canvases, but is instead elliptical and open-ended.
Hui-Chu Ying, Spanish series, relief printing
and drawing on paper, 22" x 26".
January 20-February 26, 2005
Opening reception:Thursday, January 27, 7:30 pm
Olin Art Gallery
Hui-Chu Ying, a printmaker who works in silkscreen, relief printing and etching, in combination with drawing and painting, is a professor of art at the Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH. Ying finds wide ranging cultural inspiration in her travels to Spain, and in her life experiences which encompass illness, death and healing. Ying employs the I-Ching, the Chinese book of changes, as a basis for her creative process. Her designs and motifs are generated from historical and contemporary art sources.
For completion of the Kenyon College Studio Art degree, senior art majors must prepare and curate a week-long exhibition of their work in Olin Art Gallery. The exhibition derives from work completed during the students' senior year.
March 20-26:
Reed Esslinger, Megan Thomas & Nara Cho
March 27-April 2:
Becca Don, Amanda Carpenter & David Livingston
April 3-9:
Angie Arahood, Nick Westervelt & Nike Desis
April 10-16:
Amanda Block, Alexis Arnold & Dabney West
Walter Zurko, Collar Yoke (detail),
wood, paint, wax, 5" x 10" x 53", 2004
April 21-May 28, 2005
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 28, 7:30 pm
Olin Art Gallery
Walter Zurko is a professor of art at the College of Wooster. Consistent throughout Zurko's earlier ceramic and more recent wood sculpture is his interest in the vernacular of tools, and in the implications of utility and making. Zurko?s work functions as a kind of double metaphor: for the handwork that is suggested by the kind of tools that he makes; and for the manual craft implied by his own sculptural creation. Zurko's sculptural objects, as homages, are often enhanced in their scale and some are subtly stylized.