Patrick Nagtani, Untitled, from
"Chroma Therapy," C-Print, 2005.
January 19-February 25, 2006
Artist talk, Thursday, January 26, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium
Opening reception follows talk in gallery
Photographer Patrick Nagatani's new Chromatherapy series consists of 40 color C-prints, matted and framed to 20" x 24". Nagatani writes in a preliminary artist statement about the series: "I am interested in the idea of color as a growth and healing tool. Current research for my docudrama, medical-like images have led to discussions with botanists and biologists. I am intrigued with color healing and growth because of the use of color and lights in both ancient medical practice and photography. I am interested in making images that theatrically depict color light healing-cinematic narrative images that are medical charades of chromatherapy."
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Francis Frith, Sculptures in the
Great Temple of Philae, 1857;
albumen print. Published by
James Virtue & Co., London.
November 10-December 17, 2005
Opening Reception:
Thursday December 1, 7:00-9:00 pm
A survey of the production of scenic landscape view photography in Europe, the Middle East, India and the United States, this loan exhibition will comprise museum-quality, vintage salted prints, albumen prints, carbon prints and photogravures, as well as travel albums, photomechanically-illustrated books; and stereographs. Subject matter will include the Grand Tour, local European touristic views, European city views, Eastern and Western U.S., and local Gambier, OH views. Accompanying text panels and handouts will provide information about the history of this period of photographic practice, and capsule biographies about photographic artists and firms. Additional panels will provide interpretation on the intersections of photography and tourism, as well as theoretical perspectives on photographic enterprise and colonial and territorial possession.
Lorri Ott, Untitled (Green and
Red-Orange),10" x 8" x
9", 2004.
Nicole Havekost, Candy Lady Series,
(Skittles), bleached beeswax, hard
candies, 10.25" x 6.5" x 4.5", 2002.
Recent Work by Nicole Havekost and Lorri Ott
October 6-November 5, 2005
Artists' talks, Thursday October 13, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium
Opening reception in gallery follows talks
Fashioning three-dimensional sculptural objects designed for wall-installation, Nicole Havekost and Lorri Ott experiment with and push the parameters of materials and forms. Each explores the metaphorical qualities of shapes and substances. Both understand their use of material and form as a register of the human condition, attempting to evoke states such as anxiety, longing, dejection, sadness and loss. In her work, Havekost directly references the body or parts of the body. While Ott’s creations are more abstract and recall industrially-produced discards, she often fashions translucent, container-like forms that are redolent of the skin and the body- or organ-as-cavity. Each artist speaks of the process-oriented, repetitious handwork that attends their art making. For example, Havekost works with “obsession” . . . “indulgently” employing cloth, thread, beads, wax and brightly-colored candies, while Ott patiently “pours, brushes, slushes, stuffs, folds, sews, pinches and pulls” malleable materials such as latex, silicone rubber and resin.
Contro La Guerre del Capitale
(Against the War of Capitalism),
digital photograph, inkjet print,
3'x4', 2000.
Three Digital Installations
August 25-October 1, 2005
Artist Gallery Talk:
Thursday, September 8, 7:30 pm
Olin Auditorium
Daniel Warner presents two DVD projections, multimedia installations, Hortus Musicus, and On the Conduct of Water. Both installations take the surrounding environs of Rome as their ostensible subject. Presenting digitized images of the seventeenth century landscape paintings of Claude Lorain and Nicholas Poussin, and merging them with images taken in real time, Hortus Musicus investigates the transformative possibilities of real and imagined visual and sonic environments. On the Conduct of Water (shot at the gardens and fountains of Villa d'Este in Tivoli, outside Rome), explores the visual and aural properties of water, interweaved with texts on the poetics of water, taken from Chia-Shun Yih, Denise Levertov, Lao-Tzu, Toni Morrison, Pablo Neruda, and others.
In addition, Warner's Wall of Sound, presents sound pieces (ambient sounds recorded in Rome), in conjunction with digital mural images of Roman graffiti. Five melded soundscapes are experienced by gallery visitors on SONY Walkman stations, each equipped with headphones. Loosely inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, the soundscapes and graffiti propose that memory and perception are based upon a full sensory awareness of the incidental, temporal flux of urban experience. Warner writes of the political graffiti: "The ambient culture created by these displays are not only cries of protest and defiance, but like the five Roman soundscapes placed with them, they are also whispers of love, fear, humor, and simple equations of power and culture."
For completion of the Kenyon College Studio Art degreee, senior majors must prepare and install a week-long exhibition of their work in Olin Art Gallery.
March 19- 25, 2006
Sarah DeVere
Kevin Guckes
Lindsay Madaras
March 26- April 1, 2006
Amber Young
D. Rich Limmer
Phillip Laurent
Kate Whitcomb
April 2- 8, 2006
Liz May
Kaitlin Skilken
Katie Mikulla
April 9- 15, 2006
Christina Carr
Rachel Wolfson
Sarah Ingber
Ryan Baier
Read Baldwin
Claudia Esslinger
Marcella Hackbardt
Craig Hill
Paola Vezzani
April 20-May 27, 2006
Opening reception, Thursday, April 27, 7-9 pm