August 24-September 23, 2006

Artist talk: Thursday, September 7, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium

Opening reception in the gallery follows talk

Barry Gunderson, Professor of Art at Kenyon College, presents new work created during his 2005-2006 sabbatical, while in residence as a Visiting Fellow in Sculpture at the School of Art, John Moores University, Liverpool, England.  Gunderson’s
A Door of One’s Own explores the postmodern form, bright hues and imagined social fabric of Liverpool’s terrace housing.  His stylized, patterned houses, fabricated in wood, are mounted perpendicular to the wall.  Their smart, designed-to-scale exteriors and interiors suggest architectural models—schematics for the rhythms of urban domestic life.

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September 28-October 28, 2006

Artist talk: Thursday, October 12, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium

Opening reception in the gallery follows talk

Based in Hoboken, NJ, Altamura explores the loss of identity and privacy through the pervasiveness of lens-based culture and media.  Anonymous, an installation grid of as many as 500 11”x 14” photographs, amplifies the power of the print media photograph to indiscriminately capture its secondary or tertiary subjects.  In each of his photographs, Altamura isolates and enlarges the gritty visages of the camera’s unintentional background figures, recalling the tragic, fragmentary quality of causally shot portraits of victims reproduced for public consumption.  TV Surveillance, a four-channel DVD installation, incorporates in mock-surveillance fashion, the continuous footage and ambient sound of televisions visible through windows in urban settings.   We are witness to the viewing habits of unknown—and only fleetingly visible—subjects.  

This exhibition is accompanied by a two-page, b&w brochure with an essay by gallery director, Dan Younger.

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November 9-December 16, 2006

Artist talk: Thursday, November 9, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium

Opening reception in the gallery follows talk

Among planned works on view by the New York-based feminist and pacifist, Joyce Kozloff, are her most recent series, Boys’ Art and American History.   Long-interested in cartography, Kozloff’s detailed, intimately-scaled maps both humorously and politically combine her son Nikolas’s pre-adolescent drawings of war play with diverse high art and popular culture sources such Leonardo, Goya, George Grosz and Henry Darger.  Kozloff’s imaginary and not-so-imaginary maps of war, which recall the delicacy of ancient manuscripts, chronicle with grace, humor and outrage, global conflict across time, finding undeniable parallels between boyish aggressive fantasy and war in-fact.

Kozloff’s work is complemented by a three-channel video, Disarming Images, a documentary on dissent in the U.S. since 9/11, produced by the political group, Artists Against the War.  Planned in collaboration with Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon, this exhibition is accompanied by a six-page, color brochure with an essay by Eleanor Munro.

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January 18-February 24, 2007

Artist talk: Thursday, February 1, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium

Opening reception in gallery follows talk

Recognizing the emotional impact that memory and history have on our psychological identities, my work offers an artistic means for elevating places, people and objects to a revered position of visual value.  My photo collage paintings evolve out of my travels to locations in France and Germany where my father was stationed during World War II.  The most recent paintings in this series are based on my photographic investigations of the history and present life of Epernay, France.  This city and the surrounding region was a place that my father valued with significant emotion.  He and his fellow soldiers were honored by the French when he marched as an MP in General Patton's army across France and into Germany. 

In my studio, as I face hundreds of historical and contemporary images, I find myself struggling to comprehend the infinite complexities of my parents’ history.  I fully embrace this generation who has experienced such life-altering events, as well as the mysteries hidden in the historical objects and places they have left behind.  I strive to show these enigmatic qualities in the meeting, blending and confrontation of paint and photography.

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For the completion of the Kenyon College Studio Art degree, senior art majors prepare and install a week-long exhibition of their work in the Olin Art Gallery.

March 19-23:
Whittney Klann, Yana Forney & Katelyn Diemand-Yauman

March 26-April 1:
Robert Blum, Henry Brown & Andrew Ritter

April 2-8:
Ashley Lamb, Emily Wagner & Stefan Gunn

April 9-15:
Emily Robinson, Patrice Collins & Kendra Silberschatz

April 26-May 26, 2007

Artist talk: Thursday, April 26, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium

Opening reception in the gallery follows talk

Kent, OH-based Eva Kwong is exhibiting a selection of her prolific work as a printmaker (including unique prints, wood block prints, relief prints, and etchings)  In addition, her installation Lament  incorporates numerous sculptural  teardrops (10”-14” each in height), in a section of the gallery.  The work includes a desk and chair, encouraging audience response about the loss of family and/or friends.  Gallery visitors’ contributions (on Chinese funerary paper) are posted, becoming a part of the installation.