Current Exhibit:
Mental LandscapeJP paralelos
(Juan-Si González and Paloma Dallas)
November 5-December 19, 2009
Artists talks: Thursday, November 12, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium
An opening reception will follow in the gallery
Clearly situated in this time of economic uncertainty, record job loss, military overstretch, and marked culture wars, this site-specific installation establishes a conceptual approach to the notion of landscape, exploring how the physical, social, political and economic forces and artifacts of a place both shape and reflect its culture and way of life.
Photographs taken from the highway are intermingled with road maps, audio interviews, video, and texts from USA Today, creating a sprawling narrative of place—in this case,
Cuban-born Juan-Si González and his partner Paloma Dallas, an Ohio native, explore contemporary political and social themes through multi-media installation and performance. González has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including Frost Art Museum; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art; Exit Art; El Museo del Barrio; SPACES; Temple University Gallery, Rome; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; and City Art Museum in Ljubljana, Slovenia. González began collaborating with Dallas, a writer and journalist, in 2001. In 2007, the
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Upcoming Exhibits:
Under the InfluenceCo-curators, Francie Bishop Good, Jane Hart and Michelle Weinberg
January 28-February 27, 2010
Curator and artists talks: Thursday, February 4, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium
An opening reception will follow in the gallery
Organized by the Girls’ Club, Under the Influence, explores how artists influence each other across media, and through social networks, collaborations and mentoring. Artists included in the exhibition work variously in illustrational, folkloric and narrative styles, while some reinvent traditional craft media, work in abstraction, or employ photography and video.
The Girls’ Club is an alternative contemporary art space and private foundation in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, established in 2006 by Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz.
Selected artists in the exhibition include: Ghada Amer, Francie Bishop Good, Sophie Calle, Petah Coyne, Julie Mehretu, Annette Messager, Elizabeth Murray, Nancy Spero and Ann Hamilton.
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Senior Exercises
March 22-26
March 29-April 2
April 5-9
April 12-16
April 19-23
Opening receptions in the gallery are scheduled on Mondays, 7-9 pm
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Faculty Exhibition
Read Baldwin
Claudia Esslinger
Barry Gunderson
Marcella Hackbardt
Ellen Sheffield
Karen Snouffer
April 29-May 29, 2010
Opening reception in the gallery: Thursday, April 29, 7-9 pm
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Past Exhibits:
Story of KnowledgesMarcella Hackbardt
August 13-September 26, 2009
Artist talk: Thursday September 10, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium
An opening reception will follow in the gallery
This series of constructed photographs is a meditation on knowledge, the power of its study and pursuit, and the strength and determination involved in the ways of learning. The storytelling is staged, often with figures and objects set into spaces they never occupied. Disrupted narratives render actions that are complex and shifting. Beyond specific disciplines, such as science or history, Story of Knowledges tells of struggle, longing and resolution. Here, illumination is mixed and precious. The figures’ imagination and creativity are key components in these stories of self-awareness, perspective and wisdom.
Marcella Hackbardt is an associate professor of art at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH. Two of her projected works have been performed at the 2006 and 2007 Ingenuity Festival of Art and Technology, Cleveland, OH. Solo exhibitions include: The College of Wooster Art Museum; DePauw University; Alaska Pacific University; and The University of Notre Dame. Hackbardt received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in 2008.
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I Choose Darkness
Karen Yasinsky
October 1-31, 2009
Artist talk: Thursday, October 15, 7:30 pm, Olin Auditorium
An opening reception will follow in the gallery
Robert Bresson’s 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar is a starting point for Karen Yasinsky’s current series, which includes her stop-motion puppet animation, I Choose Darkness (2009), the drawing animation, Enough to drive you mad (2009), and accompanying drawings executed in various media and techniques. There is a tranquility about the artist’s childlike animations that are gentle and unassuming, yet strange and unsettling. The artist’s nervous, twitching figures, both drawn and hand-made from clay, perform non-linear, gendered narratives, without clear motive, emotion or resolution. Yasinsky’s films alternate between stillness and constant motion and between silence and the use of dissociated sound and original scores.
Karen Yasinsky’s video installations and drawings have been shown in venues including: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art, NY; UCLA Hammer Museum, L.A.; Kunst Werke, Berlin; Sculpture Center, NY; and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. Her animations have been screened at venues and film festivals including MoMA, NYC; International Film Festival, Rotterdam; and New York Underground Film Festival. She is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Foundation grant, and teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Film/Media Studies. Yasinsky is represented by Mireille Mosler, Ltd., NY, and Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich.
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