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Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold - Bloodline: A Quilt Exhibition

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:57:34 -0700

Image of Faith Ringgold's "Last Supper."

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold

Bloodline: A Quilt Exhibition

September 11 – October 4, 2008

Reception on September 11, 2008 | 5-7PM

University Art Gallery / Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana

The University Art Gallery will feature quilts and quilt inspired artwork from a diverse range of nationally and internationally known artists. The exhibition will showcase some extraordinary and unconventional results within this traditional art form. It deliberately looks to represent the endless possibilities investigated by contemporary quilters while promoting the rich history this region has in fiber arts. Artists committed to the exhibition are Arle Sklar-Weinstein, Brain Dykhuizen, Fraser Smith, Jane Burch Cochran, Ian Hundley, Faith Ringgold, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Petra Nyendick, Shawn Quinlan, Sonji Hunt, Rachel Bramer, Joan Lockburner Deuel, Kevan Rupp Lunney, Michael Aaron McAllister, Nancy Crow, Rhiannon Williams, Susan Else, and an Amish Quilt. Works include some major facets explored in quilting; realistic, figurative, story quilts, still life's, abstract, and even three-dimensional quilts, all sewn by hand or machine.

Professor Emeritus Manny Farber: APPRECIATION: MANNY FARBER | 1917-2008

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:16:40 -0700

APPRECIATION: MANNY FARBER | 1917-2008
Artist Manny Farber's career a celebration of details
(http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20080824-9999-1c24farberm.html)

By Robert L. Pincus, UNION-TRIBUNE ART CRITIC for The San Diego Union-Tribune, August 24, 2008

Manny Farber never tired of looking at small things: a flower, a Post-it note or a section of rebar. He never stopped being fascinated with how “to get it as I see it,” as he said one day in his studio.

This was the prime paradox of Farber as a painter: He located the profundity of existence in its ordinary details, the everyday things of his life that he valued so much. He wasn't ever going to try to hit you over the head with meaning or message, by trying to create what he pejoratively referred to as “masterpiece art.” But like the great Italian painter Giorgio Morandi, he gave humble forms a second life, a glow that invested them with a large beauty.

Farber died early Monday at 91, in the Leucadia home he shared for many years with wife and fellow artist Patricia Patterson. His career spanned styles and epochs in recent art: Abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptual art all came and went in his lifetime.

He experimented with his own versions of expressionism and made subtly ravishing works in the minimalist vein that foreshadowed his later brilliance with color in his figurative paintings. He was destined never to become a conceptual artist, given his deep love for painting and its history. Beginning in the 1970s, he developed a body of figurative paintings equal in brilliance to any artist of the last three decades.

His achievement as a painter brought him recognition. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, gave him a major show in 1985, and 18 years later the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego organized a sprawling retrospective that traveled to P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. He had gallery shows in New York and Los Angeles; Quint Contemporary Art in La Jolla, which has represented him for 24 years, developed a wide roster of collectors, who eagerly acquired his work at every solo exhibition.

But the greatness of his paintings has outdistanced its reputation, particularly in New York. Though he spent decades there, it was in California where he made his best work, and New York critics never seemed to get him fully.

Obituary: Artist and Critic Manny Farber, 91

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:26:14 -0700

Obituary: Artist and Critic Manny Farber, 91
(http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/08-08EmanuelFarber.asp)

By Inga Kiderra for UC San Diego News, August 21, 2008

Influential and iconoclastic film critic, abstract painter and UC San Diego Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts Emanuel “Manny” Farber died Aug. 17 at his home in San Diego’s North County. He was 91.

(http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/08-08EmanuelFarber.asp)

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold: Through the Eyes of Others at Fenimore Art Museum

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:51:29 -0700

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold

Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art

August 23, 2008 - December 31, 2008

Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY 13326

The images of African Americans at the Fenimore Art Museum offer insights into the ways that Americans in the past viewed one another; how artistic representations of black people created and reinforced popular attitudes; and how these attitudes continue to affect us today. This is not simply a story for African Americans, but for all of us, because the issues represented in this exhibition—identity, self-portrayal, survival, resistance, and stereotyping—are issues that relate to each individual who has ever wondered about their own identity and to every group that has entered this country.

L Cole, C D Cruz, D Erdmann, N Herbst, S Horsley, G Mercedes, T Schwartz, K Wall, J Westerbeke: Greater LA Masters of Fine Art

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:48:30 -0700

Leigh Cole, Cathy de la Cruz, Deanna Erdmann, Nico Herbst, Scott Horsley, Gretchen Mercedes, Tim Schwartz, Kate Wall, and Julia Westerbeke

Greater LA Masters of Fine Arts Exhibition

Exhibition runs August 25 through September 10, 2007

Opening Reception on Sunday, September 7th | 4-9 pm

California State Universities, Long Beach Galleries, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840-0106

MFA Students from California State University, Long Beach begin this academic year by presenting a group show, which features work by graduate students throughout the greater Los Angeles area including: Akosua Adoma Owusu, Olga Balema, Gideon Barnett, Christopher Bauder, Benjamin Britton, Leigh Cole, Cathy de la Cruz, Deanna Erdmann, Lindsay Fotser, Liz Glynn, Eben Goff, Jennifer Gradecki, Jesse Aron Green, Nico Herbst, Scott Horsley, Whitney Hubbs, Simon Hughes, Niku Kashef, Amanda Keller-Konya, Mimi Lauter, Erica Love, Dana Maiden, Gretchen Mercedes, Matt Merkel-Hess, Joanne Mitchell, Jared Nielsen, Raksha Parekh, Ian Pines, Brian Porray, Seth Pringle, Peter Bo Rappmund, Issac Resinkoff, Sarah Rose, Yoshie Sakai, Tim Schwartz, Matt Sheridan, Matthew Siegle, Melissa Thomson, The University, Alison Walker, Kate Wall, Julia Westerbeke, and Jennifer Wolf. This diverse community includes visual data from thirteen schools, including UC Santa Barbara, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, down the coast to UC San Diego and everything in between and was curated by: McLean Fahnestock, Christen Sperry-Garcia, Mariann Marcum, Matt Ohm, Michael Walsh, Nathan Huff, Christina Shurts, and Megan Hoetger.

Associate Professor Phel Steinmetz: FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:01:19 -0700

Phel Steinmetz

FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA
(http://www.safotofestival.com/galleries/index.html)

September 1-30, 2008

FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA-SAFOTO / Gallery 6, 333 West Olmos Drive #103, San Antonio, TX 78212

The FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA International Photography Festival is a unique and eclectic forum for the exhibition and celebration of photography and photography-based art forms.

PhD Candidate Chanda Carey presents on the International Cosmology Across Cultures Conference in Granada, Spain

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:00:45 -0700

Chanda Carey will present a superb study of rock art in the American Southwest drawing on perspectives from landscape phenomenology, the study of Native American language and poetics, folklore, and archaeastronomy.

International Cosmology Across Cultures Conference in Granada, Spain

September 8-12, 2008

Parque de las Ciencias | Avenida del Mediterraneo s/n, 18006 Granada, España

The International Cosmology Across Cultures Conference joins specialists of both cultural astronomy studies and modern cosmology in a single forum where ideas about the comprehension about the nature of the Universe could be interchanged, analyzed, revised or even challenged. The conference will be held in Granada (Spain) from September 7th to 14th, 2008, including excursions and arrival (7) and departure (14) dates.

The conference is organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía and under the patronage of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC).

Lev Manovich: Watson Conference - The New Work of Composing - October 2008

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:34:51 -0700

Lev Manovich

The Seventh Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference

The New Work of Composing

October 16-18, 2008

University of Louisville,

Multiplicity of modes and media; myriad new sites and genres; morphing definitions of what counts as text or author or audience; seismic shifts in means of production and delivery. These changes are all around us, and they are coming fast.

What is the new work of composing in the midst of the cultural and linguistic diversity, increasing globalization, and rapidly changing technologies that characterize contemporary life? These are compelling questions for us—as students, teachers, writers, composers, activists, citizens. The 2008 Thomas R. Watson Conference will explore the complex and semiotically rich challenges we face, in the university and beyond, as we move toward new modes of composing, new forms of rhetoric, new concepts of texts and textuality, and new ways of making meaning.

For more information and a listing of featured speakers and conference schedule, please visit:
http://louisville.edu/conference/watson

Steve Fagin - The Surfing Memory Syndrome at UC Irvine

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:28:03 -0700

Major works of Art Series
Steve Fagin - The Surfing Memory Syndrome

Opening Reception on January 8, 2009 | 6–9PM

Exhibition runs January 8 through February 7, 2009

Irvine University Art Gallery, UC, Irvine, 712 Arts Plaza, Irvine, CA 92697-2775

Artists in Residence: Deanna Erdmann, Glenna Jennings, and Jesse Mockrin - New Children's Museum

Fri, 8 Aug 2008 13:32:14 -0700

Artists in Residence:
Deanna Erdmann / Glenna Jennings / Jesse Mockrin

It's Green in the Teen Studio

Exhibition runs August 3 through September 28, 2008

Closing Reception on September 21 at 1-4PM

New Children's Museum, 200 West Island Avenue, San Diego, California 92101

Focusing on photography and horticulture, you can experiment using digital cameras, tripods, diffusion panels, color gels, props, backdrops, and more! Stage your own still life or create your own prints to share with the world. Explore eco-friendly growing techniques and recycled planting materials in the edible garden. Using reflectors to manipulate the existing natural light, make sure you get the best looking vegetation in the studio!

Adriene Jenik, Ricardo Dominguez and Nina Waisman: 'SPECFLIC 2.6' and 'Particles of Interest'

Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:23:59 -0700

Adriene Jenik, Ricardo Dominguez and Nina Waisman

"SPECFLIC 2.6" and "Particles of Interest"
Installations by Adriene Jenik and *particle group*

August 6 to October 3, 2008

Closing Reception: October 2 at 6 to 8 PM

University of California, San Diego, Calit2 Gallery, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093

The joint exhibition will present "SPECFLIC 2.6" by UC San Diego Visual Arts professor Adriene Jenik, and "Particles of Interest" by *particle group*, an art collective composed of independent and UCSD-based artists and writers. The art installations ask the viewer to consider a not-so-distant future in which individuals will be intimately connected to networks not only through our computers, but via nanoparticles in or on our own bodies.

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold: Reverberations: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:42:56 -0700

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold

Reverberations: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection

June 28 - September 21, 2008

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building, 128 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102

Reverberations: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection represents an unusual opportunity to see a large portion of a corporate collection in one place. Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in a fruitful collaboration with Bank of America’s Art Exhibition Program, this exhibition presents over 80 highlights from one of the finest corporate collections in the world.

Installed in two large galleries of the Academy’s Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building, the exhibition features major works by artists such as Milton Avery, Jennifer Bartlett, Roger Brown, John Chamberlain, Janet Fish, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, Donald Judd, John Marin, Elizabeth Murray, Louise Nevelson, Jules Olitski, Faith Ringgold, Ed Ruscha, Miriam Shapiro, Lorna Simpson, and Frank Stella.

World premiere ¡Únicamente la Verdad! “videopera” written by Rubén Ortiz Torres

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:14:31 -0700

Rubén Ortiz Torres

World premiere

¡Únicamente la Verdad! “videopera” closes IU Summer Music Festival Aug. 8 and 9
( http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/8595.html )

For Indiana News Room, July 31, 2008

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Smuggling and betrayal. Myth and reality. Can fiction be truer than fact or reach a layer of truth that the usual facts don't make accessible?

These intriguing issues and others will be explored in the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music's production of ¡Unicamente la Verdad! (Only the Truth!) on Aug. 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. in downtown Bloomington's Buskirk-Chumley Theater. This world premiere, which concludes the 2008 IU Summer Music Festival, will feature the IU Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, conducted by Carmen Helena Téllez. Both performances are free and open to the public.

For many years, Mexicans everywhere have known about Camelia "la Tejana" (woman from Texas), who was the subject of many "corridos" -- a form of Mexican ballad -- popularized by the famous band Los Tigres del Norte. Camelia had dared to kill her lover, who betrayed her after they smuggled marijuana over the border together.

Though a fictional account and unlike other corridos, where the woman suffers deceit and betrayal in silence, this tale of Camelia sparked the "border imagination" about a strong woman who speaks and acts for herself. Outlaw and outcast, she disappeared into the social fabric and then surprisingly began to take on new forms.

This "videopera" encompasses elements from contemporary music video, tabloid journalism, analytical documentary, popular Mexican music and, of course, opera. The libretto, by Rubén Ortiz-Torres, is based on several news pieces about the return of the "real" Camelia and reconstructs her "true" story of trafficking marijuana and becoming a murderer for love.

"A long time ago, I received a commission from the Organization of American States to write a chamber opera," said composer Gabriela Ortiz. "When I discussed this with my brother, Rubén, he suggested that we look at El Alarma -- a tabloid magazine that claims to print 'Only the Truth!' -- as a point of departure for ideas about popular stories in the news media that had a particular social impact. We found a striking piece of news and visual images about a man who committed suicide because of a woman, Camelia la Tejana. From that story, we started to conceive the entire opera."

Micha Cardenas and Bill Kelley Jr.: 'Why Don't You Shut Up?'

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:26:42 -0700

Micha Cardenas (Boredom Patrol) and Bill Kelley Jr.

"Why don’t you shut up?" / “Por qué no te callas?”
Curated by María Fernanda Cartagena and Bill Kelley Jr.

August 2008

Boredom Patrol's Video Screening on August 6

Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social (Art and Social Space Laboratory), Quito, Ecuador

Activism, disobedience and mediums of communication), a title taken from the headlines after King Juan Carlos of Spain yelled the infamous phrase at Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in 2007, will be hosted by Espacio Arte Actual in Quito and will feature the Tucumán Arde Archive (Argentina 1968) as well as contemporary video artists: BijaRi (Brazil), Boredom Patrol-Micha Cardenas (USA), Bulbo (Mexico), Etcétera, Errorista (Argentina), Ana Fernández and Miguel Alvear (Ecuador), Frente 3 de Fevereiro (Brazil), María Teresa Ponce and Fabiano Kueva (Ecuador), and The Yes Men (USA). This exhibition attempts to investigate art’s relationship to the changing nature of public space, as well as bridge the gap between historic and contemporary cultural practices.

Micha Cardenas: Gender Agenda

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:57:58 -0700

Micha Cardenas

Gender Agenda

Reception on Friday, August 8, 2008 | 6PM

Exhibition runs August 6 through September 14

Gallery Project, 215 South Fourth Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

Gallery Project presents Gender Agenda, a multi-media exhibition in which 21 local, regional and national artists bring gender issues to center stage. They explore gender identity, broaden the scope of the terms masculine and feminine, and seek to tear away binary descriptions. Artists include Heather Ault, MB, Debra Broz, Sarah Buckius, PG Toys - Micha Cardenas, Steve Coy, Charles Fairbanks, Adrianne Fernandez, He-Bops, Patrick Hillman, Heidi Kumao, Robert Lendrum, Lauren McEntire, Marisa Miller, Cal Navin, Erik Peterson, Mike Richison, Jada Schumacher, Jeff Schweitzer, Catherine Smith, Jack Summers.

There are fundamental differences between men and women, namely, physiological and chemical. However, how we behave as men and women is more complex and constructed than our physical bases. Masculinity and femininity were tools of control and power long before science discovered biochemical inclinations towards these seemingly divisive terms. A broad range of identities and realities lie between these poles and outside mainstream consideration. As one of the contributing artists asks “Are binary gender performances necessarily retrogressive”? When is it okay to act “like a man” or to act “like a woman”?