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Herron’s community-focused summer exhibitions to feature Fine Art Furniture and Painting

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This year, Herron School of Art and Design’s popular, community-focused, summer exhibitions will feature Fine Art Furniture and Painting.

A June 14 reception in Eskenazi Hall from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. will open Experimental: The work of Phil Tennant with selected Herron alumni in the Berkshire, Reese and Paul galleries. In the Marsh Gallery will be Surprising Successes, a selection of paintings and playful works byLois Eskenazi.

A one-night-only sale in the Basile Gallery of 16 works ranging in price from $150 to $3000 will provide an opportunity for attendees to add to or begin their own collections. The sale of prints, sculpture, photography and ceramics by artists including Barb BondyRobert Horvath,Bob ShayPaul Weir and Kevin Wolfe will benefit Herron programs.

The event is free and open to the public. The exhibitions continue through July 25.

In substance, Experimental offers a glimpse at the legacy of Professor Phillip Tennant, not only through his own, sought-after creations, but through work by some of his former students. Tennant will retire from Herron in May after 38 years. He founded Herron’s Furniture Design Program and helped place Herron among the very top programs in the country.

Experimental includes works by Furniture Design alumni Nick Allman, Erin Behling, Chris Bowman, Ray Duffey, Nicholas Hollibaugh, Matt Hutton, David Lee, Jason Ramey, Cory Robinson, Ted Ross, Tom Tedrow and Ruby Troup.

Collectors who loaned work by Tennant include Vaughn and Melissa HickmanMark andCarmen HolemanJune McCormackDorit and Gerald PaulOra PescovitzDr. James and Nancy Chesterton SmithJoyce Sommers, Dr. Christopher and Ann Stack and Donnie and Judy Walsh.

“These eagerly-anticipated exhibits highlight the talent within our own community and feature works of art either created or collected by Hoosiers who have made art central to their lives, some through formal, scholarly training and some by other paths,” said Herron’s Dean Valerie Eickmeier.

“Professor Tennant’s work has been exhibited galleries, universities and museums nationally and featured in Fine WoodworkingAmerican Craft Magazine and Furniture Studio.  Over the span of his career, he has developed a rich vocabulary of forms and techniques that beautifully unite balance, structure and expression.

“Lois Eskenazi deferred her pursuit until her family was raised and then traveled far and wide to study and hone her technique. Her award-winning works show a mastery of oil painting and great sensitivity to subject matter,” Eickmeier continued. “Among the variety of works in these exhibitions, any art lover will be able to find something inspiring.”

New exhibit at IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery highlights long and contested history of Guantánamo

Nicknamed GTMO, the United States naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has a history that is infamous and yet unknown to most Americans. A new traveling exhibit running April 10 through May 12 at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Cultural Arts Gallery reveals that history.

Developed by more than 100 students from IUPUI and 11 other universities, the exhibition, Why Guantánamo?,  explores GTMO’s history from the US occupation of Guantánamo Bay in 1898 to today’s debates about its future.

This traveling exhibition is a program of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project which seeks to build public awareness of the century-long history of the naval station.

An opening day reception takes place from 6 to 7 p.m. at the gallery, located on the second floor of the IUPUI Campus Center, 420 University Blvd.

In 2012, 21 IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI graduate students in the museum studies and public history programs created two panels for Why Guantánamo?  Students were responsible for researching, writing, and selecting the photographs for the panels.  Those in the Introduction to Museum Studies class produced the panel “Arts of Detention,” and students in the Guantánamo Project class produced the panel “Guantánamo Hits Home.” Students who helped develop these panels in the traveling exhibit will be on hand to talk to guests at the reception on April 10.

Following the reception, a lecture featuring Indiana Supreme Court Justice Steven H. David and Indianapolis attorney Richard Kammen as speakers takes places place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Room 450A of the Campus Center. David and Kammen will discuss their experiences with post-9/11 Guantanamo detainees.

David was the chief defense counsel to the Office of Military Commissions from 2007-2010.  He oversaw the defense team for post-9/11 detainees in Guantánamo. Kammen is the civilian learned counsel responsible for defending Abd al-Rahim Hussein Mohammed Al-Nashiri. Al-Nashiri is accused of masterminding the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.

IU McKinney School of Law professor George Edwards will moderate the lecture.

Edwards, director of the law school’s program in international human rights law, was an expert witness in the Guantánamo Bay U.S. Military Commission case against Australian David Hicks. Edwards and his students also provided research assistance for the defense of Hicks and for Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was 15 years old when taken to Guantanamo Bay.

Sponsors of the exhibit’s appearance at IUPUI include: the museum studies program, the public history program, the history department, and the international studies program, all units of the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI.

The IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery is free and open to the public Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday 1 to 7 p.m.

Paid parking is available in the Vermont Street parking garage, which is connected to the IUPUI Campus Center.

 

For additional information, contact:

Liz Kryder-Reid, Director, Museum Studies Program, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Museum Studies, IUPUI

ekryderr@iupui.edu

317- 274-1406

Modupe Labode, Assistant Professor History and Museum Studies, IUPUI,

mlabode@iupui.edu

317-274-2839

 

Anila Agha selected for installation at Indianapolis International Airport

Anila Agha, Rights of Passage

Assistant professor Anila Agha was recently selected to install a piece of her art, Rights of Passage, at the Indianapolis International Airport. Her work will be on display through the end of April 2013. The work, funded by a grant from the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, is at the entrance to the departure area, behind the ticketing section on the right side in a large glass case.

For more on Anila Agha’s work, see her website.

2013 IUPUI Research Day: Come and Imagine the Future

Dr. Loren Field
Professor of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine

Research and creative activity matters at IUPUI and is making an impact every day, locally and throughout the world. The growing advancements in technology and the realization of exciting innovations mean that the skills needed to solve today’s problems and to take advantage of current opportunities are changing at a faster rate than ever before. Now…imagine the future in our globalized job and economic market, highlighting emerging fields of study and celebrating the cutting-edge research and creative activities that fuel economic development in Central Indiana and beyond. The IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research announces the 5th Annual IUPUI Research Day, an event that will allow participants to do just that…Imagine the Future!

Research Day will be held on Friday April 5, 2013, in the IUPUI Campus Center. The keynote speaker this year is IUPUI’s own Dr. Loren Field. Dr. Field’s presentation will occur during the morning plenary session from 9:30 am to 10:50 am.  This daylong celebration of research and creative activities at IUPUI will also include two poster sessions showcasing the research of our students (graduate, professional and undergraduate) and faculty, recognition of the 2013 Research Frontiers Trailblazer Award recipients, and a networking reception.

Dr. Field is internationally renowned for his work in genetics and cellular biology, including pioneering efforts in cardiac stem cell research. He is professor of medicine and pediatrics at the School of Medicine and has an appointment in the Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology.  Prior to his recruitment to Indiana University, Dr. Field was a Senior Staff Investigator at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.

Dr. Field has served on numerous grant review programs for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and on the editorial board of a number of journals focused on cardiovascular research.  He is an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association (1992-1997), a Founding Fellow of the International Society of Heart Research (2001), a participant of several American Heart Association Science Writers Forums, and a recipient of the Bristol Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant Award (1996-2000). 

Dr. Field is also the recipient of the 2012 Glenn W. Irwin, Jr., M.D. Research Scholar Award. The award is IUPUI’s highest recognition of outstanding, continuing research, scholarship or creative activity by a faculty member. Dr. Field has a long-standing interest in the regenerative capacity of the adult heart; his research efforts are focused on enhancing this regenerative activity with the hopes of developing interventions to treat failing hearts.  The success of this research would offer the potential for seriously ill patients whose tissue has been damaged by heart attack to “re-grow” their own hearts. Imagine what the future holds for this critically important field of inquiry and practice.

To register, visit http://crl.iupui.edu/Events/eventsRegistration.asp?id=3091. For more details about all Research Day activities, please go to http://research.iupui.edu/events/researchday2013/index.php.  Questions can be directed to Etta Ward at emward@iupui.edu or 278-8427.

 

First Friday Exhibition at SpaceCamp Gallery (funded, in part, by the IAHI)

Eco-Logic: Artists’ Take on Environmental Changes
SpaceCamp Gallery, 1043 Virginia Avenue, Indianapolis
March 1, 2013
About the Artists

Michele Brody was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1967, she received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1989 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. Utilizing her strong background in the liberal arts, she creates site-specific, mixed media installations and works of public art that are generated by the history, culture, environment, and architecture of a wide range of exhibition spaces. While living and working in such places as France, Costa Rica, California, the Midwest, Germany, and her home of New York, her art career has developed into a process of working in collaboration with each new community as a means towards developing an interpretation of the sense of a place as an outsider looking in. For Eco-Logic, Brody shows the life cycle of palm oil trees in Costa Rica. Palm oil production has been documented as a cause of substantial and often irreversible damage to the natural environment.

Caleb Charland received his MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL under a Trustees Fellowship. He got his BFA in Photography with Departmental Honors from Massachusetts College of Art. He mixes a language of science and art to create photographs that shock and awe. He states “The way we understand the world relies so much on our ability to measure it. Given that many measurements are based on the proportions of the human body its clear we measure stuff to find our place amongst it all and to connect with it in some way. By exploring the world at hand, from the basement to the backyard, I have found a resonance in things. An energy vibrates in that space between our perceptions of the world and the potential the mind senses for our interventions within the world. This energy is the source of all true art and science, it breeds those beloved “Ah Ha!” moments and it allows us to sense the extraordinary in the common.” For this exhibition, Charland shows photographs of LED lights powered completely by the fruits and vegetables in the images.

Born in a suburb of Washington, DC and raised in the small town of Poolesville, Maryland, Jason Ferguson moved to Baltimore to study art at Towson University and continued his studies at the University of Delaware where he received his MFA. To complete his projects, Jason solicits assistance from professionals working in a diverse range of scientific disciplines. Collaborating with practitioners in various branches of study gives his work a level of authenticity that he cannot provide on his own. The results are large sculptural objects, installations, video works, and photographic documentation that highlight the unique relationship between art, science, and philosophy. He has exhibited his work internationally including group exhibitions in Kolderveen, the Netherlands; Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore, MD; Kansas City, MO; Alexandria, VA; and Detroit, MI. For Eco-Logic, he is creating a new version of Koe. Koe is a response to the agricultural landscape throughout the Netherlands’ northeastern province of Drenthe. The Netherlands’ landscape is divided into a series of dikes created to defend against the increasing threat of floods due to the regions relation to sea level.

Carsten Schneider and Suzanne Hensel are elusive Berlin based artists who mostly work in theater and with sound. They regularly create work for Berlin public radio and create interesting plays that alter the landscape and your expectations. For this exhibition, they are showing Vogeltrommel (Birdy Drum). For two years, they slowly trained wild birds to be comfortable with them, finally coming inside the studio to eat and raise their young on the musical instruments. The songs in the exhibition are therefore birdsong, but not in the way you’d expect as they are playing human instruments, albeit without their full knowledge. This project talks about small scale human created environmental change.

 

Owen Mundy fragments public space in Packet Switcher

the consequence of scale

Herron School of Art and Design will host Packet Switcher, an exhibition of recent projects by artist, designer and programmer Owen Mundy. The exhibition opens in the Robert B. Berskhire, Eleanor Prest Reese and Dorit and Gerald Paul Galleries on February 27 with a lecture by Mundy at 6:00 p.m. There will be a reception immediately following from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Packet Switcher runs through April 13.

Mundy is an assistant professor of art at Florida State University. He earned an M.F.A. degree in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego and a B.F.A. degree from Indiana University, Bloomington. He’s a founder of Your Art Here http://yourarthere.org, an art organization that creates venues where art and ideas can be expressed freely through the use of billboards and other public spaces. In 2009 he created Give Me My Data http://givememydata.com, an online application that helps people get their data out of Facebook in reusable formats.

Packet Switcher contains a survey of recent and never before exhibited works. The individual pieces are varied; from dystopian visualizations of anonymous network data, to custom software which generates print resolution tests from news images. Owing to the increasingly decentralized models of artistic and cultural practice, as well as new forms of authorship like crowdsourcing, this exhibition features numerous collaborative projects with Mundy and other artists including Joelle Dietrick, Ryan Boatright, The Periscope Project, and Commodify, Inc.

The exhibition title references the process used to move digital communication by breaking files into smaller, faster blocks, or packets, of data. The packets travel through networks via the quickest available route and are reassembled at their destination. A digital photograph, for example, might be broken into several packets, each of which may travel through a different city before delivery.

Through a similar process, the artists underscore how incidental fragmentation and automation can streamline markets, but also make them vulnerable to systems failure. The use of architectural images points to recent real estate market volatility and considers how the technology-enabled pursuit of profit alters basic needs.

As a U.S. Navy photographer, Mundy observed militarism’s effect on cultures, sites and bodies. These experiences became an important influence on his work.

Also opening on February 27 and continuing through March 19 in the Marsh Gallery will be an exhibition of new works by Herron faculty members Ray Duffey and Marc Jacobson, and in the Basile Gallery, an exhibition of new works by Herron faculty member Stephanie Doty.
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IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery, IU Art Museum partner to showcase Morton Bradley’s math-inspired art

Jean Gibran Work

NDIANAPOLIS — With their brilliant colors and their display of the Harvard University graduate’s understanding of science, Morton C. Bradley’s sculptures are full of life. When viewed, the mathematically inspired creations evoke words such as “crystal,” “kaleidoscope,” “prism” and “snowflake.”

The Cultural Arts Gallery at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, in partnership with the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington, invites the IUPUI campus community and the public to view an upcoming exhibit of Bradley’s work.

“Color and Form: Selected Works by Morton C. Bradley Jr.” opens Monday, Jan. 7, and runs through Friday, Jan. 25, at the IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery in Suite 240 of the IUPUI Campus Center, 420 University Blvd. Nine of Bradley’s hanging sculptures and 11 sculptures mounted on pedestals will be on display.

Morton C. “Bob” Bradley, born in 1912, was the visionary behind the geometric sculptures that were created over decades by a workshop of talented artists and engineers. Bradley bequeathed the creations to Indiana University at his death in 2004.

“Bob Bradley’s works represent a complex combination of geometry and color theory,” said Sherry Rouse, curator of campus art at IU Bloomington. “He started simply but grew to love the more complex forms of the stellated dodecahedra and the icosahedra as he worked with his fabricators to create sculptures. Toward the end of his life, he began to experiment with minimal surface sculptures that are delightful to the eye and challenging to the viewer.”

Bradley’s first art pieces were paintings and drawings that were unrelated to the sculptures. His work evolved into an exploration of the Platonic solids and progressed to other polyhedrons, with his designs progressing over the years.

Much of Bradley’s inspiration came from traditional two-dimensional patterns from around the world, such as Italian cathedrals and Egyptian and Arabic architecture and textiles. His transformation of the two-dimensional patterns onto multiple intersecting planes resulted in the three-dimensional forms.

Bradley worked as a painting conservator at the Fogg Museum at Harvard and wrote “The Treatment of Pictures,” the 1950 book that remains a historic reference for painting conservators. He was also a researcher and theorist on subjects such as sentence structure, teaching methodology for foreign languages, anthropometry and music theory.

“Morton Bradley was a quiet genius whose accomplishments as an artist deal with great universal ideas,” said Heidi Gealt, director of the IU Art Museum. “It is a genuine pleasure to share Mr. Bradley’s beautiful legacy with Cultural Arts Galley patrons.”

Exhibit activities include a lecture and book signing featuring Lynn Gamwell, a leading author on the intersection of art, mathematics and science. Gamwell is the author of “Color and Form: The Geometric Sculptures of Morton C. Bradley, Jr.,” recently published by IU Press. Gamwell put Bradley’s unique fusion of color, form and mathematical ideas in its historical context in her earlier book, “Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual.”

Gamwell’s lecture will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in Room 450A of the IUPUI Campus Center. The book signing precedes the lecture, from 3 to 4 p.m., in the Barnes & Noble on the first floor of the IUPUI Campus Center.

“Color and Form,” a traveling exhibit previously on view at Indiana University Northwest, is made possible through IU’s Moveable Feast of the Arts Initiative, supported by the Lilly Endowment.

The IUPUI Cultural Arts Gallery is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1 to 7 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free.

Source: http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5888/IUPUI-Cultural-Arts-Gallery-IU-Art-Museum-partner-to-showcase-Morton-Bradleys-mathinspired-art

Herron’s Dickerson celebrates ‘The Hoosier Spirit’ with new State Fair commission

Herron Junior Jamie Dickerson

Along with the opportunity to eat your way to the Midway, do some superb people watching and check out the barnyard blue ribbons at this year’s Indiana State Fair, you can experience the new outdoor sculpture by Herron junior Jamie Dickerson.

Celebrating the Hoosier Spirit, a work named for the Fair’s 2012 theme, was dedicated August 3. It’s a site-specific, semi-permanent sculpture that will be on display for up to five years in Dow Agro Sciences Celebration Park, in the northeast quadrant of the Fairgrounds by the 4H buildings and free stage.

Jamie Dickerson. Hoosier Spirit. 2012. Indiana State Fair Grounds.

Jamie Dickerson. Hoosier Spirit. 2012. Indiana State Fair Grounds.

Dickerson’s concept “celebrates Indiana as a major agricultural state that is increasingly exploring ways to use its renewable and plentiful resources in the production of biofuels and plastics from corn, beyond food production,” she said.

Celebrating the Hoosier Spirit is comprised of three forms evoking corn husks, ranging in height from 12 to 11 feet, each being about five feet wide, reaching upward to imply a growing, energetic spirit. The forms are large enough for people to walk through “…and explore the beauty and versatility of this resource,” Dickerson said. The Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen’s Association donated the wood for the project.

Fair officials partnered the Arts Council of Indianapolis to issue a request for proposals, specifying that the work be made primarily with recycled materials or materials synonymous with the State of Indiana, and that it “inspire a celebration of the Hoosier spirit”.

The Arts Council’s Public Art Selection Committee—composed of artists, arts advocates, curators, administrators and other arts and community development specialists—reviewed proposals and presented recommendations to Fair officials for the final selection. Dickerson’s was the only student submission.

Lindsey Lord of the Indianapolis Arts Council described the process this way: “In a Request for Proposals we request resume, exhibition history, biography, and things like that, and then we request an actual proposal of what your piece would look like.

“Jamie’s was really nice in that she submitted a 3-D rendering of what the piece would look like on the grounds of the State Fair. She also submitted scale models of the sculpture. She included textures, all sorts of things that really gave you a feel of what the finished product would look like,” said Lord.

Dickerson said, “The curriculum at Herron really helps to prepare you to make professional proposals and to submit them in a way that’s very clean … that you are saying what you mean to be saying…. And also to be clear about what materials you may or may not use, because there are always going to be some alterations in the process ….

“Without the training and working with people who have so much experience, there is no way I could have confidently put this forth.” In addition to help from Herron faculty, Herron alumni James Darr (B.F.A. in Sculpture, ’03), Brose Partington (B.F.A. in Sculpture, ’04) and Brad Dilger of TriForm Studio (B.F.A. in Sculpture, ’04), were on Dickerson’s fabrication crew.

One visitor to Celebration Park, writing for Ag News, admired “…the beautiful green streaks and dark tones of poplar, the rich browns of white oak and the pinkish-red hues of sycamore trees that artist Jamie Dickerson used to showcase the unique textures and grains of Indiana hardwoods in her piece.”

The Fair runs through August 19.

Jamie Dickerson – Indiana State Fair Commission from Herron School of Art and Design on Vimeo.

2012 Herron Faculty Show

Herron Faculty Show 2012

Reese, Berkshire and Paul Galleries
August 10–September 12, 2012
Free Public Reception: August 24, 5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

The biennial Faculty Show will kick off the fall gallery season at Herron School of Art and Design. This year’s exhibition promises to be eclectic, with 35 faculty members exhibiting from departments including art history, ceramics, furniture design, painting and drawing, photography and intermedia, printmaking, sculpture and visual communication design.

“All tenured and tenure-track faculty, lecturers and program technicians were invited to participate,” said Herron’s Gallery Director Paula Katz. “It’s always interesting to see who has work available to show and what the artists, designers and scholars in the show have been creating recently.”

Participants include: Anila Agha; Lesley Baker; Karen Baldner; Andrew Davis; Stephanie Doty; Ray Duffey; Valerie Eickmeier; Vance Farrow; Reagan Furqueron; Anita Giddings; Linda Adele Goodine; Stacey Holloway; Robert Horvath; Marc Jacobson; Lauren Kussro; Flounder Lee; Craig McDaniel; David Morrison; Eric Nordgulen; Kathleen O’Connell; Stefan Petranek; William Potter; Mark Richardson; Danielle Riede; Jacob Ristau; Eva Roberts; Jean Robertson; Cory Robinson; Helen Sanematsu; Lukas Schooler; Meredith Setser; Sherry Stone; Phil Tennant; Christopher Vice; and Andrew Winship.

Also opening in the Marsh Gallery August 3 and continuing through August 24 is Russian Posters, a sampling from a collection produced by 20 contemporary Russian poster artists and shown during Moscow Design Week to mark the 120th birthday of the Russian graphic designer Aleksandr Rodchenko.

Rounding out the season opener August 3 through August 24 in the Basile Gallery is a thesis exhibition by Amina Khazie, M.F.A. candidate in Furniture Design.

 

Clockwise from top left: Lauren Kussro, We held so tightly to each other, we became as one, detail, 2012, monotype and silkscreen on paper, thread, beads; Stephanie Doty, Alteration 1: Lift, Cut, detail, 2011, charcoal and graphite; Stacey Holloway, Take Heed, detail, 2012, mixed media; Karen Baldner, The Presence of Your Absence XXIV, detail, 2011, mixed media drawing on handmade paper with embedded horse hair.