Richard Heipp Gallery Exhibit

PhD Student Presenters

Courtnay Micots, a Ph.D. Student of African Art History, will present a paper at the Spring Meeting of the Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS)on 15 March 2008. Her paper, titled "Did Jesus Build the Posuban?: The Effects of Colonialism and Christianity on Fante Shrines" will be part of a panel addressing The Legacy of Colonialism in African Art.

The symposium is hosted by Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

PhD Student Presenters

Two of our Africanist grads will be presenting papers March 14-15 at the symposium “Transcending Boundaries, Bridging the Continent”. This is the 16th Annual Graduate Research Conference in African Studies at Boston University African Studies Center.

On Friday, MacKenzie Moon will present her paper, “Recognizable Re-imaginings: Yinka Shonibare’s Utilization of Western Visual Ar” in the panel; titled Communication, Media & Propaganda.

On Saturday, Amy Schwartzott will offer “Joseph Sumegne: Contemporary Nganga or Junk Man? A Preliminary Inquiry” on the Self/Other, Identity & Classification panel.

Congratulations, Amy and MacKenzie. In addition, Amy and Susan Kelliher will go to Harvard this weekend for the symposium “New Geographies in Contemporary African Art.”

PACKED

W.A.R.P. Professor, Sean Miller organized "PACKED", at Stetson University. The show features Bethany Taylor, Connie Hwang, Sergio Vega, and Arnold Mesches. Check out the fantastic review below!

Daytona Beach News-Journal
Art 'packs' heat in Stetson gallery show
By LAURA STEWART Fine Arts Writer

DELAND -- The provocative, surprisingly witty new exhibit at the Duncan Gallery of Art offers a brave new world of bold, broad and probing statements.

That's not so much because pieces like Sean Taylor's "100 Paces" is a 2006 videotape, projected onto a blank wall, or because Bethany Taylor's 2007 installation, "After the Clean-up," uses nothing more than bent wires and tangled skeins of red string to make its powerful statement.

It's simply because all of the show's unconventional pieces conform to an even more unconventional thesis: they're portable, easily packed and set up in a new space -- even on the fly, and even without the special atmosphere of a gallery.

Deceptively simple and as small as the disc that contains it, Taylor's video is a gripping time-bomb of complex concepts. Both beautiful and terrible in its martial precision, a drill team of Irish Defense Force soldiers pinwheel and pivot, their grim camouflage reflecting the gray walls of their Dublin barracks.

Warriors become part of a grand choregraphed chorale, in a blurring of the line between war's destructive impulses and art's creative energies that lasts only for the length of the recording -- or, thanks to its transformation into art -- forever.

Just so is "After the Clean-up" an arrangement of everyday materials that can be set up quickly, and revised in keeping with whatever setting Taylor chooses for its future installation. A pile of mops rests on the gallery floor, stained the same unsettling red-brown as the piles of string that surround them. Scattered on the white gallery wall behind the cleaning supplies are clusters of disaster-related imagery, each shaped from thread-like wires to resemble doodles. There are bombs falling from an airplane and grenades of all sizes, gas masks and prone bodies, skeletal ladies with mops, actual skeletons.

Compact though the objects in "After the Clean-up" would be, packed into a box or bag, they expand hugely on the wall to illustrate monumental concerns, and societal problems. Not the least among them, ironically, is the main idea underlying the work: of cleaning up after a variety of man-made disasters, whitewashing their impact, and covering up their causes.

"Packed" is a marvelous exhibit, one that combines sharp intelligence with profound questions about contemporary life. A former prison guard addresses past atrocities in Amanda Dunsmore's "Billy's Museum" and, by lavishly adorning the smallest details of museum life, Connie Hwang and Sean Miller confront traditional approaches to art.

And in a work like "Gore Buses and Pretty Buses," a black-and-white wall-mounted poster that's part of Aisling O'Beirne's "Some Things About Belfast (Or So I'm Told)," humor and horror vie for dominance -- and end up enlightening their viewer. The new Duncan gallery exhibit, easily packed and shipped and reassembled, is everything art should be: serious, and serially

Student Art Juried Show Winners

SAJE was a great success! We has Seventeen winners this year, check out the recipients below:

Visual Arts Award Winners:
1st Place, Presidents’s Award - Sonja McAlister, Spines 2
nd Place, Dean’s Award - Natalie Richardson, Series
3rd Place, Dean’s Award - Jonathan Frey, Interiors #2
Henri Theil Memorial Award – Kyle White, Good Game
Sarah and Kenneth Kerslake Printmaking Award - Adam Brown, Skull Study
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art Award - Josh Cajinarobleto, The Venting Box
School of Art + Art History Faculty Award - Alison McNulty, Dust Display
Central Florida Office Plus Award – Tommy Frank, Mission Accomplished
Hector Framing and Gallery Award - Nicolas Pilato, Miracle Pod
Creative Workshop Award – Juliane Elin, Cerclage
Goering’s Bookstore Award - Brian Bivona, tie-breaker
Judge’s Honor – Sonya McAlister, Untitled

Art History Award Winners:
William M. Goza and Sue Goza Award – Gianina Valle
2008 Harn Museum Outstanding Art History Student Award - Thuvia Martin

Ligature 17 Winners

Award Winners were...
Best Senior Work: Harn Museum Eminent Scholar Poster (collaborative) by Stephanie Gomez, Jonathan Hart, Mason Greenwald.
Best Junior Work: Fifty Feet (environmental typography) by Morgan Slavens.
Best Fresh/Sophomore Work: Sasquatch Tshirt by Blake Suarez. Honorable Mention: Friendly Fire Exhibition Poster by Kyle White.

Study abroad

Spend the summer in Greece... checkout the SA+AH study abraod program in Skopelos!

Roaming Artist: Samuel Levart

University Scholars

Art History students Brady Lee and Thuvia Martin will be presenting the results of their research in the 2007-2008 University Scholars Program on Saturday, March 1 at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Brady will speak at 10:45am in Anderson Hall 119 on “Powerful Patrons: Art and conflict in Quattrocento Florence.” Thuvia will talk at 1:15pm in Anderson Hall 132 on “Crisis of Spanish Royal Masculinity: Representations of Philip V, 1701-1723.”

Congrats!

Hearty congrats to post-bacc Tommy Frank on his grad school acceptance with assistantship at Bowling Green State University with faculty John Balistreri and Joe Pintz!

College Night at the Getty Center

Art History Professor, Dr. Melissa Hyde, will be a guest at the Getty Center in Los Angeles next week. She will be apprearing along side Dr. Drew Pinksy, from Loveline and VH1's Celebrity Rehab, in a special College Night series. This evening compliments the exhibition Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love. Dr. Hyde and Dr. Drew, will discuss art and sexuality and take your questions!

In you happen to be in the LA area be sure to attend! For more information check out the Getty Calendar: http://www.getty.edu/visit/calendar/events/Performances.html

Visiting Artist Louise Lawler

Visiting Artist: Louise Lawler
Harn Museum of Art
Thursday, Feb. 21st, 4 PM


Louise Lawler (born 1947, Bronxville, New York) is a U.S. artist and photographer. From the late 1970s onwards, Lawler's work has focused on the presentation and marketing of artwork. Much of this work consists of photographs of other peoples' artwork and the context in which it is viewed. Examples of Lawler's photographs include images of paintings hanging on the walls of a museum, paintings on the walls of an art collector's opulent home, artwork in the process of being installed in a gallery, and sculpture in a gallery being viewed by spectators.

Funded by Visiting Artist and Scholars Committee and Harn Museum of Art.

H.O.T. Clay Presents: Holly Hanessian

Visiting Artist: Holly Hanessian
Friday, February 22, 2008
1pm - 2pm FAC 112

Holly Hanessian is an Associate Professor of Art at Florida State University. Her work includes ceramic and mixed media installations, sculptural objects and artist books. She serves as exhibitions director of the National Council on Education of the Ceramics Arts. During Holly's slide talk, she will be discussing her professional experience as an artist, as well as her work.
Holly states, "My work offers a human response to how we progress through life with notions of luck and fate in our collective consciousness. By combining words with delicate porcelain chain link and ceramic objects, a story is woven reflecting what we both lose and gain at different times in our life. I continue to question how, why and where we end up in life; is it good fortune, destiny or the result of choice?”

Student Art Juried Show

University Gallery

February 12-March 6, 2008
Opening and Awards Ceremony: Friday February 15, 7-9pm

Come see some great submissions from both undergrad and graduate students. The comeptition is fierce. Be sure to see the Awards Ceremony and who takes home the prize!

Courtney Casto, Teapot: Female Impotence.

Edie Holstein, MSNBC September 11, 2007.

Ligature 17

Ligature 17
Opening reception:February 15th — 7pm
Focus Gallery

Ligature 2008, is the 17th annual juried exhibition of student design work at the University of Florida.

The highlight of this exhibition is a weekend-long design symposium featuring talks by and workshops with nationally recognized guest designers James Victore, Mike Perry, and Christian Helms of The Decoder Ring Design Concern. The exhibition and accompanying event are intended to motivate, inspire and create a greater design awareness throughout our community.This year’s theme is about attraction and cross pollination. Not only are our students inspired by our guests unique perspectives, but everyone from graduate students to underclassmen get a chance to work together and energize our design program.

All Ligature 2008 events are free and open to the public.

Penland School of Crafts

Congratulations to Patrick Coughlin! He was selected to represent the University of Florida and the School of Art + Art History at Penland School of Crafts.

Patrick Coughlin is a ceramic artist from rural Western New York who creates functional ceramic art inspired by family heritage and the regions predominate farming culture. Patrick's ornate ceramic vessels explore the conditions of being part of an existence in decline and decay. Through his work Patrick investigates the relations of Earthenware clay, Victorian service ware and his own experiences with the onion farming industry.

Scholarship Awards

Congratulations to our 14 Scholarship Recipients. The School of Art + Art History set a record and awarded the most funds ever!

















Great Job:
Francesca Lyn, Courtney Bowditch, Jennifer Fourmont, Stefanie Storm, Bailey Robb, Natalie Richardson, Alison McNulty, Anna Kell, Allison Spence, Kelly Sims, Alan Gutierrez, Alexis Cummins, Christian Kwan, and Jennifer Kahn.

Adam Frezza

Adam Frezza graduated with an MFA in Painting and Drawing in 2007. He was recently one of the top 50 finalists of the Myartspace NY, NY 2007 Competition. He was interviewed on the myartspace blog and spoke about his new artistic ventures and time at the Unviersity of Florida. Click the link and see what he has to say.

Visiting Artist

Kelly Kaczynski
FAB 103, Thursday 5:15 PM, Feb. 7th, 2008

Kelly Kaczynski is a sculptor and installation artist. Her work, while existing in a temporal time-space platform, is heavily materials based. She received an MFA from Bard College (’02), NY and BA from The Evergreen State College (’95), WA. Kaczynski’s solo exhibition, “air is air and thing is thing”, was exhibited at Triple Candie, NY (’05). Selected group exhibitions include Gallery 400, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, IL (’05), Artspace, CT (’04), Islip Art Museum, NY (’03), Kaczynski is included in the Boston Drawing Project at Bernard Toale Gallery, MA (’02).

Visiting Artist

John Himmelfarb
Thursday February 14 FAB 103 at 5:15















John Himmelfarb is an established artist whose lush, calligraphic drawings and paintings have always been driven by an unceasing devotion to line. Consistently blurring the boundaries between drawing and painting, Himmelfarb revels in line’s evocative potential to create a synthesis of graphic sign, text and elusive image that challenges one’s ability to interpret visual language.

Visiting Artist

Last week H.O.T. Clay sponsored visiting artist Andrew Martin. Check out these pictures from the demonstration.

Study Abroad

Need to escape the Florida heat? Want a taste of other cultures? Check out the University of Florida Study Abroad programs! UF has trips to many countries, chek them all out!

The program is made up of 2 courses taught concurrently during the summer program as part of a holistic approach to the study of culture, critical thinking, documentation and expression of the dynamics of space and place. Together, the 2 courses will act as a way for students to gain critical insight and investigative powers that will help them translate their personal experiences into both written and visual interpretations of the Japanese culture and their experiences within that culture. Japan and the US have a unique history of cross-culturalization. Our culture is transformed within the Japanese context, and their culture is transformed in ours. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the Japanese culture, and in doing so, be able to investigate the meaning of their own culture.

for more information check out: http://www.ufintokyo.com/

for more information email swarp@ufl.edu or bwarp@ufl.edu

READDRESSING THE CLASSICS MAY 4-16, 2008 THE PARIS RESEARCH CENTER

This atelier will immerse the student in the viewing and study of many of Paris's artistic masterpieces. The class will allow students to experience the art of Paris in a very intimate and direct way, creating art from art., and will involve students in creating reinterpretations of the artworks via their choice of drawing (following the French salon tradition), collage (employing the processes of Max Ernst and others), photography (following Breton and Kertesz) as well as digital imaging.

No previous art experience is be necessary. The class strives to rebuild the links between masterpieces of the past and our artistic future!
For more information contact: heipp@ufl.edu