Jessica Wohl: Suburbia 1. 2009. ink on stonehenge, 22 x 30 inches

Zeitgeist gallery presents SUB URBAN LEGENDS:
a two-person exhibition showcasing visiting assistant professor Jessica Wohl and Athens, Georgia artist and adjunct visiting instructor (Fall 2010) Justin Plakas.

In keeping with Zeitgeist’s tradition of summer exhibitions reaching into the area studio community, these two artists kick off the first of two “project space” shows.

“…these drawings explore the relationship between what we reveal and what we conceal, and what the symptoms and consequences may be of doing so.” – Jessica Wohl

“The camera has allowed me to approach people and investigate spaces that I wouldn’t have otherwise…things that may feel normal at first glance, but embedded in them are small pieces of a puzzle hinting towards a greater narrative, and leaving the viewer questioning what they are seeing.” – Justin Plakas

The exhibition runs from July 7 through July 30, 2011

Opening reception being held at the gallery on Thursday, July 7 from 5-8 pm.

An additional reception in honor of Bastille Day will be held on Thursday, July 14 from 5-8 pm.

Zeitgeist Gallery
1819 21st Ave. S., Nashville, Tennessee 37212

www.zeitgeist-art.com

(615) 256-4805
July 7-July 30, 2011
Tuesdays-Saturdays 5-8 pm

Brighton Festival Fringe, 7-30 May 2011
Siderotype.com will be hosting visiting professor Pradip Malde’s lectures and exhibitions entitled ‘Haiti: blind architect’. This photographic collection spans the past six years of work in Haiti and includes both platinum/palladium and inkjet prints produced from film and digital files.

The prints will be available to view throughout the Brighton Festival, May 7-29, at The Siderotype Gallery within Taylor St Baristas, 28 Queens Road, Brighton, BN1 3XA, from 10-5 daily. A second group of prints will also be installed at Rodhus, 16-30 Hollingdean Road, Brighton, BN2 4AA, from 10-5 Monday-Friday.

Two lectures, both open to the public and free of charge, will be presented at the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton. Dates and locations:
May 9th, U. of Sussex, 1:00, Institute of Development Studies, BN1 9RE.
May 11th, U. of Brighton, 4:00, Photography Dept, Circus St, BN2 9QF.
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Lizzie McCleskey: Mater Admirabilis (detail)
2011
20” D x 57” H x 20” W
Raku Clay, iron oxide stain, human blood

The Department of Art and Art History of the University of the South announces:
An exhibition by Honors Candidate, Lizzie McCleskey open to the public from Tuesday, April 26, 2011 to Saturday, April 30, in the Carlos Gallery of the Nabit Art Building.
Ms. McCleskey will give a public presentation on April 29, 4:30 PM, at the Nabit art Building.

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Lizzie McCleskey is an Art major at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Her education in ceramics began in elementary school with her work at Zoli Studio, under potter and sculptor Evelyn Jordan in New Orleans, Louisiana.  As a college student, Lizzie continued her ceramic education with Jordan upon receiving Sewanee’s Powell internship and later through the University of Georgia, while studying abroad in Cortona, Italy.  Her most recent work has been under the guidance of Sewanee’s Archie Stapleton.  After graduation Lizzie plans on continuing her work in sculpture through various studio assistantships and fellowship programs before pursing graduate school. “…while the works push against rituals of presentation and the resulting objectification that ensues, I must acknowledge my existence within these very same systems, most recently as a participant in Debutante society” – McCleskey

The Carlos Gallery, Nabit Art Building, The University of the South, 105 Kennerly Lane, Sewanee, TN 37375.Hours: M-F, 9-5 and Sat 12-5.

RaMell Ross: But Also Dream, Not Only.

For|By|For is a new arts organization founded by Sewanee alumni Kate Williamson, Ashley Gallman, and Lexi Namer, that is dedicated to bringing art for the people, by the people, for the common good.

For|By|For exhibitions aim to bring together a new audience of art collectors who are looking beyond the bottom line for art that inspires and heals not only themselves but the global community. Through exhibiting affordable art by new talent, For|By|For is dedicated to bringing awareness and financial aid to charitable organizations working to bring life back to forgotten people and places. For|By|For is a fiscally sponsored project of Artists in Residence Gallery, a 501(c)3 nonprofit art organization.

The inaugural exhibition, Refuge: The Photography of RaMell Ross, will benefit the YouthBuild program in Greensboro, AL.  The exhibit will be on view June 13-24, 2011, at the Wix Lounge in New York City, and will present the photography of RaMell Ross’s Black Belt Project. The photographs featured in Refuge will be offered for sale with all proceeds donated to YouthBuild, a national youth and community development program.

You can learn more information or help support this organization at their website: www.forbyfor.org

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Ashley Gallman (Co-Founder and Director of Development) graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Sewanee in 2008, where she studied Art History and English Literature. She began her career at Sotheby’s and currently works at Hawthorne Fine Art in New York.

Kate Williamson (Co-Founder and Director of Operations) graduated from Sewanee in 2008 with a B.A.  in European History. She currently serves as the Curatorial Assistant for the Museum of Biblical Art in New York, specializing in arts administration.

Lexi Namer (Artist Liaison and Exhibition Manager) graduated with honors from Sewanee in 2010 with a B.A. in studio art, concentrating in photography and video. She currently freelances and works at the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths in New York.

Elizabeth Shortridge: Gear. Acrylic on Wood10 x 12 inchesJanuary 2011

The Department of Art and Art History of the University of the South announces an exhibition by Honors Candidate, Elizabeth Shortridge open to the public from Tuesday, April 19, 2011 to Saturday, April 23, in the Carlos Gallery of the Nabit Art Building.

Ms. Shortridge will give a public presentation on April 22, 4:30 PM, at the Nabit art Building. The Department cordially invites the Sewanee community to the exhibition and talk.

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Elizabeth Shortridge is an Art major and a Business minor at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.  Taking a broad range of classes outside the art program which has helped to influence her art work and creative process.  In addition, Elizabeth has been actively involved in many extracurricular activities including Greek Life and the campus’ student radio station. After graduation from the University of the South Elizabeth will be pursuing a legal degree at Georgia State College of Law and continue to paint in whatever free time she can find. Shortridge says that the interaction “between the beautiful and the scarred both within one painting and the accumulation of the paintings creates a dialogue about the process of growth through decay.”

The Carlos Gallery, Nabit Art Building, The University of the South, 105 Kennerly Lane, Sewanee, TN 37375.Hours: M-F, 9-5 and Sat 12-5. For more information, contact Pradip Malde, 931-598-1537

The Department of Art and Art History, The Film Studies Program, Art Forum and The Peace Coalition invite you to a reading, lecture and reception:

“Wolf Böwig: This Is War”

Lecture and discussion by Wolf Böwig follows a reading by Professor David Landon, Dept. of Theatre, from a text by Portuguese journalist Pedro Rosa Mendes
Thursday, April 21, 7:30 PM. Reception follows.

Convocation Hall, Sewanee: The University of the SouthUniversity Avenue, Sewanee, TN 37383-1000

Wolf Böwig was born in 1964 and studied Mathematics and Philosophy before choosing to be a photographer.
He has worked,since 1988, on commissions for several international newspapers and magazines such as the NZZ, NYTimes, Le Monde, New Yorker and Lettre International. Böwig’s assignments have nearly always been in areas of conflict and crisis such as in former Yugoslavia, Africa, Asia, and has been awarded numerous awards for this work, including the 2007 “The Aftermath Project Grant” which was published by Aperture, NY and Mets & Schilt, Amsterdam. His work has been exhibited internationally and was most recently on view at the Schauspielhaus Foyer, in Hannover, Germany. He is also a founding member of the German section of “Reporters sans frontiers”.
The photographer’s project, “Kurosafrica”* documents the ongoing deterioration of countries in Central, West and East Africa, and along with another project, “Krieg, this is war”, will form the basis for Böwig’s visit to and lecture in Sewanee.

“Central Africa is being ravaged since the last decade by a string of conflicts that span from Caprivi Strip in Northern Namibia to Uganda and the Great Lakes Region. These conflicts also bridge with volatile Westafrica – through deals and smuggling, tricky and everchanging alliances, blunt exploitation of natural resources and massive displacement of populations. This first continental war is both original in its dimensions and in its nature. It is likely, so far, that its most relevant consequence – besides the already unbearable toll in human suffering and casualties – will be the informal and “de facto” reshaping of the political map of Africa.

 

*The project title was created by blending the name of the Japanese film director “Aikira Kurosawa” and “Africa“. Kurosawa’s film “Ran” (Chaos) from 1986, interprets civil war, as in Shakespeare’s “King Lear”, as everyone against everyone.

For more information, please contact Pradip Malde

Senior Art Majors 2011: “A Plunge Beneath the Surface of the Visible”University Art Gallery, Sewanee: The University of the SouthApril 15 – May 14, 2011Talks and opening reception: Friday April 15, 2:00 – 8:00 PM

 

The University Art Gallery at the University of the South, Sewanee, will close the 2010-2011 exhibition year with “A Plunge Beneath the Surface of the Visible,” a selection of works by Sewanee’s senior art majors: Caitlin Alderfer, Glenn Bingham, Elizabeth Blaney, Jack Dolci, Kelly Garrett, Carly Grimm, Lauren Maggart, Lizzie McCleskey, Hanna Moran, Mary Evelyn Pritchard, Kathryn Rogers, Elizabeth Shortridge, and Alex White.

Please join us in Convocation and the University Art Gallery on Friday, April 15th at 2:00 pm for the opening reception and a series of eight artist’s talks. The graduating seniors will also be honored with a closing reception in the gallery on May 14th, from 1 to 3 pm.

“A Plunge Beneath the Surface of the Visible” represents a culminating point in the work of these thirteen artists and the moment of their “plunge” out of the academic world into a new future beyond Sewanee.  Please take the opportunity to see the works of these thirteen emerging artists, and to journey with them “beneath the surface of the visible.”

Sewanee’s University Art Gallery is located at 68 Georgia Avenue on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.  The gallery is free, accessible, and open to the public. Hours are 10 – 5 Tuesday through Friday and 12 – 4 on Saturday and Sunday. Public parking is available behind Fulford Hall, 735 University Avenue. Please call (931) 598-1223 for more information, or visit the UAG website at http://www.sewanee.edu/gallery.

Tetrapus, photo-collage, 2011

The Department of Art and Art History of the University of the South announces the first of several exhibitions and presentations which are a part of the Art Major Comprehensive Exam. An exhibition by Caitlin Alderfer opens to the public from Tuesday, April 5, 2011 to Saturday, April 9, in the Carlos Gallery of the Nabit Art Building.

An honors candidate, Ms. Alderfer will give a public presentation on April 8, 4:30 PM, at the Nabit art Building.The Department cordially invites the Sewanee community to the exhibition and talk.

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Caitlin Alderfer was born and raised in Arlington, Virginia, less than half a mile outside Washington, DC. It is there she grew to love city life and all the vibrancy and culture it brings. Along with this, art has been another constant interest in her life. This manifested itself in a variety of mediums through high school and her current passions for oil painting and found photography-based collage have grown since her time in college. Alderfer is a senior studio Art major and Psychology minor at Sewanee: The University of the South, which has allowed her to focus her energies on art and people throughout her academic career. Speaking of her work, she says, “in the 21st century women are encouraged to be strong and independent, able to be and achieve whatever we can imagine. As a woman I struggle daily with my love-hate relationship with the fashion industry and its influence over my perception of my ideal self. This body of work draws from this struggle.”

A desire to experience as many cultures and different people as possible is leading her to teach conversational English in China next year, and then she plans to attend either art or advertising graduate school.

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The Carlos Gallery, Nabit Art Building, The University of the South, 105 Kennerly Lane, Sewanee, TN 37375.Hours: M-F, 9-5 and Sat 12-5.For more information, contact Pradip Malde, 931-598-1537

Between Is and Was

Recent work by Collin Asmus and Chris Scarborough

February 26^th – March 25^th, 2010

Opening Reception and Artist’s Talk February 26^th, 4:30 PM

Carlos Gallery, Nabit Art Building, Sewanee: The University of the South, 105 Kennerly Road; Sewanee, TN 37375, Gallery Hours: M-F 8-5, S-S 12-5

For more information, contact Prof. Greg Pond at (931) 598 1870 or gpond@sewanee.edu

The Carlos Gallery and the Studio Art program at Sewanee: The University of the South are proud to present Between Is and Was, an exhibition of recent drawings and paintings by Collin Asmus and Chris Scarborough.  In the way they render and translate images, both artists propose fusions of seemingly disparate cultural forms: internet webcams and landscape painting; meticulous figure drawing and apocalyptic violence.

CHRIS SCARBOROUGH

Using many diverse elements such as Japanese pop culture and art history, to science fiction, Chinese propaganda posters, and real life, Nashville-based artist Chris Scarborough creates work that explores the grey areas that form when cultural and contextual boundaries erode and cross paths.

Scarborough’s most recent work centers on the idea of an existence after an ambiguous cataclysm like a new Big Bang. The viewer is unsure what kind of bang it was exactly, and now – though the world seems similar to our own – some things are askew and strange, as if current ideas and elements of popular culture have become literal agents of evolution. Scarborough’s images leave viewers on uneasy ground – experiencing something familiar and yet not; and unable to look away for risk that they might miss a detail that reveals everything.

COLLIN ASMUS

My paintings depict spaces and people captured via public Internet webcams. I am interested in technology’s impact on our public and private lives and the voyeuristic aspect of webcam media. I am also intrigued by my ability to depict situations “live” without physically being there. I like using this technology to put a contemporary spin on working with traditional mediums and subject matter such as portraiture, genre scenes and the landscape.

All are welcome to the opening reception and artists’ talk for Between Is and Was on Friday, February 26^th, 2010, at 4:30 PM. Both events will take place in the Carlos Gallery, located on the Sewanee campus at 105 Kennerly Road.  Visitor parking is available in the gravel lot behind the Nabit Art Building.