University at Albany MFA Show and Undergrad Senior Art Show

MFA Exhibition
Including Nathan Meltz, MFA in Printmaking

April 30th - May 16th, 2010

"The annual MFA exhibition features the work of Erin Aubeuf, Ray Felix, Sierra Furtwängler, Kathryn Bilharz Gabriel, Thomas Jack Hilton, Doug Holst, David Kvam, Nathan Meltz, Sanford Mirling, and Meredith Schwab.
 University at Albany Art Museum

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Undergraduate Senior Art Show 
Friday May 7th - May 15th

Closing Reception, Saturday May 15th, 
in Fine Arts Building Room 223 from 6:30 - 7:30 pm, following graduation ceremony at the UAlbany Performing Art Center (PAC)

Local Show: Jennifer Hunold + Sierra Furtwangler

"Beginning March 5 and running through April 17, Albany Center Gallery will feature original artworks by Jennifer Hunold + Sierra Furtwangler. Together, these artists capture two disparate approaches yet both straddle the line between popular culture using fiber as a dominant medium. The opening reception will be held on March 5 and the closing reception will be held on April 2, both on Friday from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. The Brown Bag Lunch Discussion will be held on Thursday, March 11, from Noon - 1 p.m."

"Jennifer Hunold, a recent graduate from SUNY Albany's Master of Fine Arts program examines domestic relationships that are emotionally and psychologically complex. Her fanciful embroidered renderings on cloth of domestic architectural spaces teeter tot between the conventional 1950's immaculate lifestyle and emotionally charged present day domestic relationships. Her work draws from matriarchal traditions such as the sampler, quilting and tapestries establishing a dialogue between drawing, painting and embroidery. "Building on this kinship, I utilize the traditional history of embroidery to create images that straddle the line between craft, kitsch, and contemporary art". Hunold has exhibited her work at Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady, NY, Terra Nova Gallery, Troy, NY, Blank Honor's Center at University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Fulton Street Gallery, The Pen and Brush, Inc. in New York, NY and Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY."

"Sierra Furtwangler is a native of Washington State who moved to the Albany area to attend graduate school three years ago. While influenced by the painting of Heironymus Bosch and Fransisco de Goya, her work also references and draws from comic books, tattoo culture, 1980's LA punk rock lore, horror movies, Catholic iconography, taxidermy and biological illustration. Furtwangler is a current Masters of Fine Arts student at the State University of New York at Albany, NY and received a Bachelors of Fine Arts at Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA. She has exhibited at the Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY, The Lion's Lair Gallery, Spokane, WA and Constant Creations Gallery , Spokane, WA"

Printeresting.org: Tova Carlin's Security Wall Paper

"The New York-based Tova Carlin’s recent show at the 179 Canal project space, titled, A–>D–>A, meaning converting information from analog to digital and back again, no doubt a nod to the weird algorithms that generate these patterns. 179 Canal describes the project as:

Tova Carlin will occupy 179 Canal by wallpapering sections of the space and inviting artists to perform against/with this backdrop. This wallpaper, an arena for consideration of the securities that delineate daily experience, is photocopied from patterns on the interior of bank envelopes."

 Each piece of Carlin's wallpaper can be downloaded here.

179 Canal

Printeresting.org: Bryan Christopher Baker

 

"Bryan Christopher Baker uses inked dice to create these luscious letterpress compositions.

This piece was printed on a letterpress (Vandercook32-28) in a limited edition of 10. The composition was built by arranging 1,147 dice on the bed of the press, and ink was rolled directly onto the face of the die for each impression."

Documentation of his process at Printeresting.org

Bryan Christopher Baker

Artist, Nivi Alroy, working with Printmaking and Installation

About Alroy's collaboration, "Pixelville" at DUMBO Arts Center in Brooklyn: 'A gorgeous, playful, futuristic, somewhat sobering new-media show by two female Israeli artists who love and are perplexed by their nation in flux. Impeccable, vintage-looking graphic images and videos are projected across a room containing botanical-looking sculptural forms centered around a round white sandbox'. -- New York Magazine

More:  http://www.nivialroy.com

And here: http://sketchescratches.blogspot.com/

Video and Review of Carroll Dunham's Print Exhibition at UAlbany Art Museum

From "Twisted Genesis" by Meisha Rosenberg, published in METROLAND this week, reviewing "Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey"

"...A lot of earlier prints (such as Places and Things, a linoleum-cut series from the early 1990s, and Shadows, drypoints) portray bodily landscapes where spaceship-like earthworks grow phalluses and cells in trippy colors. Figures start to emerge, though, and in The Sun, a digital print with intaglio from 2000-01, primitive cartoon characters chase each other with weapons in a white ring around the yellow orb....

....The organizers of the exhibition emphasize the extent to which Dunham’s prints have influenced his paintings and drawings, and vice versa. What comes across, too, is the pliability of printmaking as a medium and the weird and wonderful worlds it can open up."

Kate Gilmore lecture, Boor Sculpture Center, 4:30 pm, Mon March 8