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

Now at the Opalka Gallery at Sage College

 

RANDY GARBER

 Echo, 2008
Size: 6 feet diameter, 9 inches deep
Medium: relief roll, intaglio on Okawara sewn with binders thread
on stuffed screen matrix

March 5 - April 18, 2010,
Reception, Friday, 3/5, 5-9pm

Curated by Ruth Hall Daly

"Garber's art is intelligently and emotionally loaded. She produces works with a mastery of technique that adds resonance to the narratives we inevitably construct when we encounter her images. Garber's art draws on her particular experiences and situations to produce intensely personal yet broadly human images, ones that demand dialogue and reflection. She is an artist who understands the power and complexity of visual communication in a profound and nuanced manner... This exhibit is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue including an essay by Patricia C. Phillips, former Editor-in-Chief of the Art Journal and current Dean of Graduate Studies at Rhode Island School of Design."  

Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday 10am–8pm, Sunday 12–4pm
Evening and weekend hours by appointment March 6-14

Randy Garber: Works On Paper 

Overflow

Here's a clip from the event last night:

Two Events in Troy This Week

 

White Light: An interactive light and sound-scape

Gallery 111, West Hall, RPI campus, March 3, 2010 6:00 PM 

 

"White Light is an aural and visual interactive installation. It incorporates interlinked sound and light with viewer control on an individual and group scale."

Artist Peter Edwards and White Light Ensemble will perform and answer your questions about the piece following this 20-minute performance.  However, the installation has been extended to be on display until mid march. and the gallery is open on week days from 9-5pm. 

The link below provides more details about the event, as well as the work itself.

White Light

ART REVIEW | 'PLAYING WITH PICTURES' The Pastime of Victorian Cutups By ROBERTA SMITH

see slideshow of more images from exhibition

"....In all fairness, “Playing With Pictures” includes the work of one man and also a French woman, but in the main it demonstrates how upper-class English women — some of whom knew one another — introduced cutout photographs into the albums of watercolors, sketches and writing that had long been an approved female leisure activity. Their hybrid medium was stimulated by an advance in photography: the invention of the carte-de-visite process, which was patented by the French photographer André Disdéri in 1854. A precursor of the photo-booth technique, it essentially democratized photography with small, cheap, multiple portraits, creating a rage for collecting and exchanging these so-called cartes de visite that came to be known as cardomania."
“Playing With Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage” is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 9: (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org.

Printmaking Opening at Union College, Thurs Feb 18, 4-6 pm

NEW YORK TIMES, FeB 4, 2010, by Ken Johnson

ART REVIEW | 'PHILAGRAFIKA 2010' What Is Printmaking Today? Philadelphia Dares to Ask

Rita Ackerman, Visiting Artist Lecture UAlbany, Tues Feb 9, 4:30, BOOR Sculpture Building

Printmaker Nicola Lopez at St. Rose, Tuesday, Feb. 23rd, 3:30 pm

Nicola Lopez will speak about her printmaking, installations, and works-on-paper.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 3:30 pm in St.Joseph Auditorium, The College of Saint Rose, 985 Madison Avenue, Albany Free and open to the public. http://www.nicolalopez.com/pr_landing.htm 
Also: Painter Rita Ackerman confirmed for Tuesday, Feb 9th, 4:30 at Boor Sculpture Studio, UAlbany

Man Ray's photo of the Surrealist artist, Meret Oppenheim, leaning on an etching press in 1933

Man Ray: Erotique voilée, 1933
gelatin silver print,  11-1/2 x 9 inches
Lucien Treilard, © DACS, London / ADAGP, Paris

OPENING Tues, Feb 2: "Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey"

The exhibition begins Feb. 2 with an artist's walkthrough at 4:30 p.m., followed by the opening reception from 5-7 p.m.  University Art Museum, SUNY-Albany

Visiting Artist Schedule for Spring 2010, SUNY-Albany

• 1. Rita Ackerman /  Tuesday, February 9, 4:30 pm  /  Lecture at Boor Sculpture Studio, Multi-Purpose Room
• 2. Carroll Dunham / Monday, February 22, 7:00 pm / Lecture at University Art Museum
• 3. Olaf Breuning / Tuesday, March 2, 7:00 pm / Lecture at University Art Museum
• 4. Kate Gilmore / Monday, March 8,  4:30 pm  /  Lecture at Boor Sculpture Studio, Multi-Purpose Room
• 5. Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett /  Wednesday, March 17,  7:00 pm  /  Lecture at University Art Museum
• 6. Kira Appelhans  / Visitor to Printmaking Program  /  Date and Time to be Announced
• 7. Dawn Clements / Tuesday, May 4, 7:00 pm / Lecture at University Art Museum