Winter Weather Closing

Dear Students,

Due to inclement weather today, the school is closed today. So, what does this mean for our class. Well for now, it just gives you an extra week to get studied up on the quiz. We will have the quiz on next Friday, February 5. Also, the lecture next week will be over the same chapters that we WOULD have covered today (chapters 3, 4, and 5). I'll be creating an updated class schedule for your syllabus that will be slightly reworked in order to take this "snow day" into account. Otherwise, enjoy the day off, but take advantage of this extra time and be very prepared for the quiz.

Take care,

Jason

How To Behave At An Art Gallery

Here's a little something I found that I thought everyone might find funny.

How To Behave At a Gallery on Howcast

Event Write-Up Opportunity: 27th Annual Juried Student Exhibition

Art Museum of the University of Memphis
January 29-February 27, 2010

The 27th Annual Juried Student Exhibition opens at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis on January 29. Judges for the 2010 exhibition, which features work in all media from University of Memphis art students, are Robert J. Sanchez and Emiko Ren, Lewis-Sanchez ("Rob Y Ko Sanchez"), a collaborative team also known as Corner Liquor Store. Caseworks New Work from Nashville Lain York, Alicia Henry, Patrick DeGuira, Ron Lambert and Derek Cote Opening reception for both exhibitions: Friday, January 29 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Awards will be announced at 6:30 p.m.

BRITISH TELEVISION ADVERTISING AWARDS - An excellent opportunity for an event write-up.

Location: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Dorothy K. Hohenberg Auditorium

Contact: Elisabeth Callihan elisabeth.callihan@brooksmuseum.org 901.544.6208

Thursday, January 28 | 7 pm

Friday, January 29 | 7 pm

Sunday, January 31 | 2 pm

British Television Advertising Awards

Brimming with creativity, this year’s program of sly, sexy, hilarious, and thought-provoking British spots includes dancing marionettes, monkeys, and nudists as well as American celebrities Snoop Dogg, Rob Lowe, and Anjelica Huston. Among the standouts this year is a spectacular skydiving stunt for Honda that was broadcast live. Buy your tickets early, as these screenings are sure to sell out!

Tickets: $5 for members; $7 for non-members; Free with VIP Film Pass.

TICKETS

BTAA & the Brushmark

Enjoy British-inspired drink specials and menu items in the Brushmark Restaurant before or after the show. Bring your BTAA ticket in and receive $1-off any item! Dinner is available in the Brushmark Thursday and Friday from 5 – 9 pm. Brunch & Lunch are available from 11 am – 2:30 pm on Sunday.

Click here to make reservations and to see menu selections or call 901.544.6225.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art | 1934 Poplar Avenue. Memphis, TN 38104 | 901.544.6200

Images From Lecture 1-22-10

Below are all of the images used in this past Friday's lecture that were not included in the book. Feel free to print them and match them up with your notes if you are worried you will not remember them:

Quiz #1

Below are 9 images from which I will choose the 5 for the quiz next week. Study up!

Theo van Doesburg

Composition (The Cow)

c. 1917

Edward Weston

Pepper # 30

1930

Yong Soon Min

Dwelling

1994

Henry Darger

Untitled (Battle Scene During A Lightning Storm, Naked Children With Rifles)

Mid-20th Century

The Tree of Jesse

c. 1150-1170

Rene Magritte

The Treason Of Images (This Is Not A Pipe)

1929

Michael Ray Charles

Lifesaball (Forever Free)

1995

Francisco Goya

The Third Of May 1808

1814

Romare Bearden

Rocket To The Moon

1971

An Art Event This Friday

Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College is excited to announce its third show of the season: TEAM SHaG: Collaborative paintings by Amy Sillman, David Humphrey, and Elliott Green.

TEAM SHaG will run from January 22 through February 17, 2010.

David Humphrey and Elliott Green will give a free lecture on their collaborative work on Thursday, January 21st at 7 pm in Blount Auditorium in Buckman Hall on the Rhodes College campus.

The opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Friday, January 22nd from 6-8 pm.

The paintings in the exhibition are from a series of collaborations done by longtime friends Amy Sillman, David Humphrey, and Elliott Green. In considering collaboration, one could think of a studio practice like a conversation. If you are in the studio working on a piece, it’s not at all unlike talking to yourself, you have some general idea of where the conversation is going to go. But once you start a conversation with two other people, there’s no telling where the conversation could go. It could jump from last week’s episode of Fresh Air, to the best hot wings in town, to who would win in a fight between an gorilla and a lion. The process is not only a natural way for artists to have a visual conversation with one another, it is also a great way for one artist to get into the head of another artist. The process forces the participants to try to figure out a middle ground between two or three personal aesthetics. It grants permission for the artists to try out new ways of working and allows them to make changes or adjustments to the paintings started by their friends. They can supplement or edit according to their own particular agenda. TEAM SHaG’s process is simple enough. Each artist starts with an even number of canvases. For example, if one starts out with six, they would pass three off to each of the other two artists once they’ve started an image and so on. Once the paintings reach a certain critical mass, the three artists meet to discuss the status of the paintings. If adjustments need to be made they are discussed and finished.

The three collaborators are internationally known artists in their own right. Amy Sillman is the Co-Chair of Painting at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co in New York, Susanne Vielmetter Gallery in Los Angeles, and Galerie Carlier-Gebauer in Berlin. In 2008 the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC and the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs teamed up to present Directions: Amy Sillman, Third Person Singular. Additionally she’s been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Brooklyn Museum; New Museum of Contemporary Art; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Museum of Modern Art, Bologna. Amy Sillman: Works on Paper, a monograph on a decade of her drawings, was published in 2006. David Humphrey also shows at Sikkema Jenkins & Co in New York as well as Solomon Projects in Atlanta. Last year he was awarded the prestigious Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome and is a Senior Critic and the Yale School of Art. He is also active as a curator and Blind Handshake, a book collecting his reviews and essays was published last fall. David Humphrey lives and works in New York City. Elliott Green has had solo exhibitions at Postmasters in New York, NY; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Fawbush Gallery in New York, and Hirschl & Adler Modern in New York. Green has been awarded a number of grants including a Pollock-Krasner Grant, The Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Grant, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. TEAM SHaG’s work has been featured in a number of shows including I-Space at the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2006, Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in 2005, at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Team SHaG in 1998 and at Postmasters, New York in 1997.

Clough-Hanson Gallery is located inside Clough Hall on the Rhode College campus. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. The gallery is closed on Sundays and Mondays. Admission to the gallery is always free

How To Do An Art Event Write-Up

Here are some tips to follow to get the most out of your time at an art event:

1. Arrive with a pen and a notebook in which to write notes.

2. If there is any promotional material, a list of artwork titles, or information about the artist(s) available to the public, take it. These will help you learn more about the event and will serve you well when you begin writing.

3. If the artist is present (or group of artists) meet with him/her. Let them know you would like to learn more about their work and ask any questions that you might have. Make sure you write down anything you learn.

4. Bring along a classmate or a friend with whom you can discuss your thoughts about the event.

5. When viewing each artwork, approach it with the same considerations that we talked about in class (describing, analyzing, symbol, your emotional response, etc.).

6. RELAX, and enjoy yourself. Art events are meant to be leisurely and usually provide refreshments of some sort. Don't feel intimidated.

Once you have attended the event and you are ready to type your write-up, this is what I expect:

1. One typed page, 12-point font, 1-inch margins, double spaced.

2. Sufficient grammar and spelling.

3. The following information should be included:

When and where did you attend the event?

Describe the work you saw.

What did you learn from promotional material?

What did you learn from speaking to the artist(s)?

Choose one particular artwork and analyze it.

A summary paragraph with your opinions of the event and the work.

4. Make sure to have the following information in bold and centered at the top of your page:

Title & Date of the Event

Your Name

For example:

Horn Island 25, September 12, 2009

Jason Cole

If you have any questions, please contact me.

Art Events For January 15, 2010

Just in case you want to get a head start on your art even write-ups, here are two events that happen tonight:

Of Sound Mind, featuring works by Charles P. Bopp, BFA 1994, Printmaking, opens at Marshall Arts Gallery in Memphis on January 15 and will remain on view through February 5, 2010. The Opening Reception is Friday, January 15 from 6-8 pm.

Marshall Arts Gallery

639 Marshall Ave

Opening January 15 at ODESSA in Memphis:

Cosmic Disasters - New Artworks by Esther Ruiz and Maggie Exner.

Mysterious, disastrous, BIZARRE!

Sculptures, Drawings, Collage, Books, etc!

Art Show 6-9 p.m.

Free Event!

Bands play around 10p.m., musicians include...

Pop Guns

Burning Sand

Richard James

Free Entry, $5 for cup

ODESSA

2613 Broad Ave.

The Arnolfini Wedding

Since I was having so much trouble getting the lights at the front of the class figured out today, I decided I would post an image of the painting we talked about in class here. Here can get a closer look at everything in the picture. See if there's anything else that we missed the strengthens our reading of this work.

Jan van Eyck

The Arnolfini Wedding

1434 CE