Thursday, February 25, 2010
MIDTERM EXAM POSTPONED!!!
In case you haven't checked your e-mail, I wanted to post here as well the tomorrow's midterm exam will have to be postponed until next Friday. My doctor just told me barely more than an hour ago that I have the Flu. Since I am apparently contagious, I am supposed to be on bed rest and stay away from public places. I apologize for the late notice. This was the best I could do. The doctor held me captive for THREE HOURS before giving me this diagnosis. Otherwise, I would have let you all know much sooner. I hope this message reaches everyone before you leave for school in the morning. If not, let me apologize in advance for anyone who gets up early tomorrow and drives to school only to discover that the class is cancelled.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Art Events This Friday, Feb. 26
Some great stuff happening this weekend:
"Bottled-Up Blues" and "Southern Landmarks"
Art by Debra Edge and John Sadowski. Live music by Don, Kim, and Shelby Baldock.
Time: 6 - 9pm
South Main Art Trolley Tour
South Main Historic Arts District
The ring of the trolley sounds as the shops, restaurants and GALLERIES in the area open their doors to the throngs of Memphians and visitors who make Trolley Night on Main an event not to be missed.
Time: 6 - 9pmCost: Free
Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College is excited to announce its fourth show of the season: Peter Williams: Recent Works.
Peter Williams: Recent Works will run from February 26 through March 24. (Please note: the gallery will be closed from March 13 through 22 for spring break.)
Peter Williams will give a free lecture on his work on Thursday, February 25th 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, February 26th from 6-8 pm.
Peter Williams’ is a painter’s painter. His lush paintings draw from a mix of influences that include, but are certainly not limited to: art history, current world history, as well as the artist’s personal iconography. These paintings are a way for the artist, who identifies himself as a storyteller, to address autobiographic issues particular to his position in the world as, in his words: “a large, black man who is handicapped.” Through painting he is able to build upon rich traditions that are rooted in portraiture, narrative, and allegory. During his nearly twenty years living in Detroit he made work that dealt directly with what the artist saw as a kind of institutional racism particular to that post-industrial, Michigan city. In 2004 he left his position at Wayne State University to teach at the University of Delaware in Newark. His work since then has dealt with the complex issues of being a person who feels like a Detroitian and is not yet a Delawarean. The artist’s work shows him dealing with the feelings and emotions of growing older in the post 9/11 America.
Peter Williams did his undergraduate studies at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and received his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Mr. Williams has won a number of awards including fellowships from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Ford Foundation as swell as the McKnight Foundation. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Detroit Institute of the Arts in Detroit as well as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 2002 he was included in the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial exhibition. His work has been shown at the Yerba Buena Art Center, Detroit’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cranbrook Art Museum, and the Center for Contemporary Art in New Orleans. His work has also been in New Art Examiner and Art in America.
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. Please note: the gallery will be closed from March 13 through 22 for spring break. Admission to the gallery is always free.
Art by Debra Edge and John Sadowski. Live music by Don, Kim, and Shelby Baldock.
Time: 6 - 9pm
D'Edge Art and Unique Treasures
550 S Main
Memphis, TN.
Ph: (901) 521-0054
Memphis, TN.
Ph: (901) 521-0054
South Main Art Trolley Tour
South Main Historic Arts District
The ring of the trolley sounds as the shops, restaurants and GALLERIES in the area open their doors to the throngs of Memphians and visitors who make Trolley Night on Main an event not to be missed.
Time: 6 - 9pmCost: Free
Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College is excited to announce its fourth show of the season: Peter Williams: Recent Works.
Peter Williams: Recent Works will run from February 26 through March 24. (Please note: the gallery will be closed from March 13 through 22 for spring break.)
Peter Williams will give a free lecture on his work on Thursday, February 25th 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, February 26th from 6-8 pm.
Peter Williams’ is a painter’s painter. His lush paintings draw from a mix of influences that include, but are certainly not limited to: art history, current world history, as well as the artist’s personal iconography. These paintings are a way for the artist, who identifies himself as a storyteller, to address autobiographic issues particular to his position in the world as, in his words: “a large, black man who is handicapped.” Through painting he is able to build upon rich traditions that are rooted in portraiture, narrative, and allegory. During his nearly twenty years living in Detroit he made work that dealt directly with what the artist saw as a kind of institutional racism particular to that post-industrial, Michigan city. In 2004 he left his position at Wayne State University to teach at the University of Delaware in Newark. His work since then has dealt with the complex issues of being a person who feels like a Detroitian and is not yet a Delawarean. The artist’s work shows him dealing with the feelings and emotions of growing older in the post 9/11 America.
Peter Williams did his undergraduate studies at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and received his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Mr. Williams has won a number of awards including fellowships from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Ford Foundation as swell as the McKnight Foundation. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Detroit Institute of the Arts in Detroit as well as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 2002 he was included in the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial exhibition. His work has been shown at the Yerba Buena Art Center, Detroit’s Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cranbrook Art Museum, and the Center for Contemporary Art in New Orleans. His work has also been in New Art Examiner and Art in America.
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. Please note: the gallery will be closed from March 13 through 22 for spring break. Admission to the gallery is always free.
Ongoing Art Exhibitions
The Exhibitions are on display right now and will be for a few more days or a few more weeks:
The Dixon Gallery & Gardens
Metal In Memphis
National Ornamental Metal Museum artists-in-residence:
Mary Catherine Floyd
Jacob Brwn
Jim Masterson
Kevin Burge
Jeannie Tomlinson Stalmarch
On view through March 14
Monet to Matisse
French masterworks by the most important artists of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements.
On view through April 4
4339 Park Avenue
Memphis, TN
901.761.5250
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Venice in the Age of Canalero
An exhibition celbrating paintings, prints, furniture, and textiles from Venice's golden age in the 18th century.
On view through May 9
1934 Poplar Ave.
Memphis, TN
901.544.6200
Memphis College of Art "On The Street" Gallery
Alchemy
Work by Stoughton Outlan
On view through March 13.
338 S. Main St.
Memphis, TN
901.272.5100
National Ornamental Metal Museum
Different Tempers: Jewelry And Blacksmithing
Metalworks by artiste from Fayette, Lauderdale, Shelby, and Tipton Counties
On view through March 28.
374 Metal Museum Dr.
Memphis, TN
901.774.6380
Upcoming Art Event: Keiko Gonzalez
AltiplanoNew Works by
Keiko Gonzalez
Lisa Kurts Gallery
766 South White Station Road
Memphis, TN 38117
901.683.6200
Opening Reception: Friday, March 5, 6-8 PM
Exhibition on view March 5-April 30.
Friday, February 19, 2010
MIDTERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE
The midterm exam will cover chapters 1-10 an this is how it will be constructed:
20 vocabulary terms (match the term to its definition) worth 1 point each.
40 multiple choice questions worth 1 point each
2 essays focussing on conversations we've had in class (The Arnolfini Wedding and Rembrandt's self portraits) worth 15 points each.
1 essay focussing on a new artwork you have not seen before in this class worth 10 points.
The 20 vocabulary terms will be pulled directly from the "Terms Of The Day" lists I have given you at the beginning of every class period. Study these lists well enough to be able to match each term on the left side of the page with its particular definition on the right side of the page.
The 40 multiple choice questions come from both the class lectures and from the book. There will be a few questions on the test that we never addressed in class; they come directly from the book. These come mostly from the "Printmaking" chapter we weren't able to cover in class. These questions will range from those that test how well you understand the definitions of terms to questions about specific artworks that you have seen, to questions about the artists themselves.
Let me give you four example questions (yes, these will be on the test just as you see them here):
A. Vincent van Gogh
B. Pablo Picasso
C. Henri Matisse
D. Judith Murray
The symbolic meaning of visual signs and imagery is called:
A. content
B. iconography
C. form
D. aesthetics
A. content
B. iconography
C. form
D. aesthetics
Art made with a combination of different materials, such as a collage, is referred to as:
A. medium
B. mixed media
C. composition
D. installation
Sharecropper (figure 179) by Elizabeth Catlett is an example of:A. medium
B. mixed media
C. composition
D. installation
A. a linoleum cut
B. an engraving
C. an etching
D. silkscreen
(This one comes from the book. It wasn't mentioned in the class lecture.)
The best advice I can give you on how to study for this portion of the exam is to comb through all your notes you've taken in class, remind yourself of all the main concepts you've learned, familiarize yourself with all the "Terms Of The Day," and to make sure you have read the material in the book. Pay special attention to how each artwork serves as an example to illustrate a concept (in other words, Francisco Goya's painting is an example of art for social causes, Jackson Pollock's Convergence is an example of nonrepresentational art, etc.). Don't just depend on what I have told you in class. Yes, 90% of these questions will come directly from lecture. But you don't want to be thrown off by the questions that are based on the book alone.
The two essay topics focussing on conversations we had in class will be phrased as follows (again, yes, I'm telling you exactly what will be on the test):
1. What symbols and iconography can be seen in Jan van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Wedding? What would those symbols have communicated to the painting’s 15th century audience? What was the purpose this painting was meant to serve?
2. What do these three self portraits tell us about Rembrant’s own use of art as a means of personal expression? Explain how each painting is reflective of a particular time, mood, and status of the artist. What do you see in each painting that gives this indication? How has he chosen to present himself each time? Why?
There will be a printed reproduction of each painting in the exam for you to look at while working on the essays.
The best way to study for these essays is to look at the images themselves (they can all be found on this blog) and think back to those group conversations about them. Also, on this blog I have posted a documentary about Rembrandt's rise to and fall from success. It may be an hour-long program, but it will help you considerably.
The final essay topic will focus on a printed reproduction of a work of art you have not seen in this class yet and it will be phrased like this:
This is meant to test how well you have been paying attention to the concepts you've been learning in this class. If you understand the topics and concepts we've been going over in class well enough to apply them to a work you have not seen before, then you have made good use of your semester. Try practicing on the two images below (no, these will not be on the exam). Think about the wording of the essay topic above and consider what you might write about each of these works:
Study hard, and good luck to everyone. If you have taken good notes, if you have read the chapters, and if you have spent some time really trying to understand the "Terms Of The Day" then this exam shouldn't be difficult for you.P.S. The exam will be the only thing we do next Friday. So, once you're finished with it, you are free to go.
Terms of The Day For February 19
- Photography - “light writing” or “light drawing”--the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor.
- Camera Obscura - a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface.
- Daguerreotype - a photograph made by an early photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor.
- Photo Essay - a collection of photographs on a single subject, arranged to tell a story or convey a mood in a way not possible with a single photograph.
- Persistence of Vision - the brief retention of an image by the retina of our eyes after a stimulus is removed.
- Film Editing - a process in which a film editor selects the best shots from raw footage, then reassemles them into meaningful sequences.
- Close-Up - a shot showing only the actor’s face.
- Longshot - a shot photographed from a distance to emphasize large groups of people or a panoramic setting.
- Montage - an editing technique combining a number of very brief shots, representing distinct but related subject matter, in order to create new relationships, build strong emotion, or indicate the passage of time.
Art Event Tonight (2/19/10) Bob Browne & Mike Coulson
Join
Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects
for
Recent Paintings: Bob Browne & Mike Coulson
Friday, February 19th
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Recent Paintings: Bob Browne & Mike Coulson
Friday, February 19th
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
1500 Union Ave. 38104
Art Event: Susan Maakestad @ Material
Susan Maakestad: "Traffic Land"
Friday, March 5, 2010
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Material
2553 Broad Avenue
Memphis, TN
Material is excited to announce its fifty-sixth exhibition: Susan Maakestad: "Traffic Land."
Susan Maakestad: "Traffic Land" will run from March 5 through 27.
The reception will be on Friday, March 5, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Susan Maakestad earned her M.F.A. in painting from The University of Iowa in 1987 and a B.A. and M.A. from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. She is Associate Professor of Art at Memphis College of Art, where she has taught since 1997. She was awarded a regional National Endowment for the Arts fellowship from Arts Midwest in 1988. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been included in the national publication "New American Paintings" and The Painting Center in New York's online "Art File." Her work has been exhibited nationally. She is represented by The Rymer Gallery in Nashville, Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis and Perry Nicole Fine Art in Memphis. She is also the long time radio host of "House Bayou" on WEVL 89.9 FM in Memphis.
About the show the artist writes:
“I am attracted to the spaces between things, the unnoticed marginal spaces in the urban landscape. Likewise, as a painter I like painting in the unsettling place between abstraction and naturalism. I find inspiration in ordinary and overlooked urban areas, spaces filled with concrete and asphalt. Merely imitating the natural world does not interest me. I am moved by the internal logic of paintings themselves, a world where things make sense somehow. Or almost don’t. Where everything lives and breathes in tension held together by beauty and paint.”
In January 2008 Maakestad began monitoring Milwaukee traffic cameras from her computer. She would watch as blizzards emptied the freeways of commuters and softened the geometry, blurring the edges of nature and culture. Empty spaces were filled first with snow and sleet and then with private distractions. Traffic Land is a series of drawings based on those webcam images. It is a construction, a vision of the urban landscape mediated by the practical role of traffic cameras and the poetic inclinations of a solitary viewer.
jpg info: maakestad_pr.jpg is "Mile Marker #3," 12 x 14", oil on canvas, 2009. Additional images of the artist’s work can be found at www.susanmaakestad.com.
Material is located at 2553 Broad Avenue. Parking is available on both the north and south sides of Broad Avenue.
About Material: Founded by Hamlett Dobbins and Julie Meiman in late 2004, Material is a 19’ x 16’ exhibition space set in the storefront on Broad Avenue in the Binghamton neighborhood of Memphis. Taking the name from Montessori learning tools, Material was built to provide emerging and established artists with an intimate, clean space in which to share their work with Memphis’ growing arts community. The programming consists of monthly shows as well as artists’ lectures in connection with local colleges and universities. Material has served as a space for young artists to have their first shows, as well as a place for established local and regional artists to test new ideas in a public forum. In addition to serving local artists, Material has hosted artists from Birmingham to Tokyo. Come visit.
Contact:
Hamlett Dobbins, 901.219.1943, hamlettdobbins@hotmail.com
Susan Maakestad, 901.272.5187, susan@susanmaakestad.com
Susan Maakestad: "Traffic Land" will run from March 5 through 27.
The reception will be on Friday, March 5, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Susan Maakestad earned her M.F.A. in painting from The University of Iowa in 1987 and a B.A. and M.A. from Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. She is Associate Professor of Art at Memphis College of Art, where she has taught since 1997. She was awarded a regional National Endowment for the Arts fellowship from Arts Midwest in 1988. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been included in the national publication "New American Paintings" and The Painting Center in New York's online "Art File." Her work has been exhibited nationally. She is represented by The Rymer Gallery in Nashville, Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis and Perry Nicole Fine Art in Memphis. She is also the long time radio host of "House Bayou" on WEVL 89.9 FM in Memphis.
About the show the artist writes:
“I am attracted to the spaces between things, the unnoticed marginal spaces in the urban landscape. Likewise, as a painter I like painting in the unsettling place between abstraction and naturalism. I find inspiration in ordinary and overlooked urban areas, spaces filled with concrete and asphalt. Merely imitating the natural world does not interest me. I am moved by the internal logic of paintings themselves, a world where things make sense somehow. Or almost don’t. Where everything lives and breathes in tension held together by beauty and paint.”
In January 2008 Maakestad began monitoring Milwaukee traffic cameras from her computer. She would watch as blizzards emptied the freeways of commuters and softened the geometry, blurring the edges of nature and culture. Empty spaces were filled first with snow and sleet and then with private distractions. Traffic Land is a series of drawings based on those webcam images. It is a construction, a vision of the urban landscape mediated by the practical role of traffic cameras and the poetic inclinations of a solitary viewer.
jpg info: maakestad_pr.jpg is "Mile Marker #3," 12 x 14", oil on canvas, 2009. Additional images of the artist’s work can be found at www.susanmaakestad.com.
Material is located at 2553 Broad Avenue. Parking is available on both the north and south sides of Broad Avenue.
About Material: Founded by Hamlett Dobbins and Julie Meiman in late 2004, Material is a 19’ x 16’ exhibition space set in the storefront on Broad Avenue in the Binghamton neighborhood of Memphis. Taking the name from Montessori learning tools, Material was built to provide emerging and established artists with an intimate, clean space in which to share their work with Memphis’ growing arts community. The programming consists of monthly shows as well as artists’ lectures in connection with local colleges and universities. Material has served as a space for young artists to have their first shows, as well as a place for established local and regional artists to test new ideas in a public forum. In addition to serving local artists, Material has hosted artists from Birmingham to Tokyo. Come visit.
Contact:
Hamlett Dobbins, 901.219.1943, hamlettdobbins@hotmail.com
Susan Maakestad, 901.272.5187, susan@susanmaakestad.com
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Clips From Landmark Silent Films
Georges Méliès
A Trip To The Moon
1902
D. W. Griffith
Intolerance
1916
Sergei Eisenstein
The Battleship Potemkin
1925
Charlie Chaplin
City Lights
1931
A Trip To The Moon
1902
D. W. Griffith
Intolerance
1916
Sergei Eisenstein
The Battleship Potemkin
1925
Charlie Chaplin
City Lights
1931
Terms Of The Day From 2-12-10
The request was made of me to post on the blog the vocabulary list from last Friday's class. My apologies for not getting it up sooner. Here you go:
Receptive Drawing - a drawing which attempts to capture th physical appearance of something before the artist.
Projective Drawing - a drawing of something which already exist in the mind of the artist, either as a memory of something seen or something imagined.
Cartoon - a full-sized drawing made as a guide for a large work in another medium, particularly a fresco painting, mosaic, or tapestry.
Dry Media - drawing materials such as pencil, charcoal, conte crayon, and pastel.
Liquid Media - drawing materials such as ink and sometimes watercolor.
Painting - the process, art, or occupation of coating surfaces with paint for a utilitarian or artistic effect.
Pigment - dry coloring matter, usually an insoluble powder, to be mixed with water, oil, or another base to produce paint and similar products
Vehicle (or Medium) - the substance in which pigment is suspended in order to apply it.
Impasto - The application of thick layers of pigment to a canvas or other surface in painting.
Fresco - An ancient wall painting technique in which very finely ground pigments suspended in water are applied to a damp lime-plaster surface.
Printmaking - the artistic design and manufacture of multiple copies (prints) of a single image
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Quiz # 2
Below are 9 images from which I will choose the 5 for the quiz next week. Study up!
Vincent van Gogh
The Fountain In The Garden Hospital
1889
Jan van Eyk
Madonna And Child With The Chancellor Rolin
1433-1434
Wayne Thiebaud
Around The Cake
1962
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl
c. 1510
Winslow Homer
Sloop, Nassau
1899
Gustav Klimpt
The Kiss
1907-1908
David Hirst
Posterity--The Holy Place
2006
M. C. Escher
Sky And Water 1
1938
Asher Brown Durand
Kindred Spirits
1849
Short Essay Questions For The Quiz:
#1. Give the definitions of the general Formal, Sociocultural, and Expressive Theories of art criticism.
#2. Define the words "pigment" and "vehicle." What are the vehicles used in watercolor, tempera, oil, and acrylic painting?
A WHOLE BUNCH of Art Events For 2-12-10
27th Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Art Museum of the University of MemphisFebruary 5th-27th
The Juried Student Exhibition features work by students in various media selected by an outside juror. This year, work is being selected by Robert J. Sanchez and Emiko René Lewiz-Sanchez, a collaborative team of artists known as "Corner Liquor Store".
In Artlab:
"A Delicate Affair", collaborative installation by Colin Kidder and John Morgan
See also: Caseworks
New Work from Nashville, featuring work by Lain York, Alicia Henry, Patrick Deguria, Ron Lambert, and Derek Cole
Art Education Master's ExhibitionFriday, February 12, 2010
Memphis College of Art
Lower Gallery, Rust Hall
1930 Poplar Avenue
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Memphis College of Art presents works by graduate candidates from the Art Education programs: Master of Art in Teaching & Master of Art in Art Education
Chelsea Ann Coleman, MAT
Gulcan Demirtas, MAArtEd
Timothy L. Gorski, MAArtEd
Joshua Allen Jenkins, MAT
Ashley Loring Luyendyk, MAT
Craig David Massey, MAT
Lindsay Christina Nero, MAArtEd
Ashley N. Odum, MAT
Benjamin J. Racher, MAT
Erin Raines Sutton, MAT
Stacey Renee Taylor, MAArtEd
Ben Fink, Photographer - Visiting Artist Lecture
February 16, 2010
Gulcan Demirtas, MAArtEd
Timothy L. Gorski, MAArtEd
Joshua Allen Jenkins, MAT
Ashley Loring Luyendyk, MAT
Craig David Massey, MAT
Lindsay Christina Nero, MAArtEd
Ashley N. Odum, MAT
Benjamin J. Racher, MAT
Erin Raines Sutton, MAT
Stacey Renee Taylor, MAArtEd
Ben Fink, Photographer - Visiting Artist LectureFebruary 16, 2010
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Memphis College of Art
Callicott Auditorium
Memphis College of Art
Callicott Auditorium
1930 Poplar Avenue
Ben Fink received his art education at the Univerity of Memphis and Memphis College of Art. A freelance photographer since 1986, he has photographed for such publications as New York Magazine, Washington Magazine, Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Scientific American, Discovery Magazine, Random House and Artisan Books. He is a regular contributor to Saveur Magazine.
Awards for his work include Art Directors Club of New York, Addys 1998 and 2000, New York Festivals 1998 and Print Regional Design Annual. He received the coveted James Beard Award of Excellence in 2001 for Artisan Baking Across America. Currently he is working on a series of books for the Culinary Institute of America and has recently completed books for Don and Diedre Imus, Lily Pulitzer, Jacques Pepin and Rachael Ray.
His personal work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Massachusetts and Memphis, Tennessee
Works of Heart Valentine Auction
Awards for his work include Art Directors Club of New York, Addys 1998 and 2000, New York Festivals 1998 and Print Regional Design Annual. He received the coveted James Beard Award of Excellence in 2001 for Artisan Baking Across America. Currently he is working on a series of books for the Culinary Institute of America and has recently completed books for Don and Diedre Imus, Lily Pulitzer, Jacques Pepin and Rachael Ray.
His personal work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Massachusetts and Memphis, Tennessee
Works of Heart Valentine Auction1930 Poplar Ave
Benefiting the Memphis Child Advocacy Center
February 13, 2010
The 18th Works of Heart Valentine Auction on February 13th promises to inspire and entertain everyone who attends. With Joe Birch of Action News 5 as emcee, and remarkable works of art to bid on during the silent auction, Works of Heart is a great party. And it all benefits the Child Advocacy Center. For 18 years, more than 100 "Heartists" are given a plain piece of heart-shaped wood as inspiration to create a work of art. The results are inventive and awe-inspiring. Artists include Dolph Smith, John McIntire, Freida Hamm, David Mah, and John Robinette. Proceeds help provide child-friendly intervention for children who have been sexually abused or severely physically abused.
Chandler Fulton Pritchett
"Living"
Opening Friday, February 12th 8-10PM
March 10, 2010
P and H Artspace
1532 Madison Memphis, TN 38104
901-726-0906
Laurie Nye
Benefiting the Memphis Child Advocacy Center
February 13, 2010
The 18th Works of Heart Valentine Auction on February 13th promises to inspire and entertain everyone who attends. With Joe Birch of Action News 5 as emcee, and remarkable works of art to bid on during the silent auction, Works of Heart is a great party. And it all benefits the Child Advocacy Center. For 18 years, more than 100 "Heartists" are given a plain piece of heart-shaped wood as inspiration to create a work of art. The results are inventive and awe-inspiring. Artists include Dolph Smith, John McIntire, Freida Hamm, David Mah, and John Robinette. Proceeds help provide child-friendly intervention for children who have been sexually abused or severely physically abused.
Chandler Fulton Pritchett"Living"
Opening Friday, February 12th 8-10PM
March 10, 2010
P and H Artspace
1532 Madison Memphis, TN 38104
901-726-0906
Laurie Nye
2553 Broad Avenue
So Forgotten will run for one night only! The reception for the artist will be on Friday, February 12, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
A Memphis native, Laurie Nye received her BFA from Memphis College of Art in 1995 and went on to do her graduate studies at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. She has shown locally at Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts as well as at Perry Nicole Fine Art. She has shown her work nationally at I-20 Gallery in New York and at Karyn Lovegrove Gallery in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in Artforum.com, LA Weekly, and New American Paintings. She has a show scheduled for the gallery at Watkins School of Art and Design in Nashville. Nye lives and works in Los Angeles.
About the show the artist writes:
“So Forgotten explores an American notion of naturalism that draws inspiration from 19th century printmaking, storybooks, symbolist painting, and the writings of Thoreau, Jules Vernes and Lewis Caroll and J. K. Huysmans. The series of paintings conclude in a visual narrative where words are scattered and animals and humans lurk in the shadows of a verdant landscape that time has overlooked. This fictional landscape heralds deeper, darker meanings than the light palette would suggest. While I go about dreaming of this nature fantasy, my literal environment is a sprawling metropolis where the environment is bounded by concrete and smog.”
A Memphis native, Laurie Nye received her BFA from Memphis College of Art in 1995 and went on to do her graduate studies at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. She has shown locally at Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts as well as at Perry Nicole Fine Art. She has shown her work nationally at I-20 Gallery in New York and at Karyn Lovegrove Gallery in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in Artforum.com, LA Weekly, and New American Paintings. She has a show scheduled for the gallery at Watkins School of Art and Design in Nashville. Nye lives and works in Los Angeles.
About the show the artist writes:
“So Forgotten explores an American notion of naturalism that draws inspiration from 19th century printmaking, storybooks, symbolist painting, and the writings of Thoreau, Jules Vernes and Lewis Caroll and J. K. Huysmans. The series of paintings conclude in a visual narrative where words are scattered and animals and humans lurk in the shadows of a verdant landscape that time has overlooked. This fictional landscape heralds deeper, darker meanings than the light palette would suggest. While I go about dreaming of this nature fantasy, my literal environment is a sprawling metropolis where the environment is bounded by concrete and smog.”
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