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FALL 2008 FRIENDS EVENT: Closing Reception for Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home
October 10, 2008

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Benefits include discounts at local restaurants and art supply stores and invitations to two exclusive Friends events per year.

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Special Friends Event Each Semester

Each semester we offer a special event exclusively for our Friends, featuring dinner, live music, and a provocative speaker about the current gallery exhibition. Find out why one of our members called the Fall 2007 Friends Soiree, in conjunction with the exhibition The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, “the most interesting art event I’ve attended this year!”

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Emory Student: $10
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General Public: $35 or $50/couple
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Sponsor: $100
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Mary Catherine Johnson
Emory Visual Arts Program - FOVA
700 Peavine Creek Drive
Atlanta, GA 30322

or contact Mary Catherine at mcjohn7@emory.edu or 404-712-4390.

Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home

Closing Reception for Friends of Visual Arts:
Friday, October 10, 7:00 pm
A special event for Emory Friends of Visual Arts held in conjunction with [ACP 10], Atlanta Celebrates Photography's annual month-long city-wide festival; admission is free for Emory Friends of Visual Arts; all others: $35 pp or $50/couple includes dinner, live music, a lecture, and a 1-year membership in Emory Friends of Visual Arts.

Martha Rosler, Hooded Captives, 2004; photomontage, 24x20"; from Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, new series; courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Exhibition Dates: September 11 – October 11, 2008

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

On the eve of the 2008 Presidential election, Martha Rosler’s multifaceted work will pose thought provoking questions in reference to one of the election’s most pivotal issues: the war in Iraq. This exhibition will be the juxtaposition of two similar but also different bodies of work across the span of decades, Bringing the War Home (1967-1972) and Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, new series (2004). Produced as an outgrowth of Rosler's own involvement with anti-war activities, these photomontages are a response to the artist's "frustration with the images we saw in television and print media, even with anti-war flyers and posters. The images we saw were always very far away, in a place we couldn't imagine." In 1991 Laura Cottingham wrote in the catalog for ‘The War is Always Home: Martha Rosler’: “The consumer media avoids directly referring to political and economic connection between your cozy sofa and someone else's dead body: Rosler reveals the artificiality of this severed causality. The separation of us from them, here from there, is an illusion we want, as a war-profit society and as immediately war-free individuals, to maintain.” This exhibition is sponsored in part by a grant from the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts. The Bringing the War Home (1967-1972) series is courtesy of the Wieland Collection in Atlanta, GA and Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, new series (2004) is courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York. She took her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1965 and her M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego in 1974. She works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, and writes criticism. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally. Her work in the public sphere ranges from everyday life — often with an eye to women's experience — and the media to architecture and the built environment. She has published several books of photographs, texts, and commentary on public space, ranging from airports and roads to housing and homelessness. Her work has been seen in the "Documenta" exhibition in Kassel, Germany; several Whitney Biennials; the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Dia Center for the Arts in New York; and many other international venues. A retrospective of her work has been shown in five European cities and in New York at the New Museum and the International Center of Photography (2000). An accompanying book has been published by MIT Press. Her writing has been published widely in catalogs and magazines, such as Artforum, Afterimage, and NU Magazine. Rosler has ten published books. She teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Special Reception for the Emory Friends of Visual Arts:

Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 7 to 9 pm
Emory Visual Arts Gallery, 700 Peavine Creek Drive, Atlanta

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama.

An intimate evening of art, wine, and friends featuring:

Remarks and insights from Dr. Tara Doyle, director of the Emory Tibetan Studies Program
Music by prominent Tibetan singer/songwriter Tashi Dhondup Sharzur (Techung)

Reincarnation, Salustiano, 2005
The Missing Peace Exhibition

For more details about the Friends of Visual Arts, please contact Mary Catherine Johnson at mcjohn7@emory.edu or 404-712-4390.

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