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December 2005

December 8, 5:00-9:00 p.m.

Opening Reception for VidéoFresnoy, Productions//Projections.

All images © Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, 2005.

VidéoFresnoy features the work of 11 French video and film artists. The work is experimental, visual, and informed by contemporary art issues. The program was curated by Pascale Pronnier and produced by Le Fresnoy, the National Studio of Contemporary Art.

Artists include Maire-Laure Cazin, Laura Erber, Maïder Fortune, Laurent Grasso, Valérie Mréjen, Eric Oriot, Eric Pellet, Anri Sala, Carolina Saquel, Gregg Smith, and Jérôme Thomas.

French Cinema, from Méliès to Gaspar Noé, has refused to live by the conventions established by the more commercial practitioners of the art form. The first French avant-garde, centered in Paris in the 1920’s and practiced by an international cast of provocateurs, produced a body of work that fervently rejected the story telling literal cinema of the emerging American and European film industries. Fernand Léger, Luis Buñuel, Man Ray, Salvador Dalí, and Marcel Duchamp redefined the medium into something that was both poetic and wildly innovative. Their work led to an international movement in avant-garde cinema that acts as the laboratory for the new ideas that constantly reinvigorate the film medium.

VidéoFresnoy unabashedly carries on the work of the first great wave of the French avant-garde movement. Using the digital tools of the new century, each artist reinvents the medium in much the same way painters experiment with color and form or sculptors manipulate solid forms in three dimensional space. The work is thought provoking, sometimes dense, and always new to the eyes and ears. Like all important contemporary art, the work in VideoFresnoy challenges the viewer and asks to be understood on it on terms.

Curator Pascale Pronnier will speak about the exhibit on Thursday, December 8 at 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in the Visual Arts Gallery. Due to health problems, Pascale Pronnier, curator of the VidéoFresnoy show, will be unable to attend the Opening Reception on Thursday, December 8, 2005. The Reception will still be held at the Visual Arts Gallery of Emory University from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.

VidéoFresnoy, Productions//Projections will be on exhibit from December 8 to January 7, 2006 at the Visual Arts Gallery. The Gallery will be closed Friday, December 23, 2005 through Sunday, January 1, 2006.

For more information on Le Fresnoy visit this site: www.lefresnoy.net

Co-Sponsors for this even include The French Consulate in Atlanta, AFAA - Association Française d’Action Artistique, Emory Coca-Cola Artists-in-Residence Series, Decatur Package Store, Motovino, Atmosphere French Bistro, the Emory Conference Center Hotel, and Emory College.

November 2005

November 3, 7:00 pm

Artist Talk: Larry Anderson talks about his work.

“Exodus” 8” x 5.25” x 1.25”, gun shapes cut from Bibles.
This piece will become part of a larger installation, “Kill a queer for Christ” to be shown in Birmingham at Space One-eleven in 2005.

LARRY JENS ANDERSON has lived in Atlanta since 1979. His exhibition record has included international venues, Belgium, Japan, Australia, Italy, as well as museum and gallery showings in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Southern region and many other U.S. locals. The High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Museum of Modern Art Artists Book Collection (NY}, Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson), Albany Museum (GA), Bowne Corp, King and Spalding Law Firm, Cox Communications, Digital Equipment Corporation, Carter and Associates, Citibank Corporation, John Portman and Associates, the state of Georgia and many others have purchased his work for their collections. He has taught at the Atlanta College of Art since 1982. The range of courses include: figure drawing, anatomy drawing, painting, etching, and print history.

His installations, drawings and paintings often center around the issues of sexual identity: growing up gay, the AIDS crisis, human rights issues, politics and religion. Having studied in Italy another genre of imagery utilizes classical themes, often with textural surfaces that reference the ancient walls. As a founding member of TABOO, a curatorial collective with an eleven year history, he helped curate 13 exhibitions. He has been continually active in various art organizations: High Museum Contemporary Art Society Board, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Artist’s Advisory Group, Brenau University Museum Exhibition Committee and more. He is currently represented by Gallery Juno in New York. He was raised in Randall, Kansas,and graduated from Wichita State University (1970). Previous residences have included Wichita, KS, Houston, El Paso and Jackson, MS. Mr. Anderson received his Masters degree in Drawing and Painting from Georgia State University (1982).

The talk will be held in Room 145, Visual Arts Building, Emory University. Refreshments will be served.

November 8, 7:00 pm

Artist Talk: ‘We Are You’, Cindy Loehr talks about her work.

"Flower (Red)", Cindy Loehr, 2005. __________"Snowman Stories", Cindy Loehr 2002.
Handmade muslin dolls, dye, wire____________Steel armature with internal lighting and plastic
armature installed on wall. _________________ garland, motorized head with internal speakers,
18" diameter x 10" deep. __________________ looped audio: 13 stories approx. 1 minute each.
----------------------------------------- 96" H x 72" diameter.

CINDY LOEHR is exhibiting her work at The Contemporary in Atlanta November 12 – January 7, as part of a two person exhibition. Currently based in Milwaukee, WI, Loehr recently completed a two year Core Program residency with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. She received her MFA from the
University of Illinois at Chicago in 2001, and her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2004) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2002). She has an upcoming solo exhibition at Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo in spring 2006. Loehr is represented by Monique Meloche gallery in Chicago, IL.

The talk will be held in Room 145, Visual Arts Building, Emory University. Refreshments will be served.

November 16, 5:00 pm

Screening of the third season of Art:21 Art in the Twenty First Century by PBS: POWER

All images © Art21, Inc. 2005.

What goes on inside the minds of today’s most dynamic visual artists? How do they make the leap between insight and finished object? What tools do they use and why do they choose them? How do they locate themselves, their methods, and their works within the traditions of art history? What inspires artists to break through the barriers of convention to arrive at new ways of seeing? These and other intriguing questions are explored in Season 3 of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only series on national public television to focus exclusively on contemporary art and the people who create it. A four-part series, Season 3 premieres September 16, 23, 30 and October 7 at 10 p.m. (EST) on PBS, nationwide (check local listings).

Each hour of Art:21 is organized around a unifying theme that helps audiences analyze, compare, contrast, and juxtapose the artists profiled. Power explores the issues of violence, domination and control that pervade contemporary society. Memory delves into how an artist’s personal background, as well as our shared historical past, emerge in artistic expression. Structures profiles artists who investigate context and order in the organization of their art. Play reveals artists who fearlessly tap improvisation and games, spontaneity and mundane objects, to make art that is simultaneously whimsical and profound.

Artists featured in the Power episode:

Cai Guo-Qiang
Laylah Ali
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Ida Applebroog

The screening will take place in the Media Clasroom of the Visual Arts Building, 700 Peavine Creek Dr., Atlanta, GA 30322.
This event is free an open to the public (limited seating available).

October 2005

October 28, 5:00-8:00pm

Opening Reception for RETHINKING TRADITION: Contemporary Tibetan Artists in the West, Karma Phuntsok, Gonkar Gyatso, Losang Gyatso.

Born in Tibet and now working in the USA, Australia, and UK, three artists explore cultural migrations and identity in this exhibition of oil paintings, photography, and mixed media drawings. A new generation is sparking a modern Tibetan cultural revival and, in the process, challenging our assumptions about Tibetan culture and art.

"The thrust of Tibetan efforts in exile towards cultural expression for the last 50 years has been the preservation of tradition, and it has been a remarkable success in many ways. But we live in a world where we cannot successfully survive as a culture if we are continually looking to our past. In fact the "museumification" of the real culture on the one hand, mass production of forged cultural artifacts on the other, and the people themselves in a freefall of cultural changes beyond their control, is a peril that has doomed many other peoples and threatens Tibetan society today... Contemporary Tibetan Art has the power to create spaces that don't yet exist in reality, and to explore new images, ideas and visions of ourselves."

RETHINKING TRADITION: Three Contemporary Tibetan Artsists in the West will be on exhibit from October 28 to December 3, 2005 at the Visual Arts Gallery.
A Conversation with Losang Gyatso: Thursday, Oct. 27, 4 pm Michael C. Carlos Museum, Reception Hall, Emory Univeristy.
There will also be a Colloquim for Emory students with Losang Gyatso on Friday, Oct. 28 at 10:00 am in the Visual Arts Media room. Coffee and bagels will be served.

Co-Sponsors for this event: Emory Visual Arts Program, Emory Tibet Partnership, The Hightower Fund, The Office of International Affairs, The Institute of Comparative and International Studies, Asian Studies, Emory College

For additional information, please see: http://www.icis.emory.edu/emorytibet/.

September 2005

September 1 , 5:00-8:00pm

Closing Reception for Mia Merlin & Dale Inglett's show INSIDE SPACES. This exhibition features paintings by two Drawing and Painting Adjunct Professors of Emory University.

DALE INGLETT:These images are about the human potential for profound psychological and metaphysical transformation. Luminescent figures emerge from seemingly vast and resonant spaces, and their postures offer something of mystery and transcendence. These works have developed through a responsive and intuitive process that has combined drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, film and video.

"Procession 2", 30x36", Oil on Panel, 2005

MIA MERLIN: In these interiors, I explore the rich and multifaceted relationships that develop when we settle and get to know a space intimately. Light is a strong character in these paintings—it gives our world solidity and life, yet it is completely weightless and shifting. Light constantly reveals new aspects of whatever it touches. The paintings are a study on both the spirituality and struggles of domestic life.

"Interior (Summer) ", 24 x 36", Oil on wood, 2004

INSIDE SPACES will be on exhibit from August 5 - September 2, 2005, at the Visual Arts Gallery. The artists will be present during the Reception, Thursday September 1, 5:00pm.

September 15, 5:00-8:00 pm

Opening Reception for HAND and EYE: VISIONS of MYANMAR, Reflections on a Journey.

HAND and EYE is an exhibition of Diane Solomon Kempler’s clay sculpture influenced by her research trips to Myanmar (formerly Burma) in November 2004 and January 2005. The exhibition includes photographs by Kevin Saunders who accompanied Kempler. A fifty-minute video will be shown that records the pottery villages along the Ayeyarwady River where they spent five days living with a family of potters.

Kempler is a ceramic artist who teaches in the Emory University Visual Arts program. She has exhibited widely, and won various awards and grants including grants from Emory’s Institute for Comparative and International Studies and a 2004-2005 grant in support of research for this exhibition from the Emory University Research Committee. Her travels and interest in different cultures greatly influence her work. “The arts and architectural traditions of Myanmar, the many stupas and pagodas that dot the countryside, confer sacredness to its landscape,” according to Kempler. She integrates these images into her sculptures that “express spiritual transformation and transition in nature and human life.”

Kevin Saunders' photographs convey his interest in natural and architectural landscape. He finds intriguing visual aspects in natural order and creates images that reinterpret the mysteries, patterns, juxtaposition, shadow and light. Saunders’ silver gelatin and color photographs are in many American and European collections.

Pagodas
" Pagodas", Silver gelatin print, Kevin Saunders 2005.

HAND and EYE will be on exhibit from September 15 - October 15, 2005, at the Visual Arts Gallery. The artists will be present during the Reception, Thursday September 15, 5:00pm. There will be an artist talk on Wednesday, October 5, 2005, 7:00 pm. All events are free and open to the public.

September 29, 7:00 pm

Screening of the third season of Art:21 Art in the Twenty First Century by PBS: STRUCTURES

What goes on inside the minds of today’s most dynamic visual artists? How do they make the leap between insight and finished object? What tools do they use and why do they choose them? How do they locate themselves, their methods, and their works within the traditions of art history? What inspires artists to break through the barriers of convention to arrive at new ways of seeing? These and other intriguing questions are explored in Season 3 of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only series on national public television to focus exclusively on contemporary art and the people who create it. A four-part series, Season 3 premieres September 16, 23, 30 and October 7 at 10 p.m. (EST) on PBS, nationwide (check local listings).

Each hour of Art:21 is organized around a unifying theme that helps audiences analyze, compare, contrast, and juxtapose the artists profiled. Power explores the issues of violence, domination and control that pervade contemporary society. Memory delves into how an artist’s personal background, as well as our shared historical past, emerge in artistic expression. Structures profiles artists who investigate context and order in the organization of their art. Play reveals artists who fearlessly tap improvisation and games, spontaneity and mundane objects, to make art that is simultaneously whimsical and profound.

Artists featured in the Structure episode:

Roni Horn
Matthew Ritchie
Richard Tuttle
Fred Wilson

The screening will take place in the Media Clasroom of the Visual Arts Building, 700 Peavine Creek Dr., Atlanta, GA 30322. This event is free an open to the public (limited seating available).

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