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Events and Exhibitions - Fall 2006

September 2006

KM Squared = Kerry Moore + Katherine Mitchell
Sculpture by Kerry Moore and Works on Paper by Katherine Mitchell

Exhibition Dates: August 31 - October 7, 2006

Left: Katherine Mitchell, Umleitung, II, 2005. Gouache and chine colle on paper.
Right: Kerry Moore, Untitled, 2005, wood, resin.

The 2006/2007 inaugural exhibition of the Visual Arts Gallery at Emory University – KM Squared = Kerry Moore + Katherine Mitchell - features two artists who are on the faculty of Emory University’s Visual Arts Program. Kerry Moore’s sculptures are finely crafted, poetic assemblages that explore personal and social issues, as well as hyper-real images from dreams. Viewers are drawn into his delightful miniature environments where they encounter objects that, at first glance, seem comfortingly familiar, but upon examination are actually functioning in a subverted capacity. Katherine Mitchell’s works on paper were inspired by a series of recent residencies in Austria, where she encountered the traditional golden color in the historic architecture and medieval towns with labyrinthine streets. Like with Moore’s sculptures, viewers are drawn into Mitchell’s delicate yet rigorous environments, where they can get lost in intricate overlays of golden patterns.

Katherine Mitchell has taught at Emory, where she is currently a Senior Lecturer in drawing and painting, for more than twenty years. Kerry Moore is currently in his fourth year of teaching drawing, painting, and sculpture classes at Emory.

Click here to read the Atlanta Journal Constitution review of Kerry Moore's sculpture.

October 2006

Adapting Balance
An Installation by Marilee Keys

Exhibition Dates: October 19 - November 25, 2006

Artist Talk and Opening Reception: Thursday, October 19, 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Click here to see images from the opening.

“Life, like nature, is a dynamic balance. We must constantly adapt.” This simple yet compelling truth is the driving force behind the art of Marilee Keys, the next artist to exhibit at Emory’s Visual Arts Gallery.

“I live on 50 acres in the woods of Alabama,” says Keys. “My art continues from an ongoing search for information about my environment.” For her exhibition at the Visual Arts Gallery, Keys will be working with bamboo, rocks, pine needles, cicadas, and shadows, all suspended in balance and constant motion in the air.

Study for Emory Installation by Marilee Keys

Marilee Keys is a visual artist living and working in Alabama. Recent exhibitions include the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama; The Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, Florida; Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; Space 301 / centre for the living arts, Mobile, Alabama; Altman Riddick Museum, Coleman Center for Art and Culture, York, Alabama; and SawWorks Studio/ ArchitectureWorks, Birmingham, Alabama. Her work has been featured in many publications including New Art Examiner, Architectural Record, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the Tribune Review. In 2004 she received an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Keys studied at the University of Utah, and the Sergei Bongart School of Art as a scholarship student.

CALLING ALL COLLEGE STUDENTS:

VANA College Night

Halo by Demetrius Oliver

Thursday, October 19, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
535 Means St. NW, Atlanta, 404.668.1970

The Visual Arts Network of Atlanta invites area college students to The Contemporary for an evening of art, music, food and drink, and a free raffle, along with an introduction to Atlanta's non-profit art scene. Free with student ID.

Information: artgallery@gsu.edu or 404.651.0489

November 2006

The Acrylic Seminar & Demonstration
Sponsored by Liquitex
Free and open to the public.

Thursday, November 2, 7:00 p.m.

Liquitex invented water-based acrylics and has been the innovator in all things acrylic ever since. You'll learn about:

The difference between artists' and student grade colors
Pigments and color mixing
Mixed media
Mediums, additives, and varnishes
The incredible variety of potential applications possible only with acrylics
Medium, heavy, and super-heavy body colors

FREE PAINT!!!!

Recycled Art Project
Sponsored by Emory Recycles

Exhibition Dates: October 28 - November 18, 2006
Artwork will be displayed throughout Emory University's campus. Exhibition proposals are accepted from individuals or groups - DEADLINE OCTOBER 20, 2006. No affiliation with Emory University is necessary to submit a proposal. Prizes include a roundtrip Delta ticket and much, much more!

For more information, go to:
http://www.fm.emory.edu/recycling/rap.html

Recycled Art Project Lecture: Monday, November 13, 7:00 p.m.
Presenter: Jenny Krasner
Atlanta artist Jenny Krasner will speak about creating personal narrative artwork using discarded objects. Light refreshments will be served.

Visual Arts Lecture Series: Joseph Peragine
Sponsored by the Visual Arts Program's Drawing & Painting Classes

Thursday, November 16, 7:00 p.m.

Joseph Peragine's painting, sculpture, and animation have been presented in galleries, contemporary art spaces, and museums throughout the United States. His site-specific installation, My Big Backyard (1996), was first shown at Solomon Projects in Atlanta, and later recreated for the exhibition space, Art in General in New York City. In 2001, Peragine was honored with an invitation to Beijing, China, to exhibit his work and participate in an international symposium on art and science hosted by Tsing Hua University and the National Museum of Fine Art of China. During that same year, the City of Atlanta commissioned Peragine to create a permanent installation for Hartsfield International Airport. The installation, Brute Neighbors, garnered Peragine a 2002 Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award of Excellence for Public Art. Additionally, Art in America singled out Brute Neighbors as one of the best public art projects in 2001.

Peragine was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1961. He completed his undergraduate work in fine art at the University of Georgia, Athens, and in 1995 received his MFA in painting from Georgia State University, Atlanta. Peragine, his wife and two children live in Atlanta, where he is an Associate Professor in Drawing and Painting and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Georgia State University. Other recent accomplishments include his completion of a prestigious five year studio residency at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.

December 2006

Transformative Experience - The India Dream Works
New Work by Julia Kjelgaard

Exhibition Dates: December 7, 2006 - January 27, 2007

Julia Kjelgaard was named Arts at Emory's Artist of the Month for December 2006.

Artist Statement: In this exhibition I will show two related series of work: the India Dream Paintings and a large sculptural drawing. The Indian Dream Paintings are large format mixed media works that incorporate digital printing, painting and embroidery. These images begun in the summer of 2005 were a reflection on a five-month stay in India. It was my first trip to India, and I was both overwhelmed and challenged by the experience. Living in India felt like being in the middle of a three-ring circus: it was a constant visual and emotional spectacle. But underneath this is a culture that handles wide diversity with a tremendous amount of grace and tolerance. One of the things I found most intriguing about India is the constant barrage of contrasts. One is constantly confronted with the dichotomy between rich and poor, between the different religious traditions and states, between hand made and high tech, and between the past and the future. You can be riding in a car on a busy freeway outside Mumbai and see in the next lane, a horse pulling a cart. I found the culture challenging in its ability to hold multiple levels of simultaneous contrast. While to me it seemed, at times, the contrasts bordered on chaos, I noticed that it also creates a great flexibility of mind. I wanted to explore this idea because I think it is an old skill that we are trying to re-learn for the 21st century. The sculptural drawing is a new idea, which developed out of the Indian Dream Paintings. This is an experiment with painting, printing, drawing and sculpture. This new work is supported by a grant from the Emory University Research Committee.

Julia Kjelgaard holds a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara, studied printmaking at the University of Alberta, Canada and holds an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan. Kjelgaard works in mixed media and printmaking. Her prints have been included in international exhibitions in England, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Poland, Taiwan, and Yugoslavia and are included in numerous catalogues and anthologies. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including a Kala Fellowship, a Hambidge Center Fellowship, an Alabama Council for the Arts Fellowship, and research and travel grants from the University of Michigan, the University of Wyoming, and Emory University. Kjelgaard actively exhibits her work and is included in collections at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Butler Museum of Art, the Kala Institute, the Moscow Studio, the University of Wyoming Art Museum, and in numerous corporate and private collections. She was recently named a Fulbright scholar to conduct research in India.

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