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Events and Exhibitions - Spring 2005

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May 2005

May 3, 5:00-7:00pm Opening Reception for Dana Haugaard's Senior Thesis Show, and the 2005 Open Studios: Student Exhibition.

Dana Haugaard, Visual Arts/Art History Joint Major: For my senior thesis exhibition I have been working on a series of sculptures that reflect my internal thoughts and feelings by trying to strip away erroneous external factors They are, in a way, all self-portraits, but not in the traditional sense. Some of the pieces are physically simplified while others are shown with a heightened complexity. Each work, however, hones in on a part of my life that I feel represents me and where I am at this stage of my life. I hope that both the viewer and I will come away from this series knowing more about who I am and why I strive to create.

Spring 2005 Open Studios, Student Exhibition: Selected student work from the 2004/2005 Academic Year will be featured throughout the Visual Arts Building. This is a good opportunity for the Emory Community to become more familiar with the Visual Arts Program and its students.

Dana Haugaard, Gallery Installation, 2005.

Dana Haugaard's show will be on exhibit from May 3 - May 16, 2005, at the Visual Arts Gallery. The artist will be present during the Reception, Tuesday May 3, 5:00pm. Spring 2005 Open Studios will be on exhibit from May 3 - May 6, 2005, at the Visual Arts Building.

April 2005

April 12, 6:30 p.m Gallery talk

Eddie Chambers, Visiting Professor, Art History, Emory University, and Independent Curator, will talk about the Pat Ward Williams exhibition Isoalted Incidents, and lead a gallery tour. The event will take place in the Visual Arts Gallery on Tuesday April 12, at 6:30 P.M.. This event is free and open to the public.

Zimbabwe Diary, unique silver gelatin photograph. Pat Ward Williams, 1997.

Please visit this website if you want to know more about Eddie Chambers: www.eddiechambers.com

April 22, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m Opening Reception for Todd Woodlan's SIRE Project, Nostalgic Warfare

This project has a dual purpose: to create an environment and to conjure up nostalgia. Using figures placed around the room and projections that cover the entire surface of the area, the visitor can’t help but be included in the piece. Using found footage from 1950’s-era government films warning about the dangers of atomic war a sense of nostalgia from that time also accompanies the work. But, as with any art piece, the viewer adds his own meaning.

Todd Woodlan working at the Emory Visual Arts Studios, 2005.

This show will be on exhibit from April 22- April 29, 2005, at the Visual Arts Gallery. The artist will be present during the Reception.

April 28, 7:30 p.m Film Screening

Filmmaker Bill Morrison will show Decasia, along with others works on April 28th at 7:30 pm in 205 White Hall.
A colloquium will be held for students on Friday, April 29th at 10 am in the Visual Arts Building, room 145.

Synopsis:

"Decasia" is an experimental feature which sets stunning archival footage to an original symphonic score by Bang On A Can co-founder Michael Gordon. Using nitrate-based master elements with severe emulsion deterioration, “Decasia” depicts Man’s struggle to transcend his own mortality as the very fabric of his world disintegrates before our eyes.

Background:

This film was originally created as part of Ridge Theater's live, multimedia theatricalization of Michael Gordon's symphony, "Decasia". The live event “Decasia” was commissioned, produced, and presented by the Europäischer Musikmonat and the basel sinfonietta. The world premiere of “Decasia” was performed by the basel sinfonietta in Basel, Switzerland , November4th & 5th, 2001. The American premiere of the live event took place at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY, September 9 – 12, 2004. The film “Decasia” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and on the Sundance Channel in 2002. It was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, and distributed on film by the British Film Institute and on DVD by Plexifilm. It was named one of the ten best films of 2003 by J. Hoberman of the Village Voice.

Credits:

Written, directed, produced and edited by Bill Morrison

Music composed by Michael Gordon

Production Company: Hypnotic Pictures

Music performed by the basel sinfonietta

Conducted by Kasper de Roo

Recording produced by Andreas Werner

Master elements provided by Cinema Arts, Inc.

Opticals, Titles, and Negative Matching by Heavy Light

Check out the rave reviews in the web site below:
www.decasia.com/index_full.html

March 2005

March 24, 5:30-8:00pm Inaugural exhibition of the Visual Arts Program new Gallery.

Isolated Incidents brings together a career-spanning body of work by the renowned photo artist Pat Ward Williams. The exhibition consists of a number of the artist's earlier pieces, together with a selection of work that represents new directions within Pat Ward Williams' practice. Isolated Incidents includes one of the artist's trademark pieces, the 1987 'Accused/Blowtorch/Padlock'. It also includes a number of pieces that draw from the artist's own family histories, making poignant and imaginative use of photographs taken from old family albums. Much of her earlier work was characteristic of strong social, political and identity narratives and her more recent work explores, through hand tinted photographs, the built and the natural environment of areas of Florida, the state in which she now lives and works.

This exhibition, curated by Eddie Chambers, represents a significant opportunity for the Emory community to see the work of one of the country's most accomplished and respected contemporary artists.

"Exotic", hand colored silver gelatin photograph, text. Pat Ward Williams, 2004 (33" x 72")

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