Emory Visual Arts Program | Events and Exhibits

Events and Exhibitions - Spring 2006

January 2006

January 19, 4:00-8:00 p.m.

Reception for William Brogdon's Senior Thesis show.

"Bench", photograph 16x24 inches, 2005

Artist Statement
The transcendental theme in my work is that of nature - the Natural world all around us, which is at times noticed and at others not. My work brings out things that are easily passed over or taken for granted, giving them new light. Eastern art has influenced my art form; the trees I chose to photograph (the limbs, the leaves) are majestic and simple, calligraphic and haunting, chaotic and beautiful. My collages have a certain zen in which they are not finished until they are finished; they are simple yet have a complicated design. The handmade paper and natural elements reiterate back to the theme of nature, while images of cultures that respect nature as a way of life point to a harmony with nature that our culture is lacking today.

Artist Biography
William Brogdon was born in Atlanta, Georgia. At an early age he moved with his parents to Amsterdam. There began William’s love of art history, as he was exposed to Europe’s museums. His mother, a sculptor, encouraged his interest in the making of art. While in high school he began his study of photography and had his first darkroom experience. An Eagle Scout, William’s interest in photography grew as he photographed nature while camping with the Boy Scouts. His love of nature and the outdoors can be seen in the subject matter of his photography. William was also influenced by the collages of Mary Kistner, and was fortunate enough to have studied with her. Her lineage can be seen in William’s collages

William Brogdon's show will be on exhibit January 12 - January 28, 2006, at the Visual Arts Gallery. The artist will be present during the Reception, Thursday January 19, at 5:00pm.

February 2006

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

Reception for Angela West Photographs

Familiar Landscape #1, Cibachrome, 50x60 inches.

Angela West grew up in Dahlonega, Georgia, and received her MFA in photography from Yale University. Angela is known for her “homegrown anthropology” collection. Her work is a series of varied photographic projects relating to her hometown and the chronology of its inhabitants.

Her recent projects include portrait studies of small-town teenage girls, landscape explorations of her childhood neighborhood, and a series about her father. Her richly realized color photographs balance affection for her subjects with precise and unsentimental observation. Ms. West’s work is included in the collections of the High Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C.

Angela West Photographs will be on exhibit February 9 -March 11, 2006, at the Visual Arts Gallery. The artist will be present during the Reception, Thursday February 9, at 5:00pm.

February 15, 3:00 p.m.

Artist Talk: Elizabeth Turk talks about her work.

"Summer 2005" Van Dyke print on Reeves-BFK ---------"Summer 2005" Van Dyke print on Reeves-BFK

Elizabeth Turk has been a photographer and educator in Atlanta for the past 30 years. Her preoccupation as an artist has always been the easily-overlooked details of our daily lives. She draws inspiration from family, friends, nature, contemporary poetry and cinema. The work represented here spans the full range of those interests.

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

March 2006

March 1, 5:00 p.m.

Artist Talk: Juul Sadée

"Cuisine de Mas, coordonnées", pencil on paper, 28 x 17.5 cm

Juul Sadée lives and works in Holland. She will be presenting "A song for Atlanta," her first exhibition in the United States, at Eyedrum on Saturday, March 11, 2006, 7:00 p.m.

"The Highest ambition in my work is to bring about the biggest possible experience through a work of art. Because different dimensions are a very essential part of this perception for me, I am not always satisfied with only these three dimensions. Moving video images and sound, together with the three dimensions of sculptural objects create the ultimate experience of time and space. Because of the relation between the work and both the surroundings and spectators a multitude of associations and perceptions is generated. The experience and analyses of the simultaneousness and the use of different choices are essential."

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

For more information about Juul Sadée and "A song for Atlanta" visit the following sites:
www.juulsadee.nl
www.pd.org/~eyedrum/calendar/index.php?eventTypeId=1&month=3&year=2006

March 2, 7:00 p.m.

Artist Talk: Lisa Hart talks about her work.

100 Days of Observation: day 82 ---------------Inner Strength
2005 --------------------------------------------2003
paper, vellum, graphite, gouache----------------wood, bone, paper, type
5”x7”--------------------------------------------17"x22"

Lisa Hart received her BFA in printmaking and drawing from Atlanta College of Art and her MFA in mixed media from UCLA in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor at Atlanta College of Art where she is the chair of the Visual Studies department. Ms. Hart's artwork has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. She has had several solo shows of her work. Ms. Hart has worked in mixed media assemblage, sculpture and drawing. Her subject matter includes investigations of nature - both in its mathematical complexity and as a metaphor for the human experience.

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

March 23, 7:00 p.m.

Artist Talk: Marcia R.Cohen talks about color.

"Pedagogy", oil on canvas 18" x 18" ,1984/2005.

Marcia R. Cohen is a visual artist and professor of painting, drawing and color theory at the Atlanta College of Art. She was educated at Wayne State University in Detroit and at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Her paintings, works on paper, photographs and installations examine the interdisciplinary dimension color. She has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally. In 2002 she was awarded a KBFUS cultural fellowship for research on color in the Netherlands and Germany. This lecture on her artwork will explore the subjective act of seeing, reading and decoding the illusive nature of color.

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

March 30, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Reception for Mark Steinmetz photography exhibition "Garden"

Farmington, Connecticut, October, 2005; Silver-Gelatin print; 20" x 24"

Mark Steinmetz is a photographer who resides in Athens, Georgia. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His photographs have been published in Aperture, Blind Spot, and DoubleTake magazines, and he has a book, Tuscan Trees. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and has a book on Knoxville forthcoming from Nazraeli Press. Most recently, he has taught at Harvard University, Yale University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Emory University.

"Garden" will be on exhibit March 23 -April 22, 2006, at the Visual Arts Gallery. The artist will be present during the Reception, Thursday, March 30, at 5:00pm.

April 2006

April 6, 7:00 p.m.

Artist Talk: Alice Aycock

From the series How to Catch and Manufacture Ghosts; Vertical Cross Sections of the Ether Wind
Alice Aycock 1981 (refabricated 1987)
copper, galvanized sheet metal, glass heating coils, light bulbs, iron, lead, motors, neon, steel, steel cable

Born 1946, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. Alice Aycock's large, semi-architectural works deal with the interaction of structure, site, materials, and the psychophysical responses of the viewer. Offered meaningful but contradictory clues by both her images and her texts, viewers attempt to discover not only what the work of art conveys but how it communicates its contents, in investigations that parallel the artist's own.
The talk will be held in Carlos Hall, Carlos Museum, Emory University.
A colloquium for students will be held on Friday, April 7, 10:30 AM, Visual Arts Building, room 145.

These events are sponsored by the Art History Department of Emory University

April 19, 6:00 p.m.

Artist Talk: Tim Rollins.

Tim Rollins and K.O.S., from the "Animal Farm" series, 1994.

In 1981, artist Tim Rollins began teaching art classes in the South Bronx public schools to students categorized as being "learning-disabled." Some of Rollins' students became a group of regulars who participated in an after-school and weekend program called the Art of Knowledge Workshop. The students named themselves K.O.S. which stands for "Kids of Survival." Working with these students, emphasizing the importance of classic literature as a metaphor for daily life, Rollins and Kids of Survival (K.O.S) have ever since collaborated on large-scale works that now hang in museums around the world.
Recently, Rollins has conducted a series of classes and workshops based upon the writings of Martin Luther King Jr. for teens at Youth Art Connection in Atlanta.

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

April 28, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Reception for the End of the Year Student Art Show.

Selected student work from the 2005/2006 Academic Year will be featured throughout the Visual Arts Building. Also, in the main Gallery, April Sherer's Senior Show will be on display. This is a good opportunity for the Emory Community to become more familiar with the Visual Arts Program and its students.

The End of the Year Student Art Show will be on exhibit April 28 -May 15, 2006, at the Visual Arts Building and Gallery. Most of the artists will be present during the Reception on Friday, April 28 2006, at 5:00 p.m.

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