Events and Exhibitions - Spring/Summer 2007

Collectage: Transcribing Oral Memory
Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier

Exhibition Dates: February 8 – March 10, 2007

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 8, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Talk: 6:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Remembering China Sparrow by Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, 1995; mixed-media.


Dancer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham speaks of the “energy within” that forms once formal training has ended and the “pure strength” of the individual comes through.  Once that strength is discovered an evolution begins and, as Dunham puts it, one moves on a “stream that is you but it’s even over and beyond you.”

Collectage: Transcribing Oral Memory examines the visual career of African-American visual artist Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier with paintings and mixed media works dating back to 1972. Also included are images from Stereo Propaganda: Deconstructing Stereotypes, Reconstructing Identity, her recent solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Collectage follows Marshall-Linnemeier’s streams, dreams, and imaginings with works that span her career and includes paintings completed by the artist when she was just seventeen years old. 

Marshall-Linnemeier has a keen interest in people and cultures of color, especially their stories and she developed a formula early on for these examinations.  Her “illuminated photographs,” a term that she coined in 1989 as a student at the Atlanta College of Art, are also included.  The illuminated photographs were inspired by colors and form in Renaissance painting, as well The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes and Roy de Carava.  They incorporate photography, painting, and stories to examine communities and the people within.   

It is oral history that inspires much of Marshall-Linnemeier’s work and she has used oral history and stories as a means to inspire and transform individuals who would have otherwise been ignored.  These individuals include those who have largely been dismissed by society and seen as incorrigibles because of their refusal to conform to society’s standards. It is here that her work becomes part anthropological.

About the Artist:

Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier uses photography along with cross-cultural mythology to examine and define human beings whose presence she finds compelling. Her images are distinguished by a lyrical approach to text as art and a knowing sense of color as a point of accentuation in altered photographic images.  An honors graduate of the Atlanta College of Art and graduate of the University of Mississippi, Marshall-Linnemeier has received numerous awards including the Lyndhurst Foundation Young Career Prize, an NEA Fellowship, and a Northern Telecom New Works Fellowship.  Her determination to study firsthand the cultures of people of color throughout the world has resulted in her securing fellowships from Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest-Arts International that took her to Adelaide, South Australia and the first Fulton County (Georgia) International Residency in Balgowan, South Africa.  Her work is held in numerous collections including the High Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Jackson-Hartsfield International Airport.  A solo exhibition of her work was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in 2006.   

This exhibition is supported in part by a generous grant from the Emory University Founders Week Academic Festival Fund.

JUNEBUG SCREENWRITER ANGUS MACLACHLAN AND
FOLK ART CONSULTANT
TOM PATTERSON
COMING TO EMORY

Thursday, March 22, 2007
8:00 pm
Emory University
White Hall Room 205

Co-sponsored by the Visual Arts Program and the Film Studies Department of Emory University.

There will be a screening of the film, followed by a Q & A session with the film's screenwriter, Angus MacLachlan, and the folk art consultant for the film, Tom Patterson.

White Hall is located at 301 Dowman Drive, which is the main entrance to Emory off of North Decatur Road. Map of Emory's Campus

JUNEBUG is about a dealer in "outsider" art who travels from Chicago to rural North Carolina to recruit an eccentric painter for her gallery and to meet her new husband's Southern family for the first time.  JUNEBUG received numerous nominations and accolades, including Official Selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, a Best First Screenplay nomination for Angus MacLachlan from the Independent Spirit Awards, and an Oscar nomination for Amy Adams for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.  To view a trailer for the film, visit http://www.sonyclassics.com/junebug/

"JUNEBUG is a movie that understands, profoundly and with love and sadness, the world of small towns; it captures ways of talking and living I remember from my childhood, with the complexity and precision of great fiction. It observes small details that are important because they are details. It has sympathy for every character in the story and avoids two temptations: It doesn't portray the small-town characters as provincial hicks, and it doesn't portray the city slickers as shallow materialists. Phil Morrison, who directed this movie, and Angus MacLachlan, who wrote it, understand how people everywhere have good intentions, and how life can assign them roles where they can't realize them." -Roger Ebert, August 12, 2005

This event is supported in part by a generous grant from Friends of Visual Arts Members Una & Mark Newman.

photo/design: k. tauches

Exhibition Dates: March 23 – April 21, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, March 23, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

GET YOUR BASEBALL FIX!
The Emory Eagles baseball team has a game on March 23 at 3:00 p.m., on the field directly across from the Visual Arts Gallery. Come cheer the Eagles on against Piedmont College, then come over to the gallery from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. to see the PITCHING exhibition, hear some live music from the Emory Jazz Combo, and feast on some traditional American baseball snacks.

This exhibition is supported in part by generous grants from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and the Emory Coca-Cola Artists in Residence Program.

Read an interview with the artists by Ana Fernandez.

Alejandro Aguilera and Radcliffe Bailey first met in 1998 when Bailey saw Aguilera’s work at Atlanta’s Hammond House.  They immediately became friends, and often talked about exploring the commonalities in their work through a joint exhibition.  The long-awaited collaboration will finally come to fruition with Alejandro Aguilera and Radcliffe Bailey: Pitching, opening on March 23, 2007 at Emory University’s Visual Arts Gallery.   The gallery is located directly across from the baseball field on Emory’s main campus, and the view of the field from the only window in the gallery provided the inspiration for the exhibition’s baseball theme.  The opening reception will include some baseball-related performance aspects that will bring the installation to life.

Alejandro Aguilera and Radcliffe Bailey: Pitching will be on view at Emory University’s Visual Arts Gallery from March 23 – April 21, 2007, with an opening reception on Friday, March 23rd from 5 to 8 pm featuring food, libations, and live jazz from the Emory Jazz Combo.

About the Artists:

Alejandro Aguilera, born in Cuba in 1964, now lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.  He received his education at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, the Higher Institute of Art in Havana, Cuba, and the School of Art in Holguin, Cuba. He creates sculptures, paintings and drawings. Although his work has become increasingly abstract in recent years, it retains strong references to his recent memories of Cuba. Such references include banderas (small flags that typically decorate the streets and businesses on the island) as well as motifs related to the ocean and to the landscape. Aguilera combines these elements with the swirling imagery of what he describes as “so-called primitive cultures.”  Aguilera has exhibited in the United States and internationally, and his work is included in the public collections of the Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia, CEMEX in Monterrey, Mexico, the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Monterrey, Mexico, and the National Museum Palace of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuba.

Radcliffe Bailey is an Atlanta artist who works by patterning together vintage photographs, objects he collects, painted words, and maps in a multi-layered narrative which explores the both history of African Americans, as well as his own personal history and influences. Bailey received his B.F.A. from the Atlanta College of Art and has had one-person shows at Solomon Projects in Atlanta, Georgia, the Arthur Rogers Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana, as well as the Temporary Contemporary at the Cheekwood Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2001 Birmingham Museum of Art curator David Moos worked with Bailey to organize “The Magic City,” a one person show that traveled from the Birmingham Museum of Art to the Forum for Contemporary Art in St. Louis and to the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston. His work has appeared widely across the country in group shows. His selected bibliography features articles in the Village Voice, The New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Flash Art, and Art in America.

Capture the Life in “Life Drawing”
A Workshop by LORI-GENE

Workshop description:
This workshop offers an intensive study of the human figure. Drawing the human figure involves more than recording biological data that one sees and learns about in books.  The figure is a living, breathing entity with thoughts and emotions that the active, empathetic artist intuitively senses.  Through careful and deep observation, the artist becomes his or her subject…allowing the drawing to spring to life. Through slide lectures, demonstrations and energetic instruction, Lori-Gene will guide you through dimensions beyond the obvious.  Using a variety of media, you will be shown a path toward understanding, a way of working that will inform your future endeavors in any and all subject matter.  Emphasis is placed on exploring process rather than producing a product.  This workshop will give you the opportunity to take with you a fresh, expanded, and enlivened approach to working in your studio. 

When (choose one day or take it twice):
Friday, March 30, 2007  OR Saturday, March 31, 2007
9 am – 1 pm
Coffee and light breakfast food will be served beginning at 8:30 am and water/snacks will be provided throughout the workshop.
Each class day is limited to 15 participants.

REGISTER NOW! Contact Helen Chuang, 404-727-6315 or hchuan2@emory.edu.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MARCH 23

Cost*:

ONE DAY:
$40 for Friends of Visual Arts and Emory students/faculty/staff/alumni
$75 for all others; includes a one-year membership to Friends of Visual Arts

BOTH DAYS:
$70 for Friends of Visual Arts and Emory students/faculty/staff/alumni
$105 for all others; includes a one-year membership to Friends of Visual Arts

*Cost includes all supplies needed for the workshop.

Location:
Emory University Visual Arts Building – Drawing & Painting Studio
Free parking is available adjacent to the Visual Arts Building.
Directions

Cancellation policy: A full refund will be issued if the cancellation is received by Helen Chuang by 5:00 pm on March 23, 2007. No refunds will be issued after 5:00 pm on March 23, 2007.

The Visual Arts Program, the Department of Art History, the Department of Religion, the Emory Collaborative for Contemplative Studies, the Stipe Society of Creative Scholars, and the Hightower Fund of Emory University proudly present:

Mindfulness, Love, and the Creative Process
A Dialogue Between Janine Antoni and Sharon Salzberg

LEFT: Janine Antoni, Loving Care, 1993; Performance with hair dye, dimensions variable; Photographed by Prudence Cumming Associates at Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, 1993
RIGHT: Sharon Salzberg

Thursday, April 5, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
Location: Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall (3rd floor)
Directions and Parking

Janine Antoni, a practicing Buddhist and a celebrated, innovative visual artist known for using her own body in the making of her art, and Sharon Salzberg, a prominent teacher and mentor in the Buddhist community, will conduct a dialogue exploring how the qualities of mindfulness and love, as deepened through meditation, enhance the creative process. 

This event is free and open to the public. Suggested donation is $10 to offset event costs. For more information, please contact Mary Catherine Johnson, Emory Visual Arts Program: 404-712-4390 or mcjohn7@emory.edu.

2007 Student Art Exhibition & Open Studios
Featuring Art by Emory University's Class of 2007 Art History /
Visual Arts Joint Majors

Exhibition Dates: April 26 – May 14, 2007

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 26, 5:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Featuring live music by Klimchak and festive food & drink

Student work will also be on view from April 26 - May 14 at The Computing Center at Cox Hall on Emory's main campus:

DOWSING
An Installation by Martha Whittington

An exploration of dowsing, a method of detecting water with two sticks or rods, through the gentle tapping of mechanical sculptures.

Exhibition Dates: June 15 – July 27, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, June 15, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

For more details on any of the above exhibitions and lectures, please contact Mary Catherine Johnson at mcjohn7@emory.edu or 404-712-4390.

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