August 08, 2005

SHADE opens this weekend

SHADE
Recent work by MFA candidates in
the Department of Art and Art History

August 13 - September 3, 2005

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 13, 6 - 9 pm
Guided Tour: Saturday, August 27, 2:30 - 4:30 pm

Audio commentaries available soon at
http://www.vkdg.com/crl/.

Shade is the second of two summer exhibitions organized collaboratively by students in the Department of Art and Art History. The twelve artists featured in Shade are Michelle Bayer, Jarrod Beck, Roberto Bellini, Katalin Hausel, Marianne McGrath, Meme McNairy, Mike Osborne, Natacha Poggio, Scott Proctor, Adam Schreiber, Nathan Spondike, and Thuy-Van Vu. Curators are Alex Codlin, Laura A. Lindenberger, Breanne Robertson, and Edwin Stirman.

The artists in Shade approach their work from a formal vantage point that is visually cool, but forces the viewer to be actively and intellectually engaged when looking. Issues of process and materials form a basis that many of the artists explore in order to understand the physical product of their labor. Daily activities and rituals become a source of investigation and encourage the viewer to examine both the repetition and the variation in their own everyday practice. Vacant and unpredictable spaces force introspection and inquiry from the viewer while quietly telling their own stories. Other artists analyze the contradictions between balance and tension, unique and replicated objects.

[content from CRL website, go there for more info]

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Shelley Pecha to start teaching at UW-Stout

This fall Shelley Pecha ('04 grad) will start a tenure-track position teaching Interior Design at University Wisconsin Stout.

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