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WOMENEFA Studio artist Mark Tribe currently has new videos in exhibitons:
Port Huron Project Overview from Mark Tribe on Vimeo.
EFA Grantee Sophie Tottie will have two drawings in the show On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century November 21, 2010–February 7, 2011 at MoMA in New York City, which the museum has aqcuired.
UNLV Art Professor Stephen Hendee Presents "Ice Next Time" August 27 - October 3
Exhibit Presents Collection of Fictional Post-Apocalypse Textiles, Clothing and Artifacts
UNLV Department of Art assistant professor Stephen Hendee presents “Ice Next Time,” an exhibition of fictional post-apocalypse textiles, clothing, and artifacts, Aug. 27 – Oct. 23 in the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum. A reception, gallery talk, and participatory event opens the exhibition from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Aug. 27.
The objects within the exhibition are presented with post-dated interpretive panels describing the narrative arc of catastrophe, social disruption, and civilization's eventual return.
“This work subverts speculative representations of the apocalypse to highlight the dependence we have on digital media, which has augmented our collective memory and experience," said Hendee. “In our world filled with mass media entertainment, virtual communities, and instantaneous communication, this exhibition focuses the viewer to consider what it would be like to experience a world returned to direct interaction, unassisted memory, and cultural autonomy.”
Hendee is a Las Vegas-based sculptor who exhibits at a national level in museums and galleries. He has shown his work in New York City at the Whitney Museum, the New Museum and PS.1 Contemporary Art Center. Most recently he showed work at Springs Preserve in the group show, "Desert Chromaticity" in 2010, and received a Red Barn residency at the Goldwell Museum in Ryholite, NV in April. Recent exhibitions include a 2009 group show, "Floors, Doors, and Walls" at Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati and a solo show at the Las Vegas Art Museum in 2008.
Kim Piotrowski (BFA 1988): Beds and Guns
Artist’s Reception
Sunday, November 21, 3-5 pm
Talk with the Artist
Sunday, January 30, 3 pm
October 17 - January 30, 2011, Gallery 4
In the Evening, 2010, mixed media on synthetic paper, 8 × 5 feetBeds and guns are highly charged cultural symbols the artist Kim Piotrowski dissects in her most recent mixed media paintings featured in Gallery 4. The solo exhibition debuts the largest acrylic paintings on paper by the artist to date. As analogies for life, the two separate series of new paintings - one series of beds and one series of guns - exhibited together transform the simple three-letter words into a image that represents having and losing control.
For the past several years, Kim Piotrowski has been manipulating photojournalistic imagery of impactful current world events found online into her painted and drawn abstractions. In her expressive style, she prompts us to consider the compromising and unplanned roles we face in life. She employs bold and flowing lines that capture the feeling of chaos of such events as a hotel bombing in Mumbai. Yet, her paintings can equally capture the desire for calm and comfort found in a roadside memorial made visible through her use of sepia-toned interludes painted among patches of intense color and abstract pattern. The new work presented by Piotrowski at the Art Center collapses global scale and private experience into one moment by addressing the significant personal episodes that mark every human life: birth, love, sickness, and death.
According to Piotrowski, "The bed can be seen as a place of record where one loves, dreams, and dies. Death, and the line that exists between having power and having it taken away, also fuels my art. In the process of making this work, I keep unfolding parallels that I find very exciting to explore. Painting demands time to savor and analyze. Working with these images affords me to live through the ideas and to find deeper meaning within.”
Kim Piotrowski has been actively exhibiting her paintings and drawings since 1991. She is a recipient of the 2008 Artadia Grant for artists and has participated in the residency programs at Ragdale (IL) and Ox Bow (MI). In Chicago, her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions at art venues such as The Union League Club, Skestos Gabriele Gallery and 65 Grand, and Stux Gallery in New York. She currently lives and works in Riverside, IL.