PA R T Y LINES THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PA I N T I N G A N D D R A W I N G M FA S H O W
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ANN PIBAL
PA R T Y LINES THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
PAINTING AND DRAWING MFA SHOW
NEW YORK STUDIO GALLERY 154 STANTON STREET NEW YORK, NY 10003
11-25 MAY 2014
This catalog was published to accompany an exhibition at New York Studio Gallery 154 Stanton Street New York, New York, 10003 from May 11, 2014 - May 25, 2014. Printed in Iowa City, IA, at Hospers & Brother Printers. Artwork © Andrea DeJong, Josh Doster, Arden Hendrie, Brian Prugh, Amelia Salisbury and Karin Waskiewicz, 2014. “After Iowa” © Ann Pibal, 2014. Inside front cover photograph © Liz Davenport, 2012. This exhibition was made possible by the support of the Painting and Drawing Area, Studio Division, School of Art and Art History (SAAH) and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. Special thanks to SAAH Director John Beldon Scott, Painting and Drawing Area Head Laurel Farrin, SAAH Accountant Kevin McGlynn, Ron Cohen, John Dilg, David Dunlap, Sue Hettmansperger, and Susan White.
AFTER IOWA
I've been asked to write a brief blessing for this talented new crop of MFA graduates from the University of Iowa. What can I say? Primarily—that it is pure pleasure to think back onto the time I spent in Iowa City, the 'good old days', as my partner Colin Brant and I always say. We met there, in the dreamy condition of the OMB studios, continually high—as much on our Ginding each other as on paint fumes and the heady, immersive challenge of pushing our work forward toward something clear, something more fully Gledged. What did I learn there? In beautiful Iowa, from that incredible faculty? Foremost, that it is fundamentally hard work and shrewd dedication—to recognizing and pushing past the known and the cliché, toward the fresh and idiosyncratic—that will make one an artist of any quality. I learned that the reward of the studio is of its own creation and of its immediate, local communities—not of larger, dazzling institutions. I learned that truly understanding this is what might save a young artist from giving it all up. On the eve of our graduation, John Dilg sat me down, at the Foxhead, and gave me a little piece of advice. It went something like, “Don't rush, keep painting—make your inquiry your focus, cultivate its integrity —and, if you don’t exhibit it in a serious way right out of the gate, don’t worry. Keep your priorities straight.” Was he crazy!? I wasn't planning on waiting!! I would show him. As it happened, it took longer than I had imagined to land my Girst one-‐person exhibition in NYC. And I felt lucky: without my realizing it, I had been granted the gift of time with which to develop my project into something that I alone owned. And so—to you the new graduates—my advice is much the same as John's. Whatever your goals may be, take your time, form your own communities. Cultivate in yourself the understanding that being an artist is not a career—but rather it is a lifestyle—not so much a way to make an income, but a privileged way to conduct a life.
All my best wishes to the University of Iowa, MFA class of 2014.
Ann PIBAL -3-
Andrea DEJONG
Andrea DeJong Kodiak, 2014 Oil on canvas 28” x 34” -4-
Andrea DeJong Interloper, 2013 Oil on canvas 12 1/4” x 12 1/4” -5-
Josh DOSTER
Josh Doster Paint Slide, 2014 Paint, found wood and other materials Dimensions variable -7-
Arden HENDRIE
Arden Hendrie Untitled, 2013 Oil, oil stick and graphite on paper. 15 1/2”x21” Arden Hendrie Untitled, 2014 Oil, oil stick, charcoal and graphite on mounted paper 63 1/2” x 48” -9-
Brian PRUGH
Brian Prugh The Ocean Is What I Meant By (5), 2014 Cut tulle in painted wood frame 67 x 67 inches -10-
Brian Prugh The Echo Of Your Own Blood In the Shell, 2014 Cut tulle in painted wood frame 67 x 67 inches -11-
Amelia SALISBURY
Amelia Salisbury Clay Girl, 2014 Acrylic on paper 18” x 12” -12-
Amelia Salisbury Memorial Totem, 2014 Found object and mixed meda 30” x 22”
Karin WASKIEWICZ
Karin Waskiewicz Split Rock, 2014 Acrylic on panel 24” x 35” Karin Waskiewicz Air Show Bay, 2014 Acrylic on panel 24” x 20” -14-
Andrea DEJONG Andrea DeJong was born and raised in the Twin Cities of Minnesota and has traveled over much of the Midwest, spending almost five years in South Dakota. DeJong has been an Instructor of Drawing for the past three years at University of Iowa and has recently been included in New American Painting, no. 105.
Josh DOSTER Josh Doster lives in a donkey barn, but the livestock have moved out. He’s fixing it up with salvaged materials from nearby Iowa City so that it’s a place where you can feel comfortable coming for a visit. It’s a free trade zone and an experiment in greater self-sufficiency, not to mention a petrie dish for new ideas about where painting and drawing could go.
Arden HENDRIE Arden Hendrie lived in Maine before coming to Iowa. He has attended residencies at The Vermont Studio Center and the Ucross Foundation, and he has worked as an artist-in-residence for the VSA Organization on Arts and Disability. He has exhibited his work in the Northeast and the Midwest.
Brian PRUGH Brian Prugh has an MA in Philosophy from the University of Chicago and lived in New York and Chicago before arriving at Iowa. He is an art critic for Little Village and co-founded the Iowa City Arts Review, and was recently included in Sideshow Nation II: At the Alamo in Williamsburg and New American Painting no. 111. Upon graduating he plans to move onto a boat outside of Miami.
Amelia SALISBURY Amelia Rose Salisbury, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, receives her MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa (2014). She was also a Maytag Fellow and a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (2008). She lives in Iowa City.
Karin WASKIEWICZ Karin Waskiewicz was born in Erie Pennsylvania, spending her summers on the Allegany River in Oil City. She studied at SACI in Florence Italy and got her BFA at Kent State University. Karin showed at Pulse Miami and Houston Fine Art Fair with Schroeder Romero. She was in a group show at Schroeder Romero, Momenta Art Benefit and published in New American Painting MFA Annual, no. 94. This past summer she had a solo show in the projects room and a group show “Catch as Catch Can” at Margaret Thatcher Projects. After graduation she plans on moving to New York City.
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Andrea Josh Arden Brian Amelia Karin
DEJONG DOSTER HENDRIE PRUGH SALISBURY WASKIEWICZ
WITH ALUMNI GUESTS