Vol. 6 | 2013 - 2014
ART JOURNEYS 1
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Events And Achievements
18 The Gallery at UTA
22 Faculty News
28 Art History
32 MFA
36 Undergraduate & Alumni Alumni+
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Department Chair’s Letter It is a pleasure reflect on the mean- ingful Department Chair’s to Letter
advancement of our creative community. In 2012-13 we estabthe foundation I hope 2013-14 was a lished good year for you and for a public art program on the University the new year will be even better. As someofof Texas at Arlington campus. Atosculpture by you know we are continuing excel in areas Professor Darryl Lauster was completed and of research, teaching and service. dedicated in May. In 2013 we expect to add one additional work students to our campus and finalize Our faculty provide the necessary the Public Art Master Planningare document. skills to succeed. The students highly
committed. They invest time and critical With a distinguished faculty of approx-Day imately thinking to reach innovative solutions. by 60 artists, designers, and historians and a day they accumulate knowledge and habits diverse body of are overcritical 750 undergraduate and of learning that for future careers. graduate students, we continue to educate Our students are daring, ambitious and highly a new genera- tion of artists, designers, creative. historians and educators. Our professionally faculty With a distinguished faculty of active approximately continues to win awards and receive high 60 artists, designers and historians and a praise and recognition for their research. diverse body of over 650 undergraduate and In the studio and classroom thetofaculty graduate students, we continue educate a provide personalofmentoring of our students. new generation artists, designers, historians Our faculty and students were recognized and educators. with numer- ous awards, exhibitions, presentations, published and creative Our professionally active articles, faculty continue projects on theand national andhigh international to win awards receive praise and levels. recognition for their research. In the studio and classroom the faculty provide personal mentoring to our students. Our faculty and students were recognized with numerous awards, exhibitions, presentations, published articles and creative projects on the national
The National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) accredits our department, comprised of outstanding students, faculty and staff. In addition we belong to the New Media Consortium, College Art Association, FATE, TASA, and various state art organizations. Initiatives in 2013-14 include the establishment of the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation relationship, expanded internships, the further enhancement of our gaming courses (see our summer high school SEED project), and the MFA student Summer Travel Research program. As chair of the Department of Art and Art History, it is very exciting to watch the growth of our programs that have an impact on the international level. This year’s news about our students, alums, faculty and programs provides a glimpse into our dynamic university! In addition, please review our website, www.uta.edu/art, to investigate our activities and achievements throughout the 2014-15 academic year. If you are in the region, please visit us and see how the program and the university continues to grow. Robert Hower Art and Art History THE Innovation Destination
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Events And Achievements
OUTSTANDING SENIOR AWARDS The Department of Art and Art History is proud to announce the Outstanding Senior Award winners for our Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 graduating classes. Each semester the faculty has an opportunity to nominate a graduating senior for the Outstanding Senior Award in each of the areas of concentration. Fall 2013
Spring 2014
Art Certification: Kristy Rich
Art Certification: Angela Ruvalcaba
Drawing: Josh Perry
Drawing: Christian Medina
Film/Video: Lizette Barrera
Film/Video: Joshua Gallas
Glass: Linda Ostman
Glass: Glynis DeMone
Photography: Casey Holder
Photography: Daniel Miller
Painting: Jan Chin
Painting: Sophia Ceballos
Visual Communication: Bailey Blanchone,
Printmaking: Trevor Shin
Laura Cabrera
Sculpture: Rueben Melendez
Art History: Meagan Severson
Visual Communication: Cosme Olivas, McKenzie Teng Art History: Meghan Zavitz
STAFF AND FACULTY AWARDS
2014 DSVC NINTH NATIONAL STUDENT SHOW WINNERS
At the end of each academic year, The Art + Art History Department recognizes faculty and staff excellence through several awards, nominated and selected by the department.
The Dallas Society of Visual Communications has a mission to help students in the graphic design industry. Each year, the DSVC hosts a National Student Show and Conference to inspire and motivate students. The DSVC has given away more than $100,000 in scholarships and awards and this year we had eight of our own chosen for the show. Below are the winners from UTA and the titles of their projects.
The 2014 awards Excellence in Teaching: Nancy Palmeri, Amanda Alexander Excellence in Research: Carlos DonJuan, Dr. Mary Vaccaro Outstanding Adjunct: Chaitra Linehan, Patricia Newton Jack Plummer Service Award: Darryl Lauster, Cheryl Mitchell, Mark Clive
Poler Annual Report: Elena Chudoba Augustus B. Circus: Cosme Olivas, Ayla Haynes, Holly Aldriedge, Anna French Sweet Baby Ray’s Gourmet Sauces: Cosme Olivas
Staff Recognition: Khushboo LaSure, Nick Velarde, Francis Giampietro
Image: Still from “Aiction26” by Allison Starr
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Image: Visual Communication Students at the annual Addy Awards
2014 ADDY AWARDS WINNERS The Studio, Media Arts + Art History community would like to congratulate the following students on their awards in Visual Communication. The AAF (American Advertising Federation) Student ADDY Awards Competition is a unique national awards program designed especially for college students. Work entered at the local level can move up to regional and national judging, just like the work entered by professionals across the country. Applicants must be enrolled full- or parttime in an accredited U.S. educational institution. GOLD ADDY - Underbelly - Anna French, Jonathan Chapman, Bailey Blanchone GOLD ADDY - Field guide to Big Foot - Jesse Estanes SILVER ADDY - Herb + Thistle brand - Laurel Cabrera SILVER ADDY -Annual Report - Lizz Barcenas SILVER ADDY - Annual Report - Elena Chudoba SILVER ADDY - Tito’s Handmade Vodka - Cosme Olivas SILVER ADDY - Cultured Cup website - Brand’ee Milton BRONZE ADDY - Ovio - Laurel Cabrera, Iris Chen and Sandy Ngo BRONZE ADDY - Lumberjack POP - Clay Knowles, Mary Gibson, Kelsey Armistead BRONZE ADDY -August B Circus POP - Cosme Olivas, Ayla Haynes, Holly Aldriedge, Anna French BRONZE ADDY - Sweet Baby Ray’s - Cosme Olivas
PHOTOGRAPHY FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP Each semester the senior photo faculty recognizes a continuing photography major who shows the most promise or who has realized a significant body of work. Fall 2013
Spring 2014
Daniel Miller
Dalton Grayson
ARLINGTON ARTS LEAGUE AWARD WINNERS Brendan Feltrup-Exum Chris Perry
Jennifer Cortes Ishrath “Jyoti” Ahmed
VISUAL COMMUNICATION ALUMNI WIN 21 ADDYS
M.A.C.H.I.N.E.: CONSCIOUSNESS EXHIBITION
Visual Communication Alumni Tim Lautensack, Jonathan Irwin & Ben Bologna of Starr Conspiracy won a total of 21 ADDYs Awards including the People’s Choice Award and a Special Judges’ Award for the Best of Interactive.
M.A.C.H.I.N.E. (Master of Arts Collective in Higher Idea Navigation and Exploration) sought submissions from emerging and established artists for a juried show about consciousness. The work of over a dozen artists from California, New York, and Texas (and some places in-between) were on display in Gallery West (located at the Studio Arts Center) in May 2014.
About The Starr Conspiracy: “You shouldn’t have to pay an agency to get to know your industry. The Starr Conspiracy already knows your market segment, who you are, and where you fit in. We’re a strategic marketing and advertising agency devoted exclusively to enterprise software and services. When you partner with us, it’s to build market share, multiply brand awareness and drive sales leads — not to bone up on the basics. We’ve been “out there” for more than a decade, so you can hit the ground running. Founded in 1999 and located in Fort Worth, Texas, The Starr Conspiracy has won eight best places to work awards and countless creative awards.”
Image: The Starr Conspiracy
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JAMES S. BARNETT, JR. FOUNDATION AWARDS The James S. Barnett, Jr. Foundation was established in 1998 by Kyong Ju, Jesse and Mia Barnett as a memorial to their late husband and father, James S. Barnett, Jr. Barnett was a helicopter ambulance pilot who lost his life trying to save the victim of a car accident in 1993. The foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people through religion, arts, education, science, and collaborative community projects. Fall 2013
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Photography Megan DeSoto Casey Holder Daniel Miller
Photography John Crouch Olivia Themudo Sean Wilson
Ideas in Art Undergraduate: Rueben Melendez Graduate: Brendan Feltrup-Exum Christine Heimerman
SPECIAL ADVISING HONORS Jessica Rose, Advising Team Supervisor, has received two awards for the 2013-2014 academic year.
OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS
UTA Outstanding Academic Advisor, Honorable Mention 2013-2014
Research Morgan Chivers Alison Starr
College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Advising Award, Department of Art and Art History
Teaching Gladys Chow Service Josh Wilson
VISITING ARTISTS, DESIGNERS AND SCHOLARS
Ryan Feerer, Diana Tran, Josh Ege, Lily Smith-Kirkley, Gordon Clines, Penelope Umbrico, Katrina Moorhead, Nancy Callan, Cauleen Smith, Trenton Doyle Hancock
VISITING ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK The New York Times called Hancock, “A rising star in the American contemporary art world”. According to the PBS Art 21 website: Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock’s prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings work together to tell the story of the Mounds—a group of mythical creatures that are the tragic protagonists of the artist’s unfolding narrative. Each new work by Hancock is a contribution to the saga of the Mounds, portraying the birth, life, death, afterlife, and even dream states of these half-animal, half-plant creatures. Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions—such as the use of color, language, and pattern—into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning. Hancock’s paintings often rework Biblical stories that the artist learned as a child from his family and local church community. Balancing moral dilemmas with wit and a musical sense of language and color, Hancock’s works create a painterly space of psychological dimensions. Trenton Doyle Hancock was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey. His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. The recipient of numerous awards, Hancock lives and works in Houston, where he was a 2002 Core Artist in Residence at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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VISITING LECTURER : PENELOPE UMBRICO Penelope Umbrico presented a lecture on her work on Thursday, April 10, 2014. Umbrico received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and has received a Guggenheim and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. She has exhibited her work in museums and galleries internationally, including a recent installation at Oliver Francis Gallery in Dallas. Her recent project “Suns from Flickr” started in 2006 while she was looking for the most photographed subject on the photo-sharing site Flickr. She found 541,795 pictures of sunsets from which she selected just the suns and made Kodak snapshot prints of them. In addition to her public lecture, Umbrico had a studio/ critique session with a small group of our graduate students. This event was cosponsored with the James S. Barnett Jr Foundation.
BY THE PEN: THE ART OF WRITING IN ISLAMIC ART From the earliest times to the present, artists and craftsmen across the Muslim lands have used writing to decorate all types of buildings and objects, from the most expensive works of art to the humblest everyday vessels. This lecture by Boston College professor Sheila Blair illustrated some of the many ways they did so, raising the art of writing to its most sublime and transforming it into one of the most distinctive features of Islamic visual culture. The lecture discussed the different subjects that artists chose to inscribe for different purposes on buildings and objects, from mosques and minbars to dishes and dress. It also considered the different styles of writing and the ways that artists and craftsmen went to great pains to add inscriptions, even in difficult media such as textiles. In sum, the lecture showed why writing in Arabic script is a hallmark of Islamic art and architecture, a feature that differentiates the arts produced in the Islamic lands from those produced elsewhere. Sheila Blair teaches about all aspects of Islamic art from the seventh century to modern times. Her research is equally broad: she has written or co-written 17 books, including several international award winners, and more than 200 articles in journals, encyclopedias, festschriften and presented in numerous colloquia. Several of her books were written with her husband and co-holder of the Calderwood Chair, Jonathan Bloom, with whom she served as artistic consultant for the three-hour documentary Islam: Empire of Faith, shown nationally on PBS.
Image: (right) “Suns from Flickr” by Penelope Umbrico
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“THE COOLEST ART EVENT IN TOWN HAS EVOLVED INTO SOMETHING EVEN BIGGER” Image: Art Auction
FIRST ANNUAL ART STUDIO EVENT AND AUCTION... A UTA PRESIDENT KARBHARI UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE This year the Art + Art History Department hosted the first annual Studio Event and Art Auction. Having heard the demand from the local art community, A+AH has taken one of the most anticipated events of the academic year, the Annual Glass Sale, and evolved it into something historic. The Annual Glass Sale has now become even bigger to include virtually every medium from our outstanding group of talented faculty and student artists: stunning photography, vibrant paintings, dazzling glass pieces, and more. Beyond a sale, it was a platform for bringing artists and patrons together for an evening of art, auction and inspiration. “At its best, art broadens our perspectives culturally and socially, and it sparks our imagination,” said Robert Hower, chairman of the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Liberal Arts. “We are please to expand this event and provide additional opportunity to spotlight faculty and student excellence and their creative and intellectual contributions to our community.”
The event featured silent and live auctions of faculty and student works in photography, painting, sculpture, ceramics and printmaking in addition to glass. It also included studio demonstrations in painting, sculpture and glassblowing and opportunities to hear artists discuss their creative processes. Attendees had the opportunity to meet and talk to faculty and student artists. The event included works by many distinguished faculty members: Nicholas Wood, Marilyn Jolly, Nancy Palmeri, Darrly Lauster, Justin Ginsberg, Kenda North, Matt Clark, Sedrick Huckaby, Stephen Lapthisophon, Benito Huerta, Carlos Donjuan, David Keens, Andrew Ortiz, and Leighton McWilliams.
ART + ART HISTORY OPEN HOUSE The Art + Art History Department, in the College of Liberal Arts celebrated our first department wide open house event in conjunction with our NASAD student creative work review and the opening of the Faculty Biennial XIV show. Artworks completed during the previous two semesters by our students were on display throughout the art buildilng along with scheduled demonstrations in the Studio Arts Centerand the Fine Arts Building. The events included a variety of demonstrations such as: silk screened photo based printmaking, mixed media painting, neon-illuminated glass and sculpture, sculpture foundry pour, and a
modern & traditional glass technique demonstration. The open house concluded with the Faculty Biennial XIV Art and Research Exhibition, and reception. All events and exhibitions were free and open to the public. All students, faculty, staff and their families, as well as members of the local community were encouraged to attend.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS DESIGN EXPO The AIGA UTA student group hosted its largest event of the year in welcoming four speakers, an alumni panel and gallery reception on Thursday, November 7th. An AIGA student member gives their point of view on design.“There is more to design than just making stuff. A lot of thought and questioning goes on during the process which involves critical outside the box thinking. It is a tool used for creating experiences and solving complex problems through a variety of mediums...�
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ANNUAL GLASS ART SALE Each year the UTA glass area holds a glass art sale open to the university and public communities. This event raises the money used to fund the operation of the Glass Studio and degree program. Raw glass, tools, machinery, kilns, etc. are all purchased using money raised from this sale. Additionally, this money is used to fund visiting artists to the glass area and student scholarships to summer glass study programs. Raising money through this sale is essential to the operation of the studio and program in glass at UTA. Glass students of all levels, faculty, and visiting artists all create glass work for the sale. The objects range from five-dollar paperweights to major collector pieces selling for several thousand dollars. Half of the sale price is returned to the student/artist, the other half is deposited in the glass area operational budget account of the University. Most pieces have prices set by the maker, with a selected group of pieces put in a silent auction
held during the sale. Glass students prepare the facility and objects for the sale, and work during the event as cashiers, packers, assistants, etc. It is a fun and exciting event not to be missed. This year the One Day Only Sale was held on Friday April 4th, from 8am - 8pm. The sale included live glass blowing demonstrations, raffles, live/silent auctions, and more. The community’s continued support has solidified the University of Texas at Arlington’s Glass program as a leader in the field and maintained its status of having one of the best university facilities in the world. The Art + Art History Department is proud to be continuing this incredible tradition, and creating a legacy.
THE FACULTY BIENNIAL XIV The Gallery at The University of Texas at Arlington was pleased to present its fourteenth “Faculty Biennial,” a showcase for recent work created by the Department of Art and Art History faculty. Scheduled every two years, this exhibition presents a sampling of what the art professors accomplish in their creative endeavors outside the classroom. The 2014 exhibition, which ran January 13 though February 8, featured 35 faculty members working in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, glass, film/video, digital imaging and visual communication. In addition, the department’s art historians had examples of recent publications on display. “The Faculty Biennial XIV is an opportunity for our talented faculty to experiment with new ideas and creatively investigate new modes of expression. I think our students and visitors will enjoy seeing what the faculty do in their studios,” said gallery curator Benito Huerta. In association with the exhibition, several of the artists discussed their work in a series of noontime gallery talks on selected Wednesdays and Thursdays throughout the exhibition. The dates for the talks were Wednesdays, January 22 and February 5, and Thursdays, January 16 and 30. The exhibit and all events were free and open to the public. Image: Painting by Sedrick Huckaby
WILD PONY EDITIONS Art+Art History and UTA Printmakers held the first annual Wild Pony Edition letterpress card, poster and hand-bound book sale, last November. Proceeds from the sale helped fund graduate and undergraduate conference participation, potential scholarships to attend workshops, and support Wild Pony Editions.
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The Gallery at UTA The Gallery at UTA, a 4,100 square foot exhibition space in the Fine Arts Building, has been part of the Department of Art & Art History since 1985. Open six days a week (Mondays - Fridays, 10 am – 5 pm and Saturdays, 12 – 5 pm) to visitors from both the university community and the general public, it is recognized regionally and nationally for its exhibitions, related programs (lectures, workshops, artists’ residencies) and publications. The Gallery presents exhibitions each academic year from September through mid-May that include works by regional, national and international contemporary artists. As an interdisciplinary research and exhibition facility, the mission of The Gallery at UTA is the presentation of contemporary art in a critical and creative context. In addition, the mission has always been to provide faculty with a venue for presenting and publishing research and for developing and implementing exhibitions, which was accomplished with two of this year’s offerings.
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Row 1 (left to right): 1. Garth Amundson & Pierre Gour, HEAD(S), 2013, Hand-cut pigment prints mounted to bank pins, site specific dimensions variable. 2. Paho Mann, installation view: left - image from series, Junk Drawers, 2001-2013 archival inkjet prints, 27” x 22.5” Row 2 (left to right): 3. Amy Blakemore, Flowers, 2012, chromogenic print, ed. 10, 12” x 12” 4. Sarah Williams, Brookfield Plaza, 2013, oil on board, 24” x 36” Row 3 (left to right): 5. Alice Leora Briggs, Atlas, 2002, sgraffito with acrylic ink on panel, 20” x 16” 6. James Sullivan, Head with Rocks in Mouth, 2010, plaster, straw, steel, pigment, 76” x 29” x 17” Next page (left to right): 7. installation view: center - Jackson Echols, Riverbed; Waterfall, 2013, unique chromogenic prints; right - Jackson Echols, images from series of C-prints on acrylic; left - Alison Starr, Fort Lorenzo: A Performance Script/Director’s Edit, 2014 with prop from Elixir, live performance piece (April 7, 2014) 8. Neal Paustian, A Lens to a Future of Unquenchable Thirst #1 - #3, 2014, glass, cement
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS 2013- 2014 Beginning with a photography show organized by faculty member, Bryan Florentin, the 2013-14 exhibition season got off to a thought-provoking start. In Materiality and Identity, Seattle-area artists Garth Amundson and Pierre Gour showed large-scale works that symbolically dealt with the social construction of gender identity. Recent experiences with immigration laws that threatened their sense of home and identity were reflected in various scanned, cut up and recontextualized vintage photographs and artifacts that served as metaphor for the creation and loss of identity. Paho Mann, an artist/educator based in North Texas, also showed works dealing with identity as reflected in what we consume, discard and recycle. His Junk Drawers and Phoenix Recycling Project series demonstrated that what people collect and put away on a personal level, reveals clues about personality and identity; while on a societal level, what we consume as a group also discloses something about our identity and culture. Next came an exhibition, Amy Blakemore / Sarah Williams, that showcased the works of two talented women artists working in photography and painting, respectively. Sarah Williams creates works that draw attention to what she calls, “the seemingly mundane, anonymous scenes existing on the periphery that tend to be ignored.” Her haunting paintings of isolated nightscapes use light and concentrated focus to elicit a sense of eerie mystery from everyday rural scenes. The first exhibition of the spring semester was The Faculty Biennial. Taking place every two years since 1985, this show presents a sampling of what the Art & Art History Department’s art, design and art history professors accomplish in their creative endeavors outside
the classroom. The 2013-14 exhibition, which ran January 13 through February 8, 2014, featured 35 faculty members working in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, printmaking, glass, video, digital imaging and visual communication. Finally, in the last curated exhibition of the year, The Gallery was pleased to present Alice Leora Briggs / James Sullivan, a two person show featuring surreal drawings of dark scenes from life in a Mexican border town by Briggs; along with Sullivan’s contemplative sculptural works of human figures and other organic forms that quietly question the process of creating and re-creating. Utilizing a variety of intriguing techniques such as sgraffito and burn drawings, Alice Leora Briggs exhibited images with a surface beauty that starkly contrasted with the chilling content -- the politics and violence of Juarez, Mexico. James Sullivan makes two and three-dimensional work that draws comparisons between the human body and organic forms in nature, and contemplates the relationship between parts and the whole. It was a fascinating pairing of two artists whose work, at first glance, had little in common. However, on further deliberation, it became evident that these artists both created works that reward viewers who take the time to ponder the meaning beneath the materiality. In addition, the year’s gallery programming included two semester-ending Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibitions displaying hundreds of works by graduating studio art and design seniors, a Master of Fine Arts Exhibition featuring the work of nine graduate students who completed the MFA degree this year, as well as receptions and gallery talks, and publication of three illustrated exhibition brochures. The Gallery at UTA 2013-14 exhibition schedule once again provided a diverse introduction to several facets of contemporary art-making practice in this year’s exciting and evocative programs curated by Gallery Director Benito Huerta.
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NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR PROFESSOR CARLOS DONJUAN Carlos Donjuan received over 2,000 votes and was selected as New American Paintings Reader’s Choice Artist of 2013. Donjuan will receive $500 in cash from New American Paintings and $1000 in gift certificates to the annual prize sponsor, Dick Blick Art Materials. Below Donjuan speaks about his current project and its inspiration. “My current body of work deals with the idea of illegal aliens. As a kid, I remember hearing the term and not knowing what it meant. I always wondered what everyone was talking about and imagined weird creatures. I wanted to know what they looked like and wanted to meet one. As I got older, I figured out that people were talking about me. I wasn’t much different from everyone else except for the fact that I was born on the other side of a border. It was a little heartbreaking, I guess, but I used the negativity to fuel my work. Now, as an adult, I’ve revisited the
Images: (left) Still from “Wolf ” by Ya’ke Smith, Painting by Carlos Donjuan
idea of what I used to think an illegal alien looked like. I’ve started to revisit and interpret those childhood memories in my paintings. So now you find masked figures, hybrid animal people, pyramids, and blob creatures that represent aliens who are on a journey to a better life.” Additionally Professor Donjuan traveled to Italy for a show on February 13, 2014 in Milan. His work was exhibited at Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea Gallery where he was invited on an all-expense paid trip courtesy of the gallery.
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BART WEISS IS A MASTERMIND
PROFESSOR YA’KE SMITH IN AUSTIN
Professor Bart Weiss was named a “Mastermind” by the Dallas Observer and The Art + Art History Department agrees.
Ya’Ke Smith is the writer of the upcoming film “Heaven.” It’s a follow-up to Smith’s critically-praised film “Wolf.” Part of a trilogy dealing with children and sexuality, “Wolf” is about a child who is molested by his pastor. “Heaven” is about a young woman who is manipulated into sex trafficking.
The Dallas Observer annually selects a group of “Masterminds” and awards them with $1,000 each. “Masterminds” are selected in the fields of film, visual art, stage, activism to identify and honor those fostering “artful eruption” in Dallas. With intentionally loose parameters the committee selects an artist who over several decades was essential to the evolution of the city or whose bold decisions changed the outside perception of Dallas. Weiss is the man behind the Dallas Videofest, now going into its 27th year, and an independent film director, producer and editor. He’s been a video columnist for The Dallas Morning News (among others) and teaches art and history at University of Texas at Arlington. “We live a very mediated existence,” he says. “There’s so much media out there the problem is how to find what’s uplifting. ... After 20 minutes on a phone or laptop no one says, ‘Boy, that was a really productive time.’” Weiss is fixated on finding ways to make the time we all spend in front of a screen worthwhile.
The Austin Chronicle and public radio station KUT both covered the script reading for what is being called “a script with guts”.
STEPHEN LAPTHISOPHON: AT THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART “A two-room installation at the Dallas Museum of Art called “coffee, seasonal fruit, root vegetables” and “Selected Poems” is the first solo exhibition in a major art museum in Stephen Lapthisophon’s long career. At age 57, Dallas-based Lapthisophon is one of the most distinguished artists working in North Texas and a mentor to younger artists, particularly in his teaching roles at the University of Texas at Dallas and, more recently, the University of Texas at Arlington.
ART REVIEW: SEDRICK HUCKABY’S ‘BIG MAMA’ AND FAMILY AT VALLEY HOUSE GALLERY
Like them, his art is made of stuff with no intrinsic value, arranged and altered by the particular sensibility of an artist who lives without any luxury as a critique of the life of accumulation and waste. All his creations are made on paper, with media such as coffee, turmeric, bacon fat, rosemary and other spices, as well as black chalk, watercolor, paint and pencil.
According to an article in The Dallas News by Rick Bitrell:
They are arranged in the two galleries in two ways: some framed like art-commodities in the bleached-wood glazed frames of modernist favor and others simply tacked on the wall naked.
But unlike his fellow graduate students at Yale, most of whom entered the seething, competitive art worlds of New York or Los Angeles, Huckaby moved back to Fort Worth to spend time with the matriarch of his family, Hallie Beatrice Welcome Carpenter (1923-2008), known as “Big Mama,” to start a family of his own and to become an artist.
With them are old wooden objects — a crate of old records, an ancient desk with a stack of old books, a pre-World War II record player, a stepladder propped against the wall. Two of the walls are false, behind which Lapthisophon has stashed things. Another series of false walls forms a small room based on the proportions of his studio. There are no labels — nothing, that is, to guide us, to tell us what the artist intends, or the museum thinks he intends. “
“Huckaby is one of the few major artists of color in Dallas-Fort Worth who is actually from here. He “got out of Dodge” first to Boston University, then to the most prestigious graduate school of art in the country, at Yale University, where he earned his master of fine arts in 1999.
Today, he lives in south Fort Worth just a short drive from Big Mama’s house. The Valley House exhibition, “Everyday Glory,” includes more than 250 works completed there in the past year, an extraordinary output in anyone’s book. It is another chapter in a pictorial life teeming with humanity.”
EyeO FESTIVAL SELECTS MIHYUN KIM AS A WINNER Senior Lecturer Mihyun Kim has been selected as one of the 2014 EyeO Festival Artist Fellowship winners. 40 finalists were selected and narrowed down to five. This opportunity included one free pass to the EyeO Festival and a seat in the pre-festival Workshops.
Image: “coffee, seasonal fruit, root vegetables” by Stephen Lapthisophon
About the EyeO festival: It’s an exciting time to be interested in art, interaction, and information. The way we experience all three is changing. The way all three interact and overlap is evolving. Access to data and tools continues to enter new realms. What data is—is changing; it’s a social media feed, it’s a physical sensor, it’s a houseplant, a novel, it’s open access to oceans of digitized archives and more and more APIs. What can we do with all this data? What can’t we do? The Eyeo Festival brings together the most intriguing and exciting people in these arenas today.
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SENIOR LECTURER SCOTT HILTON AWARDED SUMMER INSTITUTE RESIDENCY IN NYC Scott Hilton, a photography instructor and specialist in 19th century photographic processes, was awarded an NEH Scholar Residency at The American Social History Project, of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. This two-week institute, supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, focused on the visual culture of the Civil War—including the fine arts, ephemera, and photography—to assess how information and opinion about the war and its impact were recorded and disseminated, and the ways visual media expressed and shaped Americans’ understanding on both sides of the conflict. Scott’s expertise as a contemporary practitioner of antiquated techniques affords him a unique perspective on the visual materials from the archives of CUNY, the New York Public Library, the Cooper Union, and NYU that were made available to the NEH Scholars.
TORE TERRASI GRAND PRIZE WINNER
JUSTIN GINSBERG VISITS GERMANY Justin Ginsberg, visiting assistant professor and glass area coordinator shares his experiences in Germany during recent exhibitions and a residency. “This really started with a scholarship I received to attend the Pilchuck Glass school in the summer of 2013. During my time there I was able to connect with Nadania Idriss, founder and director of Berlin Glas e.V., a new non-profit glass studio in Berlin, Germany. After discussing my curatorial experience, she invited me to curate an exhibition, which would be held in December of 2013. Many of the artists had an affiliation with UTA. I received support from the university to travel to Berlin, to install the exhibition, and be present during the opening, which included a performance from a Belgium artist, Philipp Weber. During my time there I made a strong connection with this artist. During the opening, I also made a connection with Sébastien Bourdeauducq, a Scientist, and founder of EHSM (Experimental Hardware Software Meeting), a group dedicated to development in science, and DIY processes. These connections created many opportunities for me in Berlin. With further support from the University (Through the McDowell Center grant, and further support from the Art + Art History Dept.) I was accepted to conduct a 5 week residency with a solo exhibition”
Assistant Professor Tore Terrasi has been awarded the Grand Prize at the international exhibition “Urban Landscapes” for his image Staring Girl. The exhibition was hosted at both the SOHO Gallery for Digital Art in New York and online through the New York Center for Photographic Art. The SOHO Gallery for Digital Art features 16 40” screens to show off images in the best light. One screen was dedicated to the Grand Prize Winning image. The juror for the exhibition was Charles Traub, Chair of the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Image: “Staring Girl” by Tore Terrasi
DEAN BETH WRIGHT: CURRENT RESEARCH AND PUBLICAITONS Dean Beth Wright (Professor of Art History) recently published on Delacroix and narrative for a book project which was two chapters in different publications: developed out of her invited presentation at a symposium on art and narrative from the medieval period to the present day “Delaroche and the Drama of History: Gesture and Impassivity which was held at the University of Manchester. from the Children of Edward IV to Marie-Antoinette at the Tribunal,” in Richard Wrigley and Sarah Hibberd, eds., Exchanges The other is a chapter on how to teach the French Revolution and Tensions between Art, Theatre and Opera in Paris 1750-1850 through visual materials (from paintings and prints to (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, April 2014), 185-202. illustrated books and funerary processions) for a Modern Language Association text on interdisciplinary ways of teaching This chapter was developed from her invitation to present at the French revolution. a symposium on art, th eatre and music in France in the 19th century held in conjunction with a Delaroche exhibition at the National Gallery in London. Beth S. Wright, “’Seeing with the Painter’s Eye’: Sir Walter Scott’s Challenge to Nineteenth-Century Art,” in Murray G. Pittock, ed., The Reception of Scott in Europe (London, New Delhi, Doha, Sydney, and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, March 2014), 293-312 She is also currently working on two projects: first is a chapter
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Images: (left) “Hornbill with Figures” (right) “Wood Mask” (bottom) “Sun Mask”
LECTURER AND COLLECTIONS SPECIALIST CHERYL MITCHELL Lecturer and Collections Specialist Cheryl Mitchell of the Art History Department has been working intensely with the Jonathan A. Campbell and Tanya G. Dowdey African Art Collection in an effort to further develop the collection and the local community’s awareness of its presence. Though first donated in 2009, Mitchell recently began managing the collection in the Spring of 2013 and immediately began developing a community awareness program to share the invaluable educational resources this collection of artifacts and artworks has to offer, both to the campus and for the citizens of the surrounding local communities. During the summer of 2013, Mitchell worked on an interactive website for the collection with colleagues Seiji Ikeda, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design/ Visual Communications and Leighton McWilliams, Associate Chair and Professor of the Art and Art History Department, as well as participated in an interview about the collection and its donors. Featuring both a pictorial in the Fall 2013 UTA Magazine and a video on their coordinating YouTube channel, these interviews and editorials have begun to help spread the word to the masses.
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Image: “Measured Disorder” by Andrew Ortiz
NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR PROFESSOR ANDREW ORTIZ Ortiz work in Southern California Show EL Camino College Art Gallery in Torrance, CA hosted an exhibition from August 26 – September 19, 2013 titled Personal Tales: Narrative Work that included a series of work by Associate Professor Andrew Ortiz. Ortiz was invited to show twelve digital images from his Measured Disorder series as part of the show that featured autobiographical art or art that conveys intensely personal stories. Ortiz describes this work as “visual descriptions of my experience with epileptic seizures. Dark in both emotional content and physical appearance, the images seek to express the intense psychological impact of dealing with physical challenges.” Ortiz Exhibits in Newport Beach, CA for Epilepsy Foundation Fundraiser The Epilepsy Therapy Project, together with the Epilepsy Foundation has invited artists to participate in the Second Annual Hidden Truths, The Mind Unraveled juried art show. Selected pieces were featured at the opening event and throughout the month of October 2013 at the Susan Nelson Gallery in Newport Beach, California. Four of Andrew Ortiz’s digital images were selected for exhibition in this show. Ortiz wins Award from Competition in Wisconsin The 26th Annual Northern National Art Competition, a cooperative venture of the Northern Arts Council & the Nicolet Art Gallery, is a juried competition of artists from throughout the nation
that celebrates “a cross-section of contemporary art in a variety of two-dimensional mediums.” According to show organizers, “Hundreds of artists nationwide submit works for consideration.” The juror this year was James R. Pace, an artist and educator whose work has been exhibited internationally and is included in major collections worldwide. Andrew Ortiz submitted a piece titled Sleep for the show, which won the Patron Award with an accompanying cash prize. The exhibit ran from July 23 – September 6, 2013.
BENITO HUERTA : SEPTEMBER SONG September Song, an exhibition of new work by Benito Huerta, was on display September 7-October 12 at William Campbell Contemporary Art. The show featured new and recent paintings, drawings, and mixed media pieces, all focusing on contemporary social themes and informed by popular culture. A visual response to the musical composition sharing its name, September Song incorporates motifs prevalent in the zeitgeist, the media, and the entertainment industry, such as politics, terrorism, and the violent end of the world.
DR. MARY VACCARO VISITING PROFESSOR AT THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR ITALIAN RENAISSANCE To conduct her research Mary Vaccaro has been appointed to serve as Visiting Professor at the prestigious Villa I Tatti-The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in Italy, during Spring Semester 2015. She is honored at the prospect of returning to Villa I Tatti, where, in 1988-99, she held one of the fifteen post-doctoral fellowships awarded annually to junior scholars worldwide. In addition she was awarded a UT Arlington Faculty Development Leave for the upcoming academic year for this project. The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti is the foremost research institution in the world for Italian Renaissance art, history, literature, and music. Harvard University inherited Villa I Tatti and its estate outside Florence from the distinguished art historian Bernard Berenson, together with his vast collection of books, photographs, and works of art. Shortly before his death in 1959, Berenson wrote that his “first and foremost wish is to establish fellowships that will provide leisure and tranquility to sixteen or more promising students.” Nothing opens mind and heart like free discussion of gifted maturing individuals, coming together with their own national traditions and differing attitudes and approaches.” The Berenson Library, with holdings of nearly 175,000 volumes, and subscriptions to over 600 scholarly journals, seeks to provide comprehensive coverage of current
scholarship on all aspects of the Italian Renaissance. The library includes an extensive and historically important photograph collection, with over 250,000 prints, an archive that documents the lives and work of Bernard and Mary Berenson, and the Morrill Music Library, considered one of the finest in the world for medieval and Renaissance music. The historic house contains a major collection of Renaissance and Asian art, installed much as it was in Berenson’s day. I Tatti also consists of a working farm and a historic garden. Since it was completed in 1915, the Italianate garden designed by Cecil Pinsent has provided inspiration for generations of designers and scholars.
DR.MELIA BELLI VISITING BANGLADESH FOR FELLOWSHIP Melia Belli received two fellowships to support her Bangla language study and research project for her next book, “Emerging Artists of Bangladesh.” The project will be the first academic study of contemporary art and architecture in Bangladesh. One fellowship was granted from the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies, funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The second is from the Asian Cultural Council, an organization founded in 1963 by John D. Rockefeller III to support international dialogue, understanding, and respect through cultural, artistic, and exchange between American and Asian artists and scholars. Dr. Belli will spend 2015 in Dhaka and Chittagong researching topics such as contemporary Bangladeshi mosque architecture and memorials of the 1971 Liberation War. She conducted preliminary work for this project in summer 2013 with support from the Charles T. McDowell Center for Critical Languages & Area Studies, UTA, and from Mustaque Ahmad, a UTA alumnus.
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FILM/VIDEO Brendan Feltrup-Exum Elisha Burley Gabriel Duran Ryan Britton
GLASS Jean Fernandes Neal Paustian Michelle Pennington Christine Heimerman
INTERMEDIA Alison Starr Emily Nicastro Jackson Echols Morgan Chivers Sydney Webb Laura Garcia Seth Victorious David Diaz Elizabeth English Gary Uribe Jean-Patrick Mahoney
VISUAL COMMUNICATION Gladys Chow Josh WIlson Maryam Rezaei Shaban Al Refai Shin-En Hsu Shuhong Wang Kevin Ly Sarah Hossain
Images: (left) “Lost in Transfer� by Neal Paulstian (right) Painting by Maryam Rezaei
LETTER FROM THE MFA PROGRAM DIRECTOR The year has been a productive one for our MFA students. The MFA Thesis Exhibition well represented the characteristics of excellence and diversity of our rising graduate program. The department is grateful to students Glady Cho, Sydney Webb, Neal Paustain, Ryan Britton, Alison Starr, Elizabeth English, Jackson Echols and Jean Fernandes for their professional dedication and contributions to the university. Following graduation, Glady Chow joined the faculty of Bethany College in Kansas as an assistant professor of design. Jackson Echols had is first solo exhibition at the Rachel Nash Gallery in Dallas. Our graduate students have also been included, collectively, in over 40 national, international and regional exhibitions, screenings and competitions this year. A number of students received residencies and grants to conduct their work. David Diaz and Seth Lawrence were awarded UTA McDowell Grants for international residencies in Venice and Germany. Emily Nicastro received a UTA Global Fellowship to study traditional printmaking processes. Michelle
Pennington was awarded a UTA Glass area grant to work in Turkey and Seattle. Christine Heimerman also received a UTA Glass award to conduct research in Seattle. We are looking forward to welcoming our new graduate students to the program and an exciting year of activity in the MFA program. The department has several MFA events planned that are open to the public. We hope that you can join us for our engaging exhibitions and lectures. Please visit our website, www.uta.edu/art for a listing of our scheduled events. Nancy Palmeri Professor and Director of MFA Program
MARYAM REZAEI GRAND PRIZE WINNER IN INTERNATIONAL ILLUSTRATION CONTEST Graduate student Maryam Rezaei was the Grand Prize Winner of the Society of Korea Illusart International Illustration & Design Competition. Rezaei made a series of illustrations based on her experiences as a foreign person in the United States. These illustrations were made in the fall of 2013 while studying painting with Marilyn Jolly and visual communication with Robert Hower. Her worked was influenced by healthy eating, healthy lifestyles, food, advertising, weird fashion, strange vehicles, and human relationships. Her work was selected as Grand Prize entries from 17 countries around the world and in 8 categories including illustration, typography, and communication design. Maryam is an international MFA student in her 2nd year of studies in Visual Communication Design.
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Image: Poster from MFA Exhibition
MASTER OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITION The Gallery at The University of Texas Arlington presented the Spring 2014 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition in April. The Master of Fine Arts is a professional graduate degree in the practice of art - unique in that it is the artist’s terminal academic degree. The MFA in the Art + Art History Department offers students a broad range of study and exploration within the areas of Intermedia, Film and Video, Glass and Visual Communication. As a requirement for completion of the degree, candidates are required to present a culminating exhibition demonstrating excellence in their chosen field. The Spring 2014 exhibition featured eight artists - Alison Starr, Glady Chow, Ryan Britton, Elizabeth English, Sydney Webb, Jean Fernandes, Jackson Echols, and Neal Paustian. -- showcasing their work in film/ video, visual communication and studio intermedia art. Nancy Palmeri, Graduate Program Director stated, “The originality of the MFA thesis exhibitions resides between the dynamic intersection of object and image and the equilibrium of well-directed theoretical structure. Following no formula, the work by all of the MFA students expresses the power of interplay between media. Their works are ironic, playful, striking, engaging, composed, tense, subversive, and beautiful. They suggest a visual account of each artist’s ongoing transformation and individual studio practice. Their art reveals the scope and diversity of the artists within the MFA program at UTA, who are superbly balanced between the complex hemispheres of traditional and media-based art.”
MFA CANDIDATE MORGAN CHIVERS FEATURED AT ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTER “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” - Pablo Picasso “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” - Albert Einstein According to the Ontario Science Center: these entwined ideas – which underlie Occam’s Razor – form a thread that links the realms of science and art. Scientists rely on Occam’s Razor, which holds that simpler explanations, all things being equal, are better than more complex ones, to refine their theories and experiments. With reference to Occam’s Razor, the interdisciplinary discourse presented in this exhibition by Propeller and the !dea Gallery at the Ontario Science Centre, seeks to narrow the cultural divide between art and science.
JEAN FERNANDES AND MORGAN CHIVERS SELECTED FOR EMERGE 2014 MFA candidates Jean Fernandes and Morgan Chivers were both selected as finalists for Bullseye Gallery’s highlycompetitive biennial kiln-glass exhibition. Emerge 2014 was Bullseye’s eighth iteration of the popular event for emerging artists. This international juried competition offers prizes as well as inclusion in a fullcolor exhibition catalog. Finalists’ artwork were installed at Bullseye Gallery from April 8 - June 28, 2014. Selected award winners will be included in a national touring exhibition. Jurors for Emerge 2014 were Kathleen Moles, Emily Nachison, and James Yood.
MARYAM REZAEI ACCEPTED INTO ANIMAX SKOPJE ANIMATION FESTIVAL Maryam Rezaei’s animated short film entitled “Democracy” was recently accepted into the Animax Skopje International Animation Festival in Macedonia. The film is about the corruption and abuse of power that occurs when one man uses others to achieve power for himself. The animation was created by Maryam in the spring of 2013 and features a simple black and white drawing style. The Animax Skopje Festival is in its third year of programming, and features animators from all over the world. The mission of the festival is to promote animation in Macedonia and develop communication between artists in Macedonia and abroad. According to the festival website, the festival is for “anyone interested in animation as a means of communication, as a way of expanding horizons, as an effort to support a cultural form and spend leisure time creatively and constructively as part of a global trend of creative industries in Europe and the world.”
BRENDAN FELTRUP-EXUM’S “ENDEVOUR” OFFICIAL SELECTION AT HILL COUNTRY FILM FESTIVAL Brendan Feltrup-Exum’s film, Endeavour, was selected to screen in the short film competition at the Hill Country Film Festival in Fredericksburg, Texas. The Hill Country Film Festival took place beginning March 25, 2014. “This is where raw talent meets raw beauty. HCFF is a five-day independent film festival in the heart of the picturesque Hill Country in Fredericksburg, Texas.” Created to celebrate and showcase filmmakers from Texas and around the world, the festival began in 2010. In 2013, HCFF screened more than 50 independent films, both short and feature length, as well as hosted filmmaker Q&A/interviews, discussion panels, a filmmaker’s lounge and festival parties.
MFA CANDIDATE GLADYS CHOW WINS ‘THE EXCELLENCE PRIZE AWARD’ MFA candidate Gladys Chow’s illustration series has been selected to receive The Excellence Prize Award for the 2013 SOKI (The Society of Korea Illusart) competition. These illustrations are part of a poster series that explores the meanings of Chinese symbols and their cultural significance. Each poster contains an illustration of a symbol that represents a season of the year. In addition, Chow has been asked to join the society and participate in the international exhibition, which is sponsored by the society and held biannually.
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DESIGN TEXAS CLASS COMPLETES A BRANDING PROJECT FOR THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTH TEXAS UTA Visual Communication students Alexander Reyher, Drew Collins, Karolina Bebak, Kimi Nguyen, Samuel McKinnie and Nike Duraku from the Design Texas class have created a new identity for Humane Society of North Texas, a non profit located in Ft. Worth. The students will be working throughout this summer to help Ann Barnes Executive Director and Whitney Hanson Marketing Director of HSNT implement the brand on social media, an ad campaign, environmental signage, and their website.
STUDENT ALEXIS HYATT AWARDED BLACKWELLSIMMONS SCHOLARSHIP Art + Art History student Alexis Hyatt was awarded a BlackwellSimmons Scholarship at the Fall 2013 Alumni Association Scholarship Reception. The scholarship, established by longtime Alumni Association supporters Thomas Simmons ’72 and Linda Blackwell Simmons ’77, benefits first-generation college students. Linda Blackwell Simmons says alumni support can provide the margin of excellence for UT Arlington and its students. “All great universities have involved alumni and strong alumni associations,” she stated.
PAUL WINDLE: “THE CLUTCH WAY TO WATCH” Alumnus Paul Windle directed and illustrated The Clutch Way to Watch. The video is a part of a series of commercials for ESPN used to promote the channels streaming web service by animating stories of the viewers. Paul worked with teams from Doubleday & Cartwright and 72andSunny to create the ads. More from the series will be released on Youtube and TV. Paul currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and has worked with companies such as Adidas, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Time Magazine and Nike. He’s also been featured in American Illustration 31 and awarded the Art Directors Club Young Guns X award. See more of his work at www.paulwindle.com.
Image: (left) Sculpture by Laura Garcia
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APOPHENIA UNDERGROUND : “B”
PHOTOGRAPHY STUDENTS IN JURIED COMPETITION
Apophenia Underground, an artist collaborative co-founded by MFA Graduate Jeff Gibbons of Detroit, Michigan and Visiting Professor Justin Ginsberg of Dallas, Texas (best known for their recent curatorial project Deep Ellum Windows), exhibited works made by the collaborative as an extension of their self-titled ongoing project which utilizes the open road as a studio/ exhibition space, and inherent change, chance, objects, and environments as material.
Photography students were well represented at the juried competition at 500X in Dallas, “Student Discount”. Graduate student Jackson Echols exhibited his large-scale landscape diptychs; undergraduate students who were chosen for the show were Joel Constantine, Heather VanDerDys, Priscilla Ruiz and Sara Poyfair. The exhibit was on view from October 11 through the 27th. The jurors for this year’s competition were LauraLee Brott, Jessica Iannuzzi Garcia and UTA Art + Art History alumnus Lisa Hees from the McKinney Ave. Contemporary in Dallas.
Last summer for approximately 7 weeks, they drove throughout the United States, covering some 13,000 miles. They set up camp in remote woods, stayed in cheap hotels/motels, and slept on the occasional couch, while making multi-media work and documenting the experience. Red Arrow Contemporary hosted the first exhibit of these artworks and artifacts with an exhibition titled “ B ”, opening on February 22nd. According to the artists This was a unique collaborative venture to use the open road to push themselves in new directions.
VISUAL COMMUNICATIONGRAPHIC DESIGN STUDENTS TAKE FIRST PLACE AT ICPF PACKAGING COMPETITION ALUMNA BREANNE TRAMMELL WILL BE VISITING ARTIST AND ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Breanne Trammell, an alumna, will be the 2014-2015 Virginia A. Myers Visiting Artist in Printmaking and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Since May 2013, Breanne has traveled over 13,000 miles with Nails Across America, her cross-country manicure tour that launched at Mixed Greens Gallery in NYC. This experiential project is about more than simply Nail Art. By transforming a 1968 Shasta Compact camper into a mobile salon, Breanne aims to create an intimate platform to exchange ideas and conversation.
Cosme Olivas, Holly Aldriedge and Ayla Haynes were awarded First Place at the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation’s annual “Best of the Best” Student Design Presentation Competition. The display was for the fictitious company Augustus B. Circus. It featured brightly colored lollipops in the shape of mustaches and penny bags of popcorn. The students conceptualized the project and designed the display from the ground up using equipment donated by the ICPF. The competition featured 18 universities; this was UTAs first entry into the competition.
Image: Photograph by Julia Cooper
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST AND SUPPORT OF THE ART AND ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON The Art and Art History Department would like to thank the generousity of our donors, the valuable time and guidance of visiting artists, designers, and scholars, and the dedicated faculty, staff, and students. Please visit our website at: www.uta.edu/art for more information and news on upcoming events and activities.
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