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| Dec 17, 2007, 9:00 AM Happy Holidays | |
| The faculty, staff, and students of the UIC School of Art and Design wish you a happy holiday season. Our semester break begins on Monday December, 17th and continues through January 11th. Instruction begins again on Monday, January, 14th 2008. Snowflake greeting by Cliff Krapfl, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Industrial Design, and Tara Kennedy, UIC BFA in Graphic Design, 1999.
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| Dec 13, 2007, 9:00 AM Great Space MFA Final Critiques Studio Arts, Moving Image, Photography | |
| Final graduate critiques for students in Studio Arts, Moving Image and Photography will be held in the Art and Design Hall, 400 S Peoria, from 9:00-4:30 from Tuesday, December 11th through Friday, December 14th. Guest critics: Tuesday, painter Anne Harris; Wednesday, art historian, Lori Waxman; Thursday, curator Nicholas Frank; Friday, video artist Steve Reinke.
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| Dec 12, 2007, 9:00 AM MFA Final Critiques Graphic Design | |
| Final graduate critiques for students in Graphic Design will be held in room 2410 of the Art and Architecture Building from 9:00-5:00 on Tuesday, December 12th, and Wednesday, December 13th.
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| Dec 11, 2007, 9:00 AM Great Space MFA Final Critiques Studio Arts, Moving Image, Photography | |
| Final graduate critiques for students in Studio Arts, Moving Image and Photography will be held in the Art and Design Hall, 400 S Peoria, from 9:00-4:30 from Tuesday, December 11th through Friday, December 14th. Guest critics: Tuesday, painter Anne Harris; Wednesday, art historian, Lori Waxman; Thursday, curator Nicholas Frank; Friday, video artist Steve Reinke.
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| Dec 10, 2007, 9:30 AM MFA Final Critiques EV + ID | |
| Final graduate critiques for students in Electronic Visualization and Industrial Design will be held in the Center for Virtual Reality in the Arts, in the Art and Architecture Building from 9:30-6:15 on Monday, December 10th.
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| Nov 30, 2007, 10:00 AM Art + Architecture Building Main Entrance UIC Art + Design Preview Day | |
| The School of Art and Design is hosting information days and tours for prospective undergraduate applicants. This is an opportunity to learn about the BFA degrees, tour the studios, computer labs and workshops and ask questions about the majors. No reservation is necessary.
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| Nov 30, 2007, 2:30 PM CVRA, A&A #3304 Robotics : Legos : An Introduction A workshop hosted by the Design Visualization Lab | |
| This workshop will introduce basic robotic concepts using legos as the instrument of instruction. It will provide an understanding of how these mechanics can be used in artistic contexts. Workshops are open to students, faculty, and staff. But class size is limited, so RSVP to Tesia (tkosma2@uic.edu) to let us know you're coming. Workshop supplies will be provided and attendance is free of charge. The instructor, Kevin O'Neill, is a student at UIC who has an extensive background in artificial intelligence and computer science. He currently teaches robotics at After School Matters (ASM) which is a project of Chicago Public Schools (CPS). The Design Visualization Laboratory (DVL) is a shared high-tech computational studio operating under the Electronic Visualization and Industrial Design programs. [ more info ]
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| NetWorking A Performance by artists Anni Holm A Performance by artists Anni Holm | |
| NetWorking (http://knittingnetworking.blogspot.com/) is an ongoing knitting installation/performance art piece originally created by Nyok-Mei Wong & Anni Holm in 2006. The NetWorking project is an attempt to physically demonstrate how a network is constructed and constantly changing. The viewers are invited to sit down and knit with the artist, and through dialogue develop their own networks beyond the boundaries of the piece.
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| Nov 13, 2007, 5:30 PM Blitz 3D Workshop | |
| This workshop will review general engine design concepts with a simple yet powerful product, Blitz 3D. You will learn how independent games are developed and view other examples of gaming engines like Source Engine, Unreal 2003 and Torque. The workshop is limited to 10 people, so please RSVP to Tesia Kosmalski (tkosma2@uic.com) by November 10th to secure your spot. Attendees should also download the demo before class. Attendance is also free. More about Lindsay Grace: He is a full-time professor in Information Technology disciplines. He teaches at the Digital Media Production, Web Design, Game Design, and Information Technology at the Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago IL. He has also taught at The Design Visualization Laboratory (DVL) is a shared high-tech computational studio operating under the Electronic Visualization and Industrial Design programs. [ more info ]
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| P.A.D* a Performance by artist Chris Roberts | |
| Performance Artist and author Chris Roberts (www.manuallabor.org/chrisroberts.html) will be signing his new book, P.A.D. Professional Artist Development, at GBU gallery on the UIC campus. Please join him for the first stop on his book signing tour, followed by a brief Q & A. A limited number of complimentary copies will be available. Chris Roberts is a Chicago artist whose work includes performance, text, and conceptual art theories and practices. *This project is supported by a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
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| Nov 08, 2007, 6:30 PM GBU: On-Site and Nomadic Reception for on-site project | |
| About the show: Participants collaborate in five small teams to create wall and floor drawings in the space. These five on-site drawings are created within a given area along a floor/wall perimeter of the GBU space. Using only lines and/or silhouettes, each team creates a separate thematic/material composition that incorporates the interstitial space of one group's work and the next. The project is nomadic in nature: knowing where we start (space) and what we start with (materials and themes), without knowing precisely where we will arrive. Please come to see the final stages of this experimental work before it comes down on Thursday, November 8, at night.
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| Oct 26, 2007, 10:00 AM Art + Architecture Building Main Entrance UIC Art + Design Preview Day | |
| The School of Art and Design is hosting information days and tours for prospective undergraduate applicants. This is an opportunity to learn about the BFA degrees, tour the studios, computer labs and workshops and ask questions about the majors. No reservation is necessary.
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| Oct 24, 2007, 5:00 PM UIC MFA Open Studio | |
| If you are considering graduate study in art and design, are a friend or graduate of the UIC School of Art and Design, or are simply interested in seeing the work of our programs, please join us for a gathering of alumni, students, faculty and staff at our annual MFA Open Studio. Tour the facilities and meet the faculty and students of our MFA programs in electronic visualization, graphic design, industrial design, moving image, photography, and studio arts. Wed., October 24th from 5:00-10pm Art + Design Hall is located at 400 S Peoria Street Just north of the Halsted/UIC CTA stop. The A+A Building is located at 845 W. Harrison Street Just south of the Halsted/UIC CTA stop. Parking is available in UIC Lot 9 at the corner of Harrison and Morgan streets.
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| Oct 22, 2007, 12:00 AM Exquisite Corpse Suite GBU Exhibition | |
| Opening reception: Wednesday October 24 from 4 to 7pm. For this exhibition the members of the GBU's committee are creating a gallery large Exquisite Corpse that will be reveled in full to the public and the members themselves during the opening reception.
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| Sep 27, 2007, 7:00 PM UIC School of Art + Design: GBU, 5th Floor, Art and Design Hall Worst | |
| Join us to celebrate the "worst" of our undergraduate art programs: any media is accepted. Nothing is too bad!
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| Sep 07, 2007, 9:00 AM Meeting Room, AAB #2410 School of Art and Design Faculty Meeting | |
| All faculty and staff are invited to attend. Coffee and camaraderie at 9:00. Meeting starts promtly at 9:30. Please join us to meet new colleagues, share accomplishments, discuss pertinent issues, etc.
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| Aug 29, 2007, 11:30 AM Great Space MFA Welcome | |
| Please join us in the Great Space of Art and Design Hall for an informal welcome for new and continuing MFA students, faculty, and staff. Wednesday, August 29, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm. Refreshments will be served.
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| Jul 19, 2007, 6:00 PM 2007 Scholarship Benefit UIC College of Architecture and the Arts | |
| The UIC College of Architecture and the Arts invites you to celebrate and support our talented student architects, artists, designers, performers and scholars. All Benefit funds are dedicated solely to student scholarships and fellowships. [ more info ]
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| May 11, 2007, 6:00 PM BFA Year End Shows Graphic Design :: Industrial Design :: Electronic Visualization :: Photography | |
| Students graduating from our BFA programs in A+A will hold their year-end exhibitions from 6:00-9:00 on Friday, May 11th. Please join us to celebrate the talented class of 2007!
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| May 04, 2007, 1:00 PM Art and design students to present government policies | |
| As part of the AD502 Design and Governmentality course, art and design students were exposed to the role of designing in public policy formation and implementation for everyday people. Students have now created government policies based on their areas of interest and the role of design. City officials, professors in policy at UIC, and members of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs have been invited. To attend RSVP by by April 27th to etunst (at) uic.edu.
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| Apr 30, 2007, 6:00 PM CVRA, A&A #3304 Craig Stehle Lecture by Industrial Design Faculty Search Finalist | |
| Craig S. Stehle received his Masters of Industrial Design from North Carolina State University and his BFA in Communication Arts from East Carolina University. His current practice, Stehle Research and Design, consults on the development of products and services for consumer products, medical devices, and rehabilitation and assistive technology. He has also worked as a designer for Gravity Tank in Chicago, Center for Universal Design in Raleigh and Signal Design in Durham North Carolina. Stehle is currently an adjunct faculty member and professional affiliate of the Institute for Design Engineering and Applications (IDEA) of Northwestern University. His role within the engineering-based IDEA program has been to infuse the curriculum with methods used in industrial design. He developed the first industrial design course offered by Northwestern. He says of his teaching: “My teaching philosophies and materials reflect my diverse experience as a design professional [particularly as it relates] to interdisciplinary projects and human-centered product development.”
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| Apr 26, 2007, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Sumakshi Singh Lecture by Sculpture Faculty Search Finalist (new time: 5pm) | |
| Sumakshi Singh has written of her interest in “art that arrives quietly in unexpected places, that nags at you because of its refusal to reveal immediately, that makes you re-investigate territories taken for granted; ...Using the history and physicality of spaces as a springboard, my work involves interventions that I find or create in and around architectural elements. ...to navigate the lines of tension created between the idea of a space set aside for witnessing cultural activity and its material reality.” Singh’s sculpture and site-specific projects have been presented in solo and curated group gallery and museum exhibitions in New York, Chicago, and Charleston, Texas, Illinois, and Connecticut. She was awarded a Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award and held a Curatorial Internship in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. Singh received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Maharaja Sayajiro University, Baroda, India. She has taught in SAIC’s First Year BFA Program, and the Early College Program; she has also taught at Harold Washington College, Chicago.
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| Apr 25, 2007, 6:00 PM Gallery 400 Dianna Frid Lecture by Sculpture Faculty Search Finalist | |
| Dianna Frid has written that her works in sculpture, installation, collages and artist-books, “are material responses to existing images, shapes, and things in the world. In making objects, I stress the relationship of two-dimensional representation to the concreteness of sculpture and hybrid things. I explore this concreteness through a physicality that relies on process as a means to expand and hone a technique, and that fuses the hand-made with formal and thematic concerns.” Frid’s work has been presented in solo and curated group gallery and museum exhibitions in New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, BC, São Paolo, Ghent, Turin, and Mexico City. She has received an Artadia Award, as well as grants from The Canada Council, The Banff Centre for the Arts, The City of Chicago, and the State of Illinois Arts in Education Program. Frid completed MFA and BFA Degrees at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, following undergraduate course work at Hampshire College. She taught previously at the University of Chicago, and currently holds an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design, UIC.
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| Apr 23, 2007, 6:00 PM Gallery 400 Beate Geissler Lecture by Photography Faculty Search Finalist | |
| Beate Geissler works as a photographer as well as producing performances, installations and video in collaboration with Oliver Sann as “Geissler & Sann.” She has written that her work “is formed by reflections on simulation and representation of this world. The transition from pictorial reality to mise-en-scene has characterized my approach to photography from the very beginning.” Her interests are to be found in “the border between what has happened and what could have happened in order to understand pictures. ...I’m not interested in manipulating pictures; all of the imagery is completely rooted in the visible world.” Geissler is the recipient of the Gunther-Schroff-Stipendium from Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe. Her work has been presented in solo and group gallery and museum exhibitions, in partnership with Oliver Sann, in Munich, Cologne, Dortmund, Berlin, Winterthur, Graz, Basel, London, and Taipei, among other venues. She has taught photography at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung , Karsruhe where she also completed the Degree in photography, following study at the Staatliche Fachakadmie für Fotodesign in Munich.
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| Apr 19, 2007, 6:00 PM Ed Osborn Lecture by Sculpture Faculty Search Finalist | |
| Ed Osborn works primarily in sound installation, and has also worked with video, performance and developed works for on-line access. He writes that his work “falls between established genres”… “the sound installations usually include a combination of motion and sound that appears organic in nature and has a tangible physical presence.” In in several projects “the sculptural objects generate sound concurrently, their actions driven by a system of internal logic.” Osborn’s work has been presented in solo and curated group exhibitions and performances in the U.S, Canada, Austria, Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Israel, England, South Africa, and New Zealand. He also works with electronic and improvised music, as a soloist and in collaboration with other artists and music ensembles. As a writer, his essays and projects have been included in critical journals, internationally. Grants and awards include: Guggenheim Foundation, Lannan Foundation, Creative Work Fund, and research grants from University of California, Santa Cruz; he held the DAAD Artist-in-Residence, Berlin in 2000. He received an MFA from Mills College, CA and a BA from Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT. He is currently Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, and has taught as Guest Lecturer /Visiting Artist at California College of the Arts, University of California, Davis, and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany.
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| Apr 18, 2007, 6:00 AM Gallery 400 Pamela Fraser Lecture by Painting Faculty Search Finalist | |
| “The subject of my current work in painting is color itself; especially color as a linguistic vehicle for social exchange,” writes Pamela Fraser. “My new paintings utilize color interaction or relationships to underscore the legibility and logic of color systems with their various associations, themes, and rules of use. These works initially developed from my ongoing interest in comparative color theory and in particular from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Color.” Fraser’s paintings and works on paper have been presented in solo and curated group gallery and museum exhibitions nationally—New York, Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles—as well as internationally in Cologne, Venice, London, Oslo, Berlin, Stuttgart, Munster, among others. She is the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Fraser received an MFA in New Genres from UCLA and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She currently holds an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design, UIC, and taught previously at Ohio State University and Northwestern University.
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| Apr 17, 2007, 12:00 AM painting, everyday life, and material culture Pamela Fraser's AD 332 classs thesis Show | |
| Closing party on Thursday, April 19 from 4:00 - 6:00pm
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| Apr 16, 2007, 6:00 PM Kevin Henry Lecture by Industrial Design Faculty Search Finalist | |
| Kevin Henry writes on the role of theory in industrial design: “Theory… guides decision making in complex situations and is based on one’s ability to grasp, digest, and internalize ideas into a structured and synchronous belief system. While the public is quick to recognize and celebrate the haptic side of the industrial design profession (sketching, rendering, form giving) as the ultimate sign of creativity, they often fail to realize that it remains subservient to critical thinking. And while the fruits of those hard skills may be most noticeable in the final product, without the soft skills, the product or service would be a shallow exercise in styling.” Kevin Henry is currently a member of the full-time faculty and coordinator of the product design program at Columbia College in Chicago. He has been teaching either as adjunct or full time faculty for over 18 years and presented at IDSA National Educators Conference in 2005. He holds an MFA in Industrial Design from UIC, and an MFA in Sculpture and Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the winner of the Born Digital Competition sponsored by the Institute for the Future of the Book.
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| Apr 13, 2007, 5:00 PM BFA Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception | |
| UIC BFA students graduating from our programs in Photography, Moving Image, and Studio Arts will exhibit their works in the Great Space and GBU Galleries on the 5th floor of Art and Design Hall, 400 S. Peoria Street, on Friday April 13th from 5-9pm with viewing hours on Saturday, April 14th from noon to 6pm.
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| Apr 12, 2007, 6:00 PM Kevin Wolff Lecture by Painting Faculty Search Finalist | |
| Kevin Wolff references the figure in his work as a painter; he writes that he is “compelled to employ the processes of realism—looking, translating, and transforming—in an attempt to locate and manipulate the line between the figurative and the abstract.” Using both photography and sculpture in his process, Wolff writes that “a system of abstraction is revealed through the digestion of the representational—forming a dialogue between the photographic memory of an instant and the accumulative processes and structures of sculpture, painting, and drawing.” Wolff’s paintings and works on paper have been presented in solo and group curated gallery and museum exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Saratoga Springs, Buffalo, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Los Angeles; and in Cologne, Frankfurt, Ghent, Rotterdam, and Montreal. He has received grants and awards from the Illinois Arts Council, Penny McCall Foundation, Art Matters, NY, and the McDowell Colony /residency. Wolff received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the SAIC, and previously taught at Herron School of Art, and as Visiting Artist at Tyler School of Art and Northwestern University.
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| Apr 11, 2007, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 MFA Thesis Exhibitions in Studio Arts, Photography & Moving Image Shannon Benine, Kirsten Leenars, Marie Martino, and Justin Witte | |
| April 10-14 Reception: Wednesday, April 11, 5-8 pm In photography and video installation Shannon Benine negotiates the politics of mediation and the private domestic life of people caught in the geographies of war. Kirsten Leenars’ video installation reflects on the frailty of human bonds, the feeling of insecurity that frailty inspires and the desire to be loved. Turning the camera on herself and the gaps, collisions, and complications of her immediate relations, Marie M. Martino explores love, neuroses, and queer identity in a ruminative single-channel video diptych. Straddling abstraction and representation Justin Witte's paintings depict a world where color, surface and pattern serve as visual barriers to hidden narratives. [ more info ]
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| Apr 11, 2007, 6:00 PM Cecil McDonald Lecture by Photography Faculty Search Finalist | |
| With regard to his recent project, Domestic Observations and Occurrences, Cecil McDonald has written: “The images in this body of work represent an extended look at the moments and relationships that occur within the domestic environment. ...I’ve constructed the photographs as tableau vivant in order to re-examine the embodiment of the everyday moment. ...This method relocates the reading of the photograph, linking an objective document to an autobiographically infused performance, a staged retelling, privileged by a patriarchal analysis and sensibility.” McDonald’s photographic work has been included in curated group exhibitions in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia, and will be exhibited in the Netherlands this year. He received an Artadia Award in 2006, and was selected for the Joyce Foundation “Midwest Voices & Visions” residency, 2007. He received an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. McDonald currently teaches at Trinity Christian College and is also a Teaching Artist through the Arts Integration Mentorship in partnership with the Center for Community Arts Program, Chicago.
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| Apr 10, 2007, 6:00 PM Kevin Reeder Lecture by Industrial Design Faculty Search Finalist | |
| Currently an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at Georgia Institute of Technology, Kevin Reeder has taught Industrial Design at the college level for more than 15 years. He has taught at Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio State University, Stanford University, and California College of the Arts. He was bestowed with the Outstanding Teacher Award of 2005 at Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a Master of Arts from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design from Ohio State University. Reeder has been a design consultant since 1987 working with clients such as Apple Computer, Discovery Toys, Lunar Design, Raychem Corporation, Wedge Innovations, and Zephyr Design. He writes of the relationship of design education and practice: “My varied experiences as a practitioner dictate my approach to the classroom. As a practitioner, I have to understand the importance of the user, the development of the budget, the social interactions of the members of the design team, and the physical and emotional demands of the users. Consequently, in the classroom, I construct projects with and overview of reality…discussing with the students the need to understand how products are actually developed and how students need to be self-motivated and willing to communicate their ideas to clients, engineers, and, ultimately the user.”
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| Apr 09, 2007, 6:00 PM Gallery 400 Conor McGrady Lecture by Painting Faculty Search Finalist | |
| In describing his work in painting and drawing, Conor McGrady writes: “All of the work that I produce relates to social issues, in particular the nature of power and its impact on the individual and on urban and domestic space. ...The impetus for my practice as a whole is based on situations of violence and military control, largely drawing on, but not confined to, my experience growing up in Northern Ireland.” McGrady’s paintings and works on paper have been presented in solo and group curated gallery and museum exhibitions in Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York and internationally in the UK, Italy, Australia, and Ireland. McGrady has received funded support for residencies at Ragdale Foundation and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He is a writer and currently serves on the Editorial Collective of Radical History Review, published by Duke University Press. McGrady received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA from the University of Northumbria, UK. He has held Visiting Artist and Instructor appointments at Northwestern University, School of Visual Arts, NY, California College of the Arts, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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| Apr 07, 2007, 8:00 PM Chicago Filmmakers MFA Film and Video Screening at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark Street, 2nd Floor | |
| UIC School of Art and Design MFA Film and Video Screening at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark Street, 2nd Floor Supervillian, Dennis Hodges, 7min, mini-dv, 2006 Appropriated video that creates an unstable narrative of guilt and condemnation, that repeats and collapses in its portrayal of a nameless perpetrator. Bedouins, Basma Al-Sharif , 11min, mini-dv, 2007 A structuralist video that narrates the story of two girls who disappear off an unnamed shore to find themselves in a kind of pre-apocalyptic village. The Magic Lie, Irena Knezevic, 1min, mini-dv, 2006 A simple spell in the theatre of occult gymnastics: a shadow attempts flight for the first time. Strip, Marie Martino, 15min, mini-dv, 2007 When routine choreographies fail, one must improvise. Disconnect, collision, and entanglement abound in queer and familial love. The Phonological Loop and the Visuospatial Sketchpad, Brandon Alvendia, 5 seconds, mini-dv, 2007 A brief exploration of memory. Coronach, Irena Knezevic, 15 min, mini-dv, 2007 An endless mesmeric seafaring dirge. Last call for all who embark to the Underground Forest where all you know is true and music has no mercy. Interlude, Kirsten Leenaars, 5min, 16mm color with optical sound, 2004 An intimate portrait of the artist’s ninety two year old grandmother who is slowly beginning to loose her grip on time, drifting from one world into another. Moth, Shannon Benine, 2min, HD video, 2006 A negotiation of the politics of mediation and the private domestic life of people caught in the geographies of war. Light is Waiting, Michael Robinson, 11min, mini-dv, 2007 A special episode of television’s Full House devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea. With additional works by Isak Berbic, Kenyatta Forbes, Trevor Gainer, and Selina Trepp. Running time: approximately 100min
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| Apr 06, 2007, 7:00 PM MFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition | |
| Please join us this Friday evening, April 6th, at 7pm in the Art + Architecture building, Room 1100 for the MFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition. The thesis candidates and their topics will be: Laura Ferrario Enough of Saudade Dave C. Pabellon Immersing into "the Avenue" Jessica Schnepf The German Influence in Chicago [ more info ]
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| Apr 05, 2007, 6:00 PM Claire Sherman Lecture by Painting Faculty Search Finalist | |
| Claire Sherman writes of her work: “With interests ranging from Edmund Burke’s writings on the sublime, to B-horror movie sets, such as Children of the Corn, I use landscape as a vehicle for painting. Image beckons entrance into the world of landscape; paint is used to seduce. Mark serves to exaggerate; color, to attract and entice. At the same time, these fundamentals are executed with a flaw. Image is disrupted by paint.” Sherman’s work has been presented in solo and group gallery exhibitions in Chicago and London. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, after completing the BA, Summa Cum Laude, at the University of Pennsylvania. Sherman is currently Assistant Professor at Knox College in Galesburg.
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| Apr 04, 2007, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 MFA Thesis Exhibitions in Studio Arts, Photography & Moving Image Trevor Gainer, Irena Knezevic, Harold Mendez, and Michael Robinson | |
| April 3-7 Reception: Wednesday, April 4, 5-8 pm Through elaborate and arcane sculptural procedures, Trevor Gainer explores the problematics of breaching private and public territories. Using narratives of enchantment, Irena Knezevic's installation evokes a seafaring expedition in which the esoteric and the precise serve as sole navigation tools. In wall drawings and sculptural installations that focus on a melancholy of place, as well as a desire for legibility and distance, Harold Mendez looks for nowhere... as far as he can see. In Michael Robinson’s short new experimental film, futurism and failure consort on the grounds of past World’s Fairs. [ more info ]
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| Apr 04, 2007, 6:00 PM Gallery 400 Hasan Elahi Lecture by Sculpture Faculty Search Finalist | |
| Hasan M. Elahi’s current work “engages questions of surveillance, privacy and ownership.” He writes, “the focus of my creative practice has been at the intersection of art and information technology, integrating image databases and other forms of electronic information. I juxtapose the tangible aspects of traditional art practice with the electronic elements of current and developing technologies in order to blur the distinctions between the two realms.” Elahi’s work has been included in solo and curated group exhibitions in New York, Germany, England, and Russia. He has received funding and grant support from The Ford Foundation /Philip Morris, Creative Capital Foundation, DuPont Industries, the West Virginia Cultural Center and the Asociación Artetik Berrikuntzara in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. Elahi is currently Assistant Professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and previously taught at the University of South Florida, West Virginia University, and Wanganui School of Design, New Zealand. [ more info ]
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| Apr 01, 2007, 4:30 AM work in progress / open studio 263, 236 | |
| julia fish aaron pilat sarah zwerling American Academy in Rome Via Angelo Masina 5 00153 Roma ITALIA
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| Mar 23, 2007, 9:00 AM CVRA, A&A #3304 Design Colloquium Lecture: Fabian Winkler (im)possible worlds | |
| This lecture proposes new practices for looking at familiar objects and spaces around us and suggests critical, surprising and sometimes humorous ways to reinterpret and transform them. I will show examples of my own art practice including interactive systems, robotics and site-specific installation. In these works I’ll address issues of audience participation, poly-sensorial immersion, technology’s impact on society and the excavation of forgotten media utopias. [ more info ]
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| Mar 22, 2007, 6:00 PM Gallery 400 Melanie Schiff Lecture by Photography Faculty Search Finalist | |
| Melanie Schiff has written that her work is "simultaneously an analytical and contemplative reconsideration of the history of still life and self-portraiture in photography" and that "the moments these works address are quiet and waver on the edge of a constructed poetic narrative and an instant found by chance." Schiff's work in photography has been presented in solo exhibitions in Chicago and Germany and in group shows in Chicago, New York, Miami, Germany and Switzerland. In 2006, she received an Artadia Jury award and was a Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Center the Arts. Schiff received her MFA from UIC in 2002 and her BFA from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in 1999 and is currently teaching as an Adjunct faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University.
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| Mar 21, 2007, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 MFA Thesis Exhibitions in Studio Arts, Photography & Moving Image Basma Al-Sharif, Isak Berbic, Hugo Hernandez, and Dennis Hodges | |
| March 20-24 Reception: Wednesday, March 21, 5-8 pm Through image and text, Basma Al-Sharif's work recontextualizes political documents to explore the sustainability of the right of return. In Isak Berbic’s textual, photographic and video works, sardonic gestures interrogate the artifice of national collective memory that poses as meaningful history. Hugo Michel Hernandez's text-based painting, drawings, and installation work alludes to issues of personal history, displacement, language, fantasy, and erasure. Built on strategies of repetition and exhaustion, Dennis Hodges’ sculpture and video work interrogates the formal devices used to construct meaning and impel belief. [ more info ]
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| Mar 20, 2007, 2:00 PM CVRA, A&A #3304 Graduate Workshop: Fabian Winkler Light Modulators | |
| Graduate Workshop Tuesday, March 20, 2-5:30 pm + Wed, March 21, 2-5:30 pm Light’s exceptional opportunities for artistic expression lie in its potential to create new, artificial realities and to transform objects and environments visually and ideologically. This workshop is a laboratory for the experimental exploration of light and shadows. We will build light modulators, simple structures that modulate (i.e. reflect, absorb and diffuse) rays of light and observe their changing appearance in different light situations. The laboratory features two configurable lighting environments: one with an orbiting light source, the other one with additive color mixing possibilities. Furthermore, the workshop briefly introduces strategies for interactive lighting control using Max/MSP software and the DMX communication protocol. The workshop is open to graduate students from all areas within the School of Art + Design. Due to the limited amount of participants, please RSVP to Daniel Sauter, dsauter7@uic.edu Tuesday, March 20, 2 pm CVRA, A+A 3304 Graduate Seminar Lecture: “Light as Inter-Medium” We still do not know what exactly light is. It appears immaterial to the human eye, yet it renders our world visible. This lecture investigates the highly ambiguous nature of electric light in different fields: fine art, design, architecture, theater, performance and film. Rather than looking at the use of light in each of the above-mentioned areas separately, I will focus on the mix of practices across different disciplines toward an understanding of light as "inter-medium". Select examples of creative work are used to illustrate some of light’s basic properties and strategies for lighting control, which we will explore experimentally in the following workshop. [ more info ]
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| Mar 19, 2007, 6:00 PM Gallery 400 Joel Wellington Fisher Lecture by Photography Faculty Search Finalist | |
| Fisher’s work “aims to investigate individuals versus context; I have been intrigued by the idea of historical tradition as context, especially the notion of identification through individual and societal legacy.” A recent series has traced the locations in and around those sites where the Washington D.C. snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo, committed their crimes. As Fisher writes, “In these often seemingly empty, banal, and ubiquitous spaces, consisting mostly of strip malls and gas stations, a sense of dislocation and alienation is pervasive. Instead of making images merely documenting the sites where the shootings occurred, the work attempts to deconstruct the space consisting of elements left out and existing on the periphery.” Joel Fisher received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a Teaching Certification from Brown University in 2006. He earned a BA with double majors in English and Psychology from the University of New Hampshire in 1997. He is currently completing work and research in Germany, supported by a 2006 Fulbright Fellowship. His photographic work has been exhibited in group shows in Chicago, Boston, and Providence.
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| Mar 14, 2007, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 MFA Thesis Exhibitions in Studio Arts, Photography & Moving Image Brandon Alvendia, Derek Chan, Kenyatta Forbes, and Selina Trepp | |
| March 13-17, 2007 Reception: Wednesday, March 14, 5-8 pm Brandon Alvendia's installation of modified salvaged living room furniture extracted from an interaction with a cable television production team explores notions of displacement, authorship and functionality. Derek Chan‚s ephemeral and fluid paintings challenge conventions of representation and abstraction while investigating constructs of place as tied to the self. In an effort to bridge a gap between the past and the future, Kenyatta Forbes explores issues of race and gender in performative video works destabilize social archetypes. Resulting from a collaborative process that yields serendipitous effects, Selina Trepp‚s video installation explores absorption and desire. [ more info ]
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| Mar 09, 2007, 6:00 PM Guest Lecture: Dan Buchner, Vice President Design & Innovation | |
| Lecture Title: Design Stories - Making a difference in a country, an industry, and a community. 3 examples of using design to drive development in emerging economies. Friday, March 9th 6:00pm UIC A+A Rm. 1100
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| Dianna Frid Public Lecture | |
| Dianna Frid Public Lecture, Department of Fiber and Material Studies, SAIC Wednesday February 28, 2007 Noon Room 903, Sharp Building, 37 South Wabash
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| Feb 22, 2007, 6:30 PM SolidWorks Workshops | |
| Co-sponsored by UIC, IDSA, and CATI (Computer Aided Technology, Inc.), and hosted by UIC, Prof. Melamed has arranged to have Ed Honda, Senior Engineer and Technical Advisor for CATI to conduct three workshops for hands-on training on this robust 3D CAD solid modeling tool. Workshop #1: Introduction to the tool Thursday, February 22nd Workshop #2: Intermediate problems Thursday, March 8th Workshop #3: Complex geometry Thursday, March 22nd All workshops will be held in A+A, Industrial Design Dept., Room 3320, 6:30 - 8:00pm.
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| Feb 21, 2007, 6:00 PM Gallery 400 Patho-geographies (or, other people’s baggage) Feeltank | |
| An investigation of the emotional temperature of the body politic through screenings, public interventions, lectures and on-site creation of works in the gallery. [ more info ]
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| Feb 21, 2007, 6:00 PM Guest Lecture: Stephen Melamed | |
| Stephen Melamed will be giving a guest lecture entitled The Power of Design at the University of Chicago, College of Business, Wed. Feb. 21st
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| Feb 15, 2007, 12:00 AM Phyllis Bramson Group Exhibition "What F Word?" | |
| 546 W. 29th Street NYC
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| Feb 07, 2007, 7:00 PM Gallery 400 Screening: The Captivity Show Film and video program curated by Ben Russell | |
| Featuring: Three Legged by John Wood & John Harrison Dipping Sauce by Luther Price Hillbilly Hoose-Gow feat by Tom Emerson The Magic Kingdom by Jim Trainor Trauma Victim by Rob Todd Everyday Bad Dream by Fred Worden Blick by Emily Richardson Mexican Jail Footage by Gordon Ball Exercise #3 by Eva Dransholt Admission is Free. [ more info ]
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| Feb 05, 2007, 5:00 PM Silvia Malagrino: Burnt Oranges Northwestern University, McCormick Tribune Center | |
| Burnt Oranges is an experimental documentary, 90 minutes long, about the long-term effects and repercussions, personal and social, of Argentina's 1970's state terrorism. The film is timely. It establishes links between the struggles of the Argentine people, to recover social principles and communal ties, with today's necessity to defend human rights, preserve human dignity, and democratic values. For more information: Lauren Trinker <mailto:lacs@northwestern.edu> (847-491-4793) [ more info ]
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| Feb 02, 2007, 12:00 AM Meet the New You | |
| Meet the New You Des Moines Art Center February 2 – May 2, 2007 Organized by Laura Burkhalter, assistant curator How will our everyday lives be different in 10, 20, or 50 years? The four artists in Meet the New You offer challenging meditations on this question, each presenting his or her unique version of a brave new world. Some works refer to specific scientific advances, while others deal more abstractly with the concepts of progress and perfection. Society’s constant struggle for perfection, for better or worse, is a major theme of the show. Runaway body parts, perfect athletes struggling against unseen forces, and the abstract notion of “paradise” can all be found in Magnus Wallin’s dynamic and disconcerting videos. Photographer Ruud van Empel uses cutting-edge photography and computer technology to populate strangely flawless landscapes with even more strangely flawless children. Another photographer, Sabrina Raaf, creates a world almost exactly like ours—if it weren’t for those changes in gravity. Finally, sculptor Bryan Crockett makes works of haunting beauty that reference classical sculpture as well as scientific advancements. Artists: Bryan Crockett, Ruud van Empel, Sabrina Raaf, and Magnus Wallin
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| Jan 28, 2007, 5:00 PM Melanie Schiff through Jan. 28 | |
| Since her solo debut at this gallery, photographer Melanie Schiff (UIC MFA 2002) has moved out of the studio and into the world, trading fussily arranged, evenly lit still lifes for more casual, serendipitous compositions of everyday objects. These photos are hymns to natural light, and the presence of rainbows, beer cans, and a Neil Young LP cover tempts one to characterize her gaze as a stoner’s glassy-eyed fixation. [ more info ]
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| Jan 27, 2007, 6:00 PM Closing Reception, Fraction Workspace | |
| Fraction Workspace, a small non profit public arts space noted in NewCity as one of the top five alternative art spaces to see in 2007, is directed by UIC MFA student Clare Britt. The closing reception for Chris Walla "Ha Ha" will be held on January 27th. [ more info ]
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| Jan 16, 2007, 5:00 AM Gallery 400 Captive Audience Curated by Marc Fisher | |
| Artists, Participants, and Exhibition Materials: Angelo Chicago County Fair David F. Stephanie Diamond Friends Beyond the Wall Lucky Pierre Mary Patten Phonograph records recorded by inmates and/or in prisons Prison Blues® Prison products designed for inmate use LJ Reynolds Risk-Takers Ltd. S.O. Work Group Stop Prisoner Rape Robert Stroud (“The Birdman of Alcatraz”) An exhibition of artwork, cultural products and industrial design created by, for, about, or in collaboration with people who are imprisoned. From music and spoken word records, drawings, video projects, photographs, posters, written correspondence, movies and stills, to mass produced toothbrushes, jumpsuits, sneakers, and mattresses designed for prisoners, Captive Audience allows visitors to the exhibition to experience the material conditions of prisoners’ lives and review artwork made in, for or about prison life.
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| Jan 13, 2007, 8:00 PM Paul Dickinson: Music for Worms and Compost Opening Reception | |
| Paul Dickenson, Moving Image Teaching Associate, will be exhibiting at Hallworks Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York from February 13th-17th. Three small wooden crates, fitted with visible air vents, sit in the gallery alongside a transformer and stereo speakers. Within each crate are hundreds of red worms wallowing in compost. The interior of each crate is fitted with microphones and infrared cameras, broadcasting visual and audio information to the “outside world.” [ more info ]
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| Jan 11, 2007, 6:00 AM Tony Tasset Recent Works | |
| Tony Tasset: Recent Works Price Auditorium, The Art Institute of Chicago (free to students with a valid i.d.)
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| Jan 11, 2007, 6:00 PM Tony Tasset Recent Works | |
| The Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago features the very best in international contemporary art in dialogue withthe museum's rich and varied art-historical legacies. The SCA promotes a better understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through a series of lectures and meetings each year. This lecture by Tony Tasset, UIC Professor of Studio Arts, will provide a thrilling look at his most recent projects. Pictured here is Tasset's sculpture Paul, a larger than life recreation of Paul Bunyan, recently unveiled at the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Garden at Governors State University.
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| Jan 11, 2007, 6:00 PM Pamela Fraser Solo Exhibition | |
| Pamela Fraser, Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Arts, has a solo exhibition featuring a new series of gouache and acrylic works opening in New York on January 11th continuing through February 10th. [ more info ]
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| Jan 01, 2007, 12:00 PM Happy Holidays from the UIC School of Art and Design | |
| The faculty staff and students of the UIC School of Art and Design wish you a happy holiday season. Our winter break begins on Monday December, 17th. Instruction begins again on Monday, January, 14th 2008. Snowlake greeting by Cliff Krapfl, Adjucnt Assistant Professor in Graphic Design, and Tara Kennedy, UIC BFA 1999.
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