Ken Lum at Marc Jancou Contemporary

Ken Lum, Norgate Mall, 2013

Marc Jancou Contemporary is pleased to present works from Ken Lum’s Mini-Mall series for the first exhibition in its new location. Over the course of his thirty-year career, Lum has developed a large and complex body of work that focuses on the complexity of identity formation in both public and private realms. The exhibition will include works shown at the artist’s 2012 survey at the Vancouver Art Gallery as well as new pieces being presented for the first time.

Lum’s Mini-Mall works build upon ideas of subjectivity and community set forth in his earlier Shopkeeper (2000-2009) series, exhibited last year at Jancou in Geneva. The Shopkeeper series comprises individualized sign-like works for fictitious but plausible urban communities marked by immigration flux and economic turmoil. The Mini-Mall series calls attention to community formation within the parameters of the sign form itself. The works point to the diverse and changing ethnic and economic demographics of the neighborhoods to which they serve.

Marc Jancou Contemporary
24 West 57th Street, 6th Floor
NY, NY

For more information, visit Marc Jancou.

The River Between Us Featuring Ken Lum at Laumeier Sculpture Park

Ken Lum, The Space Between Scott and Plessy, 2013

The River Between Us was curated by Marilu Knode, Executive Director, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Joe Baker former Director, Longue Vue House and Gardens.

Participating artists include: Thomas Easterly, Courtney Egan, Matts Leiderstam, Donald Lipski, Ken Lum, Allan McCollum, Jenny Price, Alec Soth, Robert Stackhouse, Mel Watkin, Bernard Williams, Keith Williams
St. Louis and New Orleans have many issues of common concern and are physically linked by the mighty Mississippi River. The River Between Us will showcase works that reflect how the lives of people in both communities have always been intertwined with the river’s role in US history.

The exhibit is the second collaboration between Laumeier and Longue Vue House and Gardens in New Orleans. Marilu Knode, Laumeier’s Executive Director said, “this is the first time the connections between our two cities have been explored through the visual arts. We’re excited to expose Laumeier and Longue Vue guests to the artists’ interpretations of the social evolution of St. Louis and New Orleans.”

The River Between Us runs from 04.13 -- 08.25.13.

Laumeier Sculpture Park12580 Rott Road
1-270 & 1-44 in Sunset Hills
St. Louis, MO  

For more info, please visit Laumeier.

Adhocracy Featuring Orkan Telhan at New Museum

Adhocracy brings together an international group of designers, practitioners, networks, and platforms responding to epochal changes and questioning the very definition of design. 

The exhibition explores a new direction in contemporary design through twenty-five projects—presented through artifacts, objects, and films. In the place of standardized, industrialized perfection, the exhibition embraces imperfection as evidence of an emerging force of identity, individuality, and nonlinearity in design. As design welcomes the new technologies of the information age, the field itself is being reshaped. Some have built their practice around the collaborative ideology of the open source movement; others explore the opportunities opened up by new low-cost fabrication technologies. Some are exploring new economic models of production; others are challenging the established hierarchies between designers and end-users.

Curated by Joseph Grima, Editor of DOMUS magazine, Adhocracy was originally organized by Grima and IKSV for the 2012 Istanbul Design Biennial. Grima has adapted his original exhibition for New York and the New Museum and opens as part of the second biennial IDEAS CITY Festival in downtown Manhattan from May 1–4, 2013.

New Museum
235 Bowery
NY, NY

For more info, please visit Adhocracy

Sitting Between the Sea and the Buildings: A Symposium of Poets and Artists Featuring Terry Adkins

The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Poetry Foundation, and special guests convene for a symposium on various ways artists and poets develop their work through collaboration. Taking Joan Mitchell's legacy of collaboration with poets as a starting point, the day will include talks, readings, demonstrations, and performances that explore intersections of visual art and poetry.

Participants include poets Bill Berkson, Douglas Kearney, and John Yau; visual artists Terry Adkins, Lesley Dill, and Mildred Howard; and April Sheridan and Stephen Woodall of the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. The afternoon will conclude with the announcement of a commissioned performance piece, to be created collaboratively by Adkins and Kearney. The goal of the commission is to examine and experience how collaboration can change the way artists and poets think and work.

Sitting Between the Sea and the Buildings, named after the first line of John Ashbery's "The Painter," is organized by the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Poetry magazine in connection with the exhibition currently on view at the Poetry Foundation: Joan Mitchell: At Home in Poetry. The exhibition features a large-scale quadriptych painting, Minnesota (1980), as well as photographs, correspondence, print portfolios, and artists' books Joan Mitchell created in collaboration with poets. It will be open through May 31.

Sitting Between the Sea and the Buildings: A Symposium of Poets and Artists will be held Saturday, May 11, 2013, from 12:00 PM-6:00 PM.
 
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Chicago, Illinois
  
For more information, please visit www.poetryfoundation.org.

Tadashi Moriyama (MFA '06) Exhibits Planetalgia

Tadashi Moriyama, Planetalgia

TADASHI MORIYAMA

Planetalgia

April 11 - July 4, 2013

Planetalgia is an accumulation of paintings, sculptures, performance, and animation, inspired by concepts from the book Lunartix by Seigou Matsuoka. Matsuoka coins the term "Planetary Nostalgia" as a sweet and bitter sentiment. Loosely translated, he writes "Since we cannot escape from the Earth, we feel despair for our fate and leave our destination on the unreachable but intimate moon, and yearn for it endlessly."

Opening Reception Thursday April 18, 6-8pm

Creative Cocktail Hour: 6-10pm

Galleries open daily: 2:00 - 9:00 PM or happily by appointment.

For more information visit tadashimoriyama.com and www.realartways.org

Brent Wahl (MFA '06) at the Print Center

Brent Wahl, Double Waterfall, 2013

Fiat Lux

April 11 – May 24, 2013

Fiat Lux: Stefan Abrams, Micah Danges, James Johnson, Anna Neighbor & Brent Wahl

Fiat Lux is a group exhibition of work by five Philadelphia artists. While each of the artists trained as a photographer and has taught photography at universities and art schools in Philadelphia, none has a simple or straightforward relationship with the medium. Photography is central to the work of all these artists, but their explorations of the potentials and shortcomings of the medium result in a surprisingly diverse group of works.

The Print Center
1614 Latimer Street
Philly

UPenn MFA Open Studios April 11

Please join us on Thursday, April 11 for our Spring Open Studio event.  Thirty-one current MFA Candidates from the University of Pennsylvania will be in studio to present their work to the public.  Don't miss your chance to explore all of the exciting projects being made in our Interdisciplinary Studio Art program!

Studios are located in three buildings on Penn's campus:
    The Morgan Building- 205 S. 34th Street
    Duhring Wing- 236 S. 34th Street
    Franklin Annex- 3451 Walnut Street

Maps will be available on site, follow the signs to find us.

Plus! Two exhibitions on view in the Physical Lab and the White Room @ The Morgan Building.

Jane Irish Exhibits at Locks Gallery, Philly

Jane Irish, Sông Hương, 2013

Jane Irish will exhibit new work at Locks Gallery.  Sông Hương: Withdrawing Room will be on view from 04.05.13 -- 05.10.13. An opening reception will be held 04.05 from 5:30-7:30 pm.

Locks Gallery
600 Washington Square South
Philly

Please visit locksgallery for more info.

Martha Rich (MFA '11) Exhibits at Space 1026, Philly

Martha Rich

Martha Rich (MFA '11) will present new work with Keith Warren Greiman in Nothing is Rather Do.  Since receiving her MFA, Rich has been eavesdropping and collecting words and using them in her paintings. “My art is about what cracks me up and what disturbs me or what is absurd or what is at hand. Social acceptance? No. Self-acceptance? Yes. It’s a lesson in the ridiculous.”

Rich work uses collaged People magazine parts, paints on rejected CMYK screen prints of a rejected painting done years ago, includes silhouettes of friends and strangers and many of the eavesdropped conversations she has collected over the years to create an absurd narrative of life in the modern city.

Nothing is Rather Do opens 04.05.13. 

 Space 1026
1026 Arch Street 2nd Floor
Philly

Please visit space1026.com for more info.

Penn MFA Lightning Lectures at the ICA

Join the Penn Fine Arts MFA candidates for an evening of five-minute lectures. First year students will share topics of interest from their artistic research and outside elective courses in the University. Graduating students will present the key works of their thesis.

Lightning Lecture #1 will feature Joshua Zerangue, Tara White, Cristina Tufino Palmer, Gordon Stillman, Scout Segotta, Paz Ortuzar, Dan O'Neill, Alex Nguyen, Evan Nabrit, Theo Mullen, Christina Kerns, Laine Godsey, Tara Fadenrecht, Mark Dilks, Orlando de la Garza, and Caroline Claflin. 
Penn MFA Lightning Lecture #1 will begin at 6:30 pm on 03.28.12.  

Lightning Lecture #2 will be held 04.04.13 at 6:30 pm and features Toisha Tucker, Sarah Tortora, Ceaphas Stubbs, Minmin Shi, Jacob Rivkin, Daniel Oliva, Mohammadreza Mirzaei, Scotty Menesini, Sam Mapp, Zenas Hutcheson, Elisa Gabor, Stephanie Cheng, Anthony Bowers, Claire Bidwell, Laura Bernstein and Marie Alarcon.

Group Show: Things Change

Things Change features collaborative work initiated in Senior Lecturer Matt Freedman's Graduate Drawing Seminar. The exhibition is on view from 03.29 -- 04.12.13. An opening reception will be held Friday, 03.29 from 6-8 pm and a closing reception 04.11 from 5:30-7 pm.

Jamie Treadwell (MFA '03) Featured Artist of Juxtapoz Magazine

Jamie Treadwell (MFA '03) has been selected as a featured artist of the April issue of Juxtapoz Magazine.  The article can be viewed here.

Mohammadreza Mirzaei (MFA '14) Exhibits At W.E.B Du Bois College House, Philly

Mohammadreza Mirzaei, 2012

Photographs from Lugoland Residency 2012
Amistad Gallery is pleased to present What I Don't Have, a series of photographs by Mohammadreza Mirzaei (MFA '14) created during his residency in Lugo, Italy in December 2012.

What I Don't Have will be on view from 03.15.13 -- 10.15.13. 

W.E.B DU BOIS COLLEGE HOUSE
3900 Walnut Street
Philly

For more info, please visit W.E.B. Du Bois

Jacob Rivkin (MFA '13) Exhibits at Breadboard's Esther Klein Gallery

Jacob Rivkin, Bread study #11

Coinciding with the Philadelphia Science Festival, Jacob Rivkin (MFA '13) will be exhibiting work in the group show Cellular/Molecular at Breadboard's Esther Klein Gallery.  Through different media and abstraction, the Cellular/Molecular exhibition includes artworks inspired by biology and chemistry, works that define the terms, and works that demonstrate our accidental and natural inclination to create cellular and molecular forms. The exhibition runs from 04.16 – 06.09.13, with an opening reception Thursday, 04.25.13, 5-8 pm.

The gallery is located on the ground floor of 3600 Market Street, Science Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Hours are Monday–Saturday 10:00am–5:00pm.

More information available at:
www.breadboardphilly.org
www.philasciencefestival.org
www.jacobrivkin.com

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) Exhibits at Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, TX

Julia Barbosa Landois, Star-Crossed II, video still, 2013

Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) Exhibits at Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, TX

A video by Julia Barbosa Landois (MFA '07) will be featured in bite like a kitty, an exhibition curated by Bill Arning, Executive Director of the Contemporary Art Museum Houston.  The exhibition will also feature works by Saintlorraine (Britt Lorraine and Kristy Perez), Joey Fuerso, and Sarah Sudhoff. 

From Arning's curatorial statement: "Julia Barbosa Landois reframes the hyper-romantic language of an anti-love song of betrayal to transform it into an indictment of religiously supported sexism, describing what the artist terms her “break up from Jesus.” The melody creates one irresistible reality as her textual revisions refuse the romantic readings."

bite like a kitty is on view from 03.15.13 - 03.31.13.  Opening reception 03.15.13, 6-9 pm.

Guadalupe Gallery
723 S. Brazos
San Antonio, TX 78207

For more information, visit www.guadalupeculturalarts.org and www.julialandois.com

Jason Musson (MFA '11) and Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA '10) Featured in HuffPost's Black Artists: 30 Contemporary Art Makers Under 40 You Should Know

Jason Musson, Nutmeg, 2012

The Huffington Post recently picked 30 young black artists who are contributing to the ongoing conversation of race and representation in contemporary art. Included in the list are Jason Musson (MFA'11) and Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA '10). Whether through sculpture, photography, video or performance, each selected artist illuminates the complexity of the self with a unique and bold vision.

To view the article, please visit HuffPost.

Sublime Porte: Art and Contemporary Turkey Featuring UPenn Assistant Professor Orkan Telhan and Michael Marfione (MFA '11)

St. John's University is honored to present Sublime Porte: Art and Contemporary Turkey, an exhibition which features a broad range of contemporary works by a select group of emerging and internationally acclaimed artists whose works respond to Turkey's rich cultural diversity. The exhibition addresses issues of race, gender, sexuality, religion and politics as well as broader arguments concerning art, culture and globalization.

A group exhibition featuring works by: Osman Akan, Burak Arikan, Kezban Batibeki, Nezaket Ekici, Paul Fabozzi, Murat Germen, Peter Hristoff, Gözde İlkin, Michael Marfione, Alex Morel, Arzu Ozkal, Murat Pulat, Gulay Semercioglu, Orkan Telhan and Elif Uras. 

Sublime Porte: Art and Contemporary Turkey is on view from 03.14.13 -- 05.02.13 at:


Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery/Sun Yat Sen Hall 
St. John's University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY

An artist's reception will be held Friday, March 15, from 4:30 - 6:30 pm.

For more info, please visit www.stjohns.edu/yehgallery 

Geometrics: Leigh Van Duzer (MFA '10) and Heather Ramsdale (MFA '10)

Leigh Van Duzer, Geysers, 2013

Leigh Van Duzer (MFA '10) and Heather Ramsdale (MFA '10) will present new work in their exhibition Geometrics.

The exhibition runs from 3.01.13 -- 3.30.13. An opening reception will be held Friday 03.01, 7-10pm.

Salon 1522
1522 N Lawrence St
Philadelphia, PA 19122
http://salon1522.com


Please visit www.leighvanduzer.com and www.heatherramsdale.com for more info.

Jacob Rivkin ('13) Featured in the Feeding Cities Photography Exhibition

Jacob Rivkin, Cans, 2012

Two photographs by Jacob Rivkin ('13) will be exhibited in the Feeding Cities Photography exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania, Morgan Fine Arts Gallery from March 4th - March 21st.  The opening reception will be held on March 14th from 5:30PM - 7:30PM.  The exhibition is the visual companion to Penn’s international conference Feeding Cities: Food Security in a Rapidly Urbanizing World, which will be held on campus March 13-15, 2013.  

Morgan Building

205 S. 34th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

For more information visit www.feedingcities.com or www.jacobrivkin.com.

Rene Marquez (MFA '93) to Present at Penn Humanities Symposium

How do ideas of center and periphery enter into research programs and disciplines? Can we study centers and peripheries without reproducing the structures of power our research is designed to reveal or critique? How might we teach about centers and peripheries while navigating these various methodological challenges? To confront these and other questions, this one-day symposium will bring together invited speakers with the Forum's Graduate Mellon Fellows including Tara Fadenrecht (MFA '13) and other Penn graduate students and faculty.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
10:00am-12:00pm - Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street
Free and open to the public - Click to pre-register

The Challenge of the Periphery

Jane Guyer

Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins

Eric Hayot

Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State

Rene Marquez

Associate Professor of Visual Art, University of Delaware

Kazys Varnelis 

Director, Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation  

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PANEL DISCUSSIONS
1:30-5:45pm - Nevil Classroom, Penn Museum - Free and open to students and faculty (Penn and regional)

PANEL 1: 1:30-3:30pm

Discussants: Jeremy Dell and Gideon Fink Shapiro, GHF Mellon Fellows

"The Point of Departure is Elsewhere": Three Recent Arguments for Africa as a Theoretical Point of Departure on Aspects of Current Capitalism - Jane Guyer

Networked Publics or Pareto's Revenge - Kazys Varnelis

PANEL 2: 3:45-5:45pm

Discussants: Yumi Lee and Cliff Mak, GHF Mellon Fellows

Scale, Hierarchy, and the Problem of World Literature - Eric Hayot

Is This a Studio or a Kennel? - Rene Marquez

To view more of Marquez's work, please visit his website.

 

Book Release: Chymia by The Common Press

Join The University of Pennsylvania’s Common Press at The Print Center to celebrate the release of their new book Chymia. A collaboration between artists Marc Blumthal, Marianne Dages, Matt Neff, Ivanco Talevski and Tricia Treacy, designed and printed at The Common Press, Chymia is their visual response to a collection of manuscripts relating to early chemistry and alchemy owned by Penn. The book and related prints will be available for viewing.

Book Release: Chymia by The Common Press, Wednesday, February 20, 6:00-8:00pm.


The Print Center
1614 Latimer Street 
Philly 

Amy Archambault (MFA '11) receives 2013 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant

Amy Archambault, You Can Survive

Amy Archambault (MFA '11) has recently received the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant for Sculpture / Installation. The Massachusetts Cultural Council is proud to provide unrestricted grants for artists to promote the further development of their talents. MCC's Artist Fellowships recognize exceptional work by Massachusetts artists across a range of disciplines. These highly competitive awards provide artists crucial validation among their peers and the public. They catalyze artistic advancement and pave the way for creative innovation of enduring cultural value. Archambault recently received a Research & Publication Grant from the College of the Holy Cross, MA and is will feature her proposed work in this springs exhibition at the College. Future projects will now be brought to realization as she receives the MCC award.

For more information about the MCC, please visit http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/programs/artistfellows.asp

Amy Archambault & Justine Hill (MFA '11) exhibit at The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, MA

Justine Hill, Mombi, 2012

Amy Archambault & Justine Hill (MFA '11) will be featured in an exhibition held in conjunction with Opening Doors, 40 Years of Women at Holy Cross. Archambault and Hill were members of the 2008 graduating class from the College and are thrilled to return to the gallery exposing the latest of their art projects. Special thanks to Roger Hankins for sharing this wonderful exhibition with the community and inspiring the current student body and beyond. Other artists featured include Margaret Lanzetta'79, Ann Marie Kennedy '89, Rachelle Beaudoin '04, Elizabeth Hamilton '04, Teresa Buscemi '07 and Haley Allen '11.

Opening Doors, 40 Years of Women at Holy Cross is on view from 03.14 -  04.12.13.  An opening will be held 03.14 (TBA). The exhibition also includes an artist talk with Amy Archambault on 03.14 (TBA) and a panel discussion with the artists (TBA).

The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery

College of the Holy Cross

1 College Street

Worcester, MA 01610

For more information, please visit offices.holycross.edu

To view more work by Archambault and Hill, please visit www.amyarchambault.com and justinehill.com/home.html

Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA '10) Reviewed in NYT

Jacolby Satterwhite, Still from Reifying Desire 5, 2012

The Monya Rowe Gallery is currently exhibiting new work by Jacolby Satterwhite (MFA '10).  The exhibition entitled The Matriarch's Rhapsody was recently reviewed in the New York Times and can be viewed here.

For more information on the show which runs through 02.16.13, please visit monyarowegallery.com.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You Exhibition Opens Friday

New work by the MFA class of 2014 will be shown in the the exhibition Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.  The show includes work by Marie Alarcon, Laura Bernstein, Claire Bidwell, Anthony Bowers, Sam Mapp, Scotty Menesini, Mohammadreza Mirazaei, Theo Mullen, Evan Nabrit, Daniel O'Neill, Paz Ortuzar, Gordon Stillman, and Josh Zerangue.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You is on view from 02.01 -- 02.08.13 in both the Meyerson Lower Gallery and the Morgan Physical Lab. An opening reception will be held 02.01.13 from 5:30 -- 7:30 pm.

Meyerson Gallery
Meyerson Hall
University of Pennsylvania
210 South 34th St.

Morgan Physical Lab
Morgan Building
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104

For more information, please visit http://www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts/graduate

Phillip Adams (MFA '06) Exhibits New Work at Seraphin Gallery, Philly

Phillip Adams, Communication Between a Rock and a Hard Place, 2012

 

Phillip Adams (MFA '06) will exhibit new work at Seraphin Gallery's first exhibition of 2013, entitled Masters and Mavericks.  The group show also includes work from John Altoon, David Borgerding, Anne Canfield, Chris Cooper, Brian Dickerson, Robert Goodman, Sidney Goodman, Grace Hartigan, Marko Kratohcil, Hiro Sakaguchi, Randall Schmit and more.

 Masters and Mavericks is on view 02.08.13 -- 03.24.13.  An opening reception will be held 02.08.12 from 6-8 pm.

Seraphin Gallery
1108 Pine St.
Philly  

Please visit seraphin.squarespace.com and phillipadams.com for more information.

Ceaphas Stubbs (MFA '13) Exhibits at ATA Inc., NJ

Ceaphas Stubbs, 2012

Ceaphas Stubbs (MFA '13) has been selected to exhibit work in Art in the Atrium Inc.'s 21st Anniversary Exhibition.  Generation Next features the work of over 30 African-American artists. 

“With this, our 21st annual exhibit, we are entering an exciting new time for art and artists that represent the African diaspora,” says Lauren Craig, Esq., ATA Board of Directors.    

Generation Next is on view 01.25.13 -- 03.22.13. An opening reception will be held 01.25.13 from 5:30-9 pm.

 

Atrium Gallery 

(in the Adman & Records Building, 2-5 flrs)

10 Court Street

Morristown, NJ

For more information, please visit

www.artintheatrium.org.

       

Daniel Heyman (MFA '91) Featured Artist at Editions|Artists' Book Fair, NYC

Daniel Heyman, Winter: Artist Engages (center panel detail) 2012

Daniel Heyman (MFA '91) will be one of three featured artists representing Cade Tompkins Projects at the 15th Editions|Artists' Book Fair in NYC.  

Postponed by hurricane Sandy, the Editions|Artists' Book Fair has been rescheduled for 01.24.13 -- 01.27.13, with hours on Thursday through Saturday 11 am - 7 pm and Sunday Noon - 5:30 pm.

General Admission: $15
Four-day METROPass: $30 (Includes special museum, shop, and dining offers).
 
The Altman Building
135 West 18th St.
NYC
(between Sixth and Seventh Avenue)

For more information, please visit www.cadetompkins.com and www.eabfair.com/info.php

Intimate Collaborations Conference with Kaja Silverman

Intimate Collaborations, a conference held on the occasion of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition, Dancing Around the Bride: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp, will address the strange and complex intimacies that emerge when relationships between artists take form through the process of art-making. 

Speakers will include Kaja Silverman, Douglas Crimp, Andrew Uroskie, Catherine Craft, Ashley Ferro-Murray, Jonathan Katz, Tara McDowell, Homay King, Huey Copeland, Bibi Obler, Anne M. Wagner, Kate Kraczon, Alex Klein, Danny Snelson, Mashinka Firunts, and Avi Alpert.

 Intimate Collaborations runs from Thursday, January 17 – Saturday, January 19, 2013.  For more information and to register for the conference, please visit kajasilverman.com

Jeff Fichera (MFA '07) Exhibits at Parallel Art Space, NY

Jeff Fichera

Real Op looks at the relationship between the realistic and perceptual, or Op elements in the works of three local artists, Jeff Fichera (MFA '07), Cathy Nan Quinlan, and Aaron Williams, who share overlapping sensibilities and interests. These three artists use realism as a departure point, each of which to arrive, through routes of their own choosing, at surfaces that visually vibrate and stimulate.

 

Real Op is on view from 01.12.13 – 02.17.13.

Opening Reception: 01.12.1312, 6 pm – 9 pm

Parallel Art Space
17-17 Troutman Street #220 
Ridgewood, NY 

For more info, please visit www.parallelartspace.com and ficherapaintings.com.

UPenn Professor Terry Adkins Recital at the Block Museum, Evanston

Terry Adkins, Recital (installation view), 2012

Terry Adkins Recital is curated by Ian Berry, Dayton of The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, in collaboration with the artist.

Terry Adkins Recital is on view 01/11/2013 -- 03/24/2013.  An opening reception will be held on January 12 which will include an artist conversation with curators Naomi Beckwith of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Hamza Walker of the Renaissance Society, artists Dawoud Bey and Theaster Gates, Tang Museum director Ian Berry, and Northwestern art history professor Huey Copeland.
Reception at 2 pm; discussion at 3 pm.

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 

For more information, please visit blockmuseum.northwestern.edu

Mohammadreza Mirzaei (MFA '14) Lectures in Ravenna, Italy

Mohammadreza Mirzaei, 2012

Mohammadreza Mirzaei (MFA '14), 2012's recipient of Lugo Land Residency Award, will be giving a lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna (Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna). The event will include a discussion with renowned Italian photographer Guido Guidi and Luca Nostri, curator of Lugo Land.

Mirzaei's lecture will take place Monday, January 7th, 2013 at 2:30 pm.

Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna
via delle Industrie, 76
48122 Ravenna
tel. +39 – 0544.453125

For more information on Mirzaei's work, please visit www.mrmirzaei.com.