Exhibition Groups

Hi Everyone, Below you will find the group you will be exhibiting with and the dates. I will post the install/ de-install dates ASAP.
 
Exhibition Group 1 
Tuesday March 30th to Saturday April 10th 
Opening Reception April 1st
1. Battistoni, Kara 
2. Benevenia, Michael 
3. Blaine, Joshua 
4. Blair, Dominique 
5. Boruch, Brendan 
6. Bocage, Eric 
7. Budesheim, Dennis 
8. Butkovic, Tomislav 
9. Centore, Kristina 
10. Chery, Rudolph 
11. Cypser, Gregory 
12. Daly, Rebekah 
13. Demetropoulos, Alexis 
14. Enwere, Christian 
15. Farrell, Kyle 
16. Freeling, Edward 
17. Flaherty, Daniel
18. Graniello, Regina 
19. Grosche, Bruce 
20. Imgrund, Mary 
21. King, Kelli 
22. Leahy, Theodore
23. Malm, Ashley 
24. Mancini, Matthew 
25. Masino, Jeffrey 
26. Merced, Luis 
27. Nunuz, Luis 
28. Pillis, Daniel 
29. Pinheiro, Heather 
30. Pirela, Jessica 
31. Regiec, Joanna 
32. Schweighardt, Andrew 
33. Scott, Kerry 
34. Sharma, Priyam 
35. Shaughnessy, David 
36. Stevens, Naqeeb 
37. Tropel, Neil 
38. Wondbandue, Julie

 
Exhibition Group 2 
Tuesday April 20 to Saturday May 1st 
Opening Reception April 22nd
1. An-Wong, Jaime 
2. Arancibia, Ariana 
3. Bajew, Alexandra 
4. Battaglia, Matthew 
5. Bockoven, Katie 
6. Breen, Justin 
7. Brown, Nakeya 
8. Cano, Alan 
9. Chapin, Sarah 
10. Costa, Michael 
11. Donofrio, Matt 
12. Eber, Fran 
13. Epstein, Rebecca 
14. Figueredo, Daniel 
15. Hall, Justin 
16. Hartman-Ohlson, Amy 
17. Jarrett, Julie 
18. Juliano-Villani, Jamian 
19. Kipilla, Kristen 
20. Koo, Kevin 
21. Lykes, Jeffrey 
22. Mack, Conor 
23. Manning, Jennifer 
24. Mecca, Kathryn 
25. Minervini, Christopher 
26. Mitra, Rohan 
27. Nyquist, Marie 
28. O'Bara, Kelly 
29. O'Brian, Hannah 
30. Picone, Vincent 
31. Rabinowitz, Allison 
32. Ramirez, Danielle 
33. Reynoso, Angela 
34. Ruck, Joseph Christian 
35. Ryan, Andrea 
36. Rypkema, Christopher 
37. Stewart, Marteha 
38. Totten, Jenna 
39. Tran, Tony

contemporary art

Take a look at this contribution from Jonathan Jones, which makes this very valid point on why we need to pay attention to contemporary art: "Very few works of art in current exhibitions are going to be remembered, still less accepted into the canon of art history, but contemporary art is the mirror of contemporary life. Its tactics, methods and attitudes reflect this world, here and now."

transition roundtable

Here are links for the five alumni who will be speaking next week

Wendy White, painter http://www.wendywhite.net

Mike Gallagher, designer and educator http://www.wehavephotoshop.com

Larissa Nycz, art director/ designer http://tribeccadesigns.com

Tiffany Ludwig, photographer, multi-media artist, and designer (she works as part of a collaborative pair of artists)  www.twogirlsworking.com

Miriam Romais, photographer and director of En Foco http://www.romaisphotos.com/ and www.enfoco.org 

eflux online journal

There is a new issue of the eflux journal available online. It addresses something that we will be talking about tomorrow, the problem of defining contemporary art.

residencies, grants and resources

The slide librarians have all put together this list of residencies, grants and resources: Residencies

Scroll to the last page for links to research more residencies and opportunities for artists.

thesis update

This is an update on where we are on the Thesis class, please keep reading till the end as there is information on our next class. On Friday 13 November we collected everyone's draft thesis proposals. Those people who did not have the ten annotated images and the annotated bibliography of books, articles, poems, novels etc. need to put the revised printed proposal in my mail box for tomorrow Wednesday 18. The same goes for those of you who missed class. The specifications, as discussed in class are here on the second page of the pdf. http://bfathesis.blogspot.com/2009/09/download-revised-thesis-syllabus.html

We also asked people to do a blog review of the first year MFA show in the gallery, paying particular attention to the way in which the space was used and the pieces worked, or didn't work, in the space. This show is not curated, students are simply assigned a space and have to hang a show. Think about how you would have arranged the show. That should be posted asap, we asked the students who were in class on Friday to post it by that evening. Some of these are up and I have read some really thoughtful responses. We will discuss what we can learn from this series of Mason Gross shows in class.

Students also collected the resumes and artist statements that they had handed in previously. Those I have not yet looked through I will put in your mail boxes by the end of the week.

We stressed that you have until the Wednesday after Thanksgiving, December 2, to bring all of your blog posts up to date. Next class on Friday November 20 is a writing week, we have decided that the class will not meet but that we will give you the opportunity to work on your blog, revise your resumes etc. We will return the thesis proposal drafts, with our comments and suggestions during the following class Friday December 4. I want to stress that these are drafts, we don't expect your written thesis to be finished this semester, rather we want to get it underway to make sure you are thinking about your thesis in a critically informed fashion. Next semester you will be producing the actual Written Thesis and developing your Thesis Show. The final Written Thesis won't be due until near the end of the semester, and it will go through revisions up to that point.

I am happy to hear any suggestions you may have for the structuring of next semester. This iteration of the Thesis class is based on the feedback from last year's students. So please email if you want to give feedback.

bauhaus exhibition at MoMA

This has just opened and will be up until January 2o1o. The Bauhaus linked art and design education and inspired much of modernist design. Those of you who are drawn to clean simple solutions can find the origins here. There are a series of workshops inspired by the Bauhaus that you can take part in and and a Bauhaus lounge.

Design Show in New York

This show's theme could be interesting for you designers and artists, some big design names are involved.

Control Print

A Collaboration with the Royal College of Art, London
Considering the Fate of Ink on Paper Through Explorations in Design, Craft, and Technology
Saturday, November 7 - Sunday, December 20, 2009
Opening Reception: November 6, 7:30-9 p.m.

What is the fate of print in a digital age? Parsons The New School for Design takes on this challenge with Control Print, a collaborative exhibition with the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, which explores the intersection of craft and technology. The exhibition will be on view from November 7 through December 14 at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. An opening reception will be held on November 6 from 7:30-9 p.m.

Control Print features works by a number of notable international artists and designers who play with the notion of digital technology. In this first American presentation, prominent members of the Parsons community create work in traditional, digital, and mixed media that extend the idea of ink on paper and showcase how machinery and technology can enter the representational process. First conceived by RCA as a research project investigating the possibilities of a customized future for digital art and design, Control Print also features the results of these experiments in a series of limited edition book spreads, large-scale artwork, and digital projections and renderings.

“The Control Print research project was an effort to elevate the digital press, and consider its place in the future of the printed page,” said Russell Warren-Fisher, co-organizer, designer, and lecturer in Communication Art and Design at RCA. “Partnering with Parsons has allowed us to keep this investigation alive through a reflective, cross-cultural dialogue.”

Among the featured artists are co-organizers Lucille Tenazas, Henry Wolf Professor of Communication Design at Parsons, Warren-Fisher, and Dan Fern, Head of the School of Communications at the RCA; Parsons-commissioned artists Andrea Dezso; Danny Durtsch, Jesse Hlebo and Arthur Ou; Zachary Lieberman with James Powderly, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue and Tony Quan (TEMPT); Spylab (Benjamin Bacon, Glendon Jones, Kyle Li, and Sven Travis); and Allan Wexler; and RCA-commissioned artists Chris Bigg of V23; Sara Carneholm and Leah Harrison Bailey; Malcom Clarke, and Mark Wilson. Also participating remotely are designers Reza Abedini (Iran), Bruno Monguzzi (Italy/Switzerland), Leonardo Sonnoli (Italy), and Catherine Zask (France).

“We often think of digital technology as alienating, as removing us from the production process in some way,” said Tenazas. “Using the RCA project as a starting point, Parsons is exploring the notion that technology can also be a tool to re-engage, to adjust the tactile tradition of craft for the digital age, which is a particular focus of my work at Parsons.

In timing with Control Print, Parsons will present a series of related programs, including three intensive 24-hour workshops, where the public can view teams of Parsons students and faculty creating work that actively explores the boundaries between traditional and digital technologies. A symposium on November 7 will bring together a number of the participants, including Clarke, Tenazas, Warren-Fisher, and Wilson, as well as leading voices from the worlds of art and design, including Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, and Susan Yelavich, Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons, who will discuss the future relationship of design, craft, and technology.

“This show is just the beginning of a long-term partnership between two world-class universities to explore urgent issues relating to all aspects of contemporary culture,” said Fern, who also chairs the RCA's International Development Group.

For more information on the symposium and other related programming, please visit the Public Programs page.


General Information:
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center


Parsons The New School for Design, 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, New York


Gallery hours: Open daily 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. and late Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m..; closed all major holidays and holiday eves.
Admission: Free


Info: Please contact 212.229.8919 or visit www.parsons.newschool.edu/events.

list of posts

Here are the examples of posts I promised. They all engage with their exhibition in different ways, they are models of what we are looking for on the course. They also give a broad sense of what is going on in contemporary art, so take a look. 

Andrea Ryan

David Shaughnessy

Ed Freeling

Fran Eber

Hannah O'Brien

Jamie An-Wong

Jeffrey Masino

Jennifer Manning

Julie Wongbandue

Kyle Farell

Marteha Stewart

Matt Mancini

Mike Benevenia

Mike Costa

Neil Tropel

Rohan Mitra

Nakeya Brown

Careers in the Visual Arts Panel

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

6-7:30 pm, Civic Square Building, Rm. 110/117

Join us for a panel discussion with professionals from fields such as graphic design, painting, video art, college art teaching, digital media arts, sculpture, and web design. The panelists will talk about what they do, offer advice for entry into their professions (including internship and job searching), and answer your questions.

Panelists:
Tim Beitz, Production Artist, 160OVER90
Danielle Bursk, Digital Stone Project (sculpture)
Melodie Dhondt, Senior Editor / Graphic Designer
Lucas Kelly, Painter / Video Artist / Art Professor
Sarah Sweeney, Digital Media Artist / Web Designer / Art Professor

Space is limited, sign up required. To register, please call 732-932-7997 or 732-445-6127.
Visit careerservices.rutgers.edu for more information.

Intern at Murakami's NY studio

Hey all,

Ironically, I just saw this listing on NYFA looking for interns at Kaikai Kiki New York, LLC
(Long Island City NY)... Murakami's studio. It could be an interesting experience!

MoMA's Bauhaus exhibition

Early next month MoMA launches Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity which will be open from November 8 to January 25. This important exhibition explores work from the school that first joined art to design, and vice a versa. In addition to seeing the work you can also take part in recreations of bauhaus classes. Remember Fridays are free from 4:00 to 8:00, but get there early.

Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero, an important artist with a strong Mason Gross connection died at the weekend. She exhibited at Rutgers and her husband Leon Golub, also a significant figure in the art world, taught here for many years. Check out her obituary in the New York Times, an appreciation of her work in the Guardian.

Design Criticism MFA Open House

The Design Criticism MFA at SVA is having an open house on November 7. They have a really interesting program so this might be worth checking out for future reference. I think they want to recruit students with some design industry experience. One of the formats they are looking at as a venue for design writing is blogging. http://dcrit.sva.edu/

BFA/ BA Art Open

BFA-BA Art Open
Mason Gross Galleries
Thursday, October 15-Saturday, October 31
Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m.
Reception: Thursday, October 22, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Please take the time to see this show before we meet again on Friday the 30th.  Many members of our class have work up and congratulations to you all!

MICA Open House

Maryland Institute College of Art
Open House at MICA for Prospective Graduate Students

MICA Graduate Open House Offers a Rare Opportunity for a First-Hand View of Graduate Study at One of the Nation's Top Colleges of Art and Design

Sunday, November 15, 2009
9-4 pm

http://www.mica.edu

Robert Frank, "The Americans" at the MET

Also as discussed in class here is a link for that show.

Murakami at the Gagosian

http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/2009-09-17_takashi-murakami/

For those of you who are interested, the Takashi Murakami show is still up until October 24th. Its at their downtown gallery at 555 W 24th St.

Assignments due by 10/28/09

Hi everyone, 

We will not be meeting next Friday.  Instead you are to visit another exhibition of your choosing and write a review of it.  You should pick an exhibition that you have an invested interest in- that you feel strongly about, either loving it or hating it.  Explain in your review why you chose to see that exhibition- what about it resonates with you? How does it relate to your own work? If you have already reviewed an exhibition at the Zimmerli or on a Rutgers campus, you must choose another non- Rutgers venue. 

You should also read chapter 3 of Seven Days in the Art World, "The Fair" and write a list of 5-10 points of interest.  Again these can be quotes, questions, comments, whatever.  Please refrain from just listing quotes.  We want to see you are considering the topics in the chapter.  

As per our discussion of MFA programs, post-baccalaureate, and other programs in class on Friday- please research a few grad or other programs you may be interested in applying for.  Remember, it is not our intention to assume everyone is interested in a grad program BUT you must make this list anyway- it is a good practice to know what opportunities are available to you even if you are not interested in them.  Remember, a few things to look into- the faculty, current student and alumni artwork, tuition, fellowship, scholarship, and teaching assistantship opportunities, application requirements, facilities, length and program requirements, etc. Make a list of 5 programs you find interesting.  You might want to order the schools' catalogs and look into portfolio review and tour dates. These usually take place in October/November, as most applications are due in January/February for the fall term. 

Please post these assignments to your blogs by Wednesday night the 28th so that Gerry and I have a chance to look them over before Friday's class meeting.  

We will be collecting the final drafts of your resumes and artist statements in class on 10/30.  We will be giving each of you feedback on them.  You resumes should be the "all-inclusive" versions or your art resume.  Your resumes should be designed and printed on good paper as if you were handing it in to a potential employer, school, gallery, etc.

If you are missing posts from previous assignments (like the readings), please complete them as soon as possible to still receive credit. 

Feel free to contact Gerry or I with any questions.

Best,

Megan

                              

best MFA listing

Take a look at the schools on this list to get a sense of what is available, and how they fit with you http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-fine-arts-schools/rankings

Photo event in Princeton from Charlotte Whalen

dear friends,

I'm going to be in the following show that opens soon: October 24th in

Princeton. It will be a beautiful and very special show - apart from

work by many extraordinary photographers who studied with Emmet, it

will have work of his that has never been seen/published. Not to be

missed! Up until February, so there's plenty of time to visit - but it

would be lovely to see any of you who can make it to the lecture and

opening.

Charlotte Whalen

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Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait

October 24, 2009-February 21, 2010

Princeton University Art Museum

Opening: Saturday, October 24, 2009

Lecture by Emmet Gowin, 6:00 pm, McCosh 10, Princeton University

Reception at the museum, 7:00-8:30

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Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait celebrates Princeton’s legendary

teacher of photography, who retires in 2009. The exhibition features

work by Gowin, his mentors, and twenty students from the past

thirty-five years. While pursuing careers as diverse as anthropology,

graphic design, activism, and fine art, Gowin’s students trace their

inspiration to his depthless faith in photography as a medium, a

discipline, and a way of life. Join Emmet Gowin as he discusses his

extraordinary career in photography and teaching at Princeton

University. A reception will follow at 7:00 p.m. in the Art Museum.

http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/events/Extended_Pages/Gowin09/

http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/events/viewevent.xml?id=222

Upcoming design related exhibition

Sister Corita

October 23 - December 5, 2009 Sister Corita Talk: Saturday, November 7, 3 PM Zach Feuer Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by the Pop artist, teacher and nun, Sister Mary Corita (1918-1986). Drawn to the power of the word, Sister Corita incorporated fragments of text, slogans and signs taken from billboards, street signs, advertising jingles, pop songs, poems, newspapers and magazines into her work. She sampled quotes by Martin Luther King Jr., Rainer Maria Rilke, Phillip Roth and the Psalms. Sister Corita also appropriated images from magazine and newspaper covers of the Viet Cong, the Pope and the Berrigan Brothers burning draft cards as well as the Wonder Bread logo. Corita's innovative use of loaded text, used alone or combined with images, created powerful graphics. She cropped, skewed, and collaged phrases from disparate sources to enhance the power of the quote and to create unique revolutionary, spiritual and social statements. Sister Corita was not only an activist and Pop artist but also a teacher. At the Immaculate Heart College where Corita taught art, her classrooms were known for their dynamic interdisciplinary environments, in which films were screened, pop music played and large-scale collaborative projects were conceived and executed. She created happenings such as the reinvigorated annual Mary's Day parade and invited her peers, including Buckminster Fuller, Ben Shann and Charles Eames, to lecture. In 1969, Sister Corita left the Immaculate Heart Community and moved to Boston where she continued to make serigraphs and watercolors as well as undertook several important corporate and public commissions. This exhibition will feature Sister Corita's serigraphs from the early 1950's until her death in 1986 and will include memorabilia, such as the books with which she collaborated with Daniel Berrigan and films by Baylis Glascock documenting Corita's happenings and teaching. On November 7 at 3 PM, the gallery will host a talk given by Alexandra Carrera, Director of the Corita Art Center, on the work of Sister Corita. ZACH FEUER GALLERY 530 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011 t. 212 989 7700 f. 212 989 7720 www.zachfeuer.com Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10-6

Assignment Deadlines- Reminder

Due by next Wednesday night, the 14th:
Post a review of an exhibition of your choice
Post 5-10 points of interest: quotes, questions, comments, topics, etc from Chapter 6- The Studio Visit
If you have not already, add some of your interviewee's artwork to illustrate your interview post from last week.

Bring to next class: A draft copy of your resume- the big, all inclusive version, and a draft of an artist statement. Your statement can either be a draft for your statement for your thesis work or a general statement about your artwork.

If you are missing any of the previous assigned posts from your blog, please complete them as soon as possible to still recieve partial credit.

If you have questions about any of the assignments, feel free to contact Gerry or I.

Possible venues for your next exhibition review

Hey all, A few of you requested some recommendations as to galleries to visit for your next exhibition review. Here are a few local shows:

The Zimmerli Museum has two new show that opened last week: Trail Blazers in the 21st Century: Contemporary Prints and Photographs published by Exit Art and Four Perspectives Through the Lens: Soviet Art Photography in the 1970s-80s If you haven't seen it yet, they are also showing:Blocks of Color: American Woodcuts from the 1890s to the present

Visiting artist Cecilia Vicuna is exhibiting in the Douglas Library.

Another venue in New Brunswick is the Alfa Art Gallery. From Oct 9-29, they are showing John Hawaka: A Retrospective.

At the Newark Museum: New Work: Newark in 3D

For shows in New York or elsewhere you can browse Artinfo's Gallery Guide

Remember, you should select an exhibition that you have an invested interest in. Try reading some reviews to learn about artist you have not heard about before. We have a list of links here on the blog under "Art News and Views". You can also look in the NY Times.

Society For Photographic Education National Conference

This year's conference is in Philadelphia.
Deadlines for scholarship opportunities are Nov 1st.  Scholarships pay your admission to the conference as well as a $500 travel stipend.  There are also volunteer opportunities.  See this form: Student Scholarship Opportunities for the 2010 Conference (PDF Form)
Also: www.spenational.org

Guggenheim Internship Opportunity

The deadline for this is Nov 1st.  This is a Spring semester internship available for credit.  

See this link and the press text below for more info:

We are currently recruiting for our Spring 2010 (January 11–April 16) internship cycle in a wide range of departments including Curatorial, Development, Marketing, Exhibition Design, Graphic Design, Web Production, Media and Public Relations, Registrar, Special Events, Education, Conservation, Information Technology, Visitor Services and many more.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to visit our website, www.guggenheim.org/internships to assess their suitability and interest, learn more about the variety of program benefits, and follow the application instructions listed on the site.

Please note that our November 1st application deadline is fast approaching; all applications sent by mail must be postmarked on or before this date.

Qualifications for all internships: BA or MA degree in a relevant field or major and interest in not-for-profit arts sector is desirable. Excellent written and spoken English is necessary. All interns participate in the unique and invaluable Museum Culture Seminar Program, visiting varied New York arts institutions, artist studios, corporate collections, auction houses, etc. Through our exclusive program events, seminars, trips and symposia, interns become familiar with the art world at large as well as make important contacts for a future career in the field. All internships can qualify for school credit.
 

Catalogs

OK-RM are a design group who do a lot of work for galleries and museums. Their work is very very well thought through, as well as being elegant and not getting in the way of the artwork. You will have some printed material to publicize your exhibitions next year, so start looking at and collecting good examples now.

catalogs

OK-RM are a design studio who do a lot of collaborations with artists and art organizations. Take a look at their work not only for the aesthetic but also for the thinking that goes into it. As your show next semester will have a print element it is worth starting to think about some of the options.

Some useful links on Writing Artist Statements

Artists Foundation: How to Write an Artist Statement

NYFA: Portfolio Development: Artist Statements, Resumes and Bios

Artemerging.com: Writing an Artist Statement

Resumes for Artists and Designers

Resumes for Artists and Designers: Download Here

artist's statement

Here is a really elegant approach from a sculptor Peter Scibetta

"The Crit" Top Ten (or eleven) Points of Interest

1) The debate over the usefulness of the crit- Dave Hickey who said “I do not do group crits. They are social occasions that reinforce the norm. They impose a standardized discourse. They privilege unfinished, incompetent art… I don’t care about an artists intentions. I care if the work looks like it might have some consequences.” Vs. Mary Kelly who hosts a group critique where the only person who is not allowed to speak is the presenting artist: “artists often don't fully understand what they've made, so other people's readings can help them see at a conscious level"

2) MFA: Mother Fucking Artist / "the first legitimator in an artist's career"

3) "Baldessari believes that the most important function of art education is to demystify artists: Students need to see that art is made by human beings just like them.”

4) "Creative is definitely a dirty word...it's almost as embarrassing as beautiful or sublime or masterpiece."

5) “Perhaps creativity is not on the agenda at art school because being creative is tacitly considered the un-teachable core of being an artist?”

6) CalArts reminds me of my experience at Mason Gross. For example, "It used to be said that some art colleges instructed their students only up to the wrist they focused on craftsmanship while CalArts educated its artists only down to the wrist.  Its concentration on the cerebral was such that it neglected the fine art of the hand." And "I [try] to imagine how great artists get made in this airless institutional place."

7) "You have to find something that is true to yourself as a person- some non-negotiable core that will get you through a forty-year artistic practice."

8) "Talent is a double-edged sword. What you are given is not really yours. What you work at, what you struggle for, what you have to take command of-- that often makes for very good art."

9) “Criticality is a strategy for the production of knowledge… our view is that art should interrogate the social and cultural ideas of its time.”

10) I would never sit through a crit this long.

11) I’ve never seen a dog in a crit before.

Week-long Video Screenings in Mason Gross Galleries

Please attend at some point. Feel free to walk in at any time and
lounge on the benches. BYOpopcorn
 

Thursday, Oct. 1st: 11- 4:16pm
11:00 AM The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky (1 hr, 55 min)
1 PM Sex Positive by Daryl Wein (1 hr, 16 min)
2:30 PM Diane Bonder Program (24 min)
3:00pm Sex Positive by Daryl Wein (1 hr, 16 min)
 

Friday, Oct. 2nd: 11-3:50pm
11 AM Cremaster 1 by Matthew Barney (40 min)
11:40 AM Cremaster 2 by Matthew Barney (79 min)
1 PM Video One Student Program (30 min)
1:30 PM Net Art/New Media Program (30 min)
2 PM Matt Posey Video Works (20 min)
2:30pm Cremaster 2 by Matthew Barney (79 min)
 

Saturday, Oct. 3rd: 11-4pm
12 pm Battle Royale by Kinji Fukasaku (90 min)
1:30 PM How Will I Know I’m Here by Toby MacLennan (45 min)
2:15 PM IVAW Compilation: Ardele Lister, Damian Catera, Shane Whilden, etc. (54 min)
3:15 How Will I Know I’m Here by Toby MacLennan (45 min)
 

Tuesday, Oct. 4th: 11-3:45pm
11 AM Cremaster 3 by Matthew Barney (3 hrs)
2 PM Stan Brakhage Program (46 min)
3pm How Will I Know I’m Here by Toby MacLennan (45 min)
 

Wednesday, Oct. 5th: 11-6
11 AM Powers of 10 by Ray and Charles Eames (17 min)
11:20 AM Woman in the Dunes by Hiroshi Teshigahara (2 hrs)
1:25 PM La Jetee by Chris Marker (60 min)
2:30 PM Video One Student Program (30 min)
3:00 PM Net Art/New Media Program (30 min)
3:30 PM Matt Posey Video Works (20 min)
4:00 PM IVAW Compilation: Ardele Lister, Damian Catera, Shane
Whilden, etc. (54 min)
5:00pm La Jetee by Chris Marker (60 min)
 

Thursday, Oct. 6th: 11-2:30
11 AM Grey Gardens by The Maysles Brothers (1 hr, 40 min)
1 PM Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett (83 min)
2:30pm Persona by Ingmar Bergman (83 min)
 

Friday, Oct. 7th: 11-1:45
11 AM Cremaster 4 by Matthew Barney (42 min)
11:45 AM Matthew Barney: No Restraint (1 hr, 12 min)
1 PM Mixed Messages by Kathy Brew (20 min)
1:20 PM A Mother to Hold by LaToya Ruby Frazier (24 min)
1:30 PM Vito Acconci/Bill Viola Excerpts (15 min)
 

Saturday, Oct. 8th: 12-4:40
12pm Day For Night by Francois Truffaut (1 hr, 55 min)
2 PM Kenneth Anger Program (1 hr)
3 PM Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 by Kazuo Hara (97 min)

Download the revised Thesis syllabus

Follow the link- This is the final version of the syllabus

Cecilia Vicuna Exhibition and Lecture

Click the image to see it larger

BFA Art Open

Entry Procedure  
Students may submit up to 3 works (ready to hang); No excuses; Work will not be juried if it is not framed and ready to hang with wire / L screw, D-rings, support on the back (for 2-D work), or proper installation procedures for 3d work. Film and video, please only send DVD formats with a written synopsis (attached) to entry form. DVDs must have title credits and must loop, No menus. If there are special installation procedures the student must help install their own work.

All work must be labeled individually on the back (refer to entry form) with, Name, Title, Medium, Size, Year completed. NO LABEL NO JUROR! Please fill out the second set of labels for the gallery inventory. You will attach one label to your work and turn one label into the gallery Two labels per entry of the same information.

Calendar  
10/06/09 – 10/10/09 by 4pm Deadline / Drop Off Dates TO MGSA GALLERIES  
10/13/09 – 10/14/09 by 4pm Acceptance Posted in Gallery (Work not accepted must be picked up)  
10/15/09 Exhibition Opens  
10/22/09 Reception 5pm – 7pm  
10/31/09 Exhibition Closes 


Download the Entry Form here 

Josephine Halvorson Lecture Tonight

33 LIVINGSTON AVE
ROOM 117
WEDNESDAY
SEPTEMBER 23
6:30 PM

"Seven Days" reading- Chapter 2- "The Crit"

You should all have a copy of the required book, Seven Days in the Art World. By Wednesday September 30th, you should read chapter 2 and create a post about it.  We don't need you to review the book or the topics, but instead create a bullet-point list of 5 or 10 topics of interest brought up in this chapter.  These can be direct quotes, your thoughts, a circumstance, questions, or comments or any other point of interest.

Interviews

Take a look through the interviews with artists, writers and filmmakers on bombsite, one of our news and views links. These are all interviews of artists by artists which date back to the early 1980s, so they are a good model for what we are trying to achieve here. 

Also take a look at the short videos of artists discussing their work in their studios assembled by Independent Curators International. ICI also compiled Inside the Studio a very useful collection of interviews with some of the most interesting American artist from the last twenty years or so. In both of these examples we have an oral presentation of ideas.
 

Guidelines
You must record the interview. You should then transcribe it into written form. Don't just take written notes, you will miss too much.
 

You must go to your partner’s studio/workplace. Take some time to look around, don’t leap straight in. If they don’t have a studio then spread out sketchbooks and print outs, or pin up work. Don't just look at final pieces.

You must see the work your partner is working on at the moment as well as a selection of their older work

Ask open questions, why, how rather than questions that can be answered with yes or no.

If you only ask questions you only get answers. This means that you should aim for a discussion rather than a quiz

Start with a discussion of what you can see, with what is tangible and real.

Continue with a series of questions about why they use certain materials, forms, subjects.

Try to uncover themes, whether these are in materials, forms or subjects in their work.

Move on to a discussion of their influences, artists, writers, movies etc.

Look for themes and connections between their work and that of those who are influences.

Finish with a discussion of their plans for developing their thesis proposal. Where do they see their work developing over the next year?

Look out for further posts and examples.

White Cube

For background and further thoughts regarding our discussion on gallery space at our last meeting see this article in eflux journal

Positively White Cube Revisited and take a look at the original white cube article.

Chelsea Gallery Visits

You should pick at least 3 of these to visit and write and create a post about, though they are all very close to one another so I would recommend seeing each gallery.  Bring a business card back from each gallery you visit.

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, 540 W 26^th, Juergen Teller

PaceWildenstein: 545W 22^nd St- Maya Lin and at 534 W 25^th:James Turrell

Andrea Rosen Gallery- 525 W 24^th Josiah McElheny in main gallery

Mitchell, Innes & Nash, 534 W 26^th- Enoc Perez

Robert Miller Gallery- 524 W 26^th, Barthelemy Toguo

Aperture Gallery- 547 W 27^th- Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art

Andrea Meislin Gallery- Jed Fielding- 526 W 26^th

Che's Afterlife

the book I mentioned on the diffusion of Che's image is Che's Afterlife by Michael Casey. You can find info on Amazon. . 

If you liked the New Museum

Those who liked the New Museum building might be interested in another SANNA project for the Serpentine Gallery in London

social design network

A useful link for information on socially conscious design. The topics covered should give you some ideas and references for thinking about design critically, and writing about it. 

http://www.design21sdn.com/

Friday's Class

In the second part of the class on Friday we will have a gallery tour of the Hit it Big show and a talk with the curators on the logistics of putting on a group show like this in the Mason Gross Galleries. Make sure you attend the opening and see the show before that. Bring your notepads and make sure you have questions for our discussion.

Hit It Big: Welcome Back Show at Mason Gross Galleries

HIT IT BIG: Welcome Back Exhibition

Second Year MFA Candidates and Mason Gross Faculty/Staff

Special installations by Robert Melee and Damian Catera

Thursday, September 10 – Saturday, September 26, 2009

Reception: Thursday, September 17, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Robert Melee Artist Talk: Wednesday, September 16, 6 p.m. room 117

Hit It Big, an exhibition of works by 16 second year MFA candidates and 22 faculty and staff members, will open September 10^th at Mason Gross galleries in New Brunswick, New Jersey.


For second year grad students, the welcome back show marks the midpoint of their graduate career and the opportunity to show their work alongside Rutgers faculty members.  Hit It Big represents all departments and includes examples of painting, sculpture, photography, video, and printmaking.


Participating Artists:
Allan Arp, Misti Asberry, Gerry Beegan, Jessica Bottalico, Brian Bulfer, Brian Campbell, Damian Catera, Paul DeMuro, Colin Edgington, George K. Ericson,LaToya Ruby Frazier, Dale Klein, Marketa Klicova, Gary Kuehn, Alan LaZare,Allison Lindblom, Ardele Lister, Leticia Luevanos, Toby MacLennan, Barbara Madsen, Matthew Marchand, Tony Masso, Anne McKeown, Diane Neumaier,Xenia Nikolskaya, Thomas Nozkowski, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Matt Posey,Hanneline Rogeberg, Martha Rosler, Lisa Switalski, Jacqueline Thaw, Andy Webber, Stephen Westfall, Shane Whilden, Viktor Witkowski, John Yau, and Melissa Zimberg.



Robert Melee is a multimedia artist based in New York and Asbury Park, New Jersey. Intimacy, kitsch, sexuality, and subculture are integral themes of Melee’s work, and his photos, videos, installations, and performances blur the boundaries between private life and theatre.   Melee exhibits at Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City

Art and design writing for artists and designers

We posted about Donald Judd as a model for artists writing about their work. Designers, film makers, photographers also do this, in fact we all do it to some extent as part of our practice. A great example of a designer/writer is Ellen Lupton who seems to produce a couple of books a year while also practicing as a designer and a design educator. She teaches a design writing course at MICA. Another new design criticism course is headed by Alice Twemlow at SVA. Both have some great links and resources, so check out their web sites 

http://www.elupton.com/writing/

http://dcrit.sva.edu/

Some of the relevant links are 

http://abriefmessage.com/ a collection of design comments with a 200 word limit

http://www.designobserver.com/ probably to most high profile design blog

http://www.dot-dot-dot.us/ an experiment in design writing 

Lupton includes general writing advice, for instance

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/beyond.html

A Bucket of Blood

If you missed a part, or want to see some or all of the A Bucket of Blood again, this video is the full length film. 

Reminder: We will not meet Friday the 11th

Hi everyone,  I just wanted to remind you all that we will not be meeting as a class on Friday September 11th.  Instead, you are required to visit The New Museum.  You must visit the museum before we meet on the 18th.  You should bring your ticket stub to class- this will count as attendance for Friday the 11th.

Also for the 18th- please start your blogs and email the address to me at meganeflaherty@gmail.com
Let me know the level of privacy you would like for your blog.

Create a post in reaction/review/relation to your visit to the New Museum.

You should also watch the video posted below by Alex Bag and create a blog post about it.

Please also post any reactions to the film we watched in class "A Bucket of Blood" by Roger Corman, 1959.

Have a great time at the museum! I look forward to reading your posts!  

On writing your blog posts and Donald Judd

Your blog posts do not need to be lengthy. Just a few sentences can be sufficient as long as your thought(s) are clearly expressed. The goal is to effectively explain yourself in as concise a manner as possible.

The iconic writings of minimalist artist and critic Donald Judd are an interesting example of how this can be achieved.

See these two articles on his writing style with a few examples of his reviews:
Conversation starter: Mel Bochner on the republished writings of Donald Judd
Look, See: Donald Judd Archives

For those of you who are interested, a book of these writings is available: Donald Judd Complete Writings 1959-1975

Blog privacy settings

You can decide whether or not you would like to share your blog with the rest of the class (as well as the rest of the internet via search engines). If you decide to restrict privacy settings, you must allow access for both Gerry and Megan by adding our email addresses (beegan@earthlink.net and meganeflaherty@gmail.com) to the "Blog Readers".

When you set up your blog, please email Megan your blog's web address and your level of privacy. For all those who wish to share their blogs with the rest of the class, we will post your links here.

For all of our protection, this blog will only be viewable by members of this course. We have not yet restricted the privacy setting but will do so once everyone is all set up on google.

This video will explain how to adjust your privacy settings.

Quick "how to set up your blog" video

Thesis Curriculum for the Fall

Here is a link to download a PDF of the fall course curriculum

If you do not have a google account, you will be prompted to create one. You will need this for your blogger account as well. You do not need to have a gmail address to do this- you can use your existing email address from any server.

Fall Visiting Artists

September 16th: Robert Melee
September 23rd: Josephine Halvorson
September 30th: Cecilia Vicuna
October 7th: Damian Catera
October 14th: Michael Schall
October 21st: Paul Moakley
October 28th: Heide Fasnacht
November 4th: Xenia Nikolskaya
November 11th: Steven Day
November 18th: James Hyde
November 25th: Thanksgiving Break
December 2nd: Sarah Oppenheimer

The New Museum visit

This course will meet every other Friday, taking the alternating Fridays to independently visit museum and gallery exhibitions in NYC and other regional locations.

For Friday September 11th, students will visit The New Museum.

Here's a link for The New Museum's current exhibitions.

There are overviews of each exhibition The New Museum's page but here are a few links for more information:
You can find a biography of and a few images by David Goldblatt at The Goodman Gallery

NY Times review of the David Goldblatt exhibition: Silent Cries From a Beloved Country

NY Times Review of the Dorothy Iannone exhibition: An Iconoclast Who Valorizes the Erotic and Ecstatic

Madeline Warren of the YoungandHungry.com gives a short video tour of the exhibitions:


Please create a blog post based on your thought and reactions to these exhibitions. You may choose your own direction for this whether it be focused on one particular exhibition, artist, or work or the museum space itself, curatorial decisions or any other facet(s) you find compelling.

Reading: "Seven Days in the Art World" by Sarah Thornton

Seven Days in the Art World will be one of the texts we will be reading from this semester.

Seven Days in the Art World is an unconventional ethnography and a social history of the recent past. Set in New York, Los Angeles, London, Basel, Venice, and Tokyo, the book is populated by colorful characters who espouse conflicting definitions of art. Some see it as a luxury good or entertainment, others view it as an intellectual calling, a job description, or a kind of alternative religion. In a series of day-in-the-life narratives, Thornton investigates the minute dramas of a Christie’s evening sale, life in a notorious CalArts seminar, the elite trade of the Basel Art Fair, the competition behind the Tate’s Turner Prize, the peculiarities of Artforum and its critics, the high jinks of Takashi Murakami’s studios, and the curatorial wonderland that is the Venice Biennale. Thornton’s entertaining book explores the dynamics of creativity, taste, judgment, status, money, and the search for beauty in life.

For more information on the author: Sarah Thornton

Here is a link to its NY Times book review: Terms of Art

And a more in depth review in The Nation: Agony and Ecstasy: The Art World Explained

Here author Sarah Thornton briefly talks about the book:

Video: "Untitled Fall '95" by Alex Bag

The following text is taken from UBUWEB.  After viewing the video please leave your thoughts and comments. 


In Untitled Fall '95, Bag, at the time an art student, "plays" Bag the art student. In a series of deadpan performances, Bag gathers fragments of pop detritus, fashioning a thoroughly mediated document that is at once a celebration and a record of loss. With the narrative inevitability of a TV serial, the eight diaristic segments trace a woman's struggle to make sense of her experience at art school. As each installment marks the start of a new semester, Bag's character addresses the camera with her latest observations and frustrations.

Interspersed between these confessions are eight set-pieces, in which Bag performs scenes from the background noise of her imagination: a pretentious visiting artist, London shop-girls discussing their punk band, a Ronald MacDonald puppet attempting to pick up a Hello Kitty doll, the singer Bjork explaining how television works. These surreal episodes sketch out what Bag sees as the simultaneous attraction and repulsion of contemporary youth culture, and teeter on the divide between parody and complicity.

What emerges is a picture of anxiety, boredom, and ambivalence. As Bag despairs at one point, her culture is being sold back to her. However, popular culture, enmeshed with fashion, music, and the art world, necessarily depends on the machinations of capitalism. How does one mount a successful critique, when irony, satire and subversion have been enshrined by advertising and the popular imagination? 

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