BA/BFA student thesis exhibits

April 17 through May 13, Arts West Gallery
Receptions:
BA students:  April 17, 1:00-2:30 PM
BFA students:  May 1, 1:00-2:30 PM

Linda Weintraub

Golan Levin

Arts West Gallery
through April 5

Levin has spent more than 20 years as an artist immersed in high-technology research environments, including the MIT Media Laboratory, Ars Electronica Futrelab and the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology. His work is concerned with the "medium of response," the revelatory potential of information visualization, and the conditions that enable sustained creative feedback with reactive system. Levin will speak at Elon on March 31.

Art student challenges ownership

"Senior Joanna Patterson has an eclectic collection of stuff and she wants the Elon population to borrow almost everything.

For her senior exhibition, Patterson, a BFA artsenior, is exploring the conventional notions of property and ownership by allowing people to "shop" at a permanent location at 201 W. Trollinger, a gallery space and home to the Arts and Letters Learning Community, as well as pop-up displays all over campus and a catalogue". 

Read the full article here:
http://www.elon.edu/pendulum/Story.aspx?id=5000

Toplu: Landscapes of New Turkish Suburbia

Isabella Canon Room, Center for the Arts, through March

Reception and artist lecture:  Monday March 7, 5:30 PM

"I have a long-standing interest in the cultural landscape of residential areas.  My previous work includes an extended project on the suburban landscapes of Midwestern America.  I looked at delineations and borders - how residents and planners defined their spaces against the perceived chaos of the outside world.

I first traveled to Turkey in 2003 and have returned many times since. In this landscape, I began to see many parallels to my previous work played out on an exaggerated scale. In 2008, I began photographing the rapidly changing landscape of these far-flung, densely populated regions on the suburban outskirts.  

I was initially struck by the Toplu Konut, developments of large scale mass-residences.  In these photographs, many are still under construction - plopped down into empty fields at a startling pace.  Others are tidy high-rise condominium clusters that are self-contained with their own restaurants, schools, shops, swimming pools, tennis courts, and playgrounds. Within their walls they are meticulously landscaped and manicured.  Toplu, the title of the exhibition, has the dual meaning of 1. mass, common; as well as 2. tidy or neat.

Faculty Art Exhibition, through February

Arts West Gallery and Isabella Canon Room

Reception, February 7, 12:30-1:30, Arts West Gallery

Juan Obando's Arts and Politics class holds debate in Irazu coffee shop

Artist/Activist Lillian Ball to speak at Elon

   

You can view her work here:  http://www.lillianball.com/

Student Juried Exhibition: Kaleidoscope

Through December 1, Arts West Gallery
Opening reception, Thursday, 11/4:  12:30

Christian Karkow, October 4-November 4

Opening reception, Monday October 4
Arts West Gallery, 12:30 p.m.
Artist lecture, Monday, October 4
Yeager Auditorium, Center for the Arts, 5:30 PM

After a few short years of sculpting, Karkow, also an architect, prefers a blurred boundary between art and craft, and tool and folly. The experimentation in his art embodies this concept. After attempting to make a tool for some process, the resulting artifact is oftentimes art. Exhibition continues through November 4.

Women of the Mexican Revolution, opening reception

Monday, September 27, Isabella Cannon Room, 6 p.m.

Thirty images of the seldom seen but very important role women played in Mexico’s revolution. Soldaderas not only joined the battle on the frontlines, they performed the many thankless tasks that go along with fighting, which allowed the troops to succeed. Their participation had an immense impact on shaping Mexico’s history and society.   Exhibition continues through November 17.

Heather Freeman: Printmaker, Mixed-Media artist

Reception:  
Monday, September 13, 12:30 PM
Arts West Gallery


Artist lecture: 
Monday, September 13 5:30 PM 
Yeager Recital Hall
Center for the Arts








Since the inception of the scientific method, politics and political religion, blind-sighting skepticism and violent desire for the accuracy of a false hypothesis have perverted this elegant system of its effectiveness.  Freeman prefers not to challenge established theory but to search for "truths" by exploring myths, superstitions and expectations of the past to propose where reality may lie – and to also point out and accentuate its occasional absurdity. Exhibition on view in Arts West Gallery August 28 through September 29.


Bio:
Heather D. Freeman is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte where she teaches digital print, animation, video, installation and drawing. She grew in Skillman, New Jersey and was heavily influenced by her parents’ careers in the sciences. She holds a BA in Fine Art and German Studies from Oberlin College and an MFA in Studio Art from Rutgers University.  Her work is regularly exhibited regionally and nationally and has appeared in international exhibitions in Canada, China, Cuba, Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, Sweden and Thailand. More of her work can be viewed at EpicAnt.com and PersonalDemons.org. 

Jack Smith, Little Ladies of Fashion

Thursday, September 9
Opening receptionIsabella Cannon Room, 6 p.m.

Associate Professor and Costume Designer at Elon University, Jack Smith will exhibit half-scale costumes representing traditional clothing of many different cultures. Exhibition on view August 20 through September 22.

Art in the Park

Environmental activist/author visits Elon for public talk - April 22

Annie Leonard, the activist behind the short film/flash animation “The Story of Stuff,” comes to Elon University for an April 22 evening lecture on the costs associated with the nation’s consumer-driven culture. Leonard’s appearance in McKinnon Hall, which is free and open to the public, coincides with Earth Day 2010.

Leonard has spent 10 years traveling the globe fighting environmental threats. She narrates the film with a rapid, often humorous and always engaging story about “all our stuff - where it comes from and where it goes when we throw it away.”

Leonard examines the real costs of extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal, and she isolates the moment in history where she says the trend of consumption mania began. "The Story of Stuff" examines how economic policies of the post-World War II era ushered in notions of “planned obsolescence” and “perceived obsolescence” and how these notions are still driving much of the U.S. and global economies today.

The talk begins at 7:30 p.m. To watch the flash animation, visit Leonard’s web site www.storyofstuff.com.

Zeroes and Ones: Exhibition of Advanced Digital Art Students

Alamance Arts Council April 14–May 20. Reception Thursday April 22, 6:30-8:30.

213 South Main Street
Graham, NC 27253-3301
(336) 226-4495

Art Installations

Newly admitted BFA students, Marlee Belmonte and Mark Capozzola, will be hosting an opening reception for their installation "Discourse" in the Trollinger House (Arts and Letters Community) Friday 4/16 at 4pm-5:30pm. Please come and explore the piece as well as ask questions and enjoy some refreshments. Hope to see you there, and if you cannot make the reception but would still like to see the work, feel free to email Mark at mcapazzola@elon.edu and they can arrange another showing.

Senior Thesis Exhibitions

April 18-May 14

Thesis exhibitions for Elon Art Department graduating seniors.

Receptions on Sunday April 18, 1–3 and Sunday May 2, 1–3.

Arts West Gallery and Isabella Cannon Room in Center for the Arts

An-My Le

Arts West Gallery, March 7 - April 14

Closing reception and discussion (with pizza!): Wednesday, April 14, 12:30 PM, Arts West Foyer

An-My Le, a Vietnamese refugee, examines the complex cultures of warfare through the combined lenses of traditional documentary photography and the drama of Hollywood films. Her work focuses on Vietnam War re-enactments and military training sites to prepare soldiers for service in Iraq and Afghanistan. The lovely aesthetics and dispassionate distance of her photographs seem to belie the sobering nature of battle while complementing the truth of their simulation. This dissonance brings into question the viewer’s assumptions about the depiction and realities of war.

An-My Le currently teaches in the photography program at Bard College. Exhibitions include Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia College, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Cornell University. She was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and her work resides in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

Steven M. Johnson coming to Elon

WHEN: Wednesday, March 31
WHO/WHAT: Designer Steven M. Johnson, "Imagine If: What the World Needs Now"
WHERE: LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business Center, 7:30 p.m.