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Focus on Figures 2022

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I will have two paintings on view in Focus on Figures 2022, a national juried exhibition of figurative art at North River Arts Society in Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts. The juror, Dan Thompson, an internationally known figurative artist and educator, is currently the Dean of Fine Arts at Studio Incamminati School for Contemporary Realist Art in Philadelphia, PA.

Faculty Exhibition 7

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EXHIBITION DATES:
January 28 – July 31, 2022
Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C
Opening Night Event for Jan. 27 postponed; New date and time to be announced 

Central to the “Auburn Experience,” faculty members contribute some of the most provocative work and compelling visual arts research within the southeast. Faculty Exhibition Seven features more than 20 remarkable and noteworthy artists, makers and thinkers in textiles, furniture design, film making, painting, sculpture, public art, collaborative processes and installation-based media.

With strong representation from studio artists in the Department of Art and Art History, this dynamic group exhibition includes faculty from the College of Architecture, Design and Construction, the College of Human Sciences and the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.


Faculty Artists
Taneshia West Albert and Alaundra Shealey
Noah Breuer
Annie Campbell
Lijun Chao and Andy Holliday
Christian Dagg
Wendy DesChene
Anna Ruth Gatlin
Sara Gevurtz
Milliam Giang Pham
Lauren Howard
Zach Koch
Zdenko Krtic
Young A. Lee
Corky Nell
Sarah Odens
Lindsay Tan and Taneshia West Albert
Kristen Tordella-Williams
Courtney Windham
Jerrod Windham
Lauren Woods
Michael Zabala

ETERNAL RETURN SERIES – Athena Standards Residency
Circle/Cycle

Six Degrees of Separation: A Retrospective Film Festival

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On December 4, 2021, Body Tides will be shown in Six Degrees of Separation: A Retrospective Film Festival that features dance films from past contributors to their annual live showcase. In its eighth year, the festival will feature the work of Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre, Angie Conte, Julie Carter, Inclined Dance Project, One Day Dance, and Six Degrees Dance. The festival will take place at 265 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018. Click image for more information.

The In Art Gallery Solo Feature – Dream State

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Dream State is this month’s solo feature on the In Art Gallery’s website. The In Art Gallery is an online gallery and resource for artists to have a platform for exhibiting artwork and reaching a global audience by providing opportunities for artists to submit work in various mediums in an international juried competition.

Review of Dream State at PSC

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Read a review of my current solo show, Dream State, at Pensacola State College by Troy Moon in The Pirate, Pensacola State College’s Digital Magazine

Circle

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Body Tides is on view in Circle, an international group exhibition at CICA Museum in South Korea from September 1-19. Click image for more information.

Dream State

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Dream State, a solo exhibition of my figurative paintings is on view from August 16-December 10, 2021 at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts at Pensacola State College. Click image for more information.

Athena Standards Residency

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This July, I spent a month working in Athens, Greece at Athena Standards Residency along with artist Erin Cross. This residency was funded through a New Faculty Summer Research Grant at Auburn University. I worked on two separate projects, one new body of paintings for an upcoming show at Ground Floor Contemporary, and the other, a beginning to a new video/performance concept titled Resuscutation of Psyche.

SMDT Season III: Sleeping Beauty

Our DNA- Kehler Liddell Gallery

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Three of my videos were included in Our DNA, a juried exhibition at Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven, CT. The show will be up from June 24-July 25. Click image for more information about the show.

Artfields 2021

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A Moon’s Journey is currently on view at Artfields 2021. Artfields is an annual nine-day art competition and exhibition in Lake City, South Carolina of artists from across the Southeastern U.S. 

Studio Visit Magazine vol 48

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Excited to be in the company of other artists in Volume 48 of Studio Visit Magazine, juror, George Kinghorn, Director and Curator of University of Maine Museum of Art. Click here to see the digital version of the publication.

Artist Panel for NIU Storied References Exhibition

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Click image to see recording of the event.

Of Fantastic Stories, Freaks & Feminism: Beyond Gender Myths in Art

A panel discussion with artists Sarah Bielski, K. Johnson Bowles, Patricia Constantine, Rhonda Urdang and Lauren Woods from Storied Reference at NIU Art Museum. Conversation and discussion moderated by Kristen Myers, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology at East Carolina University and Deputy Editor of Gender & Society.

Movements, Moments in Washington Post

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Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post wrote about Movements, Moments currently on view at Target Gallery. Click Image to read the article on the show. My video Circle Dances is included in this exhibition.

Field Dress Portal

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Vermont poet, Sarah Audsley, recently wrote an ekphrastic poem based on my painting Field Dress. Click image to read her commentary behind her creative process. And click here to read her poem Field Dress Portal.

Spring Valentine with Era Contemporary

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I have a few works included in Spring Valentine, a online exhibition by Era Contemporary based in Philadelphia, PA. Click image to see the collection of works.

Gallery Talk for Mythic Nature at GMA

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On January 7, I gave a virtual gallery talk at Gadsden Museum of Art for my solo show Mythic Nature, click image to see the Facebook Live

Movements, Moments at Target Gallery

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Circle Dances is included in Movements, Moments is a new digital and in-person exhibition at Target Gallery. This exhibition aims to create a dialogue on work that focuses on the intersection of art and movement. This can be represented as physical movement as visual expression, such as dance or performance-based work, or movement represented conceptually, such as exploring the idea of growth or the passage of time. This is an all-media group exhibition with filmed performance-based work and video work encouraged.
This exhibition will be presented both on a digital platform and physically in the gallery space. Click image to see a digital catalog of the exhibition.

Storied References at NIU Art Museum

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I have five pieces included in this group exhibition at Northern Illinois Art Museum. Click image for more information.

SMDT Season II

SMDT Season II at Culture Lab LIC

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Sheep Meadow Dance Theatre Presents Virtual SEASON II with Culture Lab LIC at the Plaxall Gallery on 12/22/2020. Season II will present original choreographic works, including Body Tides and a new abridged Nutcracker by Artistic Director Billy Blanken. My artwork will be featured in the live-streamed performance produced by 10KProductions. Click here for a link to tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4856175?fbclid=IwAR0dgEUeBSPmedc86M3Z2X2CROFU4GebnxAAX_G1OcEMLJqasI58VkG9CkY

 

Breeden Endowment Grant

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Recently, my project, Contemporary Cast Sculpture Drawing: Bringing Greater Diversity and Inclusion Into the Studio Art Classroom, was fully funded by the 2021 Daniel F. Breeden Endowed Grant Program at Auburn University. This project aims to introduce a contemporary and inclusive approach to the practice of academic cast drawing by commissioning diverse, naturalistic portrait sculptures from a living artist. The Daniel F. Breeden Endowed Grant Program supports teaching and learning projects that directly benefit the instructor, students, and Auburn University’s overall teaching program. It is managed by the Biggio Center, and the grant review and selection panel is drawn from the University Senate Teaching Effectiveness Committee. Click image for more information about the program.

SECAC Conference 2020

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At this year’s SECAC virtual conference, hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University, I chaired a panel titled “The Figure Beyond a Constructed Ideal: Representing Contemporary Bodies and Identities in the Studio and the Classroom.” The panel, comprised of national and international artists Daniel Esquiva Zapata, Alaina Plowdrey, Alexandra Giannell, and Evin Dubois, focused on creative scholarship in the realm of figurative art. Participants discussed various ways of representing bodies in a contemporary context, and examined a range of approaches to the human form that expand upon or transcend classical, academic, or popular-culture ideals of representation.
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Circle Dances

Mythic Nature

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Mythic Nature, a solo show of new paintings will be up at the Gadsden Museum of Art from Nov 17-Jan 31. Click image for more information.

WKGC Public Radio Interview

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I was recently interviewed by WKGC Public Radio about Circle Dances, in Quarantine at the Amelia Center Gallery at Gulf Coast State College. Click image for a recording of the interview.

Cast Painting – Auburn University
Cast Drawing – Auburn University

Quarantine

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Circle Dances will be showing in Quarantine, a group exhibition at the Amelia Center Gallery at Gulf Coast State College. Click image for more details.

The New PreRaphaelites

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One of my paintings was chosen for this online group exhibition presented by Harcum College and Era Contemporary in Philadelphia, PA. Click Image for more details.

A Figural Exhibition

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Three of my works were included in A Figural Exhibition with the In Art Gallery, by juror Forrest Solis. Click the image for a link to the online exhibition.

Contaminated

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My video Circle Dance is a part of Contaminated, an online exhibition produced by the Institute For Aesthetic Advocacy, an art collective based in Minneapolis, MN. Click image for a link to the exhibition.

The Art of Water IV

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My work is included in The Art of Water IV, an online exhibition by James May Gallery

LIC Fear III at the Plaxall Gallery

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My video Ghost will be showing at LIC Fear III at the Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City, NY from October 17-November 3.