Barbara London UNR Student Art Show Juror

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery

Art Department
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia St

Reno

2011 Student Art Club Annual Art Show
April 28 – May 14, 2011

Juried by Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City and founder of the video exhibition and collection programs at the Museum.

Lecture and Opening Reception Thursday April 28, 2011:
Lecture “Looking at Music” by Barbara London, 5:00 – 6:30pm in Knowledge Center 124, Wells Fargo Auditorium, followed by reception in Sheppard Gallery from 6:30 – 8:00pm

The University of Nevada, Reno’s Department of Art and the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery are exceptionally pleased to announce that the 2011 Annual Student Art Show will open Thursday April 28th. The exhibition will be juried by Barbara London, curator in the Department of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City. The exhibition will include artworks by students in all media: painting and drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography, digital media, etc. London will also select the Graduate Student Association Award-winner from studio visits with MFA applicants.

Ms. London will also give a lecture that evening from 5 - 6:30pm followed by a reception until 8:00pm. Please join us for these events to celebrate the University of Nevada, Reno’s inspiring art students!

The Annual Student Exhibition is brought to you by the Student Art Club and the generous support of Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Department of Art, College of Liberal Arts, Associated Students of The University of Nevada, Reno, Graduate Student Association, and Friends of Sheppard Gallery.

[image and text from UNR Sheppard Gallery press release]

Jenny Robinson Lecture + Workshop

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Myself | Myself Too

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery

Art Department
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia St

Reno

January 18 - February 18

MYSELF: A Survey of Contemporary Self-Portraiture

Front Door and McNamara Galleries:
MYSELF TOO: A University of Nevada, Reno Art Student Survey of Self-Portraiture
Organized by Andrew Griego and Michelle Lee

Lecture and Opening Reception: January 20 |  5:30 pm

Closing Event: Thursday February 17, with lecture by artist Suzanne Joelson at 5:30 pm [Room 153, Church Fine Arts Building] followed by reception with live Internet performance from Los Angeles with Elizabeth Leister: 6:30-8pm

"From Northern Nevada to all corners in America - - from Macedonia and Greece, to Sweden and French Canada, this large survey-style exhibition presents sixty-six artists, including one collaboration, exploring the theme of self-portraiture. Perhaps considered just the folly of indulgent navel-gazing, the self-portrait continues to be important and interesting because it not only provides varied perspectives of the artist looking back on the self in circumstance, but rather also provides cultural, political and social insight into the time period and conditions under which the art was made. In a growing globalization, how we reflect the times we live in is subject matter that crosses the unsteady boundaries of nation, race, gender, religion, political affiliation, age, class, etc. With over 130 applications for an exhibition in a relatively small town such as Reno, it’s safe to say that self-portraiture remains a popular content for artists of our time. The exhibition demonstrates that humor, pop culture, health, irony, history, intellectual debates, idealism and story-telling are ever-present undertones to how artists express themselves, whether they use self-portraiture as rare device, or as regular all-encompassing investigative tool."

Concurrent with the MYSELF exhibition: MYSELF TOO, a student exhibition of self-portraiture in which all students were invited to participate whether taking a 101 drawing class or graduating as a MFA candidate."

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Dogs and Water

UNR School of the Arts Art Department
Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery
Church Fine Arts Building
1664 N. Virginia Street
Reno

Ryan Pierce: Fear of Dogs and Water

"Pierce’s work draws on ecological theories to portray possible futures. He both questions and interprets post-apocalyptic fear in our culture, especially as related to landscape, nature and animals. His timely large-scale paintings are stunningly created and represent an excellent example of contemporary painting."

Through December 15

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UNR Art Club Annual Student Art Show

March 25- April 2

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery
Church Fine Arts Building
University of Nevada, Reno

Student Art Show
Juror: Catherine Angel

Juror's Talk:
Thursday, March 25 - 5:30 pm
Reception to follow.

[Graphic courtesy of Sheppard Gallery. Caption: Nate Clark. 'Cameron."']

Gallery hours: M–Th 11am–5pm | F 11am–2pm

More: 775-784-6658

Perform, Perform, Perform

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery
University of Nevada, Reno
Church Fine Arts Building, Main Floor
Art Dept. MS 224
Reno, NV 89557

775-784-6658 phone

February 23 - March 27, 2009
Perform, Perform, Perform: Allison Lacher and Victoria Calabro

Opening Reception, Thursday February 26, Lecture 5:30-6:30 Rm 153, Reception 6:30-8pm
Opening during install with artists Feb. 23 -26
Gallery Closed for Spring Break March 16-20

"This collaborative exhibition of emerging artists Allison Lacher and Victoria Calabro will feature a large-scale installation specific to the Sheppard Gallery. The artists will transform the gallery space to create an environment that will express the frivolity and simultaneous treachery of the female adolescent experience. This decorative installation will highlight the artists' affinity for materials, humor, and cultural absurdities. Elements of the installation will include twirling batons, ribbon, and performers."



[text from Gallery press release. Image from Victoria Calabro's Web site. Caption" "yo-yo (detail). 2006.3” x 6” x 3”. mixed media- carpet, cast glass & string. photo credit Peter Clark"]

Stories, Photographs, Hearts

Eco-Sophia: The Artist of Life

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery
Church Fine Arts Building
University of Nevada, Reno

Eco-Sophia: The Artist of Life

Allora & Calzadilla
Ann Hamilton
Andrea Polli
Lynn Richardson
Kahn & Selesnick
Paul Stout

Marjorie Vecchio, Curator
Catalog designed by Omar Pierce
Essays by Wolfgang Schirmacher and Thomas Zummer

Exhibition Run: Oct. 2 - Nov. 7, 2008

Tuesday Oct. 7
Panel discussion with the artist and writers: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Reception: 6:30 - 8pm

Please note Tuesday night opening!

Eco-Sophia: The Artist of Life is a group exhibition inspired by German philosopher Wolfgang Schirmacher's 1989 essay of the same name. For generations philosophers and scientists have been separately asking similar questions in their scholarship: how and what is coexistence, where do the boundaries of technology push us, and what is habitation? This exhibition takes Schirmacher's call for wisdom and converges on the necessary yet very complicated and nuanced symbiotic relationship between philosophy, technology, ecology and individual agency.

[photo of installation by Lynn Richardson. Courtesy of Sheppard Gallery. Click on image to enlarge.]

Interconnection: Hwang | Versteeg

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery
Church Fine Arts Building
University of Nevada, Reno

August 25-September 26, 2008
Eunjung Hwang and Siebren Versteeg

Opening Reception|Lecture: Thursday, Sept. 4

Lecture: 5:30-6:30 Rm 153 | Reception 6:30-8pm

"This two-person exhibit does not have a theme based on content, but rather will concentrate on two different yet complimentary artists, one born in Korea and the other in the Netherlands. As unrelated as their content is, both Versteeg and Hwang show a very contemporary understanding of how interconnection works in our postmodern culture. Versteeg is an artist deeply concerned in the fabricated notion of 'real' time. He works in all forms, including collage, computer programming, video, drawing, sculpture and installation. Hwang is an artist and animator who creates multi-screen animation installations, light projections, sculpture, digital prints and drawings. Her work combines early Korean cartoon imagery resurrected in mountainous landscapes, combing her quirky drawing style with photography and narration."

[graphic, first item from a google image search for 'interconnection.']

Tourists and Travelers Advisor

[with congratulations and best wishes to UNR Faculty Joe Delappe!]

Eyebeam
540 W. 21st St. New York, NY

Tourists and Travelers:
New commissioned works by Taeyoon Choi and Joseph DeLappe

June 21 - July 19, 2008
Opening reception: 6pm, June 21

"As many New Yorkers ready for the annual ritual of summer travel, Eyebeam presents Tourists and Travelers, an art exhibition resulting from Taeyoon Choi and Joseph DeLappe's 2007-08 residencies at Eyebeam. The show features an unlikely pair of projects that reflect the artists' interests in journeys across real and virtual spaces: a Second Life avatar modeled on Mahatma Gandhi and a tourist-chasing, robotic duck. Choi, from Seoul , Korea , and DeLappe, from Reno , Nevada , both traveled to New York City for their residencies as recipients of Eyebeam's inaugural Commission for Resident Artists.

Taeyoon Choi's electro-mechanical bird Camerautomata Charlie: Image Digesting Robotic Duck is unleashed in tourist-heavy habitats, such as New York City 's Central Park , to roam and snap-and then defecate-photos of its own. Born of a hacked digital camera, printer and vacuum cleaner, Camerautomata Charlie and its flock will be on display at Eyebeam alongside digital prints, drawings, and video documentation of interventions in public spaces.

Joseph DeLappe will present documentation, artifacts and new works derived from The Salt Satyagraha Online-Gandhi's Salt March in Second Life, his 240-mile reenactment of the walk in real life and in cyberspace. Over the course of 26 days in the spring of 2008, DeLappe walked the entire distance on a customized treadmill at Eyebeam, which was programmed to control his online Gandhi avatar in Second Life. A centerpiece of the Tourist and Travelers exhibition is a monumental cardboard replica-the same height, in fact, as Michelangelo's sculpture of David-created from a 3-D model of the Gandhi avatar. Large format prints, stop-action animations, and video from the performance piece will also be on view."

Eyebeam

[graphic from Eyebeam press release]

Essential Comfort

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery
Church Fine Arts Building
University of Nevada, Reno

April 28 – May 9, 2008
reception: Mon, May 1, 5-7 p.m.

Devin Hosselkus
BFA Thesis Exhibition
Essential Comfort

"This multi-media exhibition examines current issues within our society. How socially conscious is our community? Are there societal problems that seem to be overlooked and/or ignored? As individuals have we let our pursuit of a ‘personal paradise’ affect our sense of responsibility to humanity?

Artwork includes mural sized drawings and paintings, a sculptural installation, and a table conversation with the artist. The conversation gives the audience an opportunity to dialogue with Hosselkus about the exhibition, art, society, and other topics.

Devin Hosselkus, a graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts student, is concerned about and interested in the current social climate. The issues he portrays in his artwork are ones he experiences first hand. The situations and the figures in his works are sketched from public observation. Devin Hosselkus’ visual style is influenced by German Expressionism. He uses a vast color palette in his two-dimensional works as well as expressionistic mark and line. Also, there is a destructive element in some of his pieces. Smashed edges, splintered wood panel, scratches and burns appear in paintings and sculptural environments.

Along with his studio practice, Devin Hosselkus creates public artworks for the City of Reno ; some works include the “HeLLo ReNo” mural on First and Virginia Streets and various traffic light boxes in the downtown Reno area."