ART & ART HISTORY AT COLGATE UNIVERSITY A & AH Exhibition and Lecture Series Organized by Art and Art History Associate Professor Linn Underhill. LECTURES AND EXHIBITIONS SPRING 2013

LECTURES at 4:30 p.m. in Golden Auditorium, 105 Little Hall unless otherwise noted. CLIFFORD GALLERY February 6 March 6 EXHIBITIONS Amanda Douberley Manthia Diawara Gallery Hours*: Building the Corporate Image: New Directions in African Film Studies Monday through Friday 10:30 – 4:30 Abstract Sculpture in the Architecture A leading scholar in the field of African film studies, Saturday and Sunday 1:00 – 5:00 Manthia Diawara is the Director of NYU’s Institute of of SOM Afro-American Affairs and Director of the Africana Amanda Douberley is Consulting Curator at the Picker Studies Program. His books include the seminal Afri- Art Gallery and a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at The can Cinema: Politics and Culture (1992), as well as the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation, “The Cor- more recent African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and porate Model: Sculpture, Architecture and the American Politics (2010). His films include Rouch in Reverse (1995), City, 1946-1975,” situates abstract public sculpture within In Search of Africa (1997), and Maison Tropicale (2008). the contexts of post-World War II public relations prac- Diawara serves on the board of TransAfrica Forum, tices and urban renewal. Drawing on the first chapter alongside Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, and Walter of her dissertation, this talk examines three significant Mosely, and he has received numerous fellowships abstract sculpture commissions for urban building and honors, including, in 1998, the NAACP Top of the lobbies realized by the architects Skidmore, Owings & Mountain Award. Merrill during the 1950s: Harry Bertoia’s screen at the Manufacturer’s Trust Company Bank on ’s Fifth Avenue (1954); Richard Lippold’s Radiant “I” at the March 20 Inland Steel Building in (1958); and Alexander Trevor Paglen Calder’s mobile for the Chase Manhattan Bank branch at 410 Park Avenue (1959). Eric J. Ryan Lecture Sarah McCoubrey, Fate and Transport I Trevor Paglen holds a BA from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA February 13 from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a PhD in Geography from U.C. Berkeley. His work deliberately blurs lines be- November 28 - February 1 Sarah McCoubrey tween science, contemporary art, journalism, and other Prof. McCoubrey makes precise paintings of luminous disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously re- Jonathan Kirk landscapes. She received her MFA from the University searched ways to see and interpret the world around us. Machines: Fragments and Reveries of and is the recipient of several grants, Paglen’s visual work has been exhibited at the Metropoli- “My sculptures, while abstract, are evocative of a wide range including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow- tan Museum of Art, New York; The Tate Modern, London; of sources, from the natural and organic world, to forms of ship in Painting, a Milton Avery Foundation Fellowship, The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; The San Francisco industrial and naval architecture. The work illuminates the a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a New York State Museum of Modern Art; the 2008 Taipei Biennial; the ways in which the forms of the artist as well as the engineer Council on the Arts Grant. McCoubrey’s work was 2009 Istanbul Biennial; the 2012 Liverpool Biennial, and still embody the mysterious intelligence of their natural included in the 2008 and 2002 Everson Museum of numerous other solo and group exhibitions. He is the models and points to the idea that making is, in a sense, the Art Biennial and in recent exhibits at Munson Williams author of five books and numerous articles on subjects invention of what might be called cultural machinery. My Proctor Institute, Utica, NY and the Herbert F. Johnson including experimental geography, state secrecy, military sculptures are rigorously committed to sculptural object- Museum of Art, , Ithica, NY. She is symbology, photography, and visuality. His most recent hood, yet at the same time contain visual references that an Associate Professor of Art at Syracuse University. book, The Last Pictures is a meditation on the intersec- suggest a metaphorical context. The pieces relate partial tions of deep-time, politics, and art. Paglen has received narratives - stories without endings. The collective visual February 20 grants and awards from the Smithsonian, Art Matters, unconscious is plundered and sampled; we have all seen Artadia, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the these shapes before but where exactly?” LUMA foundation, the Eyebeam Center for Art and Tech- Danielle Tegeder —Jonathan Kirk Prof. Tegeder received her MFA in Painting and Drawing nology, and the Aperture Foundation. from The Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently an Assistant Professor at The City University of New York. March 26 – April 26 February 13-March 31 Tegeder employs Post-Minimalist strategies, often utilizing mathematical, architectural or demographic Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Sarah McCoubrey data, to produce an evolving visual vocabulary. She Foundation, Visiting Artist in Residence Fate and Transport has had solo exhibitions, both nationally and interna- Exhibition “Revolutions Per Minute” “Fate and Transport marks an important departure for Mc- tionally and has participated in numerous group exhi- Coubrey, a dramatic and fervent response to her time spent This ten-year retrospective brings to Hamilton the work bitions. She has been the recipient of residencies and observing industrial waste beds and land that has been of twenty-five sound artists from China, Taiwan and Hong grants from Yaddo, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, subjected to hydrofracking on the east coast. Struck by what Kong. Curated by Dajuin Yao of the Open Lab at the China SmackMellon Studio Program, and the Marie Walsh she calls, “a landscape on life support,” McCoubrey was Academy of Art in Hangzhou and Wenhua Shi, Assistant Sharpe Studio Fellowship. Her works are owned by the compelled to move beyond her observations of landscape Professor of Digital Arts at Colgate University, the work Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary and instead deliver a fantastical means of escape, stemming will be installed throughout the campus and the village. Art In Chicago, and The Weatherspoon Museum of Art from her sculptural and photographic studies of potatoes. Opening Reception and Introduction by Dajuin Yao, in Greensboro, NC. “Dannielle Tegeder: Painting in McCoubrey’s vehicles are the earthbound made aerial, March 26, Little Hall first floor lobby, 6:00. the Extended Field” opens this May at the new Wellin the humble turned savior, technology that is grown rather Performances, March 27, Hall of Presidents, 7:00 and Museum at Hamilton College. than built. They are meant to rescue us from a dystopian March 28, Visualization Lab, Ho Science Center, 7:00 future, where man has damaged the world beyond repair. and 9:00. McCoubrey’s delicate hand and the luminous quality of her February 27 Panel Discussion, March 29, Golden Auditorium, 3-4:30. landscapes speak to her profound understanding, honed Dajuin Yao, Wenhua Shi, Christoph Cox and Samson Joe Mckay over decades, of the paintings of Dutch masters such as Young and four of the participating artists. Prof. Mckay received his BFA from Nova Scotia College Jacob van Ruisdael. Her figures were composed while look- Workshops: places and times TBA, open to students and of Art and Design and an MFA from UC Berkeley. In ing to the inventive works of Hieronymus Bosch, particularly to the public. 2000 he participated in the Whitney Independent Study Ship of Fools (1490–1500). Much as Bosch used his ship to Program. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of New expose the follies of his society, McCoubrey’s vehicles are an Media at Purchase College, State University of New April 3 admonition, fueled not only by the desire to escape, but to York. His work focuses on digital media and culture Phil Solomon restore.” —Kerry Bickford, Locks Gallery and includes photo, websites, performance, sculpture, Opening Reception February 13 following lecture. video, games, and installations. He seeks to investigate The experimental cinema work of Phil Solomon is ob- our culture’s fascinations with technology through sessed with the dark, the night, the past, and the lost. his artworks. He has participated in numerous group Reworking found images he draws forth pieces that are April 10 - May 19 exhibition at various museums and galleries including epic and personal, historical and specific. Best known Mediations Biennale in Poland, The Falaski Gallery in for crafting ghostly celluloid images through chemical Senior Projects Cairo, Egypt, ICA in San Jose, Pacific Film Archive / treatments, he has also created an acclaimed series of As a culmination of their work in the major, all senior art Berkeley Art Museum, WeeWerks in Toronto, ZKM in films utilizing the machinima of the Grand Theft Auto history concentrators write a substantial thesis in their Karlsruhe, Germany, Transmedial .03 Berlin, Germany. video games. A professor of Film Studies at the Uni- last semester at Colgate. The art history theses this year postmasters, PS1 and New Museum in NYC. His solo versity of Colorado since 1991, he has been recognized examine topics that span many centuries and geographical show has been exhibited at Vertexlist Brooklyn, NY and with awards including a Creative Capital Grant and the regions; Studio Art students have worked in a wide variety of at Pari Nadimi Gallery in Toronto. The most recent solo John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Most recently, mediums including video, printmaking, painting, sculpture, exhibition was at Long Island University curated by his triptych installation American Falls screened at such drawing, photography, as well as with digital technology. Nancy Grove. venues as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Ann Arbor The projects explore personal and public histories, as well as Film Festival, and the Museum of the Moving Image. ephemeral narratives that can be pieced together. This event supported by the Colgate Arts Council. Opening Reception: April 10, 4:30 p.m.

April 10, 2012 *Please note: Weekend hours are dependent on the availability of SENIOR PROJECT OPENING RECEPTION student monitors. If driving a distance, please contact the department (315-228-7633), during regular working hours, to ensure the gallery will be open. The gallery is not open during university breaks and holidays.

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