Congratulations to Prof. Priya Kambli (Photo) who had her work selected for an exhibition currently up at the Art & Design Gallery in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Kansas. The show, entitled The Middle, features photo-based work by artists living in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska. Kambli and her family, as well as other Art Department faculty members and Truman-related art lovers travelled to the opening to congratulate and celebrate (as shown above). Congratuations again!
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Work
Prof. Fine–published drawing and essay
Congratulations to Prof. Aaron Fine (Studio; Director, University Art Gallery)! His essay, "Pink is Primary" and an accompanying illustration were published in first issue of the the on-line journal Blotterature.
Prof. Xu’s Recent Work
Prof. Ping Xu recently had some graphic design work published in International Contemporary Artists (Vol. 7), including the posters he designed for the University Art Gallery's Cross Connections exhibitions.
In addition, he exhibited work as part of an international exchange of student and faculty graphic design work at the SangMyung Gallery, College of Design, Sang Myung University, in Korea. A number of Truman students also exhibited work in that exchange (for more information, see the link above).
Congratulations to Prof. Ping Xu (Visual Communications) on these great publications and recognitions.
Student and Faculty Work at Kirksville Arts Association (Opening Tonight!)
Tonight will be the opening reception for a new exhibition at the Kirksville Arts Center! The reception will be from 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. at the Kirksville Arts Center, 117 S. Franklin in Kirksville.
The show, titled "Compositions", features three-dimensional work in a variety of media and includes work by Truman Art Department faculty members Prof. Matt Derezinski (Visual Communications) and Prof. Lily Lee (Fibers/Sculpture/Three-D), as well as students from Fibers and Sculpture classes at Truman taught by Prof. Lee and Prof. John Bohac. Those students include: Allison Behm, Emma Roeder, Melanie Pailer, Emily VanGelder, Juliet Desnoyer, Connor Penland Frazier, Jacquelyn Wheeler, Jessica Zilch, Lauren Moll, Katie Burke, Ian Reed, Justin Sevier, Daniel Riekena, Rahil Gomes, Charles Cantrell, and Kevin Foster as well as others.
We hope to see you at the reception or at the exhibition!
Exhibition Opens Today!
Work by Jave Yoshimoto, to be included in the exhibition (Photo Credit: Aaron Fine)
On Wednesday, January 22nd in the University Art Gallery (OP 1114) a new exhibition will open! The exhibition is entitled "Apocalyptic: artwork, poetry, and though about the end" and was curated by Prof. Aaron Fine (University Art Gallery Director and Professor of Art) and Dr. Bob Mielke (Professor of English) and features contemporary artwork.
The opening reception for the exhibition will be Tuesday, January 28 at 6:00 p.m. As always, the opening will offer a chance to meet others interested in the arts, sample some delicious food, and see some great artwork. We hope to see you there!
On display in the side gallery at the same time will be an exhibit of work by Lori Nix entitled "Post-Apocalyptic". Nix is a Truman State University alumna and will be visiting campus for the exhibition. Check back here for more information on her visit.
We hope to see you at some or all of these great events.
Prof. Lee in Juried Exhibition
Congratulations to Prof. Lily Lee (Fibers-Sculpture-3D). One of her recent works, shown above with details below, has been chosen for inclusion in a juried exhibition, Post-Racial U.S?. The exhibition will be up at the University Art Gallery at New Mexico State University through December 20, 2013.
Prof. Wilbur Residency
As part of her recent sabbatical leave, Prof. Wynne Wilbur participated in an artist's residency at the Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana. Prof. Wilbur shared with us information about (and pictures of!) her great experience.
"I
was part of an AIA group of 5 women (all who loosely have ties to Kansas). AIA
stands for Artist Invites Artists. In this case, Glenda Taylor (Ceramics, chair
of art at Washburn U. in Topeka) had been to Red Lodge before and invited the
rest of us to join her for a month in June. We all worked in the same studio
and lived in the same restored Victorian house in town. We mostly worked on our
own stuff, but shared ideas, processes, impressions etc. while we worked."
Prof. Kambli Selected for New York Times Portfolio Review
Prof. Priya Kambli (Photography) was one of 160 photographers invited out of a pool of 2,700 photographers by The New York Times for their first New York Portfolio Review, a free two-day gathering in April sponsored by The New York Times Lens Blog. The event featured private critiques, discussions, and workshops on topics ranging from photo editing to grant writing to business practices to finding gallery representation. The review was a chance for a diverse group of 160 photographers to meet with leading photo editors, museum curators, book publishers and gallery owners for
one-on-one portfolio reviews.
When contacting Prof. Kambli about her selection the authors of the Lens blog wrote: "We received 2,700 entries for a total of 160 spots over two days, and there was an extraordinary amount of superior work. We had to turn down far more excellent entries than we wanted to — choosing was not easy. Not in the least."
Congratulations, Prof. Kambli! For more on her work, please see visit her website.
Gallery Talk This Afternoon!
Please join us in the University Art Gallery (OP 1114) this afternoon (Tuesday, October 1) at 4:30 p.m. for a talk by Prof. Wynne Wilbur (Studio: Ceramics). As blog readers, and many on campus know, Prof. Wilbur has just returned from a sabbatical leave last academic year, part of which she spent in China.
Those who attend the talk will also have a chance to see some of Prof. Wilbur's recent work which is part of the current Gallery exhibition.
As always, Gallery events are free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!
Recent Work from Prof. Derezinski
Congratulations to Prof. Matt Derezinski (Visual Communications) on these recent accomplishments which he shared with us from his curriculum vitae!
Recent Exhibitions
Irving Art Association, 12th Annual Wildlife & Domestic Animal Juried Art Competition, Irving, Texas
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, A sense of Place 2013, Augusta, Georgia
Garrison Art Center, PHOTOcentric 2013, Garrison, New York
See | Exhibition Space, The Story of the Creative, Long Island City, New York
Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Works on Paper NYC II, Long Island City, New York
Cooperstown Art Association, 78th Annual National Exhibition, Cooperstown, New York
Yeiser Art Center, Paducah Photo 2013, Paducah, Kentucky
MARIN Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013 Summer National Juried Exhibition, Novato, California
Kirksville Arts Association, Regional Arts Exhibition, Kirksville, Missouri (¡)
VMRC, VMRC’s Tenth Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Harrisonburg, Virgin
Art Scene Today, The World Through My Eyes, www.artscenetoday.com
Maria V. Howard Arts Center, 56th National Multi-Media Juried Art Exhibition, Rocky Mount,
North Carolina
Continental Building, Visual Arts Alliance 30th Juried Open Exhibition, Houston, Texas
Awards
Honorable Mention, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, “Summer National Juried Exhibition”
Novato, California
Honorable Mention, “International Art Festival”, New York, New York
Photographers of Week Minicontest, The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards at
www.thegalaawards.net
Publications
Best of Photography 33th Annual 2013, Photographer’s Forum Magazine
Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 10