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Department Notes - 2009
In Memory Of: Stephen Eakin Lecture: 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Please join us for Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery’s solo exhibition of Stockton, CA artist Stephen Eakin. Eakin is a mixed-media installation and sculpture artist who teaches in both Stockton and Sacramento; he earned an undergraduate degree at the University of the Pacific and a graduate degree from University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. This is his first solo exhibition of new work that was created this recent summer while in residence at Kitchen Budapest, a new media research lab in Hungary. The artist investigates memory and legacy through video, sculpture and interactive installations while thematically concentrating on the culture surrounding contemporary death rituals and practices in socio-economical and legal terms. Stephen Eakin will give an artist lecture about his work in the William J. Raggio Building, Room 2003, which is across the courtyard from the back of the Art Dept. building. Please join us! Gallery located in Church Fine Arts Building, North Virginia St, two buildings south of Lawlor Events Center Gallery hours: Mon - Thur 11am - 5pm, Fri 11am - 2pm, and by appointment Free parking in Whalen Parking Lot after 5pm, East side of North Virginia St, One building south of Lawlor Events Center. Gallery is not responsible for parking tickets regardless of circumstance. Sheppard Gallery programming is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, Nevada Arts Council, City of Reno Arts and Culture Commission, University of Nevada, Reno's College of Liberal Arts, School of Art Visiting Artist Fund, Department of Art, and Friends of Sheppard Gallery. Special thank you to the Bruno and Edna Benna Endowment for Excellence in Fine Arts. **Catalogue available designed by Chelsea Otakan
PLANES OF CONSISTENCY Opening Night
Reception
Please join us for Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery's first exhibition of the 2009-10 Season! Planes of Consistency is a three-person exhibition between Nevada photographer Dean Burton, Seattle video/photographic artist Thom Heileson, and University of Nevada, Reno professor and interdisciplinary sculptor, Tamara Scronce. Artworks include multi-media sculpture, photography and video. The theme was inspired by a philosophical dialogue between Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, in which they explored the rhizomatic nature of human experience as represented by intersecting lines connecting time, history, intellect, and aliveness. Both philosophers and the three artists examine ways of understanding and visualizing the more remote and abstract elements of our experiences. Burton, Heileson, and Scronce uniquely use repetition, cropping, and editing in a way that undermines presumed context. Context is traditionally understood by surroundings and in relationship to other details, events, or information. Instead, the artists remove that structure in such a way that we are forced to endure the limbo of their content's existence and come to deeper levels of familiarity. Please join us in the gallery at 5:30pm
on opening night to hear the artists talk about their work. Gallery located in Church Fine Arts Building, North Virginia St, two buildings south of Lawlor Events Center Gallery hours: Mon - Thur 11am - 5pm, Fri 11am - 2pm, and by appointment Free parking in Whalen Parking Lot after 5pm, East side of North Virginia St, One building south of Lawlor Events Center. Gallery is not responsible for parking tickets regardless of circumstance. Sheppard Gallery programming is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, Nevada Arts Council, City of Reno Arts and Culture Commission, University of Nevada, Reno's College of Liberal Arts, School of Art Visiting Artist Fund, Department of Art, and Friends of Sheppard Gallery. Special thank you to the Bruno and Edna Benna Endowment for Excellence in Fine Arts. **Catalogue available designed by Thom Heileson
The House of Last Week's Work: Opening Night
Reception
Exhibition
run: July 23 – August 13, 2009
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Bryan Christiansen is a graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts candidate who has spent the last two years at the University of Nevada, Reno working towards his degree. A native of South Dakota, Christiansen’s work is an amalgamation of male and female pastimes pressed into the deconstruction and recontextualization of discarded objects of the home. Christiansen’s thesis exhibition “Cervidae” is a collection of these recreations and deconstructions composed from discarded couches, armchairs, tables, mattresses and bed frames. Christiansen “hunts” the surrounding area for abandoned furniture that he then reconstructs into animals or deconstructs to create various “trophies” including “antler mounts” and stretched furniture “Pelts”. Cervidae opens on the 27th of April and runs through May 1st. Please join us for the opening reception that will be held on Thursday April the 30th!
 Benefit
Auction
Featuring: Katy Govan, Marjorie Vecchio, Michael Sarich, Peter Goin, Jennilie Brewster, Caitlin Parker, Audrey Love, Omar Pierce, Christine Karkow, Megan Kay, Ashley Westwood, Jeremy Stern, Zoltan Janvary, Alana Berglund, Nick Larson, Sophia Pierce, Devin Hosselkus, Ahren Hertel, Jeff Erickson, Robert Morrison, Black Rock Press, Eunkang Koh, Brett Van Hoesen, Virginia Vogel, Jon Farber, Richard Jackson, Jane Kenoyer, Kelci Mcintosh, Nate Clark, Lateisha Lindemann, Megan Mathers, Bryan Christiansen, Dominique Palladino, Christina Lee, Anthony Alston, Kim Musser, Ali Sullivan, Rossitza Todorova, Nikki Miller, Rob Brown, Dean Burton, Lauren Randolph and others. Auction information: To view flyer click here
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