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| Selected Artists shown (1960 - 2005) John Altoon |
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2002 in the Sheppard Gallery
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Annual Valentine Exhibit & Auction The Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery will host the Sixth Annual Valentine Exhibition and Benefit Auction featuring more than 80 local and regional artists. This event's popularity greatly increases every year celebrating and honoring the wealth of talent among visual artists in the Northern Nevada community. The reception and auction will be held on Valentine's Day, |
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The Obsessive Mouse/Desktop Reformations: Joseph
DeLappe Conceptual artist and faculty at UNR, Joseph DeLappe had a solo exhibition of works created on sabbatical. For several years, DeLappe had been using a desktop computer mouse as both cultural icon and object for critical, humorous, and absurdist reformations. The exhibit featured sculptural reconfigurations of actual computer mice and paintings, drawings, and ink on paper works created with his "Artist's Mouse" (a prosthetic device attached to a mouse that held a variety of artist's materials and transcribes movement). These beautiful abstract marks become records of daily mouse "activity", from playing chess to playing first-person shooter games, from visiting museum sites to a series based on ebay transactions. This work investigates notions of work, play, human/machine relations, and the synthesis of traditional artist's materials with contemporary digital technologies. |
Carrie Mae Weems Organized with PPOW Gallery in NY, the Sheppard Gallery was fortunate to have the opportunity to bring internationally acclaimed visual artist Carrie Mae Weems to Northern Nevada for an exhibition and lecture. Since the late 1970's, Ms. Weems has produced art that addresses the formal and political issues impacting African-American culture and focuses on the persuasive power of the image to identify and define perceptions of race, gender, and class. Employing photographs, written texts, banners, commemorative plates, and sometimes sound & sculpture, she creates documentary series, tableaux and still lifes to " describe simply and directly those aspects of American culture in need of deeper illumination." Committed to radical social change, Weems leads us to consider what we know of our collective folkways, about history and slavery. She has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the world, including MoMA, the Whitney Museum, and the Getty. |
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Annual Student Art Exhibition This exhibition honors the hard work of top UNR visual art students. Each year, the Student Art Organization brings in an outside juror to select the best and brightest student work created in photography, ceramics, digital media, drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. The exhibition is hugely educational for students, exposing them to the professional world of competitive juried exhibitions. |
| Annual BFA Show This two-week long exhibition features visual art created by Bachelor of Fine Arts candidates. This exhibition not only honors the achievements of the Art Department's highest degree, it serves as professional experience for the students presenting the exhibition. The BFA students are responsible for every aspect of the exhibition from press releases and exhibition announcements, to installing work and hosting the reception. This exhibition fulfills the final requirement for the Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. |
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Wallworks The group exhibition Wallworks will feature site-specific projects created by UNR art students during the 2001 summer session of Art 300-Wallworks. Students will work for three intensive weeks in the gallery making new, original works that utilize the wall of the gallery space. The public is invited to view these works as they progress in the gallery. This exhibition provides a challenging, unique opportunity for advanced students to create large-scale diverse works in a public gallery setting. |
| Camera della Donna Organized by Temple University and the American Academy in Rome, the Sheppard Gallery will feature the work of 10 women photographers, five from the US and five from Italy, in this exploration of politically or socially charged subject matter. Italian artists Giula Caira, Regina Hubner, Sukran Moral, Nathalie Perisse and Suzanne Santoro encounter the Americans Joanne Leonard, Susan Meiselas, Carol Jacobsen, Suzanne Hanson, and Marilyn Zimmerman. The exhibit is inspired by Virginia Woolf's insistence on a "room of her own," a physical space for every woman's creative or intellectual work, and takes as a point of departure the Italian word for "room," which is the origin of the English word "camera." These women turn their lenses outward to critique, oppose, and re-envision. The photographic processes included range from black and white, color, documentary, photomontage, collage, appropriated, digital images and video. |
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Nine: Bi-Annual Faculty
Exhibition Nine featured the art of the University of Nevada, Reno's Art Department studio and performance art faculty. This exhibit offered a rare opportunity for students and the greater community to experience the contemporary art being produced by professionals in the field. Each discipline was represented: Peter Goin and Dean Burton exhibited photography; Joseph Delappe showed a digital video/electro-mechanical sculpture; Joanna Frueh presented her newest performance art piece; Edw Martinez exhibited pieces from a newer printmaking series; Robert Morrison presented sculpture; Fred Reid displayed several of his Dog Head ceramics; Michael Sarich showed his painted ceramic Mickey Mouse heads; and Tamara Scronce exhibited a new video sculpture piece. Kirk Robertson wrote for this exhibition "A department is a sphere, formed by chance over time. Mutable, like everything else, but the bet is that several apparently equidistant points will cohere and revolve around an idea - art-the teaching and the making of it". University art professionals must nurture and encourage the art of others while continuing to create their own work, a challenging dichotomy for any artist.
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| Holding the Line The Gallery hosted 13 artists in this much-anticipated drawing exhibition. This was the first contemporary drawing survey in over ten years. An exhibition of this variety and quality was of great importance to our student population. Four members of the Gallery Committee, overseen by Walter McNamara, former director of the Sheppard Gallery, will each curate three artists into the exhibit. This ensured an overview of various styles and viewpoints, from narrative to poetic abstraction to muscular markmaking. The artists represented were from throughout the US and England. Invited artists include: Mary Ann Bonjorni, Phyllis Bramson, Julia Couzins, Troy Dalton, Peggy Dugan, Eve Andree Laramee, Michael McCollum, Manuel Neri, Jim Pink ,Sonny Rosenberg, Mary Warner, Jeremy Wood & Hugh Pryor. |
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the act of throwing This installation featured the work of English artists Dutton, Peacock, Swindles (DPS). A collaborative group since 1998, their work is often devious, uncanny, and irreverent. Past collaborations have included paintings, video, photography, text pieces and performance. Elements of the text and exhibition images extend into a small publication. The nature of the work develops over time, in direct response to the conditions to which it is subjected. Two of the three artists traveled from England to Nevada for a period of two weeks. They proposed the staging of an event, throwing , which they re-invented, re-examined, and re-presented in the gallery. The act of throwing intimates ideas being thrown back on themselves, throwing as a political act, and throwing in order to release pressure. Additional funding from arts councils in England, Sheffield Hallum University, and the Hilliard Endowment Fund. |
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