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| Selected Artists shown (1960 - 2005) John Altoon |
2003 Exhibitions |
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2003 in the Sheppard Gallery
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Valentine Invitational The Sheppard Gallery waspleased to host the 7th Annual Valentine Invitational Exhibition, showcasing more than 90 local and regional artists from Nevada and California. This popular event honored the wealth of talent and innovation we have among visual artists in the Northern Nevada community. The exhibition closed with a fundraising auction of all pieces on exhibit on Friday, February 7; the money went to benefit the programs of the Sheppard Gallery. |
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REAL/unreal This exhibit addressed actualism, what is happening at the present moment, politically, artistically, socially. Three San Francisco area curators, including the coordinator of this project, Shmulik Krampf of Refusalon Gallery, examined and stretched notions of art produced at the present moment, pushing the idea of how far art can be involved in politics and society. What is art's responsibility in time of war? We are intrigued with the curatorial as well as the artistic response. Madeline Grynsztejn of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Ralph Rugoff of California College of Arts & Crafts have confirmed participation as a guest curators. These curators chose one artist, or idea, to be combined into a group exhibition at the Sheppard Gallery. Shmulik Krampf was working with the installation artist Sam Yeats. |
Mira Schor New York artist Mira Schor will visit the University for a lecture and exhibition of her installations " Traces " and " Sexual Pleasure ." Schor says, "I paint language... conceptual painting, in which the linguistic structures are imbricated into the language of painting, including all of its history." She views painting as a sign system like writing, intrinsically abstract marks making up a representational image; a complex trace of thought, language, and the hand of the painter. Schor is the recipient of numerous grants, including a NEA Visual Artists Grant, an Art Matters grant, a Guggenheim fellowship in painting, a Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant, and the Frank Jewitt Mather Award in Art Criticism. She has published numerous articles, essays, and books including " Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture ." Schor has exhibited her work widely including PS 1, Marianne Boesky Gallery, the Santa Monica Museum, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, and Horodner Romley Gallery. |
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Annual Juried Student Exhibition This exhibition honors the hard work of top UNR visual art students who have worked all year to grow and achieve in new directions in contemporary art. The students will bring in an outside juror to select a diversity of student works from among several different mediums. |
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| Annual BFA Thesis Exhibition This exhibition will feature BFA Thesis students Natalie Rishe, Matt Thielen, R. Nelson Parrish, and Rosemary Bjorkman. Ist year BFA students will hold review exhibitions in the McNamara and Front Door Galleries. |
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Christine Pinney Karkow Christine Karkow with a solo exhibition Lost Landscapes in the Sheppard Gallery. Drawings, computer altered photos, sculpture and paintings will compose three series of work, distinct yet related. The images of derelict Nevada casinos and motels are tied to her fascination of the western US as a place where identities can be made or destroyed along with the dreams that accompany them. Karkow addresses myths of a good life and the physical and mental destruction of the land. |
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| Carol Selter This exhibit featured installations of two series, Sacrifice and Deviation From Normal , by California artist Carol Selter. Her work addresses the way humans relate to other organisms, with a special emphasis on the way conventional biological science promotes objectification of life. Using large chromogenic prints and found objects such as boxes, dissecting pans, and dried animal remains, her subject is the way humans regard the rest of nature, our habit of detaching from the natural world. Selter, also a biologist, has exhibited widely and is the recipient of numerous awards including the 1996 SECA Award and the 1999-2000 Phelan Award in Photography. |
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John Yoyogi Fortes Fortes current body of work was inspired by the display of over 1,000 indigenous Filipinos at the 1904 St Louis Worlds Fair. These painting address concerns which transcend ethnicity and time. The layering of paint and imagery have become metaphors for personal memory and history while the paintings content is based on values skewed by our perceptions and personal beliefs systems. It's Fortes intent to create paintings that remain visually compelling at a distance as well as up close, illustrating the idea that like life, what is seen at face value, changes under closer examination. By introducing images from American culture with images from the indigenous people of the Philippines, Fortes is bridging his Filipino cultural past with his American cultural present. By gaining more knowledge about my Filipino cultural past, I can create a forum on canvas for images t o connect and speak of ongoing concerns about the human condition. |
| NW NV/. Survey of Contemporary Photographic Art November 14-December 12, 2003 A comprehensive group exhibit ion of 18-20 of the best professional fine arts photographers in North Western Nevada, held in conjunction with the regional Society for Photographic Education conference in Reno. The University will partner with other locations in town hosting the conference, with the University serving as the main conference site. |
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