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| Selected Artists shown (1960 - 2005) John Altoon |
2007 Exhibitions |
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2007 in the Sheppard Gallery
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Rebekah Bogard "Animals are the source of my inspiration. They are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relations with humans. This susceptibility gives them a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. It is this innate quality I am exemplifying in my work through the visual language of girlish iconography: using hearts and butterflies with sweet color combinations such as pinks and purples to illustrate their cuteness." Bogard’s solo show in the Sheppard Gallery will be a clean, object-based instillation piece that will consist of 5-7 floor pieces ranging in size from 5-6 feet tall. The walls will be painted to look like wallpaper with a high shallow shelf that will line the entire gallery. The shelf will hold roughly 100 sculptures that will mimic wall-paper border, however it will be three dimensional wall paper border. All work will be constructed out of low-fire earthenware. |
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One Way Street One Way Street. The title of the show takes its cue from Walter Benjamin’s text of the same name. Benjamin’s text navigates language, architecture and time to produce a subjective force that is present, anti-historical and always on the move. The exhibition shows artworks that attest to this Benjaminian sensibility and also, move them along a little by reflexing on and sharing his interest in contingency. In this way the exhibition proposes the processes and construction of “meaning: as a space of individualism and violence, but also of passivity and pleasure. The exhibition explores how the rhetorical force of these artworks dispose of faith in rationalism and humanism, and propose instead the notion of the artwork as something, not to comprehend, but rather something to contend with. |
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Annual Student Show |
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BFA Thesis Exhibition #1 |
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BFA Thesis Exhibition #2 |
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Orion's Belt Orion's Belt is an exciting multi-media exhibition converges on the intersection of health, technology and mythology. The exhibition attempts to ask many questions: How do we tell the stories of our health in the age of technology? How do we attempt to bring the outside world (machines, medicine, etc) inside our bodies in order to understand and possibly heal ourselves? Where does science fiction and reality meet? How is health understood in different cultures represented in Reno? Is health a myth? Artists include Deborah Aschheim and Lisa Mezzacappa, Sonya Clark, Joy Garnett, Merrill Garnett and Bill Jones, Project Moonshine, Brian Knep, Lenore Malen and the New Society for Universal Harmony, Sabrina Raaf, Virgil Wong. Keynote closing lecture is by Professor and author Allucquére Rosanne Stone, who is one of the earliest new media theorists, and an artist and Founder-Director of the ACTLab at University of Texas, Austin. |
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Whole Fragment Artists include Polly Apfelbaum, Chakaia Booker, Nina Bovasso, Jennilie Brewster, Arturo Herrera, Fawn Krieger, Losang Samten, and catalogue contributors include Joel Felix, Tim Griffin, Ann Lauterbach, and Kirk Robertson. Catalogue designed by design competition winner Michael Eric Scott. Whole Fragment is a theme inspired by American poet Ann Lauterbach’s essay of the same name from 1999. This exhibition includes art that uses combinations of pieces, accumulation and precariousness as a system to create and understand new forms. Amongst the artworks, this show includes a massive sculptural-object wall painting; a piece made up of eighty black and white photographs; a floor mosaic made of hand-painted velvet and the two week creation of the Wheel of Life Sand Mandala. |
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Solo exhibition: Eunkang Koh Sheppard Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition that will feature the artwork of new University of Nevada, Reno Art Department faculty member Eunkang Koh. A brochure catalog will also be available. Ms. Koh was hired in 2006 to revive the Department’s printmaking area. Her prints and books include various methods: traditional and digital printmaking as well as non-toxic processes. Fascinated with human nature and heavily influenced by her upbringing in Buddhism, Confucianism and Korean belief, Ms. Koh’s narrative prints center on human/animal combinations of fantastical new creatures, participating in a world where “they exist without knowing who and how they are,” as Ms. Koh writes in her artist statement. Ms. Koh holds a BA and MA from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea and a MFA from California State University, Long Beach. |
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