Visiting Artist Lectures

Marilee Salvator

Lecture 1pm, February 2, 2012
CFA room 204
University of Nevada Reno

Marilee Salvator received her BFA from Illinois State University, Normal, IL in 2000 and her MFA degree from University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM in 2004. She has taught printmaking and design at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB and currently teaching at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania.

Marilee’s artwork ranges from traditional 2-d prints to mixed print media/
installation. Her work tends to flux back and forth between issues of
autobiography, feminist ideals and abstraction. The images were created
through various printmaking techniques including monotype and silkscreen.

Marilee Salvator’s has been included in many exhibitions throughout the
United Sates, Canada, South Korea, China, Poland, Italy and Romania.
She had her solo shows at Open Studio in Toronto, Canada, College of
Southern Las Vegas and Bloomsburg University, and the 2nd Annual Sanbao
Printmaking Exhibition and Symposium at Shanxi University in China.

Kiel Johnson

Tuesday February 7, 2012
Lecture 5:30 pm Room 124 Knowledge Center Auditorium

Kiel Johnson's drawings and sculptures tell tales; layered narratives speak of his travels
and adventures through everyday life. His works become a springboard for metaphorical investigations of the world he inhabits. Although both factual fictions and absurd scenarios, they are ultimately testaments to observation that force us to question the concrete and truthful. What at first might appear safe and secure will be, upon further inspection, very precarious.

Johnson received his MFA from California State University, Long Beach, California and
B.F.A. from University of Kansas in Lawrence He has received numerous awards and honors
including the Pollock-Krasner Grant, 2008; Durfee Foundation ARC Grant, 2007; and the
CSULB Outstanding Creative Achievement Award, 2003. He has had solo exhibitions in New
York, Los Angeles, Kansas City and Irvine. His work appears in several important public and
private collections including the Creative Artist Agency (CA), Tubert International(CA), Steve
Martin Collection (NY), Todd Oldham (NY), and Sprint World Headquarters (MO).

Johnson lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and his work is represented by Mark
Moor Gallery, Santa Monica, California and Davison Contemporary in New York.