COOL SCHOOLS 2014 CAN ART SCHOOLS SAVE THE PLANET? Art professors and students lit fires under the civil rights and antiwar movements. Can they do the same for environmentalism? BY AMY WESTERVELT A detail of Pam Longobardi’s 20-foot-long Economies of Scale (2013), made from plastic debris the artist found in oceans from Greece to Alaska. Kim Anno’s […]
In Survey of Southern Art, Place Is the Space Rob ColvinSeptember 5, 2014 Hunter Museum visitors explore works by Alicia Henry and Greg Pond (all images courtesy Hunter Museum of American Art unless otherwise noted) CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee — Jiha Moon was one of several artists the critic John Yau would like to have seen at […]
EK INTERVIEW: JAMIE VASTA BY THE BLIND ARCHITECT MAY 24, 2014 Jamie Vasta will be bringing her amazing glitter art to the Empty Kingdom Summer Art Show. Her work crosses renaissance fables with modern say subjects, creating entrancing work. Check out her interview: Who are you? Where are you from and where are you currently? I’m a […]
By Humboldt State Now Mar 20, 2014 Humboldt State University’s First Street Gallery presents, The Spider and the Fly, a collection of prints and mixed media drawings by artist Gail Wight on display April 1 to May 18. Currently a Professor of Art at Stanford University, Wight’s work has earned her national and international recognition […]
Garth Clark, Chief Editor of CFile 03.17.14 One of the treats of Design Miami in December was seeing Tony Marsh’s new and unexpected work. Yet it has been in development for five years as the artist has slowly and carefully explored a new phase in his art. These works can be seen now at the […]
FOREIGN LOVE TOO / JIHA MOON at RYAN LEE GALLERY March 2014 By Lilly Lampe Questions of cultural appropriation abound in Jiha Moon’s “Foreign Love Too,” her second solo exhibition at Ryan Lee Gallery (formerly Mary Ryan Gallery) in New York. In paintings, works on paper and ceramics, pop culture, art historical references and icons […]
REBECCA BLOCKSOME JANUARY 31, 2014 I had the pleasure of hearing artist Gail Wight speak at a symposium organized by the Wichita Art Museum and the Ulrich Museum of Art in conjunction with two recent art-science exhibitions, Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention at the Ulrich, and Vital Signs: New Media Art from the San Jose Museum of […]
MAIDMENT: New Drawings and Sculpture November 2 – December 18, 2009 Reception: November 5 at 5:30 pm Artist Talk: 6:00 pm The University Art Gallery, College of the Arts. CSU Stanislaus will present a group of new works by the nationally recognized Northern California artist Julia Couzens. Couzens’ work of the past twenty years primarily […]
EXHIBITION The University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA), Amherst, MA, United States 10 Sep 2013 – 08 Dec 2013 The legacy of the late civil rights leader, writer, and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois is featured in a major exhibition that opens September 10, 2013, at the University Museum of Contemporary Art […]
Please click here to read the article By Glen R. Brown October 2013 In the early 1960s, before the mistral wind of poststructuralism swept much of the humanism from the humanities, historian Lynn White, Jr. famously argued that technology opens doors, but people choose whether or not to pass through them. Such faith in human […]