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Indigenous Woman., Annabelle R. Broeffle Jan 2020

Indigenous Woman., Annabelle R. Broeffle

Senior Art Portfolios

Abstract three-piece series created by Annabelle Broeffle in the fall of 2019. It includes sculpture and installation art. The series is focused on indigenous social issues.


Leonard Baskin: Imaginary Artists, Kathya M. Lopez, Erica M. Schaumberg Oct 2017

Leonard Baskin: Imaginary Artists, Kathya M. Lopez, Erica M. Schaumberg

Schmucker Art Catalogs

Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, and printmaker. He is perhaps best known as a figurative sculptor and a creator of monumental woodcuts. The Gehenna Press, Baskin’s private press, operated for over 50 years (1942-2000) and produced more than 100 volumes of fine art books. His most prominent public commissions include sculpture for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and the Woodrow Wilson Memorial, both in Washington D.C., and the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, MI. Baskin received numerous honors, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Jewish …


Materialize: Sculpture Using Digital Fabrication, Robert And Elaine Stein Galleries Oct 2014

Materialize: Sculpture Using Digital Fabrication, Robert And Elaine Stein Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This guide was created for the Materialize exhibition, curated by John Dickinson and Tess Cortes, with juror Tom Lauerman. Materialize highlighted 58 works by 27 artists that used digital processes in their design or production. This exhibition also traveled to Purdue University Galleries.


Art In The Library: From The Collection Of The Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University Of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library Jun 2013

Art In The Library: From The Collection Of The Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University Of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library

Art in the Library Catalog

The Thomas G. Carpenter Library’s Art in the Library project began in 2008. Since the project’s inception the collection has grown to more than 100 pieces through the generosity of artists and collectors. Many of the works are by artists from northeast Florida. This is a selection of the pieces that may be found on display throughout the library’s four floors.

Catalog contains work by the following artists: Nofa Dixon, Diane Farris, John Bunker, Mindy Hawkins, Tom Farrell, Anthony Whiting, Louise Freshman Brown, Susanne Schuenke, Susanna Richter-Helman, Tiffany Leach, Jonathan Lux, Marilyn Taylor, Steve Williams, Christie Holechek, Sydney McKenna, Jerry …


Parterre: An Installation By Lauren Fensterstock, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Alison Ferris Jan 2008

Parterre: An Installation By Lauren Fensterstock, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Alison Ferris

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from Oct. 3, 2008 through Jan.11, 2009.

Essay by Alison Ferris.


On Island: Women Artists Of Monhegan, University Of New England Art Gallery Jan 2007

On Island: Women Artists Of Monhegan, University Of New England Art Gallery

Exhibition Catalogues

On Island: Women Artists of Monhegan is the catalogue from the University of New England Art Gallery’s July 26 - September 23, 2007 exhibition featuring works by 36 women artists who capture the essence of Monhegan Island and its role in the history of American fine art. There is a powerful sense of place, from dramatic, swift changes in light, color and nuance, to giant cliffs, swirling tide pools, and rocks that come in all sizes and hues, as well as island life and people. Their art covers the most recent 50 years on an island that has attracted artists …


Time's Body Of Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Look At Health And Aging, Wright State University Art Galleries Sep 2006

Time's Body Of Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Look At Health And Aging, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

A catalog for an exhibition examining the aspects of aging and health and featuring the work of nine artists. The exhibition ran from September 9 through October 15, 2006 and featured works in a variety of mediums including bronze sculpture, oil on canvas, video, and more.


With A View Toward The Public: Dayton's Alternative Spaces Residency Program 1977-1983, Wright State University Art Galleries Apr 2002

With A View Toward The Public: Dayton's Alternative Spaces Residency Program 1977-1983, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The guide discusses the exhibition about Dayton's Alternative Spaces Residency Program from 1977-1983. A brief description is given for each of the artists and their work involved in the original project.


Looking At The Visual: Art As Object, Art As Experience, University Of Richmond Museums Jan 1999

Looking At The Visual: Art As Object, Art As Experience, University Of Richmond Museums

Exhibition Brochures

Looking at the Visual: Art as Object, Art as Experience

October 16 to December 11, 1999

Marsh Art Gallery

Introduction

How do you read a painting? A sculpture? A print? Can they be studied the way that we study books? We live in a very visual culture, but we seldom study why a particular form, color, or image has an effect upon us. Visual art has a language, or series of languages, just like written texts. The languages can be more immediate than words, and they can tell us things about ourselves, the world around us, imaginary and supernatural worlds, …


Spirits Rising: Heritage And Contemporaneity In Figurative African-American Art, Wright State University Art Galleries Feb 1997

Spirits Rising: Heritage And Contemporaneity In Figurative African-American Art, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog for the exhibition Spirits Rising featured works by African American artists Jon Onye Lockard, Valerie Maynard, and Pheoris West. The exhibition was held at the Wright State University Art Galleries from February 18 through March 23, 1997.


Roberley Bell The Site Of Memory, Wright State University Art Galleries Jan 1996

Roberley Bell The Site Of Memory, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features exhibition of work by Roberley Bell. The Site of Memory was held at the University Art Galleries, Wright State University from January 2 through 28, 1996.


Women's Rites Of Passage: Telling The Story, Wright State University Art Galleries Apr 1995

Women's Rites Of Passage: Telling The Story, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features work from an exhibition of female artists Kathleen Browne, Robin Taffler, Gail Rebhan, and more. The Women's Rite of Passage exhibition was held at Wright State University Art Galleries from April 4 through May 14, 1995.


Sites Of Recollection: Four Altars And A Rap Opera, Museum Of Contemporary Art At Wright State University Mar 1993

Sites Of Recollection: Four Altars And A Rap Opera, Museum Of Contemporary Art At Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

A program from an exhibition featuring the works of artists Jenni Lukač, Angel Suarez-Rosado, James Luna, Renée Stout, and Y. David Chung. The exhibiton also included a panel discussion called As the World Turns-Culture, Compromise, and Ritual in the '90s.


Words & #S, Museum Of Contemporary Art At Wright State University Apr 1991

Words & #S, Museum Of Contemporary Art At Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The gallery guide discusses the exhibition Words and Numbers shown at Wright State University from April 7 through May 10, 1991. The exhibition focused on the combination of art and text.


Voyaging: William Bennett And Elizabeth Schoyer, University Of Richmond Museums Jan 1991

Voyaging: William Bennett And Elizabeth Schoyer, University Of Richmond Museums

Exhibition Brochures

Voyaging: William Bennett and Elizabeth Schoyer

February 14 to March 07, 1991

Marsh Art Gallery

Introduction

For both William Bennett, sculptor, and Elizabeth Schoyer, painter, art is a voyaging: invoking, acknowledging, celebrating the forces and mysteries of life's passages.

Bennett builds up, with stone, glass, copper, lights, and wood, exquisitely crafted monumental forms: The Voyage, The Boat over Ocean over Ocean, Stigmata, Bed of Dreams, Belly Scepter among them. The titles signal the theme of quest, while axial forms draw the viewing into ritual alignment. One come to Bed of Dreams as an altar; Stigmata, part anchor and part …


Redefining The Object, Wright State University Art Galleries Feb 1988

Redefining The Object, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features work from an exhibition of a collection of artists including Jeff Koons, Donald Lipski, and more. The ReDefining the Object exhibition was held at the Wright State University Art Galleries from February 22 through April 3, 1988


Mark Rhodes/Ephraim Rubenstein: Sculpture, Painting, And Drawing, University Of Richmond Museums Jan 1988

Mark Rhodes/Ephraim Rubenstein: Sculpture, Painting, And Drawing, University Of Richmond Museums

Exhibition Brochures

Mark Rhodes/Ephraim Rubenstein: Sculpture, Painting, and Drawing

November 29 to December 18, 1988

Marsh Art Gallery

Introduction

The art of Ephraim Rubenstein and Mark Rhodes is art about the human figure, born out of personal experience and nourished by the great tradition of the figure in western culture. Indeed, the persistence of the human form in art from prehistoric times into the 20th Century, demonstrates not only the infinite variety of interpretations and expressions possible through the body, but our consistent need for self-realization and re-creation through the figure. The particular pieces in this show convey a remarkable cumulative visual …


Quintessence: The Alternative Spaces Residency Program Number 6, Department Of Art And Art History, Wright State University Jan 1984

Quintessence: The Alternative Spaces Residency Program Number 6, Department Of Art And Art History, Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The gallery guide discusses the works involved with the Alternative Space Residency Program that was sponsored by the Dayton City Beautiful Council and Wright State University. Quintessence number six showcases the sixth and final year of a six year long project.


Quintessence: The Alternative Spaces Residency Program Number 5, Department Of Art And Art History, Wright State University Jan 1982

Quintessence: The Alternative Spaces Residency Program Number 5, Department Of Art And Art History, Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The gallery guide discusses the works involved with the Alternative Space Residency Program that was sponsored by the Dayton City Beautiful Council and Wright State University. Quintessence number five showcases the fifth year of a six year long project.


Quintessence: The Alternative Spaces Residency Program Number 4, Department Of Art And Art History, Wright State University Jan 1981

Quintessence: The Alternative Spaces Residency Program Number 4, Department Of Art And Art History, Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The gallery guide discusses the works involved with the Alternative Space Residency Program that was sponsored by the Dayton City Beautiful Council and Wright State University. Quintessence number four showcases the fourth year of a six year long project.


Alternative Spaces, Wright State University Art Galleries Jan 1980

Alternative Spaces, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

Alternative Spaces was a collaborative exhibit of 4 artists on a variety of subjects that acted much like workshops for the graduate students of the respective colleges that hosted them between the years of 1979-1980. The artist that were included in this workshop exhibit were: Dennis Adams, Michael Brewster, Steve Davis, Joan Jonas. With a focus on storytelling, these artist sought to tell stories and ideas through the mediums of sculpture, painting, film, and so on sought to teach expression in a metaphorical method. The colleges that hosted these artist were: Creative Arts Center, Wright University, California State University, Long …


Quintessence: The Alternative Spaces Residency Program Number 3, Department Of Art And Art History, Wright State University Jan 1980

Quintessence: The Alternative Spaces Residency Program Number 3, Department Of Art And Art History, Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The gallery guide discusses the works involved with the Alternative Space Residency Program that was sponsored by the Dayton City Beautiful Council and Wright State University. Quintessence number three showcases the third year of a six year long project.


Regional Fellowship Recipients, Fine Arts Gallery Inc., Wright State University May 1979

Regional Fellowship Recipients, Fine Arts Gallery Inc., Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features work from an exhibition of artists that were beneficiaries of a regional fellowship program funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and administered by the Art Department at Wright State University. Artists from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota were invited to submit recent work to apply for the fellowship. The exhibition was held at Wright State University Art Galleries in May of 1979.


Quintessence: The Alternative Spaces Residency Program Number 2, Department Of Art And Art History, Wright State University Jan 1979

Quintessence: The Alternative Spaces Residency Program Number 2, Department Of Art And Art History, Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The gallery guide discusses the works involved with the Alternative Space Residency Program that was sponsored by the Dayton City Beautiful Council and Wright State University. Quintessence number two showcases the second year of a six year long project.


Triad: Sculpture Projects Doyle/Gourfain/Leicester, Wright State University Art Galleries Jan 1979

Triad: Sculpture Projects Doyle/Gourfain/Leicester, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The project documented in this catalog were first conceived in early 1978 by Ed Levine, then chairman of the Department of Art and Art History at Wright State University, and Betty Collings, then director of the University Gallery at The Ohio State University in Columbus. Both institutions had, for five years, been sponsoring a variety of exhibitions and experimental projects that probed various aspects of contemporary art. The similarity of goals between the two institutions made this collaborative effort possible.

Each of the three artists visited Dayton and Columbus in the spring of 1979 to survey possible contexts for his …


Athena Tacha: Tape Sculptures, Wright State University Art Gallery Oct 1978

Athena Tacha: Tape Sculptures, Wright State University Art Gallery

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features work by artist Athena Tacha from her exhibition Tape Sculptures. The exhibition was held at the Wright State University Galleries from October 21 through November 3, 1978.


Richard Fisher - Current Charts: Chosen Lands, Wright State University Fine Arts Gallery Feb 1978

Richard Fisher - Current Charts: Chosen Lands, Wright State University Fine Arts Gallery

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

"Current Charts: Chosen Lands", by Richard Fisher, was the title of an exhibition ho s ted by the Fine Arts Gallery from February 9 through March 1, 1978. It comprised sixty-six works spatially and formally separated into two groups by the two levels of the gallery. The lower level presented forty-one works, primarily surface castings of specific sites along the Massachusetts coast, while the upper level housed the artist's Eco-Earth , an incomplete series of twenty-five imaginative drawings.


Art Of The 60s: A View From The 70s, Wright State University Art Galleries Jan 1978

Art Of The 60s: A View From The 70s, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

Held in October through November 1978, this is a flyer for an art exhibit ran by the Wright State University Art Galleries on the subject of art from the 1960s. It featured the works from three artists: Jae Ie Ferrara, Richard Fleischner, and Doug Hollis. Its purpose was to demonstrate the meaning of art of the 1960s in relation to trends of the 1970s. Two other speakers, Stewart Goldman and Laslo Vespremi, spoke and gave lectures alongside the exhibit.


16 Projects/4 Artists 1977-1978, Fine Arts Gallery Inc., Wright State University Jan 1978

16 Projects/4 Artists 1977-1978, Fine Arts Gallery Inc., Wright State University

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

During the spring and summer of 1975 Wright State University organized a cooperative workshop/exhibitions program with three other institutions and, in 1976, received the support of the National Endowment for the Arts. This publication represents the second such program in what is hoped will be a continuing series.

The program consisted of sending four prominent contemporary artists to each of four schools during the 1977-78 academic year. The artists selected to participate in this project were Laurie Anderson, Dennis Oppenheim, Michelle Stuart, and William Wegman, each of whom works in diverse media and materials, and all of whom represent a …


16 Projects / 4 Artists, Wright State University Art Galleries Jan 1977

16 Projects / 4 Artists, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

During the spring and summer of 1975 Wright State University organized a cooperative workshop/exhibitions program with three other schools and, in 1976, received the support of the National Endowment for the Arts. The program consisted of sending four prominent contemporary artists to the four colleges and universities during the 1976-1977 academic year. The artists selected to participate in the program were Siah Armajani of Minneapolis, Larry Bell of Taos, Lloyd Hamrol of Santa Monica, and Pat Steir of New York, each of whom works in diverse media and materials, and all of whom represent a range of artistic and aesthetic …