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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.

Figurative Sculpture And Social Commentary., Marty Clinton Henley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis supports the Master of Arts exhibition entitled "Figurative Sculpture and Social Commentary" at the Slocumb Gallery located on the campus of East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, from April 10 - April 14, 2006. This is an exploration of human form in sculpture and the use of representational human form to make comments about society.

Taking In: Aib Photography 2006, Aib Students

Taking In

This book is our fourth edition of Taking In:...a collection, a celebration really, of the best photography created by the students of The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Students came together in the class, taught by Gretjen Hargesheimer, and dedicated themselves to all facets of this yearly publishing event...including design, fund raising, jury selection, editing, layout, and print production. Taking In: is truly a collaboration of the images, ideas, and talents from all departments at AIB. The concept has always been a simple one...to showcase the artistic diversity and vision of students who incorporate photography in heir …

Water Being Water, Ronald R. Geibert, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

IQ. DNA. MRI. FYI. In an ever-changing world, we find ourselves conversing with abbreviated acronyms and phrases. They drive today's economy, political agenda, and water cooler chitchat. They define our use of resources and the attention given to matters. Who we are, or think we are, are wrapped around their brevity. In our hurried attempt to sort through the complexities of life we use them to only answer the obvious-How? Unfortunately, an equally important question, Why? is often ignored. The solving of the how of things has generally been left to the scientists and the reasons as to the why …

Taking In: Aib Photography 2005, Aib Students

Taking In

This book is the third edition in the Taking In: series. As was the case in Taking In: I and II, the work, dedication, detail, and graphic design is extraordinary and impressive. The work submitted by our students, and selected by our distinguished judges, reflects the eclectic vision, visual intelligence, perception, and promise of a talented student body. During this first year as a class, Taking In: worked through twice as many submissions than the previous years in half the amount of time. The stable class structure allowed a dependable process to support creativity and enabled the students, as artists, …

David Johnson: Prints, Drawings, Books, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

An exhibit featuring the works of David Johnson. His prints and works were held at the Wright State University Art Gallery from November 6th, 2005 through January 8th, 2006. His works include an arrangement of drawings and prints. Johnson is known for the specific qualities that invoke the feelings of strength, drama, intensity while featured around environments captured in his style.

Taking In: Aib Photography 2004, Aib Students

Taking In

This book is the second edition in the Taking In: series. As was the case in Taking In: I, the work, dedication, detail, and graphic design is extraordinary and impressive. The work submitted by our students, and selected by our distinguished judges, reflects the eclectic vision, visual intelligence, perception, and promise of a talented student body. Taking In: is truly a collaboration of the images, ideas, and talents from all departments at AIB. The concept has always been a simple one...to showcase the artistic diversity and vision of students who incorporate photography in heir personal artistic expression.

Barbara Grossman: A Survey, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

An exhibit held at the Wright State Art gallery featuring the artworks of Barbara Grossman. Wanting to depict the nature of everyday life, her subjects deal with people interacting with their environments. Grossman is acclaimed for her use of space, color, patterns, and expression that invoke "emotional resonance" with the viewer. The exhibit was held at Wright State University Art Gallery September 12th through October 17th. It was also shown at: Lafayette College, Washington and Lee University, and New York Studio School of Drawing and Painting.

Creatress: A Woman's Hand, Susan Isherwood Gibbs

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

Using stylized and abstracted sculptural interpretations of She—Great Mother, Mother Nature, Earth Goddess, Creatress, Gaia, female sexuality, and the feminine aspects of nature; a wide range of differing chemicals and temperatures for the development of various clay bodies; and a vivid color palette to reflect ideas, feelings, and moods, I present a story of woman as metaphor for Earth and nature, an immense organic, ecological, and conscious whole. Incorporating found objects (natural and manmade) and fibers (organic and synthetic) with my clay imagery, I offer an awareness of the roles ofwomen from around the world in the spiritual and psychological …

Clutch, Claire Canham

Theses : Honours

The research encompasses an analysis of Paradigms of practice, material as content, historical precedents, social and political conditions relative to the project themes and corresponding theoretical discourse. It reflects issues of domesticity and familial relationships, memory, narrative and the use of specific materials and methods sympathetic to these concerns. Aspects of the practices of Eva Hesse and Marcel Duchamp have been considered to contextualise and differentiate the creative work. The research also attempts to define and position the artworks through relative critical evaluation of contemporary art practices.

Holponiyochi: Contemporary Native American Sculpture, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

Nine artists participating in this exhibition share a concern with how practices of visual representation work to construct individual and collective identity. They examine and then reformulate familiar codes of visual culture, turning established conventions of visual representation against themselves. In highly sophisticated and nuanced critical commentary, they explore how both individual and group identities are shaped in and by one's cultural environment. At the same time, they recognize that limiting understanding can be an equally powerful influence in the shaping of one's sense of self and community.

Taking In: The Best Of Aib Photography 2003, Aib Students

Taking In

Welcome to the first edition of Taking In: the best of aib photography. During this first year Taking In has gone through many twists and turns in order to publish a professional portfolio representing the quality work produced by students at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Along with the portfolio there will be a gallery opening this Fall presenting all of the published pieces in a professional setting. Our intention is to bridge the gap between student creations and the greater art community through publication. The number of entries for our first publication were more than …

Landscapes: David Gloman And Richard Raiselis, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

Poster for the Landscape exhibit at Wright State University Art Galleries featuring artists David Gloman and Richard Raiselis

Rosemarie Beck: Paintings 1965-2001, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features the work of painter Rosemarie Beck, and includes an essay about Beck's work by Martica Sawin. The exhibit was held at the University Art Galleries, Wright State University, from September 18 through October 20, 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.

A Survey Of Four Contemporary Sound Artists, Mark Garry

Articles

No abstract provided.

Tracing Vision: Modern Drawings From The Ceseri Collection And The Georgia Museum Of Art, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features drawings from an exhibition of artists in the 19th- and 20th centuries from the private collection of Giuliano Ceseri and the Georgia Museum of Art. The Tracing Vision exhibition was held at the Wright State University Art Galleries from September 12 through October 14, 2001.

Natural Forces, Natural Forms, Robert Benjamin Randolph

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

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Video 2000, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

Video 2000 celebrates the culmination of the role of video technology and its use as an artistic medium in the latter part of the 20th century, and the beginning of its application into the aesthetics and modalities of the coming century. By presenting major video installations by cutting edge artists , both nationally and internationally known as well as regional within the state of Ohio, Video 2000 focuses on video as a tool for creative expression. Areas of exploration include the use of video as an extended performance or personal journal medium; as a means of social and cultural commentary; …

Japanese Kimono Fashion Of The Early Twentieth Century, Annie Van Asche

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper examines the development of popular kimono fashion from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century. I focus on kimono worn by modem-thinking young women whose wardrobes, by the 1920's, included both new Western and recreated Japanese garments and accessories. The meisen kasuri kimono, the most popular new style of kimono among women living in the growing urban metropolitan centers, is highlighted. It covers an unprecedented historical period of rapid modernization and Westernization of Japan, which brought about societal changes that dramatically--and positively--transformed the lives of Japanese women. I begin with a historical sketch of the industrialization of …

Textiles, Scholarship, And Art Education: An Art College Perspective, Wendy Landry

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In many communities the art college is the last formal refuge of active textile-making knowledge and heritage. This location appears to value playful, risky, or challenging material explorations which might result in creative design or meaningful visual expression. This should be the best environment for cultivating adventurous students able to integrate a wide range of experience and resources towards generating new ideas for interesting contemporary textiles. It could be a good place in which to discover how textiles contribute to human experience and history, and how they are meaningful. However, I submit that this art environment is still detrimental to …

The Patrimony Corrupted: Artwork Concerning The Reconsideration Of The Role Of Men, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

This catalog features of work from an exhibition of male artists including Scott Anderson, Joseph Dal Pra, Jed Jackson, and more. The Patrimony Corrupted exhibition was held at Wright State University Art Galleries from January 5 through 31, 1999.

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.

Dayton Collects Ii, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

The collectors represented in this show have a variety of interests and collecting styles. The collections range in size from well over 500 objects to just a handful of works, and they cover the full range of artistic media. Some collectors concentrate in depth on a particular period in art history or in a particular geographic area: there are collection of Winslow Homer and Whistler, collections of contemporary art, works by Dayton artists, works by African and Native American artists.

Drawing From Perception: A National Juried Drawing Exhibition, Wright State University Art Galleries

Exhibition and Program Catalogs

A program from a juried drawing exhibition held at the Wright State University Art Galleries from March 31 through May 5, 1996. The prize juror was Professor Emeritus at Yale University Art School, Bernard Chaet.

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.

The Meaning Of Yoruba Aso Olona Is Far From Water Tight, Lisa Aronson

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

While researching the ritual meaning of cloth among the Eastern Ijo of the Niger Delta, I examined the contents of a number of family owned trunks in which were stored old and much valued cloths traded from elsewhere in Africa, Europe, and India. One type of cloth which I frequently found in these collections was one made up of three, or sometimes four, woven strips that are sewn along the salvage and decorated with supplemental weft-float design. The Eastern Ijo regard this cloth as a valuable heirloom for its trade value and for the fact that its designs evoke spiritual …

Textiles Of Sacrifice: Aztec Ritual Capes, Patricia Rieff Anawalt

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This presentation analyzes three long-gone prehispanic textiles, a feat made possible due to the peculiarities of the Aztec language, Nahuatl, and the sixteenth-century Spaniards' dedication to detailed recordkeeping. From Columbus' first voyage in 1492 to Spain's final expulsion from the Americas in the nineteenth century, the Spaniards were exemplary recorders. Fortunately, this trait was particularly evident in the decades following the 1519–1521 conquest of Mexico, a period that yielded invaluable conquistador eye-witness accounts, administrative records and missionary chronicles. It is to the latter genre that we owe the data presented in this paper.

Of all the newly-discovered peoples in the …

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.

Interview: Joel Slayton, Christine Laffer

SWITCH

Interview with Joel Slayton, Professor of Computers in Fine Art at San José State University, and Director of the CADRE Institute. Slayton discusses the history of the Cadre Institute and details his views on the relationship between art and new technology. Slayton describes the role of artists in exploring the possibilities and ethical implications of emerging technologies such as genetic engineering, nano-techology, robotics, and artificial life. He describes installations and in-progress work focused on ubiquitous video surveillance. The interview concludes with a discussion of Slayton’s use of the DoWhatDo model for artistic collaboration and of his piece "Conduits," presented in …