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University of Louisiana at Lafayette, School of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. |
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette, School of Architecture and Design
Bachelor of Industrial Design
Bachelor of Interior Design
Bachelor of Architecture, and Bachelor of Fashion Design
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January 22nd – April 17th
September, 2005
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Living in three Centuries: the Face of Age, photographs by Mark Story
Artist Statement:
The photographs for this portrait series were taken in various locations around the world between 1987 and 2005.
The Gerontology Research Group estimates there are 250,000 centenarians (people 100 years and older) currently living in the world. In rare instances, people live to 110 years and beyond, inspiring a new demographic label: supercentenarian. The Gerontology Research Group, through rigorous investigation of records, acknowledges about 65 supercentenarians, and estimates that about 350 are alive worldwide today.
The idea to photograph people who have lived in three centuries evolved over the course of the project. First, I was simply interested in taking portraits of people who appear worn beyond their years by living extraordinarily hard lives. Those experiences drew me to centenarians, and on to supercentenarians and their stories.
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East/West: Visually Speaking
Astonishing
transformations have occurred in China over the past thirty five
years. Since Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, China
has progressed quickly becoming a major force on the world stage
and setting new standards, for better or worse, in economic, environmental,
technological, cultural and geopolitical arenas. Still, it is evident
that China is struggling to merge its past with its present and
future. Globalization has certainly eclipsed earlier forms of cultural
communication within and outside of China’s borders.
Given the tremendous changes occurring in China, it is not surprising
that artists would be responding with equal vigor and vitality
to the new possibilities afforded them. As the title of this exhibition
suggests, the objects and images on view propose a new kind of
dialog occurring between the visual expressions of contemporary
Chinese artists and the stylistic and iconographic visual language
of Western art history. Like verbal and written language, visual
imagery communicates cultural associations and intellectual currents
influencing that which is most prevalent in contemporary society.
The melding of Eastern and Western visual languages is not new.
Asian aesthetics have long influenced western styles of art including
19th century Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Subsequently,
Western art movements such as Abstract art, Conceptual art, Minimalism,
and the Neo-avant-garde, all owe elements of their visual language
to early Eastern influences. At the dawn of the 21st century, we
see a visual dialogue ensuing between the two aesthetics, one that
promises the possibility of a more globally-based visual discourse.
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Hand on Shoulder
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Ultra-Realistic Sculpture by Marc Sijan
Inspired by Michelangelo's David and intrigued by the instinctive and sensitive way Michelangelo treated the human form, Sijan took this attention to details of anatomy to a new level creating figures which seem ready to begin breathing at any moment. Sijan has described his artistic intention as follows: “I want to give it life so it doesn't come off rigid. I'm trying to create energy and motion without showing a great deal of action … a natural very fluid look. I'm making my art believable, it goes beyond the physical to the inner spirit and soul of the person.”
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Bayou
Tech, 56" x 96 inches, Oil on Canvas
Bayou Tech, 56" x 96 inches, Oil on Canvas |
Hunt
Slonem: On the Bayou
May
15 - December 4, 2010
Part-time Louisiana resident, Hunt Slonem will exhibit his most
recent works which are based on the alluring landscape of Louisiana.
Slonem resides in New York City for much of the year, though often
seeks the romance, mystery and tranquility he finds in Louisiana.
With a home located on the Bayou Teche, Slonem has immersed himself
in the slow, sleepy and exotic locale of the rural south.
In
his new works, made specifically for exhibit at UAM, Slonem
wraps 9 x 9 foot paintings around a 5500 sq.
ft. gallery. Unlike
his images of rabbits, birds, and tigers, Slonem turns his eye
to the striking flora and fauna of southwestern Louisiana. His
imagery and style lie equally on the continuum between abstraction
and representation, mimicking a surrealistic character that pervades
rural folklore. Working with the same sumptuous texture and movement
of his previous paintings, Slonem’s new direction captures
the bayou’s edge as it winds through high grasses and rice
fields, or the thick, lush, and languid lines of Live Oak trees.
Slonem’s interest in Louisiana began when he attended Tulane
University in the early 1970s. Having lived in Hawaii, India, and
Managua, Nicaragua, as a foreign exchange student, Slonem has maintained
a love of tropical birds and vibrant color. It’s not surprising
then, that he should fall in love with the land which famous
ornithologist John James Audubon once explored while recording
numerous examples
for his legendary illustrations in Birds of America.
Slonem has been recognized with more than 250 exhibitions including
international exhibits in Madras, Quito, Venice, Gustavia, San
Juan, Guatemala City, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Stockholm, Oslo,
Cologne, Tokyo and Hong Kong. His paintings are found in more than
eighty museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American
Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, the Smithsonian
Institution, Washington DC, New Orleans Museum of Art, and the
Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum.
Note
to Museum Colleagues: Plans are under way to make the exhibition
available for travel to
other venues in the future. For more information write director@louisiana.edu.
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WILLIAM A. HUNTER, Kinetic
Rhythms #1277, 1997,
Gift of Jane and Arthur Mason,
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina |
Turning
Wood Into Art: The Jane and Arthur Mason Collection
Organized by Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
Turned-wood objects
embody a provocative combination of the natural and the manmade.
The dialog between an artist and the wood on the
lathe is a balancing act between precise control and the forces of
chance, a collaboration of hand, machine, mind, and matter. Indeed,
the allure of a turned-wood piece resonates from the intersection
of the material’s inherent beauty and the turner’s mastery
of technique, concept, and form.
The exhibition
features the work of forty artists from around the world, including
Stephen Hogbin, Po Shun Leong, and Hans Weissflög.
The collection encompasses the work of the 1960s with influential
artists such as James Prestini, Bob Stocksdale, Rude Osolnik, Ed
Moulthrop, and Mel Lindquist, as well as the next major group of
turners to emerge: David Ellsworth, Mark Lindquist, and others playing
a strong role in shaping the international field of woodturning.
This exhibition is curated by Mark Richard Leach, Founding Director
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Jacqueline
Heymann Cohn Collection of Japanese Prints
An exhibition curated by students
in Honors 415/Humanities 497 from UAM’s permanent collection.
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Olympia,
Untitled,
Oil on canvas |
Cuban
Art, Ajiaco: Stirrings of the Cuban Soul
July
15 - December 18, 2010
The
exhibition will focus on that which serves as
a source for all of Latin American art – its spirituality.
It will engage the visitor as they view, participate in, watch
and listen to the roots of Cuban culture from its sources in
Africa, Asia, Spain, China, and indigenous culture. Cuban art
today embraces
and visualizes the very nature of the Cuban soul. This is the
subject of Ajiaco. Their art combines the tales of the Orishas
of Africa
with Chinese calligraphy, the environment and feminist issues.
The formats change, the materials vary, but the element that
remains constant between the Cuban and Cuban-American artists
is a commitment
to the visualization of the syncretistic mix that is Cuban
culture.
Organized by the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, CT, the
exhibition is guest-curated by Gail Gelburd, Ph. D., a Professor
of Art History and Criticism at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Dr. Gelburd has been conducting research on Cuban art and artists
for over 15 years. She has lectured in Cuba, Taiwan, Korea, South
Africa, Australia, England, and Wales, and at such major institutions
as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Brooklyn
Museum, College of William and Mary, Williams College, Chicago
Art Institute, and Springfield College.
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Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses
Curated by Christopher Domin and Joseph King
This exhibition explores, educates and recognizes regional modernism
in architecture, a subject that has been neglected for far too
long.
In the early 1940s, Ralph Twitchell and Paul Rudolph began asking
question about new ways of building for the West coast of Florida.
How might one do it? How would one bring together an understanding
of this particular region with broader current thinking about architecture?
In collaboration with enlightened clients and skilled craftsmen,
the architectures explored new ways of composing space and form,
designing with the landscape and modern materials and technologies.
Their work gained worldwide attention in the architectural profession,
and it inspired a generation of architects in Florida to build
sub-tropical modernism in the 1950s and 60s.
In this exhibition,
we look at Rudolph’s Florida houses
together as a history of ideas, of experiments and creativity.
These buildings remind us of living in Florida in a different
era. But they also help us understand how architecture can be
a meaningful
expression of the way we live in a special place.
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