VCUarts professor emeritus Lester Van Winkle has created a different kind of sculpture…a pair of desks, each weighing nearly a ton are intended for students to sit in and essentially adopt as their own.

The creation is in honor of the 40th anniversary of the merger of Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia to make VCU. The large-scale installation will be unveiled in October.

Read more about it in Style Weekly.

TRANSMISSION presents new work by

VICTOR VAUGHN (Richmond, Va)
and
BEN KEHOE (Pittsburgh, Pa)

Opening Friday, August 1, 7-9pm
Show runs August 1-30

This show is the premier for both artists in Richmond.

Victor Vaughn lives in Richmond, and goes to school at VCU.  He has received multiple honors in the Department of Painting and Printmaking.  Victor will be exhibiting an installation which incorporates photographs and prints.

Ben Kehoe is an artist living in Pittsburgh, PA.  He graduated from Temple University in 2001.  Nature, pattern-based medieval artwork, comical violence, and uncomfortable situations are his influences.  Ben will be exhibiting a new series of acrylic and gouache paintings.  His website is www.benkehoe.net

TRANSMISSION
321 Brook Rd.
Richmond, VA 23220
 804.200.9985

Gallery summer hours: Fri, Sat, 12-5, or call for apppointment

Derek Coté received a curator’s commendation and will present a selection from the “22 Hideouts” series.

Houston Center for Photography’s 26th Anniversary Juried Exhibition August 8 - September 7, 2008.

Curated by Alison Nordström, curator of photographs at George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York.

Opening reception is Friday, August 8, 6-8 pm.

Houston Center for Photography
1441 West Alabama, Houston, TX
 713.529.4755

VCUarts alumni Ryan Mulligan, Lauren Clay and Kristin Beal are part of Paper Chasers at Artworks Cincinnati opening August 1st. Runs through September 5.

Opening reception, Friday, August 1, 6-9pm.

Diana Cavanaugh, a VCUarts double major (Sculpture + Extended Media and Painting and Printmaking) has been chosen by Ambre UK as their guest artist for July 2008. She will be represented on their web site for one year.

Ambre UK is a non-profit organization for the celebration and promotion of the understanding, enjoyment, and practice of art. An affiliate of Ambre International France the premier visual arts association in the French Riviera - it seeks to provide a venue for sharing expertise and knowledge across the UK and the rest of Europe, honor the work of some of today’s most prolific artists, and encourage innovation in creative expression among budding artists.

Two Sculpture + Extended Media graduates will have their work featured in “Transformed” at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia in Virginia Beach through September 28.

The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (CAC) wants you to see toilet paper rolls and gummy bears in a new way.

Those are just two of the unique materials employed by thirteen artists in “Transformed,” a group exhibition of two-dimensional, sculptural, installation and video art. Commonplace objects including fishing line, chairs, toothpicks and light bulbs have been manipulated, re-appropriated and elevated to the status of fine art.

“These materials are frequently relied upon for utilitarian purposes,” said CAC associate curator Natalie Bray. “The works in ‘Transformed’ investigate the physical potential of mundane and familiar items to become art objects that transcend their former roles in everyday life.”

“Transformed” features works by:
Steven Siegel
Tom Friedman
Tara Donovan (VCUarts MFA)
Rachel Perry Welty
Ya Ya Chou
Fishli and Weiss
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Matt Calderwood
Tim DeVoe  (VCUarts MFA)
Robert Lazzarini
Shirley Tse
Yuken Teruya

The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
2200 Parks Avenue
Virginia Beach, VA
 757.425.0000

JULY 10-AUGUST 30, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JULY 10, 6 PM - 8 PM

MOTI HASSON GALLERY is very pleased to announce the opening of intransit, an exhibition featuring 30 artists curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud. The exhibition runs from July 10 to August 30, 2008. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, July 10, from 6 to 8 pm with a performance by Micki Pellerano at 7:15 pm.

Department of Sculpture + Extended Media graduates noted below.

Moti Hasson Gallery will present a group exhibition of works by artists JORGE ABUNDIS, OLGA ADELANTADO, REMY AMEZCUA, INA DIANE ARCHER, NINA LOLA BACHHUBER, ANDREA CLAIRE, MICHAEL DELUCIA, ADRIANA FARMIGA, BRENDAN FERNANDES, AUNRICO GATSON, BEN GODWARD, WAYNE HODGE (BFA), TONY INGRISANO, JAYSON KEELING, LARRY KRONE, JULIA KUNIN, MOLLY LARKEY, SIMONE LEIGH, BRIAN LUND, FERNANDO MASTRANGELO (MFA), TED O’SULLIVAN, ROSEMARIE PADOVANO (MFA), MICKI PELLERANO, JOSE RUIZ, PEPO SALAZAR, JOAQUIN SEGURA, SCOTT TAYLOR, JUANA VALDES, and MAIA VALENZUELA.

intransit brings together 30 artists working in different media such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, film and video. To deal with the cracks in the urban landscape and its decay, the artists have built cross-sections of ecological, racial, and identity issues as metaphors. These meditations, rife with ethnographic, historical and natural symbolism, help to reinforce a position amidst surmounting struggles – for instance, the fight against global warming and the disappearing ideal of the globalized world – to assert their multi-faceted voices and identities. This show presents a dynamic look at today’s society, a complex and poetic visual journey.

Gallery hours are Tuesday to Thursday, from 10 - 8 pm, Friday and Saturday, from 10 - 6 pm, and by appointment. For more information or to receive images, please contact the gallery at 212-268-4444 or email info@motihasson.com.

Summer Studio participants will show their work in the Exit Exhibition “Treading Water.” July 26 - 31 in the Fine Arts Building, 1000 W. Broad Street. Opening reception is July 26, 6-9pm.

Work by:

Paige Adair, David Bellard, Sarah Butler, Leah Cupino, Joshua Dahl, Jenny Garnett, Crystal Heiden, Kathleen Cory Imig, Arielle Marks, Jessica McVey, Meghan Medina, Crystal Moore, Jee Hee Park, Brian Reed and Alina Tenser.

The Summer Studio Program at Virginia Commonwealth University (SSP@VCU) is an 8-week studio-intensive program for artists interested in developing work in a supportive hothouse environment. The program fosters development of professional attitudes and skills with an emphasis on individual investigation. The program provides students with an opportunity for concentrated studio practice at an advanced level within a community of talented and motivated artists. This two-month, non-credit, post-baccalaureate-style residency studio program is appropriate for the artist developing a portfolio for application to graduate school, as well as the artist interested in an opportunity for uninterrupted immersion and development of a studio practice in a challenging and supportive environment.

Read the Richmond Times Dispatch article about Ashley Kistler, the new director of VCUarts Anderson Gallery.

Welcome to VCUarts, Ashley!

Ledelle Moe, Sculpture + Extended Media MFA alumna, has won the 2008 Kreeger Museum Artist Award and $20,000.The Director of The Kreeger Museum, Ms. Judy A. Greenberg, is proud to announce that Washington artist Ledelle Moe is the 2008 Kreeger Museum Artist Award winner. Moe was chosen from a group of three finalists, by a distinguished, five-person jury. In the spirit of David and Carmen Kreeger, The Kreeger Museum established The Kreeger Museum Artist Award in 2004 to recognize, biennially, a Washington area artist deserving of recognition by consistently demonstrating artistic excellence, exceptional creativity and
whose life and work has significantly and positively influenced the Washington, DC arts community. The Kreeger Museum would like to acknowledge the other nominated finalists, Dan Steinhilber and Yuriko Yamaguchi. Moe will receive a $20,000 prize, underwritten by Chevy Chase Bank, which will be presented at a reception and award presentation at The Kreeger Museum in October 2008. A selection of her work will be on view at the Museum from October 3 through November 29, 2008.