August 9 – October 19, 2008

Works by Sanford Biggers, Anne Collier, Jesper Just, Tim Lee, Euan Macdonald, Susan Philipsz, Ugo Rondinone, Melanie Schiff, Wilhelm Sasnal explore connection between music and melancholy 

Aspen Art Museum
590 North Mill Street, Aspen CO 

www.aspenartmuseum.org

Saturday September 13, 2008

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Singleton Center for the Performing Arts - Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall Monroe Park Campus

922 Park Avenue 

Open to the public

`Polished and vigorous.´-The New York Times

Founded in 2000, the Daedalus Quartet captured the Grand Prize of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition, quickly establishing itself as among America’s outstanding string quartets. In addition to their performances of the standard repertoire, the quartet has won wide acclaim for their performances of contemporary music, including works by Elliott Carter, George Perle, György Kurtág, and György Ligeti. Daedalus is also Quartet-in-Residence at Columbia University.

Tickets are $32 for Adults with discounts for Seniors and Students. To purchase tickets, please call the VCU Music Box Office at 804.828.6776. The VCU Music Box Office is open from 2-4 p.m. weekdays during the academic year and 90 minutes before each ticketed event.

Anderson Gallery September 19 - December 7, 2008Opening Reception:Friday, September 19, 6 - 8 pm

This exhibition features the work of eight artists who explore the formal, technical, and conceptual aspects of encaustic, infusing this ancient medium with new vitality. Their paintings incorporate the seductive surfaces, luminous colors, and layered images that uniquely result from mixing pigment in translucent wax. The sensual physicality of these works is further enhanced by a range of techniques that include scraping, burning, burnishing, stamping, incising, dipping, and pouring, and by elements adopted from other processes like printmaking, drawing, collage, and installation. “By exploiting the physicality of their medium,” notes catalogue essayist Virginia Spivey, “they force the viewer to look deeper – past the transparent surface, past the represented image – in order to reinforce a material awareness of self and of place.”Artists represented in this exhibition are Kristy Deetz (DePere, Wisconsin); Peter Dykhuis (Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada); Lorraine Glessner (Rockledge, Pennsylvania); Cheryl Goldsleger (Athens, Georgia); Reni Gower (Mechanicsville, Virginia); Heather Harvey (Big Stone Gap, Virginia); Jeffrey S. Hirst (Minneapolis, Minnesota); and Timothy McDowell (West Mystic, Connecticut). At the Anderson Gallery, the exhibition will also include a site-specific installation by Heather Harvey. 

(Mocking Desire, Kristy Deetz,2003,Encaustic and oil on panels, 66 x 44 inches) 

Ballroom Marfa

The Marfa Sessions27 September 2008 - 1 February 2009Curated by Regine Basha,Rebecca Gates, and Lucy Raven

http://www.ballroommarfa.org

Stephen Vitiello (assistant professor Kinetic Imaging) and Steven Roden have been invited to perform during the opening weekend of the Marfa Sessions.  

The Marfa Sessions is a series of sound projects embedded within the public spaces and private corners of Marfa to create a sonic portrait of this unusual West Texas town. Ballroom Marfa, the exhibition’s headquarters, will feature a visitors center sound hub, hosting artworks and providing information and maps that point to the sound projects throughout the town. The eleven works in the exhibition include already extant pieces adapted for installation in public spaces throughout Marfa, and five new site-specific works specially commissioned by Ballroom Marfa and created by: KAFFE MATTHEWS; NINA KATCHADOURIAN; CHRISTINA KUBISCH; DEBORAH STRATMAN & STEVEN BADGETT; STEVE RODEN & STEPHEN VITIELLO; and STEVE ROWELL WITH SIMPARCH. In some cases artworks will occupy frequented public venues such as Marfa Book Company, the local grocery store and Marfa Public Radio airwaves; others will be discovered in natural settings near the outskirts of town.Marfa, as a desert town, is a remote place by any standard. It is also a uniquely central destination and an historical confluence of various phenomena that include one of the world’s largest astronomical observatories–The McDonald Observatory, Big Bend National Park, The Marfa Lights, a U.S. border patrol station, The Chinati Foundation (also formerly a WWII military base), the Judd Foundation, as well as the filming locations for Giant, There Will Be Blood, and No Country for Old Men.With site-specific works activating various locations across the town, and with the collaboration of the community, The Marfa Sessions aims to amplify the varied set of physical and metaphoric characteristics that define “Marfa” – its geopolitical position, local identity, myths, as well as its significant relationship to 20th Century Minimalism and Land Art. The Marfa Sessions seeks to call the ear to Marfa and its environs, noting the aural and conceptual depth and breadth of this complex setting.For more information visit: http://www.ballroommarfa.org or http://www.themarfasessions.wordpress.com

Wednesday, September 3 at 12:15 pm 

VCU Student Commons Theater 

907 Floyd Ave  

The Department of Sculpture + Extended Media is proud to present Folkert de Jong. Folkert is known for creating chaotic figurative scenes using polyurethane foam and paint. His works convey an uncanny and dreamlike quality where the perverse collides with the familiar. His installations are influenced by such artists as George Grosz, Otto Dix and James Ensor, like them, evoking both humor and violence. Through exploring the more disruptive and disturbing side of the unconscious de Jong’s sculptural characters appear at times brutal, playful, mutilated, hybridized, power-crazed or deranged.

Folkert de Jong was born in Alkmaar, the Netherlands in 1972. He attended the Academy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam and the Rijksacademy for Visual Arts, Amsterdam and has held residencies in New York, the Netherlands, Norway, France and India.