INSECURE
November 21 – December 5, 2008
Media+Space gallery
Seoul, Korea

INSECURE features the work of Kenitic Imaging graduate students Althea Georgelas and Ali Miharbi.
In addition to the Exhibition Bob Kaputof (KI Department Chair) will lecture at the Graduate School of Communication and Arts in Yonsei University.

The US Biennial
On view from Nov 1, 2008- January 18, 2009

On November 1, 2008, Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1], the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, will open to the public in museums, historic buildings, and found sites throughout New Orleans. Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1] has been conceived in the tradition of the great international biennials, and will showcase new artistic practices as well as an array of programs benefiting the local community. Over the course of its eleven-week run, Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1] plans to draw international media attention, creative energy, and new economic activity to the city of New Orleans.

For more details please visit
 www.prospectneworleans.org/

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NeoHooDoo:  Art for a Forgotten Faith
On view October 19, 2008 - January 26, 2009P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, an exhibition that brings together a multigenerational group of North, South, and Central American artists who address the value of ritual in the artistic process and the wider implications of spirituality in contemporary art.  The exhibition  will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring texts by Arthur C. Danto, Greg Tate, Robert Farris Thompson, Jen Budney and Julia Herzberg.

The exhibition is co-organized by The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. It was previously presented at The Menil Collection and will travel to the Miami Art Museum from February 20 until May 24, 2009.

For more details please visit www.ps1.org/exhibitions/view/205/

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 Sanford is also in the November 2008 issue of ARTVOICES.

 

Sonya Clark, Chair Department Craft/Material Studies, was recently featured in Craftnicity for her Beaded Prayers Project. You can read the article Dreams, Blessings and Beads: The Beaded Prayers Project,  here http://tinyurl.com/craftnicity.

VCUarts BFA student Kyle Buckner was given an assignment in his Art Foundation Space Research class to pick a “precious object,” or something that was important to him, and create a pedestal out of wood to hold it up. He chose his iPhone as his object and began a creation that has moved well beyond the classroom. The staff of the Richmond Apple store became enamored with the pedestal they displayed it in their store. Word made its way to Apple headquarters in Cupertino. An article was written about the pedestal and posted on the MacLife web site.

www.maclife.com

www.gizmodo.com

As if all of this weren’t exciting enough, Kyle received an e-mail from the chief director of Gizmodo.com saying that his company is having an Art Exhibition in New York City in the first week of December and they wanted to show the pedestal there. After further talks, Kyle was invited to show a second piece in the exhibition - they will be two of only 20 pieces to be shown. Photos of the pedestal were posted on www.gizmodo.com and within 12 hours, over 6,000 people had viewed it.

On October 31 the 2009 Texas Biennial announced that William Cannings(BFA 1995) would be one of  the four regional artist in the upcoming Biennial. Cannings was selected to represent the West region of Texas. This event gives him the opportunity to exhibit independently in one single venue in Austin and showcase a complete body of work.

More information is avaiable  at www.texasbiennial.com

Richmond Magazine’s Pollak Prizes were recently announced, and most recipients have VCUarts connections.

The awards are named in honor of Theresa Pollak, the woman  whose classes, which began in 1928, spawned  VCU School of the Arts.

The following honorees have VCUarts connections:
Faculty
Scott Putnam/Amaranth Contemporary Dance
Susie Ganch - Fine Arts

Alumni
Cindy Neuschwander (lifetime achievement with Jay Barrows)
Pam Fox - Photography
Terri Murphy Simpson - Vocalist
David Bridgewater - Theater
Ann Swanson - Film
Virginia Samsel - Emerging Artist for Locker 50b
Danny Finney - Applied Arts

October 27 – November 14

Reception, October 29 5–7pm
(gallery talk to take place during reception)

Gaddis Geeslin Gallery
Sam Houston State University, Huntsville TX

Additional images & audio clips at derekcote.com

image detail from God Is Canadian, sculpture and multi-channel audio installation

Elizabeth King (Professor Sculpture + Extended Media)

The Sizes of Things in the Mind’s Eye
November 8 — December 21, 2008
David Winton Bell Gallery
List Art Center, Brown University
64 College Street
Providence, RI 02912

www.brown.edu/bellgallery

Blister Pack
October 24 – November 29, 2008
Opening Reception Oct 23rd, 6 – 9 pm

Werkstätte is pleased to present the opening of Blister Pack, a solo exhibition of new sculpture and drawing by artist Matt King (Assistant Professor Art Foundation Program and Sculpture + Extended Media), on October 23, 2008. By exploring the poetics of quotidian objects, King presents a unique perspective of our increasingly standardized mass–market culture.
With his work, King shows us the strangeness of an individual subjectivity that is framed by a culture saturated with serially produced objects, images, and spaces. The complex physicality of his sculptures demands that they be experienced with attention, and yet, they contain dead–ends, false trails, jokes, and ellipses that thwart rational understanding. Throughout the work, fugitive meanings glance off one another, suggesting a broad condition of uncertainty and mistrust, longing and promise.

Angie Bacskocky, senior Fashion Design student at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Fashion Design and Merchandising, had no idea that the garments that she draped and created for her internship at Alexander McQueen would make it to the Paris runways this fall. Angie studied abroad through VCU’s study abroad program at Central St. Martins in London, Great Britain during the fall 2007 and spring 2008 semesters. She interned in McQueen’s design studio in London in the spring semester while taking classes and working.

Ms. Bacskocky’s internship was in the print and textile design studio for Mr. McQueen, and the majority of the interns were textile design students. Angie
3-dimensionally draped the patterned textile into a garment, and created the “leggings” as part of her assigned responsibilities.  She worked as part of a team of interns each receiving projects working toward the completion of the Spring 2009 line.