GVSU ART GALLERY
Art Gallery Exhibition II: "MultiMedia II: Art & Design and School of Communications Faculty Celebrate Grand Valley’s 50th Anniversary"
The GVSU Art Gallery presents the second of two exhibits featuring diverse recent works by current tenure track faculty from the Department of Art & Design and the School of Communications.
Artworks in a wide range of media will be showcased including animation, installation, metals, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, video, and works on paper.
Event is free and open to the public.
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 5-7 P.M.
Exhibition Dates: October 14 – November 19
Art Gallery, Performing Arts Center, Allendale Campus
한국 현대도예의 혼성에 관한 연구 : 2000년대 조형적 작품중심으로
(A) study on the hybrid of Korean modern ceramic art : centered on the formative works in the 2000s
저자 : 김지수
학위논문사항 : 학위논문(석사)-홍익대학교 미술대학원 : 예술기획전공, 2010. 2이훈은 흙에 대한 개념적인 사유로부터 설치와 퍼포먼스 형태를 띤 결과물로 흔적과 기록을 남긴다. 그는 도자예술의 작품결과물이 아닌 결과 이전의 흙 자체가 지닌 물성적, 재료적 특징, 현상들을 보여주고 건조, 소성의 과정 등 행위로 보여주며 자연 상태 그대로의 흙, 도예를 새로운 표현으로 말한다. 다분히 포스트모더니즘의 해체적 사고로 흙과 다른 오브제가 지닌 물체에 대한 개념을 글쓰기, 행위, 작업 등의 전략으로 표출하고 있다. ‘관계: 나, 흙 그리고 땅’이란 제목으로 열린 1997년 3회 개인전은 기존의 도예작업, 조형작업과 다른 상당히 실험적이고 개념적인 작업으로 기록되어 있다. 일반적으로 흙으로 무엇을 만들 것이며, 어떻게 표현해 낼 것인가, 제작과정 등에 대해 고민하고 내용을 담기 위한 그릇, 형태를 만들었었다. 그러나 이훈의 작업은 무엇을 만들기 이전에 그것의 재료인 흙, 물질에 대해 주목했고 재료의 탐색작업으로 이어졌다.
【그림 26】이훈, <관계: 나, 흙 그리고 땅>, 1997
“나의 과거의 모습들이 일정한 틀 속에서 의미 없는 흑백 사진 몇 장으로 제시되며, 나 자신과 흙의 관계는 투명한 비닐 속에 담겨있는 묻어있는 흙 - 자유로운 나(‘감성’적인) 다분히 제한적인 (‘논리’적인)개념으로 - 의 모습으로 나타난다. 내몸을 씻는 과정, 그 과정 속에서 흘러내린 흙, 체온으로 마른 흙은 비닐이 라는‘형식’에 담겨지고, 묻혀 지는 것이다. 이 모든 것은 일정한 시간이 지난 후 나무 상자 속에 포장되어 땅 속에 묻힌다.그리고 몇 년 후 흙과 땅의 관계 속에서 새로운‘내용’으로 다시 한번 보이게 된다. 이러한 모든 과정은 나에게 흙이 단순한 대상, 재료의 차원이 아닌 정신적이며, 주체적 차원으로 보여줌을 의미하며, 나의 정체성을 확인 하는 계기가 되는 것이다. 말하자면, 나는 흙 자체이고 싶고, 흙은 땅임을 알고 싶은 것이다.”
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작가의 몸을 씻으며 흘러내린 흙물이 체온에 의해 마르면서 떨어진 흙부스러기를 다시 땅으로 묻는 과정은‘사물에로의 회귀’,‘인간, 흙, 땅’의 관계에 대한 이야기로 읽을 수 있다.53) 사람도 결국 흙으로 돌아간다는 말처럼 모두 자연으로 환원되는 것을 말하며 흙에 대한 사유의 확장, 도예에 대한 개념을 해체하고 의미를 확장시켜 자연의 순환과 관계성을 밝히고 있다. 흙을 사유하는 것에서 비롯된 개념이 새로운 표현의 흔적으로 남겨지고 기존의 한국 현대도예에서 다루어지지 않았던 실험적인 행위예술, 설치 기록 작업으로 신선함을 더 한다. 흙뿐만 아니라 자신의 몸, 우유, 잉크, 면도기, 흰색의복 등 같은 오브제로 넓혀나가 물질에 대한 이훈의 파격적인 작품은 계속되었다. 현대도예에서의 흙 (Clay work)에 대한 재료의 탐구, 물질적인 것을 표현하는데 있어 퍼포먼스 형태를 취해 표출했다. 철학적인 사유와 개념을 표현하기 위한 다양한 방법들 중 새로운 시도를 모색한 것이며, 흙에 대한 확장된 개념적 접근을 신체, 오브제, 행위로 이뤄진 장르의 혼성이라 할 수 있다.
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53) 김복영은 한국의 실험미술이 개념적 경향과 물성적 경향이 중첩관계로 두 방향으로 발전했다고 했다. 한국의 개념미술운동은 자연의 사물들, 자연자체를 기표와 기의의 통합체로 간주한 우리 특유의 자연관이나 문화 토양적 기질을‘사물에로의 회귀’로 언급했는데 이훈의 흙에 대한 개념적인 작업, 행위들은 이러한 자연으로서의 흙을 사유하고 환원시킨다는 의미에서 동일하게 여겨진다.
Summer 'Food for Thought' Lecture Series Kicks Off June 18The MFA Program in Ceramics, Painting and Sculpture at the University of the Arts kicks off its 16th annual 10-event "Food for Thought" summer lecture series on June 18. Featuring noted visiting artists and critics, this year's line-up includes Lynn Gumpert, Matt Lynch and Steven Badgett,
Hoon Lee, Stuart Elster, Francis Cape, Joan Linder, Kathleen Gilrain, Walter McConnell, Mel Chin and Linn Meyers. The series runs through August 5 and is free and open to the public. Lectures are Wednesdays from 1 – 2 p.m. (unless otherwise indicated) in CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Hall (320 S. Broad Street). For further information, contact program director Joe Girandola or program assistant Kristen Goldschmidt.
Summer 'Food for Thought' Lecture Series SpeakersLYNN GUMPERT_Lynn Gumpert has been director of the Grey Art Gallery, the fine arts museum at New York University, since 1997. She has overseen more than 30 exhibitions at Grey, including "New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Collection," Spring 2008 (below), "The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984" and "Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka, 1954–1968." From 1980 to 1988, she was curator and senior curator for the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Gumpert also authored the first major monograph on French artist Christian Boltanski (Flammarion, 1992) and has contributed essays to numerous publications. Friday, June 18, 6 p.m.
SIMPARCH (Matt Lynch and Steven Badgett)_The American artist collective SIMPARCH was founded in Las Cruces, N.M., in 1996, and is organized and maintained by Matthew Lynch and Steve Badgett. Their practice involves large-scale – usually interactive – installations and works that, as the group's name suggests, examine simple architecture, building practices, site specificity and materials that may be salvaged, recycled or generally brought together with a kind of D.I.Y. attitude. Often collaborating with artists, builders, art critics, graffiti artists, filmmakers, skate boarders and musicians, SIMPARCH provides sites that allow for social interaction and experimentation with design and materials. Wednesday, June 23, 1 p.m.
HOON LEE_Hoon Lee is the coordinator of the Ceramics program at Grand Valley (Mich.) State University's Department of Art & Design. The Korean-born artist creates primarily performance-based installations, though his vast interest and experience in ceramics play a role in many of his projects. Lee earned his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and a master's degree in ceramic art and industrial design from Seoul (Korea) National University of Technology. Wednesday, June 30, 1 p.m.
STUART ELSTER_Stuart Elster is an assistant professor at the University of the Arts and the coordinator of its Painting and Drawing department. He is also a critic for the University's Summer MFA program. He received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of the Arts and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art. Elster has participated in two-person and group exhibitions at Tate, Marvelli and Schroeder Romero Galleries. He has participated in exhibitions at the Happy Lion Gallery in Los Angles, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, DePaul University Art Museum in Chicago and the Herter Gallery at the University of Massachusetts. Internationally, his work has been shown in Italy, France and Austria. In 2008 and 2009, Elster's work was included in the traveling exhibition "Islands and Ghettos" shown in Heidelberg and Berlin, Germany. Wednesday, July 7, 1 p.m.
FRANCIS CAPE_Francis Cape apprenticed with master carver Dick Reid before receiving his MFA from London's Goldsmiths College in 1991. He has exhibited his work extensively, including at Propsect 1 in New Orleans; St. Louis Art Museum; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Conn.); Public Art Fund in New York; and Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has also shown in galleries in Germany and the United Kingdom. He was the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2001 and Henry and Natalie E. Freund Fellowship in 2003. Wednesday, July 14, 1 p.m.
JOAN LINDER_Joan Linder is best known for her labor-intensive drawings that transform mundane subjects into conceptually rich images. Her life-size representations of figures and objects explore themes such as the banality of mass produced domestic artifacts, the politics of war, and sexual identity and power. Linder has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. Linder received and MFA from Columbia University, a BFA from Tufts University and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999. Linder is an assistant professor of Visual Studies at the University of Buffalo and represented by Mixed Greens Gallery in New York City. Wednesday, July 21, 1 p.m.
KATHLEEN GILRAIN_Kathleen Gilrain joined Smack Mellon Studios in Brooklyn, N.Y., as executive director in October 2000, and oversees all of the studio's programming. Gilrain has also created site-specific public sculptures for Savannah, Ga.; Ulsan, South Korea; South Carolina Botanical Garden; Chicago; Fields Sculpture Park (Ghent, N.Y.); Socrates Sculpture Park (New York City); Providence, R.I.; Connemara Conservancy (Dallas); Klenova Castle in Klenova, Czech Republic; and Cergy Pontoise (France). Gilrain holds a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from the University Massachusetts, Amherst. Wednesday, July 28, 1 p.m.
WALTER McCONNELL_Walter McConnell's unfired ceramic installations addressing the relationship between nature and culture have been exhibited nationally and internationally. McConnell serves as an associate professor of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. McConnell attended the University of Connecticut, where he received a BFA in Ceramics and Painting in 1978. McConnell earned his MFA in ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1986. Thursday, July 29, 1 p.m.
MEL CHIN_Mel Chin's art is analytical and poetic, and evades easy classification. He is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that conjoin cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas. In 1989, he developed the still-operating project "Revival Field," a pioneer in the "green remediation" field. Chin is well known for his iconic sculpture, works that often address the importance of memory and collective identity. Chin's socially engaged projects also challenge the idea of the artist as the exclusive creative force behind an artwork. Chin also promotes "works of art" that have the ultimate effect of benefiting science, as in "Revival Field," and also in the recent "Fundred Dollar Bill/Operation Paydirt" project, an attempt to make New Orleans a lead-safe city. Wednesday, August 4, 1 p.m.
LINN MEYERS_Linn Meyers received her BFA at Cooper Union and her MFA at the California College of the Arts. She creates prints, paintings and site-specific installations. She has been the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including, most recently, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. In 2008, she was artist-in-residence at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Meyers's work is in numerous private and museum collections and has been featured in exhibitions in museums and galleries internationally. Thursday, August 5, 1 p.m.
EAST & WEST CLAY WORKS - 2010 Princeton
Organized in conjunction with the ACP ceramics program and timed to coincide with the NCECA conference March 31 - April 3rd in PhiladelphiaMarch 18 through April 30, 2010
Reception: Saturday, April 3, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
The exhibition is presented in two phases:
WEST March 18 – April 30
James Jansma | Shellie Jacobson | William C. McCreath
Jong Sook Kang | Brad Tayor | Hoon Lee
EAST March 30 – April 30
Ikuzo Fujiwara | Ayato Fujiwara | Ryo Suzuki
Yuchiko Baba | Emiko Asada | Satoshi Yokoo | GilHong Han
MyungAh Lee | ByungHo Seo | JungSuk Lee | YongPhill Lee
HyunHee Jung | EunPyoung Kim | YoungSim Lee | KyeRi Kim
The Arts Council of Princeton will present the exhibition East & West Clay Works in the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts’ Taplin Gallery from March 18 - April 30, 2010 with a reception for the artists on Saturday, April 3, 4:00 - 6:00 pm. The East & West Clay Works was founded in 1998 by Korean artist and teacher, Professor Gil Hong Han. The intention was simply to bring together Ceramic Artists from different backgrounds and cultures to promote exchange, friendship and provide exhibition opportunities. The medium of clay and the pursuit of ceramic art is the “common language” enabling this convergence of artists from three countries, including Korea, Japan and the United States. Biannual Exhibitions for the group have previously taken place in New York City, Seoul, Korea, and Mashiko, Japan. The East & West Exhibition will be presented in two parts. Initially it will open beginning March 18 with six U.S. artists (West): James Jansma, Shellie Jacobson, William C. MaCreath, Jong Sook Kang, Brad Taylor, Hoon Lee presenting their work. Midway through the run of the exhibition, and coinciding with the NCECA conference in Philadelphia on March 30th, we will re-install the exhibition with the addition of fifteen artists from Korea Japan (East): Ikuzo Fujiwara, Ayato Fujiwara, Ryo Suzuki, Yuchiko Baba, Emiko Asada, Satoshi Yokoo, GilHong Han, MyungAh Lee, ByungHo Seo, JungSuk Lee, YongPhil Lee, HyunHee Jung, EunpYoung Kim, YoungSim Lee, Kyeri Kim.
The key dates for this exhibition and related activities are:
Exhibition dates: March 18 - April 30, 2010
Saturday, April 3, 4:00 - 6:00 pm - Opening reception
Monday, April 5 - Morning: Artists “hands on” demonstrations (registration required)
Monday, April 5 - Afternoon: Artists to give visual presentations of work
Funding for The East & West Exhibition is provided by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, with additional funding for workshops and educational programming from Pepper Hamilton LLP, NRG, Inc., and Deborah Gartenberg. The Arts Council of Princeton’s Paul Robeson Center is located at 102 Witherspoon Street (at Paul Robeson Place) across the street from the Princeton Public Library in downtown Princeton. For more information contact James D. Jansma - President of East & West Clay Works at jamesdjansma@earthlink.net or visit register at www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.
Form and Function
East & West Clay Works explores the range of artwork in ceramic
Friday, April 23, 2010 6:30 PM EDT
By Ilene DubeCLAY is a messy medium. The clay itself is a kind of mud, and as the artist kneads the earthy brown substance, adding water, it slips, oozes and slides. There is clay pooled onto the floor, and the clay cakes on your hands and soon is under your fingernails and in your pores. Hoon Lee’s video performance installation, “Murmur, Murder and Mother: Washed—Korea,” gives a sense of this, with images of 50 gallons of water and tubs and text such as “artist will lick frosting from floor” and “a simple act of washing becomes penance through the interaction between the audience and myself.” The work can be seen at the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts as part of the Arts Council of Princeton’s East & West Clay Works exhibition through April 30. East & West Clay Works is a group of international ceramic artists who hold biennial exhibits to promote exchange, friendship and exhibition opportunities. The organization’s founder, Gil Hong Han, recruited ceramic artist James Jansma of Hopewell, after seeing his work in an exhibit at the Hunterdon Museum in Clinton. Mr. Jansma exhibited as a guest artist with East & West Clay Works in New York City in 2002, in Seoul in 2006 and in Mashiko, Japan, in 2008. Now the association’s president, Mr. Jansma, who once ran the ceramics program at Peter’s Valley Craft Center and succeeded Toshiko Takaezu in directing the ceramics program at Princeton University, served as curator for the exhibit at the Arts Council of Princeton. ”We are people who get along and like each other as artists and people,” he says. “I was treated so well in Mashiko and Seoul, and since it was time to have the exhibit in the U.S., I felt it was a chance to pay back the kindness and generosity I was shown.” The group also wanted the exhibit to coincide with the National Clay Conference being held in Philadelphia in late March. Six artists from Japan and six from Korea came for the conference and opening of the exhibit, and hand-delivered their work. There is also work from Western artists, some of whom have Eastern backgrounds. “We want people to see the distinction between the styles of work,” says Mr. Jansma. “We’re so influenced by each other.” Transcontinental travel and the Internet may also lead to a blurring of distinction between styles. Communication is sometimes an impediment with the group, says Mr. Jansma, so it’s great to get everyone together. Even with language barriers, “we appreciate each other’s hard work and generosity. There’s a real closeness you feel toward each person and a sadness when you leave. ”I get so much out of watching the artists give workshops, and get insights from watching them work with clay,” he continues. “Everyone has a unique style — some lean toward traditional. ByungHo Seo leans toward contemporary but is also traditional with a white slip over a dark clay. YoungSim Lee created work from clay that looks like carved wood figures, based on the burial figures that would be interred with a person.” JunkSuk Lee creates whimsical figures that suggest porcelain plates and cups, painted with slip. “They are humorous and precious,” says Mr. Jansma, “part animal, part spiritual, and domestic and functional.” MyungAh Lee’s “The Second Puzzle 20100404” suggests a large ceramic word puzzle to this viewer. “It’s influenced by cityscapes and the geometry of architecture,” says Mr. Jansma. “It plays with the making, firing and printing on clay, combining processes with text. Language gets in the way of understand what meaning is.” Mr. Jansma’s own work, “Triple Spouted Earthscape Vase,” “goes back to the idea of the vessel in a more sculptural way. It is influenced by nature, and the spouts can be removed,” he says. “You could put water in and long stems, and it could function as a base. Beyond form, I’m interested in surface. I do a lot of heavy layering of glazes and thick crusted surfaces.” He fires it numerous times to build depth, color and surface. Rather than impose a theme on the artist, Mr. Jansma likes to see the connections viewers make from an eclectic show as this. “When you unpack the artwork and start to move it around you see relationships that weren’t predetermined but take care of themselves,” he says. “The only restriction we imposed was that the work had to be small because it was hand-carried.” At the end of the show, the work will have to be shipped back, so for more reasons than one, Mr. Jansma is looking forward to as many sales as possible — and his wish has come through on several pieces. “The show has been well received,” he says. “It’s nice to expose ceramics to a greater audience. I don’t think there’s a real awareness of clay here, a sensibility of ceramics as an art form. People still think of painting and sculpture. We hope we can do more so people see the range of clay, from vessel to purely sculptural.” East & West Clay Works is on view at the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon St., Princeton, through April 30. Gallery hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. For Communiversity, April 24, ceramics instructors Kathleen Preziosi and Bob Jenkins will present an interactive clay project. Participants will have a chance to get their hands into clay and try wheel throwing, hand building and rolling out slabs. 609-924-8777; www.artscouncilofprinceton.org
