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What's New - Spring 2005 |
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What's New - Spring 2005 |
Internationally Acclaimed Artist James Turrell to Visit Campus |
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Internationally acclaimed artist James Turrell will make two presentations as Judith Weller Harvey Quaker Scholar later this month. Turrell will speak on "Plato's Cave and the Light from Without" March 24 at 7:30 p.m. at New Garden Friends Meeting and "Quakers in Art and the Light from Within" March 25 at 10 a.m. in the Guilford College Art Gallery. Both programs are open to the public at no charge. Born in Los Angeles, Calif., in 1943, Turrell earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and mathematics from Pomona (Calif.) College. Only later did he pursue art. He received an MFA in art from Claremont (Calif.) Graduate School. Turrell's work involves explorations in light and space that speak to viewers without words, impacting the eye, body and mind with the force of a spiritual awakening. Influenced by his Quaker faith, Turrell's art prompts greater self-awareness through a discipline of silent contemplation, patience, and meditation. The recipient of several prestigious awards such as Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, Turrell lives in Arizona. He is developing a natural observatory in an ancient volcano. For more information about Turrell's visit, contact Max Carter by calling 336-316-2445 or e-mailing mcarter@guilford.edu.
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2005-2006 Declared The Year of Spirituality at Guilford In conjunction with the Year of Spirit & Spirituality, Guilford College Art Gallery is hosting the major traveling exhibition, "Thresholds: Expressions of Art & Spiritual Life" from August 27- October 23, 2005. The exhibition is sponsored by five southern state arts councils. It debuted in Charleston, SC, and will tour the southeast over the next 3 years. The Art Gallery is partnering with the Green Hill Center for North Carolina (200 N. Davie St., GSO) to present the exhibition. As the exhibition catalog states, "Works by the 53 artists in the exhibition explore the many borders inherent in religious belief and practice, among them borders between life and death, body and soul, matter and spirit, past and present, public and private. The exhibition provides a mirror of the multiplicity of spiritual and religious experiences. It also offers a forum for discussing the larger social, political, and personal issues raised by religion in contemporary culture."
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Internationally Acclaimed Artist Hung Liu to Visit Campus
Hung Liu grew up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and moved to the United States to pursue advanced studies in art in 1984. Using documentary photographs as source material for her large scale oil on canvas paintings, she explores themes related to her Chinese heritage and identity. She will present a public lecture on her recent work at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 8, in Bryan Auditorium, Frank Family Science Center. A reception for the artist will follow in the Art Gallery, Hege Library, from 6:30- 8:30 p.m. An exhibition of her paintings from the past decade will be displayed in the Art Gallery from March 21-May 8. This exhibition and program is funded by a grant from the Freeman Foundation.
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Please join us on April 22 from 7-9 p.m. for the opening reception of the 2005 Senior Art Thesis Exbition. The show features paintings by Amelia L. Kinner (B.F.A), Nicole L. Jaffe (B.A.) and Jennifer McCall (B.A.); Photography by Jamara S. Knight (B.A.) and Elizabeth J. Minehart (B.F.A.); Ceramics by R. Alexander Lissenden (B.F.A.) and John T. A. Pickard (B.A) and Prints by Jonathan W. Clark (B.A.). The Exhibition will be on display in Founders Hall Gallery from April 22-May 7. This event is open the public at no charge.
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The Universe Story: Tapestries by the Kopanang Women's Group |
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The thirty-one embroidered panels presented in "The Cosmic Walk" tell the story of the universe, exploring the mystery, the potential, and the cosmic link that humans share with all of earth's organisms-from bacteria to bears.
The panels were completed by the women of Kopanang, an innovative community-based initiative addressing poverty, unemployment, HIV/AIDS and the legacy of apartheid and were commissioned by Faithful Fool Street Ministry in San Francisco.
Inspired by the writings of popular physicist Brian Swimme, Sr. Sheila Flynn, the founder of Kopanang, designed each panel. After six months of training in embroidery, eighteen women from Kopanang took on the project, adding their personal aesthetics through color and stitch-choice in order to make each panel a unique expression of themselves and their place in the universe.
The opening reception for "The Cosmic Walk" will be held April 18 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Hege Library Atrium. The exhibition will be on display from April 16- May 6.
This exhibition is sponsored by The Center for Ecozoic Studies and The Guilford College Environmental Club in honor of author Thomas Berry and in celebration of Earth Day 2005.
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Robert Bechtle Painting on Display at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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Terry Hammond, Director & Curator of the Guilford College Art Gallery and Roy Nydorf, Professor of Art, recently traveled to San Francisco for the opening reception of "Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
The exhibition, curated by Janet Bishop, features a lifetime of works by California realist painter Robert Bechtle, including French Doors I, a work on loan from the Guilford College Art Gallery Permanent Collection. This painting which was donated to Guilford by Rachel F. and Allen S. Weller, is one of the most important works from the artist's early career and is prominently displayed in the first room of the exhibition.
Also included in the exhibition is Bechtle's French Doors II (the companion piece to French Doors I), which is on loan from the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. An essay by Joshua Shirkey, detailing the significance of these two works is included in the exhibition catalog published by the University of California Press at Berkeley.
The following is an excerpt from this essay:
"The French Doors works, in their systematic delineation of domestic space, find interest in the most mundane of surroundings. But the artist's predominant concern is with reflection as an effect of light, and with the complexity of illusion required in (and permitted by) the depiction of light...In French Doors I, the play between illusion and reality further turns on the humble vacuum cleaner, one of several Pop art-like objects that appear in Bechtle's work from this period. If we suspend our disbelief, the vacuum seems to stand in the viewer's space by virtue of being on 'this" side of the doors."
French Doors I will travel to The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where it will be on display from June 26, 2005- August 28, 2005.
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