University of Indianapolis - 2008-2009 Calendar of Arts & Cultural Events - (Page 19) The CDFAC Gallery t h e c d f a c g a l l The Art Gallery in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center, adjacent to the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall, hosts six to seven exhibitions annually. Major local and regional artists are the focus of most exhibitions, though the gallery also holds juried exhibitions and exhibitions from national and international artists. Remaining true to its home on a university campus, the major focus of the gallery program is its teaching mission regarding students of art and design. For more information on the Art Department, visit http://art.uindy.edu. e r y landscape, features painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, sculpture, and mixed media pieces by artists from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Kentucky. Steve Guiliani’s exhibition originated from a dead ponderosa pine (compliments of the Colorado mountain pine beetle), a chainsaw, and a rough idea. The material helps dictate the design of Guiliani’s pieces, as he incorporates decay, stains, beetle holes, and cracks to bring out what the wood has to offer. Guiliani is a 1978 graduate of UIndy’s Department of Art and Design. He lives and works in Colorado. M i d w e s t P h o t o g ra p h y 2 0 0 9 February 23–March 27 Reception: Monday, February 23, 4:30–6:30 p.m. Midwest Photography 2009 is a regional exhibition of recent photographs by residents of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Illinois, juried by Department of Art and Design faculty. Awards will be announced at the opening reception. H e n k Pa n d e r: Blasted Allegories January 19–February 13 Reception: TBA For the past few decades, Dutch-born and Oregon-based painter Henk Pander’s work has dealt thematically with his life as an immigrant in terms of loss and memory of what was left in Europe, discovery of and learning about a new culture, and trying to find overlaps and connections between what was there and what is here. Through paintings that reflect personal experience, he gives form to events he has witnessed, where individual experience meets historical time. His work often focuses on the passage of time, entropy, and loss in an attempt to make visual sense out of contemporary dilemma. Pander’s credits include classical training at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam and numerous awards for his work, which has been exhibited internationally. K atherine Sullivan: Body Electric & S t e v e G u i l i a n i : F ro m H e re t o T h e re E v e n t u a l l y September 2–26 Reception: Friday, Sept. 5, 6–8 p.m. In a series of figurative images that engages the language of contemporary painting, Katherine Sullivan simultaneously represents the formal tensions inherent in the medium as the figures appear to be both still and moving, recognizable and abstract, spatial and flat, graphic and painterly. Sullivan received her BFA from the University of Michigan and her MFA from Boston University. She is an assistant professor of painting and figure drawing at Hope College in Holland, Mich. UIndy Department of Art & D e s i g n Fa cu l t y E x h i b i t i o n October 6–31 Reception: Monday, Oct. 6, 6–8 p.m. UIndy Department of Art and Design faculty showcase their artwork in the areas of ceramics, graphic arts, painting, drawing, photography, and printmaking. T h e P u b l i c a n d t h e P e rs o n a l : Design Views April 6–May 1 Reception: Friday, April 10, 6–8 p.m. Visual communication design professionals work in the public milieu producing work for clients, solving problems, and creating solutions and strategies on an array of projects. In addition, designers may create work that is not client-oriented—work that may be more personal, though it certainly may still be “public.” This invitational design exhibition explores the relationships, overlaps, separation, or confluence between the public and personal spheres of visual activities for visual communication designers. Seeing the Land November 10–December 5 Reception: Friday, Nov. 14, 6–8 p.m. Seeing the Land, a regional, juried exhibition, explores the use of both urban and rural landscape in contemporary art. The exhibition, which showcases the varied stylistic and conceptual approaches the artists have toward arts.uindy.edu paGe nineteen http://art.uindy.edu http://arts.uindy.edu
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