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(Aug. 24, 2012)
Two New Venues, Expanded Visiting Artists & Scholars Program Highlight Fall Season for CCAD Exhibitions
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Aug. 24, 2012) – A diverse array of artists and exhibitions will spur conversation and debate on topics ranging from the use of plastic debris in art, American isolationism in gated communities, the power of creativity in the economy, and the art of the comic book and graphic novel during the Columbus College of Art & Design fall exhibitions season.
The college opens two new venues for the expanded fall schedule. The CCAD MindMarket’s ThoughtLab, located in the Design Studios on Broad (390 E. Broad St.), studies the connection between creativity and economic value and explores all the ways the creative community impacts the world around us. Room, a new project space within the Canzani Center Gallery, will feature exhibitions, projects, and video installations that will sometimes complement the main gallery show and other times stand alone.
“This season promises to be one of our most diverse ever as we increase the variety of artists and topics we explore,” said Michael Goodson, director of exhibitions at CCAD. “Additionally, we are adding new venues and expanding our hours in the Canzani Center Gallery and Room to provide more options for the community to view the exhibits and to join the conversation at no cost.”
The new Canzani Center Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Closed Mondays. See www.ccad.edu/event/calendar for the full listing of CCAD events. Call 614.224.9101 for more information.
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AUGUST
Visiting Artists & Scholars:
Stefan Sagmeister
Aug. 30
6:30 p.m.
Canzani Center Auditorium
Stefan Sagmeister studied graphic design in Vienna and New York. After working with Leo Burnett's Hong Kong Design Group, he returned to New York to work with Tibor Kalman, then proceeded to form Sagmeister Inc., now Sagmeister & Walsh. Best known for its album and poster designs, the agency has created branding, graphics, and packaging for clients as diverse as the Rolling Stones, the Guggenheim Museum and Time Warner. A longtime collaborator with musicians David Byrne and Lou Reed, Sagmeister has won over 200 design awards and teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
SEPTEMBER
Visiting Artists & Scholars:
Aurora Robson
Sept. 12
7 p.m.
Canzani Center Auditorium
Aurora Robson is a multimedia artist known for her transformative use of plastic debris, excess packaging, and junk mail as art-making material. A Canadian, Robson has lived and worked in New York City for the past 21 years. She has exhibited all over the United States and Europe and is the founding artist of Project Vortex, an international collective of artists, designers and architects who also work with plastic debris. Her exhibition Sacrifice + Bliss will be at the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Garden from Sept. 9 through April 28. Undergraduate and graduate students from CCAD interned with Robson this summer during her Franklin Park installation.
Exhibitions:
Jimmy Corrigan
Chris Ware
Sept. 21 to Oct. 12
Room, Canzani Center
Reception: 8 p.m., Oct. 5
Chris Ware is an American comic book artist notable for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth. Active since the late 1980s, he has won dozens of awards for his work. Jimmy Corrigan presents original art from the novel, which conveys the nonlinear story of four generations of the fictional Corrigan family. Offered in conjunction with the MIX 2012 Comics Symposium.
American Primitives
Todd Slaughter
Sept. 27¬ to Nov. 8
Opening reception: 6 to 9 p.m., Sept. 27
Canzani Center Gallery
Over the last 12 years Todd Slaughter’s artwork has addressed the perception that safety is synonymous with isolation and privilege in the gated communities of suburbia and urban high-rises. American Primitives points out parallels between the American individualism defined by Thoreau and Emerson and its evil twin, isolationist groups who feel that they, too, are manifesting core American values.
Slaughter is a former CCAD faculty member and currently a professor at Ohio State University. His work has been given a major retrospective at the Chicago Cultural Center, as well as exhibitions in numerous galleries and museums. Permanent public works can be found in the Midway Airport, Chicago, and Tarifa/Algeciras, Spain.
Visiting Artists & Scholars:
Roger Martin
Sept. 28
Canzani Center Auditorium
4:30 p.m. Reception
5:30 p.m. Presentation
6:30 p.m. Q&A
Design Studios on Broad
7 p.m. Roger Martin book signing, CCAD MindMarket tours and idUS Week kick-off party
Are we experiencing the inevitable decline of the American economy? Or the new normal in a technology-enabled global marketplace? Internationally renowned design thinking and management expert Roger Martin will share his thoughts with Columbus.
Best known in design circles for his book The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage, Martin is dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
After the presentation, the new CCAD MindMarket will be open for tours and a book signing by Martin. Then idUS Week, Columbus’ citywide celebration of innovation and design, kicks off with food, drinks, dancing and more.
Roger Martin’s presentation is a ticketed event ($100). All events afterward in the MindMarket are free and open to the public. Tickets may be purchased at http://www.ccad.edu/events-2012/roger-martin.
Presented with the support of Huntington.
OCTOBER
MIX 2012: A Comics Symposium
Keynote speaker: Chris Ware
Oct. 3 to Oct. 6
CCAD Campus
A celebration of and investigation into the art of the comic book, the graphic novel and other book-length forms of sequential art narrative, the Mix 2012 comics symposium will include a student comics marathon, an exhibition, and two days of papers, workshops and roundtables built around the theme “epic narratives.” To find out more and register, visit www.ccad.edu/events-2012/mix2012.
- Student-Team Marathon, Oct. 3–4
- Symposium, Oct. 5&6
- Exhibition Opening, Pct. 5
Presented with the support of State Auto Insurance Companies.
Visiting Artists & Scholars:
Benjamin Anastas
Oct. 19
6:30 p.m.
Canzani Center Auditorium
Benjamin Anastas is the author of two highly regarded novels, and his memoir, Too Good to Be True, will be published this fall. His short fiction has been published in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and GQ, while his criticism and essays have appeared regularly in Bookforum, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, and The New York Observer. Anastas’ essay “The Foul Reign of Emerson's 'Self-Reliance'” appears in our exhibition catalog for American Primitives and will be included in The Best American Essays 2012.
Exhibition:
Sleep
Ian Ruffino
Oct. 16 to Nov. 9
Room, Canzani Center
Reception: 6 p.m., Oct. 26
Sleep explores a decision Ian Ruffino made nearly 10 years ago to cast away all colors from his wardrobe except for blue, thus affirming a defined blue space as a platform for consciousness. Sleep’s modestly sized drawings, paintings, and prints navigate a culture and narrative of what he calls “a space to wake.” Ruffino’s work has been shown in Texas, Macedonia, and Germany, among other places. He teaches at Ohio State University.
NOVEMBER
Visiting Artists & Scholars:
Bill Strickland
Nov. 10
9 a.m.
Canzani Center Auditorium
For 30 years, Bill Strickland’s Manchester Bidwell Corp. has transformed the lives of adults and teenagers with innovative community arts and jobs training. A recipient of the MacArthur “genius grant,” Strickland was named to the White House Council for Community Solutions by President Obama. He is also the author of Make the Impossible Possible and the founder of the Grammy-winning MCG Jazz, the most successful jazz subscription series in America.
Strickland will speak about the economic value of the creative community as part of a National Professional-Development Workshop for Artists hosted by CCAD and the College Art Association. To purchase tickets, visit www.collegeart.org/workshops/national.
Exhibitions:
The Radiant Future and Mr. Gay in the U.S.A.
Donald Moffett
Nov. 16 to Jan. 11
Canzani Center Gallery
Exhibition opening: Nov. 16
Sneak preview: 5 p.m.
Artist talk: (with Byron Kim, see below) 5:30 p.m.
Reception: 6:30 p.m.
Donald Moffett’s paintings shift our expectations of what a painting should be. They are oil on panel, to be sure, but each blade, hair, and fiber of paint is methodically extruded onto the picture plane so that the surfaces resemble curiously, radiantly pigmented AstroTurf. In The Radiant Future, Moffett’s fetishistic process is contextualized with his established repertoire of holes—as well as with “holding” structures that in some cases might be more correctly described as contraptions. There is inherent tension in the pairing of mere straps and chains with the finely cultivated paintings, an elegant equilibrium of texture and weight.
Mr. Gay in the U.S.A. is a suite of 17 courtroom drawings from the case of Ronald Gay, a Vietnam veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. Gay, who resented the homosexual community for changing the common definition of his last name, entered a busy Virginia gay bar on a Friday night in 2000 and opened fire, wounding six and killing one. Quickly apprehended, he pled guilty. Moffett executed the drawings on site during Gay’s sentencing.
An original member of ACT UP and the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury, Moffett has been—and continues to be—a persistent and influential presence on the New York art scene. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; among others. A mid-career survey of his work, The Extravagant Vein, is on view at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, through Sept 9.
Artists Talk:
Donald Moffett and Byron Kim
Nov. 16
5:30 p.m.
Canzani Center Auditorium
In conjunction with the opening of his CCAD exhibition, Donald Moffett will have an informal public conversation about the ideas, catalysts, and context for his art making with fellow artist Byron Kim. Known for his minimalist paintings that address issues of identity, Kim lives and works in Brooklyn and teaches at Yale. He has received numerous awards and exhibited internationally. His work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York.
Exhibitions:
The Sunday Paintings
Byron Kim
Nov. 16 to Jan. 10
Room, Canzani Center
Opening reception: 6:30 p.m., Nov. 16
The Sunday Paintings is a series of sky-colored fields made as diary entries by Byron Kim every Sunday since 2001. The series was inspired by Kim's chance encounter with the work of Chuang Tze, an early Daoist who wrote about the relationship of the infinite to the infinitesimal. Kim translates this notion into a comparison between the vast sky and his quotidian, relatively insignificant life. Kim will participate in an artists talk with Donald Moffett on Nov. 16.
Simulacrum
Nov. 17 to Jan. 11
Canzani Center Gallery
Sneak preview: 5 p.m., Nov. 28
Panel discussion: 5:30 p.m., Nov. 28
Reception: 6:30 p.m., Nov. 28
As our culture relocates into digital realms, numerous artists have returned to a studio practice grounded in “doing” and “making.” Simulacrum unites the work of artists whose making freely borrows from the worlds of ethnographic and material culture, folk art, fashion, hobby crafts, DIY, hyper-realism and the shelves of Home Depot. From obsessively detailed replication to faithful and intentional distortion, the exhibition addresses re-creation as an act of adoration and commentary. Bitterly or lovingly (and often both), all these artists remake small parts of the world in order to excavate the layers of meaning within them.
Artists:
Conrad Bakker
Libby Black
Tom Burckhardt
Folkert de Jong
Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg
Kiel Johnson
Tony Matelli
Taylor McKimens
Ree Morton
Kaz Oshiro
Lee Stoetzel
Jude E. Tallichet
Alison Elizabeth Taylor
Jade Townsend
Artist Panel Discussion:
Remaking the World
Nov. 28
5:30 p.m.
Canzani Center Auditorium
(Reception following)
In conjunction with Simulacrum, artists whose work focuses on the fabrication of identifiable objects discuss what it means to take this path. Moderator Eleanor Heartney is an award-winning, internationally recognized art critic who writes extensively on contemporary art issues for many publications, including Art in America, Artnews, The New Art Examiner, and The New York Times. Her most recent book is Art and Today.
Tom Burkhardt
Chris Hanson and Henrika Sonnenberg
Tony Matelli
Kaz Oshiro
Exhibitions at CCAD are presented with the support of the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council and CD102.5. The Visiting Artists and Scholars program is supported by the Skestos Endowment Fund, the Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Renaissance Hotel.
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