THURSDAYS 5:30 – 6:45 PM | ART BUILDING 100
ART 281: CONTEMPORARY ART FORUM
JANUARY 21
JED PERL: 2017 YOUNG PAINTERS COMPETITION JUROR
AUTHORITY AND FREEDOM
Author of New Art City, a 2005 New York Times Notable Book, Jed Perl is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and was an art critic for Vogue and The New Republic. Perl is now writing the first full-length biography of the sculptor Alexander Calder. Perl is the recipient of an award from the Guggenheim Foundation, and has appeared on Charlie Rose, CNN and National Public Radio. Perl teaches at The New School in New York City.
FEBRUARY 2
ZEKE LEONARD: MAKE THINGS THAT MAKE THE MUSIC MAKE THE CHANGE
Furniture designer and maker living in Syracuse, New York, Zeke Leonard’s former career as a theatrical set designer was a continuous cycle of making beautiful things and then putting them in the trash. Now I am trying to reverse that process, by taking cast-off objects and making them into beautiful things. I work on commission, using locally found objects and materials to create one-of-a-kind pieces that will live on for generations. zekeleonard.com
FEBRUARY 16
MARNI SHINDELMAN: GEOLOCATION
Marni Shindelman (‘99) will discuss how she memorializes ephemeral online data in the real world, while questioning privacy surrounding social networks. Her project, Geolocation, includes photographs she makes to mark the location of publicly available GPS information in Twitter. Her collaborative work is in the collection of the High Museum in (Atlanta) and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Georgia, where she chairs the Photography and Graphic Design areas.
FEBRUARY 23
EMILY HANAKO MOMOHARA
Emily Momohara creates photographs and videos that act as metaphoric heirlooms and physical constructions of legacy. She will discuss her work as a cross-pollination of Japanese and American culture and her creative process including research, experimentation and inspiration. Momohara received a 2011 Ohio Arts Council excellence grant. In 2016, her work was included in the Chongqing Photography and Video Biennial. She is Associate Professor of Art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati where she heads the photography major.
MARCH 2
ANNIE DELL’ARIA, PICTURING CONTEMPORARY WARFARE (ART MUSEUM)
Annie Dell’Aria, Assistant Professor of Art History, explores the practices of contemporary artists who engage directly with veterans in order to render visible the human experiences often absent from the headlines. Her current book explores the use of moving image media in public art.
MARCH 30
JENNIFER FARRELL, PRINT LIKE IT’S 1929
Using a centuries old process to establish the contemporary visual vernacular of letterpress, Jennifer Farrell of Starshaped Press builds elaborate ornamental architecture and characters out of metal and wood type. Farrell will share her research and process used in challenging letterpress conventions and creating a place for 19th century design in the modern day.
APRIL 6
JESSE RING, STRANGELY FAMILIAR
Visiting Professor at the University of Cincinnati, Jesse Ring uses interdisciplinary sculpture practice to approach material as image, and meaning, by transmuting it into representational form. His finished sculptures are composed as scene, still life or collection; intended to present a narrative structure through material, image and space.
APRIL 20
CHRISTIAN SCHMIT, MYSTERIES OF THE MUNDANE
Christian Schmit’s work questions if the miniature can express profundity and if unremarkable objects can hold great mystery. Out of found materials, he builds tableaus, dioramas and theatrical models that hopefully are possessed of condensed and complex meaning. His work was recently shown at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Gallery. christiandschmit.com
APRIL 27
MARIA SEDA-REEDER
Independant curator, freelance writer, and adjunct instructor Maria Seda-Reeder has been working with, and on behalf of artists, for nearly 15 years. She actively pursues a multi-faceted career that allows her to dissect, write about and seek out critical perspectives on our role as consumers and co-creators of visual culture. nearbycollective.org