NORTH GALLERY | SPRING 2017
2017 MIAMI UNIVERSITY YOUNG PAINTERS COMPETITION FOR THE $10,000 WILLIAM AND DOROTHY YECK AWARD
DEC 15, 2016 – FEB 10, 2017
JUROR: JED PERL, ARTIST, WRITER AND CRITIC, NEW YORK, NY
Through the generous gift from William (MU ‘36) and Dorothy Yeck of Dayton, Ohio, Miami University has a unique opportunity to assist students and the community at large to develop a critical understanding of painting in the 21st century. The competition winner will be awarded the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award, and the painting will become part of Miami University’s permanent collection. This year’s competition focuses on representational/realist painting.
JUROR LECTURE
THU, JAN 26 | 5:30–6:45 PM
ART 100
RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS
FRI, JAN 27 | 4:30–6 PM
AWARD CEREMONY
FRI, JAN 27 | 5:15 pm
BFA CAPSTONE EXHIBITION
MAR 14 – APR 6
Department of Art senior studio majors participating in the semester long Capstone course feature their latest visual investigations.
RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS
TUES, MAR 28 | 4:30–5:30 pm
MEGAN ALYCE TAYLOR
APR 11–16
My work stems from reactions to both the beauty and brutality of human experience. The constant application and excavation of material across the canvas is an indication of time and loss; physical evidence of the experiential wounds the canvas has collected. These experiences leave a stain, a residue; just beneath the surface, just below the skin. meganalycetaylor.com
GABRIELLE ROACH: THE SKY IS FALLING
APR 18 – 25
Whether I am addressing personal issues or capturing shared beliefs about the world, I am fueled by a desire to find order and meaning. Although the narrative of each work varies, the culmination of my work gives physical form to the realm of the mind. gabiroach.com
RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST
SAT, APR 22, 4–6 PM
SAM DORGAN: EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED
MAY 3 – 10
Reality is fragmentary and frayed, compressed in ambiguity and layers evident in my work. Experiences and feelings are mixed becoming shimmers—investigated through attempts to defamiliarize/familiarize through shapes, forms, and imagery that is a fusion of memory and sensation.
ROBERT E. AND MARTHA HULL LEE GALLERY | SPRING 2017
ANNIE EWASKIO: ARKTOS
DEC 15, 2016–FEB 7, 2017
The 2016 William and Dorothy Yeck Young Painters Competition winner shares her latest studio works in, Arktos. Ewaskio’s oil paintings continue strange journeys through multilayered eras of Arctic exploration. The settings are reachable only in our imaginations, or the Internet – supernatural spaces, many of which have been completely altered either by material objects within them or by far-away activity. The artist wishes to thank The Arctic Circle Residency, the Jerome Foundation, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and the William and Dorothy Yeck Family Foundation for supporting the process of creating this show. annieewaskio.com
GALLERY TALK
FRI, JAN 27 | 3:30–4:30 PM
RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST
4:30–6 PM
LARS/SHIND
ELMAN: GEOLOCATION
FEB 14–MAR 9
Geolocation uses publicly available embedded GPS information in Twitter updates to track the locations of user posts and make photographs to mark the location in the real world. The act of making a photograph anchors and memorializes the ephemeral online data in the real world and questions the expectations of privacy surrounding social networks. Marni Shindelman, (MU ’99), half of the collaborative group, Larson /Shindelman, will be in residence in the Department of Art, February 14–16. She is currently head of the Photography Department at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. larson-shindelman.com
RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS
THU, Feb 16 | 4–5 PM
LECTURE
THU, Feb 16 | 5:30 PM
ART 100
BILLY SIMMS: CRAFTOWNE
APR 18–25
Craftowne: a visual novel is a series of pieces that weds text and images/sculptures to create a narrative of a planned suburban community based on an actual town in Maryland outside of Washington, DC during the ‘70s and ‘80s and the impact on me as a person and artist. billysimmsart.wordpress.com
RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST
SAT, APR 22, 4–6 PM
OLUMUYIWA OYEDARE: THE UNDERLYING THROES OF WEALTH
MAY 3 – 10
This work is a conceptual reflection and the metaphorical narrative of the anguish of the people living in the oil-producing communities of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria.
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 9 AM – 4:30 PM
Other hours available by appointment
Gallery Closures: During Installation & January 1-6, 13, 16 & 20,
March 20 – 26, May 16 – August 28