LATE FALL 2011 EXHIBITIONS
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September 16 - October 22, 2011
Friday, September 16
This year's After the Pedestal, the 7th Annual of Smaller Sculpture from the Region highlights the very best three-dimensional work by current MFA sculpture students and 2009, 2010, and 2011 MFA graduates from our greater region. The internationally renowned juror Barbara Hunt McLanahan, executive director of Judd Foundation (New York, NY, and Marfa, TX) and a board member of the Jerome Foundation (Minnesota), selected the work of 14 artists from among 60. Artists exhibiting include: Molly Jo Burke (OSU | 09), Sonja Dahl (Cranbrook | 12), Evan Dawson (OSU | 12), Steve Gurysh (CMU | 13), Nathan Hatch (UKY | 11), Virginia Kistler (CCAD | 11), Janet Macpherson (OSU | 10), A. M. Martens (MSU | 11), Zepher Potrafka (OSU | 10), Meghan Reynard (U-M | 12), Stacy Jo Scott (Cranbrook | 12), Annie Stimson (KSU | 11), Dan Streeting (Cranbrook | 11), and Lisa Truax (MSU | 09). McLanahan finds a somber undertone and a harkening back to early times in this highly varied artwork which ranges from small reliquary-like works of mummified animal forms to sprawling DIY energy producing installations to poignantly recreate lost wetlands. McLanahan writes, "For many artists selected here, the work urges us to certainly be concerned, literally,about the dark – we should be more mindful of mankind's depletion of the earth's natural resources, and planning a future that has found more sustainable forms of energy or safer agriculture. Works poetically, and often humorously, draw attention to consumerism, cultural legacy, environmental damage, genetic engineering, and industrialization. We are prompted to consider our legacy and our ideals." These artists are fully engaged in making their own artwork, each of which shows clear evidence of both the artist's hand and emotions. With such works as enigmatic, roughly formed ceramic pieces that evoke questionable scientific practices, beautifully crafted constructions of fabric, porcelain shapes, Kevlar thread, and wood, and strangely altered animals and farm implements, these artists are looking very askance at where Western consumer society and agricultural based on genetic engineering and mass production brought us.Juror Barbara McLanahan's Statement about the juror Barbara Hunt McLanahan joined Judd Foundation in January 2006, having formerly been the Executive Director of Artists Space, NY (2000-2006), Visual AIDS, NY (1997-2000) and Camerawork Gallery + Darkroom, London, UK (1992-1996). Following a BA(Hons) degree in Visual and Performed Arts and a postgraduate diploma in Gallery and Museum Studies at the Universities of Kent and Manchester respectively, she worked as a curator and arts administrator for over 20 years on both sides of the Atlantic. She has been an active volunteer throughout her career, sitting on the board of the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive and the Leisure Services Committee of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom, as well as participating in Godzilla, a group of Asian American artists and curators, and sitting on the board of ABACA (Arts Benefit All Coalition Alternative) at Satellite Academy. She recently joined the board of the Jerome Foundation in Minneapolis. In 2006 she was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Artes et des Lettres by the Republic of France. Ms. Hunt McLanahan has been a panelist and lecturer at museums, non-profit galleries, conferences and colleges in the US and UK, particularly on career options for emerging artists and the changing opportunities facing artist-run alternative spaces. sculptureX symposium #2: The State of the MFA
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