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INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK
NEW PRINT 2009/WINTER EXHIBTION
Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago and the Southern Graphics Council Conference ’09 is proud to present the International Print Center New York’s New Prints 2009/Winter at 1006 S. Michigan Avenue from March 6 to March 30, 2009. The show consists of fifty-four works by forty-eight emerging to established artists. A Southern Graphics Conference Reception will be held at 1006 S. Michigan on Friday, March 27 at 6pm – 9pm and is free and open to the public and conference attendees.
The Selections Committee for New Prints 2009/Winter included Matthew Day Jackson, Artist; Jacob Lewis, Director, Pace Prints Chelsea; Barbara Sahlman, Collector and Artist; Julie Saul, Director, Julie Saul Gallery; James Stroud, Master Printer and Director, Center Street Studio; and Roberta Waddell, former Curator of Prints (1985-2008), New York Public Library.
New Prints 2009/Winter is the thirtieth presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried exhibitions organized by IPCNY four times each year, featuring prints made within the past twelve months by artists at all stages of their careers. The exhibition represents a cross-section of some of the most exceptional printmaking today, while continuing IPCNY’s commitment to provide an ongoing exhibition venue for contemporary prints and a major source of information about artists working in the medium.
The complete artists’ list for New Prints 2009/Winter is as follows: Romeo Alaeff, Desirée Alvarez, Michael Barnes, Anders Bergstrom, Laura Beyer, Marcin Bialas, Rolando Briseño, Eric Cain, Nathan Catlin, Jean Cencig, César Chávez, Willie Cole, Michael Dal Cerro, Aurora De Armendi, Richard Dupont, James Ehlers, Cecilia Enberg, Eduardo Fausti, Fred Hagstrom, Takuji Hamanaka, Anita S. Hunt, Alysia Kaplan, Colleen Kinsella, Pelagia Kyriazi, Karen Lederer, Beauvais Lyons, Franco Marinai, Robert Mueller, James Mustin III, Michele Oka Doner, Lothar Osterburg, Ardan Özmenoglu, Chris Papa, Ellen Price, Ross Racine, Jenny Robinson, Richard Ryan, Jean Shin, William H. Skerritt, Hills Snyder, Shino Soma, Buzz Spector, Barbara Takenaga, Tomas Vu, Carol Wax, Mark Wilson, Tammy Wofsey.
Highlights of the exhibition include: Richard Dupont’s Core, a monolithic etching with aquatint of a human profile; Michele Oka Doner’s untitled relief on handmade paper depicting a network of dark branches loosely rendering a single figure’s circulatory system; Lothar Osterburg’s Congested Planet, a four-plate color photogravure of a model of the earth encircled with highways and bright hot-wheels; and Barbara Takenaga’s Wheel (Zozma), a highly stylized vortex of pearl-like forms crafted on cotton and abaca base sheet with stenciled pulp and acrylic paint. Three artists’ books are included in the exhibition, along with a portfolio of lithographs by Anders Bergstrom, a suite of etchings by William H. Skerritt that read as a treatise on pavement friction, and a three-dimensional, text-based piece fabricated with thread by Buzz Spector.
A curatorial essay by Matthew Day Jackson will accompany the exhibition.
Thirty of the fifty-four works in New Prints 2009/Winter are by independent artists.
The New Prints Program is the core of IPCNY’s exhibition programming. New Prints 2000 launched the program in September 2000. To date, these thirty exhibitions have included work from over 900 artists and 200 presses across the country and abroad.
International Print Center New York is a non-profit institution founded to promote the greater appreciation and understanding of the fine art print worldwide. Through innovative programming, it fosters a climate for the enjoyment, examination and serious study of artists' prints – from the old master to the contemporary. IPCNY offers its members a program of workshop and gallery visits, and has established an informational website and Information Desk available to the public at the gallery. IPCNY depends upon public and private donations to support its programs.
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Image credits: Barbara Takenaga, Wheel (Zozma), 2008, Cotton and abaca base sheet, stenciled pulp paint and acrylic. Edition: 20. 20 x 16 ½ inches. Printed by the artist;
Published by Dieu Donné. Image courtesy of Dieu Donné.
FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS DURING THE SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL CONFERENCE ’09: www.colum.edu/sgc.
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AT 1006 S. MICHIGAN AVENUE FOR THE SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL CONFERENCE ‘09
Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books
Location: Columbia College Exhibition Space, 1006 S. Michigan Ave.
Dates: March 6 - 28
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 5 pm
Reception: March 27, 6 - 9 pm
Organizers: Hui-Chu Ying and Alicia Candiani
Artworks of monumental physical scale are overwhelming. The diminutive viewer is confronted and consumed by the gigantic. Presented with the miniature, the viewer, no longer assigned to the passive role, might instead devour the work, taking it into his or her soul. The miniature invites the viewer into a personal and intimate relationship. With attention drawn to the significance of the seemingly insignificant, the momentousness of the miniscule is magnified thus instilling monumental value. This curated exhibition will investigate the power of small-scale artists' books to challenge their readers with grand, powerful, urgent, and poignant content.
Contemporary Prints from Australia
Location: Columbia College Exhibition Space, 1006 S. Michigan Ave.
Dates: March 6 - April 2
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 5 pm
Reception: March 27, 6 - 9 pm
Organizers: Fred Hagstrom and Ron McBurnie
An exhibit of work by eleven of Australia’s best print artists including Martin King, Rosalind Atkins, Ron McBurnie, Euan Macleod, Graham Fransella, Jonathan Tse, Juli Haas, G.W. Bot (Chrissy Grishin), Judy Watson, Mike Schlitz and Reu Hanks. This high-quality work is rarely seen in this country, and emerges from an active printmaking scene largely unknown to the American audience.
reSESSION
Location: Columbia College Exhibition Space, 1006 S. Michigan Ave.
Dates: March 6 - April 2
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday Noon - 5 pm
Reception: March 27, 6 - 9 pm
Organizer: Alan Butella
Link: http://www.charactersk8boards.com
reSESSION showcases skateboard decks designed by artists using printmaking processes in the creation of their boards, such as silkscreen and relief printing, transfer processes, and stencil processes in addition to hand-applied marks.
Character Skateboards and the 2009 SGC Conference Exhibitions Coordinator selected the participants for this invitational exhibition. Soma Fuller of Focus Magazine says “Character Skateboards is a company built on the premise of honesty, integrity, hard work, strong boards and strong skaters.”
ABOUT SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL:
Founded in 1973, The Southern Graphics Council is a nonprofit membership organization that advances the professional standing of artists who make original prints, drawings, books, and hand-made paper. The Council strives to increase public appreciation of these arts through an annual conference that draws participants from across the nation and increasingly on an international level. This conference promotes and encourages significant dialogue and exchange of technical and critical information in the fine printmaking community. Awards, publications and exhibitions sponsored by the Council promote greater understanding, scholarship and enjoyment of these art forms. Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago is proud to be the host of this year’s conference. Website: www.colum.edu/sgc.
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February 4, 2009
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INTERNALLY DISPLACED
THE FINE ART PRINT WORKS OF
ENRIQUE CHAGOYA AND JANE HAMMOND
image: Postcard, Jane Hammond
The artists Jane Hammond and Enrique Chagoya will present their fine art print works in the exhibition Internally Displaced at Columbia College’s Leviton A+D Gallery as part of the Southern Graphics Council Conference* (SGC). The title of this year’s SGC Conference is Global Implications. Hammond’s and Chagoya’s work addresses contemporary and global issues of social and cultural displacement.
Enrique Chagoya’s artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultural realities that he has experienced in his lifetime. Chagoya integrates diverse elements from pre-Columbian mythology, western religious iconography and American popular culture.
Jane Hammond describes her work as “a fiction woven of facts.” For over a decade, Hammond worked from a fixed vocabulary of found images that she translated into a numbered group of over 200 reference drawings. Her images are “freighted with the feeling of the culture they come from.”
Both artist’s work is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, The Los Angeles Country Museum and The New York Public Library as well as other institutions around the world.
WHEN: March 12 – April 18, 2009
Opening Reception: March 12, 5-8pm
Southern Graphics Council Reception: March 27, 5-8pm
WHERE: Columbia College’s Leviton A+D Gallery
618 S. Wabash Avenue
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat. 11-5, Thursday 11-8
COST: Free and Open to the Public.
CONTACT: Juliana Cuevas, 312.369.8668, website: www.colum.edu/sgc
*ABOUT SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL CONFERENCE
Founded in 1973, The Southern Graphics Council is a nonprofit membership organization that advances the professional standing of artists who make original prints, drawings, books, and hand-made paper. The Council strives to increase public appreciation of these arts through an annual conference that draws participants from across the nation and increasingly on an international level. This conference promotes and encourages significant dialogue and exchange of technical and critical information in the fine printmaking community. Awards, publications and exhibitions sponsored by the Council promote greater understanding, scholarship and enjoyment of these art forms. Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago is proud to be the host of this year’s conference. This year’s conference will take place from March 25 – 29, 2009. Website: www.colum.edu/sgc.
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February 24, 2009
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SOUTHERN GRAPHICS COUNCIL CONFERENCE 2009
GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS
HOSTED BY ANCHOR GRAPHICS COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO
MARCH 25 – 29, 2009
Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago will host the Southern Graphics Council's (SGC) annual printmaking conference that will include over 40 venues across the city of Chicago. SGC’09’s title and theme of the conference is Global Implications. SGC’09 explores the artistic and social currents found in printmaking throughout the world. The printmaking community is part of a world in which time has become compressed: digital files can circle the globe in seconds, and new technologies are changing the nature of exchange. As resources become increasingly limited, what is done in one location undoubtedly affects someone, someplace else. As we become more and more interdependent, local practices are at once threatened, celebrated, worthy of preservation and dangerously divisive. The printmaking medium is likewise evolving, its borders increasingly permeable. Prints can be made and exhibitions can be mounted in ways that break away from sterile white walls to include installations; stenciled graffiti and paste-ups on city streets; limited edition, hand made and printed books, 'zines and comics; even work that exists only in cyberspace.
Global Implications will feature exhibitions, demonstrations, lectures, panel discussions, collection viewings, and special events at over 40 locations around Chicago. Keynote speakers include Kathan Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Anne Coffin, and Jane Hammond.
WHEN: March 25 – 29, 2009
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INFO: For a complete schedule of events, openings, lectures and registration to the conference, please go to www.colum.edu/sgc
Note: All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
MEDIA
CONTACT: Elizabeth Burke-Dain, 312.369.8695 or eburkedain@colum.edu
Media Contact: Micki Leventhal, 312-369-7383
CHCAGO, IL (February 19, 2009) – Robert B. Koverman has been named Associate Vice President of Safety and Security at Columbia College Chicago. This newly created position is designed to enhance the college’s security and emergency preparedness efforts.
“With the phenomenal growth of the Columbia footprint in Chicago’s South Loop and the increasing need for continuous improvement necessary to meet the demands of an urban environment, it was time to beef up our safety and security program with the leadership of a seasoned strategist,” says Alicia Berg, vice president for Campus Environment.
Koverman has a master’s degree in criminal justice from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and joins Columbia with an extensive background in security system technology, emergency preparedness initiatives and response, physical security improvements, and operations management. He is a former Police Chief with the cities of Bryan and Englewood, Ohio and Executive Director of Protective Services for the Art Institute of Chicago (which includes the School of the Art Institute of Chicago). Koverman has managed vulnerability assessments for government, corporate, educational and not-for-profit entities and has directed protection details for visiting foreign dignitaries. He is the recipient of the Smithsonian Institution’s 2002 Robert Burke Award for Excellence in Cultural Property Protection.
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Media Contact: Micki Leventhal, 312-369-7383
CHICAGO, IL - A tribute concert to Ray Charles will feature the talents of current and legendary musicians and vocalists as they perform Charles’s greatest hits and historically significant music. The concert is the centerpiece event of Genius Without Borders: A Symposium in Honor of the Genius of Ray Charles, presented by Columbia College Chicago’s Center for Black Music Research (CBMR).
The concert will take place at 7:30pm on Saturday, March 7, in the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium of the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State St.. Ticket prices are $45 ($25 for seniors and students). Call 312-369-6600 for reservations.
Members of the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble, conducted by T.S. Galloway, will be joined by former members of Ray Charles’s ensemble including vocals by Dr. Mable John, one of the Raylettes; Marcus Belgrave on trumpet; Chuck Parrish on trumpet; and John Bryant on drums. Featured vocal soloists with the NBMRE are Bobbi Wilsyn, Sue Conway and Maggie Brown. Also performing is the Columbia College Chicago Gospel Choir. Tony Gumina, president of the Ray Charles Marketing Group will serve as the evening’s host. In addition to the live performances, there will be a screening of rare video footage of historic Ray Charles concerts.
The tribute concert is presented as part of CBMR’s symposium on the Genius of Ray Charles, March 7-8. The symposium features paper sessions, lecture demonstrations and panel discussions examining the influence of Charles’s work on music and culture. Full registration is available to scholars, students and the general public. For full details:
www.colum.edu/cbmr/raycharles2009/index.php.
Genius Without Borders: A Symposium in Honor of the Genius of Ray Charles is made possible in part by the generosity of Mesirow Financial, The Palmer House Hilton Hotel and U.S. Cellular.
The Center for Black Music Research, founded in 1983 by Samuel A. Floyd Jr., is a one-of-a-kind resource known to ethnomusicologists, scholars and researchers world wide. The center documents, collects, preserves, and disseminates information about black music in all parts of the world and promotes understanding of the common roots of the music, musicians, and composers of the global African Diaspora. The center’s Library and Archives, which was established in 1990 and opened to the public in 1992, currently holds more than 2,900 cataloged books and dissertations, 11,000 sound recordings in various formats, as well as 3,300 scores and pieces of sheet music. Through its exploration of the life and work of a significant and influential African-American composer and musician, the Ray Charles Symposium will reflect the CBMR mission and have scholarly impact not only in the Columbia College and Chicago community but nationally.
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Media Contact: Micki Leventhal 312-369-7383
WHAT: Chicago’s Anti Apartheid Movement: An Archival Exhibition
A driving force in this city’s anti apartheid movement, Lisa Brock – now chair of Columbia’s Humanities, History and Social Sciences Department – worked with the college library to mount this visual history of Chicago’s role in the activism that changed the course of world events.
Artifacts and ephemera, including posters, photos, tee-shirts and historic documents tell the story of a pivotal era. An interactive digital exhibition enhances the display of physical artifacts.
WHEN: Now through February 28
Library/gallery hours: Mon-Thurs 9am – 9pm; Friday 9am – 6pm; Sat/Sun noon – 5pm
WHERE: Columbia College Chicago Library, 624 S. Michigan
HOW MUCH: Free and open to the public
MORE INFO: 312-369-8788
FURTHER DETAILS:
The Chicago Anti Apartheid Movement Collection, 1977-2000
Apartheid, the system of government-sponsored racism in South Africa, ended in 1990 with the prohibition against the African National Congress lifted and the release of all political prisoners, In 1994, after intense negotiations and escalating local violence, South Africa held its first free democratic elections, voting in Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa and putting his party, the African National Congress, in control. The anti apartheid struggle was not limited to South Africa; Angola, Namibia, and Mozambique were also under their own systems of institutionalized racism and the victory of Nelson Mandela paved the way for future stabilization across Southern Africa.
Governments and non-profit organizations across the world worked with South and Southern Africa to end apartheid and educate others about the situation in Southern Africa.
Chicago held an active role in the anti apartheid movement, passing sanctions, divesting holdings from South Africa and South African banks, and encouraging other local governments to do the same. In 1990, Chicago was proclaimed a Sister Community to Alexandra Township, the largest township of Johannesburg.
This work would not have been possible without the efforts of local social justice, clerical, and activist groups who came together to pass legislation, raise awareness, and assist South African organizations in the struggle to end apartheid.
The Chicago Anti Apartheid Movement Collection represents the work of such local groups. Each organization sponsored and cosponsored events, speakers, committees, and protests. Local organizations collaborated to end racism on a global scale and enact legislation on a local scale, with a focus on Southern Africa and Central America.
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January 21, 2009
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LOADED: HUNTING CULTURE IN AMERICA
image: Erika Larsen, Wedding Ring
The group art exhibition, Loaded: Hunting Culture in America, takes a deliberately ambivalent view toward the morality of hunting. The exhibition addresses the subject as a social, cultural, and artistic phenomenon, ideally nudging viewers to question their own preconceptions regarding hunting. In contemporary America, where people no longer need to hunt for survival, hunting culture –– with its roots in notions of American independence, the frontier spirit, dominance over nature, and rugged individualism –– has evolved to become an aesthetic and a lifestyle choice, a sport steeped in regional and family traditions. Many contemporary artists and designers have gravitated toward either the aesthetics or the cultural/social phenomena of hunting as the subject of their work, giving us objects, images, and spaces that range from kitsch to realism and hard-edged social commentary. This exhibition is timed to coincide with the college-wide Critical Encounters initiative "Human|Nature."
Curators:
Audrey Michelle Mast (freelance writer/editor, Managing Editor of Flavorpill Chicago and a web, marketing and PR associate at the Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Ann Wiens (artist, writer, Editor of DEMO magazine, and Director of Publications at Columbia College Chicago)
Artists: (confirmed so far; there will be more)
Diana Guerrero-Macia (Chicago)
Erika Larsen (New Jersey)
Brian Lesterberg (Minneapolis, MN)
Mathieu Lévesque (Montreal, Canada)
Shaun Slifer (Pittsburg, PA)
WHEN: March 18 – April 29, 2009
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 18, 5-8pm
Dressed to Kill Fashion Show at 6pm. A student response show.
WHERE: Columbia College’s Glass Curtain Gallery
1104 S. Wabash Avenue, 1st floor
Gallery Hours: M,T,W,F 9am-5pm, TH 9am – 7pm
COST: Free and Open to the Public.
CONTACT: Mark Porter @ 312.369.6643, mporter@colum.edu
*ABOUT CRITICAL ENCOUNTERS: HUMAN|NATURE
The relationship between humans and nature, as well as the nature of human nature is the theme of Columbia College Chicago’s third year of Critical Encounters, a campus-wide learning initiative that examines topics of serious social and cultural importance. Through both classroom experiences and public programming the community and the school engage with each other to explore the many questions surrounding Human|Nature. For more information on Critical Encounters visit www.colum.edu/criticalencounters.