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Arden Bendler Browning - Visiting Artist/Slide Lecture
October 21, 2004
Where: Fine Arts Center - Room 1101
6:00pm
Room 1101 Fine Arts Center
"Arden Bendler Browning's abstract paintings,...radiate a passion for nature and life." Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly
"Like repeatedly replaying a significant memory in one's mind, my paintings share the luxury of hindsight and contemplation, the freedom of choosing alternate paths and contemplating "what if" while adhering to the basic template and direction of the passage of time. Spidering and overlapping emotions and thoughts emerge from gestural, intuitive beginnings and are refined, patched, broadened and redirected to mold the work into its own developing aesthetic. Specific experiences or places are gradually identified and allowed to play out.
In my current work, I combine painting in a variety of mediums with the more physical application of collage of painted canvas and other fabrics. Textures and previous layers are revealed by cutting into surfaces, sometimes completely through to create empty holes. Shadows and spatial windows, sometimes real, sometimes painted, punctuate the visual landscape. The paintings undertake the contradiction and conflict of simulation against reality, artificial versus natural, documentation as opposed to experience. I am concerned with questioning a response or an interpretation rather than creating one.
About his minimalist abstract paintings, Barnett Newman stated that his "paintings are neither concerned with the manipulation of space nor with the image, but with the sensation of time". For myself, a work of visual art is the experience of time - continuing to move and develop when examined - that creates meaning and longevity. It is this phenomenon captured within the process of painting and the fluctuation of imagery - not quite accidental, not quite controlled - the possibility of introducing the elusive, ungraspable imagination into existence. It is not simply a recording of vision; it is an evolving metamorphosis of senses and consciousness." Arden Bendler Browning
Sponsered by BGSU Drawing Department
Contact: Colleen Stepanic 419-372-8688
BEYOND THE CUPOLA: Alternative Methodologies within the Contemporary Cast Iron Movement
October 20 through October 22, 2004
Where: Olscamp - 117 & Fine Arts Center - Sculpture Area
Visiting International Artist George Beasley, Professor of Sculpture, Georgia State University School of Art and Design and resident sculptor of Scottish Workshop, Scotland UK
WEDS OCT 20:
Workshops in Sculpture lab and grad studio visits.
6:30pm in Olscamp - Room 117: Evening Slide presentation of George Beasley's iron dance sculpture and his catapult fling of molten cast iron into the Scotland North Sea. This will precede his Iron Pour performance/installation on Friday Oct 22 outside the Sculpture Lab.
THURS OCT 21:
Workshops in Sculpture lab, building of Beasley's iron performance piece
FRI OCT 22:
School of Art Iron Pour and Beasley's performance / installation of cast iron sculpture on the school grounds
This event is free and open to the public.
If you or your class want to become involved, please see Shawn Morin or Greg Mueller in the sculpture area.
*Images above provided by George Beasley of Birds Nest II - a furnace installation, uniting shore to water
Sponsored by Auburn University, Auburn Alabama, performed on the night of April 11, 2003
The basket form iron furnace was constructed of woven saplings and twigs, lined with stones and clay to make a refractory container. Iron was made in the furnace and transferred to a mold suspended in the water via bamboo pipes. An iron "X " was cast which remains on the site marking the event.
Contact: Shawn Morin (419-372-7766) or Greg Mueller (419-372-4193)
ART Talks presents... Michael Clark
October 18, 2004
Where: Fine Arts Center - Room 1101
Michael Clark, Graphic designer, Richmond, VA will show/discuss recent work
6pm, Room 1101 Fine Arts Center
Michael is a self-taught lettering artist who came to the field by working in a small type house. Enthused by an affinity for letterforms, he began the practice of calligraphy based on models in books and several fonts. After an injury, he gave up utilitarian calligraphic work and concentrated mainly on commercial lettering, his area of expertise. Clark has taught and lectured widely at universities, guilds and societies in the U.S., Europe and the Pacific Rim on non-traditional techniques and type design. Michael's clients include Random House, Sony Records, Colonial Williamsburg, Philip Morris, Clairol, and American Greetings. His digital fonts are available through foundries including FontBureau, P22 and Letraset. He has designed proprietary fonts for Colonial Williamsburg, Sam & Libby's Shoes, Marlboro and Kiawah Island, and been represented in Print Magazine, Communication Arts, Speedball Lettering Guide, Graphis and many type and lettering arts books.
(co-sponsored by the School of Art, the Design Club and the Medici Circle)
Contact: 419-372-7763
FALL CAST IRON POUR INFO MEETING
October 5, 2004
Where: Fine Arts Center - Sculpture Lab
5:30pm
Fine Arts Center - Sculpture Lab
This brief meeting will give any undergrads, grads, faculty or staff the opportunity to ask questions in how to proceed with the process of casting an object in iron.
*No experience or sculpture background required.
Contact: Greg Mueller 419-372-4193 mgreg@bgsu.edu
Greg Greenway Alive! An Interview of a Passionate Soul's Journey to Changing the World... One Song at a Time
September 29, 2004
Where: Fine Arts Center
8:00pm to 10:00pm Professor Steve Cady from BGSU will interview and hear music from one of folk music's "unique and superlative emissaries"... Greg Greenway - acoustic singer and songwriter (www.greggreenway.com). The interview will focus on Greg's life and his music through the lens of the framework called Six Ways of the Passionate Soul (www.stevecady.com). Come be part of a studio audience and learn about Greg's journey, his gift for writing and playing, and how he draws his inspiration for music that encourages positive change in our lives. Stories will be told, songs played, and the whole event will be video taped. This event is sponsored by the Master of Organization Development Program of the College of Business Administration and the School of Art, in cooperation with the Department of Musicology/Composition/Theory of the College of Musical Arts. Date: September 29th, 2004 Time: 8:00pm to 10:00pm Location: BGSU School of Art (signs will be posted at entrance) Seating: There will be approximately 30 RSVP seats and 20 Open Seats available. To RSVP please email dthapa@bgnet.bgsu.edu, put "Greg Greenway Alive" in the Subject header and you will receive a reply confirmation. Otherwise, first come, first seat. See you there! Cost: Free
Contact: Steve Cady steve@stevecady.com or Sue Weisshaar weisss@bgnet.bgsu.edu
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