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2009 EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, and Vuillard: Selections form the Robert L. Hoskins and Erwin A. Raible Collection of Fin de Siècle French Prints. A Gift of Elaine Rutowski Shay.
Thursday, January 15 - Friday, March 20 For many people, the posters of Toulouse-Lautrec and Bonnard are emblematic of lithography in fin-de-siècle Paris. Also included were lithography-enlivened book jackets, advertisements, sheet music, literary journals, as well as humor magazines. Many of the images in this exhibition reflect the late 19th-century artists' indebtedness to Japanese woodblock prints and photograpy. French artists enthusiastically appropriated design strategies long used by Japanese printmakers including a-symmetry, flat color, contour line, and unusual points of view. During the last decades of the 19th century, the Parisian neighborhood of Montmartre became a central motif for artists engaged in the critique of modernity. The district's reputation for excess and public spectacle offered artists a myriad of subjects. By depicting them in familiar Monmartre settings, artists created provocative images in which themes of sexual dallianace, consumerism, and mixing of social classes challenged social conventions of the day. This collection of over 200 prints is a part of GVSU's permanent collection in the print and drawing cabinet. Red Wall Gallery: Missionaries Encounter the Other February-March 2009 Director of Grand Valley's Pew Faculty Teaching & Learning Center, Catherine Frerichs, has long been a proponent of inter-cultural learning. In that light, she shares a collection of photographs form the remote region of New Guinea, where she lived for 17 years as a daughter of missionaries. Her text enhanced the display of photographs that her father took, primarily of the Kamano tribe. They are the native people of Raipinka, in the Central Highlands of New Guinea, in what is now Papua New Guinea. Frerichs' family lived in the area from 1946-1951. Her father first worked as a missionary in New Guinea in 1937 and continued for nearly 40 years. "It's a story about how my parents' attitudes toward New Guineans changed over time, along with their attitudes about missionary work," said Freriches. "It also records a group of native people whose way of life has changed dramatically and illustrates how difficult it is to truly encounter an 'other.'" Red Wall Gallery: "Caring for Kids Means Caring for Our Future" April-July 2009 The Grand Valley Children's Enrichment Center sponsored this exhibit in celebration of April being Month of the Young Child. Artwork done by the center's Children, ages 2-12, was on display, as well as a dozen black and white photographs of the children by Grand Valley Photography Manager Bernadine Carey-Tucker and Amanda Pitts, Grand Valley Photographer. "Each of the last three years, we've upped the level of excitement surrounding Month of the Young Child", said Sharelle Arnold, director of the center. " We keep striving to reach the campus community and beyond, to make them aware of the many issues children face and to become advocates for them. They are our future." Early childhood professionals all across the country celectrate young children and families every April through programs in advocacy, health and human services and literacy. West Wall Gallery: Winter 2009 This is part of a planned series of small exhibitions showcasing the work of local artists to be featured in the Eberhard Center, Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus. Jon McDonald was born on June 28, 1946. After attending Grand Haven High School, Jon received an Illustrator's Certificate from Kendall College in 1969. In 1972, he went on to receive an MFA in painting with a drawing minor form the San Francisco Art Institute. Currently Jon lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan and holds a position as Professor of Art at Kendall College of Art and Design. When not teaching, Jon paints full time and has had several one-man exhibits throughout the country. This exhibit was on display in Fall 2008 in the Faculty/Staff Dining Gallery in the Kirkhof Center, Allendale Campus. Art Gallery BFA Exhibition: Lamping Monday, March 30 - Thursday, April 2 Scott Cook, illustration, Nathan Dorotiak, performance/video, and Corinne Hess, metalsmith. Art Gallery BFA Exhibition: Sense in Synonyms Monday, April 6 - Thursday, April 9 Gwendolyn Basala, Illustrator, Justin McKee, Illustrator, Sara Nelson, Metalsmith, and Zyra Castillo, Sculptor. Art Gallery School of Cmmunication Photographic Senior Thesis: Louder Tuesday, April 14 - Friday, April 24 Exhibition participants that had their work displayed in the GVSU Art Gallery were: Ashley Budnick, Breana Cronk, Summer Danielski, Ben DeHaan, Giuliana Fuentes, Carlita Gonzales, Emily Greenlee, Melissa Lemus, Todd Manna, Jacob Pataniczek, Kate Saler, Brittanee Smeltzer, Kylie Stegenga, Briana Trudell, Riley Vaughn, Sarah L. Watson, and Alyssa Wozniak. Art Gallery Summer Exhibition: New STUDENT WORK Grand Valley State University Wednesday, May 6 - Friday, August 7, 2009 The Grand Valley State University Art Gallery is proud to host selected work of art from recent acquisitions. The Gallery's permanent collection now exceeds 8,500 work of art. Most of the collection can be viewed in university buildings on all campuses and this exhibit showcases a sampling of student work that will be installed in future building projects. Students enrolled in classes form the School of Communications and Art and Design Department of GVSU completed the art featured on this exhibit during the 2008-2009 academic year. Their work is diverse in both media and subject. From drawing to sculpture, to video, the approaches and tools utilized are varied. The students investigate a cross section of formal elements, social issues, and the influence of one's surrounding environments. In additon, all of the artwork succeeds in strirring up a wide range of emotions as well as capturing the interest of any observer. Returning to Earth: Recent Paintings by Jill Eggers Friday, August 28 - Friday, September 25, 2009 This exhibit included a new body of paintings by Jill Eggers that are loosely based on landscapes in the writing of Jim Harrison, and a selection of work from the past three years. Eggers is Associate Professor at GVSU, where she teaches painting and heads the painting program for the Art and Design Department. She received her MFA from Yale University. Her work is exhibited nationally and in private collections. The Spaces In Between: Partial and Particular Views of India Monday, July 20 to Friday, October 30, 2009 In the summer of 2007, Kirsten Strom, Assistant Professor of Art History, joined Professor Yatin Bhagwat and a group of Grand Valley students in Pune, India, where professor Bhagwat was teaching a summer class on the Business and Culture of India. Her own purpose in traveling with them was to prepare for teaching a new course on Asian Art by documenting the major historical monuments that the class was scheduled to visit. These would include the ancient Buddhist cave sites of Kala and Bhaja, the Hindu temples at Elepanta and Ellora, the paintings at Ajanta, and the Mughai architecture of Northern India, including the Taj Mahal. During her time in India, Professor Strom generated a body of nearly 900 photographs, an invaluable asset on teaching the Indian component of the Asian Art course. Roughly 500 of these photographs are now part of the University's Glean database. This exhibition representd a sampling of the other 400 photographs, those that depict not the famous monuments, but the spaces between and alongside them. Though these photos can make no claims to representing the totality of India in all its complexities, they can begin to allude to the context that situates these monuments in a rich and diverse culture living alongside the traces of its own deep history. Mystic India, Land of Color and Tradition: Folk Art and Miniature Paintings from Grand Valley State University Monday, October 5 to Friday, October 30, 2009 India is the second most populous country in the world with over one billion people. It has successfully managed to preserve their culture and traditions through a myiad of invading foreign influences, including central Asia and various European countries. More than 60 pieces of Indain art were on exhibit in the GVSU Art Gallery, including minature court life painting, sculptures of major deities, multicolored folk art, and intricate inlaid marble works. The exhibition focused on the stories and legends reflecting India's diverse cultures, as told through her many traditional art forms. The artwork shown in Mystic India was a selection from the university's collections acquired during the course of two visits with members of the GVSU Friends of Art. Their travels took them from Dehli to Agra, through the desert state of Rajasthan. Along the journey, they sought local art forms in paining, sculpture, carving, and other crafts. BFA Exhibition: Converge Diverge Monday, November 9 to Thursday, November 12, 2009 This BFA Exhibition showcased the work of Jenny Scheider, metalsmith, and Alaina Clarke, metalsmith and Kyle Fleet, sculptor. |
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