Daniel Román (Painting MFA 2012) in the 2012 MFA Annual of New American Paintings!

Congratulations are extended to '12 Painting grad Daniel Román for being selected for the 2012 MFA Annual issue of New American Paintings (Issue #99)! 

New American Paintings is a nationally distributed publication, compiled by region of the US, and juried by a selected curator in the region. The MFA Annual by contrast is a nationally curated issue, taking entries from current and recent MFA graduates from all over the country. 

Issue 99 can be purchased here.

CRITICAL DIALOGUES PRESENTS: PAUL B. FRANKLIN

Wednesday, APRIL 18

6PM TYLER AUDITORIUM, B04

Paul B. Franklin received his Ph.D. in art history from Harvard University. For the last decade, he has been the editor in chief of Étant donné Marcel Duchamp, an internationally acclaimed bilingual (French and English) scholarly journal devoted to the life and work of Marcel Duchamp. Residing in Paris, he also works closely with the heirs of Marcel Duchamp, managing the artist’s estate.

Tyler Painting MFA Candidate Jamie Felton in "Bad Girls of 2012"

Jamie Felton - Untitled
(oil, roses, acrylic, ice, canvas)

Jamie Felton (Painting 2013 MFA, currently in Rome) has been selected as part of a show at Interstate Projects in Brooklyn entiteld "Bad Girls of 2012". 

From the Interstate Projects Site:

Bad Girls of 2012

Gina Beavers
Rachel de Joode
Dora + Maja
Jamie Felton
Rebecca Gilbert
Denise Kupferschmidt
Narcissister
Amy Yao

organized by Jamie Sterns

April 14 - May 26, 2012

Opening April 14, 6-9 pm

In 1994 Marcia Tucker, the founder and director of the New Museum, organized an exhibition entitled Bad Girls that included works by more than 60 artists who were creating art that resonated with her ongoing engagement with feminism. “The work that particularly fascinated me and pushed me to rethink a lot of old issues had two characteristics in common,” she wrote.[1] “It was funny, really funny, and it went ‘too far.’” It has been 18 years since that show and now is as good a time as any to reassess what it means to be a “bad girl” in contemporary art today. Bad Girls of 2012 takes a small sample of artists to reflect on how things have changed. The shift that I have noticed most is that female artists are making whatever type of work they want to make without negotiation or burden. They are wholly unapologetic in their art making and do not seek permission to work with any ideas, materials, or subject matter. This includes the inheritance of any past “-ism” within art and cultural history and also the use of any imagery, including feminized objects or the body. Everything is up for grabs, and the results are as complex as their makers.

The intensity of feelings, emotions, and opinions about art, the label feminist, and the ‘all-girl show’ are still heated topics today. This show acknowledges this while serving as a measure of what was and what is to come. Until the day when shows of all women are as normal as shows with all men, this type of show and its variants, will still be necessary. The popular trend to act as though issues of gender, politics, economics, and power within the art world are better left unacknowledged is behavior that is learned in order to not make waves and to keep the status quo. No one wants to be a nag. Frankly, the status quo is dull and needs to be given a good shake from time to time. The selection of artists in this show is but a small sampling of some of the hottest, smartest, most interesting artists out there who are shaking things up and being as bad as they want to be.

- Jamie Sterns

Interstate Projects

CRITICAL DIALOGUES PRESENTS: R.H. QUAYTMAN

Wednesday, April 4

6PM TYLER AUDITORIUM, B04

R. H. Quaytman is a painter living in New York City. Over the last decade Quaytman’s practice has encompassed various roles, including artist, writer, and curator. Recent projects include the artist book Spine published in 2011, directorship (from 2005 to 2008) of the New York gallery known as Orchard, a collective of artists, filmmakers, and art historians widely admired for its innovative efforts to “put the diversity of its members’ practices into discursive motion.” In November 2009, Quaytman’s first solo museum exhibition was mounted at the ICA Boston, and in November 2010 the artist’s first survey opened at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York and traveled in June 2011 to the Basel Kunsthalle. Quaytman has had solo exhibitions at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; Vilma Gold, London; Silberküppe, Berlin; and Daniel Buchholz, Cologne. I Modi, Chapter 22, was included in the most recent Venice Biennial. Quaytman is currently working on Point de Gaze, Chapter 23, an exhibition of paintings planned to open in January 2012 at Barbara Gladstone’s gallery in Brussels. Also planned for the summer of 2012 is an exhibition at Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

CRITICAL DIALOGUES PRESENTS: KELTIE FERRIS

Wednesday, March 28

6PM TYLER AUDITORIUM, B04

Keltie Ferris' large abstract paintings mirror the aggressive vibrations of New York City in their intensity of spirit, layered surfaces, and angular compositions. Ferris balances the mechanical application of sprayed oil paint with hand-painted grounds, wielding a brush and palette knife to carve forms out of the sprayed haze. In this way, figure and ground wrestle with each other for supremacy and create dynamic labyrinth-like pictures.  Ferris received a MFA from Yale University in New Haven, CT and a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). In addition to Horton Gallery, she has been featured in exhibitions at the Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS; Deitch Projects and D’Amelio Terras, both New York, NY; David Castillo, Miami; and Pilar Corrias, London, England. Her work has recently been discussed in The New York Times, Modern Painters, Artforum, and Details, among others. She is the recipient of both a Jacob Javits Fellowship and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. Her work was the subject of a solo show at the Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO, for which a publication is available.  Keltie Ferris lives and works in Brooklyn.

CRITICAL DIALOGUES PRESENTS: CARLOS VEGA

Wednesday, March 21

6PM TYLER AUDITORIUM, B04

Carlos Vega's multi-media work incorporates historic documents, quotidian written fragments and objects that he finds in flea markets from around the world. He collages these materials onto canvas and most recently into intricately engraved lead plates in an attempt to show the commonalities of our human condition. The cross-cultural references present in his work derive from his experiences living in Melilla, a former protectorate of Spain in North Africa where Catholics, Jews, Muslims and Hindus have co-existed for centuries. In 1988 he received a MFA at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and in 1990 he enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. Jack Shainman Gallery in New York began representing him in 2000. He will have a solo exhibition at the gallery in April 2012.

CRITICAL DIALOGUES PRESENTS: DAVID HUMPHREY

Wednesday, March 14

6PM TYLER AUDITORIUM, B04

David Humphrey is a New York artist who has been showing his paintings and sculpture internationally since the 1980’s. Occasionally called a Pop Surrealist, his work hybridizes a variety of depiction schemes and idioms to make works charged with psycho-social content and narrative potential. Blind Handshake, an anthology of his art writing, was published last year and includes a wide variety of reviews, essays and curatorial statements. Humphrey has won the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship and a variety of grants including an NEA and the New York State Council for the Arts among others. Humphrey has exhibited at the McKee Gallery, and Sikkema Jenkins and co in New York, and is currently represented by Fredericks & Freiser, where he will be having an exhibition in the fall of 2012. He received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and a masters degree from NYU.

Tyler Photo Alum ('07) Ivette Spradlin in "Everything Changed, then Changed Again"

Ivette Spradlin

Location: Pittsburgh Filmmakers

Opening Reception: January 28, 2012 6:00pm - April 1, 2012 5:00pm

Everything Changed, Then Changed Again, is a series of photographs of women with Pittsburgh as the backdrop. Also included is a video created from all the locations visited while photographing this project. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, January 28 from 6:00 - 8:00pm. It is free and open to the public.

"As a recent transplant to Pittsburgh," Spradlin says, "my own personal transformation is explored here." Both the women and the landscapes are depicted in transition in the exhibit. The photos document her attempts at building a community here and familiarizing herself with the extraordinary and complex landscape, she says. Everything Changed, Then Changed Again features 14 large digitally-printed images scanned from black and white film - 12 environmental portraits and 2 landscapes. The video operates as a kind of moving contact sheet of the locations she has photographed for this series.

Spradlin received her BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA and her MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA.  She has concentrated on photographing the people of different subcultures and their environs, from punks and skateboarders to Cuban exiles in the United States.  She has shown her work nationally and internationally, and has taught photography and digital art at colleges and universities in and around Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

www.ivettespradlin.com

CRITICAL DIALOGUES PRESENTS: ROBERT BORDO

Wednesday, February 29

6PM TYLER AUDITORIUM, B04

The paintings of Robert Bordo hover at the edge of abstraction and representation. His paintings could be called landscapes, but only if considered beyond the conventional definition of the word. The combination of silent spaces and named places further narratives – depicting a kind of edge-land, both literal and metaphorical, where there is an unsettling slippage between the external and the internal, illusion and actuality. Bordo lives and works in New York, He is represented by Alexander and Bonin in New York, where he has been the subject of 4 solo shows since 1999. Bordo has collaborated with the choreographer Mark Morris in designing sets and costumes, most notably: “Dido and Aeneas” (performed in 1989 in Brussels and in 1998 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.) Bordo has also exhibited with Rene Blouin, Montreal, Mummery and Schnelle, London and the Rubicon Gallery in Dublin in 2007 for which an accompanying catalogue with an essay by Aidan Dunne was published. He has been a recipient of prestigious awards and fellowships including the Solomon R. Guggenheim, Tesuque, Canada Council, MacDowell Colony and the Ballinglen Foundation. An illustrated conversation between Robert Bordo and Steve di Benedetto was published in the London based painting journal: Turps Banana in 2010. Bordo is on the full-time faculty of the Cooper Union School of Art where he leads the painting program. He has also taught at Bard MFA as a visiting artist during †he summer of 2011. His next one-person show will take place at Alexander and Bonin in 2012.

CRITICAL DIALOGUES PRESENTS: ADELINA VLAS

Wednesday, February 22

6PM TYLER AUDITORIUM, B04

Adelina Vlas is the assistant curator for modern and contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Vlas has a master’s degree in Art History and a curatorial diploma in Visual Culture from York University, as well as a master of arts in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London, where she co-curated the exhibitions Public Smog and Various Small Fires. Previously, Adelina has worked at the National Gallery of Canada, where she concentrated on permanent collection displays and special exhibitions. Since joining the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2007, she has organized the contemporary art exhibitions in the Notations and Live Cinema series, including recent projects with younger-generation artists including Mohamed Bourouissa, Tobias Zielony, Tim Hyde, Carlos Amorales, Martha Colburn, Jennifer Levonian, and Joshua Mosley.