FINE ARTS SENIOR EXHIBITION SCHEDULE, SPRING 2012
This year's Juror, Elaine A. King, is a freelance curator, critic, and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University where she teaches Theory, Museum Studies, and Art History. She served as the Executive Director and Curator of the Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery (1985-91) and was the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati following the Robert Mapplethorpe debacle (1993-95). Throughout her career as a curator, she organized over forty-five art exhibitions, including a wide range of one-person exhibitions and catalogues for artists Barry Le Va, Martin Puryear, Tishan Hsu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Elizabeth Murray, Mel Bochner, Nancy Spero, Robert Wilson, David Humphrey, and Martha Rosler. In addition, she has curated a wide range of group exhibitions including Light Into Art: Photography to Virtual Reality, New Generations, New York/Chicago, The Figure As Fiction, Abstraction Today, Drawing in the Eighties, and Art In the Age of Information. Between 1993-2005, she guest curated several iterations of the Hungarian Graphic Arts Biennial in Gyór. In 2007, she was the guest curator for the Maria Mater O’Neill mid-career survey exhibition for the Museo of Art Puerto Rico, San Juan and compiled a catalogue for the exhibition titled Artist Interrupted, 1986-2006. In Fall 2009, she was a guest curator at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh for an exhibition titled Likeness: Transformation of Portrayal After Warhol’s Legacy.
She frequently writes for Sculpture Magazine, Art on Paper, Grapheion, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and the Washington Post. She contributes reviews and articles to ARTES, an online art journal. She was a Senior Research Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery in 2000, and a short-term Research Fellow in 2002 for her portrait research. American University's International Program named her the Distinguished Art Historian/Critic In-Residence to teach in Corciano, Italy, Fall 2006.
| Date | Time | Place | Item |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tues. 1/24 | 6:00 pm | SH120 | Introductory Meeting |
| Tues. 2/21 | 6:00 pm | Sh120 | 1st Informational Meeting |
| Tues. 3/20 | 6:00 pm | SH120 | 2nd Informational Meeting |
| Sun. 4/1 | Midnight | Online | Loan Form Due |
| Wed. 4/4 | 10:00 am - noon | Gallery | • Drop-off work (5 piece maximum -- MUST BE EXHIBITION READY) • Drop-off hardcopy of your Artist Statement (info below) |
| Wed. 4/4 | 4:00-6:00 | Gallery | Pick-up declined artwork |
| Wed. 4/4 | 6:30-7:30 pm | TBA | Curator's talk to Fine Arts Seniors (required attendance) |
| Tues. 4/10 | 10:00-4:00 pm | Gallery | Show opens to public |
| Sun. 4/15 | 2:00-4:00 pm | Gallery | Reception (all exhibiting Seniors are asked to bring food for reception) |
| Sun. 4/22 | 4:00 pm | Gallery | Exhibition Closes |
| Mon. 4/23 | 10:00 am-3:00 pm | Gallery | Pick-up exhibited artwork |
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
On the date specified above, you must submit a hardcopy of your Artist Statement:
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At least 250 words in length
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One page maximum
• Include your name
The statements will be placed in a notebook on the gallery's information desk.