Beauty in Abandonment - Candace Schutt

Beauty In Abandonment

Candace Schutt MFA Graduate Thesis Exhibition

April 10-April 17, 2012

Opening Reception: Thursday, APril 12th at 6:00p.m.

Ways of Making: Painting

Exhibition Dates: March 9 - March 30, 2012
Closing Reception:
Wednesday March 28
5:30 - 8:30 p.m.

25 Women Artists
25 Years of Women's History Month

Guest Curator: Dolores Mercado, National Museum of Mexican Art

Artists:
Pilar Acevedo
Lynn Basa
Jennifer Cronin
Jessica Freudenberg-Segal
Esperanza Gama
Paula Henderson
Juliette Herwitt
Laura Kina
Vera Klement
Sarah Krepp
Judy Ledgerwood
K. A. Letts
Bernell Loeb
Sioban Lombardi
Rosanna Mark-Andreu
Renee McGinnis
Betty Ann Mocek
Elsa Munoz
Martina Nehrling
Joyce Owens
Miriam Socoloff
Sue Sommers
Erin Waser
Maureen Warren
Kathleen Waterloo

Contact: Jeff Stevenson, Gallery Director, Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University

www.govst.edu/gallery

2012 Illinois Community College Juried Exhibition

(artwork by Amanda Mulcahy Parkland College)

The Visual Arts Gallery at Governors State University is pleased to present our 2012 annual Illinois Community College Juried Exhibition The exhibition will be on display from February 17 through March 3, 2012.

The closing Reception and Awards Ceremony will be Saturday March 3, Noon – 5 p.m. Juror’s talk at 3 p.m.

The distinguished juror Christopher D. Smith, Director Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL has selected 55 works of art from 236 entries by 93 Students from 9 Illinois Community or Junior Colleges.

Over $1500 will be awarded during the closing reception/awards ceremony/juror's talk on March 3.

There will also be a "Peoples Choice Award" handed to the student artist that received the most votes from our galleries visitors. There is still time to vote for your favorite piece of artwork. Come in to the gallery during regular gallery hours and cast your vote!

GSU's art program will also host an open house for the event starting at noon with interactive projects and points of interest throughout the art classrooms. Refreshments will be served.

This event is free and open to the public.

www.govst.edu/gallery

regular gallery hours:

Mondays and Wednesdays 5 - 7

Tuesdays and Thursdays 1 - 9

Fridays 5 - 9

Ways of Making: Photography

Featuring Visiting Artists:

Myra Greene and Cecil McDonald, Jr.

Guest Curator, Susan Aurinko

Exhibition Dates: January 9 - February 3, 2012

Closing Reception/Artists' Talk:

Thursday February 2 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m

Janet Engel-Julian " Graduate Student Exhibition"

The Graduate Thesis Show of Janet Engel-Julian

Opening reception on Dec. 2 from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m

To artist Janet Engel-Julian, a shoe print is more than just the product of a tread forming on the ground. The shoe prints, or in this case, ceramic tiles are the clues to life’s journey and form the basis for her master’s degree thesis art show, which opens Wednesday, November 30 with an opening reception on Friday, Dec. 2, at Governors State University Visual Arts Gallery.

Engel-Julian, a Lake Bluff Middle School art teacher, says her family inspires her artwork, especially her mother’s family, who emigrated to the United States from a small town outside of Palermo, Sicily in 1962.

“I think about the hardships and life-changing experiences my mother went through that make her the person she is today,” she says. “My family’s traditions and experiences and their influence on my life are what I use to inspire and influence me as I create my work.”

The shoe-print ceramic tiles, arranged in an 8’ x 12’ installation, dominate the gallery walls and provide a sense of motion while capturing and cataloging the many steps of this familial and cultural journey. These tiles are joined by other installations such as porcelain, hand-rolled cavatelli, slip cast tomatoes, zucchini and other vegetables, as well as strings of slip cast garlic bulbs that delicately hang from the gallery ceiling.

For the opening night reception on Dec. 2, Engel-Julian will create a culinary performance piece for those in attendance to share the camaraderie of a meal, while creating their own memories, a theme central to the exhibit.

“Even though people may be enjoying the same meal, they’re going to remember certain parts of it differently based on their personalities and past encounters,” she says. “While you can capture time in photos, video, or ceramic tiles, it is always passing and changing, and only really documented in your own memories. Once the memories fade, the past is lost.”