2022 Departmental News
December 2022
Shreepad Joglekar Exhibits in Found in Translation
Lindy E. Bell Head of the Department of Art, Shreepad Joglekar is featured in the exhibition Found in Translation: Explorations by 8 Contemporary Artists at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.
"The art in Found in Translation is informed but not defined by artists’ individual experiences with immigration from places across Asia to the Kansas City region. It reflects their perspectives on the world and their places in it, shaped through a range of styles and media. These eight artists use their practices to explore evolving personal questions tied to place, memory, relationships, and other complex topics."
For more information regarding the exhibit https://nelson-atkins.org/exhibitions/found-translation-explorations-8-contemporary-artists/
Over the past decade my research interest has evolved from interpreting spaces using a camera, to visualizing realities which cannot be seen. Conceptually, I am concerned with inspecting the relations between contemporary neoliberal systems and the natural, social, and built environments. My primary tools have been photography and video installations. Photographs are inherently about appearances and mostly describe surfaces that once constituted material reality. This optical limitation makes conventional photography inadequate for depicting intangible subjects such as power, dispossession, and the experience of time. In a Sisyphean quest to document the invisible, in my recent work, I attempt to invert the conventional photographic process. Instead of capturing the appearance of space at a moment in time, I record time using the medium of sound and then digitally visualize it as space. Another branch of my work focuses on using photographs of my subjects to translate them into three dimensional models. These models are then manipulated to create alternative or even imaginary representations of those subjects, visualizing how they might appear in the past or future. Through these explorations I attempt to visualize and record the intangible.
November 2022
Kristen Jordan Exhibits in Renewal
Congratulations to Kristen Jordan (BFA in Painting, K-State, 2009; Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art; and MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA in 2014) for inclusion of her work in:
Renewal, the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, The George Washington University, Washington D.C (Jurors: Olivia Kohler-Maga, Assistant Director, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery and Babette Pendleton, Exhibitions and Programming Associate, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design);September 15 – December 3, 2022
Lilt, at the Noyes Museum of Art, Stockton University, Hammonton, NJ. Jurors: Brittany Webb, the inaugural Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at PAFA, and T.K. Smith, writer and researcher PhD Program, University of Delaware; October 20, 2022 – January 20, 2023
Contemporary Photography in Hawai‘i 2022, The Fourteenth Annual Statewide Survey; Juror: Katherine Love, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Honolulu Museum of Art; Opened online, September 21, 2022; included in online archive following
Bryan Raymundo Awarded Graduate Student Teaching Excellence
Congratulations to Bryan Raymundo, master's award winner of the GSC Award for Graduate Student Teaching Excellence, sponsored by Kansas State University's Graduate Student Council.
Read about Bryan and his award here:
https://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/2022-11/gsc-awards11822.html
Rebecca Hackemann-Bahlmann Publishes 3-D Experimental VR and Art Practices
Associate Professor Rebecca Hackemann-Bahlmann has completed the peer-reviewed book 3-D Experimental VR and Art Practices by Intellect Books London, available for preorder at the University of Chicago Press.
The book will be printed in December and available for purchase at the 2023 College Art Association Conference in New York in February 2023 for the University of Chicago spring catalog. The general release is in May/June 2023.
The book is a critical survey of artistic practices that involve the use of 3D and stereoscopes, which is emerging as a scholarly field in its own right.S
It includes 32,000 words and 89 images by well-known and contemporary artists. Some images are in 3D and the book includes 3D glasses. The artists include Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, William Kentridge, Lygia Clark and Zoe Beloff as well as her own works and research in this new field.
Johnathan Crary, Meyer Shapiro professor of modern art and theory at Columbia University and author of the classic "Techniques of the Observer" by MIT Press, is endorsing the book jacket and writes:
"Rebecca Hackemann's new book is a superb and indispensable account of the creative and critical exploration of stereoscopy, 3D and VR by a wide range of artists since the early 20th century. Especially now, at a moment when powerful technology corporations are massively commodifying and routinizing VR and 3D products, Hackemann's study provides a crucial resource for sustaining oppositional and counter-practices of visuality and perceptual experience."
September 2022
Shea Kister Awarded Artist Residency
Congratulations to Shea Kister (MFA, 2022), who was awarded a long-term artist residency at Baltimore Clayworks!
Elena Masrour Artist Talk and Solo Show
Jolynn Reigeluth Solo Exhibition
April 2022
Rebecca Hackemann-Bahlmann Presentation
Professor Rebecca Hackemann-Bahlmann, has been invited as a speaker for International Week, a conference for scientists and designers at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld, Germany.
While there, Hackemann-Bahlmann also will open a solo exhibition at Kunstraum Elsa with new work "Haptic Habits: Die Dunkelkammer" and conduct a workshop with students.
The trip is funded partially through the K-State art department and a Kansas State University Faculty Development Award grant. Her work includes images created in collaboration with the diagnostic imaging section in the clinical sciences department in the K-State College of Veterinary Medicine and with Nicolette Cassel, assistant professor of clinical sciences. The work includes X-rays of old cameras as well as video work that examines the representation of the photographic darkroom in cinema.
March 2022
Elena Masrour Exhibition
Biking on a Sunny Day, watercolor and oil on canvas, 60’’x 50” 2022
The Kansas State University Department of Art will present the exhibition, We’re not in Tehran anymore,” by MFA Candidate Elena Masrour from March 21-25 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery in Willard Hall, Kansas State University campus. A reception will be held from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm on Friday, March 25 in the gallery. Events are free and open to the public.
Elena Masrour is originally from Tehran, Iran, and received her BA in Fabric and Textile Design from the Tehran University of Art where she ranked 134th in the National Entrance Exam among more than 50,000 participants. While a young artist in Iran she received an Emerging Artist Award from the Iranian Visual Arts Association.
The paintings in this exhibition reflect some of the many difficulties women living in Iran have had to endure following the Islamic Revolution of 1978-1979. The segregation of women in terms of familial obligations, religious rituals, legal privileges, and personal and political power is addressed through the use of Persian iconography, and images and narratives combed from personal experience and Iranian pop culture. We’re not in Tehran anymore draws inspiration from the superheroines of the Golden Age of American comics as a vehicle for engaging viewers in the challenging content, and as a nod to the freedom of speech that Elena Masrour has been able to enjoy while studying art in Kansas.
Instagram: Elena.M (@elenamasrour)
Funding for this show was provided in part by the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Small Grant Program for K-State Graduate Students. These events are also presented and funded in part, by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.
Shea Kister Exhibition
Beware of the Bathroom Floor I, stoneware and low fire glaze, 5.5" x 11" x 8.5", 2021
The Kansas State University Department of Art will presented the exhibition, “Please, Sit Down.” by MFA Candidate Shea Kister from March 7th, 2022 – March 11th, 2022, in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery in Willard Hall, Kansas State University campus.
Shea Kister is a ceramicist and interdisciplinary artist originally from Omaha, Nebraska. She holds a BFA in ceramics and photography, with minor study in the areas of art history and psychology from the University of South Dakota. She works primarily in clay but also incorporates printmaking techniques and mixed media. In 2020, she was awarded the Angelo C. Garzio Scholarship for Studio Pottery and has exhibited her work across the United States.
Inspired by her study of trauma’s effects on memory as well as personal and social relationships, her work enlists notions of fragmentation, discontinuity, memory distortion, and dissociation through the use of scale, surface application, and materials. Creating manifestations of how feeling indescribable emotions can be outwardly represented, she presents her work within an immersive context that allows the viewer to experience familiar, though possibly uneasy feelings – the kind that might emerge from memory and the limitations of verbal or written language.
sheakister.com INSTAGRAM: @sheakisterceramics
Funding for this show was provided in part by the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Small Grant Program for K-State Graduate Students. These events are also presented and funded in part, by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.
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Congratulations
Congratulations to Andrea (Andi) Benge on her new position as a tenure-track, Assistant Professor of Animation at Arizona State University! Andi completed her BFA degrees at K-State in Painting and Drawing in 2017. Since finishing her MFA at George Mason University in 2021, her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions as well as national and international film festivals.
February 2022
Congratulations
Congratulations to Sepideh Badakhshanian, Shea Kister, and Elena Masrour, for receiving AHSS grants for their MFA thesis work.
Sepideh Badakhshanian Exhibition
Deprivation, Photography, dimensions (11”x17”), 2022
The exhibition, Deprivation, by MFA Candidate Sepideh Badakhshanian, was presented in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, from February 28 – March 4. A reception will be held from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm on Friday, March 4 in the gallery. Events are free and open to the public.
The body of works included in this show focus on women’s feelings in Iran’s traditional and conservative society, portraying the pain that accompanies Iranian women as they are subjected to sexual violence, harassment, legal discrimination, and cultural notions of taboo, along with a questioning of patriarchal ideologies in Iran and Middle Eastern cultures.
Funding for this show is provided in part by the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Small Grant Program for K-State Graduate Students. These events are also presented and funded in part, by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.
Michael Burke Exhibition
Its Painful Absences Covers All, Intaglio, 34”x23”, 2021
The Kansas State University Department of Art will presented the exhibition, “Disquiet” by MFA Candidate Michael Burke, 2/21 – 2/25 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery in Willard Hall, K-State Campus.
Michael Burke is originally from Forest Grove, Oregon, and received his BFA in printmaking from the Oregon State University where he was awarded multiple scholarships in printmaking and art. During one of the most traumatic and solitary times in history, Michael Burke uses experimental and counter-intuitive printmaking methods in order to process and transform the haunting and arresting memories of personal trauma. His abstracted spaces and environments expose the remnants that reside between memories of pain and contemporary vision. Michael Burke’s etchings offer hope within the darkness, inviting the viewer to reflect on their own life experience and survival
This event was presented and funded in part, by the KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.