2017-2018 Visiting Artist Season

Tony Snethen will give a public talk on the connected experience and the ways in which VML, an award-winning global marketing and transformation agency, creates such experiences on a worldwide scale.

This event is presented and funded by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.

Continually fascinated by the intersection of design, technology, and business, Andy Wise has spent his career designing, building, and leading to create award-winning interactive experiences. Andy now manages Paradowski's creative and development teams.

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Marcia Lausen is Director of the UIC School of Design and founder of the Chicago office of Studio/lab. At UIC Marcia leads a renowned faculty of professional designers variously engaged in contemporary interdisciplinary theory and practice. At Studio/lab Marcia and her colleagues integrate four areas of communication design practice: identity, information, publication, and environment. Following the 2000 presidential election, Marcia played a leading role in Design for Democracy, a national election design reform initiative of AIGA. Her book of the same title was published in 2007 by the University of Chicago Press, Marcia was named a 2004 Fast Company Master of Design and a 2010 Fellow of AIGA. In 2015 she received the AIGA Medal.

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Cora Lynn Deibler received a BFA in Communication Design from Kutztown University in 1985, and an MFA in Illustration from Syracuse University as a University Fellow in 1995.

Cora Lynn Deibler specializes in editorial and children’s illustration. She offers, ‘Making images as an act and an end has many functions- documentation and recording, communication and expression, storytelling, extended thought, foundational beginnings of other work. The most immediate and essential act of making images, keeping a sketchbook, is part neurosis, part art practice, and part meditation.’

Her work has appeared in multiple venues, including “Women in Illustration: Contemporary Visions and Voices” and in “Picturing Health,” both at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, a venue that showcases the best of visual narrative storytelling in the United States. She is a member of the Society of Illustrators, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and Phi Kappa Phi. She participates in shows at the Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration in New York City. Deibler is a Professor of Art at The University of Connecticut and currently serves as Interim Department Head of Art and Art History.

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“As a maker, my interest has always been in expressing human experience as understood through my own life’s journey. Like many artists, my surroundings provide both inspiration and material for my work. Living in rural Kansas, the prairie Midwest, I am surrounded by a stark beauty, and life’s cyclical nature is ever present. From this environment, I collect materials the land has to offer in various states of growth and decay. These become forms that I arrange, rearrange and rework, looking for interesting visual and psychological relationships that relate to both ornament and experience.” ­— Lin Stanionis

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Jolynn Reigeluth’s work combines an array of printmaking processes with drawing, painting, and collage to create print and mixed media hybrids. The images earnestly and humorously reflect on the emotional and physical aspects of the human condition and its twisted ironies. Her work has long been influenced by a wide range of art, music, TV, movies, etcetera emerging from the 1920s to 1960s, despite being born in the late 80s. She grew up watching cartoons from Fleishcer Studios like Betty Boop, Bimbo, Felix the Cat, Popeye and others. Reigeluth also senses an influence from a range of blues and jazz artists from the 1920s to 40s like Lil’ Johnson and Cats and the Fiddle, who performed songs with titles such as Hot Nuts and Sam, the Hot Dog Man. These influences play an important role in her work which has been described as evocative of “the atomic and plastics age of the mid-century.” (Michaela Mullin, Moberg Gallery.) Reigeluth has a distinct affinity for the absurd and scatological that manifests in these introspective self-portraits. The imagery is fueled by humor and spontaneity, and is filled with an inventiveness and ambiguity of subject that ranges from cheekily adolescent to darkly absurd.

Artist website: www.jolynnreigeluth.com

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Angi Elsea Bourgeois is a professor of art history at Mississippi State University. She received her Ph.D from Emory University in Italian Renaissance art and her research is primarily concerned with devotional art in the early Renaissance and the spiritual function of art for the Dominican Order and lay confraternities. Her book, Reconstructing the Lost Frescoes of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome from the ‘Meditationes’ of Cardinal Juan de Torquemada: A Case Study in the History of Art, which includes a preface by Diane Cole Ahl, was published in 2009. Her most recent research examines the afterlife of the Minerva frescoes through the series of printed books that expanded the audience of Torquemada’s Meditationes into private and domestic spaces. Elsea Bourgeois is also working on an expanded edition of the unpublished final volume of Alberto Zucchi’s Roma Domenicana dedicated to Santa Maria sopra Minerva. She is also currently serving as the Secretary of the Italian Arts Society, and also serves as the Head of the Department of Art at MSU.

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Wendy Edwards is Professor of Visual Art at Brown University, Edwards focuses on the interaction of color relationships by combining abstraction and naturalistic imagery. Edwards recently exhibited at May China 2017 at the China National Academy of Painting in Beijing. Jerry Mischak, a Senior Critic at Rhode Island School of Design and Instructor at the University of Rhode Island, Mischak creates collage, drawings, sculpture, and wall pieces, in part inspired by Franz West and Robert Rauschenberg.

A married couple, they work in adjacent studios in their converted firehouse which was the subject of a New York Times feature. Their work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia. They had a museum exhibition entitled Wendy Edwards/Jerry Mischak at the Mystic Museum of Art in Mystic, Connecticut, which closed in December 2017. The work from this exhibition speaks to elements and influences, including classical antiquity, Impressionism, Socialist Classicism, and Constructivism. Edwards’ paintings at the Mystic exhibition acknowledge the challenge of addressing and reinterpreting Van Gogh as a woman painter and of freeing her own vision from an accessible and recognizable master. Mischak is best known for large-scale duct tape sculptures. Mischak is included, along with works by Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and others, at Twenty Years at 23^rd and 10^th at Jim Kempner Fine Art in New York City.

Artist websites: http://wendyedwardspainting.com / http://jerrymischak.com

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Jerry Mischak, Construction #2, 2016. Cement, Hydrocal, Plaster, Wood, & Styrofoam, 33 x 14 x 11 inches. Courtesy of Jim Kempner Fine Art.

Group install shot.

En Iwamura was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1988. Under the influence of both parents who are painters, he grew up in an artistic environment. After receiving his BFA in craft at the Kanazawa collage of Art and Craft, he began to be interested in international Art world. He considers the ceramic arts as having the potential of being one of the international languages, which can cross the different cultures, people and countries.

En Iwamura's current research investigates how he can influence and alter the experience of viewers who occupy space with his installation artworks. When Iwamura describes the space and scale in his works, he references the Japanese philosophy of Ma. Ma implies meanings of distance, moment, space, relationship, and more. People constantly read and measure different Ma between themselves, and finding the proper or comfortable Ma between people or places can provide a specific relationship at a given moment. Through his work, Iwamura intends to create such an encounter with site-responsive installations, and provide through entering the space, an opportunity for viewers to recognize Ma themselves.

Artist website: http://eniwamura.wixsite.com/eniwamura

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Artist JstnClmn will be providing an artist talk that follows his trajectory as an artist and studio potter to the development of a conceptual approach in understanding materials and use of technique such as the use of ready-mades, image appropriation, and the investigation of meaning though objects.

Artist website: jstnclmn.com

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Melanie Sherman was born in Germany and currently resides and works in Kansas City, Missouri. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in ceramics from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her background is in graphic design, where she developed an eye for pattern and decoration. In her ceramics she combines her love for ornamentation and her fascination with the history of ceramics, referencing 18^th century European porcelain.

Melanie has travelled to Asia and Europe to explore ancient and contemporary porcelain production of the East and the instilled taste for prestigious white and translucent table wares of the West. She has been a resident at the International Ceramics Studio in Kecskemét, Hungary where she studied with the renowned Latvian artist Ilona Romule and deepened her love for designing with plaster and detailed china-painting. Melanie was also a resident artist at The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China, The Archie Bray Foundation, Montana and Anderson Ranch, Colorado.

Melanie has exhibited her work internationally, including Hungary, Canada and America. She was awarded the 2014 Regina Brown Undergraduate Fellowship from the National Council for Education of the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and the 2014 Windgate Fellowship Award by The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design.

Artist website: www.melaniesherman.com

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Enrico Isamu Ōyama was born in Tokyo in 1983 to an Italian father and a Japanese mother. He and his family visited the Veneto region in North Italy every summer for more than 2 decades. Experiencing Tokyo as megalopolis and North Italy as quiet countryside trained him to view the world from different angles. He is now based in New York and active both as an artist and a critic linking contemporary art and street culture at multiple levels.

Ōyama’s interest in the Writing culture grew while living in Italy between 2000 and 2001. After returning to Tokyo, he started drawing a motif composed of spontaneous repetition and expansion of free flowing lines, drawn from the visual language of the Aerosol Writing culture developed in New York and beyond during the 1970s and 1980s. Soon he established this motif, which he named Quick Turn Structure (QTS), as his signature style in the Tokyo underground art scene.

Ōyama received his MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2009, collaborated with fashion brands Comme des Garçons (2011) and shu uemura (2015), published the book Against Literacy: On Graffiti Culture (2015), and edited a special issue of Japanese art magazine Bijutsu-Techo (2017) on Writing culture.

Artist website: www.enricoisamuoyama.net

These events are presented and funded by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee and the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art.

The Mark A. Chapman Gallery on the first floor of Willard Hall opened in 2005. Cheryl Mellenthin and Mark Chapman funded a complete renovation of the former Willard Hall Gallery, increasing the exhibition space to over 1,400 square feet along with 400 square feet dedicated to exhibition preparation and kitchen facilities. The Department of Art hosts BFA and MFA student exhibitions in the gallery as part of graduation requirements each semester. The technology friendly gallery serves not only exhibition purposes, but also provides a location for an active Visiting Artist lecture program.

Katharina Bosse is an artist photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally by the Centre Pompidou Paris, MOMA, Alan Koppel Gallery in New York and Gallerie Anne Berrault in Paris, and publications such as The New Yorker, Spin Magazine, Der Spiegel and New York Times Magazine. She lived in New York for six years and now travels the US to take photographs. Today she is Professor of Photography at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld, University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Like her contemporary Catherine Opie and other female art photographers of her generation, her work tackles traditional subjects such as forgotten architectures, as well as the burlesque as a trope in photography. In this exhibition and talk she will present two bodies of work – one explores Architectural ruins of the Nazi era in Germany, the other the burlesque in the female empowered body, portraying it in new ways to break stereotypes.

Artist website: www.katharinabosse.com

These events are presented and funded by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee and the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art.

The Mark A. Chapman Gallery on the first floor of Willard Hall opened in 2005. Cheryl Mellenthin and Mark Chapman funded a complete renovation of the former Willard Hall Gallery, increasing the exhibition space to over 1,400 square feet along with 400 square feet dedicated to exhibition preparation and kitchen facilities. The Department of Art hosts BFA and MFA student exhibitions in the gallery as part of graduation requirements each semester. The technology friendly gallery serves not only exhibition purposes, but also provides a location for an active Visiting Artist lecture program.

Rick Griffith (born 1969) is a largely self-taught graphic designer, strategist, letterpress printer, and nerd (amateur computer scientist) living in Denver, Colorado. He faithfully attends to the business of design at his studio and typographic laboratory, MATTER.

In 1999, Rick Griffith co-founded MATTER to re-frame design and begin the adventure into design and a maker and thinker, the studio still focuses on tools and the advantages of self-sufficiency in the field of design.

Rick and the MATTER staff have designed and curated three exhibits on visible language including works by Harrison Tu, Ed Fella, and the community of letterpress printers around the United States. MATTER's works have been on exhibit at the Denver Art Museum and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and has been celebrated by the Type Directors Club, Print Magazine, Dwell, and the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers. Works are also present in permanent collections of the Tweed Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and the Butler Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Columbia University. He was published in 'Art for Obama, Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change’ in 2008. Griffith has been awarded numerous additional titles and accolades both nationally and internationally.

In 2013 Rick was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Art Institute of Colorado.

In addition to his current work as design director of MATTER, Rick is active in the design community through his teaching in the region and lecturing around the United States at various colleges and universities. Griffith is past President of AIGA Colorado and since 2011 he has served as a Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, in the City and County of Denver where he chairs the Public Art Policy Committee.

website: www.morematter.com

These events are presented and funded by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee.

The Mark A. Chapman Gallery on the first floor of Willard Hall opened in 2005. Cheryl Mellenthin and Mark Chapman funded a complete renovation of the former Willard Hall Gallery, increasing the exhibition space to over 1,400 square feet along with 400 square feet dedicated to exhibition preparation and kitchen facilities. The Department of Art hosts BFA and MFA student exhibitions in the gallery as part of graduation requirements each semester. The technology friendly gallery serves not only exhibition purposes, but also provides a location for an active Visiting Artist lecture program.