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Galleries 181 and 181-1 are located on the first floor of the College of Design
building on the west side of the Iowa State University campus. The
galleries annually host a wide variety of shows by ISU design students
and faculty, as well as traveling national and regional exhibitions.
Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday during the academic year and 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the summer unless otherwise noted. Closed weekends
and university holidays except by special arrangement. Admission to exhibitions, receptions and other events is free.
Coming Shows
Perfect Water Gypsy Meal
Architecture Spring 2008 Rome Exhibition
Opening Reception
Friday, September 5, 2008
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
This exhibition will showcase work by 48 fourth-year architecture students who spent the spring 2008 semester studying in Italy with the ISU College of Design's Rome Program.
The program this year followed a new format in which each of four instructors taught a two-week studio and students revolved through the studios. Faculty included associate professors Karen Bermann and Tom Leslie and lecturer Pete Goche, ISU department of architecture; Christoph Kling, a German architect now living in Rome who previously taught at Iowa State; and Pia Schneider, resident director of the Rome Program, who taught a seminar on Italian design. The exhibition will include the intensive short-term projects produced in the studios as well as work done in the seminar.
Studio Projects
Nolli : transect, an initial two-week project taught by all four studio instructors, involved an experimental dissection and mapping of the center city, based on the 1748 Nolli map and the complementary aerial map on Google Earth.
Perfect Works of Architecture, taught by Tom Leslie, explored the gap between the ideal and the made over 30 centuries. Students were asked to adopt an existing Roman work of architecture that made claims of "perfection." For one week they studied on site; back in studio, they created mathematically precise drawings that conveyed both the intellectual construct and the constructed reality of their building.
Edge(y) Conditions: Water and Urban Space, taught by Christoph Kling, worked across three sites, each following artificial or natural watercourses. The students' site exploration, research and design process were aimed at creating an intervention that would allow the public to engage and experience the waters of Rome.
Roma in Rome, taught by Karen Bermann, participated in the EU-Roma MApping Project, a research project on Roma housing developments in Europe. (Rom is the proper name for "gypsy" in their language, Romane. Plural is Roma.) Each studio visited and learned about a Roma settlement through walking, mapping, drawing, eating and talking.
Drawing Culture: an architectural agenda, taught by Pete Goche, used drawing as a way of gaining preliminary insight into the Italian culture by studying meals and mealtime rituals. Students newly arrived in Rome were afforded the opportunity to engage individual residents or families. The final set of drawings begins to describe the evolution and eccentricities of traditional family life practices particular to Italian culture.
The exhibition's title, "Perfect Water Gypsy Meal," is, obviously, a way of describing the unique quality of the semester's studio work: four very different themes assembled into an odd and happy whole.
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Friday, September 26 - Monday, October 6, 2008
The University Print Society will host its 8th Annual Postcard
Print
Exchange Exhibition at the College of Design, featuring the work
of nearly 160 artists from 30 states in the US and three other countries:
Australia, Belgium and Canada.
The project began in spring 2008 when printmakers from around the
world were invited to send 13 original and identical 4" x 6" prints to
the University Print Society's faculty adviser, art and design
associate professor April Katz. The theme for this year's prints was
"BOGO: Buy One Get one Free," to be interpreted in whatever manner each artist
chose. Eligible methods included any editionable printmaking technique
(woodcuts, litho, intaglio, relief, photography, silkscreen, digital
printmaking, etc.) Prints were to be stamped and mailed separately as
postcards, so they would bear the markings of travel and the postal
service.
Every artist who submitted prints received 12 different prints
from other artists in return (hence the "exchange"). The University Print Society kept one
print from each artist for its own collection. These are the prints that will be on display as a part of the exhibition.
Silent Auction
All prints on display as a part of this exhibition will be
for sale through a bidding process, which will be described in the gallery. This is a great
opportunity to collect interesting pieces of art or to purchase unusual
gifts for friends and family, and
help a great cause. Proceeds will help fund student club activities.
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Monday, October 13 - Friday, October 24, 2008
Pac Rim Traveling Studio '08 Exhibition
Opening Reception
Monday, October 13
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Tuesday, November 11 - Wednesday, December 4, 2008
29th Art and Design Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Opening Reception and Awards Presentation
Tuesday, November 11
5 - 7 p.m.
Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum and Gallery 181
Past Shows
Monday, July 21 - Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Katrina's Crescendo: New Orleans' Community Music Machine
Thesis Exhibition by Michael Stanley, candidate for MFA in Integrated Visual Arts
Reception
Friday, July 25, 2008
6 - 8 p.m.
This exhibition comprises a room-size, interactive, kinetic metal sculpture and a smaller kinetic sculpture.
To see more of Stanley's work, go to www.michaelstanleydesign.weebly.com.
Artist Statement
It is rare to find a city that is so proud and open about its
diversity, sexuality and history as New Orleans. The city is as real as
the basic human urges, which gives it everlasting infamy. Some people
call it a city full of sin and sinners, but I call it a city full of
everyday people who do not lie to themselves so they can sleep at night.
Very few people could consider such a city home, but I did, and I
had no plans to leave the city prematurely. That was until Hurricane
Katrina intervened. The storm caused an unexpected shift in the lives
of tens of thousands of people, and has had a profound effect on me
personally. Unfortunately, I lost everything I owned in the
catastrophe, something that wreaked havoc on me psychologically. In
some ways I feel as though a part of me was destroyed along with the
city, and I am not sure if I will ever fully recover.
Looking back on it, I can also consider Katrina to be an
unexpected gift. The hurricane has helped me see the world from a new
vantage point. The storm helped me to realize what is important in my
life, which has given me a new voice as an artist; a voice that not
only has something to say, but also the wisdom and compassion that only
a life-changing experience can bring. This real-life research has
directly influenced the creation of the 'W” Making Machine and the New Orleans Community Music Machine.
After nearly three years, I have realized two important facts: 1) I am
disappointed in our government, and 2) people working together as a
community is the best way to make positive change.
Had the government, local and national, and the people of New
Orleans improved their cooperation and worked together during Hurricane
Katrina, I believe things might not have gotten so bad during its wake.
My thesis sculptures are directly dependent on my life experience
before, during and after Katrina. This event has changed not only the
way I look at life, but also the way I create art.
Prior to the hurricane, my artwork was much more formalist. I
tried to let the natural beauty of the material take front seat and
rarely dealt with the conceptual side. Post-Katrina, I find political
undertones in just about everything I create. The storm has opened my
eyes to the fact that nothing is neutral and that politics surround
everything we do in America. I now feel that as an artist, it is my job
to express my opinions through my artwork. The opinions that I have
formed in order to bring me to these conclusions may not be agreeable
to everyone, but I believe in them deeply. These feelings have created
the first sense of emotional certainty I have felt since the onset of
Hurricane Katrina.
When I came to Iowa State, I wanted to make work that would help
me cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I was looking for
closure from what I had just been through. The emotional and
psychological toll that my mind and body endured after Katrina left me
questioning everything I had ever learned. The world seemed to be
flipped on its axis and I felt as though I was free falling out of
control. The ease with which everything I owned was destroyed left me
sick to my stomach at times. The total lack of respect for human life
at the hands of the United States government during Hurricane Katrina
is something I will never forget. It has taken me three years to get my
head around much of what has happened, let alone form an opinion on how
I feel. Having a creative outlet such as art making has allowed me to
process these emotions and respond to them accordingly.
'W” Making Machine
The 'W” Making Machine was my way of representing my political dissatisfaction. I decided to make a machine that would have the appearance of a fully operational factory that worked no matter how old and dilapidated it might seem. The dichotomy between the appearance of function and lack of actual function is very important to me in this piece. Although it appears to work, there is no real "purpose" or outcome; the sculpture is a metaphor for the workings of our state and federal government during Hurricane Katrina, especially in regard to FEMA and the lack of communication between the mayor, governor, and president.
New Orleans Community Music Machine
The New Orleans Community Music Machine is my direct response to Hurricane Katrina. I wanted to create something that would move beyond traditional fine art and actually integrate the viewer into part of the work's completion. After a couple of years of reflection and some deep thinking, I honestly feel that if people would have worked together from the onset of the storm, the situation might not have gotten so bad in New Orleans.
Wednesday, July 9 - Wednesday, July 16, 2008
FuturePast: The Techno-Shaman
Thesis Exhibition by Trent Grover, candidate for MFA in Integrated Visual Arts
The FuturePast installation merges contemporary computer and
interactive art processes with those of a more ancient aesthetic. It
draws engaging connections between our modern culture and that of our
forebears.
Art and Design Rome Student Exhibition
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Friday; show closes at noon on the 25th
Reception
Wednesday, April 9
3:30 - 5 p.m.
Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum
This exhibition will showcase the work of nearly 80 Iowa
State University students who participated in the College of Design's
study-abroad program in Rome last summer and fall (2007). The show will
include drawing, painting, photography, corporate identity and
packaging design projects, bookmaking, watercolor, conte, typography,
retail and furniture showroom design, and technical furniture drawing.
The
work was created by students in graphic design, interior design
and integrated studio arts, under the
guidance of Iowa State University
faculty members John Cunnally, art history; Sunghyun Kang and Cheri
Ure, graphic design; Brenda Jones and Barbara Walton, integrated studio
arts; and JoAnn Boehmer, photography; as
well as Rome resident instructors Pia Schneider and Chris Kling,
interior design, and William Pettit and Paolo Soriani, photography.
During
their stay in Rome, the ISU students study the same broad concepts and
topics as students who remain on campus, but their projects and
assignments focus directly on experiences, activities or elements that
are uniquely Italian. The exhibition reflects work that incorporates
the context and influences the students were immersed in during the
2007 summer session and fall semester.
A public reception for this exhibition will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, in the Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum, just outside
the gallery. The exhibition and reception are free
of charge.
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(Note: The gallery will be closed the week of March 17-21 for Spring Break.)
Experience the Building Blocks of Our Future
Interior Design Annual Senior Student Exhibition
Reception
Saturday, March 29
6 - 8 p.m.
Hors d'oeurves and cash bar
Live jazz band
This exhibition features a variety of work selected by the
interior design senior class of 2008 to represent their growth and
development over the past four years at Iowa State. Projects range from
set design to office plans, fine art to furniture, construction
drawings to renderings -- all "building blocks" of the students' future
design careers. Faculty involved in organizing the show are Cigdem
Akkurt and Pam Iasevoli.
The reception will be held in conjunction with a meeting of the
Interior Design Advisory Board and a reunion of interior design alumni
who graduated one, five, 10, 15, 20 and 25 years ago. See reunion information.
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(Note: The gallery will be closed the week of March 17-21 for Spring Break.)
Developed Photography Exhibition and Silent Auction
Gallery 181-1 (east side)
Reception and Awards
Monday, March 24
7 - 9 p.m.
Sponsored by the Developed student photography club at Iowa State,
this exhibition features work by ISU students. Juror is commercial and
fine art photographer Jason Scott Hoffman. Gift certificates from
Alexander's Photo, Christian Photo and Walden Photo will be awarded to
the first-, second- and third-place winners as determined by the juror.
Awards will be presented at the closing reception on March 25.
Exhibition participants had the option of contributing their work
to a silent auction to help raise funds for the photo club. Bidding
instructions will be posted in the gallery. A percentage of auction
sales will go to the club, with the remainder to the artists.
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Monday, March 10 - Friday, March 14, 2008
Solar Decathlon Workshop Exhibit
Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum (space outside Gallery 181)
Reception
Monday, March 10
5:30 - 7 p.m.
This exhibit presents competition information and preliminary
studies conducted in the Solar Decathlon Workshop, an interdisciplinary
studio that is developing Iowa State's house design for the U.S.
Department of Energy's 2009 Solar Decathlon competition. The purpose is
to generate discussion, to describe the concepts underpinning the
university's entry, and to inform team members and the public of the
U.S. DOE's rules and scoring methods for the competition.
The workshop studies focus on six key topics: site-planning
strategies; construction strategies; the application of biocomposite
materials; the integration of energy flows with both passive and active
environmental control systems; spatial inhabitation (the group calls it
the "choreography of everyday life"); and market viability.
A blank scroll of paper is available along the primary exhibit
wall for visitors to leave comments and provide ideas for further
development.
Family Tools
Thesis Exhibition by Jon Kamrath, candidate for MFA in Integrated Visual Arts
Gallery 181-1 (east side)
(Hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday, 1 - 5 p.m. Saturday)
Reception
Saturday, Feb. 16
1 - 5 p.m.
Jon Kamrath's MFA thesis explores his relationship with immediate
family members through the personification of various hand tools. The
exhibition features a collection of eight sculptural pieces constructed
with clay, wood and metal each addressing specific individuals.
Collective Perspective
BFA Annual Senior Student Exhibition
Reception and Awards
Saturday, February 23
6 - 8 p.m.
Enjoy catering by Olde Main and live music
This juried exhibition features work by 60 senior students in the
integrated studio arts program at Iowa State University. The pieces
include drawings, paintings, fibers, woods, jewelry/metals, ceramics,
photography, digital/time-based media, prints, and mixed media.
The
exhibition is juried by Larassa Kabel, a painter from Des Moines who
received a BFA with honors from Iowa State in 1992. Kabel served on the
Metro Arts Alliance's board of directors and was chair of its First
Annual Studio Crawl in Des Moines. In 2007 she received an Iowa Arts
Council Grant for "The Thrilling Tweens," a series of photorealistic
oil paintings "... exploring female adolescence, transformation and
gender identity."
This exhibition will travel to the Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames, April 4-11.
Juror's Comments
A show which encompasses so many divergent mediums is a real
pleasure to see and a challenge to judge. How to judge a portrait
against a table against a video about soy diesel? Each had excellent
qualities. In the end, the Best of Show/First Place work hit all my
criteria. The artist has a very sure hand, it is compositionally
strong, and had a slightly twisted emotional component that I kept
coming back to. I was impressed with the woodworking, metalsmithing and
digital/photography entries. I was surprised by how few paintings were
entered and would have liked to have seen some more conceptual fibers
and ceramics entries. I think some of these artists have a lot of
success ahead of them. Good luck to everyone.
-- Larassa Kabel
Award Winners
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Best in Show/First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
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"Untitled"
charcoal on paper |
"Two-Tone Mantis"
Birdseye Maple, quarter-sawn White Oak |
"Matt Rittman"
black and white photography |
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Joseph Gonzalez
West Des Moines, Iowa |
Andrew Kopp
Solon, Iowa |
Jordan Miller
Altoona, Iowa |
Honorable Mentions
"Soy Diesel," digital animation, Nathan Aldrich, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
"Iridescent Rapture," C-print, Ann Alverson, Mason City, Iowa
"Haru," sterling silver, glass and paper, Fumi Ikeshima, Ames, Iowa
"Prelude," 3D rendering, Matt Rittman, Altoona, Iowa
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Frank Lloyd Wright in Iowa
Hours: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. weekdays except 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Tuesdays; show opens at noon on January 28
Closing Reception and Gallery Talk
Thursday, February 7
Reception 5:30 - 8 p.m.
Gallery talk 7 p.m.
"Frank Lloyd Wright: Affordable Houses and Popular Press Promotion"
Dan Naegele, associate professor of architecture
Though
many internationally renowned architects built in Iowa during the 20th
century--Sullivan, Griffin, the Saarinens, Neutra, Pei, Meier, Moore
and others--none were as prolific as Frank Lloyd Wright. Beginning 100 years ago, Wright built his first work in Iowa, the Stockman House in Mason City. He followed this low-cost, mass-marketed house with the 1910 Park Inn Hotel and City National Bank, also in Mason City. Unique in Wright's oeurve, the Inn and Bank Building is simultaneously mixed use, urban and Prairie School. Before leaving for Tokyo in 1916, Wright completed drawings for the American System-Built House commissioned by a Wisconsin developer. Wright's designs streamlined the process of building these houses. Parts were fabricated in a factory and shipped to the site for assembly. The 1917 Meier House in remote Monona, Iowa, is an example of the System-Built House.
Perhaps the best-known Wright house in Iowa is the Lowell Walter house, "Cedar Rock," in Quasqueton. Walter selected the house from a publication of its design in the June 1945 Ladies Home Journal. Wright intended the house to be an affordable "Usonian" for post-War America, adaptable to both "town and country." Walter built it on a 3,800-acre site, together with a boathouse, council fire, gate and Wright-designed furnishings. It was anything but affordable. It's maintained today as a state monument. Its beauty and elegance are unquestionable.
Wright died in 1959, yet he built half-a-dozen affordable houses throughout Iowa in the 1950s: the Douglas Grant House near Cedar Rapids, the Alvin Miller House in Charles City, the Alsop and Lamberson Houses in Oskaloosa, the Trier House near Des Moines, and the Sunday House in Marshalltown. All are unique, relentless in their insistence on "the natural," wondrously sited, affordable yet luxuriously tactile. All exemplify a "life style" to which Wright himself subscribed, a life style somewhat at odds to that conventional in post-War America.
This exhibition shows 12 basswood models of the Wright buildings in Iowa, models made by Iowa State University architecture students for a seminar on "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School." In addition, it includes four models of a few of Wright's better-known, small, low-cost house designs from Illinois, Wisconsin, Arizona and California. All models--except the Inn and Bank Building--are at the same scale: one-fourth inch = 1 foot. They ignore their immediate site and tend toward abstraction, encouraging a comparison of the formal motifs that Wright employed time and again in his creation of an "organic" architecture.
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Finishing Fragments
Gallery 181-1 (east side)
Closing Reception
Tuesday, February 5
7 - 9 p.m.
Gallery 181-1
This exhibition features a juxtaposition of ink-on-paper works by
members of the University Print Club who are seniors in integrated
studio arts. Participants include Jennifer Dieter, Melissa Haegele,
Alex Harding, Catherine Spencer, and Asa Wentzel-Fisher. These students
have spent the past several years focusing on various techniques of
printmaking, including intaglio, relief, lithography and monotype. The
students extend special thanks to April Katz and Eric Robinson for
their guidance and inspiration.
Student visitors will be able to vote for best of show, first-,
second- and third-place winners, which will be announced at the closing
reception on February 5.
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Monday, November 12 - Friday, November 30, 2007
(Note: The gallery will be closed the week of November 19-23 for Thanksgiving Break.)
The Time Has Come / The Time Is Here
28th Art & Design Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Opening Reception & Awards Presentation
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
5 - 7 p.m., Gallery 181 and Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum
This annual exhibition features the best two- and
three-dimensional work submitted by undergraduate students in the Iowa
State University department of art and design. Of 170 pieces submitted
by 101 students, a total of 83 works by 62 students were accepted.
Entries were juried by Michelle Brenneman and Paula Streeter.
Award Winners
Best of Show: James Killinger, Kersplat (wood/glass)
Second Place: Jennifer Dieter, Untitled (lithograph, rust, relief print)
Third Place: Anjana Rao, Untitled (charcoal)
Honorable Mentions:
Jacob Ahlers, Bipolar & Depression PSA (interactive time-based media)
Andrew Kopp, Two-Tone Mantis (Bird's Eye Maple/quarter-sawn White Oak)
Jarod Porter, Early Problem (cased bronze/welded stainless steel)
Lydia Stone, A New Vision (graphic design)
Juror's Choice - Michelle Brenneman: Joe Kutilek, A Kiss to Send Us Off (time-based media)
Juror's Choice - Paula Streeter: Trevor Brown, Goldfish Crisp (digitally manipulated painting)
Rome Urban Design Summer Studio 2007 Exhibition
Opening Reception
Friday, October 12, 2007
7:30 p.m., Gallery 181 and Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum
The
College of Design's Rome Urban Design Summer Studio explored the
relationship between the city of Rome and the Tiber River, which
historically has constituted the city's primary geographic, topographic
and economic center. Since the late 19th century, however, due to
recurring floods, the river has been cut off from the surrounding city
by high wall embankments and has remained an isolated, deep incision in
the urban fabric. Recent efforts to rescind this condition have had
some success in reconnecting the river with the city.
Twenty-one students from landscape architecture, architecture and
planning participated in the studio, which examined key sites and
stretches along the
river and developed proposals to restore access and reintegrate the
river into the daily life of the city. The studio engaged a variety of
issues related to the
river system and adjacent public space, including urban hydrology and
ecology, water transportation infrastructure, bridges and engineering
monuments, linear public space, architectural historic preservation,
and urban imagery and mythology.
A course on Urban Morphology and Infrastructure of Rome
complemented and supplemented the studio by providing relevant
historical and theoretical background. The class studied the evolution
of the city's urban structure and form, focusing on the natural and
built water infrastructure. Instructors were architect and scholar
Katherine Rinne, an expert on water in Rome; archaeologist Jan Gadeyne,
and architect and historian Diane Archibald.
Students also participated in Tevereterno, a public art project with Kristin Jones and the community of Rome (see http://www.tevereterno.it/index2.html) and took a three-day field trip to cities and villas in Lazio and Tuscany.
The exhibition in Gallery 181 will feature work by all 21
students, including studio drawings and photos as well as projected
images of models created in Italy but not shipped back to Iowa;
sketches and analytical drawings produced on the field trip; and maps,
photos, videos and sounds of the Tiber River.
The Extravagantly Unsane: 7th Annual Postcard Print Exchange Exhibition and Silent Auction
The University Print Society will host its 7th Annual Postcard
Print
Exchange Exhibition at the College of Design, featuring the work
of 160 artists from 18 US states and three other countries:
Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands.The project began in spring 2007 when printmakers from around the
world were invited to send 13 original and identical 4" x 6" prints to
the University Print Society's faculty adviser, art and design
associate professor April Katz. The theme for this year's prints was
"The Extravagantly Unsane," to be interpreted in whatever manner each artist
chose. Eligible methods included any editionable printmaking technique
(woodcuts, litho, intaglio, relief, photography, silkscreen, digital
printmaking, etc.) Prints were to be stamped and mailed separately as
postcards, so they would bear the markings of travel and the postal
service.
Every artist who submitted prints received 12 different prints
from other artists in return (hence the "exchange"). The University Print Society kept one
print from each artist for its own collection. These are the prints that will be on display as a part of the exhibition.
Silent Auction
All prints on display as a part of this exhibition will be
for sale through a bidding process described in the gallery. Bidding
ends at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5. Pickup and payment for cards will
be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in the printmaking studio. This is a great
opportunity to collect interesting pieces of art or to purchase unusual
gifts for friends and family (think about the upcoming holiday season!) and
help a great cause. Proceeds will help fund student activities of the University Print Society.
In With Both Feet: The 2007 Rome Program in Architecture
Gallery 181-1 (east side)
Opening Reception
Friday, September 7, 2007
7 - 8 p.m., Gallery 181-1 and Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum
This
exhibition will feature select projects completed by Iowa State
University architecture students during the spring 2007 semester as a
part of the College of Design's study-abroad program in Rome. The range
of work will include architectural drawings and sketches, paintings,
sculptures and constructions.
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Photographs
Reception
Thursday, September 13, 2007
3:30 - 5 p.m., Gallery 181
This exhibition will feature 20 large-format Iris prints by artist Frances Paley. The show is being held in conjunction with "Albert Paley: Portals and Gates"
at the Christian Petersen Art Museum in Morrill Hall and two companion
exhibitions at the Brunnier Art Museum in the Scheman Building as well
as at Hometown Perry, Iowa, in Perry.
Artist StatementMost
important, when viewing this work, I would like you to know that each
photographic image is exactly as taken. By this I mean it is not
layered. It is not a montage. Also, I do not set up the vignettes or
move objects to create them. I photograph exactly what exists at a
particular moment in each specific place. The sole alteration is color.
This allows me to enrich and deepen the emotional impact of the images.
For
me, these images deal with the poignancy of memory, longing, love and
loss. They mirror our vulnerability and humanity by allowing us to peek
into our wistful desires to capture the ephemeral and transcend time.
Their intent is to be compassionate and reassuring, sometimes with a
slight turn to the mysterious and surreal.
-- Frances Paley
About the Artist
For
more than 30 years, Frances Paley has been exploring various media. Her
work has evolved from early investigations in sculpture using machine
technology to large-format black and white photography and on to
airbrushed watercolor and pen and ink drawings in the 1980s.
Over
the past decade, Paley has integrated computer techniques into her
photographic processes to alter and enhance the color of her images. An
Iris printer then produces fine art prints. Most recently, she has
developed a body of work focused on figures, architecture and animals
that embody the romantic, mysterious and surreal. These large-scale
images are the subject of the exhibition in Gallery 181 at the Iowa
State University College of Design. This work has been shown at the
Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida, the Benham Gallery in Seattle,
Washington, and the Martin Chombi Photographic Archive in Cuzco, Peru.
Acquisitions include the Polk Museum of Art, the Orlando Museum of Art,
the Centre Historique des Archives Nationales in Paris, France, as well
as various private and corporate collections
Paley
has a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Diego State University, a Master
of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a
Master of Arts degree in psychotherapy from Goddard College. She held a
faculty and administrative post at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Sunday, August 12 - Saturday, August 25, 2007
From the Loom: Exploring women's identities through weaving and words
Gallery 181-1 (east side)
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday, 1 - 4:30 p.m. Saturday - Sunday
Creative
component by Janet Fitzpatrick, candidate for a master's degree in
interdisciplinary graduate studies, and woven textiles by seven
contemporary women weavers.
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Monday, April 9 - Saturday, April 21, 2007
Working Title
2007 BFA Annual Senior Student Exhibition
Reception
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
6 - 8 p.m., Gallery 181 and Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum
Brief program at 6:30 p.m. by juror Barbara Bruene,
ISU associate professor emerita of art and design
Reception features food from The Cafe and live music
This
exhibition showcases more than 100 creative artworks by 47 Iowa State
University
seniors who will graduate in 2007 with a bachelor of fine arts degree
in integrated studio arts. Media include drawings, paintings, prints,
fibers, woods, jewelry/metals, ceramics, photography,
digital/time-based media and mixed media.
Award Winners
|
2D Media |
3D Media |
|
1st Place: Scott Oleson, Arnolds Park, Iowa
for "Little Boy," acrylic on canvas |
1st Place: Tess Kean, Dubuque, Iowa
for "Dying to Be Thin," mixed media |
|
2nd Place: Sara Latterell, Edina, Minn.
for "Clingy," black-and-white photographic print |
2nd Place: Brian Tiedeman, Mason City, Iowa
for "Rocket 88," mixed metals |
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3rd Place: Laura Humke, Cedar Falls, Iowa
for "Self Portrait," acrylic on canvas |
3rd Place: Dean Vande Griend, Hull, Iowa
for "Sofa Table with Three Drawers," mixed woods |
Honorable Mentions
Marjorie Gacioch, Dubuque, Iowa, for "Untitled," charcoal on paper (2D)
Penny Hanson, Malvern, Iowa, for "Koopz," ceramics (3D)
Wilson Lewis, Des Moines, Iowa, for "Untitled," laser-cut paper (2D)
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Tuesday, March 20 - Friday, March 30, 2007
Interior Design Annual Senior Exhibition
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Friday
Closing Reception
Friday, March 30, 2007
6 - 9 p.m., Gallery 181 and Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum
This
exhibition features work by 39 seniors in the ISU interior design
program. Pieces were selected by the students from studio projects
completed over the past three years. They include digitally and
manually generated projects, models, renderings, furniture,
photography, video, paintings and mixed media.
During
the closing reception, students will pin up their hotel projects on the
forum wall just outside the gallery for a "silent review" by members of
the Iowa State University Interior Design Advisory Board. Top-scoring
projects will be submitted to the Hospitality Design Magazine
Competition in the Student category.
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Social (In)Justice through the Arts Juried Exhibition
Gallery 181-1
Lecture
Pat Bacon, juror
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
7:30 p.m.
Kocimski Auditorium, 101 Design
Opening Reception
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
5:30 p.m., with awards at 6 p.m.
Gallery 181-1 and Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum
Juried
by New York artist Pat Bacon, this exhibition will feature work by Iowa
State
University students and recent graduates that expresses their opinions
and concerns about issues of social (in)justice. Cash prizes will be
awarded for first, second and third place, and honorable mentions will
also be selected. The show is sponsored by the College of Design
Diversity Committee, the College of Design Office of the Multicultural
Liaison and the Margaret Sloss Women's Center, with help from Painters
Anonymous.
Summer and Fall 2006 Rome Program Student Exhibition
Hours: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Friday
Closing Reception
Saturday, February 24, 2007
3 - 5 p.m.
Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum
This exhibition will showcase the work of more than 90 Iowa
State University students who participated in the College of Design's
study program in Rome last summer and fall. The "Summer and Fall
2006 Rome Program Student Exhibition" will
include mixed media, painting, photography, corporate identity and
packaging design projects, and conceptual designs for interior spaces,
as well as wayfinding proposals for the center of Rome and books
developed for courses on sustainable communities and urban development.
The
work was created by students in graphic design, interior design,
integrated studio arts, community and regional planning, and civil, construction and environmental engineering under the
guidance of Iowa State University
faculty members Paula Curran and Cheri Ure, graphic design; Dorothy
Fowles, interior design; Brent Holland and Brenda Jones, integrated
studio arts; Tara Lynne Clapp and Ferro Trabalzi, community and
regional planning; as
well as Rome resident instructors Pia Schneider, interior design, and
Gabriele Merolli and Paolo Soriani, photography.
During
their stay in Rome, the ISU students study the same broad concepts and
topics as students who remain on campus, but their projects and
assignments focus directly on experiences, activities or elements that
are uniquely Italian. The exhibition reflects work that incorporates
the context and influences the students were immersed in during the
2006 summer session and fall semester.
A
closing reception for this exhibition will be from 3 to 5 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007, in the Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum, just outside
the gallery. The exhibition and reception are open to the public free
of charge.
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Monday, January 8 - Friday, January 19, 2007
(Note: The gallery is closed Monday, January 15, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
Food Fight
MFA Thesis Exhibition by Zane Vredenburg
Gallery 181-1
This exhibition critiques mass media and consumer
culture with regard to food and health in the United States. Through
encaustic, enamel, digital and acrylic works of art, the artist
comments on how the media peddle unhealthy food to the masses.
Vredenburg is a
candidate for a master of fine arts degree in integrated visual arts
from the College of Design, Iowa State University.
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Friday, November 3 - Monday, November 27, 2006
(Note: The gallery is closed November 20-24 for Thanksgiving Break)
Past - Tense: 6th Annual Postcard Print Exchange Exhibition and Silent Auction
The University Print Society will host its 6th Annual Postcard
Print
Exchange Exhibition at the College of Design, featuring the work
of nearly 300 artists from 33 states in the US and six other countries:
Australia, Canada, Croatia, Turkey, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
The project began in spring 2006 when printmakers from around the
world were invited to send 13 original and identical 4" x 6" prints to
the University Print Society's faculty adviser, art and design
associate professor April Katz. The theme for this year's prints was
"Past - Tense," to be interpreted in whatever manner each artist
chose. Eligible methods included any editionable printmaking technique
(woodcuts, litho, intaglio, relief, photography, silkscreen, digital
printmaking, etc.) Prints were to be stamped and mailed separately as
postcards, so they would bear the markings of travel and the postal
service.
Every artist who submitted prints received 12 different prints
from other artists in return (hence the "exchange"). The University Print Society kept one
print from each artist for its own collection. These are the prints that will be on display as a part of the exhibition.
Silent Auction
All prints on display as a part of this exhibition will be
for sale through a bidding process described in the gallery. Bidding
ends at 5 p.m. Monday, November 27. Pickup and payment for cards will
be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, November 28. This is a great
opportunity to collect interesting pieces of art or to purchase unusual
gifts for friends and family, just in time for the holiday season�and
help a great cause. Proceeds will help fund student attendance at the
annual Southern Graphics Council conference in Kansas City, Missouri,
in spring 2007.
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Monday, November 6 - Friday, November 17, 2006
Flyover Country: Graphic Design Student Association Annual Exhibition
Gallery 181-1
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Steamroller Print Exhibition
Note: This show will be installed on the Lightfoot Forum Wall (north) just outside Gallery 181 and may be viewed 24 hours a day.
This is an exhibition of
large-format prints
created by art and design students using a road builder's steamroller.
Seventeen students in associate professor April Katz's relief
printmaking course spent the first half of fall semester carving
designs on 4-foot-by-8-foot sheets of birch plywood.Four teams created
collaborative designs while two advanced students designed and carved
their own individual woodblocks. The University Print Society also created a block. They then used a steamroller to create
prints from the woodblocks on
Oct. 27 at Rueter's, a local construction and equipment dealer. These
are the prints now on display.
See news release.
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Monday, October 16 " Friday, October 27, 2006
Landscape Architecture Pacific Rim Traveling Studio Summer '06
Call (515) 294-5676 for viewing hours.
Opening Reception
Monday, October 16, 2006
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum
Slide Presentation
5:30 p.m.
Kocimski Auditorium, 101 Design
This
exhibition will feature a collection of photographs, posters, and
materials gathered by 23 Iowa State University students who
participated in the landscape architecture department's Pacific Rim
Traveling Studio this past summer. The group spent three weeks in
Malaysia, four weeks in New Zealand and six weeks in Australia,
covering over 35,000 miles by plane, train, ferry, bus and van.
Following
the exhibition opening reception, associate professor Bill Grundmann,
who organized the studio and traveled with the students, and several
members of the group will present an overview of the cities and sites
they visited.
The exhibition, reception and presentation are all free and open to the public.
Tuesday, September 26 - Tuesday, October 10, 2006
27th Art and Design Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday
Opening Reception and Awards Presentation
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
5 - 7 p.m.
Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum
This annual exhibition features the best two- and
three-dimensional work submitted by undergraduate students in the Iowa
State University department of art and design. Of 209 pieces submitted
by 129 students, a total of 77 works by 63 students were accepted.
Entries were juried
by Traci Bittner, interim director of the MacNider Art Museum in Mason
City, and ISU alumnus Eugene Rauch (BA 1985 Graphic Design), art
director for Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications. (See juror bios.) A
total of $600 in cash awards was presented to the top entries as
determined by the jurors. See list of selected artists/works and award winners.
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Tuesday, September 5 - Monday, September 19, 2006
Rome Study Abroad Program Spring 2006: Exhibition of Architecture Student Work
Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday
Reception
Friday, September 8, 2006
6 - 8 p.m.
Lyle E. Lightfoot Forum
This exhibition showcases the work of 57 Iowa
State University architecture students who participated in the College
of Design's study program in Rome, Italy, last spring.
The
show includes drawings, models, installations, video, text and
photographs created by fourth-year architecture students under the
guidance of Iowa State architecture faculty members Richard Becherer
and Karen Bermann, both associate professors, and lecturer Ulrike
Passe, as well as Rome-based lecturer Pia Schneider.
During
spring semester 2006, students worked on individual design projects in
the context of Rome in four studio classes with the overall theme
"between inside and outside." Students traveled within Italy and to
other European destinations on organized field trips as well as
individually. They also took part in classes in freehand drawing,
architectural history, Italian film, and several public lectures on
social and cultural issues organized by the faculty.
The
opening reception for this exhibition will follow the Premiere 06
awards ceremony (4 - 5 p.m.) officially marking the start of the new
academic year in the department of architecture, and a guest lecture by
Charles Herbert (5 - 6 p.m.), both in the College of Design's
Kocimski Auditorium.
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Friday, April 14 - Friday, April 21, 2006
Savi Savarkar and the Annihilation of Caste
Gallery Talk
"An Untouchable Cries Out: The Dalit Art of Savi Savarkar"
Gary Tartakov, professor of art and design
Monday, April 17, 2006
7 p.m.
Savi
Savarkar is India's most well-known and, I would say, most powerful
dalit artist. The dalits are Indians"nearly a quarter of the
population"who in the rest of the world traditionally have been known
as "untouchables" or "outcastes," those so far down in the caste system
that they are literally outside of caste. Discrimination on the basis
of caste, and specifically the treating of someone as an "untouchable,"
is now against the law in India, and that nation is making strides
toward its eradication.
Savi is the rare
artist who has dealt with the evils of the caste system with the power
of art in the very halls of the elite and upper castes. His works are
in the national collection of India and familiar to the high-art world
of international galleries. This exhibition is a rare opportunity to
see major work by a major artist and social figure in contemporary
India, and to see powerful social criticism expressed through art.
�Gary Tartakov
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Thursday, April 6 - Tuesday, April 11, 2006
TWIXT
Reception
Friday, April 7, 2006
7:30-9 p.m.
Exhibition
in conjunction with "Intersections: Design Education and Other Fields
of Inquiry," the 22nd National Conference on the Beginning Design
Student. Selected examples of work by first-year design students in the
College of Design's Core Design Program will be shown.
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Monday, March 6 - Friday, March 24, 2006
Fall 05 Rome
Hours: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday-Friday; closed during spring break week, March 13-17
Opening Reception
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
4-7 p.m.
An
exhibition showcasing the work of Iowa State University students who
participated in the College of Design's study program in Rome last
fall, "Fall 05 Rome" will include mixed media, painting, photography,
corporate identity and packaging design projects, and conceptual
designs for interior spaces. The work was created by students in
graphic design, interior design and integrated studio arts under the
guidance of Iowa State faculty members C. Arthur Croyle and Cheri Ure,
graphic design, and Brenda Jones, integrated studio arts, as well as
Rome resident instructors Pia Schneider and Dee Newlin, interior
design, and Paolo Soraini and Gabriele Merolli, photography.
During
their semester in Rome, the ISU students study the same broad concepts
and topics as students who stay on campus, but their projects and
assignments focus directly on experiences, activities or elements that
are uniquely Italian. The exhibition reflects work that incorporates
the context and influences the students were immersed in during the
fall 2005 semester.
Panel Discussion
The
opening reception will be followed by a panel discussion on "The Da
Vinci Code: Fact, Fiction or Fake?" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 7, in the
college's Kocimski Auditorium. The panel will discuss how realistic the
novel "The Da Vinci Code" is. Panelists will include Gloria Betcher,
program coordinator, English department; John Cunnally, associate
professor of art history; and David Hunter, professor of philosophy and
religious studies. The discussion will be moderated by Michael Bailey,
assistant professor of history. Sponsored by the Western European
Studies Program.
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Tuesday, February 21 - Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Ert Axhibit: Annual BFA Senior Exhibition
Hours: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday
Reception
Friday, February 24, 2006
5-8 p.m.
Refreshments served. String quartet performance. Award presentation about 5:45 p.m.
Juried
exhibition showcasing the best work in all media by 42 Iowa State
University students who will graduate in 2006 with a bachelor of fine
arts degree in integrated studio arts. Juror: Gary Fandel,
photographer. Six juror's awards will be announced and
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