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Highlights of the 2008/2009 Calendar:

Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home
Dance For Reel: An Evening of Dance on Camera
Art Papers LIVE! featuring Joan Fontcuberta
Jason Francisco: A Concern with History (2003)
The Loseling Dolls and Traditional Costumes of the Tibetan World
Roger Dorset: Deadly Sins and Other Matters
Liquitex Acrylic Seminar & Demonstration
Min Kim Park: Zummarella
Eve Andrée Laramée: The Future of Evolution
Diane Kempler: New Work
2009 Student Art Exhibition & Open Studios
Brent Fogt: Accrual Method

All events are FREE, open to the public, and held at the Visual Arts Building, 700 Peavine Creek Drive, on Emory's main campus, unless specified otherwise. Please check back often for additional listings as they become available.

Past Events:

Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home

Martha Rosler, Hooded Captives, 2004; photomontage, 24x20"; from Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, new series; courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Exhibition Dates: September 11 – October 17, 2008

READ the 9/7/08 New York Times article about Martha Rosler, and LISTEN to the artist talk about her work.

Screening & Discussion: Tuesday, September 9, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Considering Rosler, featuring early performance pieces by Martha Rosler; moderated by Angus Galloway, Emory Visual Arts Lecturer (Drawing & Painting).

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 11, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Friends of Visual Arts Reception: Friday, October 10, 7:00 pm
A special event for Emory Friends of Visual Arts held in conjunction with [ACP 10], Atlanta Celebrates Photography's annual month-long city-wide festival; admission is free for Emory Friends of Visual Arts; all others: $35 pp or $50/couple includes dinner, commentary and discussion with the High Museum of Art's Curator of Photography, Julian Cox, live classical guitar music by Emory faculty Brian Luckett, and a 1-year membership in Emory Friends of Visual Arts.

Closing Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, October 17, 7:00 pm
Featuring Martha Rosler in conversation with Emory faculty, Jason Francisco, Associate Professor of Visual Arts (Photography), and James Meyer, Winship Distinguished Associate Professor of Art History.

On the eve of the 2008 Presidential election, Martha Rosler’s multifaceted work will pose thought provoking questions in reference to one of the election’s most pivotal issues: the war in Iraq. This exhibition will be the juxtaposition of two similar but also different bodies of work across the span of decades, Bringing the War Home (1967-1972) and Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, new series (2004). Produced as an outgrowth of Rosler's own involvement with anti-war activities, these photomontages are a response to the artist's "frustration with the images we saw in television and print media, even with anti-war flyers and posters. The images we saw were always very far away, in a place we couldn't imagine." In 1991 Laura Cottingham wrote in the catalog for ‘The War is Always Home: Martha Rosler’: “The consumer media avoids directly referring to political and economic connection between your cozy sofa and someone else's dead body: Rosler reveals the artificiality of this severed causality. The separation of us from them, here from there, is an illusion we want, as a war-profit society and as immediately war-free individuals, to maintain.”

This exhibition is sponsored in part by a grant from the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts, by the Emory Art History Department, and by the Emory Friends of Visual Arts. The Bringing the War Home (1967-1972) series is courtesy of the Sue & John Wieland Collection in Atlanta, GA and Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, new series (2004) is courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

Visit the Mitchell-Innes & Nash website to view information about their exhibition, Martha Rosler: Great Power, on view through October 11, 2008.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York. She took her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1965 and her M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego in 1974. She works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, and writes criticism. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally. Her work in the public sphere ranges from everyday life — often with an eye to women's experience — and the media to architecture and the built environment. She has published several books of photographs, texts, and commentary on public space, ranging from airports and roads to housing and homelessness. Her work has been seen in the "Documenta" exhibition in Kassel, Germany; several Whitney Biennials; the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Dia Center for the Arts in New York; and many other international venues. A retrospective of her work has been shown in five European cities and in New York at the New Museum and the International Center of Photography (2000). An accompanying book has been published by MIT Press. Her writing has been published widely in catalogs and magazines, such as Artforum, Afterimage, and NU Magazine. Rosler has ten published books. She teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Dance for Reel: An Evening of Dance on Camera
Thursday, September 25 at 8:00 pm
Location: Performing Arts Studio @ Emory University, 1804 North Decatur Road, Atlanta

Click here to see a listing of the films being shown.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! After a highly successful Dance for Reel event in January 2008, we are bringing it back in September. Dance for Reel is an evening of short films from The Dance Films Association, based in New York City. Ranging in length from 5 to 30 minutes, the films reveal the moving body in new places, surprising contexts, and from inspired viewpoints. Dance for Reel is co-presented by Emory's Dance and Visual Arts Programs, and curated by Emory Dance alumna Blake Beckham. For more information, please call 404-727-7266, email dance@emory.edu, or visit www.dance.emory.edu.

Click here to see a listing of the films being shown.

ART PAPERS LIVE!
The Premier Contemporary Art Lecture Series Presents

JOAN FONTCUBERTA
Image Conspiracy

Wednesday, October 15, 7 pm
Emory University
White Hall 208
301 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322
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This event is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. Co-Sponsored by Emory Visual Arts Program & Gallery

Jason Francisco: A Concern with History (2003)
Exhibition Dates: October 16 - December 18, 2008
Visual Arts Building Reception Lobby

Welcome Reception for Jason Francisco
Thursday, October 16, 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Please join the Visual Arts Program to celebrate the appointment of Jason Francisco as Associate Professor of Visual Arts (Photography). The reception will feature wine, hors d'oeuvres, and an opportunity to meet Francisco and hear some brief remarks about his background and work. A selection of Francisco's photographs will be on view in the Emory Visual Arts Building Reception Lobby from October 16 - December 18, 2008. The Welcome Reception is being held in conjunction with [ACP 10], Atlanta Celebrates Photography's annual month-long, city-wide photography festival.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
A Concern with History (2003) is a sequence of photographs concerning the American social landscape as linked to appropriated images of the American invasion and conquest of Iraq in 2003. The sequence, with accompanying texts, is presented in an original accordion book nearly 100 feet in length when fully extended. Presenting the Iraq conflict as a symptom of an incompletely self-understanding imperial civilization with external and internal manifestations, the project is a searching look at American ideals in an era of fragile prosperity, psychic vulnerability, extraordinary military strength and (dangerously) resilient cultural innocence.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jason Francisco is an acclaimed photographer, writer, and book artist. Working critically and creatively with photographs as documents, Francisco extends and deepens one of photography's most accessible and also most complex traditions. Several of his projects concern problems of visualizing historical memory. Born and raised in California, he will begin teaching at Emory University in the fall of 2008, leaving a faculty position in photography and critical studies at Rutgers University. He also teaches at Stanford University.

The Loseling Dolls and Traditional Costumes of the Tibetan World

Opening Reception: Monday, October 20, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Demonstration/Exhibition Dates:
October 21 - 24, daily, 10 am – 4 pm
Saturday, October 25, 12 noon – 4 pm, with a docent tour at 2 pm

This week-long event will feature an amazing set of dolls created by the master dollmakers of Drepung Loseling monastery and illustrating traditional lay and monastic costumes of old Tibet. Dollmakers Ven. Geshe Pema Ludrup and Ven. Geshe Yeshe Thokme will be demonstrating their art daily during the exhibition. This is the first major event for Emory University’s new Himalayan Arts Program sponsored by a Rubin Foundation grant. Presented in conjunction with the Emory-Tibet Partnership.

Roger Dorset: Deadly Sins and Other Matters

Exhibition Dates: October 30 – November 29, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 30, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Roger Dorset is an extraordinary and too-often overlooked artist whose work reflects profoundly personal, often anguished, responses to questions of good and evil, sin, guilt, sexuality, religion, and the psychological traumas brought on by the human struggle to come to terms with these concepts. Curated by Katherine Mitchell of the Emory Visual Arts faculty, who has known Dorset since their student days in the 1960s at the Atlanta College of Art, this exhibition will include more than 30 works on paper spanning from 1968 to 2004. This exhibition is sponsored in part by a grant from the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts and the Religion Department of Emory University.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Roger Dorset received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1967, and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia in 1969. Dorset also attended Emory University from 1959-1963. His solo exhibitions include the Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville NC; Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; The Atchinson Gallery, Birmingham, AL; and the Atlanta College of Art Gallery. His group and juried exhibitions include LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; Frankenburg Guthrie Gallery, Athens, GA; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA; Poesia e Realta, Salerno, Italy; Artists in Georgia, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; and The Hunter Annual Competition, The Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN. Around 1997, Roger’s health began to deteriorate, and he ceased to exhibit. However he continued to make art when he was able. 2004 was a particularly good period during which he produced a long series of works, nine of which will premiere in the Visual Arts Gallery exhibition, along with works from other series.

Acrylic Seminar & Demonstration
Sponsored by Liquitex
Free and open to the public.

Thursday, November 6, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Visual Arts Building Room 118

Liquitex invented water-based acrylics and has been the innovator in all things acrylic ever since. You'll learn about:

The difference between artists' and student grade colors

Pigments and color mixing

Mixed media

Mediums, additives, and varnishes

The incredible variety of potential applications possible only with acrylics

Medium, heavy, and super-heavy body colors

Min Kim Park: Zummarella

Exhibition Dates: December 4, 2008 – January 24, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 4, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

[PLEASE NOTE THAT THE GALLERY WILL BE CLOSED FROM DECEMBER 18 – JANUARY 4]

This exhibition is sponsored in part by the Hightower Fund of Emory University.

Zummarella deals with the notion of the ideal woman in contemporary society. To create the title the artist combined the Korean word azuma (the closest translation in English would be housewife) and the last part of Cinderella. Traditionally, azumas were the symbol of self-sacrifice and humility, but modern azumas are well-educated and pragmatic high-achievers who believe they can have it all. When their desires to be unique super-moms, super-career women, and super-wives, are not fulfilled, they are deeply frustrated. Zummarella will examine this tragicomic impossible situation, the isolation stemming from the conceitedness of feeling different and better than anybody else, and the agony of contemporary women unable to escape from self-made predicament and social mores in the land of entitlement.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in South Korea, Min Kim Park has been exploring the issues revolving around gender, ethnicity and identity using performance, video, photography, sound and site installation. Her work draws much from her experience as a journalist in Korea News Daily and Korean American Broadcasting Co. in Chicago. She has been exhibiting and performing nationally and internationally. She has performed at the 2nd Biennial International Juried exhibition in San Francisco, Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque and Lombach and Lionel Gallery in Tucson. Her recent video work, ‘Perfect Asian Woman’ is included in ‘ArtDisk’ a DVD magazine, which was screened at two venues; Miami MOCA at Goldman Warehouse and Artificial Light 2006 during Art Basel Miami 2006. In addition she has exhibited a collaborative interactive video installation in a group exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe in Spring 2007. She received a MFA degree in Photography from University of New Mexico in 2007 and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University.

Eve Andrée Laramée: The Future of Evolution

Exhibition Dates: February 5 – March 6, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 5, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Eve Andrée Laramée has been invited to develop an exhibition for the Visual Arts Gallery that will be inspired by Emory University’s conference, Evolution Revolution: Science Changing Life (October 23-24, 2008), which will be a presentation of the outstanding research of Emory faculty in Darwinian evolution and how new understandings of natural diversity and directed selection transforms our lives. This event anticipates the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth in February 2009 and the 150th anniversary in 2009 of the publication of the first edition of On the Origins of Species. This exhibition is sponsored in part by a grant from the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts.

Eve Andrée Laramée / Photo: Shimon Attie

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Eve Andrée Laramée has been exploring the mutable, triadic relationship between art, science and nature for over twenty years. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe, including exhibitions in New York, England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Israel, Poland and the Czech Republic. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, MassMOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston among other institutions. She has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Museum, the Andy Warhol Foundation, among others. Laramee is the Chair of Interdisciplinary Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Previously, she has taught sculpture, installation and critical theory at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Rhode Island School of Design, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Fairfield University. She lives in Brooklyn, NY; Baltimore, MD; and Santa Fe, NM.

Diane Kempler: New Work

Exhibition Dates: March 19 – April 24, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 19, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

New ceramic sculpture by Emory Visual Arts faculty Diane Kempler.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Diane Solomon Kempler was born in New York City and graduated with a degree in philosophy from Brandeis University. She has studied with numerous ceramic artists and has received grants, awards and residencies. She has been active as an artist and teacher for over twenty years. She has won numerous awards, grants and residencies. She has had numerous one-woman exhibitions in Georgia, New York, Charlotte, and Richmond, to mention only a few. She participates in national exhibitions, including the touring exhibition “Body and Soul: Contemporary Southern Figures,” curated by the Columbus Museum. As a project of the Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta (CODA), she created and installed a permanent bronze fountain sculpture in downtown Atlanta in 1996. Her work deals with transformations and transitions as they exist in nature and human beings.

2009 Student Art Exhibition & Open Studios

Exhibition Dates: April 30 – May 11, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 30, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Graduation Champagne Reception (open to everyone):
Monday, May 11, 12 noon - 4 pm

Work by Emory University Class of 2009 Art History/Visual Arts Joint Majors, Visual Arts Program Honors Students, and Other Select Students of the Visual Arts Program

Brent Fogt: Accrual Method

Exhibition Dates: June 18 – July 31, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 18, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Brent Fogt will present a series of large-scale, highly detailed drawings of abstract forms that vary from the topographic to the decorative, referring to, among other things, aerial photography, maps, turbulent water, live oak trees, coral reefs, ant farms, and paisleys.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Brent Fogt received an MFA from the University of Michigan in 2007. He has exhibited throughout the world, including The Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia; Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain (with Blue Puddle cooperative); Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, DC; Contemporaine Kunst, Paramaribo, Surinam, South America; Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, New York; and the Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC. He has received numerous fellowships and awards, including a School of Art & Design Fellowship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; a Teaching Assistantship at Duke University, and a full scholarship to Georgetown University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art (tenure track) at Millsaps College in Jackson, MS.

For more details on exhibitions and lectures, please contact:
Mary Catherine Johnson, mcjohn7@emory.edu or 404-712-4390.

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Events and Exhibits

Past Events:

Acrylic Seminar & Demonstration Sponsored by Liquitex Free and open to the public.

Thursday, November 6, 4:00 - 6:00 pm Visual Arts Building Room 118

Acrylic Seminar & Demonstration
Sponsored by Liquitex
Free and open to the public.

Thursday, November 6, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Visual Arts Building Room 118