Visual Arts: Related Content
Mariam Shah ‘14 talks about her experience with working with clay during Field Work Term and how she gradually became comfortable with the material.
Visual arts faculty member Ann Pibal, MFA faculty member Major Jackson, and alumna Kiran Desai ’93 are among the 175 artists, scholars, and scientists—out of nearly 3,000 applicants—to receive 2013 Guggenheim Fellowships.
The Network, a compelling new video portrait by artist Lincoln Schatz ’86, is a single-screen video that constantly recombines 89 interviews with politicians, scientists, innovators, and scholars. It is currently on view at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
Usdan Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition of Middle Falls by Linda Matalon until November 30, 2012. Begun in 1999 in Matalon’s 40th year, this extraordinary work is made up of 36 large-scale minimalist drawings that represent a visual catalogue of every sculpture Matalon had made up until that point in her career.
Three large-scale sculptures by visual arts faculty member Jon Isherwood were unveiled last month at the Songzhuang Art Museum in Beijing, China. The pieces are sculpted from Indian red granite ("Prophecy"), China black granite ("The Move's On"), and white marble ("Swan Song"), and will be on view through the end of the year.
A show of new works by visual arts faculty member Mary Lum will open with a reception at Yancey Richardson Gallery on September 6. The exhibit, Small Structures—on view through October 20—includes a series of small-scale photographs and acrylic-based collage works on paper, hung end-to-end in a line throughout the gallery.
The International Print Center New York (IPCNY) has selected a series of prints by visual arts faculty member Thorsten Dennerline for its “New Prints 2012/Winter” exhibit—a collection of 68 prints by 45 artists selected from a pool of more than 2,300 submissions.
The entire Bennington community mourns the loss of Helen Frankenthaler ’49, one of the most influential figures in contemporary American art and a former Bennington trustee, who died on December 27, at the age of 83.
The Sherman Fairchild Foundation has awarded a grant to Bennington College for the Open Art and Technology Initiative. The $300,000, three-year grant will support a faculty-led project to create new opportunities for Bennington’s visual and performing arts faculty to collaboratively develop curriculum that uses new technology, with the support of visiting artist-technologists who will teach and train faculty and students together in an open environment of artistic and intellectual exchange.
Laura-Lee Whittier Woods ’48 honors former faculty member Peter Drucker with a $10 million gift to Bennington in his name.
Visual arts faculty member Jonathan Kline’s exhibition at the University of Vermont showcased 17 prints produced using one of the many historic photographic processes that he’s dedicated his recent career to preserving.
Artist Tom Sachs ’89 was featured in Wall Street Journal Magazine’s “Special Innovator’s Issue” which described his recent short film 10 Bullets as a “brilliantly twisted homage to corporate training films as well as an amusing look at Sachs’s exacting studio process.”
Visual arts faculty member Yoko Inoue was one of ten artists selected to receive a $25,000 grant from the Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation. The unrestricted grant enables women “at a critical juncture in their lives or careers to continue to grow their work,” according to the Foundation. Inoue is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, collaborative projects, and public intervention performance art.
Several Bennington students have presented work this month at community events around the region.
Alumnus Ben Hall '04 was profiled in the Detroit Free Press last month after being the only local artist selected for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit's exhibition "Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism," which will be on display through Friday, December 30.
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has selected Lincoln Schatz's 2008 commission for Esquire magazine, Portrait of the 21st Century, for inclusion in their collection. The series of 19 portraits, which includes George Clooney, Jeff Bezos, and LeBron James, will be on view through 2011 in the exhibition "Americans Now."
State of the Union, a visual arts piece created by Bennington faculty member Robert Ransick is currently on view at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) until September 26.
Bennington faculty member Mary Lum has been awarded a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship to support her ongoing work in the visual arts.
Artist and educator Nick Tobier will speak about his recent and upcoming work on Tuesday, March 23, at 7:30 pm in the College's Tishman Lecture Hall. The event, part of this term's Visual Arts Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.
Bennington will celebrate the opening of Marina Zurkow's Crossing the Waters, an exhibition of seven animated single and multi-channel works, on Tuesday, March 2, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm in the College's Usdan Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
Participating in Bennington's new Local Field Experience program, 16 students spent Field Work Term volunteering at 11 organizations in Bennington and North Bennington, including schools, counseling services, family support centers, and other community-based agencies.
Faculty member Ann Pibal was one of 30 U.S. artists this month to receive a $20,000 grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
A photo of Evie Garf 11's "Book-Dependent Shelf," an inverted bookshelf she made for an architecture course two years ago, was featured last week on "The Book Bench," a New Yorker blog that frequently publishes great images of books from around the world.
The entire Bennington community mourns the loss of Kenneth Noland, an internationally celebrated abstract painter and former College trustee, who died on Tuesday, January 5, at 85 years old.
Faculty member Liz Deschenes' Right/Left photography exhibition was on display last month at the prestigious Sutton Lane art gallery, marking her third solo exhibition of 2009 (and her first-ever in Paris).
A series of photos by faculty member Liz Deschenes were selected for the first-ever photography exhibition to run in the new Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Bennington's 2009 Senior Art Show opened on Wednesday, May 13, in the College's Usdan Gallery.
Faculty member Mary Lum received high praise in recent issues of Art in America and Artforum for her solo exhibition Edge Conditions, which was on display at Frederieke Taylor gallery in New York earlier this year.
Faculty member Ann Pibal was one of 25 painters and sculptors to receive a $25,000 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
During a post-Katrina panel discussion with a group of New Orleans-based artists in early 2006, Dan Cameron '79, then-senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, just blurted it out: "A biennial would go really, really well in New Orleans."