Spring 2013 Exhibits

ALUMNI EXHIBITION

JUNE 6 - JUNE 8, 2013

An annual exhibition featuring work by former DePauw University studio art majors.

DARKFIRE AND THE WAITING ROOM

AUGUST 28 – SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

This exhibition consists of two related interdisciplinary and collaborative artist’s books, Darkfire and The Waiting Room, which explore the interface of visual art, design and creative writing. Each of these works is an unbound portfolio consisting prints by Sean Caulfield, accompanied by poems written by Jonathan Hart, with Susan Colberg designing a book consisting of a title page, text layout, colophon, and portfolio box. The exhibition is made up of a total 25 images and 25 pages of text with two title pages and two colophons.

To initiate Darkfire and The Waiting Room, Caulfield, Hart and Colberg used themes and poetic images taken from Dante’s Inferno and Purgatory as a common start for each of their image/text pairings The intention was not to illustrate Inferno/Purgatory in the traditional sense, but rather to use it as a motivation from which they could find common formal and conceptual inspiration.

Although the work looks to the past for inspiration, its merging of mechanistic and organic languages is intended to point viewers towards a contemporary context in which advancements in technology are rapidly changing our relationship to the natural world, biology, and our own bodies. In a broad sense, then, these artist’s books are intended to encourage individuals to engage in reflection and dialogue about the changing environments of our daily lives.

Living as form

september 5 – December 6, 2013

Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (lower level)

In collaboration with twenty-five curators from around the world, Nato Thompson has selected 50 projects as the foundation of this exhibition, which will expand as it travels. New additions will be selected by each host institution, increasing the diversity of works made in the last twenty years that are represented in the show. Circulating via a hard drive, on which the new projects will be uploaded, Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) will provide a broad look at a vast array of socially engaged practices that appear with increasing regularity in fields ranging from theater to activism, and urban planning to visual art.

Participating artists:

The projects included in Living as Form were selected by a group of curators, writers, artists, and historians, including: Caron Atlas, Negar Azimi, Ron Bechet, Claire Bishop, Brett Bloom, Rashida Bumbray, Carolina Caycedo, Ana Paula Cohen, Common Room, Teddy Cruz, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Hou Hanru, Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter, Shannon Jackson, Maria Lind, Chus Martínez, Sina Najafi, Marion von Osten, Ted Purves, Raqs Media Collective, Gregory Sholette, SUPERFLEX, Christine Tohme, Bik Van der Pol, and Sue Bell Yank.

GLOBAL MATRIX III

October 9 – DECEMBER 13, 2013

Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (upper level)

“GLOBAL MATRIX III,” a contemporary review of fine art printmaking from around the world organized as a traveling exhibition in the U.S. from 2012 to 2014.  Works have been selected for the exhibition by a team of printmaking and gallery professionals: Kathryn Reeves, Professor of Art & Design at Purdue University; Kimberly Vito, Associate Professor of Art & Art History at Wright State University; Sean Caulfield, Associate Professor of Art & Design at the University of Alberta; and Craig Martin, Director of Purdue University Galleries.  Artists include Verapong Sritrakulkitiakarn (Thailand), Janne Laine (Finland), Yuji Hiratsuka (US), Szu-Wei Ho (US), Jochen Koehn (Germany), and others.