Monday, January 25, 2010
Kate Gilmore is a New York based sculptor best know for her humorous and physically demanding, masochistic performances. In her video work, Gilmore plays the role of the feminine hero, fashionably dressed but ready to knock down walls with high heels or push her neatly made-up face through small openings in plywood. Such strenuous physical feats are metaphorical acts created by the artist to address the challenges that contemporary artists face in today’s art world–specifically female artists. Her work depends on her own trial and error as she tirelessly makes valiant efforts towards success and in the process, in confronted with fear, failure and pain.
Gilmore received her MFA in 2002 from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has exhibited widely in the United States as well as international venues in Turin, Madrid, Liverpool and Berlin. Currently Gilmore is included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial in New York.
For more information go to http://www.kategilmore.com/index.html
posted by Noah Simblist |
Monday, January 5, 2009
Belief and Volition
“I have an embarrassing admission to make. I still believe that art can change
the world. I know a work of art can’t feed the hungry or cure AIDS, but a
video, a painting, a poem, all works of art, are endowed with a capacity to
alter a viewer’s perspective on the world. Perhaps, that capacity is weak, and
profound experiences provoked by art may be rare, but my own experiences affirm
that shattering encounters with art can and do occur. My belief in art derives
its vitality from this potential.
In this lecture, I will talk about the conflicting impulses and philosophical
contradictions that inform my work in order to examine structures of belief. I
will specifically address the role of belief regarding volition-the faculty of
power to exert one’s will.”
Gregg Bordowitz is a writer as well as a film and video maker. His films have been widely shown in festivals, museums, movie theaters and broadcast internationally. His writings have been published in anthologies and numerous publications and journals including: The Village Voice, Frieze, Artforum, American Imago, Art Journal, Documents, and October. In Spring 2002, Bordowitz had a solo museum show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. His book —titled The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003 — was published by MIT Press in the fall of 2004. Bordowitz is a member of the faculty of the Film/Video/New Media Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he is on the faculty of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
posted by Noah Simblist |
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Hidenori Oi and Jay Sullivan at the reception.
On September 4, 2007, the Division of Art held a reception for Hidenori Oi to celebrate the installation of his work, Gravitation, in the Meadows Sculpture Garden, in front of the Meadows School of the Arts.
posted by Mary Vernon |
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
While he is a work on the large sculpture in Texas limestone, Hidnori Oi made this small work. Photgraphs by Hidenori Oi.
posted by Mary Vernon |
Friday, April 27, 2007
Work on site at Division of Art Baird Site, SMU
Hidenori Oi Dallas Work, phtographs by Hidenori Oi
posted by Mary Vernon |
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
I feel there is a common form of lively energy shared among objects such as the
uprighthumanbodies, all living beings born from the mother earth, and the numerous
ancient foundations constructed years ago.
I view this energy as the kind of energy that counter the powers of the most basic
element, gravity. Then, I expressed these relative forces after I reconstructed them
within myself.
Hidenori Oi
El cuerpo levantado. Los vivientes que nacen de tierra. Las ruinas que construyeron.
siento que son la misma energía. La dirección de la fuerza de la energía es relativa
de la gravitación. Reconstruye ambos objetivo que tienen energía en la mentalidad
y reformo como “forma levantada” usándola piedra cuyo material primitivo.
Gravitation | 1995 | Natural Stone
On the Residency | Vanessa Paschakarnis on Hidenori Oi’s visit
With the support through the Barnes Endowment, the Division of Art is able to conduct an artist residency for a Japanese artist and sculptor, Hidenori Oi.
The residency takes place from April 10th to May 1st, 2007 and we host Mr. Oi for a three-week period in order for him to work on a large-scale sculpture in Texas Limestone. Upon completion, the sculpture may find a home at SMU.
Mr. Oi will be able to use our newly developed stone carving facilities in the old Baird Factory and there are two students designated as assistants for him, Jessica Hargrave and Derrick Piens, to help realize a work in this relatively short period of time.
The residency is an open studio for visitors in order to experience the artist at work.
Hidenori Oi is a Japanese sculptor whose primary medium is stone. In addition to his three-dimensional work, there is an extensive body of work in two-dimensional media, mostly drawing and printmaking in various printed media.
Mr. Oi graduated in 1986 from the Sculpture Department of Kanazawa College of Graduate School and has been showing extensively in Japan. He received in 1991 the Nagato City Arts & Culture Encouragement Award, in 1998 the Yamaguchi Prefecture Arts & Culture Encouragement Award and in 1999 he was granted the 1999-2000 Fellowship to study in Europe under the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists. Since then he has been also exhibiting in Spain where he now holds a second residency.
Mr. Hidenori Oi has been highly recommended by Frances Bagley and Tom Orr, good friends of the Meadows School of the Arts and outstanding local professional artists that had met him in person and suggested him to our faculty as a potential visitor. He is a serious professional artist who is very approachable and loves the contact with students.
Mr. Oi’s work falls in the tradition of Japanese stone sculpture in the way he deals with a subject matter that is rooted in the understanding of man in nature and the clear and subtle formal elements. His work deals with gravity, mass and volume and respects the stone as a material that has to be treated with sensibility and subtle awareness.
His work manifests a true addition in the various approaches to the making of art for our students. It has a sensitivity that comes out of the Japanese culture and the residency is a statement to our wish to engage in different cultural relationships.
As the main contact for Hidenori Oi, and as a sculptor who works with the medium of stone myself, I am pleased that he is using the carving facilities I helped to set up in the Baird building. I will help organize the residency and select the student assistants.
The support through the Barnes Endowment allows students to have an insight into the making of a large-scale public sculpture and facilitate the exchange of ideas and approaches between two different cultures.
Since the installment of the stone carving facilities in the spring of 2005 in the old Baird factory, we have the opportunity to host of the caliber a sculptor of Hidenori Oi and it is as exciting for him to work with our local material, Texas limestone, as it is for our students to interact with a Japanese artist over a period of three weeks.
Vanessa Paschakarnis, Assistant Professor of Art
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
Mr. Oi was born in Yamaguchi, Japan, and has been showing his sculpture internationally for over 20 years. In 1986, he graduated from the graduate Sculpture Department of Kanazawa College. In 1991, he was awarded the The Nagato City Arts & Culture Award. And in 1999, he was granted a Fellowship to study in Europe under the Japanese study program for artist.
You can view more of Hidenori Oi’s work on his website.
posted by Mary Vernon |
