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Manifest Creative Research Gallery: Martha MacLeish - SHAPE SHIFT FIRED: A View of Ceramics - 15 Apr 2011 to 13 May 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Martha MacLeish
Shrug (photo credit - Kevin Mooney) |
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Main Gallery Manifest is very proud to announce an exhibition of recent works by Indiana University professor, and Yale School of Art alumna, Martha MacLeish. Opening Reception 6-9p.m. on Friday, April 15th. SHAPE SHIFT Recent Works by Martha MacLeish Opening Friday, April 15, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: April 15 - May 13, 2011 Manifest is delighted to present the works of Martha MacLeish in yet another in its series of solo exhibits for season 7. MacLeish first exhibited work at the gallery in the group exhibit SHAPED in 2009. Trained as a painter, she nevertheless defies the traditional expectations of the genre, working with large three-dimensional forms constructed of non-traditional materials. MacLeish's work walks a line, bridging ordinarily separated categories, while remaining sensitive to issues found within each. Of her work MacLeish states: "I work with both two and three-dimensional space, and am concerned with how to turn experience into gesture. I try to be attentive to all aspects of my experience: thoughts, feelings, memories, sensations, the visible and invisible alike. Of greatest interest are those aspects that raise questions and create tension. The spatial quirks and ambiguities that I find so compelling in painting become metaphors for this tension, and are isolated and reconsidered as sculptural forms. In turn, my use of three-dimensional space enriches my sense of what is possible in painting and drawing." Martha MacLeish is an assistant professor and head of the Fundamentals Studio at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, in Bloomington. She received her BFA in painting and her BA in art history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and her MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art. Prior to coming to I.U., MacLeish taught at the Savannah College of Art and Design and at Southern Utah University. MacLeish has had solo exhibitions at the Prince Street Gallery in New York, The Artist Project in Chicago, Broad Street Gallery in Athens, Georgia, the Marsh Art Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, and at Artemisia Gallery, Chicago. Recent group exhibitions that have included her work are �Gesture (inclusive)� at the Ohio State University, �Shaped� at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, and �At First Glance� at the Beaux-Arts des Am�riques in Montr�al, Quebec. Recently, MacLeish has been an artist in residence at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Park, Illinois, the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and at the Toos Neger Foundation in Dordrecht, The Netherlands. SHAPE SHIFT will be on view simultaneously with FIRED. Both exhibits will be open during the annual Clay Alliance Pottery Fair. On May 7th, two blocks of Woodburn Avenue will be converted to a pedestrian-only all-day exhibit attracting thousands of visitors to East Walnut Hills, and Manifest's front door. Drawing Room and Parallel Space Gallery Manifest is very proud to announce an exhibition of contemporary ceramics by artists from California, Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington. Opening Reception 6-9p.m. on Friday, April 15th. FIRED: A View of Ceramics Opening Friday, April 15, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: April 15 - May 13, 2011 For millennia people have made things out of burnt earth. From bowls and jars essential for preserving foods to ensure survival, to written documents and official seals, to talismans of devotion for various deities and other ritualistic purposes. Ancient kilns were one of humanity's earliest forms of factory-based mass-production. Today the role of fired earth persists in both old and new ways. FIRED invited artists to submit works that in some way represent the use of the medium of ceramics. There was no other thematic restriction, and our jury fully expected to consider a range of types of work, from the very traditional to highly unexpected 'contemporary' interpretations of the medium. Manifest�s goal was to assemble a diverse array of works for an exhibit spanning our Drawing Room and Parallel Space galleries that is unified by its exploration of the medium, but intriguing and insightful due to the wide variety of approaches taken by artists working in ceramics today. As a result, the collection of works on view will provide visitors to the gallery with a delightful experience, revealing how artists employ, often quite playfully, fired earth to the ends of self-expression. For this exhibit 157 artists submitted 372 works for consideration. Twenty-one works by the following 17 artists from California, Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington were selected for presentation in the gallery and catalog. FIRED will be on view simultaneously with a solo exhibit of works by Martha MacLeish in the Main Gallery. Both exhibits will be open during the annual Clay Alliance Pottery Fair. On May 7th, two blocks of Woodburn Avenue will be converted to a pedestrian-only all-day exhibit attracting thousands of visitors to East Walnut Hills, and Manifest's front door. Works on exhibit by: Brian Benfer (Gig Harbor, Washington) David Bogus (Laredo, Texas) Jim Bowling (Columbus, Ohio) Angelique Brickner (Greenville, South Carolina) Rachel Dawson (Oakland, California) Constantina Dendramis (Cincinnati, Ohio) Scott Dooley (Springfield, Ohio) Leanne Ellis (Bloomington, Indiana) Tiffany Geiger (Indianapolis, Indiana) Roger Lee (Los Angeles, California) John Oliver Lewis (San Diego, California) Andrew Molleur (Coventry, Connecticut) Lindsay Oesterritter (Bowling Green, Kentucky) Hunter Stamps (Lexington, Kentucky) Brenda Tarbell (Cincinnati, Ohio) Christopher Weigold (Cincinnati, Ohio) Stephen Wolochowicz (South Bend, Indiana) |
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