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Manifest Creative Research Gallery: PAINT Curated by Jason Franz SELECTIONS FROM THE INDA 5 Curated by Jason Franz - 5 Mar 2010 to 2 Apr 2010 Current Exhibition |
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main gallery and drawing room P A I N T Curated by Jason Franz Painting is something humans have done for millennia. The media has a lineage not unlike our own, evolving and accumulating like the culture that bears it. Yet like so many aspects of civilization, we take it for granted. For example, people don�t realize that numerous pigments are extremely toxic, not just the fabled �lead white�, or that in antiquity a pound of royal purple dye required the crushing of four million mollusks (and that the color purple was worth the trouble - to the Romans). As art spread like a virus, from the skin tattoos and cave walls of prehistory, to temples and palaces, cathedrals and manuscripts, at some point it became desirable, advantageous even, for it to become portable, and transferable. Panels and canvases made art smaller, and pigment bound by egg, oil, or other experimental organic excretions, was invented to be more and more durable. At some point, thanks to all that had gone before, society reached a level where ordinary people could spend a lifetime perfecting their ability to mix and apply paint, in extraordinary ways. Picasso put it nicely: There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Now Manifest seeks to present and document the best painting of the most varied types being made in the world today. PAINT is an exhibit that called for works of painting from around the world, made by students or professionals, as they carry the tradition forward, or reform it for another day. For this exhibit 324 artists from 39 states and 13 countries submitted 730 works for consideration. Twenty-one works by the following 17 artists from 12 states, Belgium, Hong Kong, and Thailand were selected by our two-part jury/curatorial process for presentation in the gallery and catalog. Rob Anderson (Edgewood, Kentucky) Stefan Annerel (Antwerp, Belgium) Matthew Ballou (Columbia, Missouri) David Dorsey (Pittsford, New York) Brett Eberhardt (Macomb, Illinois) June Glasson (Bangkok, Thailand) Joshua Hagler (Berkeley, California) Jason John (Sidman, Pennsylvania) Matt Klos (Sparrows Point, Maryland) Daniel Nevins (Asheville, North Carolina) Jessica Rebik (Dubuque, Iowa) Elise Schweitzer (Indianapolis, Indiana) Sarupa Sidaarth (San Francisco, California) David Smith (Hong Kong) Nathan Sullivan (Columbia, Missouri) Sunny Belliston Taylor (Provo, Utah) Jovan Karlo Villalba (Miami, Florida) Opening Reception Friday March 5 6-9 p.m. catalog parallel space SELECTIONS FROM THE INDA 5 Curated by Jason Franz Selections from the International Drawing Annual is the fifth annual presentation of this exhibit, featuring a sampling of artworks to be included in the forthcoming International Drawing Annual 5 exhibit-in-print. The International Drawing Annual publication was conceived as an extension of Manifest's Drawing Center mission to promote, feature, and explore drawing as a rich and culturally significant art form. More info. about this ongoing project can be found here. The goal of the International Drawing Annual is to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, current, and relevant works of drawing from around the world. All works included in each annual were made within three years leading up to its publication. Soft and hardcover versions of the book will be available in fall of 2010. The full jury process is still under way, with 1276 entries being considered by ten jurors. However, preliminary results provided a pool of works that have clearly achieved finalist status. Nine of these works, by the nine following artists are presented here. Sonya Berg (Austin, Texas) Judy K. Dethmers (Champaign, Illinois) Brett Eberhardt (Macomb, Illinois) Karla Hackenmiller (Athens, Ohio) Charles Kanwischer (Waterville, Ohio) Joseph Miller (Buffalo, New York) Michael Reedy (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Sara Schneckloth (Columbia, South Carolina) Matthew Woodward (Chicago, Illinois) |
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