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Manifest Creative Research Gallery: BRUM | FORTUSHNIAK | RENKL - 11 Dec 2010 to 7 Jan 2011 Current Exhibition |
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Manifest Announces Three Solo Exhibits Opening December 10th Showcasing artists from New York, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania Manifest is excited to devote three galleries to three solo exhibits for the first time in its history. Arthur Brum, Ivan Fortushniak, and Billy Renkl will exhibit very diverse bodies of work which nevertheless find a unified thread through subtle relationships of media and content. Two of the artists, Brum and Fortushniak, each hold degrees from the University of Cincinnati, but each has since endeavored abroad, and now return to Cincinnati for this exhibition at Manifest. All three artists employ varying collage/assemblage approaches to the realization of their final works. And each in his own way presents work dealing with a sense of the miraculous. BRUM | FORTUSHNIAK | RENKL A HUNDRED FLOWERS CAMPAIGN Works by Arthur Brum with a pinecone Main Gallery Opening Friday, December 10, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: December 11, 2010 - January 7, 2011 Curated by Tim Parsley Through a playful variety of both subject matter and medium, Arthur Brum�s work alternates between text, image, and sculptural form in an attempt to provoke the viewer into a more complex viewing experience. Using an array of voices, ranging from sincere to sarcastic, Brum gathers the attention of both believers and skeptics. A constant within the work is a concern with motif, device and self-consciousness along with a love of unusual material. Arthur Brum was educated at the University of Cincinnati and received his MFA from Yale University's School of Art. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is also a long distance collaborator with Cincinnati-based art gallery CS13 and other Cincinnati artists. LOOKING UPWARD Paintings by Ivan Fortushniak Drawing Room Opening Friday, December 10, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: December 11, 2010 - January 7, 2011 Curated by Tim Parsley Responding to a pluralistic cultural mix of philosophies, religions, theories, and standards of morality, Ivan Fortushniak�s work blends a continuance of 19th century American painting with contemporary concerns about such weighty issues as the abuse of the environment and the embattled state of the human soul. Deeply informed by his personal faith, Fortushniak�s work navigates between paint, collage and text, revealing poetically tense narratives that evoke both nostalgia and critique, as well as a considered investigation of spiritual truth. After receiving his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design, Ivan Fortushniak earned his MFA from the University of Cincinnati. Currently he is an assistant professor of painting and drawing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. PLAN FOR A GARDEN Recent Works by Billy Renkl Parallel Space Opening Friday, December 10, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: December 11, 2010 - January 7, 2011 Curated by Jason Franz "The old, retired, images and documents that I use, many from antique grammar school texts, allow for the possibility of meaning and metaphor in their peculiar beauty and often accidental aesthetic. In these images, diagrams, and maps, the world is represented as both sensible and miraculous, systematic and astonishing. These images were originally made to be clear and objective, a rational distillation of a mechanical world. Instead and in addition, though, they are now rich in beauty and poetry." Originally from Birmingham, Alabama Billy Renkl attended Auburn University (BFA, Visual Communications) and the University of South Carolina (MFA, Drawing). He has taught drawing and illustration at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee for nineteen years. His work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions, including solo shows at The Cumberland Gallery (Nashville, TN), Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts (New Orleans), Vanderbilt University, The University of Kentucky, The Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Galerie Neue Raume (Berlin, Germany). He has work in several permanent collections, including The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Kiwanis Club International, The Tennessee State Museum, and The College of Notre Dame, Baltimore. In addition to gallery exhibitions, he has worked with many clients on illustration projects, including SouthWest Airlines, How Magazine, Vanderbilt University, Klutz Inc., Strategy & Business, The River Styx, Poems and Plays, and Rigby Publishing. This exhibit continues Manifest's ongoing commitment to explore the often ignored and under-appreciated gray areas between the ends of the spectrum of art and design. |
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