LOF and the State of Sculpture and a wealth of amazing events!

The State of Sculpture

Steve Litt's write up on the Conference

SculptureX website

The Sculpture Center - Cleveland

The Institute hosts The State of Sculpture on Saturday, November 6 ... running from 10 am until 8 pm the event is designed to stimulate dialogue on and around the contemporary sculpture as well as to provide and opportunity for artists to network and exchange ideas. A reception at the Sculpture Center in Cleveland closes things with a presentation of new works by a variety of artists including Beth Campbell, who will CIA's Artist-in-Residence in the Spring.

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Remember to take advantage of the wealth of all of CIA's exciting events!!! Here’s a list of reminders to help you do just that …

In association with Case Western Reserve's English Department -
CIA's Liberal Arts Environment is sponsoring ...
Mark Irwin - Poet
Thursday, November 4
5 pm
Guilford House Parlor
11112 Bellflower RD
(Refreshments to follow.)

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Lunch on Fridays
Jenniffer Omaitz – Bickford Painting Visting Artist
Friday, November 5
12:15
Ohio Bell Auditorium, CIA – Gund

Jenniffer Omaitz is a nationally exhibited painter and installation artist. Omaitz received her BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA in Painting from Kent State University. Omaitz has been exhibiting her work in Cleveland and Denver since 2002. Her most recent shows include a site-specific installation commissioned for the 2010 Biennial of the Americas in Denver. Omaitz is the recipient of an award from the Sculpture Center in Cleveland Ohio and her installation work will be featured in a solo show at the Center in 2011. Omaitz lives and works in Kent, OH.

The Lunch on Fridays Series is sponsored by CIA's Liberal Arts and Foundation Environments. Ms. Omaitz appears through the support of the Institute's George P. Bickford Endowment for Visiting Artists in Painting and the Painting Department.

Jen Omaitz's website

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Anatomica Aesthetica Exhibition Opening
Friday, November 5
5 pm - Lecture by Guest Curator Laura Lindgren
6 to 8 pm – Opening Reception
Reinberger Gallery, CIA – Gund Building
11141 East Blvd.

The aesthetics of the living body have long intrigued artists working in every medium of art. Are you curious too? Come to CIA's Reinberger Galleries to explore the enduring bond between art and medicine in Anatomica Aesthetica: Photographs from the Mütter Museum and H. F. Aitken Illustrations from the Dittrick Medical History Center. Join us on Friday, November 5 for the opening night. The show will be on view in CIA’s Reinberger Galleries through December 18. Learn more at cia.edu/anatomica.

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Saturday, November 6
The State of Sculpture
10 am to 5 pm Lunch will be served
4th Floor Joseph McCullogh Center – CIA
11610 Euclid Avenue – Cleveland, Ohio

This event marks the launch of the Sculpture Xchange website www.sculpturex.org and in support of the 2011 SuclptureX exhibits to be held at The Sculpture Center – Cleveland, The Erie Art Musuem and curated by critic and author David Carrier.

Keynote speaker: Jeanne Silverthorne, noted artist and educator.

Jeanne Silverthorne is an artist who lives and works in New York. She is best known for sculptures cast in rubber, but her installations often include photographs, videos and kinetic elements as well. She has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Albright Knox Museum, among others, and her work is in the collections of those museums as well the Leum Samsung Museum, Korea, FINAC, Denver Museum, Weatherspoon
Museum, Houston Museum, Sheldon Museum, the Contemporary Museum Honolulu, the RISDi Museum. She is represented by McKee Gallery in New York and ShoshanaWayne Gallery in LosAngeles. Reviews and articles about her work have appeared in ARTFORUM. Art in America, Art News and Sculpture Magazine. A feature on her projects is scheduled to be published in a forthcoming issue of Sculpture Magazine. This year she has been nominated for a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Since 1993, she has taught at the School of Visual Arts and for seven years she was on the faculty of the MFA program at Columbia University.


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Foundation Visiting Artist
Tommy Simpson
Tuesday, Nov. 9,
7 pm
Aitken Auditorium

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LOF – Visiting Artist in Fibers
Jill Sigman
Friday, November 12
12:15
OBA, Gund – CIA


Jill Sigman describes her work as “experimental dance theater” and “movement-based performance.” Trained in ballet, art history, and with a Ph.D. in philosophy, she creates a new process of physical exploration with every piece she creates, whether in residence with Cleveland’s GroundWorks or with her own New York-based company, jill sigman/thinkdance [thinkdance.org].


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IME and Bickford Visiting Artist
Jim Campbell
Tuesday, November 16 –
5:30 reception, Gund – CIA Lobby
7 pm talk, Aitken, Gund – CIA

Internationally known as an artist working at the edge of electronic media, Jim Campbell holds degrees from MIT in both Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. Born in Chicago in 1956 and now living in San Francisco, Jim Campbell is a former Silicon Valley engineer turned artist who explores the inherent qualities of electronic media forgoing the seductive lure of its capacity through digital to produce high resolution imagery. He instead chooses to investigate the limits of perception working with LED lighting and pixelation. He is most interested in the limits of visual information to transform into meaning. An internationally known artist his work relates to many disciplines including photography and installation.

He shows regularly in New York, Canada, San Francisco and throughout Europe. Most recently his work was on view at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York.

http://www.jimcampbell.tv/


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Visiting Artist in Printmaking –
Suzanne Michele Chouteau
Thursday, November 18
7 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium – Gund
Free + Open