Showing posts with label Saul Ostrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saul Ostrow. Show all posts

Sunday, March 1, 2009

You Shouda Been There - Report: the Cleveland Institute of Art Recent Artist's Talks



Last Friday, February 27, CIA’s Lunch on Friday’s Series presented Chadd Lacy a local but noted glass artist (http://www.chaddlacyglass.com/). The series has been lucky to have the support of the glass department this semester with Brent Kee Young (http://www.jsauergallery.com/sagemoon/artistPages/bky_lg.html), the head of the glass program, speaking on February 13. The Cleveland Institute of Art is noted for its glass program, as well as its many other craft-based disciplines. These two artists (Lacy works as the department’s Technical Assistant) make it abundantly clear why the school maintains such a strong reputation.

Young spoke to a full house and gave a talk that allowed rare access into the creative process of a committed glass artist. Through video and still images he step by step revealed the source of his nature-based and fossil inspired forms as well as his technical process for realizing these works. An affable speaker, his generosity of spirit was made clear in his willingness to openly share his methods for achieving the stunning visual effects of his work.

The evening of February 27th also saw Nina Katchadourian speak as Foundation’s Visiting Artist. Nina is a wonderful artist and we were lucky to get her. If you didn’t get to go her talk you should definitely check out her website - http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/

Katchadourian is diverse in her approaches to making working work using installation, photography, video and sound. She has shown internationally including such prestigious venues as PS1/MoMa, Artists Space, and the Palais de Tokyo. In 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs presented a 10-year survey of her work and published a monograph titled “All Forms of Attraction.” She is currently represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.

On February 20, 2009 Charles Tucker (www.charlestuckerart.com and http://theaestheticcompass.blogspot.com/) and Saul Ostrow took the stage in CIA’s Aitken Auditorium to present “The Rehetorical Model and the Aesthetic Compass: Systems of Research.” This talk was a presentation of their collaborative work begun spring 2008 during their joint residency at the Banff Centre located in Alberta Canada. Well attended, the talk made clear the depth of their own researches. While still in progress, what they have produced are conceptual devices that allow for systems of analysis helping to locate the position a given work is attempting to advance. In other words the device attempts to clarify points of articulation (things one can talk about) in relation to a work and to test the validity of what is said about that work. These systems seek to reconcile qualitative and quantative information.

Ostrow and Tucker will be returning to Banff this spring as organizers of the Analgous Fields residency.

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Watch this space and become friends through facebook with Vac Lane and Lane Cooper for other updates.

Thanks to -- Anna Cottos; Tom Hamilton and Marc Tomko as well as speakers for their assistance with the Lunch on Fridays Lecture Series...

Monday, February 9, 2009

let's talk -- events at the Cleveland Institute of Art



There's a lot going on at the Cleveland Institute of Art for the remainder of the Spring semester. Not the least of which is the talk by Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker concerning their Banff research -- That's Friday, Feb. 20 in case you haven't marked your calendar.

Other events...

Glass Department Visiting Artist
Ross Richmond
Wednesday, Feb. 11
7 pm
Kulas Auditorium
Ross resides in Seattle, Washington. He creates blown and sculpted glass art objects.
Ross has been working with glass for the past 16 years. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Glass, and a minor in Metals. He has studied and worked at both the Penland School of Crafts and the Pilchuck Glass School. In 1997 Ross began working as an apprentice to William Morris, becoming a member of his team in 1999. Ross' pieces are typically narrative, working mainly with figurative elements and symbolic objects. His work currently shows at a number of galleries around the country, and he teaches in the U.S. and Canada.
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Lunch on Fridays:
Brent Kee Young
Friday, February 13
12:15 PM
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Bio: Brent has conducted workshops all over the U.S. and Japan as well. His work has most recently been seen in the The Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum in Tokyo, the Telfair Museum in Savannah, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of Art among many other notable places.
Education: M.F.A., State University of New York, College of Ceramics at Alfred University; B.A., Ceramic Art/Glass concentration from San Jose State University
CIA Gund Building 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Drawing Under the Radar
Closing Reception
Friday, February 13
6-10 PM
The Student Coffeehouse Gallery
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106

Sponsored by Prizm and Cuyahoga Arts and Culture
S.I.E. 63
Student Independent Exhibition
Opening Reception
Friday, February 13
6- 9 PM
The Reinberger Galleries
CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH
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TIME - Digital Arts Presents
hella hybrid lecture series
Julie Perini
Film-maker, photographer, installation and video artist. See flyer for further details.
Monday, Feb. 16, 3:30 pm
Kulas Auditorium, JMD-The Factory
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Lunch on Fridays:
Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker
“The Rhetorical Model and the Aesthetic Compass: as Systems of Research”
Friday, Feb. 20
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Extending from their collaborative work, this talk will introduce concepts which Ostrow and Tucker began developing in their Banff residency Spring 2009 and which they have continued to work on since that date.
Spring 2008 will see the pair back in Banff as invited organizers of the “Analogous Fields” residency which will seek to explore the overlaps between art and science. (See below for further information or visit the Banff website: http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=84
Saul Ostrow is a noted critique and author. In addition to serving as the Institute’s E-chair
Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Lunch on Fridays:
Chadd Lacy – Noted Local Glass Artist
Friday, February, 27
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Chadd Lacy received his BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pa and is currently the technical assistant in the glass department at CIA. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and was recently included in the exhibition “Young Glass” at the Glasmuseet, in Ebeltoft, Denmark. He was awarded a research grant to study abroad with various artists in the Dutch glass industry, in both technical glass equipment building shops, and glass studios, and continues t o exhibit his work in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Locally Chadd’s work can be found at the Thomas R. Riley gallery in Beachwood.

Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Dinner on Friday:
Nina Katchadourian
Foundation’s Visiting Artist
Friday, Feb. 27
5 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, and the Palais de Tokyo. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Turku, Finland featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled "All Forms of Attraction." The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a solo show of recent video installation works in July 2008. Katchadourian is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.
Sponsored by the Foundation Environment, This event is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME- Digital Arts
Brett Kashmere
Wednesday, March 4
7:00 PM
Kulas Auditorium
Brett Kashmere is a Pittsburgh- based filmmaker, curator, and casual cultural historian. His work combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces, handmade equipment, and materialist aesthetics. Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera movies, Kashmere explores the intersection of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the politics of representation. His films, videos, scholarship, and curated programs have been presented at festivals, conferences and venues internationally and used in university curricula. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that Kashmere’s essay-film Valery’s Ankle “may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses of sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas.” Kashmere currently teaches in the Cinema Studies Program at Oberlin College in Ohio and is the founding editor of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics.
http://www.brettkashmere.com
http://www.incite-online.net
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Lunch on Fridays - sponsored by Key Diversity Grant Initiative:
Jason Pierce
Friday, March 6
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
A 2005 graduate from The Cleveland Institute of Art's TIME program, Jason
Pierce has worked as an Art Director with Wunderman Team Detroit since 2006.
Jason works in Brand Development and assists in envisioning advertising names
for some of the biggest firms in the country.

Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Lunch on Fridays:
Joe Nanashe
Friday, April 10
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Joe Nanashe was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. He began his studies at the University of Akron as a painter,
but soon moved on to sculpture, performance and video. The post-industrial landscape of Akron and its emphasis on
manual labor became a major influence on the repetitive task driven nature of his work.
Joe received his BFA from the University of Akron in 2003, and began attending Rutgers University that fall.
During his graduate studies, he further blended performance, video and installation into works that confront the viewer
with issues of violence, control and question the nature of perception. He received his M.F.A. in Visual Arts and the
Paul Robeson Emerging Artist Award in the spring of 2005.
His work has shown at the New York Underground Film Festival, the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, and
the Chicago Underground Film Festival. He has exhibited internationally in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands,
Russia, Canada, and Argentina. Currently, Joe lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Bickford Visiting Artist Event
Screening of Strange Culture
by native Clevelander
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Thursday, March 19
4 pm
Aitken Auditorium
This showing of the film will be free for all CIA and Case community members and $5.00 to the general public. The viewing time has been set at 4 pm to allow time for those who wish to attend the Cleveland Film Festival.
CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH
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Bickford Visiting Artist
Steve Kurtz
Friday, March 20
2:15 pm (Talk starts at 2:30 pm)
Aitken Auditorium
Kurtz is the subject of Leeson’s documentary Strange Culture.
Steve Kurtz is a noted artist and founding member of the participatory theater group Critical Art Ensemble. He currently teaches at the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York, and is a former professor with Carnegie Mellon. Kurtz came to national and international attention when, in 2004, on reporting the death of his wife, Hope Kurtz, he was subsequently arrested on suspicion of bioterrorism. Strange Culture tells the bizarre tale of how an artist, in possession of recognizably benign bacteria used in museum and gallery exhibits, became the target of a criminal investigation driven by the U.S. Patriot Act.
CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH
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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME-Digital Arts
Andrew Lynn
Wednesday, March 25
3:30 PM
Kulas Auditorium
Andrew Lynn is a media worker living in Troy, NY. He received an MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002, and has been working as a community artist and educator since. Most notably, he is the creator of the Whirl-Mart not-shopping intervention, a director of the activist- bicycle documentary, Still We Ride, and the founder of the Troy Bike Rescue. Currently he teaches at Hudson Valley Community College, in addition to being a coordinator with the The Sanctuary for Independent Media. From 2004- 2007, Andrew was the Youth Education Coordinator at Manhattan Neighborhood Network- a public access television station- where he helped to initiate the Youth Video Exchange Network and facilitated numerous youth-lead productions. Andrew’s own documentary, animation, and short video work has played in festivals, bars, and basements around the world. Andrew is an advocate of open source coding, thinking, and doing.
http://breathingplanet.net
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Lunch on Fridays
Report from New Orleans: the Prospect 1 Biennial
(Panel discussion with students)
Friday, March 27
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME-Digital Arts
Jesse Stiles
Wednesday, April 1
3:30 PM
Kulas Auditorium
Jesse Stiles (a.k.a. The Jesse Stiles 3000, a.k.a. jts3k, a.k.a. Face Removal Services) is a musician and digital artist living in upstate New York.
Stiles was born in 1978 in Boston, MA and adopted the computer as his primary compositional/performance instrument at the age of 12. By the age of 17 Stiles had begun doing computer-based performances before large crowds as well as televised audiences and national conferences.
Stiles received a B.A.from Vassar College in Cognitive Science, writing his thesis on Music Perception. Upon graduating from Vassar in 2000, Stiles was awarded a Fellowship from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation to travel around the world for one year while creating electronic music. This fellowship culminated in a “backpack record” by The Jesse Stiles 3000 (Stiles beat-oriented performance/recording project), titled “Watson Songs”.
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME-Digital Arts
Julia Christensen
Wednesday, April 8
7:00 PM
Kulas Auditorium
Julia Christensen is an artist and writer currently based in Oberlin, Ohio, whose work treads the fine line between art and research. She is the author of Big Box Reuse, recently published by the MIT Press. This book is a product of her ongoing investigation into how communities are renovating and reusing abandoned big box buildings.
Christensen’s writing has been published in magazines such as Slate, Print, Orion, and Architect.
A solo exhibition of Christensen’s photographs and large-scale architectural installation work was on display this fall at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University (Your Town Inc., August 29- November 23, 2008, curated by Astria Sparak). She currently has a solo show of photographs at the Gallery at the Green Building in Louisville, KY (December 5- January 30). Christensen’s photographs are also on display at the Carnegie Museum of Fine Arts as a part of the show “Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes” (October 4-January 18); this exhibition will travel to the Yale School of Architecture Galleries in the spring (Feb. 16-May 18, 2009). Christensen recently completed two commissions for net art through Turbulence.org. Her new media, video and installation work has also shown at the Lincoln Center in NY, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the DUMBO Art Center in Brooklyn, among other venues. Christensen also lectures widely.
She has performed as a musician in such locations as 21 Grand and the Acme Observatory in Oakland, CA. She is also the director of the up and coming Women’s New Music Performance Ensemble, at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Christensen holds the chair of Luce Visiting Professor of the Emerging Arts at Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she teaches in the Studio Arts and TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) Departments. She has also taught at Stanford University and the California College of the Arts, among other universities.
http://juliachristensen.com/
http://www.bigboxreuse.com
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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TBD (hopefully Astria Superak)
Wednesday, April 15
3:30 PM
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Residency Opportunity
May 11, 2009 - June 19, 2009
Analogous Fields Residency at Banff Centre Alberta, Canada – Organized by Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker
For over 70 years The Banff Centre has provided working and career opportunities in the arts. Located in the Mountains of Western Canada, its breathtaking views, committed staff and vibrant creative community has made the Banff Centre a dynamic environment in which artists are inspired to challenge assumptions that go beyond their own expectations.
This Spring Banff is offering another in its series of renowned thematic Residencies. Following on the heels of last year’s “Making Artistic Inquiry Visible,” this year’s “Analogous Fields” deals with the intersect between art and science. Organized by collaborators Charles Tucker, sculptor and artist/researcher, and noted critic and author, Saul Ostrow, the pair participated in last year’s program, Tucker and Ostrow have set for the goal for the 2009 program as the development of new knowledge and the creation of original work extending from the exploration of this convergence. This residency is specifically designed to foster collaborations and exchanges between individuals working in art and science disciplines. Artists, scientists, researchers, scholars, writers as well as collaborative teams are all encouraged to apply. The residency organizers are looking for creative thinking and innovative approaches.
04 Thematic Residency: Analogous Fields: Art and Science
Program dates: May 11, 2009 - June 19, 2009
Application deadline: February 13, 2009
For Further information view the following links:
About the Banff Centre - http://www.banffcentre.ca/about/
Further information on the Analogous Fields Residency and how to apply - http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=84
saul ostrow
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=845&facId=3630&p=member
charles tucker
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=845&facId=3631&p=member
www.charlestuckerart.com
Other dates, information and artis

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Charles Tucker, and Saul Ostrow give a talk and then go to Banff, again, this spring...



May 11, 2009 - June 19, 2009
Analogous Fields Residency at Banff Centre Alberta, Canada – Organized by Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker
For over 70 years The Banff Centre has provided working and career opportunities in the arts. Located in the Mountains of Western Canada, its breathtaking views, committed staff and vibrant creative community has made the Banff Centre a dynamic environment in which artists are inspired to challenge assumptions that go beyond their own expectations.

This Spring Banff is offering another in its series of renowned thematic Residencies. Following on the heels of last year’s “Making Artistic Inquiry Visible,” this year’s “Analogous Fields” deals with the intersect between art and science. Organized by collaborators Charles Tucker, sculptor and artist/researcher, and noted critic and author, Saul Ostrow, the pair participated in last year’s program, Tucker and Ostrow have set for the goal for the 2009 program as the development of new knowledge and the creation of original work extending from the exploration of this convergence. This residency is specifically designed to foster collaborations and exchanges between individuals working in art and science disciplines. Artists, scientists, researchers, scholars, writers as well as collaborative teams are all encouraged to apply. The residency organizers are looking for creative thinking and innovative approaches.

04 Thematic Residency: Analogous Fields: Art and Science
Program dates: May 11, 2009 - June 19, 2009
Application deadline: February 13, 2009

For Further information view the following links:
About the Banff Centre - http://www.banffcentre.ca/about/
Further information on the Analogous Fields Residency and how to apply - http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=84

saul ostrow
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=845&facId=3630&p=member

charles tucker
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=845&facId=3631&p=member
www.charletuckerart.com