Detail of Untitled (oil on canvas, 38.5" x 48") by Lisa Rigby. One of the student artworks featured in MICA's Foundation Exhibition.
The Foundation Exhibition is a first glimpse of the work of artists who
entered MICA in the fall of 2004 and will be developing their skills and
vision over the next three years.
Maryland Institute College of Art's annual Sabbatical Exhibition showcases diverse works completed by 14 faculty members who were on sabbatical during the 2004 – 2005 academic year. |
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July 27, 2005-The Meyerhoff and Pinkard galleries of the Maryland Institute College of Art host the Foundation Exhibition, which showcases current sophomore students works completed during their freshman year. The exhibition runs Friday, August 19 - Sunday, September
18 with a reception on Thursday, September 1 from 5 - 7 p.m.
Works of MICA faculty members who were on sabbatical during the 2004 -
2005 academic year are highlighted in the Sabbatical Exhibition in the Decker Gallery in its new location in MICA's Fox Building at 1303 Mount
Royal Avenue. The Sabbatical Exhibition takes place Friday, August 26 -
Sunday, September 18. A reception takes place on Thursday, September 1 from 5 - 7 p.m.
EXHIBITION DETAILS:
All exhibitions and receptions are free and open to the public. Gallery
hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday from
noon-5 p.m. For more information, visit www.mica.edu or call 410-225-2300.
Foundation Exhibition
This annual exhibition highlights works produced by current sophomore students during their freshman year.
Friday, August 19-Sunday, September 18, Meyerhoff & Pinkard Galleries
Reception: Thursday, September 1 from 5-7 p.m.
Timed to coincide with the arrival of new freshmen, Maryland Institute College of Art's Foundation Exhibition is one of the College's most highly regarded student exhibitions featuring work produced by current sophomore students. The exhibition, which takes place Friday, August 19 - Sunday, September 18, is located in the Meyerhoff Gallery in the Fox Building at 1303 West Mount Royal Avenue and the Pinkard Gallery in the Bunting Center at 1401 West Mount Royal Avenue. A reception takes place Thursday, September 1 from 5-7 p.m.
The Foundation Exhibition is a first glimpse of the work of artists who
entered MICA in the fall of 2004 and will be developing their skills and
vision over the next three years. It is also a great opportunity for the
public to sample works in drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, fiber,
printmaking, video, interactive media, animation, illustration, and
graphic design.
MICA's Foundation Program offers students the opportunity to refine core
conceptual and technical skills and studio work habits before moving on
to focused study in a major. It is an intensive period of creative
growth for students who entered MICA as highly accomplished artists.
Sabbatical Exhibition
MICA faculty showcase works developed while on sabbatical.
Friday, August 26-Sunday, September 18, Decker Gallery
Reception: Thursday, September 1 from 5 - 7 p.m.
Maryland Institute College of Art's annual Sabbatical Exhibition showcases diverse works completed by 14 faculty members who were on sabbatical during the 2004 - 2005 academic year. Faculty members taking part in the 2005 exhibition include Thomas Baird, photography; Susie Brandt, fiber; Michael Economos, painting; Dennis Farber, foundation; Lewis Fifield, graphic design; Mary Fredlund, foundation; Mark Karnes, painting; Kenneth Krafchek, illustration and MA in community arts (MACA) graduate director; Michelle LaPerrière, co-chair of the foundation department; Christine Neill, painting and drawing; Jann Rosen-Queralt, general sculptural studies; Rex Stevens, chair of drawing and general fine arts; Nancy Roeder, general fine arts; and John Wilson, Jr., environmental design. The exhibition runs Friday, August 26 - Sunday, September 18 in the Decker Gallery located in the Fox Building at 1303 Mount Royal Avenue. A reception takes place on Thursday, September 1 from 5 - 7 p.m.
About the Artists:
Thomas Baird, Susie Brandt, Michael Economos, Dennis Farber, Lewis
Fifield, Mary Fredlund, Mark Karnes, Kenneth Krafchek, Michelle
LaPerrière, Christine Neill, Jann Rosen-Queralt, Rex Stevens, Nancy Roeder, and John Wilson, Jr.
Thomas Baird works in two main, often-overlapping subject areas: environmental landscape and social documentation. Working with a group of negatives found as part of an estate sale in the 1960s, Baird creates a visual history of the family in this era. Although the background of the photos are unknown, Baird would like the negatives to bring about awareness to when America was more of a rural culture, when family farms were a way of life for many people.
In her latest exhibit, Stumps and Drains, fiber faculty member Susie
Brandt investigates ideas of landscape and traditional folk craft in contemporary culture through a series of hooked wool rugs and picture postcards. She has exhibited at the Hoopes Gallery in Glens Falls, N.Y.,
Philadelphia International Airport, and the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center. Her art is part of many public collections in the United States and abroad.
Michael Economos is a professor of painting and drawing. He has received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mellon Foundation. He has participated in solo exhibitions at Posselt Baker Gallery in New Orleans, Capricorn Gallery in Washington, D.C., Warren Benedett Gallery in N.Y., and the Baltimore Museum of Art. His artwork can be seen in collections throughout the world.
Dennis Farber used his sabbatical to pursue his interests in different media. He explored and researched ideas surrounding memory and the formation of belief through the use of photography and photographic collage. Farber regularly exhibits in the United States and abroad. His work has been a consistent presence in New York City since the 1980s and was included in the New York Museum of Modern Art's millennial exhibition, Open Ends: 1960-present, Innocence and Experience.
Lewis Fifield's design and fine art works have appeared in national and international exhibitions, trade publications, and shows. For several years, he has explored the thin film of reality that lies between the light source and the shadow. Fifield's works have also received awards from the Museum of Contemporary Crafts, The Society of Illustrators, The
New York Type Directors, and the International Poster Biennial in
Poland.
Mary Fredlund has been delving into realms of understanding which stand upon some threshold of existence, or teeter upon a precipice. Coming to the realization that all actions set our relationships into both a spatial awareness and a quantum dynamic, she began to pursue a study in what has been called alternative medicine. As a tribute to her dearest friend and companion, Richard B. Kalter, former MICA philosopher-in-residence, her show is titled Memories and Moments.
The north Baltimore neighborhood where Mark Karnes resides is the subject of his paintings and drawings. Many of the paintings have been worked on for a number of years and were completed this past winter.
Karnes has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, and a Fulbright Fellowship to
Italy. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad.
The work that Kenneth Krafchek worked on during his sabbatical is the product of a collaboration with The Stadium School Youth Dreamers, a group of students from Baltimore City's Stadium School. Krafchek's artwork has appeared in many prestigious national publications and he has won awards from numerous professional organizations.
Michelle La Perrière has been drawing, painting, and incorporating objects with canvas and paper using images culled from contemporary bridal magazines with those appropriated from art historical paintings, old children's books, current ephemera, and meandering landscapes. Her work appears in collections at Syracuse University, Borg-Warner
Corporation, and numerous private collections in the United States and
France.
Christine Neill spent her sabbatical extending her research to gardens and botanical sites across the country and Puerto Rico. Neill's process entailed bringing plant images into the studio, thereby isolating them from the natural environment. She received the Maryland State Arts
Council Fellowship and her work is a part of numerous private and public collections including Lockheed Martin, Marriott, Commercial Credit, and the Washington Hilton.
Nancy Roeder used her sabbatical as an opportunity to assess priorities and regroup as an artist and this exhibition represents the formalization of those ideas. Roeder's obsessions and fascinations with cultural anthropology, irony, juxtapositions, and structures in nature have remained constant, while their forms have revisited techniques like light projections and taken on investigations of new material (encaustic).
Jann Rosen-Queralt, a faculty member in the general sculptural studies department, creates places that encourage contemplation, human interaction, and the capacity to regenerate, remember, and learn. She
has exhibited her work at Reynolds Hempstead, la chamber blanche, Quebec, and Souyun Yi Gallery, N.Y. Ongoing public art commissions include the Billingsley campus renovation in Charlotte, N.C., and the Bridgewater Wastewater Treatment Plant in Seattle, Wash.
Rex Stevens has exhibited along the east coast for 30 years and has worked on several projects that benefit museums and groups who serve people in need. Some of the institutions he has been active with are the
Baltimore Chamber Music Society, Neuberger Museum of Art, N.Y., the
Parrish Museum of Art, N.Y., the Ringling Museum of Art, Fla., Sotheby's Auction, N.Y., and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine.
Environmental design faculty member, John Wilson, used his sabbatical to get back in touch with painting and drawing using sky and landscape as subject matter. Light has always been an integral part of his professional design and artwork and he has tried to catch the fleeting impressions of light as it impacts the exterior environment. His artwork has been purchased by the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Smithsonian Institute Museum of History and Technology, and the Geoffrey Museum in London, England.
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Maryland Institute College of Art, founded in 1826, has consistently been ranked among the top tier of visual arts undergraduate and graduate programs in the nation. In addition to its academic standing, MICA is recognized throughout the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. region as a cultural resource, sponsoring many public and community-outreach programs, including more than 100 exhibitions by students, faculty, and nationally and internationally known artists annually, as well artists' residencies, film series, lectures, readings, and performances. Falvey Hall in Brown Center, which opened in January 2004, is a performance space especially designed to feature work in digital media.
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