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Slow Tide, an exhibition featuring the work of Fine Arts alumni Justin Reese (CCAD 2010), Ian Keller (CCAD 2010), and Adam Henderson (CCAD 2007) is on display at Gallery 831 in Columbus, Ohio.
The show presents the trio’s interpretation of how the slow change of ideas has impacted art with Reese focusing on crystalline glazed porcelain vessels, Keller concentrating on sculpture with electronics and light art, and Henderson combining collages, drawing, and video into installations.
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Fine Arts alumna Samantha Bennett (CCAD 1999) was recently featured in Ohio’s Columbus Dispatch for her hopeful portraits commemorating lost loved ones.
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Fine Arts alumni Daniel Colvin (CCAD 2000), owner of Cobenick Studios and paper artist, and Sarah Fairchild (CCAD 1994), painter and art teacher at Gahanna Lincoln High School, were recently featured in a Columbus Dispatch article highlighting artist’s studios in central Ohio.
"Paper was so attractive to me because there are textures you can achieve and ways you can manipulate it that you can't do in any other medium," Colvin said in the article. "And there's never a point where you can't go back and play with it."
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Fallout, an exhibition by alumnus Kenneth Hall (CCAD 2004), opens Jan. 14 at the Waldemar A. Schmidt Gallery at Wartburg College. The exhibition also features sculptures by Erica Duffy Voss, a fellow faculty member at the University of Northern Iowa. The collaboration began during a 2010 summer fellowship at the university.
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Domain: Drawing, Etchings and Lithographs, an exhibition featuring the works of alumnus Curtis Bartone (CCAD 1988) will be open at Telfair Museum in Savannah, GA February 4–June 26.
Bartone is represented by Chicago-based Byron Roche Gallery and Printworks Gallery. He received an MFA in painting from Northwestern University in Chicago and has taught at Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Keep a close eye on your mail this year. Chances are, you’ll see the USPS’s first neon stamp, “Neon Celebrate!,” designed by CCAD alumnus Michael Flechtner (CCAD 1981).
Flechtner was hired to design the stamp after USPS Art Director Phil Jordan decided to use neon to depict the “Celebrate” theme. “Most neon is huge and stamps are so small,” said Jordan in an article on BeyondThePerf.com. “The mechanics would be a monumental challenge. Not everyone thought we could pull it off.”
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Alumna Michelle Rozic (CCAD 2003) recently received a grant to curate the exhibition and print a 100-page book for Edge of Life, an invitational forestry and art exhibition that includes 31 artists.
The Edge of Life aims to “bridge the fields of forestry and art. Forest pathology is an important aspect of forestry. … Artists naturally gravitate to contemporary concerns and socially conscious issues,” Rozic wrote on her blog. “Each artist will be assigned a forest pathology specimen to use as the impetus for creation.”
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A portion of the proceeds from alumna Erica Podwoiski’s (CCAD 2010) solo exhibition will be donated to Metavivor, an organization that provides funding for research on metastatic breast cancer.
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Through his appointment as Assistant Professor of Art at Mercyhurst College, alumnus Bob Tavani (CCAD 1985) will work to develop an Art Therapy graduate program within an Expressive Art Therapies program.
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Alumnus John Joseph McCutcheon (CCAD 1979) used actual food as the primary material in his most recent exhibition, Play Date, which opened Dec. 4 in the Short North.
The show features the photography and installations of Katelyn Cody and McCutcheon, who allow viewers to spy on the lives of tiny toy people as they row a boat across a bowl of soup or paint giant strawberries.
