Faculty Events and Exhibitions

Stuart Steck, Christine Collins
Will be serving as panelist for the Spring Semester AIB Discourses panel discussion.  This panel--entitled The Body as Subject/The Body as Medium--will explore the use of the body as both subject and medium in modern & contemporary art. 
Friday, February 10, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Room 215 (700 Beacon)
AIB Discourses is proud to present an ongoing series of panel discussions focusing on contemporary art and visual culture.  This program is organized
by Stuart Steck (Department of Art History and Critical Studies).  If you have questions or would like to propose a panel, please feel free to contact
Stuart Steck at ssteck@aiboston.edu

Ann Hirsch
Ann is one of the finalists competing for a public artwork dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe, to be installed at Poe Square in Boston in the coming years.  She was chosen from a pool of 265 artists and artist teams from 42 states and 13 countries. Poe Square is located at the intersection of Charles Street South and Boylston Street on the south side of Boston Common.  For a limited time, members of the public can view the proposals and offer comments on each of the finalists' submissions at a blog set up by the Poe Foundation.
more | artist's site

Tim Finn
Tim recently acquired Hub Comics in Somerville and is hosted a 4th Anniversary/Re-launch party on Saturday, January 14.  Read the recap and an interview from DigBoston, who covered the event.
more info | artist's site

Ken Beck
Hieractics - New Paintings 2010-2011
Friday, February 3 - Saturday, February 25, 2012
Reception: Friday, February 3, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Artist Talk, "Where Im At": Saturday, February 18, 2:00pm
Gallery NAGA | artist's site

Ryan Maguire
Maguire's digital illustration, Tom Brady is War Machine, attacks the cover of digboston for the week of January 4 to January 11, 2012.  digboston is Boston's free alt-weekly guide to nightlife, opinions and events.  Free on the Boston streets and downloadable for iPad or desktop wallpaper.  Another illustration, this time of Patriots tight end Ron Gronkowski, was featured on the Boston Thrillist.
artist's site

Adam Gooder
Darkroom Flowers: Photos by Adam Gooder [solo show]
Friday, January 6 - Saturday, March 3, 2012
Twenty-five images of dying flowers printed on antique papers using the strange and wonderful lith process.
Holderness School | artist's site

Ben Sloat
Ben's recent Academy of Light installation is featured in a music video of Danish band Mammut is In Love performing "We're Coming On."  Video created by Songs They Played, a project launched by visual artists that produces and documents short films within the field of music.
more | artist's site

Ellen Schön
Schön will be participating in the Sasaran Art Festival, "We are Art Together," December 8 - 20, 2011, in Kuala Selangor, Malaysia. The Sasaran Art Festival an international artist residency and art educational event, promoting cultural exchange between Malaysian artists and artists from other countries.
more

Irina Rozovsky
Published collection One to Nothing, which was a selected title of German Photo Book Prize 2012.  Rozovsky's photographs invite us to look further at an Israel we do not see on the news. Israel here is a mythological backdrop to the age long struggle between man and the dusty, sun bleached landscape of his origin.
more | artist's site

Geoffrey Koetsh
The international peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Neuroscience has published an article by Geoffrey Koetsch entitled “Artists and the Mind in the 21st Century." The essay is a revision of the catalog essay written for the “MINDmatters” exhibition (Laconia Gallery,  Boston, 2008) co-curated by Koetsch and Ellen Schön.  Works by colleagues Mary Kaye and Constance Jacobson are discussed in the article.
Geoff's blog

Nathan Felde
The newly published book Infinite Instances will feature one of Felde's works entitled "A Table of Universal Aspects."

Ann Hirsch
Selected as one of three finalists for the creation of a City Hall Plaza statue to celebrate Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell. Hirsh and the other two finalists will present their ideas to the Bill Russell Legacy Project comittee this fall, and the statue is expected to be in place by next June.  The artists have been asked to incorporate Russell’s work in mentoring and the civil rights movement, making it an educational and interactive experience. more info
Hirsch is also one of three finalists in a competition to develop public artwork celebrating Boston-born writer Edgar Allen Poe.  She will receive a $1,000 grant from the city’s Edward Ingersoll Browne Trust Fund to produce plans for her design. 
artist's site

Peter Hoss
Chosen for inclusion in a new book, 100 Boston Artists, by Chawky Frenn.

Ben Sloat
Need | Want [group show]
Through Saturday, January 7, 2012
A juried art exhibition that solicits artworks addressing ways contemporary American society assigns value.
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture | artist's site

Recent Events and Exhibitions

Dana Mueller
The Devil's Den [solo show]
Monday, October 31 - Friday, December 9, 2011
ArtSpace at NECC | artist's site

Anthony Apesos, Susan Ashbrook, and Amy Sudarksy
Panel Discussion - Degas and the Nude: Three Views
Friday, December 2, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Degas as painter, draughtsman and printmaker made the human figure central to his artistic explorations. What can we as artists and viewers today learn about the representation of the body and sexual dynamics, as well as about the nature of creative obsession from his life long investigation? In this panel two painters and an art historian will offer their personal responses to the major exhibition "Degas and the Nude," now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts.
700 Beacon Street, Room 215

Anthony Apesos
Fine Arts Workshop: The Sketchbook Habit
Wednesday, November 30, 11:45am - 12:20pm
601 Newbury Street, Room N220

Ben Sloat
Academy of Light [solo show]
Friday, November 4 - Tuesday, November 29
Opening: Thursday, November 3, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
NLH Space, Copenhagen | artist's site

Constance Jacobson
Primordial [show with David Hart]
Tuesday, October  25 – Sunday, November  27,  2011
Opening  Reception: Tuesday, October  25,  4:45pm -­ 6:00pm
Wellesley College Jewett Gallery | artist's site

Deborah  Davidson
Cannot  Be  Described  In  Words:  Drawing  Expanded [group show curated by Davidson]
Featured  artists: Jill Slosburg Ackerman,  Ilona  Anderson,  Sheila  Gallagher,  Audrey  Goldstein,  Raul  Gonzalez,   Chuck  Holtzman,  Fred  Liang,  Cynthia  Maurice,  Randal Thurston  and  Debra Weisberg 
Thursday, October  20 – Sunday, November  20,  2011
Concord  Art  Association | artist's site | Boston Globe Review

Candice Ivy
Rhizome
Rhizome is a large scale interactive installation located inside a vacant church within the ever transforming Plaza Midwood Neighborhood of Charlotte.
Friday, September 30 - Sunday, October 30, 2011
Reception: Friday, September 30, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
more info | artist's site

Ken Beck, Gene Dorgan and Amy Sudarsky
National Figures [group show]
Friday, October 7 - Saturday, October 29, 2011
Combining fine arts and illustration, comics and graphic novel sensibilities, traditional and hip hop aesthetics, the religious and the vulgar, "National Figures" will feature 28 nationally known artists.
William Scott Gallery

Dana Mueller
Quinzaine Photographic Nataise 2011: Humus, humanus [group show]
Friday, September 16 - Sunday, October 16, 2011
Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France | artist's site
and
Beginnings: Stories and Starting Points [group show]
Tuesday, October 4 - Monday, October 31, 2011
Black Cloud Gallery for Chicago Filter Photo Festival
and
New England Photography Biennial 2011 [group show]
Sunday, September 11 - Sunday, November 13, 2011
Danforth Museum of Art

Matthew Nash
Havey Loves Harvey present Soccer Mom, Animal Hospital, Ashcan Orchestra and The Hussy
A live music event broadcast to Masterdisk and cut live to a unique vinyl record
Presented as part of Art in Odd Paces 2011: Ritual
Saturday, October 8 at 2:00pm
Hudson River Park 14th Street & 10th Avenue, Manhattan | Harvey Loves Harvey site

Ben Gaydos and Matthew White
Gaydos and White,  Design faculty, co-facilitated two workshops at the Better World by Design conference in Providence: Think Wrong on September 30 and Rapid Prototyping on October 2nd.

Ryan Maguire
Sink or Swim Benefit Exhibition [group show]
This gathering of 30 internationally renowned artistswill address one the biggest threats facing the health of world’s oceans today – the rapid and mass depletion of sharks.
Friday, September 23 - Sunday, September 25, 2011
Spoke Art Gallery | artist's site

Candice Ivy
Feral: Solo Exhibition
Wednesday, August 24 - Sunday, August 28, 2011
TPE Artist Village Broadcast, Taipei | artist's site

Diana Arcadipone and Susan LeVan
Mixed Media Work
A collaborative exhibit of mixed media work by two artists both employing the visual language of paper, collage, hand drawn text, and mark making.  Drawing inspiration from nature, the Primitive, Native and Folk Arts, their personal and deeply felt work pays homage to the natural world, through Animals and Landscapes.
Friday, August 5 - Monday, August 29, 2011
Roby King Galleries | Diana's site | Susan's site

Anna Poor
Solo Exhibition
Friday, July 1 - Wednesday, July 20, 2011
ArtStrand | artist's site

Cig Harvey
Solo exhibition
Saturday, May 28th - Saturday, June 25th
Dowling Walsh Gallery | artist's site

Santiago Hernandez
Professor Hernandez has been awarded an Artist's Resource Trust Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. This grant will help him towards realizing a new body of mixed media installations.
The A.R.T. Grant is given to individual visual artists living in New England and nonprofit organizations to purchase, exhibit or commission work by mature (aged 35 and older), mid-career New England visual artists living in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island or Vermont.
Berkshire Taconic | artist's site

Ryan Maguire
Films featured in Glovebox Short Film & Animation Festival
Saturday, June 11th
Glovebox Short Film & Animation Festival | artist's site

Keith McLelland
Hot Wood [group multimedia show]
Friday, May 20, 2011, 8:00pm
Public Assembly | artist's site | About Hot Wood Arts

Congratulations to AIB Photography faculty, Matthew Gamber, for being named to the international list of Emerging Photographers to be published in Flash Forward 2011 by the Magenta Foundation.
more info | artist's site

Matthew Gamber
The Sum of All Colors [group show]
Through a variety of photographic approaches, Jessica Eaton, Matthew Gamber and Bill Sullivan are experimenting with how the medium of photography can illustrate our perception of color.  The photographs from Matthew Gamber's series, Any Color You Like, are an experiment in how photography can confuse our perception of information.  These photographs represent objects whose primary function is either to describe or draw our attention to color. When these items are rendered in a traditional black and white format they become abstractions of their previous form.
Thursday, April 7 - Saturday, May 21, 2011
Sasha Wolf Gallery | artist's site

Irina Rozovsky
This Russia
In the summer of 2008, Irina returned to Russia for the first time since she and her family left exactly twenty years before. To Irina, Moscow was wrapped in a haze that rose like a mirage. These photographs describe a place both real and imagined by years of absence and the disorientation of being a stranger in a familiar land.  These images look for what has been left behind and disconnected—This Russia—its crumbling buildings, searching faces—its fairytale drenched in redeeming, yellow light, nostalgia tinged with harsh reality.
Monday, April 18 - Friday, June 3, 2011
Garner Center of Photography, NESOP | artist's site

Ben Sloat
His Eyes Were Like Mine
May 4 - June 4, 2011
Laroche/Joncas | artist's site

Michael David and Liza Folman
Boston Printmakers: North American Print Biennial 2011
Featuring 149 prints selected from 2,064 entries from 811 artists, including Professors David and Folman
Sunday, February 27 - Sunday, May 1, 2011
Danforth Museum of Art

Images at left from top:
Ann Hirsh, proposal image for Edgar Allen Poe statue (in collaboration with Robert Olson)
Ken Beck, Rockweed Rhapsody, 2011, oil on panel
Ryan Maguire, Tom Brady is War Machine, 2012
Adam Gooder, Daffodil, lith print
Ben Sloat, Academy of Light
Dana Mueller, Site of Pickett's Charge, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, 2009
Susan LeVan, Blue Face, Mixed Media
Diana Arcadipone, Tree, Mixed Media
Irina Rozovsky, Young Lovers, II, 2008/10, digital C-print
Matthew Gamber, Ishihara Test in Light-Brite, 2010, digital geltain silver print
Ellen Schön, Lotus Pod, ceramics
Deborah Davidson, Voices (6 ft. detail), 27 ft. scroll, mixed media (acrylic, in, gesso, graphite, cell animation paint on drafting vellum, mounted on Unriyu paper)
Kate Castelli, Double, 2010, cut paper on vintage bookcover
Keith MacLelland, Angel Cowboy, 2010, recycled mixed media
Cig Harvey, Devin and the Fireflies, 2010, photograph

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