William Paterson University Master of Fine Arts

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Opening reception of Mukbil Aktan’s MFA Thesis Show “Who is the Monster: Project Shark Eye.”

Exhibition is open May 13th until the 23rd.

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Come see MFA candidate Mukbil Aktan’s thesis exhibition “Who is the Monster: Project Shark Eye”
Reception is May 13th from 5-8 p.m., 2013, Annex Gallery at 25 Power Avenue, Wayne, NJ.

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Professor Robin Schwartz interview and photographs published by SLATE Magazine 5-1-13

http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/05/01/robin_schwartz_amelia_s_world_is_a_mother_and_daughter_s_lifelong_project.html

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Jase Clark
www.SeeingItCircle.com
May 18-June 1 Opening Reception May 18, 2013,1:00-4:00
Printmaking Center Of New Jersey
440 River Rd Branchburg,NJ 08876
www.printnj.org (908) 725-2110

Spring Lecture Series

Anne Dushanko Dobek

April 16, 2013 from 2-3:30 p.m.

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MFA Thesis Exhibition by graduate student Anthea Zito

“Bambi and Other Brutes”

Opening Reception April 11, 2013.

Power Gallery at William Paterson University

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Art Department at the Research and Scholarship Day 2013
April 4, 2013
College of Arts and Communication
University Commons, Room 171A
12:30p-1:45p

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The Spring Artist Lecture Series continues next Tuesday! Artist Anne Dusanko Dubek will give a lecture on April 16th. It will be in Ben Shahn room 146 at 2 p.m. Please try to attend!

Artist Statement
Collectively titled SILENT VOICES, my work: installations, video, mixed media works on paper consistenly focus on social/ or environmental issues. The most recent series reference the perilous journeys of migrants, immigrants and refugees.. Multi-referential in concepts and orientation, the work has a decidedly surreal and at times, psychological orientation.

The source material for all my work are news stories in the New York Times. However, the often surreal elegance of the installation sitings and presentation is more reductive opening the works to individual memories of current narratives: the seemingly endless repetition of similar disasters worldwide.

I select images and techniques that have an initial surface attraction but which, upon closer examination reveal more difficult content. A collage aesthetic informs my content, its presentation and my practice. The result is often a physical as well as referential layering of images and materials all of which are selected to expand the potential readings of the works.
Often, there is an intentional opposition between the reality of the images and the perception which I use to reinforce the political contradictions inherent in the issues.

Artist Bio.
Anne Dushanko Dobek has a varied mixed media practice including video, installation and works on paper all of which focuses on issues of social justice and the environment. A three time recipient of New Jersey Council for the Arts Fellowships, most recently in 2012 , she has also been supported by fellowships from the Puffin Foundation, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and Earthwatch.
A frequent lecturer on issues related to both art and the environment;. Dushanko Dobek has given presentations are the Musee Cantonal des Beaux Arts in Switzerland, the Newark Museum, Montclair Art Museums Rutgers,University, the University of Kentucky in Lexington and the Lepidopterists Convention.

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Bambi and Other BrutesAnthea Zito’s MFA showApril 1st - 17th, 2013Show ReceptionThursday, April 11th, from 6-8 p.m.Power Art Center, Main Gallery

Art Department at the Research and Scholarship Day 2013

Check out this event tomorrow!

College of Arts and Communication

University Commons, Room 171A

12:30p-1:45p

Professor Ziyuan Cong and Professor Michael Rees will present at the University Research and Scholarship Day on Thursday April 4 during common hour (12:30p-1:45p) in University Commons Room 171a.

Professor Cong will present A Great Experiencein the Olympic Fine Arts 2012 in London.

Professor Rees will discuss his COAC grant working on a Collaborative exhibition with 3D software and 3D Printing with Robert Gero.

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Spring Artist Lecture Series Featuring

Peter Patchen

March 28, 2013

Excerpts from artist talk

http://youtu.be/a8POho3CeNM

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Spring Artist Lecture Series with artist Carter Hodgkin

March 14, 2013 at WPU Ben Shahn 146.

Excerpts from artist talk:

http://youtu.be/NqqpFHAz_CI

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March 28 Peter Patchen

The Spring Artist Lecture Series continues this Thursday with artist Peter Patchen. It will be in Ben Shahn South Gallery at 2 p.m. Please try to attend!

Artist Statement
In the series Migration, Peter Patchen uses the iterative qualities of digital technologies ranging from 3D printing and pen plots to data projections combined with traditional media to transform American military aircraft into birds. With a nod to Audubon, these now autonomous beings are captured in sculpture, drawings, amulets, laser-cuts, video and digital prints as they carry out bird-like rituals that are threatening or comforting depending on your world-view.
Patchen will present his current work in the context of an artist who, after 30 years of artmaking on the computer, works with technology intuitively to create meaning through the medium.

Artist Bio.
Peter Patchen is a digital artist exhibiting and lecturing nationally and internationally. He grew up in Colorado where the natural environment had a profound influence on his perception of the relationships that exist between nature, humanity, culture and technology. After graduating from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs he earned a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. In 1993, he founded the Cyber Arts (now New Media) program at the University of Toledo. Currently, he is Chair of Pratt’s Department of Digital Arts.

wpugalleries:

Come join us tonight for our panelist discussion on our current exhibition, A Women’s View: New Chinese Art, with Dr. Zhang He, Dr. Shu-chin Tsui, and Huang Ying at 6:00 – 7:30 pm in the Ben Shahn Center for the Visual Arts, South Gallery.

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