Private Universes/Personal Spaces Exhibition
18 April 2013
SCA CONTEMPORARY ART
505.228.3749
524 Haines NW Albuquerque, NM 87102
April 19 – June 7, 2013
Alhazen's Carnival Exhibition
25 February 2014
The Sheridan College Art Department has curated an art exhibition featuring artworks in digital media and video that will be displayed on campus throughout the 2014 spring semester. The exhibition, titled “Alhazen’s Carnival,” will be exhibited in conjunction with the “Insight Lecture Series,” hosted by the Sheridan College Foundation.
“Alhazen’s Carnival” features seven artists on a rolling loop. The exhibition will be featured on both the four-screen video monitors in the Edward A. Whitney Academic Center from Feb. 26-March 5, March 23-30 and May 14-21.
In 1021, Alhazen, an Arabic polymath, authored “Book of Optics,” describing the camera obscura, a technological predecessor to film.
“Every day we are confronted, cajoled and enveloped by digital media and the moving image,” said SC art faculty Jason Lanka. “This constant salvo creates a climate that is both exciting and overwhelmingly inviting; always hinting at the potential for change or meditating on each progressive technological leap.
“Our relationship to space and time is made more plastic and liquid by the moving image and the plethora of screens we interact with on a daily basis.
Land: Mine Artist exhibition Catalog
15 September 2016
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ONE HORIZON, MANY PERSPECTIVES
On the land, we get our bearings by looking for the horizon. On the water, we search for that line where sky meets surface. Hurtling through the sky in an airplane, we look for that point of contact, the familiar and reassuring ground beneath us. The horizon grounds us, yet it also seems to shift.
Horizon depends on perspective, and perspectives on land and landscape are thoroughly explored in this collection of photographs, paintings, sculptures, and other artworks. Land: Mine investigates the shifting horizon line across tracts of land and landscape vistas, travelling familiar territory from new perspectives as well journeying across strange new places that somehow, nevertheless, seem navigable.
Through three broad themes—land mining and mindfulness, inhabited land and cultural landscapes, and the storytelling capacity of land—these works establish “horizon” as a shared, though shifting, point of contact.
Works dealing with frac sand mining in Western Wisconsin raise compelling questions about the impact of this activity on the land: what is destroyed? What remains? More philosophically, we might wonder, in viewing these images, are there more and less mindful ways to use the land’s resources?
Artworks depicting such cultural landscapes as cityscapes invite us to consider how, though we share a horizon, our perspectives differ. Since “landscape” is what happens when an area of land becomes visible through a particular vantage point (like that of an artist), all landscapes are essentially cultural. “Horizon,” too, is a created thing.
If land is a shared space, inhabited by living things, events are surely happening there. What is the connection between landscape and narrative? Perhaps land becomes a story at the very instant a landscape is created, extending the horizon beyond place, into time. Forward by Stephanie Turner
Exhibit Moves Far Beyond the Camera
19 May 2013
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Renowned photographer Patrick Nagatani has curated an exciting photography exhibition with five other artists at SCA Contemporary Art. The show examines the range and latitude of contemporary photography that moves far beyond the still camera.
Since photography’s humble beginnings in mid-19th-century Europe it has always had a problematic relationship with the fine art of painting. Who could have guessed that crude cameras producing fragile images on glass in 1842 would find themselves recording food shots on Twitter or the birth of a baby in real time?
In the beginning of his career Nagatani once held a film camera and took shots of his Los Angeles neighborhood, but like Dorothy he’s not in Kansas anymore. The breathtaking array of his accomplishments since his point-and-shoot days could and have filled several books.
With artists; Gillian Brown, Carol Chase Bjerke, Jyl Kelley, Leigh Anne Langwell, Scott Rankin and Patrick Nagatani
WHEN: Through June 7. Hours are noon-5 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and by appointment. Call gallery director Sheri Crider at 228-3749
WHERE: SCA Contemporary Art, 524 Haines NW, just south of I-40
HOW MUCH: Free
In this show Nagatani unveils selections from his 30-year-long tapist series wherein he painstakingly layers translucent masking tape over ink jet prints.
It's a Big World Out There
30 July 2018
“It’s a Big World Out There: Volume One “http://volumeone.org/articles/2018/05/04/23831_its_a_big_world_out_there
UWEC professor creates award-winning short film
Wednesday May. 2nd, 2018Julia van Allen
Jyl Kelley ignores dimensions and transforms still photos into a sensory experience. The UW-Eau Claire professor leans on technology and nature in her creative process. As an intermedia artist, Kelley plays with these distinctions and uses them to create something new. Her latest work, a time lapse titled “Inside Out,” stands alone with its experimental take on film. “Inside Out” received awards for best experimental film and best edited film at the Los Angeles Film Festival last August. It will also be shown in May at the Oxford International Film Festival in the United Kingdom. “Inside Out” shows side-by-side images of a Finnish home, inside and out, as the day fades in and out of nighttime. Stark images of natural light and movements in tandem with the rigid movements and artificial light of the television provide a glimpse into daily life that is rarely seen. Kelley’s film tracks the movements of the universe and the beauty so often ignored in a world dominated by technology and social media. With a screen to stare at, we ignore the beauty of nature as the clouds dance across the sky and play with sunlight. Kelley’s work reminds her audience to look beyond the small things; it’s a big world out there.
Chalkfest!
26 July 2018
Surrounding the UW-Eau Claire campus mall this weekend were hundreds of people creating works of art with a somewhat nostalgic medium — sidewalk chalk.
Nearly 200 artists gathered at Chalkfest Saturday to fill their own sidewalk square with a design of their choosing. The event, hosted by UW-Eau Claire and Volume One, is in its 11th year this summer.
Some participants drew by themselves, and others took on the challenge with a partner or two. Some people came with friends, others with family. Occasionally, artists had earbuds in and kept their eyes locked on their work. Others talked with their friends, family and onlookers as they passed by.
Over the course of the day, UW-Eau Claire’s sidewalks became filled with animals, portraits, cartoon and comic book characters and music-related imagery.
As the artists were hard at work Saturday morning, music was playing, community members were admiring the art and participants were wiping away chalk residue on the grass, rags, or even their own skin.
Rebecca Sands attended the event with her young daughter, Reagan Carey, who was covered head to toe in blue chalk by the time she finished her masterpiece. Carey designed her piece of the sidewalk as an ocean with a whale jumping out of it.
“I love seeing animals jump out of the water,” Carey said of her inspiration for the piece.
Her section of sidewalk was surrounded by a few blue footprints, courtesy of her blue ocean.
The mother-daughter duo spectated Chalkfest last year and decided to try their hand at chalk art this summer.
Sands, who had spots of dark gray chalk on her hands and arms, drew an elephant head due to her love of wildlife. She’s mastered drawing elephant skin using pencil, she said, so she thought she’d give it a try using chalk.
Farther away, another family of chalk artists were busy working on their sidewalk squares. Patrice Winsand, of Eau Claire, brought her daughters Kamryn and Kourtney along for the ride. Patrice was participating in her eighth year of Chalkfest, where she has drawn an eclectic array of subjects, including her children as fairies, koi fish and — her favorite — a monster coming out of the sidewalk.
“That was the funnest,” she said. “My kids thought I should do that again this year.”
This year, Patrice drew Snoopy from the Peanuts comics laying on top of his dog house with her version of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” in the background. Her daughters were drawing characters from Beauty and the Beast and a mermaid.
In Chalkfest’s 11 years, the event has grown. It used to be held in Wilson Park, until it was moved to the university for more space. Now, Chalkfest has food trucks, music and “chalk off” competitions throughout the day.
Paul Butrymowicz, UW-Eau Claire’s Assistant Director for Activities, Involvement and Leadership, helped organize the event. They sold out their 177 sidewalk squares by Monday, he said, and they had some “overflow squares” for those who wanted to register Saturday morning.
Butrymowicz said he enjoys working with all the people, but also the overall energy the event brings to Eau Claire.
“It’s a hallmark of Eau Claire,” he said. “Chalkfest is an extension of Eau Claire’s progressive attitude.”
Contact: emilee.wentland@ecpc.com
