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With the support of a research grant from the Asian Cultural Council in New York, Professor Delin Lai conducted a field research project on the remaining structures of Christian churches in China this summer. Professor Lai visited Beijing, Nanjing, Qingdao, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Hangzhou, Changsha, Wuhan and Fuzhou, and investigated more than twenty architecture sites. The research objective is three-fold: to document the remaining structures of early church architecture in China; to study the diversified church architectural designs in relationship to varied local traditions; and to study the foreign influence on the transition of Chinese building technique from timber structure to brick structure.

Images: Fujian Christian University (1925); Wenzhou City Christian Church (1898)

The Kimono Project art exhibition curated by LAFTA

Opening Reception tonight - September 14, 6-8 pm.

Participating artists include Hite alumni Gweneth Dunleavy (MA 2011), Trish Korte (BA 1986, MAT 2001, MA 2003), Felice Sachs (MA 2003) and Joanne Weis (MA 2010)

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Above: donottellmewhereibelong: drawing and sculpture by Joan Tanner

Schneider Hall Galleries
On View: September 14 - Ocotober 27, 2018
Reception: September 14, 2018 6-8 pm

Curated by Julien Robson

The Cressman Center for Visual Arts is pleased to announce donnottellmewhereibelong: drawings and sculpture by Joan Tanner.

Over a prolific career, compelled by a "curiosity to engage contradiction" and an impulse to disrupt "assumptions about spatial relations," Joan Tanner's art has developed across disciplines to encompasses many media, including painting, photography, video, sculpture, assemblage and installation. donottellmewhereibelong is an exhibition that surveys a selection of Tanner's drawings and three-dimensional works from the past twenty years and reveals an artist fascinated with ideas of history, impermanence, and inconsistency.

Throughout her career, Joan Tanner has grounded her practice in the activity of drawing, at times using it to test design ideas that will be realized elsewhere in her work, but mainly as a self-directing medium to explore "Thought Forms"—to help grasp and clarify her creative ideas and emotional experiences. Returning continually to drawing, as with her other activities, Tanner allows the medium and its restrictions to direct her initial concepts and impulses, as if liberating her predeterminations through the very process of making. In recent years she has devoted much of her time to drawing and this has resulted in a body of ongoing works that reveal anew her fascination with organic, scientific, and architectural forms.

Tanner began her career in the 1960s as a painter, and since then her interests have grown to embrace a wide range of media and materials. For her, meaning is variable, dependent upon place, time, and the viewer, a contingency that is made all the more complex by the way she recycles and reshapes the elements that make up her sculptures. For instance, as evidenced by the date range for her sculpture, Screen Hat (1990-2010), Tanner has been reworking this small object for two decades. Employing often disparate elements, the four sculptures in this show pursue Tanner's stated interest "in spatial discord and reconfiguration by way of stacking, bundling, sequence and chanced movement."

By her own admission, Tanner's ideas evolve through chance as she becomes absorbed in their invention, so that the outcome is not necessarily the ending she had in mind. This is not, however, a vague or unintentional activity but one that shifts restlessly between seemingly contradictory forms and methods. Bringing about both visual connectivities and their disjunctions, flux can be seen as a principle that underscores and unifies Tanner's work, even as her drawings, sculptures, and installations make visible the fissures and breaks that exist in any unifying theory. Through an aesthetic of "unfinishedness," Tanner underlines the fact that our world is governed by impermanence and change.

Born in 1935 in Indianapolis, Joan Tanner has lived in Southern California since the mid-1960s. She has consistently exhibited her work since 1968 and has held solo exhibitions at Santa Barbara Museum of Art; MCA Santa Barbara (formerly CAF); the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College, Los Angeles; and Suyama Space in Seattle; and the Speed Art Museum here in Louisville, Kentucky. Among others, Tanner's work is held in the following public collections: The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; Harvard University; Stanford University; Hilliard University Art Museum; The Speed Art Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and Weatherspoon Art Museum. Over the years, she has been a visiting lecturer at the University of California Santa Barbara, Ohio University in Athens, Illinois State University at Normal, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Tanner has been a visiting lecturer at the University of California Santa Barbara, Ohio University in Athens, and Illinois State University at Normal, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Julien Robson is an independent curator with more than thirty years of international experience. From 2000 to 2008, he served as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum, as well as the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 2008 to 2012. Presently Robson directs the Great Meadows Foundation and the INhouse Foundation, and is the curator of the Shands Collection, and the Brook Smith Collection.

Joan Tanner Lecture today:
Thursday, September 13, 2018
7- 8 pm @ Bingham Humanities Building, Room 100

Exhibition
Joan Tanner: donottellmewhereibelong
Curated by Julien Robson

Opening Reception:
Friday, September 14, 2018
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

On View: September 14 - October 27, 2018
Cressman Center for Visual Arts
Hite Art Institute | University of Louisville
100 E Main St, Louisville, KY 40202

Eston Adams (PhD Candidate; mentor: Professor Chris Fulton) is a recipient of a SIGS Doctoral Dissertation Completion Award for the fall 2018 semester. He will be defending his dissertation, “The History and Signification of the Navicella Mosaic at St. Peter’s, Rome,” in late November. Writing on this subject delves into such rich topics as the life and legacy of St. Peter the Apostle, pilgrimage to his relics, the demolition of Old St. Peter’s and the building of New St. Peter’s, and the evidence for Giotto’s lost masterpiece, the Navicella.

Prof. Rachel Singel (Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville) was featured in this month's Louisville Magazine. Singel, artist-in-residence at Bernheim, did some nature-inspired printmaking this past spring.

Deryn Greer, Hite Graphic Design BFA 2018 and now Product Designer at Humana, gave an insightful and delightful talk today — “How Design School Changed My Mind.” Her talk — part of AIGA Louisville’s 2018 Design Week — was co-sponsored by the Hite.

@derynjoy #hiteart #designschoollessons#universityoflouisville @uoflasthinker @universityoflouisville

Professor Chris Reitz, Gallery Director/Critical and Curatorial Studies, is featured in the most recent issue of the journal October. He is one of a number of respondents asked about the role of monuments in representations of history and public memory. Professor Reitz discusses his role in the recent Louisville monuments debate, and describes various approaches to understanding the former Confederate monument and the Castleman statue. https://louisville.edu/art/faculty/chris-reitz-ph.d

Benjamin Cook (BFA 2012) will give an artist's lecture on Monday, September 17 at 10:30 am. He is currently having a solo exhibition at the Swanson Contemporary gallery. Ben is currently teaching at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

For more information about his work, visit his website at:
https://benjamincookart.com/

Becki Hyde, designer and product manager, Digital Experience Center at Humana, and HIte Graphic Design alum 2006, is a speaker at this year's International Design Conference, Sept 19-22, in New Orleans. An impressive stage to be on!

Professor Moonhe Baik's work is represented in the "International Korea Bojagi Forum" Exhibition in New York City. This exhibition is hosted by the Korean Art Society and the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center. The exhibition includes the work of 62 Korean textile artists, all exploring a centuries-old tradition in new and exciting ways.

"International Korea Bojagi Forum" Exhibition
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
107 Suffolk St, New York, New York 10002

September 7-October 8, 2018
Opening Reception: September 7 • 6 – 8 pm

https://www.facebook.com/events/1910884728992773/
https://www.facebook.com/KoreanArtSociety/

Dan Barczak, partner and chief creative officer at Hyperquake in Cincinnati, is a Hite alum from the graphic design program, 2003. Leading this workshop for a United Nations agency is quite an impressive accomplishment. Congratulations, Dan!

Congratulations Jessica Bellamy for being featured in Communication Arts. Jessica is a Hite alum (2012) in both graphic design and 2D studios. And she also has a BA from UofL in Pan African Studies, and a minor in Communication. She's become nationally recognized in just a few short years, speaking at conferences and leading workshops around the country.

Welcome back, students! Do not forget to come to the Hite ice cream social tomorrow and pick up supplies from Artist & Craftsman Supply Louisville and Preston Arts Center. You need to make friends with our local vendors! We also have Hite swag and Louisville Cream will be serving Marcia Hite's Cherry Pecan Cream along with other custom flavors.

Zed Saeed (MFA candidate) is the Artist-In-Residence at the Louisville Public Library.

Trish O'brien Korte (BA 1986, MAT 2012, MA 2016) received a Blue-Ribbon Award from the 2018 Kentucky State Fair in the category of ceramic sculpture. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Adelaide McComb, MA candidate in the Critical and Curatorial Studies Program, for winning the Visual Resources Association's Internship Award. Adelaide is at work on a thesis about indigenous art and curatorial practice, and her award will help support work at the Lakota Dream Museum & Monument.

Professor Ying Kit Chan is currently having a solo show of his new work at the art gallery of the University of Montevallo. He will give a lecture at the reception on Thursday, August 30.

This body of new work, entitled "The Red Alert Series," continues to examine environmental ethics, a philosophical study of the moral relationship between human beings and nature, as well as the value that society extends to the environment. By utilizing a wide range of mediums, yet focusing on commonly recycled materials, Professor Chan employs the Deep Ecology philosophy as well as Taoist and Buddhist ideologies in an effort to examine the ecocentric and geocentric worldview.

"The Red Alert Series" addresses the increasing hazardous existence of plastic pollution in our environments. Objects in this series are all made of plastic, including discarded products such as grocery bags, household containers, packaging materials, and debris collected from riverbanks and city streets. The red color symbolizes the final warning, signaling an emergency state of our planet of unprecedented magnitude and scope.

Professor Chan will also be speaking to the advanced students at the University of Montevallo about the exciting offerings and opportunities of the new MFA in Art and Design program at UofL. The rich tradition of the arts at the University of Montevallo is reflected by a robust BFA program, housed within the College of Fine Arts.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/MontevalloArtDepartment/about/

Zed Saeed (MFA student) is in a three-person show "Looking Up: Heroes For Today" at Louisville Metro Hall

Dean Kimberly Leonard and Gill Holland (Founder, Portland Investment Initiative) gave a tour of the new MFA building to President Neeli Bendapudi. We're so excited! For more information, visit: http://louisville.edu/artsandsciences/growwest/mfa

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