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Lyric Documentary: The Works of Walker Evans

September 20 - November 1, 2019 Opening Reception: Thursday October 3, 2019 | 5-7 pm
Lyric Documentary: The Works of Walker Evans

Lyric Documentary: The Works of Walker Evans
Schneider Hall Galleries
University of Louisville
Schneider Hall
Louisville, KY 40292 

Lyric Documentary: The Works of Walker Evans focuses on a two-year period (1935-36) during which the American photographer Walker Evans created some of the most iconic images of America in throes of the Great Depression. Featuring letters and photographs from the Library of Congress and from the Roy Stryker Papers housed at the Archives & Special Collections of the University Libraries at the University of Louisville, this exhibition includes a special section on Evans’s photographs for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a book written by James Agee.

Lyric Documentary: The Works of Walker Evans, will take place as part of the 2019 Louisville Photo Biennial. Gallery Hours are Monday-Friday 9am-4:30pm

Image: Walker Evans, Lucille Burroughs, daughter of a cotton sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama, 1935/1936. Courtesy the University of Louisville Photographic Archives

 

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2019 MFA Graduates Exhibition

May 10 - August 30, 2019
2019 MFA Graduates Exhibition

The Hite Art Institute is pleased to present the 2019 MFA Graduates Exhibition. Featuring a selection of works from this year’s graduating MFA student’s thesis exhibitions. Please join us on Friday May 10, 2019, from 6-8 pm at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts to celebrate the accomplishments of our MFA students and wish them luck in their future endeavors.


2019 MFA Graduates include Lauren Bader, Reid Broadstreet, Tammy Burke, Helen Payne, Monica Stewart and KCJ Szwedzinski.

The exhibition will run May 10 - August 30, 2019
Gallery Hours: Wed-Friday 11 am - 6pm
Saturday 11 am - 3 pm


 


Canon Solutions America celebrated World Graphic Design Day

Joyce Chen at portfolio dayLianna Lamorena at portfolio day

Canon Solutions America celebrated World Graphic Design Day by spotlighting two Hite graphic design graduates, Joyce Chen and Lianna Lamorena! Joyce received the Michael L Power Outstanding Senior in Graphic Design award, and Lianna was the winner of the Silver Best of the Best award.

Read what Canon had to say about these two talented designers:

https://csa.canon.com/…/ZY2xDsMgDES_pQMzpN265S-ibC5YCSqxkU…/

Professor Ying Kit Chan and alumnus Brent Dedas exhibit at Equilibrium

Equilibrium Exhibition

Work by Ying Kit Chan and Brent Dedas

Professor Ying Kit Chan and alumnus Brent Dedas (BFA '01) will be exhibiting in the Equilibrium Exhibition during the Venice Biennale, May 10 - August 1. Equilibrium is organized by Art Science Exhibits, based in Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and hosted by Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello - Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca (Italian-German Cultural Association). Equilibrium features the works of 20 international artists, and serves as the initial phase for Art Science Exhibits to broadcast environmental recovery projects internationally.

Congratulations to Professor Chan and Brent!

https://www.artscienceexhibits.com/venice-program.html

Faculty Friday: Professor Moon-he Baik

KMAC Couture Model wearing Moon-he Baik's design

Professor Moon-he Baik is our #FacultyFriday this week!

Professor Baik joined the Interior Design faculty at the Hite Art Institute in 1991. She received her BFA from Ewha University in Korea, and her MFA from the University of North Texas. Her research focuses on Textile Design, Multi-Cultural Interiors, and Sustainability & Environmental Design.

Last weekend, Professor Baik's design was featured on the KMAC Couture runway! She is an innovative designer and an integral part of the Hite team.

KMAC Couture Model: Lynzee Rice
Photos by: Gary Barragan

Mental Misconceptions: The Art of Self Care

May 17 - August 30, 2019
Mental Misconceptions: The Art of Self Care

Exhibition: May 17 - August 30, 2019
Reception: May 17, 2019 5-7 pm 

“Mental Misconceptions: The Art of Self-Care”, is an art exhibition that investigates, comments, and validates the correlation between mental health and the healing process otherwise known as “post-trauma growth.” Post-trauma growth refers to those who have experienced a stronger sense of well-being after a traumatic event. This exhibition solely focuses on local artists and their unique interpretations towards their own self-care and the treatment of others.  

Mental Misconceptions features eleven local Louisville artists including: Megan Bickel, Red Biddix, Jeremy Brightbill, Julio Cesar Rodriguez Aguilar, Andrew and Simon Cozzens, Carrie Donovan, Brianna Harlan, Tammy Richardson, KCJ Szwedzinski, and Letitia Quesensberry. Many of these artists have experienced their own forms of trauma and have chosen to tackle these issues head on, while documenting their own progression. Megan Bickel’s (Hite Art Institute MFA Candidate) work focuses on illusions surrounding the truth through mimicking patterns and textiles that cause discomfort and confusion. Other artists have decided to show the soothing effects of healing. Andrew and Simon Cozzens’ visual and sound installation piece “Mind Full Change” shows the visual effects of the brain as if we were looking at a CT scan. By manipulating the color pigments to move along the platforms with a binaural beat, we witness the red color eventually becoming blue, which symbolizes calm. Then there are artists who embrace both the chaos and reflective qualities of mental health. Brianna Harlan and Tammy Richardson’s installation piece “Living Room” creates a cozy, safe space with a couch, lamps, and photographs of both public and intimate spaces void of human life. This installation piece was created to talk about deeply personal topics, specifically the effects of suicide. Both artists will conduct grounding exercises and provide information for visitors to experience.

This show is curated by two graduating students, Sara Cissell and Diana Dillman. Sara Cissell will be graduating this upcoming fall 2019 with her BA in Art History and Humanities. Sara has eight years of museum experience formerly working at the Frazier History Museum, and currently the Speed Art Museum. She has interned for the Speed, KMAC, and Sheherzade Gallery. This will be Sara’s first curated show. Diana Dillman graduated Fall 2018 with her BA in Art History and has interned for the Filson Historical Society and the United States Capitol Visitors Center. Diana currently works at the Kentucky Derby Museum. She has previously curated for the Critical and Curatorial Studies II class with “Caprices: Wit and Whimsy,” which was also at Schneider Hall.

 “Mental Misconceptions: The Art of Self-Care” opening reception is on Friday, May 17th, 5-7pm, Schneider Hall Galleries, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville. 

Image: KCJ Szwedzinski, Ask me How I Really Feel, 2013, montoype, 15” x 11”

 


Spring 2019 BFA Thesis

Exhibition: April 11 - April 30, 2019 Reception: Thursday April 11 | 5-7 pm
Spring 2019 BFA Thesis

The Hite Art Institute is pleased to announce the 2019 Spring BFA Thesis Exhibition. The exhibition will display artwork in a variety of mediums from students graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Louisville's Hite Art Institute.

Students participating in the 2019 BFA thesis exhibit include: Logan Bishop, Francis Dumstorf, Lililan Fouch, Kt Green, Kellise Hoefer, Olivia Lantz, Courtland Mead, Jordyn Oswald, Olivia Pike, and Kristin Powell.



Conspiratorial Aesthetics

March 1 - April 6, 2019
Conspiratorial Aesthetics

Exhibition: March 1 - April 6, 2019
Reception: March 1, 2019 | 6-8 pm
Performance: "Sequel" by artist Cara Benedetto, March 19, 2019 | 6-8 pm
Cressman Center for Visual Arts
100 E Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202 

Conspiratorial Aesthetics investigates the form and function of conspiracy in contemporary art. Featuring digital renderings of undercover adulterous bots, schematics for car bombs that didn’t exist, and frantic notations on silhouette targets, the exhibition asks, “What does conspiracy look like? And why does so much new art look conspiratorial?” 

Many of the artists in the exhibition are concerned with actual conspiracies. !Mediengruppe bitnik’s work playfully investigates the content of the notorious website Ashley Madison, which offered an anonymous online space for would-be adulterers to meet one another. When the website was hacked in 2015 it was revealed that a large number of women using the site were actually computer bots designed to fool men into paying for premium accounts. !Mediengruppe downloaded these bots, here specifically the ones that claimed to live in Louisville, and then gave them physical presence. They programed digital faces for the women, and put them in the gallery space to converse with one another. Walid Raad’s art, produced under the guise of the “Atlas Group,” investigates evidentiary material from the Lebanese Civil War (1975 to 1990). But because Raad does not have access to the material directly (due, largely, to government conspiracy), he invents this evidence.Other works in the exhibition draw direct connections between art making and the articulation of power and violence. Cara Benedetto’s target silhouettes invoke gun violence while also drawing parallels between the act of repetitive printmaking and trauma. Deb Sokolow’s drawings offer paranoiac readings of modernist form, suggesting a nefarious shadowy network (of mostly men) enforcing the aesthetics of modern art. The work of Raqs Media Collective, meanwhile, offers a more optimistic conspiracy. For “Revisions to the First Draft of History” Raqs composed their art across old newspapers, “revising” the first draft of history through their reading of it. 

Conspiratorial Aesthetics invites us to consider the role of informational art in the “information age,” an era obsessed by networks of information exchange and therefore plagued by conspiracy theories, the aestheticization of information, and undemocratic control of the networks information travels. Can art offer counternetworks of information? Can art offer any information? Or does it instead only produce the world it claims to know? 

Performance:

On March 19, participating artist Cara Benedetto will give a lecture and performance at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts from 6-8 pm:  

“Sequel,” an event by artist Cara Benedetto, examines phallocentric aspects of our performance-heavy culture, the various predatory relationships plaguing academia, the deficiencies of language, and, more optimistically, healing processes and support structures between artists. The project follows from similar performance-based projects the artist has staged at MOCA Cleveland and MoMA Warsaw. The script will be performed by Nina Kersey and Mackenzie McCamish. “Sequel” will begin promptly at 7:30, following the artist’s talk.

Image: !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Ashley Madison Angels at Work in Louisviile, 2018, Five channel video installation, full HD, sound, aprox 10 min. loop, dimensions

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Scholastic Art Awards Silver Key/Honorable Mention Exhibition

February 28 - March 21, 2019
Scholastic Art Awards Silver Key/Honorable Mention Exhibition

Schneider Hall Galleries
Exhibition: February  28- March 21, 2019
Reception: February 28, 2019 5-8 pm

Presented by the nonprofit organization, the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country's longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students in grades 7–12. 

In celebration of this year’s regional recipients, two exhibitions and an awards ceremony will be held.

  • Gold Key and American Visions Nominees Exhibition
    Feb. 1 – March 3, 2019 during museum hours
    KMAC Museum
    715 W. Main St., Louisville, KY
    (Exhibition Opening is Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. in tandem with the First Friday Trolley Hop)
  • Silver Key and Honorable Mention Exhibition
    Feb. 28 – March 21, 2019 during building hours
    Schneider Hall, Dept. of Fine Arts, University of Louisville
    2300 S. First Street Walk, Louisville, KY
    (Exhibition Opening is Thursday, Feb.216, 2018 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.)
  • Regional Student Awards Ceremony
    Feb. 13, 2019
    6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
    Sallie B. Durrett Auditorium
    4425 Preston Highway, Louisville, KY 

Since the program’s founding in 1923, the Awards have fostered the creativity and talent of millions of students, including renowned alumni who have gone on to become leaders in their fields, including Richard Avedon, Ken Burns, Red GroomsArnold Hurley, Robert IndianaZac Posen, Robert RedfordKay Walkingstick,and Andy Warhol.

For more information about the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, visit the Scholastic News Room: http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/artandwriting.

 

 

Organize Your Own

January 7-February 22, 2019
Organize Your Own

 

Fifty years ago the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) made a historic call. Stokely Carmichael wrote “One of the most disturbing things about almost all white supporters of the movement has been that they are afraid to go into their own communities—which is where the racism exists—and work to get rid of it. They want to run from Berkeley to tell us what to do in Mississippi; let them look instead at Berkeley. . . . Let them go to the suburbs and open up freedom schools for whites.”

This exhibition and event series asks contemporary artists and poets to create new works in response to the history of white anti-racist organizing in working-class white communities in Philadelphia (October 4 Organization) and Chicago (the Young Patriots Organization) in keeping with the mandate from the Black Power movement to “organize your own” community against racism.

The exhibit features newly commissioned artwork by participants from around the country, including Amber Art & Design, Anna Martine Whitehead (with Thread Makes Blanket), Irina Contreras, Robby Herbst, Matt Neff, Mary Patten, Dave Pabellon, Helen Shiller's Keep Strong Magazine photo archives, Frank Sherlock (with Kelly Writers House), Society Editions collaboration with the poets of the Young Patriots Organization, Dan S. Wang, Rosten Woo.

The reading area of the exhibition includes the project catalog edited by Anthony Romero for Soberscove Books with reflections on this project from Fred Moten, Mark Nowak, Rasheedah Phillips, Bettina Escauriza, Mariam Williams and Jen Hofer. Also see online project documentation featured on organizeyourown.wordpress.com by Irina Contreras, Anne Braden Institute, Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela, Salem Collo-Julin, and Thomas Graves with Jennifer Kidwell.

Curated by Daniel Tucker, the exhibition project also includes numerous events (panels, tours, performances and public projects), which have taken place throughout previous exhibition runs. Original funding for the project came from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (Philadelphia) and Columbia College (Chicago).

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Richard Gallo Exhibition

January 18-February 23, 2019 Cressman Center for Visual Art
Richard Gallo Exhibition

Image Credit: Peter Hujar. Man in Harness, 1973, Silver gelatin print, 8 x 10 inches, Courtesy of the Peter Hujar Estate.

Image Credit: Peter Hujar. Man in Harness, 1973, Silver gelatin print, 8 x 10 inches, Courtesy of the Peter Hujar Estate.

The Hite Art Institute is pleased to announce the opening of Richard Gallo: Performance and Studio 1968–1980, an exhibition focusing on a true pioneer of performance art. 

Richard Gallo (1946-2007), who was known in 1970s New York as Lemon Boy, was a theatre director, stage actor, and performance artist who dressed in provocative costumes and performed outside luxury boutiques on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Throughout his brief career, which spanned from 1968 to 1980, he was recognized by many of the most prominent artists of his day, including Andy Warhol who claimed that Gallo was “more glamorous than Marlene Dietrich,” and Robert Wilson, who described him as a “theatrical warehouse.” Yet despite such accolades from the art world elite, Gallo’s contributions to art history have been largely overlooked. 

Comprising over 60 photographs drawn from a number of archives, this exhibition will be the first time in 40 years that many of these images have been seen in public. 

Richard Gallo:  Performance and Studio 1968-1980 is organized by Scott Rollins and Noah Khoshbin.

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Annual Student Exhibition

December 7, 2018- January 12, 2019

Annual Student Show 2018

Annual Student Exhibition
December 7-January 12, 2019
Reception: December 7, 2018 6-8 PM
Cressman Center for Visual Art
100 E Main St.
Louisville, KY 40202

The Hite Art Institute is pleased to announce the opening of our Annual Student Exhibition. Work in this show highlights not only the tremendous accomplishments of our students, it also showcases their dramatic range. Artists from all studio areas, from glass to graphic design, painting to printmaking, will be on view through January 12th.  

The subjects under investigation in this work are as varied as the methods employed to produce them. Remington King’s silkscreen work appropriates pop culture references and juxtaposes them with fine art practice. Lillian Fouch’s meticulous relief offers an exploration of identity and the artist’s relationship to inherited culture forms and symbols. Melanie Osbone’s paintings similarly consider hybrid identity and the artist’s ability to construct and manipulate one’s sense of self. In every case, work in this exhibition demonstrates the talent, and intellect, of our diverse Hite Art Institute student body. 

 

Hite Field Trip to EXPO Chicago 2018

Hite Art students at the EXPO Chicago 2018

Hite 2018 field trip to Chicago Contemporary Art Expo. So much art and fun! #hiteart#hiteartinstitute

Students and alumni are featured in a national juried exhibition

Image: Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Richard Rothwell, oil on canvas, exhibited 1840.

Hite alumni Ed Hamilton, Elmer Lucille Allen, Carrie Neumayer and Mary Dennis Kannapell, and Professors Ying Kit Chan and Rachel Singel, will present their works in an invitational exhibition "Modern Prometheus" opening this week. "Modern Prometheus" is organized by the Louisville Free Public Library to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)."

Opening reception:
Thursday, September 27 • 5:30-7 pm

On view:
September 27 - November 11, 2018

Bernheim Gallery
Main Library, 301 York Street
Louisville Free Public Library

Image: Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Richard Rothwell, oil on canvas, exhibited 1840.

"Louisville Artists: Carry On" includes works of Hite faculty and alumni

"Louisville Artists: Carry On," a survey exhibition of the work of forty-four individuals who have made successful lifetime art careers while living in Louisville, curated by JP Begley.

Opening reception:
Sunday, September 23, 3-5pm
LVA Gallery, 1538 Lytle Street

Congratulations to the alumni and faculty who are represented in this show.
Artist featured in the exhibit:

Elmer Lucille AllenAnn Stewart Anderson
Keith Auerbach
Peter Bodnar III
David Caudill
Ying Kit Chan
Caren Cunningham
Fred diFrenzi
Patrick Donley
William Duffy
Lynn Dunbar Bayus
Gaela Erwin
Wayne Ferguson
Denise Furnish
Angie Reed Garner
Joyce Garner
Lida G. Gordon
Albertus Gorman
James Grubola
Kay Grubola
Ed Hamilton
Claudia Hammer
Barbara Hanger
Peggy Howard
Bob Hower
Brian Jones
Ray Kleinhelter
Frances Kratzok
Peter Morrin
Jacque Parsley
Tom Pfannerstill
C.J. Pressma
Licia N. Priest
Mark Priest
Chris Radtke
Guinever Smith
Wendi Smith
Deborah Stratford
Chuck Swanson
Ted Wathen
John D Whitesell
Marilyn Whitesell

Professor Leslie Friesen receives award from AIGA Louisville

Graphic Design students with Professor Leslie Friesen holding AIGA Louisville awardProfessor Leslie Friesen glass trophy award from AIGA LouisvilleProfessor Leslie Friesen receives award from AIGA Louisville at Louisville Speed Art Museum multipurpose room.

Each year during Design Week, AIGA Louisville formally recognizes one person for their contribution to the Louisville design community. This year our own Leslie Friesen, Power Agency Designer-in-Residence at the Hite Art Institute, was recognized for her immense contributions and service as a teacher and professional in the Louisville design community. Friesen was recognized for the incredible impact she has had both in and out of the classroom in her 16 years teaching in the Hite Art Institute. Congratulations, Professor Friesen!

Sandra Charles has a solo exhibition at Wayside Expressions Gallery

Painting portrait by Sandra Charles

Sandra Charles (BFA 2015) will present her new paintings in a solo exhibition at the Wayside Expressions Gallery:

"Portraits of Us: New paintings by Sandra Charles"
Wayside Expressions Gallery
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Professor Ché Rhodes demonstrates at FirstBuild

Professor Ché Rhodes demonstrates glassmaking at FirstBuildProfessor Ché Rhodes with MFA Graduate Student talking about glassmakingProfessor Ché Rhodes demonstrates glassmaking at FirstBuild with student assistant

Professor Ché Rhodes demonstrating caning technique at FirstBuild Maker Faire / Maker Village.

Professor Delin Lai conducts a field research project in China

Fujian Christian University 1925

Wenzhou City Christian Church 1898

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)