VA LECTURE-Audra Wolowiec 12/1/2020!!!

Audra Wolowiec is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York whose work oscillates between sculpture, installation, text and performance with an emphasis on sound and the material qualities of language. Her sound installations and experimental language scores use the gap, space, or breath in between speech, to amplify an undercurrent of language. These scores, or language-based artworks, draw on the traditions of musical notation and experimental writing techniques, to provide conceptual and poetic frameworks for the installations. Wolowiec's work has been shown internationally and in the United States at MASS MoCA, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Stony Brook University, Art in General, and Studio 10. Readings and events have taken place at The Poetry Project, Microscope Gallery, and Center for Performance Research. Her work has been featured in BOMB Magazine, Modern Painters, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, CAA Journal, and Sound American. Residencies include Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Complex Systems Art and Physics Residency at the University of Oregon supported by a National Science Foundation Grant, and Dieu Donné. 

Wolowiec received a BFA from the University of Michigan and MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island school ofDesign. She has held teaching positions at Parsons School of Design, SUNY Purchase, Pratt Institute, andDia:Beacon. She is the founder and director of the publishing platform Gravel Projects.

VA LECTURE-Arahmaiani 11/24/2020!!!

 

ARAHMAIANI

Born in Bandung 1961 

Is one of Indonesia’s most seminal and respected contemporary artist, Arahmaiani has long been internationaly recognized for her powerful and provocative commentaries on social, political, cultural and environmental issues. Working in performance, painting, drawing, installation, video, poetry, dance and music. And in the 1980 she established herself as pioneer in the field of performance art in South East Asia.  She was one of the artists in the Indonesia National Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003).  Her work has grappled with contemporary politics, violence, critique of capital, the female body and in recent years, her own identity, which although Muslim, still mediates between Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and animist beliefs.  She often uses her public presence in order to attract attention to violence in general, and violence against women or female discrimination in Indonesia’s Islamic society, in particular.  Since September 11, she was combined her critical attitude toward Islam with a fight against its general stigmatization. And since 2010 she has been working with Tibetan monks in Tibet Plateau dealing with environmental issue. Besides working with various communities of artist, activist, academic in various places in the world, also religious Islamic boarding school community in Indonesia. 

 

She has been taking part on art event such as 2nd Asia Pacific Tiennale (1996); Havana Biennale (1997); Sao Paulo Biennale (2002); Lyon Biennale (2000); Werklietz Biennale (2000); Gwangju Biennale (2002); Biennale of Moving Image, Geneva (2003); Venice Biennale (2003); World Social Forum, Mumbai, India (2004); Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum (2007); Kunming Biennale (2017); Yinchuan Biennale(2018), South East Asia Triennale, Jakarta (2018),”Solidarity As A Means of Action” Haifa Museum, Israel (2019) “After Hope: Video of Resistance “ Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2020)

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Visiting Artist Talk-Naomi Unman!!!

Naomi Uman is a visual artist working in various media. Her work is intimate and curious, exploring worlds of others. Her films focus on the material, the handmade, the work of women and ways of life on the brink of disappearing. Through her love of tactile and manual work, she documents and uses materials and technologies that are also being left behind. 

Naomi Uman grew up in suburban New York. She currently lives and works in Mexico City after returning from living for 10 years in a village in Ukraine. She studied cooking in New York and worked as a professional chef. Later, Naomi Uman studied filmmaking at Cal Arts, receiving a masters degree in 1998.



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"House of Mount Royal" Virtual Exhibition Goes LIVE Today at 5!

This virtual exhibition, hosted by Kunstmatrix, boasts work from 23 artists representing a wide spectrum of mediums.

“House of Mount Royal is a virtual exhibition celebrating artists associated with MICA's Mount Royal School of Art, a multi-disciplinary MFA program. These artists are current students, alumni, faculty, staff, and artists in residence. During the time of social distancing, let's connect, and view works of art from many different mediums! The exhibition runs Aug 28 - Sep 25, 2020”

This exhibition was organized by 4 current Mount Royal students: Candice EH Cramer, Allison Rowe, Sixin Chen, and Sarah Black-Sadler

Sharing with you...thesis work from Alexandros Ampatzoglou ('20)!

"Art-i-facts" Acrylic paint and screen prints on canvas, 4x4 feet, 2020.

"Art-i-facts" Acrylic paint and screen prints on canvas, 4x4 feet, 2020.

"Oppositional gaze" Acrylic paint and screen prints on canvas, 3x3 feet, 2020.

"Oppositional gaze" Acrylic paint and screen prints on canvas, 3x3 feet, 2020.

"Stand by - the window" Acrylic paint and screen prints on panel, 3x3 feet, 2020.

"Stand by - the window" Acrylic paint and screen prints on panel, 3x3 feet, 2020.

 "River Delta" Acrylic paint and screen prints on canvas, 3 x 1.5 feet, 2020.

 "River Delta" Acrylic paint and screen prints on canvas, 3 x 1.5 feet, 2020.

"Simulacrum" Acrylic paint and screen prints on canvas, 5x4 feet, 2020.

"Simulacrum" Acrylic paint and screen prints on canvas, 5x4 feet, 2020.

"Between the columns" Acrylic paint and screen prints on canvas, 3x1 feet, 2020.

"Between the columns" Acrylic paint and screen prints on canvas, 3x1 feet, 2020.

Sharing with you...work from Allie Rowe ('21)!

Artist, and mother of two, Allie Rowe uses a multiplane structure she built herself to continue working on her stop-motion animation during the COVID-19 crisis.


The Moth is about Life, death, and the inability to see the beauty that we are. It is not so much about the moth, but more so the environment and the psychological space that the moth lives in…