Fall 2007 Exhibitions
| School of Art + Design Faculty Art Exhibition August 31 through September 30, 2007 One of the oldest annual faculty art exhibitions in the country and a major event in the region, this show highlights the current achievements of the artists and upholds the national reputation of the school.
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Berni Searle | Berni Searle: Approach August 31 through December 31, 2007 This exhibition contained seven large-scale pieces by South African artist Berni Searle, whose work in performance, photography, film, and video installation addresses racial and gender inequities through the use of her body, personal histories, and the construction of personal mythologies.
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Sponemann figurine, 12th century Flintclay Courtesy of Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, University of Illinois | The Archaeological Heritage of Illinois Prepared by professional archaeologists at the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program (ITARP), this exhibition presented objects of material culture related to Native Peoples who lived in Illinois from approximately 9500 B.C.E. to C.E. 1800. More than 100 items were on display, including clay figurines, bracelets and other ornaments, spear points and fish hooks, pipes, cooking jars, digging and weaving tools, and ceremonial objects of exquisite quality and variety. |
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Intersculpt 2007 October 4 through 28, 2007 Intersculpt is a global, networked exhibition of digital sculpture realized through computer-aided design, manufacturing, and digital networks. This exhibition was established in 1993 by l'Association Ars Mathematica in Paris and has been held biennially around the world. Artists from all over the globe contribute 3-D models to a central location via the World Wide Web in a vetted contest; the winning sculpture designs are then printed in 3-D format in cities throughout the world. The CANVAS Gallery presented Intersculpt 2007 in two thematic approaches: "mathematics" and "biomorphism." The first celebrated classical mathematically-derived and inspired sculpture, while the second conveyed the present artistic revival of cybersculpture inspired by "shapes of life"—humans, cells, animals, plants. The sculptures were presented both virtually, as 3-D objects in the CANVAS space, and physically as printed via computer-controlled machines. Intersculpt 2007 was simultaneously Webcast from L'Ecole Nationale Superieur des Artes et Metiers (ENSAM).
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Big Ten Coed, Mask No. 11, 2003 Ink-jet print 40 x 30 inches Courtesy of the artists and Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois © Luke Batten and Jonathan Sadler | FACADES October 19 through December 30, 2007 Curators: Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox An essential defining characteristic of architecture becomes a pejorative when used to describe people. The relationships between the outside of a building and its interior, and between someone's public face and the workings of his/her mind, were the subject of this gathering of recent art. Does the exterior of a building or a person's expression reveal or conceal its actual intent or content? Gender roles, racial stereotypes, architectural foils, and assumptions of all kinds came into play in this investigation. Exhibiting artists included Anna Nordquist Andersson, Janine Antoni, Luke Batten and Jonathan Sadler, Vanessa Beecroft, Francis Cape, Jordi Colomer, Olafur Eliasson, Maria Friberg, Terence Gower, Huang Yan, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, Wendy Jacob, Robert Lazzarini, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Gordon Matta-Clark, Jillian McDonald, Christopher Rauschenberg, Joel Ross, Do-Ho Suh, Rick Valentin, and Michael Wolf. Exhibition sponsored in part by the Fox Development Corporation;
Office of the Chancellor, U of I; Office of the Provost and Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, U of I; Illinois Arts Council; Krannert Art Museum Director's Circle; and the Krannert Art Museum Council |
The Construction of Beauty, 2007 Puzzle Courtesy of the artist | Consuming Racialized Beauty December 6 through December 12, 2007 A student exhibition exploring the contemporary politics of beauty, race, and representation, Consuming Racialized Beauty provocatively asked how the gendered and raced body is defined, disciplined, classified and ultimately consumed as ugly/beautiful or un/desirable by diverse publics. More than 15 works, ranging in techniques from jewelry making to performance to digital art, examined the relationships between race, gender, sexuality and popular culture. |
