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Summer Exhibitions

Windgate Artists in Residence Exhibition

Donté Hayes and Jamele Wright, Sr. 
June 6 – July 29, 2023   
Opening reception: Thursday, June 29, 2023, 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

black textured ceramic art piece by donte hayes

Image credit: Donté Hayes, Forgive, 2021. Ceramic, stoneware (black clay body). Courtesy of the artist. From the Fall 2021 residency at the Bemis Center in Omaha, Nebraska. 

colorful draping Jamele Wright fabric artwork

Image credit: Jamele Wright, Sr., ReBorn #5, 2021. Dutch wax cloth, found object, Georgia red clay, paint, and grommets. Courtesy of the artist.

The Zuckerman Museum of Art is pleased to present the work of artists Donté Hayes, who served as the fall 2022 Windgate Artist-in-Residence, and Jamele Wright, Sr., who served as the spring 2023 Windgate Artist-in-Residence. Artwork created by the artists during their residency is featured in a summer exhibition at the Zuckerman Museum of Art. Additionally, one artwork from each artist will become part of the Zuckerman Museum of Art's permanent collection and will be utilized as a teaching tool to further learning engagement and cultural enrichment opportunities across the KSU campus. The 2023 Windgate Artist-in-Residence exhibition Is curated by Cynthia Nourse Thompson. 

The School of Art and Design at Kennesaw State University is grateful to the Windgate Foundation for choosing to invest in the future of our students. The Foundation’s vision and contribution enabled KSU to develop the Windgate Foundation Artist Residency Program. This program is instrumental in providing our students with the experience of working with visiting professional artists in their field of study and growing as industry leaders. For six semesters through 2024, grant proceeds will be used to host professional artists at KSU, supporting the shared goals of the Windgate Foundation and the School of Art and Design to advance contemporary craft and strengthen visual arts education. KSU is fortunate to be able to offer students unique artist-in-resident experiences of this magnitude as part of their scheduled curriculum. The generous gift from the Windgate Foundation enables KSU to host internationally known artists to lead and inspire students through artmaking and to share that art and inspiration with the community at large. Through the Foundation’s continued support of the School of Art and Design, we can offer the highest level of artistic excellence and quality to our students, community, and visiting artists. 

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Ruth V. Zuckerman Collection: Inside Out

Long-term display Location: Ruth Zuckerman Pavilion 

Curated by Teresa Bramlette Reeves

For the preservation of artwork, museums must often hold their permanent collections in storage rather than in public view. "Visible storage," maintains the necessary safe-keeping of the objects while allowing museum visitors to see and study work that would otherwise be unavailable. This installation employs visible storage to showcase a substantial number of Ruth Zuckerman's sculptures and drawings from the KSU Permanent Collection, while making aspects of a collection's care transparent for the public.

KSU ruth v. zuckerman inside out collection

Project Walls

Detail of Imi Hwangbo's "Lepidoptera" consisting of layers of blue geometric cut mylar paper

 

Project Wall North: Lepidoptera

The ZMA is thrilled to present a work by Georgia artist Imi Hwangbo selected by Emily Knight, Museum Services Coordinator, on our Project Wall North this spring. Imi Hwangbo received her B.A. in Studio Art from Dartmouth College. She received her M.F.A. in Sculpture from Stanford University, where she studied with the painter Nathan Oliveira. Ms. Hwangbo has been the recipient of numerous international artist fellowships, with residencies at the American Academy in Rome, the Camargo Foundation in France, and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Scotland. Within the United States, she has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

  • Ms. Hwangbo’s work has been acquired by major corporations, including Fidelity Investments, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong. Her work in constructed drawing has been exhibited in solo shows at the Volta Art Fair and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York City, and the Miller Yezerski Gallery in Boston. She has shown her work in two-person and group shows at the David Winton Bell Gallery of Brown University, the International Print Center New York, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Articles and reviews of her work have appeared in The Huffington Post, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, The Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is a professor of art at the University of Georgia.

    Her current work explores the notion of constructed drawings. The pieces are fabricated with translucent mylar that is colored, cut in elaborate patterns, and layered in such quantity that sculptural forms are created. Her imagery is based on the ornamentation of Buddhist temple doors and Korean decorative arts. In her work, these traditional patterns are reconfigured and expanded into space. Light is used a medium to convey the image, with patterns gaining depth through the translucent layering of light and shadow. As art critic Lilly Wei has written: “Hwangbo’s geometric motifs and lacy botanicals are related to traditional designs, filtered through a modernist syntax of diamonds, circles, and squares configured as infinitely expandable systems in which solids and voids are similarly important and mind and dream intertwine.”

    The selected work by Hwangnbo, Lepidoptera, is a large-scale work from the artists' The Portal Series, created from hand-cut mylar. The Portal Series is a body of work exploring the notion of three-dimensional drawing. These pieces are made with multiple layers of paper that are printed, cut, and layered in such quantity that sculptural forms are created. The pieces are made with up to thirty layers and can be up to three inches deep. 

Project Wall East: Cloud Morphology VI

Like Ben Butler's Uncharted, this cast sculptural work borrows the image of a natural phenomenon that is both ubiquitous and ephemeral and transposes it into a counterintuitive material.  The work embodies conflicting human responses to these phenomena – the desire to dwell in their fleeting beauty on the one hand, and the need to freeze them in time, to analyze and comprehend their mysteries, on the other.  The rhythmic segmentation of the form, like the drawn grid in Uncharted, underlines this analytical impulse.  It asserts the fact of the artifice, but still not enough to undermine the captivating power of the image - water or cloud – from which it is drawn.   

Image Credit: Ben Butler, Cloud Morphology VI, 2022, Painted cast hydrocal. Courtesy of the artist. 

Detail photo of Ben Butler's Cloud Morphology VI, which is an installation of cast concrete abstract clouds

 

 

 

Installation view of Ben Butler's "Uncharted" which is a long rectangular piece which shows a zoomed in photo of crumpled paper, printed in blue, resembling waves of water

 


Project Wall West: Uncharted

Uncharted is rooted in the artist’s fascination with natural phenomena and how human processes seek to describe them. The print is a meditation on perception and the physicality of images. Created by photographing crumbled paper that had been manipulated to mimic the surface of water, the enigmatic work presents a number of contradictions. It is at once drawing, sculpture, and photograph, simultaneously haphazard and meticulous, both invented and discovered.

Ben Butler is a sculptor and public artist working in Memphis, Tennessee, and Quoque, New York.
In addition to showing his work extensively in gallery and museum exhibitions, he has produced commissioned sculptures, murals, and installations in a range of media for hotels, hospitals, parks, and other public spaces nationally, including the Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Crosstown Arts Theater in Memphis.

Butler received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BA from Bowdoin College. He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Individual Artist Grant and numerous fellowships at residency programs including the MacDowell Colony, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and the Ucross Foundation. He currently shows at John Davis Gallery in Hudson, New York.

“My sculptures reflect the sensibility that objects are not fixed and finite, but are the product or residue of ongoing processes. They provide evidence of unseen forces, and they point to the distinction between the human and the non-human. Throughout the natural world, unexpected complexity emerges from simple, persistent processes. When the order of things is not readily apparent, complexity is often mistaken for chaos. In the rush to comprehend we often miss the wonderful unseen forces at work. My response is to play in these boundaries between the simple and the complex, and between the complex and the overwhelming.” — Ben Butler

Image Credit: Ben Butler, Uncharted, 2022, Dye sublimation print on fabric. Courtesy of the artist. 

 

 

 

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