The Fine Arts Gallery of the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, in collaboration
with the KSU Center for Young Adult Addiction & Recovery, is pleased to present Visions of Recovery, an exhibition featuring artists whose works reflect how recovery from substance use disorders, eating disorders, or other addictive disorders has impacted their lives.
School of Art and Design Alumni Biennial 2023
Exhibition Dates: July 25 – August 26, 2023
Juried by Sofia Green
The Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA), housed under the School of Art and Design in the College of the Arts at Kennesaw State University, is pleased to offer an opportunity to KSU’s School of Art and Design alumni to submit their work for possible inclusion in a juried biennial exhibition. A fellow alum of the School of Art and Design, selected by the Zuckerman Museum of Art, will jury this biennial exhibition which will be installed in the satellite Fine Arts Gallery. This opportunity provides KSU alumni across all disciplines fo the School of Art and Design the ability to showcase their current body of work and demonstrate their post-graduate artistic advancements. Moreover, the exhibition opening reception and juror lecture will create a forum for discussion and inquiry regarding SOAAD alumni artists.
About the Juror
Sofia Green is a graduate of Kennesaw State University with a Bachelors of Art. During her time at KSU she worked as an assistant at the Zuckerman Museum of Art. One of her highlights was co-curating a virtual exhibition for the museum entitled Celebrating Black History Month: Honoring African American Artists in the ZMA Permanent Collection. Green has also supported the executive team and departmental leadership for projects and public programs at the Museum of Holocaust and History Education including the creation of an educational program for their exhibit The Tuskegee Airmen: The Segregated Skies of World War II. Another of her efforts, a senior paper, The Black Mammy Figure: A Tool of Oppression, was featured in KSU’s College of the Arts Undergraduate Research forum. She briefly served as a co-chair for the Atlanta Emerging Professional group.
Placemaking: Forging Stronger Ties through Collaboration
Exhibition Dates: May 17 – July 15, 2023
Curated by Page Burch, Master Craftsman Program Director and Lecturer of Sculpture
This exhibition focuses on the creative endeavors of Master Craftsman students in KSU’s School of Art and Design. Their engagement with the community produces sculptural artworks of all shapes and sizes. Through partnerships with various municipalities, artists, and community leaders, students have had the opportunity to explore professional development and creative placemaking in a variety of media. This exhibition will focus on recently installed projects and unrealized opportunities that students have been a part of.
Spring 2023 Studio Art Capstone I
Exhibition Dates: April 12 - April 22, 2023
Reception: Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Spring 2023 Studio Art Capstone II
Exhibition Dates: April 26 - May 6, 2023
Reception: Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
The Visual Voice: An Artists Books and Broadside Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: March 14 - April 8, 2023
This exhibition presents an exquisite survey of contemporary artists' books and broadsides selected by artist Lesley Dill. Works on view celebrate varied collaborations between papermakers, bookbinders, printmakers, visual artists and in some cases poets and poetry. They additionally illustrate the rich and vital developments in the field of book arts. Thus, this exhibition celebrates the power and artistry of both the book form as well as the visual and written word.
About Lesley Dill
Lesley Dill is an American artist working at the intersection of language and fine art in printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance, exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche. Dill transforms the emotions of the writings of Emily Dickinson, Salvador Espriu, Tom Sleigh, Franz Kafka, and Rainer Maria Rilke, among others, into works of paper, wire, horsehair, foil, bronze and music—works that awaken the viewer to the physical intimacy and power of language itself.
Dill has had over one hundred solo exhibitions. Her artworks are in the collections of many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2017 she was named a fellow of The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and is a Joan Mitchell Foundation Creating A Living Legacy artist and grant recipient. Her opera, Divide Light, based on the poems of Emily Dickinson, was performed in San Jose in 2008. In April of 2018 the New Camerata Opera Company performed a re-staged version in New York City which was captured in a full-length film by Ed Robbins. In November 2019, Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans presented a collection of her work titled Drawings: Some Early Visionary Americans. In 2021, the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa staged her exhibit Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me, which amplifies voices of the North American past as they wrestle with divinity, deviltry, and freedom. The artist is represented by Nohra Haime Gallery in New York and Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans.
Lesley Dill lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
New Visions 2023 Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: January 17 - February 25, 2023
The New Visions annual exhibition opportunity allows students across all disciplines of the School of Art and Design to showcase their talent and skill. The ZMA is excited to continue expanding this longstanding tradition by featuring a prominent artist, critic, or curator to serve as both juror and visiting lecturer. The juror serves to represent each discipline and expose students to diverse points of view, practices, and techniques. New Visions 2023 marks the 40th exhibition opportunity and will be juried by artist Ben Butler, whose works are displayed on ZMA Project Walls North and West. Butler will present a virtual artist lecture on Thursday, January 19, at 7:00 pm.
Fall 2022 Studio Art Capstone I
Exhibition Dates: October 12 - October 22, 2022
Reception: Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Fall 2022 Studio Art Capstone II
Exhibition Dates: October 25 - November 5, 2022
Reception: Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Fall 2022 Studio Art Capstone III
Exhibition Dates: November 16 - December 3, 2022
Reception: Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Christopher Payne Asylum
Exhibition Dates: September 13 - October 8, 2022
The Fine Arts Gallery of the ZMA is pleased to present a selection of photographs from Christopher Payne’s haunting series,Asylum. From 2002 to 2008, Payne visited seventy institutions in thirty states, photographing palatial exteriors designed by famous architects and crumbling interiors that appeared as if the occupants had just left. Additionally, he also documented how these hospitals functioned as self-contained cities, where almost everything of necessity was produced on site: food, water, power, and even clothing and shoes. Many of these places have since been demolished. The photographs from this powerful series serve as the final, official record of these sites.Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitalswas published by MIT Press in 2009 and includes an essay by Oliver Sacks.
Payne states, “We tend to think of mental hospitals as “snake pits”—places of nightmarish squalor and abuse—and this is how they have been portrayed in books and film. Few Americans, however, realize these institutions were once monuments of civic pride, built with noble intentions by leading architects and physicians, who envisioned the asylums as places of refuge, therapy, and healing. For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, more than 250 institutions for the insane were built throughout the United States; by 1948 they housed over half a million patients. But over the next thirty years, with the introduction of psychotropic drugs and policy shifts toward community-based care, patient populations declined dramatically, leaving many of these massive buildings neglected and abandoned."
About Christopher Payne
Christopher Paynespecializes in architectural and industrial photography. Trained as an architect, he is fascinated by design, assembly, and the built form. His first book, New York’s Forgotten Substations: The Power Behind the Subway,offers rare views of the behemoth machines hidden behind modest facades in New York
City.Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, which includes an essay by Oliver Sacks, is a journey through America’s abandoned state mental institutions. North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in New York City, explores an uninhabited island of ruins in the East River, providing a glimpse into a city’s future without people.
Payne’s recent work has veered away from the documentation of the obsolete towards a celebration of American craftsmanship.Making Steinway: An American Workplace, is a tour through the Steinway & Sons piano factory in Astoria, Queens, where skilled workers create some of the finest musical instruments in the world. Payne captures moments of the choreographies of production, and inspects the parts and pieces of the instruments that will never be visible outside of the factory, telling a story of intricacy, precision, and care he fears is becoming all too rare in the modern workplace.
His next book about American manufacturing will be published by Abrams in 2023.
Invisible to Visible: Art Educator Biennial 2022
Exhibition Dates:July 26 - August 26, 2022
Reception:Friday, July 29, 2022, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The second-ever Art Educators Biennial exhibition is juried by Atlanta-based artistAl Shockleyand features diverse works by P-12 art educators in our region. The juried exhibition
highlights work that focuses on bringing a unique creative vision to life. Aspects
of this year's theme include how art educators support student development by making
their artistic accomplishments visible and by providing opportunities to cultivate
their creative vision.
SOAAD Part-time Faculty and Staff Exhibition 2022
Exhibition Dates:May 24 - July 16, 2022
Reception:Friday, June 3, 2022, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Featured Artists:Marc Brotherton, Rebecca Brown, Brett Callero, V. Cayse Cheatham, Chris Dziejowski,
Christopher Hall, Audrey Hynes, Victoria Phillips, Lynn Sisler, Greg Stone, Kelly
Thames, and Johnathan Welsh.
The ZMA will display exciting new work by part-time faculty and staff in theKSU School of Art and Design (SOAAD).This talented group of artists contributes tremendously toward achieving the School’s mission. This exhibition will showcase the talents of these artists and will provide an opportunity for KSU and external communities to become familiar with their artistic work.
Spring 2022 Capstone II
Exhibition Dates: April 26 - May 6, 2022
Reception: Wednesday, April 27, 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Featured Artists:
Katelyn Belinfante Hailey Brooks Liz Brown Shayden Grey Jesse Huskey Jason Lerner
Emma Mitchell Jennifer Nguyen Nikki Raitz Leslie Sardeneta Beverly Sheng Justin Smith
Spring 2022 Capstone I
Exhibition Dates: April 12 - April 22, 2022
Reception: Wednesday, April 13, 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Featured Artists:
Joseph Bryant Leslie Davis Clifford Griffin Preston Holladay Melissa Mandato Delanie Mason
Artists Book Exhibition Curated by Cynthia Nourse Thompson
Exhibition Dates: March 15 —April 9, 2022
Closing Reception: Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
This exhibition presents an exquisite selection of contemporary artists books published by Sue Gosin, president of Dieu Donné Press and co-chair of Dieu Donné Papermill in New York.
Each work on view is produced as a collaboration between papermaker, bookbinder, visual artist and poet, and illustrates the rich and notable developments in the field of modern hand papermaking. The fluid sensibility of this medium alone offers unlimited realizations as the foundation for encompassing a variety of techniques, processes, and aesthetics. Thus, this exhibition celebrates the power and artistry of both the book form and the visual and written word. Artists in the exhibition include Lesley Dill with poetry by Tom Sleigh, Jane Hammond with poetry by Raphael Rubenstein,William Kentridge with poetry by Wislawa Szymborska, Abbey Leigh with writings by W. H. Auden, Michele Oka Doner with her own writing, Mark Strand with his own writing and imagery along with poetry from many other writers, and Eliza Kentridge with her own writing and imagery. The exhibition will also feature work by Sue Gosin.
Sue Gosin
Susan Gosin received her MFA in 1976 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison after studying with Walter Hamady in the book arts and Warrington Colescott in intaglio. Upon completion of her master's, she co-founded Dieu Donné Press and Paper in New York City. For more than 30 years, she has collaborated with artists and writers as designer and publisher of two and three-dimensional art as well as limited editions of artist books. Her artist books have been exhibited and collected by such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; and the American Cultural Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. She has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Tiffany Foundation, and in 2006 received the Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphics Council. As a teacher and educator, she has developed curriculum and designed studio programs for the New School, NYC, Rutgers University, N.J. and Amagansett Applied Arts, LI, NY; the Phumani Archival Mill, Johannesburg, South Africa; and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt. She has written numerous articles about the development of contemporary hand papermaking for magazines such as Art On Paper and pens a column for Hand Papermaking Magazine about the pioneers in the field. Currently, she publishes new work as president of Dieu Donné Press and serves as co-chair of Dieu Donné Papermill in New York City.
Poetry Reading in the Legacy Gazebo:Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 7:00 pm, poets Ilya KaminskyandKatie Farriswill discuss their work and provide a peotry reading.
ZMA After Hours:Thursday, April 14, at 7:00 pm, Sue Gosin, President of Dieu Donné Press, will share insight into the artist collaborations published by Dieu Donné Press and Paper. She will also discuss each artist book featured in the exhibitionIn Conversation: The Fluid and The Concrete. Don't miss this intimate experience to view these gorgeous artists' books firsthand!
New Visions 2022 Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: January 18 - February 26, 2022
The New Visions exhibition series provides students across all disciplines of the
School of Art and Design the ability to showcase their talent and skill. The newly revitalized series continues
to offer students an annual juried exhibition opportunity as originated by the Visions
Registered Student Organization, the first arts organization at KSU, when the College
of the Arts was founded. The ZMA is excited to continue expanding this longstanding
tradition by featuring a prominent artist, critic, or curator to serve as both juror
and visiting lecturer. These additional associations serve each respective discipline
with visibility, exposing students to diverse points-of-view, practices, and techniques.
Moreover, this approach acknowledges the internal and external associations of advanced
learning through relevant engagements and dialogues among leading artists, curators,
and critics.
The New Visions 2022 exhibition was juried by artist Carson Fox. Fox presented a virtual artist lecture on Thursday, January 20, at 7:00 pm.
Selected New Visions 2022 Artists: Maria Rizo Alvarez, Hannah Ballard, Frankie Berryman, Joshua Branton, Gale Burke, Arleth Arellano Calva, Isabella Caraballo, Stephanie Chang, Chantelle Chapman, Virginia Corbett, Ashley DeVan, Amani Edwards, Adam Elder, Sarah Evans, Robert Faulk, Katie Geisler, Gabby Grady, Bianca Guerrero, Andy Hollingworth, Brandon Huelskamp, Jesse Huskey, Sierra Kazin, Maddy Lyonns, Sara Miloro, Virginia Moore, Julie Mullenix, Camila Peña, Mari Raj, and Tre Scott.
Carson Fox
American artist Carson Fox received her MFA from Rutgers University, her BFA from University of Pennsylvania, and a four-year studio certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Over her career, she has had thirty solo exhibitions and has participated in over one hundred group exhibitions. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of The Museum of Arts and Design, The Royal Museum of Belgium, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum among others. Additionally, Fox has created multiple permanent installations of artwork in public and corporate venues, including with the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority, University of Arkansas, Temple University and Boston University. She has received honors acknowledging her accomplishments, including international residencies in China, Wales, Germany and Belgium, multiple artist grants and other awards, and has been invited to speak about her career at universities and museums across the United States and abroad. Her work has been reviewed in publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the New Yorker magazine.
Fox lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is represented by Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL, Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA and Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME.
A virtual exhibition featuring capstone animation reels in Professor Sandee Chamberlain's
ANIM4660 class
Exhibition Dates: September 10 – October 2, 2021
Closing reception: Wednesday, September 29, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Featured Artists: Senior Students
“A memorial portfolio is a way to help us understand the loss of so many individual lives.” -Dr. Carol Pulin
Dr. Carol Pulin, Director of the American Print Alliance, started this project by
suggesting that each artist create one print to commemorate one person. Pulin intended
for this portfolio to honor individual lives and thereby, create a new legacy from
the terrible events that took place on 9/11. Each contributing artist is a member
of an alliance council or a subscriber to the journal, Contemporary Impressions. The
imagery reflected in each print is as distinct as the artists, who range in age from
high school students to retirees. Many works commemorate life with imagery of landscapes,
figures, city scenes, abstractions, and some with expressions of sorrow or hope. The
portfolio memorial is intended to cherish memories of life, with artwork as individual
as those who are no longer with us. The scale of the project will unavoidably remind
viewers of the number of innocent lives lost on September 11, 2001. The power of this
memorial comes from seeing the actual prints in the exhibition and the representation
of numerous communities, demonstrating the role of the arts in all of our lives.
Closing reception: Wednesday, September 29, 5:00 - 7:00 pm The Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art (ZMA), housed under the School of Art and Design in the College of the Arts at Kennesaw State University, was pleased to offer an opportunity to KSU’s School of Art and Design alumni to submit their work for consideration in a juried biennial exhibition. This opportunity provided KSU alumni of the School of Art and Design the ability to showcase their current body of work and demonstrate their post-graduate artistic advancements.
The SOAAD Alumni Biennial 2021 Exhibition was juried by Hannah Amuka, a 2020 School
of Art and Design graduate, and features 34 works by 19 alumni artists. In addition
to selecting the works of art for the SOAAD Alumni Biennial 2021 Exhibition, Amuka
presented a virtual lecture on July 28, 2021, at 12:30 pm as part of our Last Wednesday Lunch monthly program.
Selected Artists: Arielle Balkcom, Daniel Barnard, April Borchelt, Chris Boyko, William Cash, Taylor Chartrand, Julee Davis, Jan DiPietro, Jane Erwin, Eloisa Gallegos Hernandez, Rachel Kidd-Chancey, Chase King, Hope Limyansky-Smith, Sarah McClymond, Shane McDonald, Chris Noosh!, Courtney Smith, Kenneth Walters, and Marlee Winters.
Featured image: Chris Noosh!, Salmon Run!, carved and painted wood, 2021
Hannah Amuka
Hannah Amuka graduated from Kennesaw State University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Art History and a minor in Religious Studies. During her time at KSU, she
worked as an Education Assistant at the Zuckerman Museum of Art and trained as a docent.
Since 2017, Hannah Amuka has been the Visitor Services Manager at the Marietta-Cobb
Museum of Art (MCMA) in Marietta, Georgia. During her time at the MCMA, she also completed
a curatorial internship, culminating in a permanent collection exhibition entitled,
The Study of Lines and Value. In addition to being an emerging museum professional, curator, and art educator,
Amuka is also a practicing artist. Her goal as an art educator is to expand the imagination
and understanding of audiences through reflection, creative participation, and empowering
experiences based on visual art and art history.
A retrospective of artwork created to date in the KSU Master Craftsman Program was showcased in the Fine Arts Gallery. The Master Craftsman Program is a design
and fabrication workshop for students housed in the School of Art and Design. The
Program is led by Director and Lecturer in Sculpture, Page Burch.
Over the last four years, the Master Craftsman Program has partnered with various
municipalities and organizations, such as the City of Kennesaw, to collaborate in
designing and creating public works ranging from manhole covers to large sculptures.
KSU art and design students are involved in the process from start to finish, helping
to conceive of designs and honing their skills while executing the creation of new
public art. This exhibition will document the production history and display examples
of their work.
This exhibition featured works by KSU Master Craftsman Program students: Daniel Barnard,
Brooke Barrett, Jonathan Copeland, Thomas Daniel, Dylan Doyle, Jane Erwin, Ellen Foose-Kutty,
Emmy Keenan, Randall Kooistra, Carrie McDaniel, Cameron Moore, Megan Pace, and Amber
Williams.
“I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact miracles.” — Walt Whitman
Some Early Visionaries featured drawings and collages by renowned artist Lesley Dill. The exhibition was on view in the ZMA Fine Arts Gallery from Tuesday, March 16 through Saturday, April 10, 2021. In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, the artist presented a live one-hour Zoom lecture on Friday, April 9, 2021. Dill’s talk addressed the use of language and poetry in her artwork and provided insight into her artistic studio practice where the intersection of language and fine art materialize as printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance and explore the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche. Dill transforms the emotions of the writings of Emily Dickinson, Salvador Espriu, Tom Sleigh, Franz Kafka, and Rainer Maria Rilke, among others, into works of paper, wire, horsehair, foil, bronze and music—works that awaken the viewer to the physical intimacy and power of language itself.
*Lesley Dill will be producing a limited edition print with KSU to benefit the Zuckerman
Museum of Art. More information on pricing and sales will be made available soon.
Featured work: Lesley Dill, Hester with gold radiance, 2019, Hand-cut collage, ink, thread on Japanese silk tissue paper, Courtesy Athur
Roger Gallery.
Lesley Dill
Lesley Dill is an American artist working at the intersection of language and fine art in printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance, exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche. Dill transforms the emotions of the writings of Emily Dickinson, Salvador Espriu, Tom Sleigh, Franz Kafka, and Rainer Maria Rilke, among others, into works of paper, wire, horsehair, foil, bronze and music—works that awaken the viewer to the physical intimacy and power of language itself.
Dill has had over one hundred solo exhibitions. Her artworks are in the collections of many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2017 she was named a fellow of The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and is a Joan Mitchell Foundation Creating A Living Legacy artist and grant recipient. Her opera, Divide Light, based on the poems of Emily Dickinson, was performed in San Jose in 2008. In April of 2018 the New Camerata Opera Company performed a re-staged version in New York City which was captured in a full-length film by Ed Robbins.
In November 2019, Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans presented a collection of her
work titled Drawings: Some Early Visionary Americans. In 2021, the Figge Art Museum
in Davenport, Iowa will stage her exhibit Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me, which
amplifies voices of the North American past as they wrestle with divinity, deviltry,
and freedom.
The artist is represented by Nohra Haime Gallery in New York and Arthur Roger Gallery
in New Orleans.
Lesley Dill lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
New Visions 2021
Exhibition Dates: January 8 – February 20, 2021
The New Visions exhibition series provides students across all disciplines of the School of Art and Design the ability to showcase their talent and skill. The newly revitalized series continues to offer students an annual juried exhibition opportunity as originated by the Visions Registered Student Organization, the first arts organization at KSU, when the College of the Arts was founded. The ZMA is excited to continue expanding this longstanding tradition by featuring a prominent artist, critic, or curator to serve as both juror and visiting lecturer. These additional associations serve each respective discipline with visibility, exposing students to diverse points-of-view, practices, and techniques. Moreover, this approach acknowledges the internal and external associations of advanced learning through relevant engagements and dialogues among leading artists, curators, and critics. The New Visions 2021 exhibition provided viewers with a significant opportunity to witness a variety of
artistic methodologies.
Featured artists: Tatiana Bell, Kaitlyn Blade, Audra Chang, Brittany Cox, Graciella Elaine, Jane Erwin,
Katie Geisler, Izabella Herrera, Marjorie Hsu, Joe Huynh, Nicole Kadom, Sierra Kazin,
Demi Kiker, Matthew Lamneck, Deona Lizette, Charity McLeod, Michael Miele, Marc Mills,
Wendy Mitchell, Virginia Moore, Chandler Morris, Julie Mullenix, Tracy Okai, Nikki
Raitz, Nikita Leigh Raper, Shelly Reece, Tiffany Sanchez, Jocelyn Scherer, Tre Scott,
Sydney Szabo, Camden Thomas, Barbara Travis, Margo Trousdale, Bailey Volk, Kristina
Walker, Livie Wang, and Frances Ziemian.
Award Winners:
1st Place, Juror's Choice Award Winner: Deonna Lizette for the work, Framed, 2020, oil on canvas.
2nd Place, Jurors Choice Award Winner: Jane Erwin for the work, Blue Moves, 2020, soda-fired ceramics.
3rd Place, Juror Choice Award Winner: Kristina Walker for the work, Sunday Girl, 2020, ink on paper.
Director's Choice Award Winner: Sierra Kazin for the work, City Escape, 2020, mixed media.
Meet Anthony Goicolea, New Visions 2021 Juror and Guest Lecturer
The juror and guest lecturer for New Visions 2021 will be Anthony Goicolea. Born in 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia, Anthony Goicolea is a first-generation Cuban American artist now living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His extended family immigrated to the United States in 1961, fleeing Cuba soon after Castro came to power—a fact that underpins many of the artist’s works. Employing a variety of media, Goicolea explores themes ranging from personal history and identity, to cultural tradition and heritage, to alienation and displacement. His diverse oeuvre encompasses digitally manipulated self-portraits, landscapes, and narrative tableaux executed in a variety of media, including black-and-white and color photography, sculpture and video installations, and multi-layered drawings on Mylar. Best known for his powerful, and often unsettling, staged photographic and video works, Goicolea made his artistic debut in the late 1990s with a series of provocative multiple self-portrait images.
The artist has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia—notably at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the International Center of Photography, New York; Postmasters Gallery, New York; Haunch of Venison Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany; the Groninger Museum, the Netherlands; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. Alter Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea is the first major traveling museum exhibition devoted solely to his work. Goicolea’s art is held in many public collections, including those of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; as well as the Yale University Art Collection, New Haven, Connecticut; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; and Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia. To date, Goicolea’s work has been the subject of four books. It has been featured in ARTnews, Art in America, Art Forum, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune, among many others. The artist’s grants and awards include a Cintas Fellowship (2006) and the BMW Photo Paris Award (2005) and the Joan Mitchell Fellowship Foundation. Goicolea holds a B.A. in art history, with a minor in romance languages, and a B.F.A. in drawing and painting—both earned at the University of Georgia, Athens, in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He received an M.F.A. in sculpture and photography, from Pratt Institute of Art, New York, in 1997.
Art as Activism: Social Justice and Sustainability
Exhibition Dates: November 11 – November 20, 2020
Presented by CIFAL Atlanta Distinguished UN-SDG Ambassadors
Two CIFAL Atlanta Distinguished United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2020 Ambassadors created this exciting initiative, Art as Activism: Social Justice and Sustainability, funded by RCE Greater Atlanta. Ambassadors Allison Yates and Cam Lorys developed the plan for this event during
their time together in the CIFAL Atlanta program. Allison and Cam wanted to be able to develop a project that incorporated both social justice and environmentalism. As a result, they believed the creation of an exhibition of art made completely out of recycled materials that followed a social justice theme would work perfectly for their goal. The Ambassadors presented a virtual lecture for our November Last Wednesday Lunch program on November 18, 2020. During the virtual presentation, three award winners were announced to be given prize money to donate to one of ten charitable organizations working to solve issues of social justice or sustainability.
Featured Artists: EuGene Byrd, KC Nugent, Brandon Huelskamp, Amanda Reif, Kristine Kim, Tatiana Veneruso, Sara Jones, Dylan Carter, Gabi Madrid, and Judy Souriyarath.
Award Winners:
1st Prize Winner: Dylan Carter for his work, Eunomia, created with tempera and acrylic on election advertisements, sharpie on a textbook,
and metal wire mesh, displayed on a miniature dress-form.
2nd Prize Winner: Tatiana Veneruso for her work, Building a Nation, created using found wooden toys, marker, charcoal pencil, and acrylic paint.
3rd Prize Winner: Brandon Huelskamp for his work, Befouled Bower, an accordion book made from mixed materials.
Laboratory
Exhibition Dates: October 2 – November 6, 2020
In this atelier, KSU architectural photography students created an investigational space where they explored architecture, light, spacial relationships, and conceptual thinking through photography and video. The gallery was transformed from traditional art exhibition space into a visible studio.
Visitors were invited to view first-hand, the creative process artists undergo in making their work. Over the course of this five-week installation, this transformative space permitted the audience to witness the artist’s experiments, edits, critiques, distillation, and process toward making refined works.
Featured artists:Brittany Bowden, Scott Brown, Elayna Gorshenin, Amari Haller, Sarah Jaston, Chloe King, Marc Mills, and Eric Woods.
This Fine Arts Gallery exhibition presented diverse works created during quarantine by P-12 art educators. As part of the ongoing partnership between the KSU School of Art and Design and the metro Atlanta visual arts educator community, Infectious Creativity shared a glimpse of the creative processes of front line educators. The juror for this show was Louise E. Shaw, curator of the David J. Sencer CDC Museum at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cuban Superheroes paid homage to Africans who brought their culture and art practices to Cuba through the transatlantic slave trade. African-derived deities serve as guides, protectors and agents of change in Cuban culture. These qualities align them with the universal concept of superhero – a powerful being with supernatural transformative abilities. Printmaking and illustration students drew inspiration from these beings and each artist identified, researched and generated a visual vocabulary to explore the superhero concept. This exhibition was a collaborative artist-scholar project created by printmaking and illustration students in Kennesaw State University’s School of Art and Design. Read more.
Lesley Dill
