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VISITING ARTIST AT BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
I have been invited to be the visiting artist for the First Year Program in the School of Art at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, March 15 + 16.
I will be giving a lecture, conducting studio visits with graduate students and engaging in a unique collaborative project making use of social networking.
More information to appear in this space soon...
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EYE TEETH (a satire on the American way of life)
MARCH 2- APRIL 7, 2012.
at PAINT CREEK CENTER FOR THE ARTS
407 Pine Street / Rochester, MI / 48307 / 1.248.651.4110
http://www.pccart.org
RECEPTION Friday, March 2, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
GALLERY TALK Saturday, March 31, 2:00 pm
Curated by Ryan Standfest
Satire involves
the art of taking aim. Training one’s sights on a specific target. It is rooted in observation of a penetrating
nature, in which the subject is carved up. This carving up results in
caricature—the rearranging of surface features until a
baser, truer character is revealed—the source of human miscalculation that
becomes the raw material for mockery.
The satirist, possessing the unique ability to penetrate the surface
from a safe distance, can identify this base character before the carving even
commences—sorting the various targets into “types.” This requires the
cataloging of human folly, as the satirist uses the image as a weapon, passing
judgment on behavior and its resulting action, or inaction.
EYE TEETH presents a selection of images that work from
the premise of social satire, which
differs greatly from that of political
satire in that the focus is on skewering the everyday failings of a society,
rather than on the specific nature of the public, political figure. The social
satirist does not act as a demagogue, leading the populace out of the
wilderness, but as a gadfly that simply screams fire when something is indeed
burning. The aim is that of
catharsis—achieving a state of relief by making light of that which is often
deemed sacrosanct. Indeed, much of the work in EYE TEETH is meant to disrupt, disturb, and puncture a sense of
propriety, by presenting a vision of American society as a gallery of
misbegotten grotesques. The malformed vision conjured is that of a landscape
littered with bigotry, hopelessness, violence, squalor, confusion, lethargy, sexual
dysfunction, numbness, callousness and cruelty. The social satirist begs the
question: “Is there something better than this?”
Participating artists include:
David Becker (Wisconsin)
Nikki DeSautelle (New York City)
Andy Gabrysiak (Michigan)
JenClare Gawaran (Michigan)
Jo Powers (Michigan)
Stephen William Schudlich (Michigan)
Bruce Thayer (Michigan)
Maureen Vachon (Michigan)
Peter Williams (Delaware)
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