Alumnus Michael Bise - "New Drawings" opens 3/28, 2-5 pm, Artist talk 3 pm

MOODY GALLERY

Between You and Me  2014  graphite on paper  62 3/4" x 43"

MICHAEL BISE

NEW DRAWINGS

MAR 28 - APR 25, 2015

RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST

SAT MAR 28 2-5 PM

ARTIST TALK

SAT MAR 28 3 PM

SUPPORTED BY THE HOUSTON ARTS ALLIANCE INDIVIDUAL ARTIST GRANT

Moody Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new drawings by Michael Bise. This exhibition is supported by the 2014 Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant. Bise's work consists primarily of large-scale graphite drawings that combine autobiographical narrative with labor-intensive attention to detail, creating a disorienting relationship between personal psychology and formal picture making concerns.

Michael Bise was born in Flagstaff, Arizona and moved to Dallas, Texas in 1990. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in drawing and painting at the University of North Texas in 2001 and his Masters of Fine Art in drawing and painting at the University of Houston in 2005. In 2014 his work was exhibited at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas and the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana. His work was also included in the Texas Biennial at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio and a survey of his drawings was on view at the Galveston Arts Center in 2013. In 2012 he was awarded The Hunting Art Prize, an Artadia Finalist, and a Nominee for the Texas Contemporary Award. He has also exhibited at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts at TCU, and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. He regularly contributes criticism and reviews for the online art journal Glasstire.

The exhibition New Drawings is on view at Moody Gallery from Saturday, March 28, 2015 through Saturday, April 25, 2015. A reception for the artist will be held Saturday, March 28 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm with an artist talk at 3:00 pm.

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Professor Robert Jessup featured at The MAC

5/10/14 – 6/28/14

Robert JessupSelections – New Work: 2013-2014

An opening reception will be held Saturday, May 10, 2014 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, located at 3120 McKinney Avenue, in the Uptown District of Dallas.

Exhibitions will be on view through June 28, 2014.

The MAC welcomes Robert Jessup for a solo exhibition in the New Works Space this summer. Selections – New Work: 2013-2014 includes selected paintings from the past year, which explore his journey into a “free play of form”. The intuitive, non-representational form making gives his paintings an open ended resolution, keeping singularity in meaning out of his works. Having identity without being identifiable, the paintings are free to speak for themselves through an abstract visual narrative.

For more information, please go to the MAC website.

Annette Lawrence: Leaning Toward an Algorithm

"Seven Artists" Opening at McMurtrey Gallery

SEVEN ARTISTS
February 22 - March 8, 2014

Opening Reception
Saturday, February 22
6:00 - 8:00pm

Seven Artists is an exhibition that brings together seven gallery artists whose work differs in form and concept. Working in paint, gouache, collage, and bronze, this exhibit showcases the various processes these artists undergo to create their vision.
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January Number Two, oil on canvas, 2013

ROBERT JESSUP: NEW PAINTINGS

February 22 - March 22, 2014

These pictures are the result of intuitive, non-representational form-making interacting with the mental forces that want to imagistically bind visual elements together. I have been trying to invent configurations that stop just short of representation, configurations that have identity without being identifiable. I have wanted there to be the feel of drama and the sense of narrative without the presence of recognizable images or symbols. Neither abstract nor figurative but still imbued with the current of a story. -Robert Jessup
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For more information, please see the McMurtrey Gallery website.

Professor Matthew Bourbon featured in Art+CultureTexas and Design Milk

Matthew Bourbon, A Part of Us, 2012. Acrylic on canvas.
Courtesy of the artist.

Drawing & Painting professor Matthew Bourbon was recently interviewed by Arts+Culture Texas about why he paints. The full article is available here: http://artsandculturetx.com/human-and-alien/

Some of professor Bourbon's paintings were recently featured in Design Milk, a prominant ezine about modern design and devoted to all things new in the areas of art, architecture, interior design, furniture and decor, fashion and technology. See the full article here:
http://design-milk.com/matthew-bourbons-collage-like-portraits/

Select Works: TWU Visual Arts Graduate Students

TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIVERSITY

School of the Arts

Department of Visual Arts

and the DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY

Present

Select Works: TWU Visual Arts Graduate Students

01 November – 30 November 2013

Reception: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 2:00PM – 4:30PM

Lillian Bradshaw Gallery
Dallas Public Library | 4th Floor
1515 Young Street | Dallas, TX 75201

Artists:
Kalee Appleton, Deedra Baker, Bailey Chapman (UNT DRPT alumna), Lindsey Dunnagan, Angelia Ford (UNT DRPT alumna), Liz Head-Fischer, Nathan Madrid, and Claire A. Warden

Visit the Rachofsky Warehouse

The Painting Department has scheduled a visit to the Rachofsky Warehouse space located in North Dallas. This is an opportunity to see the private collection of these art patrons and the work of some of the most important contemporary artists. The space is an 18,000sqft space that currently houses works from the Gutai movement and work from the Arte Povera movement as well. This may be the only opportunity you will have to see this collection and work as the Warehouse is not open to the public. The private tour will be led by Rachofsky educator Francisco Moreno. The visit is scheduled for Tuesday November 5th at 3:30pm. Students must arrive on time. Anyone who arrives more than 10 minutes late will not be allowed to join the tour.

The Warehouse is located at:
14105 Inwood Road (between Alpha and Spring Valley)
Dallas, TX 75244

If you are interested in joining this tour please email your name, year and major to ArthurPena@my.unt.edu before Monday, November 4th.

Anyone not on the list will NOT be allowed into the space.

Prof Robert Jessup featured in Krasl Gallery exhibition

Krasl Art Center
707 Lake Blvd.
St. Joseph, MI 49085

You are Invited to Attend the Opening Exhibition, American Painting Today: Physical and Visceral

Painting is far from static. Styles, forms, boundaries and mediums resist limitation, making the practice full and exciting. This singular exhibition showcases paintings created throughout the nation, introducing viewers to the creative producers of today. Artists include Mark Bowers, Gregory Euclide, Carlos Fragoso, Daniel Gerwin, Eli Halpern, Robert Jessup, the late Steven MacGowan, Susan Michod, Lorri Ott, Gabriel Pionkowsi, Preetika Rajgariah, Celeste Rapone, Andrew Rogers, Adam Scott and Hollis Brown Thornton.

Please join us to celebrate the opening of American Painting Today: Physical and Visceral. This exhibition featuring 30 paintings by contemporary American artists opens at 6:00 pm Friday, September 13, 2013.

Please contact me should you have questions.

Sincerely,

Tami Miller
Curator of Exhibitions, Collections and Education

Drawing & Painting Junior Show, Sept 3-6

Anthotypes at the Dallas Museum of Art

This Saturday, August 3rd from 2:30-4pm at the Dallas Museum of Art, Rachel Rushing will be providing a free demonstration of the Anthotype photographic printing process. Anthotypes utilize the photosynthetic pigments in plants as photographic emulsion to create images that can be either vibrant or delicate, yet always alluring. Rushing is a 3rd year MFA candidate at UNT and will be participating through Oil and Cotton: Creative Exchange in DallasSITES: Available Space which, according to the DMA website is "a companion space to the exhibition DallasSITES: Charting Contemporary Art, 1963 to Present, (and) the DMA’s first experimental project space located in the Museum’s iconic Barrel Vault and surrounding galleries. Available Space activates the galleries with interactive components and installations representative of the current North Texas art scene." For more information, visit DMA.org.

UNT Students help celebrate Mary Kay's 50th!

This is a video about the mural commissioned by Mary Kay to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the company. The mural is set to break the Guinness World Record for the largest mural make solely of makeup. Many Studio Art majors are helping with this project and some are shown working on the mural in the video!

Faculty awarded Research Enabling Grant

Please join us in congratulating Laura Beard, Assistant Professor of Studio Art, on her Research Enabling Grant (REG) for Fall 2014! Beard received one of the ten highly competitive REG's given out this term.

Grant period: September 01, 2013-August 31, 2014 

Laura Beard, Art Studio - Painting and Drawing / College of Visual Arts and Design,
Artist in Residence at My Art Loft, Vienna, Austria and Solo Exhibition at the Manfred Flener Gallery in Vienna, Austria

An Invitation from Professor Vincent Falsetta

Hi everyone,

I hope your semester has been a great one. Being on leave as the Institute for the Advancement of the Arts Faculty Fellow has been great. I will be in a 6-person show at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) in Dallas where I will be showing several of my recently made paintings. The reception is Saturday May 18, 5:30-8pm. If you can make it, I would love to see you at the reception.

Vincent Falsetta
Professor Painting & Drawing
University of North Texas

Professor Matthew Bourbon featured in New American Paintings

In the Studio: Process of a Painting with Matthew Bourbon by New American Paintings

Matthew Bourbon (NAP #90, #102) creates a wonderful balance in his paintings – he fills organic shapes and figures with loud, bold, geometric shapes. Rather than seeming meddlesome or intrusive, though, these shapes look and feel quite at home in the spaces they occupy. To read more, click here!

ASTU 4000 Summer Murals Painting Class Now Open

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Nebraska National Collegiate Juried Art Exhibition

Nebraska National Collegiate Juried Art Exhibition

Featuring the work of the best undergraduate student artists from across the country.

Submissions Accepted April 1- May 31, 2013
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Categories
Painting | Drawing | Sculpture

Jurors
Painting | Drawing: JoAnne Carson
Sculpture: Todd Slaughter

The Dan and Barbara Howard Awards:

Best of Show Painting & Drawing: $1000

Best of Show New Genres: $1000

Best of Show Sculpture: $1000

Best of Show overall: $1500

Cora Stafford Gallery: FREE PUPPIES (adverbial form implied)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The UNT Cora Stafford Gallery
is proud to announce the group exhibition, FREE PUPPIES (adverbial form implied)

Exhibition Dates:
Tuesday, April 16th through Friday, April 19th

Closing Reception:
Thursday, April 18th from 5 p.m to 7p.m with refreshments provided

FREE ADMISSION

Location:
UNT Cora Stafford Gallery
1120 West Oak Street
Denton, TX 76201

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Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Friday 10a.m. - 2p.m.

FREE PUPPIES (adverbial form implied) is a group show presenting the diverse work of MFA candidates in Studio Art at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design. Free from imposed limitations on media, the exhibition features sculpture, installation, watercolor, photography, new media, ceramics, metals and jewelry, and printmaking. The exhibiting artists have honed their individual talents over the course of their graduate work and have come together under one woof for a limited time

Exhibiting Artists: Jessie Back, Martin Back, Zan Barnes, Bill Bridges, Chance Dunlap, Hetty Estes, Michael Furrh, David Lee, Marseille Moon, Adam Neese, Cassie Phan, Derek Rankins, Linda Santana, Liana Tomchesson, Christopher Wallace, and Caleb Zouhary

For More Info:
Please contact Cassie Phan by email at cassiephan21 @ gmail . com.

Thank you,

Adam Neese
Public Information Committee co-chair

Friday, March 29th, Figure Studio

Yuma Symposium 2013

Yuma Art Symposium is referred to as “comfort food for hungry artist,” a back yard BBQ that got out of hand.

Taken from the web site:

The Yuma Symposium is a series of demonstrations, lectures and slide presentations given by both internationally recognized and emerging artists who have demonstrated unusual talent.

Activities include an exhibit of work by presenters and a student show, the National Saw, File, & Solder Sprints, Show Your Stuff night, the annual pin auction, shopping and eating in Algodones, Mexico, and a fiesta and dance on Saturday night. 

This year was the 34th Yuma Symposium. In attendance representing UNT CVAD:

CVAD Faculty: James Thurman and Harlan Butt

Graduate Students in Studio Art: Hetty Estes, Tamar Navama, Joy Ude, Chesley Williams, William Bridges, Fari Rahimi, and Liana Tomchesson

Undergraduate in Studio Art: Dani Manning

In this year’s National Saw, File and Solder Sprints the UNT team (Hetty Estes, Tamar Navama, and Liana Tomchesson) won the “Style Award” trophies.

Extending an invitation to all of CVAD, we will be hosting “Spirit of Yuma,” an event on April 25 to promote next year’s symposium.

UNT Grads Take Top Honors at EXPO 2013

Cassie Phan, graduate student in Drawing & Painting, was awarded first place and Preston Bradley, graduate student in Printmaking, was awarded second place by juror Iris Bechtol. EXPO 2013 runs through March 3rd at 500x Gallery in Dallas.