Call for Submissions: THE RACHOFSKY COLLECTION 2019 GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

Images from left: Jiro Takamatsu, Photograph of Photograph, 1973; Jiro Takamatsu, Shadow of Brush No. 178, 1967; Jiro Takamatsu, Perspective Painting, 1967

THE RACHOFSKY COLLECTION 2019 GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
Dallas, Texas | November 8, 2019
Deadline: April 30, 2019

The Rachofsky Collection announces an open call for submissions related to Japanese artist Jiro Takamatsu (1936-1998) for its 2019 Graduate Symposium at The Warehouse in Dallas, Texas. As an artist, teacher, and theorist, Takamatsu investigated the philosophical and material foundations of art in a variety of media, engaging with Minimalism through his background in Anti-Art and Neo-Dada. Takamatsu was a key member of the collective Hi Red Center (1963-1964) and of the movement Mono-Ha (1967-1979), and influential in developing conceptual art, performance art, and post-minimalism within Japan.

Students invited to present papers at the symposium will have the opportunity to access works in the collection during a two-day, partially-funded research visit during Summer 2019. Additionally, papers presented at the symposium will be published in a compendium together with the paper delivered by the keynote speaker, independent curator and writer Douglas Fogle.

Visiting Artist Talk: Bethany Collins

Artist Talk and Reception: Bethany Collins
Greater Denton Arts Council 

400 E Hickory St, Denton, TX 76201
7:30pm April 4, 2019

For more information: https://art.unt.edu/article/opportunities/2019/visiting-artist-bethany-collins-platform-public-lecture

Please RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/222118451931142/

Bethany Collins (American, b.1984) is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptually driven work is fueled by a critical exploration of how race and language interact. Collins is interested in the unnerving possibility of multiple meanings, dual perceptions, and limitlessness in the seemingly binary. Collins’ practice (drawing, printmaking, sculpture & performance) allows her to define and redefine her own racial landscape. As Holland Cotter noted writing in The New York Times, “language itself, viewed as intrinsically racialized, is Bethany Collins’ primary material.”

Collins lives and works in Atlanta and Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions at the Center for Book Arts, New York; Locust Projects, Miami; Birmingham Museum of Art; and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; among others. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Drawing Center, New York; and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing; as well as other venues. She has been the recipient of an NEA award, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and the Hudgens Prize. Collins has been recognized as an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the MacDowell Colony, the Bemis Center, and the Hyde Park Art Center, among others.

For more information about Bethany: https://bethanyjoycollins.com/news.html

UNT MFA Open Studios Event March 29, 2019

UNT MFA Open Studios Event
March 29, 5-8pm

Welch Street Complex Grad Studios
405 Welch Street, Denton TX

Oak Street Annex Grad Studios
1110 Oak Street, Denton, TX

Denton Fold Festival

The Print Association of North Texas Students will be present at 

Fold Festival 2 - Print, Zine & Makers Fair
Hosted by Fold Festival and Armadillo Ale Works
Sunday March 24 from 1pm – 6pm
Armadillo Ale Works
221 S Bell Ave, Denton, Texas 76201

Lavender Rathman representing PANTS at Fold Festival Denton

59th Annual Voertman Competition

59th Annual Voertman Competition
Cora Stafford Gallery
March 19, 2019to March 30, 2019
Juror: Alison Saar

Opening Reception and Award Ceremony
Thursday, March 21, 5-7 pm

Alison Saar Lecture and Exhibition Reception
Friday, March 8
About the Exhibtion

The annual Voertman Competition at CVAD is a time-honored celebration of artistic achievement and promise. The Voertman Competition is a juried exhibition open to all currently enrolled CVAD students. Started in 1960 by Mr. Paul Voertman, family founder of Voertman’s store, the exhibition is juried each year by an accomplished arts professional and provides students with real-world experience. Since 1960, thousands of artists have exhibited their works and hundreds have received cash prizes sponsored by Voertman’s store.

Exhibiting Artists:
James Arca, Nour Alkhatib, Kerika Alonzo, Valencia Arline, Hayle Birlew, Kailie Boulton
Evaughn Coleman, Megan DeSoto, Caron Dessoye, Jeremy Diamond, Jake Dockins, Keela Dooley, Riley Dunn, Chris Wright Evans, Mariana Flores, Maria Haag, Jihye Han, Allester Hurtado, Hudson Ingram, Renee Josse de Lisle, Ian Lara, Teresa Larrabee, Ashley Leo, Rogelio Lopez, Hannah Loveland, Miriam Medrano, Ann Nguyen, Christopher Novinski, Benjamin Peters, Naomi Peterson, Maia Pizarro, Max Raign, Wiley Reid, Krissi Riewe, Martha Samaniego-Calderon, Jessi Sawyer, Colby Schwartz, Taylor Swanson, Henry Thomas, Sydney Wilson, Asia Youngs-Bailey

SGCI Saturday Events Schedule

Southern Graphics Council International Conference
Saturday Events:
http://sgci2019.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190309_texchange_prospectus_page_sat.pdf

SGCI Friday Events Schedule

Southern Graphics Council International Conference
Friday Events:
http://sgci2019.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190308_texchange_prospectus_page_fri.pdf

UNT Juried Printmaking Alumni Exhibition

Select Impressions: University of North Texas Juried Printmaking Alumni
March 7- 29, 2019

UNT On The Square
109 N Elm St, Denton, TX

Gallery Hours: Mon-Wed: 9-noon and 1-5. Thurs + Fri: 9-noon and 1-8pm. Saturday 11am – 5pm.

Reception: Friday March 8, 2019, 6-8pm

This exhibition features works from UNT undergraduate and graduate printmaking alumni juried by Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth of Ro2 Gallery, Dallas. University of North Texas Printmaking program’s alumni have had the guidance of esteemed faculty such as: Don Scaggs, Judy Youngblood, Justin Quinn, Catherine Chauvin, Mary Hood, Mark Pease, Lari Gibbons, and Andrew DeCaen.

Jurors: Susan Roth-Roman and Jordan Roth. Ro2 Art, a contemporary fine art gallery located in The Cedars Neighborhood near Downtown Dallas, represents a diverse group of emerging, mid-career, and established contemporary artists – many with ties to the North Texas Region. The gallery, founded in 2010 by mother-and-son partners Susan Roth Romans and Jordan Roth, regularly collaborates with organizations such as The MAC and Cedars Union and maintains an exhibition program within the Magnolia Theatre at West Village and other satellite venues. Ro2 Art has been named Dallas Observer's"Best Art Gallery" and was presented with the 25th Annual Obelisk Awardfor small business by the North Texas Business Council for the Arts. The gallery's art fair program has included the Dallas Art Fair, Texas Contemporary, and Art Aspen.

Artists :
Adam Palmer, Alana Miller, Brian Spolans, Christin Clemons, Christopher Wallace, Gary Uribe, J. Leigh Garcia, Jaime Durham,  Jon Vogt, Jonathon Quinnelley, Joshua Banks, Kayla Seedig, Lauren Alexander, Linda Lucía Santana, Luke Ball, Mark Raymer, Nathan Eclavea, Peggy Burchard-Ballard, Randy Bolton, Scott Krakowski, Stephanie Ramsey, Sydney Wilson, Wiley Reid, Xiao Liu, Zackary Petot

Alison Saar Exhibition and SGCI Keynote Lecture

Alison Saar

SGCI Keynote Lecture: 3:30-4:30pm UNT Union 314

Exhibition

Mirror, Mirror: The Prints of Alison Saar, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

March 8-May 11
UNT Art Gallery
Reception: 5:00pm–7:00pm

Trace/Divide/Order Exhibitions

Trace (mapping space)
&
Jennifer Scheuer: Order of Things

Eagle Exhibition Hall 

UNT Campus

March 6-12th, 2019

Reception: March 8th 1:00-3:00pm

Gallery Hours: M-F 8:00-5:00pm

Trace (mapping space) is an exhibition that explores how mapping and map imagery serve as a model for contemporary artists, utilizing a combination of symbolic language and layered imagery to investigate history, geography, and inherited narratives. These works represent a wide variety of print media and aesthetic perspectives. The places mapped are both imagined and real. In keeping with the Texchange theme, the work in this exhibit examines contemporary issues of migration, loss, unstable climate conditions, and self within community. The act of mapping has metaphorically and graphically distilled complex information, so that these ideas emerge in way that is accessible to the viewer. The artists in this show are formalists at heart, paying careful attention to the conversations and tensions in the image that make up the whole. - Curated by Rachelle Hill and Mary Jones.

Havens (Establish), Screenprint by UNT Graduate Student Aunt Escobedo-Wickham

Jennifer Scheuer: Order of Things:  Our minds seek to make connections, to categorize the familiar and the unfamiliar. In The Order of Things Jennifer Scheuer visualizes “The Doctrine of Signatures,” a theory that the world is made of signatures that inform us how to heal our own bodies. Does categorizing the world in relationship to ourselves reflect a higher order, an illustration of biological structure, or simply mnemonics? The work in this exhibition explores different ways of seeing an idea of healing, including through scientific thought and spirituality. How do forgotten or disproven ideas continue to hold cultural value? In consideration of Texchange, the work addresses different disciplines and uses the language of scientific imagery and illustration to discuss ideas that have varied roots of origin including: history, spirituality, medicine, scientific analysis, healing, and medicinal gardens.

Print-Smithing (Encore) Exhibition

Print-Smithing (Encore) Exhibition
CVAD Art Building Space 259

March 3-18, 2019

Please join us for the exhibition PRINT-SMITHING at the CVAD Art Building Space 259 (above the main stairwell). This exhibition is the result of a collaboration between two CVAD Studio Art programs; Students, Faculty, and Staff from Printmaking and Metals/Jewelry paired up, etched copper plates, then traded them to complete each other's pieces. Participant collaborative pairs: Zach Morris & Sydney Wilson, Kelly Perez & Halee Hamm, Christa Grogan & Maria Aleisa, David Enright & Erika Alonzo, JJ Thomson & Wiley Reid, Vince Fisher & Joey Bercen, Carson Webster & Julianne Dao, Thomas Menikos & Sarah Loch-Test, Andrew DeCaen & James Thurman.

Radical Intimacy Exhibition

Brian Spolans, Long Moment, silkscreen; Taryn McMahon, Vision, monoprint; and Emmy Lingscheit, Remediators, linocut

Radical Intimacy

March 4-22, 2019
Voertman's Gallery
1314 W. Hickory St. Denton, TX

Reception: Friday March 8, 2019 at 5pm
Gallery Hours: Mon-Thurs 8-6, Friday 8-5, Saturday 10-5, Sunday 12-5

Radical Intimacy showcases the prints, drawings, and installations of Taryn McMahon, Emmy Lingscheit, and Brian Spolans. The artists share an interest in the interconnectedness of human and non-human systems, and creative research in print media, installation, and mixed media works on paper. This exhibition will generate connections between the artists’ bodies of work and will create a dialogue about how we see ourselves in relationship to our environment and to others. The title of the exhibition refers to all 3 artist’s interest in forming a radical intimacy between humans and their communities, whether that be social, biological, or environmental. Philosopher Timothy Morton has said, “The ecological view to come isn’t a picture of some bounded object or ‘restrictive economy,’ a closed system. It is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy…

Perspectives from the West in Printmaking

The Los Angeles Printmaking Society and Full Court Press presents: 

Perspectives from the West in Printmaking

March 1-15, 2019 
UNT Union Art Gallery (2nd Floor)
1155 Union Circle, Denton, TX

A Collaborative Print Project: “ImMigration”: Los Angeles Printmaking presents a special exhibition that asks artists to respond to the complicated and layered themes around “Migration” with individual artists interpreting the theme in a culminating collaboration that visually interprets the conceptual migration of themes and ideas, interactions and interpretations, of the individual becoming part of the whole. More information is at www.laprintmaking.com.

Reception: Friday March 8, 2019, 1-3pm
Gallery Hours: Mon - Sat 7am - 12am; Sun 12pm - 12am