Eirik Johnson & Stacey Rozich: Make Out Tree
(L) Eirik Johnson, Carly and Destiny (detail), 2013, pigment print; (R) Stacey Rozich, Carly and Destiny (detail), 2013, watercolor
June 3 - August 16
Opening Reception: Monday, June 3, 5 - 7 pm
Cornish Alumni Gallery
2012 Neddy Award recipients Eirik Johnson and Stacey Rozich present new work in a collaborative exhibition.
Inspired by the pronouncements of love sometimes found crudely cut into trees, Make Out Tree features the work ofNeddy artists Eirik Johnson and Stacey Rozich. Johnson’s photographs document these markings left behind by couples as a moment frozen in time. We can’t help but wonder what has become of the couples, immortalized in scarred bark. Rozich’s paintings use the photographs as a starting point, developing imagined narratives, in an attempt to solve these riddles.
Stacey Rozich creates a dialogue in her paintings to illustrate how cultural folktales affect and manifest themselves in contemporary society. Rozich studied Illustration at California College of the Arts as well as Design at Seattle Central Creative Academy and has shown in galleries in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Milwaukee and Berlin. She received the Neddy in Painting in 2012.
Seattle-based photographer and mixed media artist Eirik Johnson addresses the intersections of environmental, social and economic issues, which reflect connections between communities and the surrounding natural world. Johnson has exhibited his work at spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Aperture Foundation in New York. He has received numerous awards including the 2012 Neddy in Open Medium, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in 2009, the Santa Fe Prize in 2005, and a William J. Fulbright Grant to Peru in 2000.
Cornish Alumni Gallery, Floor 3, 1000 Lenora Street, Seattle, WA
Hours: Monday – Thursday, 9 am – 5 pm, Friday, 9 am – 1 pm
http://www.cornish.edu/exhibitions
EXPO 13
Design by Drew Hamlet (DE '10)
May 10 – May 25, 2013
EXPO 13 builds upon the annual BFA Exhibition, highlighting the depth and range of our students’ creative inquiry and expression at Cornish College of the Arts. The Art and Design shows serve as the keystone to an expanded schedule of events, including dialogue, performances, and artistic interventions. EXPO 13 celebrates the achievements of Cornish’s graduating seniors by acknowledging their contributions as professional artists and designers. Cornish is proud of their determination, hard word, and appetite for experimentation, as they turn their ambitions from school towards society. Congratulations to the class of 2013. View the online catalog.
Opening Reception: May 10, 5 - 9 pm
Student Spotlights: May 11, 1-5 pm
Design BFA Exhibition: May 10 - 24, Main Campus Center
Art BFA Exhibition: May 10 - 25, Visual Arts Complex
Gallery Hours: noon - 5 pm, Mon - Sat
Main Campus Center
1000 Lenora Street, Seattle, WA
Visual Arts Complex
2000 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA
Between a rock and a hard place: privacy, free expression and public discourse
Wednesday, March 27
6 - 7:30 pm
Board Room
1000 Lenora Street. (7th Floor)
What happens when issues of expression and privacy collide? What are the responsibilities of the artist, audience, and institution towards exhibiting artwork in public? Who gets to decide? Please join us for a community discussion as we wrangle with a variety of issues, surrounding these questions and more. The conversation will be led by Davida Ingram and Mary Ann Peters, but sustained by an open-forum group discussion. Hope you can join us.
Davida Ingram is a writer and visual artist who focuses on community and the intersections of race, gender and queer theory.
Mary Ann Peters is a studio and public artist, activist, and former board president of NCFE (National Campaign for Freedom of Expression), the seminal group defending artist rights and the First Amendment.
Mary Iverson: Flip
Mary Iverson, "Flip, panel 2", 2012, digital image, variable dimensions, Courtesy of the artist.
March 18 - May 25
Opening Reception: Friday, March 29, 5 – 7 pm
Cornish Alumni Gallery
1000 Lenora Street (3rd floor lobby)
Cornish College of the Arts is proud to present the work of Mary Iverson (DE ‘95) in Flip, exhibited in the Alumni Gallery. Flip was originally conceived as a public art piece, commissioned by Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle Parks and Recreation for their Seattle Art Interruptions project. Iverson will be exhibiting an animation and prints from individual stills of the sequence, depicting the struggle between nature and industry.
Mary Iverson is a painter and public artist. Her work portrays the clash between globalization and the environment, offering visions of container ships as they collide with national parks in surreal, post apocalyptic scenarios. In 2011, her work was profiled in Juxtapoz Magazine and Hi Fructose Magazine. She is represented by galleries in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Munster, Germany. She teaches painting and drawing at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, WA, where she is a tenured faculty member. Mary Iverson received her BFA in Design from Cornish (magna cum laude) in 1995 and her MFA in Painting from the University of Washington in 2002.
Alumni Gallery Hours: M - F, 9 - 5 pm
Art Department 2013 Merit Awards Exhibition
March 18 - 22
Reception: March 22, 4 - 7 pm
Cornish Main Gallery
1000 Lenora St. (1st floor)
Gallery hours: 12 - 5 pm, M - F
Featuring work by Danie Allinice, Taylor Bednarz, Cameron Fletcher, Juan Franco, Stefan Gonzales, Alicia Hatfield, Ivana Kartzov, Amy Kim, Annieo Klaas, Sierra Kohler, David Nelson, Mariah Nystrom, Coulliette Powell, Destiny Reidel, Ashleigh Robb, Madisen Schorno, Reilly Sinanan, Marissa Sohn, Alaina Stocker, Justin Webb, and Megan Wyma.
Cornish Staff Exhibition
Dawn Cerny, Typeface #3 for the disenfranchised (and those who are "on the rag"), 2012, gouache, graphite on graph paper.
January 14 - March 8
Cornish Alumni Gallery
Closing Reception: Friday, March 8, 5 - 7pm
Cornish is made up of a diverse range of ideas, passions, and expertise from its faculty, students, and staff. Regardless of role, everyone participates in an ongoing exchange of creative ideas and a pursuit of excellence. Although Cornish’s staff members often remain “behind-the-scenes”, they are a critical team who offer support, guidance, and expertise in a multitude of areas. In addition, Cornish staff members are an inspiring group, often committed to their own arts practices outside of the College. The Cornish Staff Exhibition demonstrates a broad spectrum of ideas, methods, and interests. This show creates a new dialogue between colleagues and deepens Cornish’s understanding of who we are collectively.
The exhibition includes work by Corby Baker, Zac Boetes, Dawn Cerny, Ryan! Feddersen, Tory Franklin, Jon Graef, Ellen Ito, Bridget Nowlin, Rob Lutz, Allistair McMeekin, Gene Rocha, Eric Swangstu, Kathryn Thomas, Jenifer Ward, Chris Williams, Allyce Wood, and Jeff Wyborny.
Cornish Alumni Gallery, Floor 3, 1000 Lenora Street, Seattle, WA
Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm
Design Faculty Exhibition
Jacob Kohn, Golden Pond II, 2011, oil on canvas, 12 x 42 inches
January 18 - March 2, 2013
Cornish Main Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, January 18, 5 - 8 pm
This biennial exhibition features work from Cornish’s Design Faculty. Outside of the classroom, these educators are professional artists and designers in their own right, collectively displaying a diverse set of conceptual and technical applications.
Featuring a selection of drawing, painting, print, photo, video, and books by Stephanie Bower, Susan Boye, Jeff Brice, Rossi Skortcheva Donesky, Ellen Forney, Julie Gaskill, BeAnne Hull, Jacob Kohn, Mark Kornblum, Tiffany Laine De Mott, Julie Myers, Robynne Raye, Jenny Sapora, Dan Shafer, and Junichi Tsuneoka.
Cornish Main Gallery, Floor 1, 1000 Lenora Street, Seattle, WA
Monday - Friday, noon - 5 pm; Saturday, noon - 4 pm
Cornish Alumni Gallery: Ils Disent
Curtis Erlinger, Inkling, 2008, ink on paper, cloth overlay, 15 x 21inches. Courtesy of the artist.
November 6 - December 15, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 7, 5 - 7:30 pm
Curated by Sharon Arnold (AR ‘06)
“Ils Disent is a group exhibition of local artists inspired by Seattle Art Museum exhibition, Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris. I have specifically asked male artists for a thoughtful response to this historic show about women, because as a woman, artist, and curator I am interested in what these artists will bring forward in this conversation. I feel these particular artists share a common thread with the women in Elles, an underlying duality that contradicts the idea of gendered work (and is artistic processes gendered?): the construction of sometimes angular, sometimes soft things; masculine or feminine process or presentation; quiet minimal narrative; or a hard, didactic punch. These men sculpt, hew, perform, build, draw, and write; making work about their heads and about their bodies; sometimes neurotic or sometimes dreamy, or simply about pure composition and form.
“In the same way that Elles is expressly (necessarily) gendered, and challenges our notions about work in the 20th century, Ils Disent strives not to undermine the historic relevance and importance of Elles, but to include these voices in our response to such an important milestone.”
-Sharon Arnold
Ils Disent features work by:
Ben Beres (AR ‘01)
Adam Boehmer
Chris Buening
Tim Cross
Brian Cypher
Curtis Erlinger
Ollie Glatzer
Sean Johnson
Matt Sellars (AR ‘93)
Mike Simi
Ian Toms (AR ‘09)
Cornish Alumni Gallery, Floor 3, 1000 Lenora Street, Seattle, WA
Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm
http://www.cornish.edu/exhibitions
Susan Robb: SKYPE SKUPLT STUDIO
Susan Robb, Social Engagement, 2012, mixed media.
October 24 - December 15, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 24, 5 - 8 pm
SKYPE SKUPLT STUDIO is an investigation of language, communication, decentralization, and place. Over the course of the exhibition, Susan Robb will collaboratively create sculptures with local, national, and international artists, using SKYPE video calls. The participants will guide Robb in the construction of a sculpture using the materials she has chosen, and she will guide the participants in the creation of a sculpture using materials they have selected. These video calls will be broadcast live in the Cornish Gallery and the resulting works will be added to the exhibition as they are made. Susan will be collaboratively creating using materials that the community brings to the gallery. This means you! We invite and encourage everyone who visits to bring along objects, art and craft supplies, or anything else that might challenge or inspire Susan.
Over the duration of the show, the created artworks will be a product of both physical and virtual interactions, including the local community and artists from both within and beyond the region. This is an evolving show that unfolds over time, with your participation. Please mark your calendars with the following list of the artists currently scheduled to collaborate with Susan, via “live” Skype calls in the gallery.
Wednesday, October 24, (OPENING)
6 pm- Chauney Peck (Los Angeles, CA)
6:45 pm- Whiting Tennis (Seattle, WA)
7:30 pm- Reed Anderson (New York, NY)
Saturday, November 3
1 pm- Claire Sherwood (Albany, NY)
2 pm- Max Kraushaar and Graham Downing (Seattle, WA)
Saturday, November 10
1 pm- Cara Tomlinson (Portland, OR)
2 pm- Nicholas Nyland (Seattle, WA)
3 pm- Susanna Bluhm (Seattle, WA)
Saturday, December 1
1 pm- Marc Dombrosky and Shannon Eakins (Dowagiac, MI)
2 pm- Tessa Hulls (Seattle, WA)
3 pm- Mandy Greer (Seattle, WA)
Saturday, December 15 (LAST DAY)
1 pm- Gary Schultz (Berlin)
2 pm- Lead Pencil Studio (Portland, OR)
3 pm- Reed Anderson (New York, NY) (rescheduled)
Please continue to check the website for more details, additions, or updates to the schedule.
Read Susan Robb’s statement on SYKPE SKUPLT STUDIO.
Robb’s work is an ongoing investigation of people, place, and our search for utopia. Her past projects have taken form as temporary, site-responsive, and socially-engaged projects. These projects includeONN/OF “a light festival”, Sleeper Cell Training Camp, and Warmth Giant Black Toobs as well as public commissions such as The Long Walk, Parking Squid, and Water Lab. Her work has been funded by a Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant, two Artist Trust Fellowships, a Stranger Genius Award, a 4Culture Special Projects grant, a US Artist Projects campaign, and the City of Seattle.
Cornish Main Gallery, Floor 1, 1000 Lenora Street, Seattle, WA
Monday - Friday, noon - 5 pm; Saturday, noon - 4 pm
Old ghost ranges, sunken rivers, come again
Peter Scherrer, Cabin Window, 2010, oil on canvas, 48.5 x 42 inches
September 5 - October 13 (newly extended closing date)
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 5, 5 - 8 PM
Curated by Cable Griffith
Old ghost ranges, sunken rivers, come again is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists with a connection to the Northwest, whose artwork collectively reflects our complicated relationship to the forest. “The woods” is a term used to describe a forest interior, unbound to time or place. A common setting for countless folktales and myths, the forest holds a presence that feels familiar, even if foreign. The woods also have long history as a resource for artists—providing subject matter, refuge, and materials for creative expression. But this landscape is more than something viewed from a distance. The forest is also an interior space, full of mystery, darkness, and potential. As a metaphor for the mind, it suggests that perhaps we are all explorers and gatherers, returning with the fruits (or fouls) from our travels. But as a commodified resource, our forests have helped build the foundation of industrial societies that have in turn, wiped out indigenous ones. This contradiction speaks to our complex relationship with the forest and echoes the diversity of themes addressed in the exhibition.
Old ghost ranges... features work by Vaughn Bell, Gretchen Bennett, Zack Bent, Matt Browning, Stephen Chalmers, Eirik Johnson, Matthew Offenbacher, Whiting Tennis, Kimberly Trowbridge, Allyce Wood (AR ’10), Peter Scherrer, and Claude Zervas.
View a descriptive list of the works in the exhibition.
Cornish Main Gallery, Floor 1, 1000 Lenora Street, Seattle, WA
Hours: Monday - Friday, 12 - 5 pm, Saturday, 12 - 4 pm
http://www.cornish.edu/exhibitions
The 2012 Neddy at Cornish Exhibition
The 2012 Neddy at Cornish Exhibition
June 6 - July 18
Main Gallery
1000 Lenora Street, Floor 1
Cornish College of the Arts is proud to present the 2012 Neddy at Cornish Exhibition. This show marks the inaugural year of the Neddy at Cornish program, celebrating the work of a selection of artists from the region who embody the spirit of the Neddy Award. Over the last 16 years, the Neddy Award has celebrated and propelled the careers of artists who have demonstrated outstanding artistic achievement while maintaining a lively connection to their community. This exhibition features the work of all eight nominees, from both the original painting category and the new “open medium” category, now annually including artists who work in any combination of visually-based media.
From the traditional to the cutting-edge, Gala Bent, Cynthia Camlin, James Coupe, Eirik Johnson (Neddy Recipient in Open Medium), Lead Pencil Studio, Susie J. Lee, Jeremy Mangan, and Stacey Rozich (Neddy Recipient in Painting) employ a diverse range of techniques and themes. Climate change, surveillance monitoring, migrant work camps, personal mythologies, and the dynamic relationships between technology, architecture, and the body represent a few of the ideas explored in the exhibition. The 2012 Neddy at Cornish Exhibition is both a celebration and affirmation of the accomplishments of all eight artists and the distinct creative sensibilities from our region.
Additionally celebrating the arrival of the Neddy Award at Cornish, we are featuring a concurrent exhibition of paintings by the award’s namesake, Ned Behnke. Curated by Peggy Weiss, Reflections will bring together a selection of paintings from multiple bodies of work, over the course of Behnke’s life
Neddy in Painting
Gala Bent
Cynthia Camlin
Jeremy Mangan
Stacey Rozich (Neddy Awardee)
Neddy in Open Medium
James Coupe
Eirik Johnson (Neddy Awardee)
Lead Pencil Studio
Susie J. Lee
Opening Reception
June 6, 5 - 9 pm
Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Friday, 12-5 pm
Saturday, 2-4pm
First Thursday, 12-7pm
http://www.cornish.edu/neddy
Ned Behnke: Reflections
Photo by: Photo: Bridget Nowlin
Ned Behnke, "Paphiopedilum Maudiae Orchid" (detail), 1984, oil on canvas, 49 x 49 inches, Courtesy of REB Enterprises.
Ned Behnke: Reflections
Curated by Peggy Weiss
June 6 – July 18
Cornish College of the Arts
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 6, 5 – 9 pm
Alumni Gallery, Notions Building, Nellie’s Café, and the Cornish Collaboratory.
Cornish College of the Arts is proud to be the new home for the Neddy Award Program. Generously funded by the Behnke Foundation in memory of painter Robert E. “Ned” Behnke, the Neddy is awarded to two artists each year. In addition to featuring the Neddy award finalists and awardees in the Neddy at Cornish Exhibition, we are delighted to feature this concurrent exhibition of paintings by the award’s namesake, Ned Behnke: Reflections, curated by Peggy Weiss. Reflections is a celebration of Behnke’s artwork, installed throughout various campus gallery spaces at Cornish College of the Arts. Selections from distinct bodies Behnke’s work have been grouped thematically, including some rarely-exhibited work from when he was as young as 12, suggesting that his life’s work would unfold around the making of art. A brochure with images and an interview with Peggy Weiss and Steve Jensen (artist, Cornish alum, and friend of Ned’s) will be available.
Art and Design BFA Show 2012
Design by Nick Parker (DE '03)
Cornish College of the Arts is the premier, accredited arts college in the Northwest, inspiring the highest standards of artistic and academic excellence. Founded in 1914 by Nellie Cornish, Cornish is the only private, accredited college in the region offering baccalaureate degrees in visual and performing arts. Uniquely, Cornish provides a rigorous educational environment for the cultivation of technical mastery, artistic integrity and practical knowledge.
The Cornish BFA Exhibition is the crowning achievement for graduating seniors from Art and Design, announcing their introduction to the community as emerging artists and designers. This much-anticipated exhibit showcases the work of 67 individuals representing a survey of new ideas, themes, and techniques that amalgamate our contemporary visual landscape.
Opening Reception May 11, 5 – 9 pm
Gallery Hours Monday – Saturday, 12 – 5 pm
Art May 11 – 26
Virginia/Terry Building, 1000 Virginia Street
Design May 11 – 25
Main Campus Center, 1000 Lenora Street
DIY Arts Writing with Sharon Butler
Sharon Butler (Courtesy of the artist)
Friday, April 20
Faculty/Staff Lounge
1000 Lenora Street, 7th floor
Noon - 1 pm
With guests: D.W Burnam, Amanda Manitach, Matthew Offenbacher, and Emily Pothast
Join us for a special “Sustenance” discussion with visiting artist/writer, Sharon Butler. Butler will join a group of local artist/writers to discuss the important role of artists in contributing to and expanding critical dialogue in our communities. Butler is an award winning artist and writer who splits her time between NY, D.C. and CT. Her writing can be found on Two Coats of Paint, the Brooklyn Rail, and An Inverted Curve. Butler has exhibited nationally and internationally and is shown in Seattle at Season.
sustenance
noun \ses-te-nen(t)s\
1 a: means of support, maintenance, or subsistence: living b: food, provisions; also: nourishment
2: a monthly lunchtime discussion at Cornish about arts issues, open to the community.
Seattle Experimental Animation Team (S.E.A.T.)
Tess Martin directing the Whale Story shoot on Capitol Hill, Seattle (Courtesy of S.E.A.T.)
Friday, April 20
Nellie’s Cafe
1000 Lenora Street (corner of Lenora and Terry), 2nd floor
7 - 9 pm
Featuring: Drew Christie, Webster Crowell, Stefan Gruber, Salise Hughes, Britta Johnson, Tess Martin, and Clyde Petersen.
Please join us for an evening of projected animations, discussion, and coffee in Nellie’s Cafe. Artists from the Seattle Experimental Animation Team (S.E.A.T.) will discuss their individual and collaborative work while screening animated projections on multiple screens.
Paul D. McKee (AR ‘00)
Paul D. McKee,Trophies of the American Home, 2008, mixed medium installation (Courtesy of the artist)
April 9 - May 19
Alumni Gallery
1000 Lenora Street (3rd floor lobby)
McKee’s installations confront stereotypes associated with gender and sexual identity through the manipulation and exaggeration of decorative domestic objects. McKee is also an Adjunct Professor in Sculpture at Cornish. More of his work can be found on his website.
Rapid Fire Art History: What We Know vs. What We Make
Wednesday, March 7
Board Room
1000 Lenora Street, 7th floor
12:15-1:15 PM
With guests:
Sharon Arnold (moderator)
Jim Demetre
Amanda Manitach
Stephen Sewell
Rodrigo Valenzuela
In this fast-paced presentation, four guests will wrap up several thousand years of history in 3-5 minute segments. Ranging from the Ancient Greeks to today, this rapid-fire survey will demonstrate a potentially unfair and heavily interpreted version of art history from a personal perspective; possibly with an element of fiction. Join us in discovering a more unconventional take on art history, and participate in a discussion about how art history affects art practice- is it relevant, is it nonsense, what does too much knowledge of art history lead to, should/can we avoid it, and more! This event is free and open to the public.
sustenance
noun \ses-te-nen(t)s\
1 a: means of support, maintenance, or subsistence: living b: food, provisions; also: nourishment
2: a monthly lunchtime discussion at Cornish about arts issues, open to the community.
Jon Gierlich: Currents
Jon Gierlich, Slipping From Grace, circa 1994, mixed media on paper.
February 21 - March 21, 2012
Currents is a retrospective of work by the late Cornish Design Professor, Jon Gierlich. This exhibition is aimed at remembering him through his art, as a thoughtful artist, mentor, friend, and beloved member of the Cornish community for 22 years. This diverse collection of drawings, paintings, photos, and sculptures demonstrate Gierlich’s impressive range and daring spirit.
Over forty years of his work are represented, showing an inquisitive and deeply committed artist who was always pushing, always growing. Difficult to pin down, Gierlich was a master draftsman, eloquent poet, and public artist who never sought the limelight. Seeing much of his work together, we can sense the powerful current that ran through everything he touched. Moving past seemingly distant shores, the flow of his work is grounded by a deep connection to forms and phenomena from the natural world.
Always the observer, Gierlich developed a distinct visual language while amassing a fascinating collection of objects. Selected pieces have been presented in the gallery in an effort to shed light his sources and celebrate the blurry line between his artwork and his life. Like a river, Gierlich was always moving with a determined strength, both gentle and forceful, traveling long distances with surprising grace, and ultimately returning to the source.
Additionally, Cornish is proud to honor Jon’s dedication to Cornish students by establishing the Jon Gierlich Endowed Scholarship Fund, through gifts from friends, family and alumni. The Jon Gierlich Endowed Scholarship Fund will be the Design Department’s first endowed scholarship to honor a faculty member.
Caroline Kapp
Caroline Kapp, Moving Still #1: Melendez (video still), 2012
Single-Channel High Definition video
LED Monitor, Solid-state media player, Frame
Running time: 03:05 (looped)
Cornish College of the Arts is proud to present both video and photo work by Caroline Kapp (AR ‘00) in the Alumni Gallery. Her video installation masquerades as a series of four framed, formal, and Flemish-style still-life paintings. Upon a second look, the carefully composed objects remain anything but “still” as Kapp plays with time, presence, and history. Her beautifully composed black and white photographs depict familiar domestic objects in unusual locations. Both series’ are surreal, beautiful, and unsettling, challenging the viewer to see once common things, anew.
A closing reception for this exhibition will coincide with the Main Gallery reception for Jon Gierlich: Currents on February 21. You can see more of her work @ http://www.carolinekapp.com.
February 2 - 29, 2012
Closing Reception: Tuesday, February 21, 5 – 8 PM
Cornish Alumni Gallery
1000 Lenora St. (3rd floor lobby)
M - F, 9am - 5pm
2012 Art Faculty Show
Design by Nick Parker (DE '03)
Cornish’s pursuit of excellence begins with its faculty. Together, they reflect the College’s passion for inquiry, discovery and growth. Leading by example, Cornish’s Art Faculty demonstrate a breadth of possibilities in traditional and contemporary art practices. The biennial Art Faculty Show is an opportunity to see these methods and ideas manifest through their own personal work and offers a chance for the College’s educators to communicate purely as artists. Combining video, installation, painting, drawing, print, photo, sculpture, and mixed media, the 2012 Art Faculty Show is both a sample of institutional expertise and survey of themes and techniques employed in the Pacific Northwest.
Despite differing approaches to art making, Cornish Art Faculty are united by a desire to share their discoveries and encourage artistic innovation. Considering this, the Art Faculty show is an extension of this intent, allowing their artwork to speak, engage, and inspire.
Featuring work by Judy Allen, Tina Aufiero, Gretchen Bennett, Bonnie Biggs, Robert Campbell, Dawn Cerny, Paul D. McKee, Linda Davidson, Heather Dew Oaksen, Julie Gaskill, Claudia Hollander-Lucas, Patrick LoCicero, Ruth Marie Tomlinson, Barbara Noah, John Overton, Kathleen Rabel, Ephraim Russell, Kelly Sheridan, Francesca Sundsten, SuttonBeresCuller, Kristin Tollefson, and Preston Wadley.
**Date changed due to snow closure**
January 23 – February 15, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 25, 5 – 8 pm
Cornish Main Gallery
1000 Lenora St. (first floor)
Seattle, WA 98121
Gallery Hours
Monday – Friday, 12-5 pm
Allyce Wood: Encroaching Botany
Allyce Wood, Creeping Blue, 2011, colored pencil on paper, cut paper.
Allyce Wood, a native to the Pacific Northwest, graduated from Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts, Magna Cum Laude in 2010, with a BFA in printmaking and sculpture. Wood shows frequently in Seattle as well as the UK, where she studied in 2009. She is currently a member of the PrintZero Studio in Georgetown. Her installations, sculptures, and printmaking are indicative of her compulsion towards detail, repetition, and her appreciation of traditional craftsmanship. You can view more of her work online at: allyceallyce.blogspot.com
“This body of work is concerned with the physical ramifications of invasive species in the Pacific Northwest. Competition over others, over land, over architecture are all points that humanity has taken on as an intrinsic trait. By studying ‘basic’ species who bypass this characteristic and have made such a trait their main evolutionary point, I reflect upon my own needs to ‘fight for my place’.” -Allyce Wood
January 5 – February 1, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 25, 5 – 8 PM
(Date changed because of snow closure)
Cornish Alumni Gallery
1000 Lenora St. (3rd floor lobby)
M - F, 9am - 5pm
Dennis Raines
Image: It's not like I thought it would be here, 2011, photograph, 12x16 inches.
Dennis Raines (AR ‘01) is a printmedia artist living and working Seattle, WA. He attended Cornish College of the Arts for his BFA, and UC Davis for his MFA, both with an emphasis in “interdisciplinary fine arts”. Raines has taught Digital Imaging, Printmaking, Photography, Sculpture, and Drawing at UC Davis, Sacramento State, and Cornish. You can view more of his work @ dennisraines.com
November 2, 2011 - January 4, 2012
Cornish Alumni Gallery
1000 Lenora St. (3rd floor lobby)
M - F, 9am - 5pm
SuttonBeresCuller: Work in Progress
Design by Nick Parker (DE '03)
Work in Progress is an interactive, experimental, and evolving exhibition in the Cornish Main Gallery by alumni artist trio, SuttonBeresCuller. This site-specific project will be created in cooperation with the Cornish community over the course of six weeks, exploring the artists’ history with the college that fostered their collaborative career.
Having recently returned as art faculty, John Sutton, Ben Beres, and Zac Culler will convert the gallery into an open, shared studio/gallery space that changes daily over the course of the exhibition. Taking on the dual roles of student and teacher, they will tap into the school’s resources and creative philosophy to engage the greater Cornish community as a collective participant throughout its duration. At the show’s end on December 7, the final installation will be the beginning of a new, traveling body of work, with each project building upon the last.
View a video of the project by Rodrigo Valenzuela HERE.
October 26 - December 7, 2011
Soft Opening Reception: October 26, 5 - 8 pm
Closing Reception: December 7, 5 - 8 pm
Cornish Main Gallery, Floor 1, 1000 Lenora Street, Seattle, WA
Hours: Monday - Friday, 12 - 5 pm
http://www.cornish.edu/exhibitions
Paul Rucker Gallery Performance
Paul Rucker
Photo: Wendy Johnson
In support of the current Cornish Gallery exhibition Game Theory, cellist, composer, visual artist, and activist Paul Rucker brings his quartet to the gallery for an interactive performance, Scratch Sound. Audience members will get a opportunity to collaboratively direct the improvisations using Rucker’s custom-made scratch tickets. Each ticket reveals an emotion used to inform the improvisors, offering separate and simultaneous conduits to either blend, build, or interfere their interpretations. In this game, there are no winners or losers, but a mutual exchange of cause and effect. Scratch tickets will be available for free in the gallery.
Featuring:
Jeff McGrath - Trumpet
Tom Varner - French Horn (Cornish Faculty)
Bill Horist - Guitar
Paul Rucker - Cello
Friday, October 14
Cornish Main Gallery
7 pm - FREE!
Cornish Main Gallery, Floor 1, 1000 Lenora Street, Seattle, WA
Hours: Monday - Friday, 12 - 5 pm
http://www.cornish.edu/exhibitions
Wayne Horvitz Gallery Performance
Wayne Horvitz
In support of the current Cornish gallery exhibition Game Theory, pianist, composer, and Cornish faculty, Wayne Horvitz leads a large jazz ensemble through two compositions, based on game structures and conductions. This free performance will take place in the Cornish Main Gallery.
Featuring:
Thomas Campbell- Drums
Storm D’Angelo-Sax
Will Hayes-Guitar
Jacob Herring-Trombone
Mac Jaffe -Bass
Chris McCarthy- Piano
Steven O’Brien-Trumpet
Naomi-Siegel-Trombone
Nolan Tsang- Trumpet
Cameron Vohr-Sax
Tommy Whiteside-Vibes
Saturday, October 8
Cornish Main Gallery
8pm
More on Mr. Horvitz here.
Free and open to the public
The Show is Over…
Image: Ric Warren, City Wall; Constant Shifts (Batons 1-12), 2011, Dimensions Variable
THE SHOW IS OVER THE AUDIENCE
GET UP TO LEAVE THEIR SEATS
TIME TO COLLECT THEIR COATS AND
GO HOME THEY TURN AROUND NO
MORE COATS AND
NO MORE HOME
Curated by Ian Toms (Art’09)
September 1 – October 31, 2011
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 7, 5 – 8 PM
THE SHOW IS OVER… is an exhibition of works examining the “anti-portrait”- images or objects stained with the residue of human interaction, yet in their present state void of any life that may have once been- maps and scars of a personal geography. The title of the show is lifted directly from the Christopher Wool painting of the same name; the painting itself lifted from Greil Marcus’ social commentary, Lipstick Traces, and is a definition of nihilism, as quoted by situationist Raoul Vaneigem.
THE SHOW IS OVER… features recent work by DW Burnam (Seattle), Mina Estevez (New York), Ike Hobbs (New York), and Ric Warren (Glasgow, UK) with writings by Adriana Grant (Seattle) and Robert Yoder (Seattle).
Cornish Alumni Gallery
Cornish College of the Arts
3rd Floor Lobby
Sustenance: Mastery
Collage courtesy of Matthew Offenbacher
Tuesday, August 23
12 - 1 PM
Board Room
1000 Lenora Street, 7th floor
With guests:
Dawn Cerny (Art ’01)
Matthew Offenbacher (moderator)
Jeffry Mitchell
Kimberly Trowbridge
What is mastery? Is it control over a particular field of knowledge? A voluntary offering of your self to a thing you love more than you love yourself? Have you ever tried to master something? What happened? Have you given yourself to a master? Is mastering yourself different than mastering something else? What’s the opposite of mastery? Do you want disciples? Do you ever want to lose control? Can you teach that?
Please join us for a casual lunchtime conversation with special guests, Dawn Cerny (Art ‘01), Matthew Offenbacher, Jeffry Mitchell, and Kimberly Trowbridge, as we discuss what it takes to be “masterful” in the Arts and beyond.
sustenance
noun \səs-tə-nən(t)s\
1 a: means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living b : food,
provisions; also : nourishment
2: a monthly lunchtime discussion about arts issues, open to the entire Cornish community, from 12 - 1pm.
Game Theory
Design by Nick Parker (DE '03)
Game Theory is a group exhibition that examines chance, participation, and play in art practices. Curated for the Cornish College of the Arts Main Gallery by Cable Griffith, this exhibit brings together visual and performing artists lured by the unexpected consequences of surrendering control, conducting synthesis, and strategic intervention. Inspired by the inquiries into chance operations by Cornish legends Merce Cunningham and John Cage, the exhibition will be accompanied by a series of music, dance, and theater performances by Cornish students and faculty.
The artists in Game Theory share a similar affinity for indeterminacy, while still pulling the strings. The exhibition features visual works by John Cage, Joseph Gray, Jason Hirata, Tim Knowles, Chauney Peck, Steve Roden, Paul Rucker, Cara Tomlinson, and Brent Watanabe, with music performances by Wayne Horvitz, Jarrad Powell, Paul Rucker, and Steve Roden.
September 8 - October 19, 2011
Cornish Main Gallery, Floor 1
Main Campus Center
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 7, 5 – 8 pm
Game Theory essay, “The Intention of Chance” by Cable Griffith is available.
Game Theory Talks/Performances (Main Gallery)
Lecture: Steve Roden – September 8, 12 - 1 pm
Performance: Steve Roden – September 8, 7 – 8 pm
Performance: Wayne Horvitz – October 8, 8 – 9 pm
Performance: Paul Rucker – October 14, 7 – 8 pm
Additional performances and schedules TBA. Please check website for updates and details.
Cornish Main Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 12 – 5 pm
Game Theory is grateful for support from 911 Media Arts Center.
http://www.911media.org
