Winter Break!

Congratulations on finishing your first/third semester! Enjoy the break, travel safe, and remember the studio is open all break. 

Michael Kareken's MAEP Exhibition Gallery Talk

Thursday, December 17
7:00pm
@ the MAEP galleries in the MIA

In “Scrap,” Michael Kareken’s oil paintings memorialize democratic piles of recyclable glass and metal, each performing as both a portrait and a landscape. Originally intrigued by the Rock-Tenn recycling plant seen from his studio window, Kareken began painting landscapes of piles of paper, glass, and steel, documenting their endless shifts as they mysteriously work their way in and out the facility. Kareken’s painterly brushstrokes can evoke the Excavation paintings George Bellows made while New York’s Penn Station was being built. These captured the landscape and spirit of the Industrial Revolution. Kareken, like Bellows, portrays the drama and stark beauty of a new American scene. His refuse heaps are lovingly rendered, monochromatic studies of twisted metal, as in Scrap Engines (2009), or large, scrap-carrying magnets whose painted heft dissolves in a mass of swinging energy at the canvas edges. Scrap Bottles, a 9 x 14-foot canvas, is an up-close view of a mountain of glass—green, clear, and brown, broken and whole. Kareken has worked the paint into a composition that hovers between figurative and abstract.

This Week at Whittier

Megan Frauenhoffer

Robert Algeo

Galen McDonald

Monster Drawing Rally

Saturday, December 12, 2009
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Midway Contemporary Art
527 Second Ave SE

Minneapolis, MN

Artists will draw live and everything will be for sale for $35


LIST OF ARTISTS:

Skowhegan Summer Residency

Applications for the summer's residency program at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture are now available.

Deadline for application: Feb 1

The 9 week residency in Maine runs from June 13-Aug 15.

More info: http://www.skowheganart.org

MCAD provides 2 matching fellowships for successful applicants. This opportunity is highly competitive. Residents will have access to a sculpture shop, darkroom, multi-media lab, and library, along with crits, performances, and swimming in the lake. All residents are over 21, and I don't think you have to be enrolled in school to apply so 2nd years can also apply.

Winter Carnival Call for Art

Deadline: December 20

Entry fees go to cash prizes for the 3 best of show artists

This Week at Whittier

Nick Tews

Leo Winstead

Song Thao

Jackson Schwartz & Mark O'Brien

(Sorry Jackson and Mark, I didn't know exactly who did what, and a lot of the images captured both of your work so I grouped you together. Also, I missed getting pictures of the furniture that was in the gallery, by Levi?)

Post-it Creativity

Stress Relief

We have been getting a lot of e-mail about stress relief aimed toward the undergrads with their finals coming up. As you know stress in grad school is not always at the end of the semester, it fluctuates throughout (lucky us). Some things to keep in mind when things get rough:

SLEEP! This is the first thing people skimp on to get work done, but in order to function at your best you should be getting 7-8 hours a night. Sleep will also help you stay healthy and keeps you metabolism going.

EAT! Along with sleeping, keep up with healthy meals to power you through the long hours. Remember, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, try to get some protein in there for a jump start.

EXERCISE! If you can find the time to get a walk/run/bike ride in during the day it will release endorphins which will help with stress relief. This is probably the hardest to find time to do, but try. (I am a total hypocrite writing this one)

Meditate? I have found this as a suggestion, but just take some time for yourself. If you are stressing about something and working on it all day, take a little time to do something you enjoy, even if it is just watching a quick TV show.

And now I am done sounding like an RA bulletin board posting.