February 27, 2013: An artist’s talk by painter Linden Frederick, 4:15 p.m., Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College.
February 27, 2013: An artist’s talk by painter Linden Frederick, 4:15 p.m., Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College.
The 2011 Senior Exhibition featured works for graduating visual arts majors featuring a range of media from photography and sculpture to performance and painting. Students were responsible for organizing the event, a collaborative effort that included curating, promoting, installing and documenting. The show was exhibited in down town Brunswick’s Fort Andross where it remained open to the public for one week.
The 2010 Senior Exhibition featured works for graduating visual arts majors featuring a range of media from photography and sculpture to performance and painting. Students were responsible for organizing the event, a collaborative effort that included curating, promoting, installing and documenting. The show was exhibited in down town Brunswick’s Fort Andross where it remained open to the public for one week.
Portland Press Herald: Art Review: Biennial backs up good looks with visceral subtext
Bowdoin connection includes: Cassie Jones ’01
WHERE: Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 162 Russell Ave., Rockport
WHEN: Through Dec. 2
HOURS: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday; 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday
HOW MUCH: $5 suggested donation; free for members and children}
INFO: 236-2875; cmcanow.org
Mark Wethli and Cassie Jones at Exhibition Opening
Isabelle Smeets, Dutch Artist and member of BIOMODD (NYC4).
She will talk about her involvement with BIOMODD, a multifaceted socially engaged art installation that finds meaningful relationships between biology, computers and people. On the most basic level, Biomodd creates symbiotic relationships between plants and computers, and ignites conversations among the community around them. Another project she will discuss is a conceptual architectural project called “A Watchtower of Nothingness.”
The event is co-sponsored by the Art, Biology and Computer Science Departments and the Environmental Studies Program.
Artist’s talk: Isabelle Smeets
October 15, 20124:15 PM – 6:00 PM
Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom
Artist’s Talk: Katherine Bradford
Lecture – Evolving Printmaker: Liz Chalfin September 24, 2012
Liz Chalfin is director of Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, Massachusetts, a studio dedicated to safer and non-toxic printmaking. The imagery in her prints and books explores social, spiritual, and psychological issues through the use of figuration and abstraction. She will talk about her work as an evolving printmaker and studio director. FREE.
SPONSORED BY the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project at Bowdoin College.
A Day, a deconstructed book of observations on a single day, 2012, intaglio prints, and a detail of a single page spread. Photo by Stephen Petegorsky.
Monday, September 24 at 4:15
Beam Classroom, VAC
Bowdoin College
Lecture – Evolving Printmaker: Liz Chalfin September 24, 2012
matthew rasmussen
Art & Time is a multimedia Visual Arts course that introduces students to conceptual and time-based art practices, and to techniques in video art, performance art, and kinetic sculpture. This first assignment was inspired by contemporary works of art such as “The Clock” (2011) by Christian Marclay, and “Real Time: Sweepers Clock” (2009) by Maarten Baas. Each of the aforementioned works are 24-hour-long single channel videos that depict the passage of time. Marclay edited together thousands of clips from cinema and television history, creating a montage that is also a functioning timepiece. Baas filmed performers sweeping trash into lines that, from above, move and function like the hands of a clock.
For this assignment, each student was asked to film themselves “performing the time” for one hour. Each of their hour-long videos functions as a clock, accurately depicting the passing minutes in either analog or digital form. The video documentation of their performances have been sequenced to create a 24-hour-long “YouTube clock,” which can be viewed on the website maketimetaketime.com. Philadelphia-based artist Ryan Hinkel has designed the website so that it synchronizes the videos with the local time on a visitor’s computer. The site is ultimately a functioning clock, literally “playing the time” from the moment you arrive.
Please visit maketimetaketime.com to see the project in action on your personal computer.
To view each video individually, visit our “ArtandTime” Channel on YouTube.
Dave Fogler ’90 – Visiting Artist
April Vollmer is an expert in traditional Moku Hanga, or Japanese woodblock printing, technique. She brought Japanese prints with her to illustrate the history of Moku Hanga. She described the various functions of these prints in society while explaining the advancements in technique that occurred over the centuries.
This visit came to professor Carrie Scanga’s Printmaking I course just after students completed their first series of woodblock prints, cut and printed with the Western method and tools, and designed in the style of the German Expressionists. The Western and Japanese methods for carving and printing are very different. The Japanese method is quite complex, but it allows artists to make amazing uses of color. Her visit gave students the opportunity to learn about the Japanese tools and methods for carving a woodblock, and the students got to create prints from antique carved woodblocks.
