DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY
FACULTY NEWS
updated 9/24/08
Elijah Gowin was awarded a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship to finish his Of Falling and Floating series. His photographs can be seen in the group exhibition American Photographs at Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan from September 4-30, 2008. In September he and his dad collaborated to publish the photo book Maggie which will also be shown as a traveling exhibition in 2008-09.
Barry Anderson completed a commission for a unique single-channel video for the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, KS. The piece, titled Op Eyes, is part of the museum's permanent collection and will be on view in the museum's new media gallery beginning November 21, 2008. Barry will be giving a lecture in the museum's auditorium on November 20, 2008.
Kati Toivanen completed a site-specific public art installation titled Commemorating the Everyday, Today which will be unveiled October 17, 2008, at City Center Square in Kansas City, MO. The work was commissioned by the Urban Culture Project in collaboration with City Center Square.
Ricky Allman had a solo exhibition of paintings at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS, August 29-September 12, 2008. His paintings were featured on the website www.dailyserving.com in August 2008 and in issue 77 of New American Painting. One of his paintings will also be featured on the cover of the October 2008 issue of Review Magazine.
Craig Subler was reviewed in the Kansas City Star Preview supplement on February 21, 2008.
Barry Anderson was featured in the cover article of the Kansas City Star Preview supplement on February 8, 2008.
Barry Anderson and Craig Subler were reviewed in The Pitch on February 7, 2008.
Kati Toivanen has been invited to teach a Digital Media and Photography workshop at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO, this summer. The workshop is called “Digital Delight &
Make-Believe”.
Barry Anderson and Craig Subler are showing new work in a two-person exhibition at Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO. The exhibition opened January 11 and continues through March 1.
Ricky Allman was named on Wallpaper Magazine's 2008 Graduate Directory of 110 artists and designers to watch.
Paul Tosh won awards in three recent design competitions:
Kansas City Freelance Exchange "Freebie" Awards
(1 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze)
Kansas City Region AIGA A4 Competition (1 Gold)
Kansas City Region Addy Awards
(1 award/level has not been announced)
Barry Anderson showed three new HD video animations at the Aqua Art Wynwood Fair during Art Basel Miami December 5-9, 2007. The work was represented by Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas, TX.
Elijah Gowin, Craig Subler, and Kati Toivanen are all included in the new book 10, which highlights the first ten years of Kansas City's Charlotte Street Foundation Awards. Elijah won the award in 2006, Craig won it in 2005, and Kati won it in 2001.
Ricky Allman, Assistant Professor in Painting, gave a lecture at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, on Wednesday, October 10 as part of the Slideshow series on the second Wednesday of each month.
Barry Anderson, Assistant Professor in Electronic Media, showed his single-channel HD video Treebeasties (1) in the following exhibitions:
Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
two-person exhibition with Ted Kincaid
September 8-October 13, 2007
Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Country Side group exhibition
September 29-October 31, 2007
White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
solo exhibition in the Library Space
October 13-November 10, 2007
He has been commissioned by Bruce Hartmann, Director of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, to create a site-specific video to be shown in 2008 on the facade of the new Regnier Center building, which is adjacent to the Nerman Museum on the Johnson County Community College campus. This video will also become part of the permanent collection of the Nerman Museum.
Frances Connelly, Professor in Modern Art History, was invited to give a lecture titled "The Monstrous Modern: Primitivism and the Grotesque" at Duke University and will present a paper at the College Art Association annual conference in Dallas this spring.
She has a book chapter on "John Ruskin and the Ethics of the Picturesque" due out this year in Representations and Reconstructions in Nineteenth-Century Art, ed. Laurinda Dixon and Petra Chu.
She is nearing completion of her book, The Image at Play: Grotesque Improvisation, Subversion, Revelation, which will be published by the University of Washington Press.
Elijah Gowin, Assistant Professor in Photography, showed new photographs in the following exhibitions:
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
The Elements: Air group exhibition
September 16-November 4, 2007
Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Holland
Act of Faith group exhibition
September 18-October 28, 2007
Craig Subler, Professor in Printmaking, was Artist in Residence at Ox-Bow artist colony in Saugatuck, MI, this summer.
He had a print accessioned into the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art this past April.
He had a print accepted in the national juried exhibition “Wicked & Wise” at the Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University Murray, KY.
Paul Tosh, Associate Professor in Graphic Design, has been re-elected to the Board of Directors of the Kansas CIty Art+Copy Club, an affiliate club of the Kansas City Ad Club. He was also re-elected to serve as Co-Chair of the Education Committee.
He has been nominated and has accepted to serve on the Education Committee of the national University and College Designers Association (UCDA). This is a newly formed and added committee by the UCDA Board of Directors, recognizing the importance of design education and the need to respond to the increasing numbers of design educators within the membership of the UCDA
Maude Southwell Wahlman, Dorothy and Dale Thompson/
MO Endowed Professor of
Global Arts, will be presenting a paper on “The History of African American Quiltmaking,”at the Midwest Popular Culture Association/ Midwest American Culture Association Conference, October 12, 13, 14, 2007, at the Radisson Hotel & Suites, Kansas City-City Center, 1301 Wyandotte Ave., Kansas City, MO, on Friday, October 12, from 2:30-4:00 PM, in Salon A1. She organized the panel on the Influences of African American Quiltmaking on American Culture and Popular Culture.
She is also the Chair/Discussant for the following panel on Friday, October 12, from 4:15-5:45 PM, in Salon A1, on African American Quiltmaking, Music, and Truth-Telling, which features a Screening and Discussion of the films Killer Wails: Part 1, Truth in a Different Tune and Killer Wails: Part 2, The Dreams of the Leviathan. Presenter: Reginald Gant, Independent Filmmaker and Scholar.
