DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY
FACULTY NEWS
updated 9/21/09
Barry Anderson's city-wide project, Intermissions, is on view in Syracuse, NY, through the end of October 2009. Sponsered by Light Work and Syracuse University, the project highlights his videos and photographs at 13 venues around the campus and city. A complete listing of the venues can be found here. A video interview about the project, created by Ellen Blalock for the Syracuse Post-Herald, is availale online.
Kati Toivanen's installation Commemorating the Everyday, Today was reviewed by Alice Thorson in the Art section of the Kansas City Star on Sunday, February 1, 2009. The installation was unveiled October 17, 2008, at City Center Square in Kansas City, MO and will remain on view through the summer of 2009. The work was commissioned by the Urban Culture Project in collaboration with City Center Square.
Rochelle Ziskin's book entitled Sheltering Art: Cultural Quarrels and Social Identity in early 18th-century Paris has been accepted for publication by Penn State University Press.
Frances Connelly has a book forthcoming with the University of Washington Press, titled The Image at Play: Grotesque Improvisation, Subversion, Revelation. Her second book, Modern Art and the Grotesque (2003) will be reprinted in paperback by Cambridge University Press this year. In addition, Dr. Connelly has been invited to contribute a volume to the new, interdisciplinary series on Modernism published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Recent invitations to present her research include the College Art Association, Duke University, and the American Anthropological Association.
She serves as the co-chair for the Midwest Art History Conference to be held this year at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Barry Anderson is currently completing a commissioned video piece for the Salina Art Center in Salina, KS. The video, titled Always Becoming Something (3), is comprised of video portraits of Salina residents. The video will be on exhibition at the SAC beginning March 5. Another new video work of his, Lawn Ornaments, was in a group exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas in January.
Elijah Gowin has two exhibitions opening in January at Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, VA, and at Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA.
He has also recently published a book with his father, Emmet Gowin. The book, titled Maggie, has already garnerd attention including a recent review in ARTnews Magazine.
Ricky Allman had a three-person show open January 9 at the Byron Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art in Kansas City. In the coming months his work will be featured in group exhibitions at Jail Gallery in Los Angeles, David B. Smith Gallery in Denver and Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.
He also has work featured in the new book Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture published by Forty Forty Press.
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.
