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Matt Rich, “ampersand.” Acrylic on cut paper and linen tape. 54 x 48.5, 2012. Submitted photo.

Abstract artist Rich to show accident and intention in work

August 7, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

When Matt Rich makes his abstract paintings, all the painting has already been done. His colorful geometric works are created by assembling pre-painted strips of paper in a versatile and reactive process.

“The abstract painter is traditionally bold,” Rich said. “You know, the gesture of the individual. I’m trying to make it more accessible.”

Rich will speak about his art, process and studio environment at 7 p.m. tonight in the Hultquist Center, the last of Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution’s Visual Arts Lecture Series this season.

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Caitlin Kambic works on an “abstract flying machine” sculpture assembled from individually molded pieces.

Open Studios night showcases art students’ season of work

August 6, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Anyone who missed the Student Exhibition in the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center last month has another chance to see the students’ work tonight at School of Art Open Studios. They can see the evolution of the work, talk with the artists about their process and buy the art. The program is from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight at the School of Art.

The scene at the Art Quad has been hectic for the whole season, but today marks the beginning of “crit week,” when the students get their final feedback from professors.

“We’ve been working really hard for the past seven weeks,” said student Lynda Diane Brody, “and we’re really excited to share what we’ve done. A lot of the work relates to our experiences at Chautauqua.”

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School of Art sculpture students share works inspired by film ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’

August 3, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 black-and-white silent film “The Passion of Joan of Arc” is a cornerstone of cinematic history, an atmospheric portrait of one of the most famous martyrs of all time — and now, the inspiration for a School of Art sculpture show.

From 7–9 p.m. today in the School of Art Quadrangle and drawing studio, eight sculpture students, led by faculty member Terry Adkins, will show their work generated in response to a shared viewing of the film.

“We thought that it would be a good idea to respond to a common experience,” said Adkins, professor of fine arts in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design.

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“Untitled,” 1996. Super sculpey. 5½ x 8½ x 3”

The balance in the paradox: Glantzman explores the undefinable

August 2, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

At the center of each piece of art is a paradox, a tension between two opposing forces that simultaneously negate and define each other.

“Yin-yang is a good way to describe it,” said Judy Glantzman, a painter teaching at the School of Art this week. “One thing is a negative space for the other. There’s a perpetual back-and-forth, and in that, there’s a space for meaning.”

Glantzman is speaking at 7 p.m. tonight in the Hultquist Center, giving a talk she has never before given.

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Artist and School of Art faculty member Stanley Lewis paints along the shores of Chautauqua Lake Friday afternoon. Photo by Adam Birkan.

Lewis to explore intricacy of artists’ interconnections, inspiration

July 31, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Stanley Lewis has a big piece of white posterboard covered in artists, their art and thick black lines connecting them. It was the easiest way, he said, to convey the spiderweb of associations in his mind.

“It looks much better on the poster than it does when I’m saying it, because God, it’s a mess,” Lewis said. “When you look at this poster, you really get the idea that there’s a lot of cross-connecting.”

Chautauqua is the stage for Lewis’ explorations into mural-making because of the freedom he finds teaching at the School of Art and the beauty of the setting.

The artists that Lewis will talk about in his lecture at 7 p.m. tonight in the Hultquist Center include José Clemente Orozco, Jackson Pollock, Robert Thompson, Hans Hoffman, Hale Woodruff and Jan Müller. Lewis’ lecture spans multiple countries, exhibitions and time periods, but links all those artists together through their influences on one another.

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Photo by Michelle Kanaar.

Student exhibition shows talent, variety in School of Art

July 21, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

There had been a countdown on the chalkboard at the Chautauqua School of Art for more than a week. It read: Seven days before Don picks your work for the Student Exhibition! Then five days, then three. Friday, Artistic Director of the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution Don Kimes chose work from each student to hang in the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center during the quickest exhibition installation of the season.

The art was hung in just one day, ready for the opening of the School of Art Annual Student Show Sunday from 3–5 p.m. in the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center. The show is unique among Chautauqua art shows, because the gallery does not open to viewers until the opening reception begins, in part because of the rapid manner of its assembly, and in part because of the popularity of the art.

“It’s always a challenge to place the show,” Kimes said. “A group show is always difficult to hang. There’s obviously no theme, except that it’s all students.”

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Olive Ayhens, “City Edge.” Oil on canvas.

Ayhens paints natural energy into New York City

July 17, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Transparent buildings lean on each other, scrabbling for purchase on slippery concrete. Around them, tiny cars beetle insistently along a yellow line, or are swept through New York on a swollen river. The city tries and tries not to fall into the ocean.

Olive Ayhens’ oil paintings and drawings reflect the hectic life of New York City, using the energy of the natural world she grew up with on the West Coast. Sometimes the geysers, volcanoes, earthquakes and floods tear up the city, and sometimes they serve as glimpses into its true nature.

Ayhens will speak tonight at 7 p.m. in the Hultquist Center about the progression of her work.

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President of VACI Partners Jack McKibbin stands with scholarship recipient Erika Mcllnay. Mcllnay is a sculptor attending Texas A&M for graduate school. Her scholarship was given in memory of McKibbin’s late wife Roberta McKibbin. Photo by Lauren Rock.

McKibbins’ support helps art student to immerse herself in her work

July 13, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 1 Comment

For many artists, studying at the Chautauqua School of Art is a unique and incredible opportunity to create a body of work, to connect with other students and teachers, to hone in on their true artistic form or to experiment with a new direction. And for many students, generous gifts and endowed scholarships make an otherwise out-of-reach experience possible.

For Erika McIlnay, a graduate student in sculpture at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, coming to Chautauqua gives her the time to try incorporating new media into her work.

“I found that here, I’ve had time to think about where my work is going, and I’ve shifted quite a bit since,” she said. “Having the time to actually think and work has been great — and the opportunity to be in this environment.”

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