Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Video Art at TSU-Plus 3 Ferris Wheels


Plus 3 Ferris Wheels is a traveling video exhibition stopping at TSU for ONE WEEK ONLY!

http://3ferriswheels.wordpress.com/


See more at Gallery site

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Online Exhibition honors the legacy of the Freedom Riders

See Show Here



The Center for the Creative Arts and the Department of Art at Austin Peay State University are pleased to announce the launch of We Are All In This Together: On Collectives, Highways,and the Superhighway curated by

Jodi Hays of Tennessee State University. This exhibition is the third hosted by Terminal and the first by a curator outside APSU.

Terminal is dedicated to artworks that were made to be viewed on the internet and rely on the interactivity and technology of the internet for viewing and experiencing.


See APSU Terminal Exhibition, We're all in this thing together

Thursday, June 5, 2008

TSU Freedom Riders

http://youtube.com/watch?v=k-jh_aBRyuc&feature=related

Friday, March 14, 2008

Cutie Pie at TSU

Reception- March 14, 3-5pm

Artist Talk: Mark Hosford, March 18, 2pm at TSU




Cutie Pie
Tennessee State University’s Hiram Van Gordon Gallery
www.tnstate.edu/gallery
March 10-28, 2008


Cuteness is a social construction. Referring to child-like appearance and behaviors, calling something “cute” puts it in its place. The disarming, seemingly light nature of small, demure things invites an inquiry into the deeper and more profound—small but mighty, so they say.

Lolita is the older sister of today’s “cute” alluring girl, using her innocent femininity to invoke desire or gain power over another. Desire, identity and nostalgia embodied in “cute” work- create an ironic ambiguity situated around innocence, sexuality and the mass image. From Japanese manga and Hello Kitty to the American “girl next door”, the nature of “cute” carries with it the power of cultural subversion, sexuality and consumerism. Takashi Murakami, with his cartoonish, googly-eyed characters, provokes discussions on war and the A-bomb-- proving that “cute” can pack a cultural punch.

The work in Cutie Pie is charming and playful, however not without edge or ambition. The exhibition includes works in which characters emerge. Characters endear and ingratiate, like a new untrained puppy. Artists in “Cutie Pie” invoke image, color, medium and pop-culture to engage in a visual dialogue on the nature of “cute.”


-Wendy Deschene (Auburn, AL, drawing) is a multi-media artist exhibiting exquisite drawings.
-Mark Hosford’s (Nashville, TN, printmaking) prints seem to invite (with warning) the viewer into the colorfully sinister world of an innocently twisted child. The works says at once “Come play” and “Watch it.”
-Jennifer Leach (Nashville, TN, printmaking) makes work that speaks to desire and kitsch.
--Kristi Ryba (Charleston, SC, video) fastidiously creates stop animation videos from miniature worlds of dolls and child’s play.
-Amy Santoferraro (Gatlinberg, TN/Philadelphia, PA multimedia installation) crams in the “cute” through her multi-media installations, blasting color and image together for a kitschy and elegant display-like a crazed collector showing off their obsessive habit.
-Barbara Schreiber (Charlotte, NC, painting) constructs Dick and Jane gone-awry bit narratives through her paintings.
- Rosemary Swain (Nashville, TN, ceramics) “nices up” a world of violence through her baby blue “Shredder” robot series, playing with irony but not without belief in the sweet birds that rest on her character’s shoulders.