The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University is pleased
to announce the availability of two timely and important exhibitions -
"Animal Nature" and "Groundworks: Environmental Collaboration in
Contemporary Art." They are offered through 2008. Please contact the
gallery for additional information.
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Animal Nature
showing at Carnegie Mellon August 26-October 2, 2005
The Animal Nature exhibition, catalogue and related projects are
unconventional in their approach. The undertaking brings together artists
from around the globe with scholars and critics who all are engaged in
investigations of “the animal” in one way or another. Rather than positing
a tight thesis, this exhibition-as-experiment contains diverse responses to
open-ended questions. The animal and animal-body have long been sites of
controversial research - medical studies, pharmaceutical investigations,
and consumer product testing, to name a few. Animal Nature focuses on a
different kind of research: poetic, empathic, personal, semiotic, formal.
The exhibition is co-curated by Jenny Strayer, director of the Miller
Gallery, and Lane Hall and Lisa Moline, artists and faculty at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A full-color catalogue produced by the
Miller Gallery will also be available. It features an essay by Steve
Baker, author of "Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity and
Representation" (2001) and "The Postmodern Animal" (2000); along with
entries by Lane Hall and Jenny Strayer.
Artists include:
Edwina Ashton and Steve Baker
Catherine Chalmers
James Duesing and Jessica Hodgins
Lane Hall and Lisa Moline
Andrew Johnson
Eduardo Kac
Dorijan Kolundzija
Lyne Lapointe
Per Manning
Olly & Suzi
Michael Pestel
Angela Singer
Steve Wilson
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Groundworks: Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art
showing at Carnegie Mellon October 14-December 11, 2005
Conference, with Tom Finkelpearl keynote speaker, October 15-16, 2005
Groundworks examines the artist's role in social and environmental change
at a planning scale. Groundworks - the exhibition, catalogue and symposium
- are outgrowths of a five-year project by 3 Rivers 2nd Nature in Carnegie
Mellon's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
The exhibition is curated by Grant Kester of the University of California
at San Diego, author of "Conversation Pieces: Community and Communications
in Modern Art," and features an international group of artists. Kester
writes:
“From debates over global warming and Alaskan oil drilling to the impact of
suburban sprawl on the countryside, an understanding of the environment has
never been more important. Groundworks will give viewers the opportunity to
see projects by some of the most innovative artists and art collectives
working on environmental issues today. The exhibit is truly global in
scope, with participants from Africa, Argentina, Austria, Japan, India,
Germany and England, as well as the United States."
A full-color catalogue features critical essays by a range of theorists
including Maurine Greenwald, University of Pittsburgh; Maria Kaika of
Oxford University, U.K.; Grant Kester; Andrew Light of the Environmental
Conservation Education Program at New York University; and
Malcolm Miles of the University of Plymouth U.K.
Artists include:
Ala Plastica
Navjot Altaf
Christine Brill and Jonathan Kline
Jackie Brookner
Tim Collins and Reiko Goto
Stephanie Flom
Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison
Walter Hood and Alma Dusolier
Ichi Ikeda
Les Huit Facettes
Constance Merriman and Thomas Merriman
A. Laurie Palmer
Park Fiction
Platform
Ann Rosenthal
Susan Steinman and Suzanne Lacy
Wochenklausur
For additional information, contact:
Jenny Strayer, Ph.D.
Director
Regina Gouger Miller Gallery
Carnegie Mellon
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
412 268 3618 event line
412 268 4746 fax
www.cmu.edu/millergallery
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