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Faculty Gallery Talks

2017-01-25 /

Please join us next Wednesday, Feb. 1, from 6-8pm in the Anderson Gallery as we invite several Drake Art & Design faculty members to speak about their work in the exhibit, Art3 mentor | faculty | mentoree, as well as the personal, formal, and conceptual relationships between their work and the work of their mentors and mentorees. 

Speakers will include Robert Craig, Catherine Dreiss, John Fender, Benjamin Gardner, Sarah McCoy, Emily Newman, and Neil Ward. 

Refreshments will be available. This event is free and open to the public.

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46th Annual Juried Student Exhibition

2017-01-19 /

Registration begins Monday, January 23, apply online here.

All Drake students can enter up to (4) artworks.  Here’s the details: 46thjuriedstudentexhibit.

Juror: Alison Feris, Senior Curator Des Moines Art Center

Schedule of events:

Registration: Jan. 23 – Feb. 3

Student work drop-off: Feb. 6, 7

Notification of work accepted: Feb. 9

Pick-up work not accepted: Feb. 13, 14

Opening reception: Sunday, 19, 1-3pm (awards 2pm)

Registration happens online here.  Print your registration form and attach the barcode to each artwork for jurying.  Contact Josh Cox or Alina Grimmwith any questions.  Good luck!

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Lecture Series presents…

2016-10-27 /

lecture-seriesIn recognition the Anderson Gallery at Drake University’s 20th year of renowned exhibition programming, the Anderson Gallery Lecture series is proud to present a celebration of past exhibitions and their continued relevance to contemporary art and society.  Notable Drake University Art and Design faculty will offer a series of short lectures highlighting past exhibitions that exemplify the sort of high-concept, cutting edge, and culturally relevant programming that the Anderson Gallery is known for.  The Anderson Gallery is not simply a place to see exhibits, but aims to serve as a cultural force in Des Moines and beyond – it is a site for critical discourse, professional and social engagement, learning, and aesthetic experience.  The first lecture in our series will take place on Thursday, Nov. 3 at 12pm.

 On Thursday, Nov. 3 at 12pm, artist and Associate Prof. of Art and Design Ben Gardner will present a discussion of Everyday Abstraction, a 2015 exhibition that explores contemporary abstract painting.  Featuring work by Megan Kathol Bersett, Maggie Crowley, Andrea Ferrigno, Brian Porray, and Jered Sprecher, Everyday Abstraction celebrates the power of abstraction to explore chaos, existentialism, nature, and the world beyond words. 

 Our discussion of Everyday Abstraction will be a brown-bag lecture and Q&A.  Attendees are invited to bring their lunch and enjoy it during the presentation.  Cookies and coffee will be provided.  Catalogs of the exhibit will be available. The event is free and open to the public, registration not necessary. Please call or email the gallery with any questions.

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Installation shot, Everyday Abstraction, Anderson Gallery 2015

Buzz Spector @ Anderson Gallery

2016-08-24 /

The Anderson Gallery is pleased to present Buzz Spector: A Library for Babel

Public Lecture, Thursday, Oct. 20, 7:30 PM, Harmon Fine Arts Center (FAC) 336

Opening Reception, Friday, Oct. 21, 5-7pm, 2505 Carpenter Ave., Des Moines

Since the mid-1980s, Buzz Spector has been making art by stacking thousands of books in configurations that are usually architectonic and always enthralling. Every structure made of books calls attention to its interior in a manner unlike other building materials. Since books are made to be read, the loyalties of the art viewer and book reader are divided, since responsible viewers do not touch the art while readers must do so in order that the book fulfills its purpose. Spector’s Anderson Gallery installation, A Library for Babel, inclines more toward browsing than building, but like the Biblical tower it is named after, this work confronts the infrastructural paradox of the differences between private and public language, between thought and text, and between the surface of a structure and the depth of its meaning.

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New Show Opens Friday April 8

2016-03-29 /

New Senior Thesis Exhibition Opens April 8 at Drake University Anderson Gallery

 

 

Three Drake Art and Design students are featuring a collection of their work in an exhibition titled Reflective Distinction. The exhibition will open on April 8 with a public reception from 5-7 PM at the Anderson Gallery, 2505 Carpenter Ave, Des Moines.

Reflective Distinction features the work of Betsy Hart, Rachael Kreski and Ryan Topete. Focusing on the development of nuanced expressions, the exhibition delves into the balance between elements of individuality and the importance of various influences to each artist, which vary from historical events, psychology, and the revival of the letterpress. Through a variety of media including painting, sculpture, graphic design, hand lettering, and photography, the selection of work on display explores the fruitful interplay between these themes. Reflective Distinction will run through April 22.

Betsy Hart is a BA double major in painting and psychology from Ankeny, Iowa. Her work approaches ideas of cognition and human consciousness through the process of dense layering, selective restraint, and exposed anomalies. Moving beyond traditional methods, her artwork pushes the balance between individual differences and human connectedness.

Rachael Kreski is a BFA graphic design major with a double minor in advertising and art history from Omaha, Nebraska. She is engaged in design, not only as a concept, but also a product of innovative ideas communicating visual messages through expressive typography. Craftsmanship is strongly utilized in application towards tactile materials in hand lettering and digital design.

Ryan Topete is a BFA in painting with an emphasis in drawing from Sioux City, Iowa. Through the use of contemplative imagery, bold forces of material, and meaningful refinement, his work grapples with conceptual ideas with varying degrees of abstraction.

 

 

45th Annual Juried Student Exhibition opens next Sunday!

2016-02-17 /

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Drake University’s Anderson Gallery is opening a new exhibition of student work as part of an annual juried show tradition. The 45th Annual Juried Student Exhibition at will open next weekend on Sunday, February 28, in the Anderson Gallery within the Harmon Fine Arts Center, 2505 Carpenter Ave. The gallery will host an opening reception and award ceremony from 1–3 p.m.

The annual exhibition features work by students from all studio and design disciplines. This year, the show will include over fifty works representing nearly thirty students from the Department of Art and Design, including several large-scale paintings and installations, carefully detailed etchings and drawings, handmade books, and works in new media, including digital video and augmented reality. The exhibition will remain on display through March 25.

Matthew Harris, administrator at the Iowa Arts Council, juried the exhibition, choosing the works for display. From those selected, Harris gave additional high honors to eleven works, which will be recognized as “Juror’s Choice.”

Award recipients will be announced and celebrated at the February 28 reception during a brief public ceremony at 2:00 p.m. Additionally, the Provost Purchase will be announced—this award allows one piece of artwork from the exhibition to be purchased for the University’s permanent collection.

Exhibition transforms in augmented reality

2016-01-27 /

 

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If you saw the exhibition “Are We Global Yet?” before, you still have not seen it now! Although to the naked eye the gallery space may appear unchanged, an entirely new installation of 12 objects is now visible in augmented reality. Visitors to the gallery are encouraged to download the free app “Layar” on their personal devices or borrow one from the gallery before traveling the space of the exhibition. Using the devices, visitors now can see and interact with virtual installations in the physical space created by students from Prof. Metrick-Chen’s January term course: “Art / Virtual Reality / App.”

In the J-term course, Prof. Metrick-Chen led the students in an immersive exploration of contemporary issues raised by the intersection of our world of digital world and public art. As part of the J-term, New Media artist, Prof. John Craig Freeman (Emerson College,) guided the students in a week-long workshop in which they created objects in augmented reality. The students participated in Freeman’s ongoing and transnational art project, “Things We Have Lost,” in which participants choose an object that represents something absent. The resulting artworks use prosaic objects to disclose moving and personal themes.

The Anderson Gallery will host a closing reception for the exhibition on Tuesday, Feb. 2 from 4:00-6:30 PM, and encourages Drake students, faculty, staff and the Des Moines community to join in the festivities! The exhibition, in both its physical and augmented form, will continue to be on display at the Anderson Gallery through Friday, February 12.

The exhibition is supported by the Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation, the Center for the Humanities at Drake University, Humanities Iowa, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

New show opening Friday!

2015-11-07 /
New exhibition opening at the Anderson Gallery challenges how we view our public spaces – global and local, physical and virtual

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Beginning Friday, November 13, the Anderson Gallery will feature a major new exhibition titled Are We Global Yet? The Art and Politics of Public Space (including the virtual), curated by professor Lenore Metrick-Chen and students from her curatorial capstone seminar. The exhibition, which runs through Feb. 12, 2016, brings together historical maps, student collaborations with homeless individuals in the community, and contemporary artwork from more than 15 artists to ask the question, “Are we global yet?” The exhibition will be complemented by a public symposium titled “Ethics of New Media” on Sunday, November 15; and in January, an augmented reality layer will add yet another dimension to the exhibition.
The exhibition began as an exploration by Metrick-Chen into the changing functions of public space in our digital world. “Public space is always a negotiation, usually contested,” Metrick-Chen said.” Are We Global Yet? explores connections between technology and power and between surveillance, protection, and control; and raises awareness of different groups vying to define public space. The selected artworks augment our awareness of ethical issues associated with public spaces, which range from the local (for example, homelessness and political activism) to the global (implications of surveillance and how we represent ourselves and our location on maps).”

Damon Davis, All Hands On Deck, 2014         Image from larger photographic installation                  Image courtesy Damon Davis
Drake students engage in curatorial research 
The exhibition was researched and curated by Lenore Metrick-Chen and Drake seniors Jenna Boures, Paul Brown, Genna Clemen, Hannah Hennessy, Rachael Kreski, Grace Lim, Daniel Nutt, Tyler Poirier and Ryan Topete. The curatorial capstone is designed to engage students in the research, design, and installation of a major exhibition at the Anderson Gallery. It is offered every one or two years and is now in its fifth iteration.
Students in the course broke into teams to examine the area of greatest interest to them and began extensive research on an artist whose work relates to that issue. Many of the students were able to interview artists via Skype or email as part of their research. Focus areas include issues of race, gender, class and nationhood.
One group of students met with a collector from Iowa City who owns more than 50 maps dating from the mid-1500s to the early 1900s. The students were able to explore the political and social concerns expressed in these centuries-old maps, several of which will be displayed in the gallery.
Another group worked collaboratively with a local homeless shelter to display a “day in the life” of a person who is homeless. Working with Drake alumna Terry Thomas, vocational and supportive services manager at Central Iowa Shelter and Services, Metrick-Chen and two students distributed 20 disposable cameras to CISS patrons with instructions to fill the roll of film with photographs. The students will display three of those photo rolls, each from a different homeless artist, at the exhibition.

Annabel Manning and Celine Latulipe, Interactive Surveillance Installation, 2010-2015   Image courtesy the artists.

Will Pappenheimer and Zachary Brady, Skywrite (ongoing since 2012) Augmented reality installation Image courtesy the artists.
Additional works in the exhibition include an installation of All Hands on Deck by Damon Davis, political mapping by Mark Lombardi, code poetry by Eric Manley and Peter Wildman, photography by Ben Easter and Braden Summers, and interactive works by John Craig Freeman, Ken Rinaldo, Joseph Delappe, Will Pappenheimer, Zach Brady, Annabel Manning and Celine Latulipe.
Gallery will host public symposium “Ethics of New Media” on Sunday, November 15 at the Patty and Fred Turner Jazz Center
The Anderson Gallery will host a free public symposium from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, that will explore a range of ethical issues that often go unexamined pertaining to the creation and use of digital technology. Four guest speakers will present; two between 10 a.m. and noon, and two from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Presenters will speak for 30 minutes each, followed by 15 minutes of questions. Refreshments and light fare will be provided. Seating is limited for this event and attendees are encouraged to reserve seating by calling Heather Skeens at 515-271-1994 or emailing heather.skeens@drake.edu. The Patty and Fred Turner Jazz Center is located on the northwest corner of the Drake University’s Harmon Fine Arts Center at 25th and Carpenter Avenue. Handicapped accessibility is available from Carpenter Avenue.

Screenshot sequence from Imaging Place: U.S./Mexico Border, © John Craig Freeman, 1997–2007. Courtesy ofthe artist.
Guest speakers include:
• John Craig Freeman, artist and professor of New Media Art at Emerson College in Boston, Mass., discussing augmented reality and the pros and cons of its ability to create markers of events in contested locations such as the Mexican/ US border;
• Steve Tomasula, novelist, critic and professor of English at Notre Dame University, in Notre Dame, Ind., discussing access to digital technology and his decision to write books specifically and solely for iPads;
• Dorothy Santos, writer, editor and curator based in San Francisco, discussing gender issues—especially the dearth of women—in authoritative positions in the design of digital technology;
• Roopika Risam, digital humanities and postcolonial scholar and assistant professor of English at Salem State University in Salem, Mass., on the intersections of social cultural with digital humanities, especially postcolonial and racial aspects of these intersections. 
The “Ethics of New Media” symposium is made possible with support from the Center for the Humanities at Drake University.
Exhibition transforms using augmented reality applications in January
Are We Global Yet? will offer an entirely new visitor experience after the holiday break. The exhibition will reopen to the public on January 19, 2016 and although the gallery space may appear to be unchanged, an entirely new installation will be visible in augmented reality. Visitors to the gallery will be encouraged to download a free app on their personal devices or borrow one from the gallery before traveling the space of the exhibition. Using the devices, visitors will be able to see virtual installations in the physical space created by students from Metrick-Chen’s January term course. Students participating in the J-term course will work with exhibiting artist John Craig Freeman to develop and implement their creations.
Are We Global Yet? The Art and Politics of Public Space (including the virtual) is supported by the Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation, the Center for the Humanities at Drake University, Humanities Iowa, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views and opinions expressed by this program do not necessarily reflect those of Humanities Iowa or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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