Category: Clemson Curates

Clemson University visual art students will be on full display this fall in several of the Clemson Visual Art’s (CVA) gallery spaces.

The second half of the semester features a calendar full of student exhibitions. The public is encouraged to view the talented rising art undergraduate students currently on display through the Portrayed and NextUp Invitational III. Art students in the Creative Inquiry called “Clemson Curates” reviewed all of the submissions and selected the final artworks included in these exhibits.

Both Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Master of Fine Arts (MFA) graduating students present a comprehensive show of work prior to graduation. These exhibits are a special time for visual arts students, allowing them to reflect on the transformational experience Clemson has provided and choose pieces that best personify the student’s creative achievements.

BFA senior exhibits and MFA thesis exhibits showcase the culmination of year-long research endeavors. Visual Arts students go through a series of critiques aimed at helping build a body of work of the students’ choosing.

NextUp Invitational III

Currently on display until Jan. 21, 2019

M-F, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

CAAH Dean’s Gallery, 108 Strode Tower

NextUp Invitational III is an exhibition of work selected by the Clemson Curates Creative Inquiry team showcasing twenty three “up and coming” undergraduate art students enrolled in the Department of Art Bachelor of Fine Arts program. On view are works selected from over 230 submissions to the Foundations Review, which took place during the spring semester including drawings, painting and ceramics. Participating artists include: Joseph Alewine, Rachel Bader, Marilyn Baughan, Carrie Bull, Jiawei Deng, Katherine Eaves, Daniella Espinoza, David Gordon, Ethan Hajas, Meghan Hammel, Hannah Horowitz, Cassidy Mulligan, Tiffany Oliver, Emmy Packer, Hannah Rivers, Holly Rizer, Aislinn Rosier, Anthony Santucci-Curci, Ansleigh Sapp, Susan Sorohan, Nicole Stoudemire, Savannah Wood, and Madeline Watkins.

Portrayed

Currently on display until Jan. 28, 2019

M-F, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Sikes Hall Showcase, Ground Floor

Portrayed is an exhibition examining the ties between self-portrait and self-awareness. Curator Hannah Gardner ’17 invited Clemson University artists to create a self-portrait and choose one work to describe themselves. Artworks within the exhibition have the image created by the artists and the word to describe themselves layered upon each other to represent both the inside and outside of the person simultaneously. Participating artists include: Mariana Aubad, Peter Barry, Hannah Cupp, Anna Davis, Lauren Davis, Zeez Egers, Nicole Embree, Katie  Francis, Amanda Hazell, Caroline Herring, Clair  Hicks, Geneva Hutchinson, Katherine Kesey, Kara Lerchenfeld, Connor  Makris, Wilson Marshall, Mary Jo May, Cassidy Mulligan, Amanda Musick, Holly  Rizer, Zoë Rogers, Hannah Sexton, Taylor Staaf, Michala Stewart, Anna Sullivan, Annamarie Williams, and Peden Wright.

Collective kəlCHər – MFA Thesis Exhibit #1

Nov. 12–16

M-F, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Artist Talks and Reception: F, Nov. 16, 6–8 p.m.

Lee Gallery, 1-101 Lee Hall

The key role of culture is the shaping of values and attitudes of people. Culture is also seen as a moderating factor in the conduct of people, their relationships with others, their disposition to life and their perception of issues and stereotypes. Collective kəlCHər examines why people act as they do based on the influences of their social and cultural group memberships. The Master of Fine Arts Thesis exhibition explores these concepts through the ceramic work of Ashan Pridgon, printmaking by Caren Stansell and paintings by Dustin Massey.

Terra Flux – MFA Thesis Exhibit #2

Nov. 26–30

M-F, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Artist Talks and Reception: F, Nov. 30, 6–8 p.m.

Lee Gallery, 1-101 Lee Hall

The Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibit, Terra Flux investigates the relationship between people and the natural environment. Humanity’s role in shaping the world around us is foregrounded through the deconstructed landscapes of photographer Amanda Musick, through the hybrid biomorphic industrial forms of ceramicist Conor Alwood, and through the barren forests of printmaker Mandy Ferguson.

Together, these works ask viewers to consider their position in our ever-changing surroundings.

Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Exhibit

Dec. 5–12

M–F, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Artist Talks and Reception: F, Dec. 7, 6–8 p.m.

Lee Gallery, 1-101 Lee Hall

The Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Exhibit showcases work by seniors in the studio disciplines of Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Photography and Sculpture.  Artists include Beth Ayers, Shelby Compton, Hannah Cupp, Taylor DeYoung, Jacob Lehman, Connor Makris, Amiee McShane, Sydney Smith, Anna Sullivan, and Peden Wright.

The public is invited to meet the next generation of artists on display by attending the artist talks and receptions. For more information about these exhibits, contact Lee Gallery Director Denise Woodward-Detrich at woodwaw@clemson.edu.

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Clemson Visual Arts at Clemson University

The importance of the arts at Clemson University goes back to Thomas Green Clemson’s vision for a “high seminary of learning.” As an accomplished painter, an avid art collector and an arts advocate, Clemson understood the importance of art to our nation and the world. Clemson University continues to carry out his vision by incorporating art throughout its facilities. Visitors are encouraged to engage with the Clemson Visual Arts (CVA) by experiencing the exhibitions in the many gallery and showcase spaces, by viewing the public art found all over campus, and by attending special events. For more information and to access the full calendar of events, please visit clemson.edu/cva.

Exhibitions, artist talks and receptions are free to the public thanks in part to the generous support given to the Center for Visual Arts. To belong to the Friends of the Clemson Visual Arts, visit cualumni.clemson.edu/give/cva.

CLEMSON — Top artists in Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs at Clemson University, University of South Carolina and Winthrop University teamed with honors students at Clemson University in an undergraduate English Accelerated Composition course to explore and interpret the theme Corporeal Complexities: Bodies in Process. The end result is a statewide juried exhibition of MFA work curated by the honors students. The Coordinator of Museum Interpretation at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, Virginia Sweeney juried the exhibit. The exhibition runs until Jan. 29 with a Juror’s Discussion and Reception occurring Friday, Jan. 16, 6 – 7 p.m. in the Center for Visual Arts (CVA) – Lee Gallery on Clemson’s campus.

Corporeal Complexities: Bodies in Process Exhibit allows the participating artists to explore how an apparently permanent world of seemingly unchanging humans is actually changing quite rapidly. Changes add and intersect with one another to create layers of complexity. The MFA students have explored these complexities, placing the human body in context of an ever-changing world. The artists selected for this exhibition include Laken Bridges, Tanna Burchinal, Vivianne Carey, Lindsey Elsey, Alex Giannell, Lee Ann Harrison, Nina Kawar, Mary Jane King, Joel Murray, Brent Pafford, Caley Pennington, Thomas Seay, Hilary Siber, Moses Tsai, and Samantha Valdez.

This exhibition is the product of an extended collaboration between the Center for Visual Arts (CVA) and undergraduate honors students in English at Clemson University through the Clemson Curates initiative. Clemson Curates is the product of an interdisciplinary collaboration across the University to promote the arts. Faculty teach experiential-learning courses through a partnership with the CVA, allowing students to gain practical knowledge of how arguments are constructed and analyzed both within classrooms and in the broader world. These courses encourage students to consider different ways of constructing arguments as a core component of Clemson’s mission to emphasize writing across the disciplines. Students learn to consider the arts and visual rhetoric from a variety of perspectives and fields, providing them with a more comprehensive view––taking students from classroom-based knowledge to broader applications both inside and outside the arts.

The contributing honor students are Caroline Bales, Dustin Brecht, Jon Brownfield, Matthew Carson, Jonathan Drake, Meredith Ellis, Jake Flynn, David Gundana, Alexander Herd, Ethan Kirkland, Joseph Litts, Hannah Mace, Andrew Moore, Sophia Porach, Peter Rowan, Andrew Shumaker, Taylor Thompson, Katie Tobik, and Sean West. These students collaborated with several members of the Clemson University faculty and staff: Denise Woodward-Detrich, CVA Lee Gallery director; John Morgenstern, visiting assistant professor of English; Kathy Edwards, research and collection development librarian for the Gunnin Library; Jan Lay, Clemson computing and information technology technical learning instructor; Meredith Mims McTigue, CVA/art department marketing and public relations director; and Nathan Newsome, CVA Lee Gallery intern.

The Center for Visual Arts – Lee Gallery at Clemson University will be open for this exhibit M – TH, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (excluding University holidays) and is located at 1-101 Lee Hall. The street address is 323 Fernow Street, Clemson, SC 29634.  The Exhibit  as well as Juror’s Discussion and Reception occurring Friday, Jan. 16, 6 – 7 p.m. in the Lee Gallery is free and open to the public thanks in part to CVA generous donors.  For more information about the CVA – Lee Gallery, contact Denise Woodward-Detrich, Director at woodwaw@clemson.edu.

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Opening Day!

Take a study break and come to the Lee gallery at 9:30 a.m., for the opening of Corporeal Complexities: Bodies in Progress. In celebration of the exhibition’s opening and the culmination of a semester of work, we’ll have hot coffee and delicious donuts with all the different art pieces as the perfect finals-week combination. Get your first look at this exhibit’s amazing pieces! READ MORE

CLEMSON — Artists in Master of Fine Arts (MFA) programs at Clemson University, University of South Carolina and Winthrop University teamed with honors students at Clemson University in an undergraduate English Accelerated Composition course to explore and interpret the theme Corporeal Complexities: Bodies in Process. The end result is a juried exhibition of MFA work curated by the honors students. The Coordinator of Museum Interpretation at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, Ginia Sweeney juried the exhibit. The exhibition opens Dec. 10 and closes Jan. 30 with an artist reception Dec. 10, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. and Juror’s Discussion and Reception occurring Jan. 16, 6 – 7 p.m. in the Lee Gallery on Clemson’s campus.

Corporeal Complexities: Bodies in Process allows artists to explore how an apparently permanent world of seemingly unchanging humans is actually changing quite rapidly. Changes add and intersect with one another to create layers of complexity. The MFA students have explored these complexities, placing the human body in context of an ever-changing world. The artists selected for this exhibition include Laken Bridges, Tanna Burchinal, Vivianne Carey, Lindsey Elsey, Alex Giannell, Lee Ann Harrison, Mary Jane King, Nina Kawar, Joel Murray, Brent Pafford, Caley Pennington, Thomas Seay, Hilary Siber, Moses Tsai, and Samantha Valdez.

This exhibition is the product of an extended collaboration between the Center for Visual Arts and undergraduate honors students in English at Clemson University through the Clemson Curates initiative. Clemson Curates is the product of an interdisciplinary collaboration across the University to promote the arts. Faculty teach experiential-learning courses through a partnership with the CVA, allowing students to gain practical knowledge of how arguments are constructed and analyzed both within classrooms and in the broader world. These courses encourage students to consider different ways of constructing arguments as a core component of Clemson’s mission to emphasize writing across the disciplines. Students learn to consider the arts and visual rhetoric from a variety of perspectives and fields, providing them with a more comprehensive view––taking students from classroom-based knowledge to broader applications both inside and outside the arts.

The contributing students are Caroline Bales, Dustin Brecht, Jon Brownfield, Matthew Carson, Jonathan Drake, Meredith Ellis, Jake Flynn, David Gundana, Alexander Herd, Ethan Kirkland, Joseph Litts, Hannah Mace, Andrew Moore, Sophia Porach, Peter Rowan, Andrew Shumaker, Taylor Thompson, Katie Tobik, and Sean West. These students collaborated with several members of the Clemson University faculty and staff: Denise Woodward-Detrich, Lee Gallery director; John Morgenstern, visiting assistant professor of English; Kathy Edwards, research and collection development librarian; Jan Lay, Clemson computing and information technology technical learning instructor; Meredith Mims McTigue, CVA/art department marketing and public relations director; and Nathan Newsome, CVA-Lee Gallery intern.

The Center for Visual Arts – Lee Gallery at Clemson University will be open for this exhibit M – TH, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (excluding University holidays) and is located at 1-101 Lee Hall, 323 Fernow Street, Clemson, SC 29634.  Gallery talks and reception are free and open to the public thanks in part to CVA generous donors.  For more information about the Lee Gallery, contact Denise Woodward-Detrich, Director at woodwaw@clemson.edu.