Alumnus Derek Reese exhibition at Fairmont State University, Fairmont, WV

Derek Reese exhibition to open Tuesday, December 1st in Brooks Gallery at the School of Fine Arts, FSU

OSU Alumna Sarah Weinstock Exhibition at the OSU Arts Initiative

The Md. Gallery Grand Opening with Alumni Artist Ellen Hines!

Behind G&R Tavern @ side on Spring St.

Featuring:

• Patti Sharpe
• Lannette Davis
• Ellen Hines
• Tim Gorenflo

Refreshments and Music!

Matt Kowal, Open Books

Friday November 6th through Monday November 30th, 2009
1st Friday Reception: November 6th, 2009, 6-9pm

The book, its cover, dust jacket, blank pages, and index are parts of the physical container. They ease transportation, standardize features, and encourage production. During digitization, a translation occurs; book-container-words transform into representative format, code, and symbols. The book has been unbound and reformed as a container consisting of information wrapped in computer code. This process pertains to the informatics of electronic literary distribution. The archived digital texts portray an order and flatness that is inherent to the printed word. This transformation streamlines and expands dissemination.

Matt Kowal’s Open Books deals with the perceived flattening of these books into essential file and format. The information and the container become intermixed, resulting in a composite of imagery, literature, and function. The book as an object, becomes free from its boundaries and contextual meanings. It becomes a printed production.

Matt Kowal is an artist living in Portland, Oregon. He was born in Oberlin, Ohio and has a Bachelors of Fine Art in Photography from Ohio State University. He refrains from eating meat, loves physical activity, and is passionate about interdisciplinary technology. View his work at www.kowalabearhugs.com.

Lauren Kalman featured in American Craft and Exhibition Opening

Lauren Kalman, OSU alumni artist featured with cover image and article written by Gabriel Craig in American Craft.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/20284286/Gabriel-Craig-the-Transgressions-of-Lauren-Kalman

Lauren is exhibiting Blooms, Efflorescence and Other Dermatological Embellishments at the University Gallery at UMass Lowell, October 5th - 30th

Opening Reception and Artist Talk October 7th, 3-5pm

www.laurenkalman.com

VITALforms

VITALforms \\\ *Office of Collective Play

VITALforms is a collective comprised of Cassandra Troyan and Nicole Langille. On September 26 they float through the sky in a hot-air balloon in an act that utilizes collected texts, poems, letters and improvised speech to make an amplified conversation between two bodies. Situated in close proximity to each other in the balloon basket and at a distance with viewers positioned on the ground, this action examines the vulnerability inherent in speaking, the ways we communicate emotion, and the disconnections made between us--no matter how close or far apart from one another.

Viewers on the ground choose to continue in the conversation as they chase (or not) VITALforms, negotiating with the limitations of moving across the earth’s surface in opposition to the drifting words and unrestricted motion of the two bodies in the hot-air balloon basket, apart together.

JOIN US! Meet on Saturday, September 26 at 4:30 p.m. on the quad on CCAD’s campus, corner of Cleveland Ave. and E. Gay St. The balloon departs at 5:30 p.m. from an undisclosed location. (RAIN DATE: September 27. Same plan.)

Alumna Rachel James, MFA in Photography 2008, Exhibiting at ROY G BIV

"A History Of Objects" is a two-person exhibition showcasing the work of alumna Rachel James at ROY G BIV Gallery during the month of August.

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 1 from 7-10pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, August 29 at 2:30