Thursday, March 27, 2008
Student Art Exhibition runs through Sunday
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Make time to view the work of USI’s exceptional art students from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 6-13 in the University Conference Center. The opening reception for the 38th Annual USI Juried Student Art Exhibition will be held April 6, with an awards ceremony at 3 p.m. that day. The juror for the exhibition is Ilona Granet, a painter, ceramicist, sculptor, sign maker, performance and video artist, and professionally trained dancer. She will present a slideshow lecture on her work at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. Granet earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Tyler School of Art and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The New York native also studied at Columbia College (dance) and the Chicago Academy of Music. Her paintings, sculptures, and street signs have appeared in exhibitions at the Chelsea Art Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Adam Goldbaum Gallery, Exit Art, P.P.O.W. and the Abraham Lubellsky Gallery in New York; the Peace Museum and Art Institute in Chicago; the Yale Art Museum in Connecticut; and the ONO Bühne Gallery in Switzerland. She was a member of Disband, a “girl band” of artists, with Martha Wilson, Ingrid Sischy, Diane Torr, and Donna Henes, from 1978 to 1982. In February, the group reunited for a 30th anniversary reunion for the current show WACK!: Art & the Feminist Revolution at P.S. 1 MOMA in New York. Granet was awarded the prestigious Tiffany Foundation Award in painting in 2005. She was selected for the 2006 Artist Fellowship in Schloss Plueschow, Germany; the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Bellagio, Italy; and for artist residencies at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, Virginia; the Ragdale Foundation in Chicago; and the U-Cross Foundation in Wyoming. Bluer Pastures: Stage Street Salon, a mini-retrospective of Granet’s work will be on display at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art from Saturday, March 22, to Sunday, April 27. The show will feature Granet’s ceramic urns, Street Sign series, and paintings. A reception for the artist will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 29, and is free and open to the public. New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is located at 506 Main Street in New Harmony, Indiana. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Call 812/682-3156 for more information. |
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