Studio Art

Join us for a lecture and Q&A by Brazilian artist Néle Azevedo.  She will be discussing her installation Minimum Monument: Art as Emergency.

Brazilian artist Néle Azevedo brings her internationally known “Minimum Monument” event to Middlebury. With help from students, faculty, staff and members of the Middlebury community, she will install 300+ ice sculptures (little men and women) outside Davis Library. And then we will leave them to melt… or will we? A visual metaphor for climate change, Azevedo’s work challenges the traditional meaning of the public monument: “in the place of the hero, the anonym; in the place of the solidity of the stone, the ephemeral process of the ice.” A community event not to be missed.

Mark Dorf is a New York based artist whose creative practice employs a mixture of photography, video, digital media, and sculpture. In his most recent work, Dorf explores the human’s perceptions of and interactions with digitally simulated domains, urban and architectural environments, and the “Natural Landscape”. With an interest in post-anthropocentric and new materialist theory, he scrutinizes and examines the influence of the information age in order to understand our curious position within the 21st century world.

Kathryn Kerr is a New York based artist who received her MFA from Yale in 2018. Her paintings are made like a memoir- notebook of events, dreams, maps, circumstances, recollections, and meetings. With precise scrutiny of the observed and inner world, the work uses the specifics of connections, such as remembered encounter or a hands delicate touch to vault a perceived space, to grapple with a burning present. This results in a body of work that desires to magnify the smallness within and to clarify the muddiness of being alive.

In this gallery talk, visiting artist Alison J Carr will discuss her recent work, inspired by mid-century pinup artist Zoë Mozert.

Dasha Shishkin is a Russian artist who works in acrylic, gouache, pastel, conté crayon, graphite, and ink, and produces prints by etching. She studied at the Parsons School of Design, where she produced her first set of prints from 2001 to 2002, The 400 Series, nine etchings so named for the number of minutes she allowed herself to prepare each drawing. One of her drawings from this period was used for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s 2005 debut album cover.[2] Shishkin earned an MFA from Columbia University in 2006, and lives in New York City.[4]

Works of hand drawn animations from Studio Art courses ART 185 and ART 200 will be screened along with a concert performance by Raumshiff Engelmayer.
Raumschiff EngelMayer is a multifaceted musician who will be working along with the students finalizing their drawing animations. The resulting animations will be a part of his live concert.

A Studio Art Event.  Free and open to the public.

Come to Johnson on Thursday evening for art and food. Come to view the work of all students enrolled in the 700 Studio Art thesis class this year as a display of their final work.