Fall 2013
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September 5
Beau Cary and Cedra Wood
Beau Carey received both his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees in painting and drawing from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. His work has always dealt with the question of how to represent landscape in a way that is both visually engaging and critically aware of important issues concerning land use. He says that as an artist it is his job to engage fully with his community, to allow that engagement to inform his work, and thus allow his work to spur positive action within that community. Cedra Wood received her Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from Austin College, and her Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from the University of New Mexico. She currently lives and works in Albuquerque. Her most recent solo exhibition, “That Sound Under the Floor is the Sea” focused on her art-centric travels above the Arctic Circle in 2012. The exhibition included Wood’s journal, on display alongside loose-leaf studies, photographs, works on paper and documentation of performance work in the field.
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September 26
Joshua Dudley Greer
Joshua Dudley Greer received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and an Master of Fine Arts, with distinction, from the University of Georgia in 2009. His photographs have appeared in The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Volume 2, Flash Forward 2010, Smithsonian Magazine and Photographer’s Forum. He has received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, Tennessee Arts Commission and in 2012 was named one of the New Superstars of Southern Art by Oxford American.
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October 10-December 10
Carol Hummel
Paul Mesaros Gallery
Lecture: September 9
Hummel's work is ontological in intention and traverses the socially constructed constraints of difference by exploring the ties that bind human beings to each other through culture, kinship, history, social interaction and friendship. She worked with WVU art students, faculty, staff and community members to cover a tree near the Creative Arts Center with colorful knitted and crocheted yarn.
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October 10-December 10
Jenny Odell
Laura Mesaros Gallery
Lecture: October 24
Odell is a San Francisco native with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Design from the San Francisco Art Institute and a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work has been featured at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Google Headquarters and Les Rencontres D’Arles in France. It has also turned up in TIME Magazine, the Atlantic, the NPR Picture Show, Pop-up Magazine, Rhizome, Guernica and ESPN Magazine.
Spring 2014
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January 23-February 27
Andrea Polli
Laura Mesaros Gallery
Lecture: January 23
Polli is an artist working at the intersection of art, science and technology whose practice includes media installations, public interventions, curating and directing art and community projects, and writing. She is currently an associate professor of Art and Ecology with appointments in the College of Fine Arts and School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico.
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January 30
Nathan Martin
Martin is CEO of Deeplocal, an award-winning Pittsburgh-based advertising agency that has become synonymous iwth innovation. Deeplocal is a small agency that engineers new products on its own, while also performing paid service work for advertising clients.
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February 20
Dr. Mickey Abel
J. Bernard Schultz Endowed Lecture in Art History
Abel studies the abbey of Maillezais in western France, which had tremendous holdings during the Middle Ages and restructured the swamps and tidal lands into canals that persist to the present day. These changed not only the ecology but the economy of the region.