Fall 2014
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The Canary Project
Renowned as innovators in the field of interdisciplinary and activist art, The Canary Project produces visual media and artworks about the single issue of climate change. This exhibit brought together works by the principal members of the Canary Project, Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler, and more than a dozen Canary Project artists. Collectively these works explore ways in which the prospect of catastrophic climate change challenges the limits of human comprehension and agency. The exhibition proposed that these challenges can be a source of inspiration, melancholic beauty, engagement or defeat.
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September 4-October 2
Dennis Ichiyama
Laura Mesaros Gallery
Lecture: September 4
Ichiyama's current research focuses on historic wooden type in America and Italy. His typographic prints and designs have received national awards from the Type Directors Club (New York), and The Mohawk Show. He is currently professor in the Visual Communications Design Program in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University, West Lafayette campus.
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September 4-October 2
Joe Galbreath
Paul Mesaros Gallery
Lecture: October 2
Galbreath’s interests in graphic design include exploring and documenting vernacular design traditions, manual design making processes and independent publishing. His interest in letterpress technology and new ways of using old things also play an important role in his current research and form making. His work has been featured in Print magazine’s Regional Annual, Indie Publishing, and Fingerprint No. 2: The Evolution of Handmade Elements in Graphic Design.
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October 16-December 9
Jeff Rich
The Watershed Project
Laura Mesaros Gallery
Lecture: October 15
Rich’s work focuses on water issues, ranging from recreation and sustainability to exploitation and abuse. He explores these subjects by using long-term photographic documentations of very specific regions of the United States. Rich received his Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.
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October 16-December 9
Tugboat Press
Paul Mesaros Gallery
Lecture: October 23
Artists Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth of the Pittsburgh-based Tugboat Press create intricate woodcuts that celebrate the natural world and mankind’s relationship to it. Lueth and Roden build idealistic, meticulously patterned worlds with extreme focus on craft and detail. Rich color is layered in multiple impressions from hand-drawn, hand-carved and individually printed woodblocks.
Spring 2015
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January 22-February 26
How and Nosm
Deem Distinguished Lecture
Paul Mesaros Gallery
Lecture: January 22
How and Nosm are identical twin brothers whose graffiti-inspired art has gained international influence. They produce prints and paintings on canvas, though aerosol can is dominant in all their works. The pair uses a signature palette of reds, whites and blacks in complex, detailed designs with geometric patterns and stylized characters engaged in admittedly dubious activities. The brothers have become known across the world for redefining what constitutes graffiti and public art.
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January 22-February 26
Adelaide Paul
Laura Mesaros Gallery
Lecture: February 26
The main inspiration for her work is animals due to her strong relationship with and love for them. Paul's sculptures explore what she has referred to as “the alternately cloying sentimental and brutally callous relationship between humans and animals, both domesticated and wild.” Paul was the recipient of a PEW Fellowship in the Arts in 2007.
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August 26
Roger Crum
Deem Distinguished Lecture
Crum specializes in Renaissance Florence and modern Italy, but has published as well on the sculpture of Edgar Degas, the religious imagery of Barnett Newman, the photography of the Wright brothers, and the future of the book. He received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art history from the University of Michigan and his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh.