SEASON 10
EXHIBITS IN THE GALLERY
September 2013 - August 2014
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| September 27 - October 25, 2013 | Opening Friday September 27, 6-9 p.m. |
main gallery + drawing room
VISTA THIS IS A SPECIAL PROJECT in support of The Nature Conservancy. Manifest will be contributing 33% of its proceeds from any sale of works in VISTA to the Nature Conservancy in an effort to help offset our own, and our patrons', carbon footprint.
"We need nature, and particularly its wilderness strongholds. It is the alien world that gave rise to our species, and the home to which we can safely return. It offers choices our spirit was designed to enjoy." – Edward O. Wilson, The Future of Life
Landscape: It's much more than a pretty picture, a view through a window, a morning sunrise, or a forested hillside. Today landscape has come full circle to encompass humanity despite our attempts to subdue, reform, resist, and conquer it. We are finally realizing the limits of our sphere and our connection to it. What was once a vast sea of natural form grown in place through millennia has now been largely measured, marked, peeled back, and defined by the human race. Like some tolerant hidden giant bearing the weight of one species, the Earth and the land it spawned us from defines us, yet quietly defies us. Landscape is where we come to terms, discover hope, and take a broader view. Inevitably it is also where we recognize that the limitation of our landscape is also probably our own; it is a critical vista. In honor of all the Earth has given and continues to give, Manifest invited artists, designers, architects, and others to submit artwork to this competitive juried exhibit which marks the opening of our 10th season of exhibitions. Manifest is pleased to share this carefully selected collection of works featuring landscape as their common theme, by artists representing an incredibly broad geographical radius. VISTA received a record number of entries for a gallery project at Manifest. Our several-member blind jury process reviewed 1,020 works by 409 artists from 43 states and 18 different countries. Twenty-two works by the following 20 artists from Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and England were selected for exhibition.
Presenting works by: Jonathan Aumen Colin Blakely Judith Brandon Sue Bryan Katherine Cox Meghan Duda Kent Krugh Kevin Kunstadt Bryce Lafferty Philip LaVelle Marc Leone Craig Lloyd Tony McAteer Billy Renkl Chris Segre-Lewis Alexander Solomon David Stanger Kathleen Thum Samantha VanDeman Jenny Wiener
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Perennial by Sue Bryan
New Topographies I by Colin Blakely
Untitled 2 by Alexander Solomon
Monte Soratte from Civita Castellana by David Stanger
The Where of the Here by Philip LaVelle
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| November 8 - December 6 | Opening MANIFEST'S NEW GALLERIES Friday November 8, 6-9 p.m. |
main gallery + central gallery + north gallery
FRESH PAINT
At some point many generations ago society reached a level where ordinary people could spend a lifetime perfecting their ability to mix and apply paint, in extraordinary ways. For only its second time in ten seasons Manifest will present a competitive group exhibition focused exclusively on painting. FRESH PAINT is a gallery exhibit that called for works of painting by artists around the world in order to reveal how they carry the tradition forward, or reform it for another day. Through a complex blind jury process seven jurors from across the U.S. reviewed 940 works by 369 artists. Forty works by the following 32 artists from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and the countries of Canada, China, and Germany were selected for exhibition.
Presenting works by: Margery Amdur Kenneth Batista Donald Beal Evan Boggess Neil Callander Bryan Christie Adrian Cox Timothy Duong Brett Eberhardt Zara Feeney Hans Habeger Kelly Jordan Tim Kennedy Robert Kolomyski Philip LaVelle Eileen MacArthur Nicholas Mancini Susannah Martin Michael McCaffrey Marcus Michels Joe Morzuch Steen Pedersen Jeremy Plunkett Nicholas Raynolds Jerry Schutte Benjamin Shamback David Smith Casey Snyder David Stanger Tana Tapson Joshua Willis Dennis Wojtkiewicz
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Willem by Bryan Christie
Bricks in a Circle by Joe Morzuch
Homunculus Too by Nicholas Raynolds
Pillow by David Stanger
Rathbone by Robert Kolomyski
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drawing room + parallel space
AQUACHROME
Quite possibly the oldest form of painting, watercolor persists today, defying narrow categorization and broad stereotype. Practiced for centuries in concept development preliminary to 'finished' paintings made in oil or other scale-worthy durable media, watercolor also found favor with botanists, illustrators, and portraitists, and was applied to varied and countless surfaces. The nature of the media itself represents a delicate and dictatorial transparency, fluidity, and a potential for expressive spontaneity. This not only makes it an ideal vehicle for contemporary art, but also one of training, intensity, philosophy, and play for any who practice it. Where an artist can easily dominate other painting media, forcing a will through viscous layers into a work of art like taming a wild horse, with watercolor there is dialog, compromise, and undeniable forthrightness. In this way the artist practicing watercolor works with a tiger in the room. Manifest's several-member blind jury process reviewed 335 works by 139 artists. Seventeen works by the following 14 artists from Alaska, California, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and the countries of Belgium and India were selected for exhibition.
Presenting works by:
Carrie Callihan Dhiman Dam Richard Diedrich Alexandra Dooley Melissa Gwyn Nathan Heuer Tim Kennedy Garry Mealor Samantha Mitchell Roberto Osti Christopher St. Leger Diane Szczepaniak Wouter van de Koot
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Deconstruction of a Werewolf by Roberto Osti
Rainbow Bright by Alexandra Dooley
Girl on the Grass by Winnie Sidharta Ambron
From Behind The Stars by Diane Szczepaniak
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| December 13 - January 10, 2014 |
main gallery + drawing room
TAPPED 4 The relationship between art students and their professors can be a powerful one. Even when this bond is left unstated, we carry our professors' voices forward in time as we mature as artists and people. We eventually realize that the instruction given by our teachers during our relatively brief careers as students continues to expand within us. We realize that the learning they inspired (or insisted upon) is a chain-reaction process that develops across our lifetime. All of us who have been students carry forward our professors' legacy in one form or another. And those who are, or have been professors, bear witness to the potency of studenthood. Out of respect for this student-teacher bond, and in honor of professors working hard to help their students tap into a higher mind relative to art and life, we offer TAPPED, an annual exhibit that presents works of art by current or former professor/student pairs. For this exhibit 145 artists submitted 305 works for consideration. Sixteen works by the following 16 artists were selected for presentation in the gallery and Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. The artists are listed in pairings to illustrate their teacher/student relationship.
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parallel space
MARKING TIME
Manifest is proud to showcase an intimate look at this veteran artists's recent work. Navarra's book-sized drawings are reminiscent of Christian and Islamic manuscripts, Indian Mughal painting, and perhaps Medieval cartography. With a nod to graphic design combined with a pinch of postmodern appropriation his works mesmerize, seeming purposeful and systematic, mysterious and whimsical, and at once vandalous and playful.
Of his work Navarra states: "I have always defined drawing as making marks on a surface, which leaves the door open for what is a mark and what is a drawing surface. In my case, I have chosen to work on old 'found paper' documents. Being more than 100 years old, I inherit a history of mark-making circumstance on these found documents in regards to stains, tears, smudges, folds, color of paper, design elements, stamps, gesture, and a narrative, just to name a few. It is a vocabulary of preordained aesthetics that I must react to, develop a relationship with, choose to enhance, delete, adopt, or obliterate, while imposing new layers from my own time and interval of space. In a sense, it becomes a metaphor for how we deal with our past and our collective history, whether we choose to ignore it, change it, embellish it, and/or bring its more important components into the light of day."
Doug Navarra received his BFA from Tyler School of Art in 1976 and an MFA from the University of Minnesota in 1979. His awards as a visual artist include a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship (1980), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1985), two Pollock-Krasner Fellowships (1999 & 2012), and an Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship (2003). He has also been Visiting Artist at The Museum of Art and Design in NYC (2010). His work as been included in exhibits around the U.S. including OK Harris Gallery (New York City), Oktabec Gallery (Los Angeles), Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design (New York City), among many others. His work is featured in the collections of Maine Artists' Space - The Danforth Collection, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Museum of Arts and Design in NYC, Muskegon Museum of Art, Rutgers University, Washington Square Partnership, and the Brooklyn Museum. Navarra lives and works as a visual artist in upstate N.Y.
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central gallery
ONE 4 $1000 award All of Manifest's calls for entry are competitive. The stiffness of the competition has increased in proportion to Manifest's growing reputation, multi-faceted mission, and international reach. Our mission to stand for quality, to create a system whereby works are judged with objectivity as a primary aim, and assembled with as little subjective curatorial agenda as possible has gained the respect of thousands of artists from all over the world, and a vast following of arts lovers, patrons, and supporters. We respect the creative principle of reduction (the jury process) as it is employed to achieve an essential conclusive statement for each exhibit we produce. This is what has led to the high caliber of each Manifest exhibit, and to the gallery's notable reputation. Competition does breed excellence! With this principle of reduction in mind, we have been inspired by the intensity of jury after jury to narrow down a collection of entries to a suitable end result. Therefore we determined to push the process to the ultimate limit - from among many to select just ONE work. This work will be the recipient of the fourth annual MANIFEST PRIZE, a cash award of $1000 to a single work selected by our rigorous jury process, and presented in a gallery all to itself as the highlight of the competitive process, an honor to the artist, and a poignant statement for gallery visitors. Manifest's jury process for ONE included three levels of jury review of 441 works by 197 artists by a total of 19 different jurors. Each level resulted in fewer works passing on to the next, until a winner was reached. The size and nature of the works considered was not a factor in the jury scoring and selection.
The winning work is a painting entitled "Self-Portrait with Worn Wall" by Erin Wozniak of Canton, Ohio. It will be the recipient of the 4th annual MANIFEST PRIZE, and presented in the Central Gallery from December 13 through January 10, 2014. It will be accompanied by juror statements and the artist's statement. Erin Wozniak was born in 1980 in Canton, Ohio and received a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design where she was named Outstanding Senior in Fine Arts. While pursuing her BFA, she was awarded a summer fellowship to study at Yale University at Norfolk. After graduating, Wozniak continued her studio practice abroad, living in New Zealand where she won the Goldwater National Art Award. She went on to study Art Education after returning to the U.S. and is currently teaching visual art at Alliance High School in Alliance, Ohio. Wozniak is a twotime recipient of The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and has had work included in national and international juried exhibitions. In both 2009 and 2012, she had a painting selected to tour the United Kingdom as part of the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Portrait Award and Exhibition. In 2012 and 2013, Wozniak had work selected for the Art Renewal Center’s International Juried Salon, winning second place in drawing. Her work has also been selected for the 8th International Drawing Annual (INDA 8) and the 4th International Painting Annual (INPA 4) to be published by Manifest Press.
The Manifest Prize is an annual offering, and with anticipated increased sponsorship the prize amount will grow in coming years. Five semi-finalists will also be featured in the season-documenting Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA). These are works by Daniel Dallmann, Matthew Davey, Marshall Harris, Damon Mohl, and Janvier Rollande.
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Self-Portrait with Worn Wall
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north gallery
REGIONAL SHOWCASE:
In 9 seasons Manifest's projects have included works by artists in 49 states and 37 countries. Starting with its 10th season, and as a result of its recent gallery expansion by 66%, Manifest is launching a new ongoing series of exhibits focusing on works by artists living in its own three-state region. This is intended to complement the ordinarily very wide geographical makeup of most Manifest exhibits with a closer look at what's being done here, now, in our own backyard. Manifest was founded, and continues to be operated by regional artists, so it is only fitting that, with more space in which to program, the organization should offer the Regional Showcase series. We feel this is important for the artists and the public living within reasonable driving distance of the gallery. It will give each a chance to show and share, and to gain perspective on our region's creative wealth as it relates to the broader art world. To launch the series, which will change in theme and scope from show to show, with three or four installments planned each season, we opted to survey the region for works on paper. The only criteria beyond being works on paper of excellent quality was that they were made by artists living in Ohio, Kentucky, or Indiana. Manifest's several-member blind jury process reviewed 261 works by 102 artists. Thirteen works by the following 11 artists from all three states were selected for exhibition and will also be featured in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA) at the close of the season.
Presenting works by: Kelly Jo Asbury
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Symbiosis 3 by Alice Coulter
Rain by Kim Bissette
Self Portrait by Ron Monsma
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| January 24 - February 21 | Opening Reception - Friday, January 24, 6-9 p.m. |
main gallery
RELEASING THE VEIL Free public artist talk: Saturday, January 25, 4pm. This solo exhibition of eleven of Jason John's recent paintings is one of six selected from among 165 proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest's tenth season. Manifest is proud to showcase these dramatic paintings in our Main Gallery. John's tightly crafted yet playfully surreal works are energized by color, composition, and the theatrical narratives implied by the interaction of the human subjects within environments at once restricting and liberating. Of his work John states: "My interest as an artist is related to how people build personal identity in relation to personal memory and their social world. The situations the individual has experienced can drastically alter the shape of a person’s memory and furthermore, a person’s identity and social perception. As a painter, I represent figures trapped in an environment of uneasiness and flux. Some or all of the people in my paintings are concealed by a veil or mask. Partially concealing the identity of an individual removes the personal relationship viewers would expect to feel for those represented. Each character in my paintings has become one with their environment and can evolve toward empowerment or devolve into personal displacement and loss of identity." Jason John's work is represented at WWA Gallery in Los Angeles, California and Sylvia White Gallery in Ventura, California. Recently Jason was inducted into the Museum of Realist Art in Boston, Massachusetts. His work has been on the covers of Blue Canvas Magazine, Art Calendar, Poets and Artists Magazine, and Visual Arts Overture Magazine. His work has also been featured in American Arts Quarterly, American Art Collector Magazine, Manifest Gallery’s International Painting Annuals 1, 2, and 3, Studio Visit Magazine, Creative Quarterly Magazine, and Aesthetica Magazine. Jason is presently assistant professor of painting at University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
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Lift
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drawing room + parallel space
IMPRINT Like photography, printmaking is a genre of creative work that is underscored by its processes. Some artists are steadfast traditionalists, anchoring themselves in age-old technical methods. Others push the boundaries of the discipline, exploring just what constitutes ‘printmaking’. For this exhibit Manifest takes a fresh look at the media last featured in season 5.
Presenting works by: Mary Claire Becker Sean Caulfield Nick Conbere Rick Finn Carl Gombert Brett Groves Karla Hackenmiller Anthony Holmquist Abner Jonas Williams Kitchens Jimin Lee Beauvais Lyons Sharon Navage Jeremy Plunkett Ramiro Rodriguez Keely Snook Dorothea Van Camp Art Werger Jenny Wiener Danielle Wyckoff
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William Kitchens
Jimin Lee
Ramiro Rodriguez
Rick Finn
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central gallery + north gallery
SYSTEMATIC SYSTEMATIC seeks to present and examine works of visual art or design which in their form, production, or concept offer insight into the nature and effects of systems. This exhibition concept offers a very wide window through which artists and designers were invited to interpret and apply their work. For this purpose 'systems' was defined loosely as processes or information made up of routines or rules, by which 'inputs' are converted into 'outputs' through a consistent orderly method. For example, works may themselves be products epitomizing systematic processes, may simply be illustrative of such processes (i.e. an image of machines in a factory system), or may be imitations of systematic products or results. Systems may be tangible physical processes, or conceptual, political, or philosophical processes. The goal is to reveal how such a modern concept such as 'system', one which affects so much of our daily lives, shows up in visual art, illustration, or design. It is also to inspire deeper consideration of this fact on the part of the visitors to the exhibition - to reveal the interconnected processes into which they themselves provide fuel, directly or indirectly through participation or consumption. Manifest's several-member jury reviewed 289 works by 129 artists from 29 states and 8 countries. Sixteen works by the following 14 artists from ten states and the country of Slovenia were selected for exhibition and will also be featured in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA) at the close of the season.
Presenting works by: Julie Abijanac Erin Anderson Ian Bellomy Wilson Boria Beth Brown Brut Carniollus Anna Chupa Bryon Darby Pamela Farrell Dan Good Jean Hess Nichole Maury Tana Tapson Kathleen Thum
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Kathleen Thum
Tana Tapson
Bryon Darby
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| March 7 - April 4 | Opening Reception - Friday, March 7, 6-9 p.m. |
main gallery + drawing room
TALES TOLD Before books, before photography and video, before blogs, there was the story. Art certainly shared its infancy in prehistory with narrative storytelling, one giving form to the other. Over time they entwined, merging, melding, reforming into a few streams of expression. Today it often seems that one, visual arts, has become a cast-off eddy of uncertainty, while its two sister streams, music and theater/film, enjoy rampant success flourishing storytelling in the fertile grounds of technology and consumer society. However, visual art is not the withered limb it may sometimes appear. Lest we forget, design and illustration (the so called 'commercial' aspects) thrive alongside the performing arts. But even in Fine Art, that narrow range of the full spectrum of visual arts, story is alive and well. One could even say that all art is about telling a story. In that way, art carries the quietest, yet perhaps most potent, and hardest to extract story of them all. Recep Akar Susan Byrnes Tim Clorius Adrian Cox James Ehlers Jade Hoyer Primary Hughes Heidi Jensen Brandon Lowery James Russell May Joseph A. Miller Sara Pearce Joshua Risner Doug Stapleton Christopher Troutman Theresa Wall Duggan Art Werger
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James Ehlers
Joseph A. Miller
Susan Byrnes
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parallel space
REGIONAL SHOWCASE: In 9 seasons Manifest's projects have included works by artists in 49 states and 37 countries. Starting with its 10th season, and as a result of its recent gallery expansion by 66%, Manifest is launching a new ongoing series of exhibits focusing on works by artists living in its own three-state region. This is intended to complement the ordinarily very wide geographical makeup of most Manifest exhibits with a closer look at what's being done here, now, in our own backyard. Manifest was founded, and continues to be operated by regional artists, so it is only fitting that, with more space in which to program, the organization should offer the Regional Showcase series. We feel this is important for the artists and the public living within reasonable driving distance of the gallery. It will give each a chance to show and share, and to gain perspective on our region's creative wealth as it relates to the broader art world. For this second in the series, which will change in theme and scope from show to show, we opted to survey the region for works of photography. Manifest's several-member blind jury process reviewed 295 works by 100 artists. Eleven works by the following 9 artists were selected for exhibition and will also be featured in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA) at the close of the season.
Presenting works by: Barry Andersen Claire & Stephen Brewer Preston Buchtel Ian Campbell Maureen France Lou Krueger Rosalie Rosenthal Krista Walker Kim Young
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Krista Walker
Lou Krueger
Preston Buchtel
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central gallery
SELECTIONS FROM THE FORM SERIES
We are happy to share Nathan Sullivan's paintings in a solo presentation. His paintings evoke a sense of a microscopic universe populated by ordinary and familiar organic objects seemingly suspended in a state of playing out an important biological epic. The exhibit puts the gallery visitor in the midst of this drama, implicating them in the event, or making them the subject of these paintings' attention.
Of his work Sullivan states: "In choosing my subject I am searching for the unspectacular. Content can be found in the mundane, meaning contained in the smallest thing, and poetry in the simplest moment. My practice is bound in phenomenology. The work is an act of ingestion and investigation, an embodiment of these acts of consciousness. My focus is directed at the experience with the natural world–its space, time and physicality. My works are drawn and painted to present and reflect upon the prosaic rectitude of the ordinary in order to bring attention to the ignored, the forgotten, and the unseen. It is the microcosms that are entries to greater understandings."
Nathan Sullivan was born in Pittsfield, Massachuetts in 1978. He received his Bachelors in Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2000 and a Masters in Fine Art from Syracuse University in 2005. His work has been shown in exhibition both nationally and internationally. His Form Series has been exhibited in solo shows at Edinboro University, Furman University and South Oregon University. His landscape work was exhibited at University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri in a two-person exhibition. His work is in the collection of Purdue University, Syracuse University and in numerous private collections. He has taught drawing, painting and printmaking at Syracuse University, SUNY Oswego, University of Montana, University of Missouri and Franklin Pierce University. He currently lives and works in southern New Hampshire. Sullivan's paintings are also included in Manifest's International Painting Annuals 1, 2, and 3.
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north gallery
RECENT PORTRAITS
Manifest is proud to showcase an intimate look at this veteran artists's recent work. Erwin uses pastels or oil paints to create searing self-portraits and paintings of family members in a style that have origins in seventeenth century portrait paintings. Most recently, her paintings have explored the link between herself and her mother of an advanced age. Other bodies of work have examined self-portraiture through the guise and lore of saints. Erwin examines her subject with an acute psychological focus that is at once contemporary and, at times, startling.
Of her work Erwin states: "My paintings, in pastel on Wallis museum grade paper, have twin goals of celebrating realism and re-invigorating portraiture. After fifteen years of self-portraiture, I am able to expand my boundaries to include family members, thanks to the use of photography. With this medium, I am able to capture images of far-flung relatives that allow me to pictorially explore classic family dynamics. The resulting compositions can be, at once, alluring and disturbing. The mother/daughter, and sibling relationships inspire paintings that potentially mine the universal complexities of family interactions. "
Gaela Erwin has lived and worked primarily in the Mid-West and Southeast United States. She received her BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 1973 and received her MA from the University of Louisville in 1983. In the summer of 1988 she studied with Robert Beauchamp through the Studio Art School of the Aegean in Samos, Greece. In 1989, Erwin studied with Jack Beal at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Currently she has a studio in Louisville, Kentucky. Erwin has been the recipient of numerous awards, fellowship and artist’s residencies. Grants, to name only a few, include several awards from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the Al Smith Fellowship and the Artist’s Fellowship Inc. Residency fellowships include Yaddo, Mac Dowell, Virginia Center for the Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts and Obërfalzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany and The Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annaghmakerrig, County Monoghan, Ireland. She received the prestigious residency award from the Camargo Foundation where she was artist–in-residence in Cassis, France. Erwin was the winner of a commendation award from the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever National Portrait competition in 2009. She was awarded a travel grant to study the work of Caravaggio in Rome Italy from the Italian Cultural Institute in 2011. Gaela Erwin has exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally including at the Lexington Art League, Arkansas State University, the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and the University of Kentucky Art Museum in Lexington, Kentucky and the Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences in Evansville, Indiana, the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama, the Ogunquit Museum of Art in Ogunquit, Maine and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. Her work is also on display in various corporate collections as well as private collections in the U.S., Canada and Germany. Her work is also included in Manifest's forthcoming International Drawing Annual 8 (INDA 8).
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| April 18 - May 16 | Opening Reception - Friday, April 18, 6-9 p.m. |
main gallery + drawing room
KINGDOM Images of animals in art have existed parallel to those of humans for as long as images (and objects) have been made by people. Our social, creative, and psychological evolution is inextricably tied to our relationships with animals. Whether it be the taming of the wolf, resulting in 'man's best friend', the tethering of the horse which magnified the power and geographic reach of humans, or the domestication of herd animals which contributed to the establishment of cities and large concentrations of people (and the growth of culture), they are all part of the trajectory of humanity to this point in time. All have been documented, explored, and deified throughout the long process by images and objects featuring animals. But this isn't just history (and pre-history). The animal remains a powerful subject in contemporary art. So Manifest has chosen once again to feature an exhibit which will reveal the state of the animal in contemporary art. With this we called for artists working in any media to submit works that in some way feature or address animals, real or imagined. Curtis Bartone Barbara Blacharczyk Ingrid Blixt Ryan Buyssens Hannah Cameron Michael Felber Adrienne Ginter Ally Glowacki Kimberly Kersey-Asbury Lou Krueger Paul Loehle Beauvais Lyons Kathy McGhee Douglas Miller Kay Myers Gail Simpson Ezra Tucker Roscoe Wilson McCrystle Wood Ted Zourntos
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Ryan Buyssens
Kimberly Kersey-Asbury
Douglas Miller
Gail Simpson
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parallel space
THREE MINUTES
While dwelling on rural pastimes in Michigan and Ohio, Seder Burns' photographs provide a fractured view into the photographic medium itself. Using straight-up film photography and hand-made devices, Burns explores how time itself is a potent subject for art. This intimate exhibit continues Manifest's commitment to exploring image making in art across all media. Of his work Burns states: "This series of surreal photography of rural Ohio and Michigan pastimes is meant to question our perception of time and the veracity of photography. Taken with a unique homemade camera, similar in design to those that produced the first images from space, Ferris wheels in motion look like candelabras and people look like cardboard cutouts. These distorted images are created in camera and are not manipulated afterward. My photographs represent a different approach to recording time and space.” Seder Burns is an artist and professor of art. Most of his work is lens based, but he also works with a wide variety of mediums from paper-craft to 3D animation. He is currently a Lecturer of photography at the University of Michigan. He received his M.F.A. in Digital Arts in 2009 and M.Ed. in Career and Technical Education in 2006 from Bowling Green State University. Burns' photography is also included in Manifest's International Photography Annual 1.
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north gallery + central gallery
DRAWN Manifest was founded in-part to stand for the importance of drawing as a process, skill, and discipline, and as a continuing viable product of the creative fine art and design fields. Since its inception the organization has continued to incorporate drawing-based programming, including education (Drawing Center), publications (INDA), and gallery exhibits into the broader spectrum of its projects. The students and professors who formed Manifest in 2004 knew that despite their diverging career paths (architecture, art history, painting, industrial design, photography) they were brought together on account of their connection to drawing and their mutually intense but multi-faceted pursuit of this fundamental discipline. In honor of the original spirit of the founding ideals of Manifest, the gallery has chosen in its 10th season to launch DRAWN as a new annual exhibition. DRAWN will seek to survey and present the broad scope of drawing being made today. This gallery exhibit is completely separate from but will complement the annual INDA publication project. DRAWN called for artists to submit works of drawing in any media relevant to the practice (including non-traditional approaches), any style, and any genre (fine art, illustration, design, conceptual, realism, etc.). Harry Ally Tamie Beldue Eric Brennan Sue Bryan Joomi Chung Chris Day Alexandra Emberley John Gaunt Mark Hanavan Takayuki Hara Melanie Johnson Chris LaPorte Zachari Logan Taylor Mazer Armin Mersmann Nina Pascal Elena Peteva Janvier Rollande Sheldon Tapley Mary Wagner
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Takayuki Hara
Janvier Rollande
Joomi Chung
Mark Hanavan
Mary Wagner
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| May 30 – June 27 | Opening Reception - Friday, May 30, 6-9 p.m. |
main gallery
RITES OF PASSAGE An Exhibit of Works by Current or Recent Undergraduates Initiated in 2005, The Rites of Passage exhibits were developed to support student excellence by offering a public venue for the display of advanced creative research; to promote young artists as they transition into their professional careers; and to bring the positive creative energies of regional and national institutions together in one place. With this tenth annual installment of the Rites series, Manifest offers a $300 best of show award to reward excellence at this career level. The Rites call for submissions was open to students graduating or expecting to graduate in 2013, 2014, or 2015 (undergraduate juniors, seniors, and those who graduated last year). For this exhibit 130 artists representing 76 academic institutions submitted 303 works for consideration. Twelve works by the following 10 artists representing ten different academic institutions are featured in the 10th annual Rites of Passage exhibit. Artists are listed with their academic status as of the dates of their entry into this competition. Why is this important? Autumn Bussen Kayla Carlson Mary Claus Alexandra Dietz Tyler Griese Jamey Hart Chancelor Havlik Shannon Lee Kolton Miller Cassie Shaver
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Kayla Carlson, Senior, Clarke University
Jamey Hart, Senior, Cleveland Institute of Art
Alexandra Dietz, Senior, Eastern Michigan University
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drawing room + parallel space
MAGNITUDE SEVEN
This iteration of the exhibit is no different, with works coming together from Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and the countries of Canada, Scotland, and Slovakia. Inevitably Mag 7 is a melange of various works, including an extremely wide range of media, styles, and artist intents.The exhibit always gains unity from the common scale, so even disparate works seem to engage in playful and tolerant conversation across the gallery or side by side. We have found that having a couple galleries full of hand-sized works is somehow a relief steeped in the joy of small things well made, a menagerie of creativity, and a poignant reminder that bigger is not always better. We are delighted to offer this tenth annual exhibit of works no larger than seven inches in any dimension. For this year's project 183 artists submitted 392 works for consideration by Manifest's rigorous jury process. Twenty-three works by the following 19 artists from 12 states and 3 countries were selected for presentation in the gallery and the new season-documenting Manifest Exhibition Annual.
Erin Anderson Peter T. Bennett Greg Burak Spencer Corbett Stacy Elko Donna Festa McArthur Freeman Phillip Gurrey Tim Hahn Brandon Hearty Jean Hess Stacey Holloway Hwayong Jung Ria Kmetova Carole P. Kunstadt Terrance Lavin Vince Natale Sara Pedigo Taylor Woolwine
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Spencer Corbett
Peter T. Bennett
Carole Kunstadt
Taylor Woolwine
Hwayong Jung
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north gallery + central gallery
MAR 2013/14 Artists' Gallery Talk: Saturday, June 14th, 5pm The year-long Manifest Artist Residency was launched in 2012 with the goal to provide artists with a combination of free studio space, supportive resources such as teaching opportunities and free access to life drawing at the Manifest Drawing Center, the powerful creative culture that permeats all Manifest programs, and routine engagement with the gallery-visiting public during each of our nine exhibit receptions each season. This season, afforded by the increase in Manifest's exhibition spaces, we were delighted to be able to add yet another benefit to the MAR program–the MAR Showcase exhibition. This double-solo exhibit features works made by our two 2013/14 Artists in Residence, Nicholas Mancini and Jeremy Plunkett. This marks the culmination of their residency at Manifest which concludes in June, and serves as a celebration of their achievements, learning, and heartfelt adoption into the broad Manifest 'family'.
VESTIGE A vestige is a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something vanished. Most of the works in this exhibit are singular in nature, focused on one object or figure. A single body is unique for it is absolute, existing independent of relation. Once the experience of painting has expired, the relationship between myself and the object disappears and the piece remains as evidence. It is important that the works illustrate both a first impression and a deep investigation.
CONTAINER Container speaks of both the act of containing and a vessel that is used to hold or transport something. I am a container. The subject I am undeniably attracted to and trying to contain is light. This exhibit showcases points of contemplation where an amorphous space or material combined with glaring qualities of light can momentarily spark the sublime (a reminder about our human consumption vs. our residue, our real and our non-real, our mark and our non-mark).
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Nicholas Anthony Mancini
Jeremy Plunkett
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| July 11 - August 8 | Opening Friday July 11, 6-9 p.m. |
main gallery + drawing room + parallel space + central gallery + north gallery
8th Annual Building
upon the philosophy of the Rites
of Passage exhibits for undergrads, each year Manifest
offers a similar opportunity to current and recent graduate students
for exhibiting at Manifest. For this incarnation of the project 148 artists representing 79 different academic graduate programs submitted 402 works for consideration by Manifest's rigorous jury process. Twenty-eight works by the following 21 artists from 15 states representing 20 different academic programs were selected for presentation in the gallery and catalog.
Peter Antor Morgan Chivers Lauren Coulson Molly Dierks Lauren Frances Evans Samantha Haring Crystal Hartman Natasha Holmes Bryan Hutchison Joshua Johnson Oneyung Kim Jamie Kinroy Matthew Lee Wade MacDonald Daniel Ogletree Meghan Olson Adam Rowlett Rahshia Sawyer Colby Stephens Jessica Tenbusch Wes Valdez
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Morgan Chivers
Molly Dierks
Samantha Haring
Joshua Johnson
Wade MacDonald
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| August 15 – September 12 (SEASON 10 FINALÉ) | Opening Friday August 15, 6-9 p.m. |
main gallery
REGIONAL SHOWCASE: In its first nine seasons Manifest's projects included works by artists in 49 states and 37 countries. Starting with its 10th season, and as a result of our recent gallery expansion by 66%, Manifest is launching a new ongoing series of exhibits focusing on works by artists living in its own three-state region. This is intended to complement the ordinarily very wide geographical makeup of most Manifest exhibits with a closer look at what's being done here, now, in our own backyard. Manifest was founded, and continues to be operated by regional artists, so it is only fitting that, with more space in which to program, the organization should offer the Regional Showcase series. We feel this is important for the artists and the public living within reasonable driving distance of the gallery. It will give each a chance to show and share, and to gain perspective on our region's creative wealth as it relates to the broader art world. For this third in the series, which will change in theme and scope from show to show, we opted to survey the region for works of sculpture. Manifest's several-member blind jury process reviewed 127 works by 54 artists. Nine works by the following 8 artists were selected for exhibition and will also be featured in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA) at the close of the season. Presenting works by: Stefan Chinov Mark Hanavan Ben Lock Elizabeth Runyon Gary Schmitt Hunter Stamps Travis Townsend Jason Tanner Young
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Stefan Chinov
Elizabeth Runyon
Hunter Stamps
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drawing room + parallel space
6th Annual NUDE
NUDE is one such project. The human body is a popular subject for many reasons, the most obvious being that it is us. Throughout history the representation of the human form has been charged with tremendous energy, both positive and negative. Whether it be a religious edict that one 'shalt not' depict the human form, a taboo, or the glorious opposite, a revelation of mastery over form in the crafting of sensuous and life-like physical human beauty, the art of the body has nevertheless moved us through time. Through all the permutations art has experienced across history, work of the body persists. We use the human nude to master skill, understand ourselves, and push social and psychological buttons for the sake of expression (sensual, delicate, aggressive, and so on). We intend for Manifest's ongoing annual NUDE project to explore how our collective body is used today in art to achieve these goals and more. This year we were excited to renew our invitation to artists to submit works in any media, of any style or genre (abstract, conceptual, highly realistic, etc.), and of any size and media, for consideration in Manifest's sixth annual NUDE, an international competitive exhibit exploring the uncovered human form in current art.
Presenting works by: Tom Bartel Alexandra Bloch Meghan Flynn Martha Gaustad Samantha Haring Lucas James Molly Kaderka Daniel Maidman Dora Natella Elizabeth Reagh Debra Small Judy Takács Sheldon Tapley Kendric Tonn Duat Vu Tim Waite
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Martha Gaustad
Lucas James
Dora Natella
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central gallery + north gallery
PERCEPTUAL PAINTERS This exhibition of paintings by two groups of artists sharing a common approach to their art making is one of six selected from among 165 proposals submitted for consideration for Manifest's tenth season. Manifest is proud to showcase this tour de force of perceptual painting, and to welcome thirteen artists from the Perceptual Painters collective to Cincinnati. The exhibit, proposed by David Campbell, was conceived to explore and celebrate the common ground shared between the Perceptual Painters group, all from outside the Cincinnati area with many either from, or having crossed paths in, Philadelphia, with a group of five artists currently or originally from the Cincinnati area. Furthermore, it pleases us to share that the five artists in the 'Cincinnati Group' are Manifest alum, having exhibited at the gallery or instructed courses or led life drawing sessions in our Drawing Center program over many years. Most continue to be involved in our programming today. The outreach of the Perceptual Painters to invite these artists in our own community to share in this exhibition suggests Cincinnati has a part in this important contemporary movement, and that Manifest has fostered a rich environment in which this can happen. In his exhibition proposal David Campbell stated: The common theme that binds both groups together is that we paint from observation and value the experience of "looking". The work submitted by each artist is a response to his or her gaze, which while very personal, can also invoke a universal recognition. In describing their group's philosophy the Perceptual Painters state: The Perceptual Painters exhibition includes 24 works by 18 artists.
PERCEPTUAL PAINTERS David Campbell Tim Conte Matt Klos John Lee Aaron Lubrick Scott Noel Andrew Patterson-Tutschka Carolyn Pyfrom Erin Raedeke Brian Rego Neil Riley Peter Van Dyck Tom Walton
CINCINNATI GROUP Rob Anderson Daniel O'Connor Scott Ramming Emil Robinson Tyler Wilkinson
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Erin Raedeke
Emil Robinson
David Campbell
Scott Ramming
Matt Klos
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