MFA Alumnus Irby Pace: Explosions in the Sky

Galleri Urbane is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition by Galleri artist Irby Pace, Explosions in the Sky. Represented by Galleri Urbane since 2013, Pace’s “Idle Voids” series experienced widespread exposure, from the cover story of the Dallas Observer to coverage in the Huffington Post. What began as a simple idea while completing his MFA in photography at the University of North Texas has successfully come to fruition over the past two years, with works placed in numerous national and international collections.

Explosions in the Sky finds Irby Pace after a residency at the Dallas Arboretum and a trip to the vast landscape of Marfa, Texas. By using crude and readily available sources, Pace experiments with the tension of upwards or outwards movement against the downward force of gravity, creating the illusion of gravity defiance. In a tricky collaboration with nature and the urban environment, he alters the physical space with real floating colorful clouds of smoke, capturing a momentary glimpse of the vacant space. Through his latest photographs, Irby Pace will be sure to offer a view of these environments like never seen before.

Irby Pace received his BFA in Photography from Texas Tech University and an MFA in Photography from the University of North Texas in 2012. He currently is an Assistant Professor in Photography/Video at Troy University in Troy, Alabama. His photography has been featured in Wired Magazine, Ripleys Believe it Or Not, and many other websites, blogs and online magazines. Explosions in the Sky is traveling from the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in Lubbock, Texas.

There is a reception and preview on March 28, 6-8pm.

Galleri Urbane Marfa + Dallas • 2277 Monitor St. • Dallas, TX 75217 • USA

Alumna Erika Edwards at the DMA Center for Creative Connections

Date: Friday, September 19, 2014 - 07:00pm to 08:00pm

Location: Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 N Harwood, Dallas, TX

 

Erika Edwards, UNT Photography alumna, will teach a workshop at the Dallas Museum of Art's Center for Creative Connections on​ Friday, September 19, 2014.

Late Night Art Bytes: Photoshop Drop-In
7:00–8:00 p.m., Tech Lab, Center for Creative Connections
Drop in to learn about photographer Erika Edwards’ artistic process and experiment with Adobe Photoshop.
Click Here for more information on the DMA 3C.

Lectures and Gallery Talk by Natasha Egan

Thinking About Contemporary Photography 
Lecture: September 22, in Curry Hall 204, at 3:00 PM
Gallery Talk: September 23 at the UNT Art Gallery, at 12:30 PM

Natasha Egan is the Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at the Columbia College Chicago. This lecture is part of the exhibition Discoveries of the FotoFest Houston Meeting Place, which features photographs by emerging artists from around the world, who have participated in the Meeting Place” Portfolio Review of the acclaimed Houston FotoFest Biennial. The exhibition dates are September 11, 2014 through October 18, 2014.

Studio Alumni featured in Houstonia

"Sebastian Boncy describes himself as existing in a sort of cultural limbo: a Haitian in Texas, a Texan in the other 49 states..."

Meet Sebastien Boncy, Houston's Poet of Visual Blight 

Local photographer's mordant camera eye tells it like it is. 

Article by John Nova Lomax

Our Photography program is now on Facebook!

Please "like" the new Photography Facebook page to get all the updates about our photography students, grads, faculty, events, and activities!

Professor Dornith Doherty featured in New Yorker Magazine

Photography professor Dornith Doherty is being featured in this year's Tech Issue of New Yorker Magazine.


The direct link to her article: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/11/technology-and-photographic-art.html#slide_ss_0=16

Anthotypes at the Dallas Museum of Art

This Saturday, August 3rd from 2:30-4pm at the Dallas Museum of Art, Rachel Rushing will be providing a free demonstration of the Anthotype photographic printing process. Anthotypes utilize the photosynthetic pigments in plants as photographic emulsion to create images that can be either vibrant or delicate, yet always alluring. Rushing is a 3rd year MFA candidate at UNT and will be participating through Oil and Cotton: Creative Exchange in DallasSITES: Available Space which, according to the DMA website is "a companion space to the exhibition DallasSITES: Charting Contemporary Art, 1963 to Present, (and) the DMA’s first experimental project space located in the Museum’s iconic Barrel Vault and surrounding galleries. Available Space activates the galleries with interactive components and installations representative of the current North Texas art scene." For more information, visit DMA.org.

Photography faculty Kathy Lovas in new group exhibition

Hello Friends!

I have new work in a group exhibition Side Affect at Liliana Bloch Gallery, 2919 Commerce Street, Dallas. I will be at the reception this coming Saturday evening July 13, 6-8 pm.

Hope you can stop by!

Kathy Lovas
Adjunct Faculty
Photography

PRESS RELEASE:

SIDE AFFECT alludes to the U.S Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) evolving regulatory practices since its inception in 1892. Mindful of the growing power and influence of private and public lobbyists, the artists participating in this exhibition examine the United States' permissive pharmaceutical and genetically modified organism (GMO) policies, and their effects on health and the environment. The exhibition will feature the works of Waddy Armstrong, Mayra Barraza, Tim Best, Sandow Birk, Du Chau, Letitia Huckaby, Vince Jones, Mona Kasra, Kathy Lovas, Ryan Sarah Murphy and Laray Polk.

Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday
Noon to 5 PM
and by appointment
214-991-5617
www.lilianablochgallery.com
Images upon request

Contact
All inquiries: info@lilianablochgallery.com
Liliana Bloch Gallery represents emerging and mid-career, regional, national and international artists working in a variety of media. The Gallery works with institutional and private curators establishing simultaneous involvement between collectors, for-profit, educational art venues and the general public.

Liliana Bloch Gallery | info@lilianablochgallery.com | 2919 Commerce Street, Suite C, Dallas, TX 75226

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Professor Dornith Doherty's TED Talk has posted!

If you will remember, we announced in early April that photography professor Dornith Doherty was invited to do a TED Talk at the 2013 TEDx Monterey.

Here is the link to her talk! ENJOY!

MFA Derek Rankins featured by "Art This Week"

Art This Week / Red Arrow Contemporary Collaboration - The Best

Art This Week is presenting a special series of seven interviews they did in a collaboration with Red Arrow Contemporary Gallery in Dallas. The Best opened on April 6, 2013, and consists of seven students each chosen from a different local University: University of North Texas in Denton, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Dallas in Irving, University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and Texas Woman’s University in Denton. Make sure to check out this special exhibition at Red Arrow Contemporary, it’s on view through May 11, 2013.

This is the interview with MFA student Derek Rankins.

Cora Stafford Gallery: FREE PUPPIES (adverbial form implied)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The UNT Cora Stafford Gallery
is proud to announce the group exhibition, FREE PUPPIES (adverbial form implied)

Exhibition Dates:
Tuesday, April 16th through Friday, April 19th

Closing Reception:
Thursday, April 18th from 5 p.m to 7p.m with refreshments provided

FREE ADMISSION

Location:
UNT Cora Stafford Gallery
1120 West Oak Street
Denton, TX 76201

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Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Friday 10a.m. - 2p.m.

FREE PUPPIES (adverbial form implied) is a group show presenting the diverse work of MFA candidates in Studio Art at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design. Free from imposed limitations on media, the exhibition features sculpture, installation, watercolor, photography, new media, ceramics, metals and jewelry, and printmaking. The exhibiting artists have honed their individual talents over the course of their graduate work and have come together under one woof for a limited time

Exhibiting Artists: Jessie Back, Martin Back, Zan Barnes, Bill Bridges, Chance Dunlap, Hetty Estes, Michael Furrh, David Lee, Marseille Moon, Adam Neese, Cassie Phan, Derek Rankins, Linda Santana, Liana Tomchesson, Christopher Wallace, and Caleb Zouhary

For More Info:
Please contact Cassie Phan by email at cassiephan21 @ gmail . com.

Thank you,

Adam Neese
Public Information Committee co-chair

Professor Dornith Doherty to give TED Talk

For More Information, Click Here.
The Link to Professor Doherty's Talk.

Alumni News - Photography

Kimberly Davis, UNT photography alumna, is Vice President for the Austin/San Antonio chapter of American Society of Media Photographers and produced the Texas Photo Roundup event in Austin in February 2013. KLRU (Austin PBS) shot a video to go along with the event. It airs for the first time on KLRU on Saturday afternoon, April 6, 2013. Here's the link on Vimeo!

THE BEST // Meet the Artists, RECEPTION APR 6, 6-9PM

Derek Rankins, MFA candidate at UNT featured in Red Arrow Contemporary.

A BAG OF PEANUTS is the elevation of something simple into something complex. By photographing the peanut and then re-presenting it as an image, I am creating a conversation between the individual peanut, multiple peanuts, and the entire bag. The intent is to create value where there may appear to be none. By piecing the bag of peanuts apart and then piecing it back together as images on a sterile white background, I am presenting a contemplative experience between the images of the peanuts and the viewer. The root of the work lies in the Part and Whole approach to my subjects. With a bag of peanuts there exists a part and a whole contained within one individual package. This allows for similarity and difference to exist simultaneously. So many times photography has allowed for a vast landscape to be reduced into a small photograph. Similar but in reverse, I am attempting to take something common and present it as profound.

Artist Lecture by Penelope Umbrico TODAY

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is our pleasure to invite you and your students to join us for an Artist Lecture by Penelope Umbrico on Monday, March 25 at 3pm at the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design.

Penelope Umbrico

University of North Texas
College of Visual Arts and Design
March 25, at 3pm
Art Building Room 223, (on the corner of Mulberry and Welch Streets in Denton, TX)

Penelope Umbrico attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto Canada, and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, including in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; the Daegu Photography Biennale, Korea; the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Rencontres d’Arles, France; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Cambridge; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY; International Center of Photography, NY, among many others.

Her work is in permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tampa Museum of Art, FL.; International Center of Photography NY.

Umbrico is the recipient of a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship; a John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award, a Deutsche Bank Fellow - New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, a Peter S Reed Grant; an Anonymous Was A Woman Award; a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; and an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship.

Her first monograph, “Penelope Umbrico (photographs)”, was published by Aperture in the spring of 2011.

Dornith Doherty speaking at the Amon Carter TONIGHT!

Professor Dornith Doherty will be giving a gallery talk at the Amon Carter tonight, March 21, 2013, about a photograph the museum acquired for their permanent collection. The talk is in conjunction with a talk by former adjunct professor Misty Keasler, and although it is free, attendees have to make a reservation with the Amon Carter. The event is full at this point, but if someone really wants to come, they could e-mail the Amon Carter and they might be able to find a spot for them.

Yuma Symposium 2013

Yuma Art Symposium is referred to as “comfort food for hungry artist,” a back yard BBQ that got out of hand.

Taken from the web site:

The Yuma Symposium is a series of demonstrations, lectures and slide presentations given by both internationally recognized and emerging artists who have demonstrated unusual talent.

Activities include an exhibit of work by presenters and a student show, the National Saw, File, & Solder Sprints, Show Your Stuff night, the annual pin auction, shopping and eating in Algodones, Mexico, and a fiesta and dance on Saturday night. 

This year was the 34th Yuma Symposium. In attendance representing UNT CVAD:

CVAD Faculty: James Thurman and Harlan Butt

Graduate Students in Studio Art: Hetty Estes, Tamar Navama, Joy Ude, Chesley Williams, William Bridges, Fari Rahimi, and Liana Tomchesson

Undergraduate in Studio Art: Dani Manning

In this year’s National Saw, File and Solder Sprints the UNT team (Hetty Estes, Tamar Navama, and Liana Tomchesson) won the “Style Award” trophies.

Extending an invitation to all of CVAD, we will be hosting “Spirit of Yuma,” an event on April 25 to promote next year’s symposium.

“The Part And The Whole” – Derek Rankins – Thursday, March 7th at 7:00pm

Opening Reception – 3.7.13 7pm-10pm

Show runs through 3.23.13

About the Artist:
Derek Rankins pays homage to his roots in rural Southeastern Kansas. In 2004 he worked as a lab technician for the last remaining Kodachrome processor until which he moved to Texas to pursue a photography career. In 2006, Rankins received his Bachelors in Photography from Texas A&M University-Commerce and began developing his personal work over the next five years. Derek is now pursuing his Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography at the University of North Texas in Denton with an expected graduation date of May 2013.

About the Work:
The Part and The Whole is a visual representation of how I interpret my surroundings and how I interact with these parts of culture. It is a comprehensive collection of miscellanea and explores the possible narratives that take place. As I have attempted to visualize the sum of its parts, I have come to see that there is no whole, that the parts are infinitely divisible.

Red/Yellow Closing Reception This Friday

Artists, Friends, Colleagues,
RED/YELLOW: Connect is an installation at Cliff Gallery, Mountainview College, Dallas, TX.
RED/YELLOW is Kathy Lovas and Susan Sponsler Exhibition on view from Tuesday, February 19 through Friday, March 8.
Closing Reception: Friday, March 8 at 7 p.m.

 

Photography professor featured in Tucson

Professor of photography Dornith Doherty is in an exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art that opens this weekend.