Signaling the end of the Fall semester, the Second Annual Student Holiday Print and Ceramic Sale and Open House is here again by popular demand! Find that perfect gift, meet that budding artist and see the work of our grads whose studios are in Hanes. Come early! There are some great bargains to be found.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Holidays are coming!!
Signaling the end of the Fall semester, the Second Annual Student Holiday Print and Ceramic Sale and Open House is here again by popular demand! Find that perfect gift, meet that budding artist and see the work of our grads whose studios are in Hanes. Come early! There are some great bargains to be found.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Allcott Gallery Fall 2008 Season
The Fall brings in new energy and excitement to UNC-Chapel Hill with our new students, new faculty and new exhibitions. This year Fall 2008 proved to be yet another hit. We were proud to feature the works of Mary Tuma, Paul Valadez and Joel Slayton.
Mary Tuma: Internal Systems II
August 19 - September 16, 2008 Reception: Tuesday, September 9th, 5:30-8pm
To open the season, the Department of Art and Art History was pleased to present the work of Palestinian-American artist Mary Tuma. Internal Systems II is a site-specific installation from her Internal Systems series, which are composed of crocheted nervous systems and organs that hang and float free in space.
Internal Systems II is constructed from more than 20 crocheted body organs that were made from strips of fabric, ribbons, yarn and masking tape. Working intuitively, Mary crocheted structures tug, tie and bind in vessels of whimsy and humor.
Born in California in 1961, Mary Tuma began sewing and crocheting with her mother at an early age. Her love of these processes led her to begin her formal study of art as an apprentice at Beautiful Arts Hall in Kerdassa, Egypt, where she learned to weave tapestries. Later, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Costume and Textile Design from the University of California at Davis, and then went on to study women’s fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. In 1994, she earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona. In 1997, she began teaching art at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, where she now serves as an Associate Professor and the head of the Fibers Program.
Tuma has shown her work in various venues in the United States, including the Crocker Art Museum, the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, The Bridge in New York City, the Station Museum in Houston and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI. Outside of the US, she has shown work at Al Wasiti and Al Hoash in Jerusalem, the International Center of Bethlehem, Birzeit University Museum, Birzeit. West Bank, Kid Aileck Hall, Tokyo, The Maruki Gallery in Hiroshima, among others.
Her work has appeared in Art in America, Dar Al-Hayat, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Counterpunch, NYArts, Mother Jones, The San Francisco Chronicle, Worker’s World, The Jordan Star, and many others.
Paul Valadaz: Las Castas
September 23 – October 21, 2008 Hanes Lecture Series and Reception: October 14, 5:30-8 pm
In honor of Alumni Week at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Department of Art and Art History was pleased to present the work of alumnus, Paul Valadez.
Born in San Francisco California, Paul Valadez grew up in a bi-cultural household and mines those memories--the ethnic neighborhoods, Latino imagery, regional signage, and reciclaje—recycling of materials, for his current work. “The revelation of “found art” billboards, advertisements and signage of products and services from a bygone era [are] now revealed through the process of what we call urban renewal and revitalization.” –Paul Valadez
The John and June Alcott gallery will feature Valadez’ Las Castas series comprised of 50 mixed-media and acrylic paintings depicting a single Casta. Casta or caste system was an institutionalized system of stratification and method of racial identification by the Spanish upon the American native, African and small groups of Europeans and Asians. The subsequent colonial mixing produced a blend of cultures and progeny in their territories—including Mexico, the islands of the Caribbean, Latin America and South America. Defining the individual caste, a description of the parents and offspring was outlined as well as a painting that provided a window into the physical attributes and social standing of both the parents and progeny. Perversely scientific in their methodology, these terms still live in the language today. Investigating this historical system, Paul Valadez “wanted to explore the idea of labels and how someone is viewed with a label.”
Valadez has shown his work nationally and internationally. Valadez has recently shown at K-Space in Corpus Christi, TX, the Narcisco Rodriguez Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, TX and Art House in McAllen, TX. Outside of the US, he has shown work at Casa de La Cultura de Reynosa and in the Centro Cultural Narciso Martinez Nuevo Laredo, Mexico among others. Valadez received his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 and is currently a lecturer at the University of Texas—Pan American, in Edinburg, Texas.
Joel Slayton: Drive
October 23 - December 3, 2008 Hanes Lecture Series and Reception:October 23, 5:30-8 pm
The John and June Allcott Gallery was pleased to host and present the new work of the Hanes Visiting Artist, Joel Slayton. Exploring the boundaries of Google Earth and our romantic imagination of travel and journeys, Visiting and Resident Artist, presented a series of prints and flicker links that documented his 7 day virtual drive across America from San Jose, his place of residence, to UNC-Chapel Hill and finally, to the North Carolina Coast. Sitting in front of the computer in our gallery, Joel simulated a true journey with pit stops, leg cramps and foreign terrain. Part Jack Kerouac, part National Lampoon's, Drive leads us to somewhere and nowhere.
Joel Slayton is an artist, writer and researcher. As of June 2008, he became the new Executive Director of ZER01: The Art and Technology Network, host and catalyst for the 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, California. Joel Slayton is a professor at San Jose State University where he is Director of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, an interdisciplinary academic program in the School of Art and Design. CADRE, established in 1984, is dedicated to creative experimentation
at the intersection art and digital culture. Joel Slayton was the Academic Chairperson for ISEA 2006 (International Symposium of Electronic Art) and was Editor-In-Chief of the Leonardo-MIT Press Book Series from 1999-2005. Joel Slayton served on the Board of Directors of Leonardo/ISAST (International Society for Art, Science and Technology) from 1998-2008. Papers include Social Software: Entailment Mesh, The Re=Purpose of Information, and The
Ontology of Organization as System.
Joel Slayton’s artistic works explores social software, navigation systems, cooperation models and network ontology and have been featured in exhibitions internationally. He was most recently a keynote presenter at the Urban Games and Mobile Computing conference hosted by the Nabi Art Center in Seoul. He was been selected as the first recipient of the Pick-Laudation Award by the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. Considered a pioneer in the field of art and technology Slayton’s artworks engage a with a wide range of media technology including information mapping, networks and interactive visualization. Joel Slayton was an original member of the Visible Language Workshop at MIT in the mid 1970’s, has received a National Endowment for the Arts award and was selected for the Xerox Parc Pair Artists in Residence Program.
Joel Slayton is President and founder of C5 Corporation. C5 is a hybrid form of authorship intersecting research, corporate culture and artistic enterprise. C5 research explores issues of visualization involving large data sets and social networks. Begun in 1996, C5 projects have been featured at the SF Camerawork, Walker Art Center, the Cantor Center for the Arts, Transmediale, Ars Electronica, The Tate, The New Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, ACM
Siggraph, ASU Center for Creative Inquiry and at AUT in New Zealand. Current projects involve data visualization and interaction with the landscape using location based media. His current project involves development of a mapping and navigation system to be used on expeditions to 10 high altitude volcanoes on the Pacific Rim Fire.
Other works by Joel Slayton include large scale media performance and conceptual art projects including the DoWhatDo, Conduits, The Chemistry of Fear, Landscape Painting as Counter Surveillance of Area 51, Rocket Launch at Panamint Wash and The Wedding Game. Joel Slayton’s robotic works have been exhibited at the Krannert Museum of Art and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was selected for participation in Alternating Currents: American Art in the Age of Technology co-curated by San Jose Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Mary Tuma: Internal Systems II
August 19 - September 16, 2008 Reception: Tuesday, September 9th, 5:30-8pm
To open the season, the Department of Art and Art History was pleased to present the work of Palestinian-American artist Mary Tuma. Internal Systems II is a site-specific installation from her Internal Systems series, which are composed of crocheted nervous systems and organs that hang and float free in space.Internal Systems II is constructed from more than 20 crocheted body organs that were made from strips of fabric, ribbons, yarn and masking tape. Working intuitively, Mary crocheted structures tug, tie and bind in vessels of whimsy and humor.
Born in California in 1961, Mary Tuma began sewing and crocheting with her mother at an early age. Her love of these processes led her to begin her formal study of art as an apprentice at Beautiful Arts Hall in Kerdassa, Egypt, where she learned to weave tapestries. Later, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Costume and Textile Design from the University of California at Davis, and then went on to study women’s fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. In 1994, she earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona. In 1997, she began teaching art at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, where she now serves as an Associate Professor and the head of the Fibers Program.
Tuma has shown her work in various venues in the United States, including the Crocker Art Museum, the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, The Bridge in New York City, the Station Museum in Houston and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, MI. Outside of the US, she has shown work at Al Wasiti and Al Hoash in Jerusalem, the International Center of Bethlehem, Birzeit University Museum, Birzeit. West Bank, Kid Aileck Hall, Tokyo, The Maruki Gallery in Hiroshima, among others.
Her work has appeared in Art in America, Dar Al-Hayat, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Counterpunch, NYArts, Mother Jones, The San Francisco Chronicle, Worker’s World, The Jordan Star, and many others.
Paul Valadaz: Las Castas
September 23 – October 21, 2008 Hanes Lecture Series and Reception: October 14, 5:30-8 pm
In honor of Alumni Week at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Department of Art and Art History was pleased to present the work of alumnus, Paul Valadez.Born in San Francisco California, Paul Valadez grew up in a bi-cultural household and mines those memories--the ethnic neighborhoods, Latino imagery, regional signage, and reciclaje—recycling of materials, for his current work. “The revelation of “found art” billboards, advertisements and signage of products and services from a bygone era [are] now revealed through the process of what we call urban renewal and revitalization.” –Paul Valadez
The John and June Alcott gallery will feature Valadez’ Las Castas series comprised of 50 mixed-media and acrylic paintings depicting a single Casta. Casta or caste system was an institutionalized system of stratification and method of racial identification by the Spanish upon the American native, African and small groups of Europeans and Asians. The subsequent colonial mixing produced a blend of cultures and progeny in their territories—including Mexico, the islands of the Caribbean, Latin America and South America. Defining the individual caste, a description of the parents and offspring was outlined as well as a painting that provided a window into the physical attributes and social standing of both the parents and progeny. Perversely scientific in their methodology, these terms still live in the language today. Investigating this historical system, Paul Valadez “wanted to explore the idea of labels and how someone is viewed with a label.”
Valadez has shown his work nationally and internationally. Valadez has recently shown at K-Space in Corpus Christi, TX, the Narcisco Rodriguez Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, TX and Art House in McAllen, TX. Outside of the US, he has shown work at Casa de La Cultura de Reynosa and in the Centro Cultural Narciso Martinez Nuevo Laredo, Mexico among others. Valadez received his MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 and is currently a lecturer at the University of Texas—Pan American, in Edinburg, Texas.
Joel Slayton: Drive
October 23 - December 3, 2008 Hanes Lecture Series and Reception:October 23, 5:30-8 pm
The John and June Allcott Gallery was pleased to host and present the new work of the Hanes Visiting Artist, Joel Slayton. Exploring the boundaries of Google Earth and our romantic imagination of travel and journeys, Visiting and Resident Artist, presented a series of prints and flicker links that documented his 7 day virtual drive across America from San Jose, his place of residence, to UNC-Chapel Hill and finally, to the North Carolina Coast. Sitting in front of the computer in our gallery, Joel simulated a true journey with pit stops, leg cramps and foreign terrain. Part Jack Kerouac, part National Lampoon's, Drive leads us to somewhere and nowhere.Joel Slayton is an artist, writer and researcher. As of June 2008, he became the new Executive Director of ZER01: The Art and Technology Network, host and catalyst for the 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, California. Joel Slayton is a professor at San Jose State University where he is Director of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, an interdisciplinary academic program in the School of Art and Design. CADRE, established in 1984, is dedicated to creative experimentation
at the intersection art and digital culture. Joel Slayton was the Academic Chairperson for ISEA 2006 (International Symposium of Electronic Art) and was Editor-In-Chief of the Leonardo-MIT Press Book Series from 1999-2005. Joel Slayton served on the Board of Directors of Leonardo/ISAST (International Society for Art, Science and Technology) from 1998-2008. Papers include Social Software: Entailment Mesh, The Re=Purpose of Information, and The
Ontology of Organization as System.
Joel Slayton’s artistic works explores social software, navigation systems, cooperation models and network ontology and have been featured in exhibitions internationally. He was most recently a keynote presenter at the Urban Games and Mobile Computing conference hosted by the Nabi Art Center in Seoul. He was been selected as the first recipient of the Pick-Laudation Award by the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. Considered a pioneer in the field of art and technology Slayton’s artworks engage a with a wide range of media technology including information mapping, networks and interactive visualization. Joel Slayton was an original member of the Visible Language Workshop at MIT in the mid 1970’s, has received a National Endowment for the Arts award and was selected for the Xerox Parc Pair Artists in Residence Program.
Joel Slayton is President and founder of C5 Corporation. C5 is a hybrid form of authorship intersecting research, corporate culture and artistic enterprise. C5 research explores issues of visualization involving large data sets and social networks. Begun in 1996, C5 projects have been featured at the SF Camerawork, Walker Art Center, the Cantor Center for the Arts, Transmediale, Ars Electronica, The Tate, The New Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, ACM
Siggraph, ASU Center for Creative Inquiry and at AUT in New Zealand. Current projects involve data visualization and interaction with the landscape using location based media. His current project involves development of a mapping and navigation system to be used on expeditions to 10 high altitude volcanoes on the Pacific Rim Fire.
Other works by Joel Slayton include large scale media performance and conceptual art projects including the DoWhatDo, Conduits, The Chemistry of Fear, Landscape Painting as Counter Surveillance of Area 51, Rocket Launch at Panamint Wash and The Wedding Game. Joel Slayton’s robotic works have been exhibited at the Krannert Museum of Art and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was selected for participation in Alternating Currents: American Art in the Age of Technology co-curated by San Jose Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Inaugural Post
Dear Friends, Students and Colleagues of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
The John and June Allcott Gallery is proud to present this blog to keep you informed to all that is happening in and around the Hanes Art Center. Situated inside of this nexus of research and creativity, the John and June Allcott Gallery is poised to present challenging exhibitions with artists whose work is at the edge of emerging techniques, technology, culture and theory.
In conjunction with the Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series and with the support of the Ackland Museum, we have taken the charge to address what is Now, regionally, nationally and internationally. Join us on this mission, check this site often to be updated on we, the faculty, students and neighbors are up to.
We look forward to seeing and getting to know you at our many openings and events.
Here's to the future!
Roxana Perez-Mendez
Director of the John and June Allcott Gallery
The John and June Allcott Gallery is proud to present this blog to keep you informed to all that is happening in and around the Hanes Art Center. Situated inside of this nexus of research and creativity, the John and June Allcott Gallery is poised to present challenging exhibitions with artists whose work is at the edge of emerging techniques, technology, culture and theory.
In conjunction with the Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series and with the support of the Ackland Museum, we have taken the charge to address what is Now, regionally, nationally and internationally. Join us on this mission, check this site often to be updated on we, the faculty, students and neighbors are up to.
We look forward to seeing and getting to know you at our many openings and events.
Here's to the future!
Roxana Perez-Mendez
Director of the John and June Allcott Gallery
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