The Particulars of Persistent Reverie:
an experiment in fashioning the lost and looming
chelliswilson | Portland, ME
August 6th 2010

August the sixth beginning at five o’clock in the
evening, it would be our deepest honor to share in
the delights of your company

for

Alethea Norene’s latest reconciliations with Southern apparitions

High Society Music * Tailored Clothing * City Gossip *
Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Beverages * Scandal * Ripe Peaches

What Remains
Confederation Centre of the Arts | Prince Edward Island
May 15th – September 19th 2010

Curated by Mireille Eagan
Featuring: Joyce Wieland, Rick Burns, Terrance Houle, Genevieve Cadieux, Sarah Maloney, Jeff Wilson, Sarah Saunders, Kim Vose Jones, Irene F. Whittome, Vessna Perunovich, Lisa Steele, Scott Saunders.

Manicured by choice or modified by circumstance, every body is a portrait of knowledge, histories and politics, both real and imagined. What Remains considers the interwoven issues of vision and space, gender and representation, politics and pleasure, while showing how contemporary artists have drawn on insights of diverse media.

Read more about the exhibition »

The America expansionist legacy begets a destiny of wanderlust. Envisioning America without a hunger for development requires imagining another country; yet as modern artists we often consider the ideals of pioneering from the contemporary standpoint of colonial heartache and ecological betrayal. In American Nomads the bi-coastal members of The Bunny Sandwich Collective will tackle the American ideals of the nomadic ‘Pioneering Spirit’ precisely by embracing them.

American Nomads is possible in part thanks to generous grants from the Puffin Foundation and the Money For Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

Join faculty, current students, and alumni for an afternoon of studio tours, portfolio reviews and information about our graduate studio program. Friday August 6, 2010 from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. RSVP by August 2, 2010 online, by email, or phone 800.699.1509.

2009 MFA Open House: Elaine Angelopoulos MFA ’09,
Brian DeRosia MFA ’05, and Alethea Beeker MFA ’10.

Vessel #3
Westcott Community Art Center | Syracuse NY
July 1st – July 27th 2010

From Tina:

I am a designer of instances. I conceive and produce immersive-sculptural environments for my viewer centric practice. The 21st century has accumulated an abundance of refuse & discarded materials, in which I seek to uncover found objects hidden potentials. By gathering materials, I build structures to craft a theater of a yet-to-exist future. I have developed a post-appocalyptic narrative entitled, Themselves Has Been a Gathering. From the narrative, I have developed meditative spaces for our future human selves called Vessels. Both sculptural and interactive, the Vessels act as a garrette, or club house.  The viewer must abandon habits and learn to ‘play’ by act of crawling into the space and re-vitalizing a sense of wonder, exploration and imagination.

Quinlan Corey MFA ‘06 will be at the Stephen Pace House in Stonington, ME in June and Matt Burnett MFA ’06 will be there in August. In September, Tina Zagyva MFA ’09 will travel to Nova Scotia to Baie St Marie Artist and Family Residency at the Jenny Family Compound in New Edinburgh.

And on Saturday, visiting artist Hope Ginsburg lead us in a fabulous felt-making workshop where we collaborated on two large felt rugs while also making our own individual felt pieces.

photos by Alexis Roberts, MFA ’11

The Illuminated Forest
Soundwave Festival | San Francisco, CA
June 6th – August 16th 2010

Featuring: Jorge Bachmann, Agnes Szelag, Ben Bracken, Alan So, Suzanne Husky, Sam Easterson, Alyce Santoro, Reenie Charrière, Vaughn Bell, Elin Øyen Vister, Jessica Resmond

In Soundwave Festival’s most ambitious presentation ever, Green Sound mounts a special month-long exhibition and performance residency at The Lab. The Illuminated Forest is an imaginary world inside the gallery walls of San Francisco’s preeminent experimental art space that features a large immersive multi-media and interactive exhibit and performance installation from the collaborative minds of Agnes Szelag, Ben Bracken, Jorge Bachmann and Alan So, and environmental artist works by Vaughn Bell, Alyce Santoro, Sam Easterson, Reenie Charrière, Suzanne Husky, Elin Øyen Vister, and Jessica Resmond.

The main installation is manufactured by projections, sensors, MAX/MSP, sound, sculptural shapes and light/shadow where visitors become its inhabitants and part of its ecosystem: their presence activates both visual and auditory sensations, and leaves an imprint on the environment long after they are gone. It demonstrates our own connection to the environment and how we are all interconnected. Our presence in the environment affects this space and is forever changed (for better and for worse) with our temporal presence. This experiential exhibit actively reminds people what we do has impact: on our own lives, on others, and the world around us, both in the present and the future. It is a human reminder of the life existing outside our urban borders, its importance, and the power it can play in our lives while raising questions about a natural world lost.

The Forest will host experiential performances by some of the most compelling local, national and international artists and musicians. Inspired sound purveyors from across the sonic spectrum will explore themes of reinvention and recycling, real and imagined natural environments and creatures, endangered species, water, environmental awareness and responsibility, plantlife/animal life, and other artist imaginations.

In various eddies around the forest, artists re-imagine a place with Suzanne Husky’s textile trees and soft rocks, Sam Easterson’s animal-borne imaging, Vaughn Bell’s moving and wall mountains, Alyce Santoro’s Sonic Fabric, Jessica Resmond’s birds nests, Reenie Charrière’s Washed Up waterfall and Elin Øyen Vister’s Soundscape Røst installation on the birds of Røst archipelago in northern Norway.

photo courtesy of Project Soundwave website.

Exceeding the Frame of Single-Point Perspective; Multiperspectival Composition – Notions of Deeper Time and Our Place Within the Landscape
Verbana | South Portland, ME
through June 19th 2010

Christian’s show was also written up in the Press Herald:

While trying to find a new way to present his photography, Christian Farnsworth invented a new word: Perpendrama.

It’s a combination of perpendicular and panorama, and its definition, at least for now, goes something like this: A vertical panorama that incorporates both horizons.

Read the full article on the Press Herald website.

Vessel #3
Westcott Community Art Center | Syracuse NY
July 1st – July 27th 2010

Vessel #4
Baie Sainte-Marie Artist and Family Residency | New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia
September 11th – 30th 2010

Vessel Series + Theatrical Event
Lipe Art Park | Syracuse NY
May 19th – October 2011

Above: Vessel #2 at the Bauchhund Gallery in Berlin
photos: Tina Zagyva

About the Project:

I am a designer of instances. I conceive and produce immersive-sculptural environments for my viewer centric practice. The 21st century has accumulated an abundance of refuse & discarded materials, in which I seek to uncover found objects hidden potentials. By gathering materials, I build structures to craft a theater of a yet-to-exist future. I have developed a post-appocalyptic narrative entitled, Themselves Has Been a Gathering. From the narrative, I have developed meditative spaces for our future human selves called Vessels. Both sculptural and interactive, the Vessels act as a garrette, or club house.  The viewer must abandon habits and learn to ‘play’ by act of crawling into the space and re-vitalizing a sense of wonder, exploration and imagination.

At the Westcott Community Art Center, Vessel #3 (made from car head lights) will be on exhibit from July 1 – July 27th 2010. From September 11 -30th 2010, I will be attending the Baie Sainte-Marie Artist and Family Residency at the Jenny Family Compound in New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia. During my stay, I will complete a floating Vessel, which will return with me to Syracuse to be part of a large scale installation.  Next year, May – October 2011, there will be a public arts installation of my Vessel series at Lipe Art Park in Syracuse, NY. There will be a total of 4 Vessels encased in their own geodesic plexi-glass domes and a theatrical event during the night of the opening….it will be an event to remember!