FallArt Tour 2011 - University of Minnesota

COLLEGE OF VISUAL ARTS ST. CATHERINE UNIVERSIT Y
Deceptive Distance
September 15 – October 16, 2011
CVA Gallery
This group show brings together six Twin Cities based artists whose work engages with
the consequences of September 11, 2001. This now distant day continues to shape the
everyday reality of people living and fighting in the far-away theaters of war, Iraq and
Afghanistan. In addition to the deceptive distance of time and geography, an emotional
distance remains intact despite our most well-intentioned efforts to empathize, to imagine
what “it” must be like for “them”—those less fortunate ones who fight or bear the impact
of armed antagonism.
In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag writes, “‘we’—this ‘we’ is everyone who
has never experienced anything like what they went through—don’t understand. We
don’t get it. We truly can’t imagine what it was like. We can’t imagine how dreadful, how
terrifying war is; and how normal it becomes. Can’t understand, can’t imagine” (125f.).
The horror of war, in Sontag’s words, outpaces imagination and empathy. Nonetheless, the
six artists in this show engage with both personal and cultural realities irrevocably altered
in the aftermath of September 11. Their work commemorates, imagines, reaches out, and
reflects on the deceptive distance of war, bringing it closer and making it more intimate in
the process.
Featured Artists:
Harriet Bart, Laura Crosby, Vesna Kittelson, Ana Lois-Borzi, Megan Rye, Megan Vossler
www.cva.edu/gallery/gallery
Harriet Bart, Eulogy, 2010-2011, acrylic and thread
on canvas, army litter, army canvas bag, books
Iron Maidens
September 12 – October 30, 2011
St. Kate’s is the first U.S. venue to host this traveling exhibition outside of Great Britain.
The exhibit features American, Welsh and English women artists who work with iron
as their primary medium. Iron casting has a very old history as a process for creating
functional products, however its use by fine artists is very recent, dating back to the 1960’s
and the development of a studio sized iron furnace.
Tamsie Ringler, Mare Fecunditatis
cast iron, bronze, gold leaf, 2006
Dilys Jackson gassing a mould, 2006
Panel Discussion: Iron Maidens: Live!
Thursday, September 15, 7 p.m.
Visual Arts Building Lecture Hall
Moderator: Tamsie Ringler
Panelists: Dilys Jackson, Coral Lambert,
Justine Johnson, and Deborah LaGrasse
Women’s Studies & Critical Studies of
Race and Ethnicity Bag Lunch Discussion
Series: How I Became an Iron Maiden
Presented by Tamsie Ringler, Assistant Professor
of Art/Art History
Friday, September 16, 12-1:30 p.m.
Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women,
Coeur de Catherine 230, St. Paul campus
Lecture and Gallery Tour with Dilys
Jackson:
Tuesday, September 20, 7 p.m.
Visual Art Building Lecture Hall & Catherine
G. Murphy Gallery
Cost: $15 (Free with a student ID)
Lecture: Women Artists of Europe 900 to 1900 or
Men Don’t Wear Skirts
How women artists’ works and stories
became lost in the sands of history till the
New World and the New Art Histories found
them again.
Gallery Tour: A Walk Through The Iron Hearts of a
Group of US and UK Women Sculptors
Iron Maidens is sponsored in part by Brecon
Arts Trust, The Contemporary Arts Society
for Wales, The Gibbs Trust, and Wales Art
International
www.stkate.edu/gallery