January February 2024 College News

Brian Johnson holds an MFA from the University of Texas, Austin (1997) and a BFA from the University of South Dakota (1994). Brian was the Master Printer for the Serie Project, where he collaborated with over forty artists, creating several limited edition screen prints. The Serie prints have been exhibited around the world and included in museum collections and publications. Brian’s personal prints have been included in over two hundred regional, national and international exhibits. Some notable jurors that have selected his work include, Sarah Suzuki, Curator at MOMA, David William Kiehl, Curator at the Whitney, and Roberta Waddell, Curator Emerita at The New York Public Library. His prints are part of several public and private collections. Brian lives and works in Austin TX. In 2022, at the Texas National Exhibition, the Cole Art Center awarded the 2nd Place Juror’s Award to Johnson. The 38th Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink, held in 2018 at the Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, recognized the Johnson with a Juror’s Award. Brian recieveda Juror's honorable mention in 2018 at the 31st annual McNeese National Works on paper at the Grand Gallery at McNesse State University. #FACULTY SPOTLIGHT Arts & Digital Media division at the Highland campus, in conjunction with Print Austin and the annual PrintEXPO event on February 8th. The panel discussed the importance of collaborative printmaking and the unique relationship between artist and printer. Brian Johnson co-directed the Steamroller printing event during the annual PrintEXPO at the Blue Genie Arts complex in Austin. Steamroller is a free, public print demonstration, one of several events held over 30 days during Print Austin, an artist led nonprofit that works with local venues and national artists to showcase various approaches to printmaking. [1] Jeffrey Lieber was reappointed to the Texas Historical Commission’s State Board of Review for a second two- year term. Experts on the board serve as consultants to commission staff and meet quarterly in historic places in Texas to advise the State Historic Preservation Officer regarding National Register nominations. Jeffrey Lieber was invited to present a lecture at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London as part of the conference, "The Practice of Art History in Britain, 1900–1960: Paul Oppé’s Art Worlds" (December 1). The lecture focused on a nearly forgotten figure, Roger Hinks — interpreting the journal Hinks kept in Greece in the 1950s as the record of a displaced aesthete dealing with his grief over what he called “a misdirected life.”   Jessica Mallios screened a new video work, Subvisible , at Co-Lab Projects in Austin. This screening is part of the Vast Is The Sea curatorial series by Barry Stone of Porch Swing Orchestra. [2] Elvia Perrin will be exhibiting work at PrintAustin's PrintExpo with Wally Workman Gallery on February 9 -11 at Blue Genie in Austin.  Soomin Remmler ’s new colored pencil drawing “LOVE” is selected as one of 69 selections out of 6074 entries for Derwent Art Prize 2024. The selected works will be shown at the gallery OXO in London from April 4th through April 14th, 2024. [3] Also her drawing “Hopes and Dreams: Paper Airplane” was selected for the Explore This! 20 Online Exhibition, an international mixed media art competition hosted by the Colored Pencil Society of America. It is on their website from February 1st, 2024 through January 31st, 2025. Remmler was hosted at the 3rd biannual virtual Art Material Presentation by Dixon Corporation during Febraury. DEPARTMENT ACCOLADES Texas State Galleries' exhibition Mind Windows: The Art of Roberto Rios was among Glasstire 's Best of 2023!  College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3 ART AND DESIGN Art , Art Education, Art Histor y, Communication Design, Photography, & Studio Art 2 | January & February | College News FACULTY ACCOLADES Kathleen McShane-Bolton and Annie Miller are part of a group show at Artspace Wimberley curated by Jules Buck Jones titled Shape Shift . Shape Shift opens January 20th, runs through February 25th, and includes works also by Brooke Burnside, Ryan Davis, and Mariell Guzman.  Andrew Chen ’s article “Allegory, Tragedy, and the Ambivalence of Stradanus’s Vespucci” was published in the newest issue of the journal Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies .  Tommy Fitzpatrick has a solo show of new paintings titled More Dwellings . The exhibition opens in Pasadena, California on February 10 and runs till March 30, 2024. The show is accompanied by a catalog written by Gordon Hughes, the Mellon Professor of Art History at Rice University.  Tommy Fitzpatrick has a solo show of new paintings titled Homescape . The exhibition opens on February 17 at Qualia Contemporary Art in Palo Alto, California. The exhibition continues until March 30.   Mateo Gutierrez gave a TEDx talk hosted by Texas State University. Mateo talked about his work within the context of the TEDx theme, which is Resolve, specifically about his recent series of hand-embroidered paintings depicting migrants at the US-Mexico border and people in the aftermath of mass shootings in the U.S. Mateo talked "deep empathy" and the American "culture of violence" and whether we have the resolve to change our cultural ethos of violence. Brian Johnson was a member of the panel discussion Stories of Collaborative Printmakers and Their Artists. The panel consisted of five master printers and the moderator Brand Zech, publisher of Glasstire , the online publication for art in Texas. The free public event was hosted by Austin Community College & the Brian Johnson co-direced the Steamroller public printing demonstration Jessica Mallios screened a new video work. Subvisible, in Austin Soomin Remmler's colored pencil drawing "LOVE" was selected for the Derwent Art Prize 2024 1 2 3