March 2018 College News

College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3 1 Margo Handwerker’s M12 Center Pivot exhibition 2 Caprice Pierucci, Birch Plywood Long Cloud 2017, Birch Plywood and Pine 45”X94”x7” 3 Soomin Remmler, Between 2017, 11x14 2 | March | College News ART AND DESIGN Art , Art Education, Art Histor y, Communication Design, Photography, & Studio Art FACULTY ACCOLADES Jefrey Dell has organized an exhibition of the work of Texas artist Ricardo Vicente Ruiz for Big Medium Gallery in Austin. Entitled, For When the Leaves Grow Cold, but I Still Require Your Shoulder , the show is a sequence of works on paper that address storytelling, myth, and the rituals associated with the annual cycle of seasons in South Texas. Te exhibition ran through February 18th. Jefrey has completed a commission of two screen-print editions for the Line Hotel in Austin. Te Line will reopen their remodeled location on Cesar Chavez in the next month. Gardening at Midnight is an exhibition organized by Jefrey of recent alumni of Texas State Printmaking, at the Georgetown Art Center, and opened on January 20. Te exhibition ran through February 18th. Joey Fauerso and her brother, Neil Fauerso’s, Dig Tree Tunnels opened at Testsite in Austin on Sunday, January 21. Fauerso’s flm commissioned by the City of San Antonio opened as part of the exhibition St. Anthony’s Lost and Found at the Culture Commons Gallery in San Antonio on January 25th, the exhibition runs through April 28th. Fauerso’s work “Dog Hospital” will be included in the exhibition Boundless at Central Features Contemporary in Albuquerque, NM. Te exhibition was January 27th-March 10th. Faureso was a visiting artist and lecturer at University of Houston on Feb 8th and 9th. On February 9th, Tommy Fitzpatrick was part of the 20th anniversary celebration of “Euphonia,” a monumental installation housed at University of Houston’s Moore Opera House which Fitzpatrick worked on with Frank Stella. In addition, a panel discussion will take place involving Mr. Stella, Don Bacigalupi, Alison de Lima Greene and Rick Lowe. Margo Handwerker’s M12 Center Pivot exhibition at Sala Diaz in San Antonio was featured on Glasstire . [1] Beverly Penn was recently awarded the 2017 Louis Comfort Tifany Foundation Artist Award, American Federation of Arts, New York, by the Foundation Trustees and outside jurors. She was also chosen to represent the State of Texas in the exhibition Women to Watch 2018 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, curated by Associate Curator Virginia Treanor. Beverly was a featured artist in the recent book CAST , by Jen Townsend and Renee Zettle-Sterling, published by Schifer Publishing, 2017. Her recent solo show Perpendicular to the Force of Gravity at William Campbell Contemporary in Fort Worth was a featured exhibition at artnet.com. Caprice Pierucci , Randall Reid and David Hefner each have work in the Davis Gallery Group Exhibition, In Depth , that was January 20th through February 24th. Te Davis Gallery is in Austin at 837 W. 12th. [2] Soomin Jung-Remmler had a week long pop-up exhibition at Gallery Hye in Yongin, South Korea in December. Two of Soomin Jung-Remmler’s drawings “Venus” and “Between” are featured in an art magazine called Art House Press Volume 3 , and one of the images is used on the inner cover. [3] Te book was published in December 2017 by Art House Press. Molly Sherman was awarded a Research Enhancement Grant for her collaborative project Highlander Studies: A Toolkit for Participatory Civic Engagement in Contemporary Art and Design. Molly was invited to present on the topic “What does it mean for a publication to be collaborative?” as part of the Risograph Lab Lecture Series at St. Edward’s University in Austin. Her presentation was accompanied by the launch of a publication she made in collaboration with students, faculty, staf, and audience members at St. Edward’s called A Bibliography for Reimagining Borders . Brian Johnson has two screen- prints included in the IMPRINT Contemporary Printmaking exhibit at Manifest Gallery, in Cincinnati, OH. Te show will consist of 54 works by 30 artists from across the United States, as well as Italy, Finland, and England; Manifest Gallery received 436 entries from 144 artists for this exhibit. Brian will have a screen-print included in the People’s Gallery show; it will remain on exhibit at the Austin City Hall for the year. Te show opened in February. Brian has a relief print included in the 19th Annual 60 Square Inches Exhibition at Purdue University’s Fountain Gallery, West Lafayette, IN. #IMPRINT