October2018CollegeNews

College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3 1 Brian Johnson’s screen print included in the American Color Print Society Juried Exhibition 2 One of Barry Stone’s commissioned photographs for Topic as a part of their series, Federal Project no.2 3 Work from Jon Flaming’s series called Modern Cowboy 2 | October | College News ART AND DESIGN Art , Art Education, Art Histor y, Communication Design, Photography, & Studio Art FACULTY ACCOLADES Nicole DesChamps-Benke’s work was featured in the traveling exhibition Not-So-Lone Star Studios: A Gathering of Texas Makers on contemporary jewelry and metalsmithing at Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch, Texas. Nicole’s work was accepted into the Cold Connections national juried exhibition at Waynesburg University in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, which displayed from September 10 – October 5, 2018. Nicole is also an invited artist at the exhibition Ouroboro the Eternal Return at Equinox Gallery in San Antonio. Equivocation , an installation of painting, video and sound by Shawn Camp opened Saturday, September 22nd at Northern-Southern Gallery in Austin. Jimmy James Canales had a solo exhibition entitled, Receiving Interrupt that opened on October 6th at Sala Diaz in San Antonio. Jimmy is also in a group exhibition entitled Peak Shift at SITE Gallery for Sculpture Month Houston, organized by Antarctica Black, Volker Eisele, and Tommy Gregory. Te exhibition runs from October 13 - December 1. Tommy Fitzpatrick’s paintings are included in New American Paintings, No. 138, West Edition , curated by Alison Hearst of the Modern Museum of Art, Fort Worth. He was asked to participate in an auction at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. Tommy has a painting up at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston that will be on display through October 15th. As part of the M12 collective, Margo Handwerker’s Lone Prairie exhibition was on view at the Corcoran in Washington, D.C. It was reviewed by Mark Jenkins, “In the galleries: Small universes and a large cosmos at Greater Reston Arts Center,” Washington Post (August 31, 2018). Brian Johnson had a screen print included in the American Color Print Society Juried Exhibition in Philadelphia this September through October. [1] Jules Buck Jones had a solo show up at Conduit Gallery in Dallas until October 13. He is currently working on a Monograph with Cattywampus Press, set to be released in March 2019, and he is the artist in residence at Dirty Dark Place for the month of October. MiHyun Kim hosted a participatory interactive storytelling event: Reimagine Forgotten Community Stories at the courthouse on September 22nd. Te project is funded by the City of San Marcos Arts Commission grant. It is in collaboration with internationally renowned OMAi from Vienna, Austria. MiHyun has won 2018 American Web Design Awards (from Graphic Design USA) for her web design and development for Young- Hyun Cho, Classical Pianist. Te work was published on the GDUSA website and their annual publication. MiHyun Kim and Pey-Jing Mehrinfar, President of AIGA Texas State Student Chapter recieved the Diversity Grant from the Equity and Access Committee. Translate: Move from One Place or Condition to Another , a mutli-lingual interactive installation by Alice J Lee , with collaborator Ladan Bahmani, was included in the Society of Typographic Arts STA100 2018 international award competition. Alice had a solo exhibition titled Screens: Embody Dualities in the Armstrong Gallery of the McLean County Arts Center in Bloomington, IL. Jessica Mallios participated in a public artist talk at SUNY Purchase (State University of New York) in Purchase, NY on October 10th. One to Another , led by Borderland Collective artists Mark Menjivar , Molly Sherman , and Jason Reed , opened at Artpace in San Antonio. Te exhibition activates the Hudson Showroom and Main Space gallery, turning them into spaces of listening and participation. Borderland Collective artists Mark Menjivar and Jason Reed participated in the exhibition Reimagining the Tird Space , at the Kansas City Art Institute Crossroads Gallery in Kansas City, MO. Barry Stone was commissioned to write an essay and make photographs for Topic as a part of their series, Federal Project no.2 which confronts water issues in Texas. Portions of this commission was exhibited during the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn. [2] Gina McDaniel Tarver’s chapter “Antagonistic Environments: Gendered Spaces and the Kinetic Installations of Colombian Artists Feliza Bursztyn, Jacqueline Nova, and Julia Acuña” will be in the anthology New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America , edited by Mariola V. Álvarez and Ana M. Franco, to be published at the end of this month by Routledge. Gina presented a paper, “Luis Ernesto Arocha’s Experimental Films and the Carnivalesque,” at the 10th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. ALUMNI ACCOLADES Doyle Fellers (1960) creates a variety of poetry, art, and sculpture. His 70+ sculptures are on display at Worrell Gallery, Santa Fe and in sculpture gardens and public places. He has published two poetry books, with a third ready for publisher. Doyle is the “ofcial” Poet Laureate of Dripping Springs. Jon Flaming , a 1985 School of Art and Design Studio major, has worked for twenty-fve years at his own design studio in Dallas with clients such as Neiman Marcus, FedEx, American Airlines, and the John Wayne Cancer Foundation. He has work featured in Communication Arts , Print , and Graphis magazines. He now paints full time and is represented by several galleries in Dallas and Houston. His series, Texas Dance Halls , was just featured in Texas Music Magazine . Another series he is working on called Modern Cowboy , will be featured in an upcoming issue of Cowboys & Indians Magazine . [3] Michael Manjarris (1978) was the founder and curator for the “Hudson River Trail Sculpture” project. He is the also the founder and curator for the post-Katrina “Sculpture for New Orleans ” project that is revitalizing public art in the city. For more on his wok, click here . Mike Wood , a 2007 Communication Design graduate of the School of Art and Design, has worked on over a dozen Hollywood flms. He worked at Industrial Light and Magic in San Francisco, where his team won the 14th Annual Visual Efects Society’s Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature Award for their work on Star Wars: Te Force Awakens . He currently lives in New Zealand and is working for Weta Digital.