The IPRH continues its initiative on the visual arts with plans for a
series of exhibitions and related programming during the coming year. All works will be on display in the Humanities Lecture Hall, which is open
to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays.
Artists who are interested in exhibiting their work at the IPRH are invited to submit an informal proposal to Christine Catanzarite.
FALL 2007
Joel Ross (Art and Design, U of I)
I Tried To Tell You
September 5 – October 12
Opening Reception: September 20, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
For this show, Professor Ross will exhibit selected pieces from his ongoing series, Mixed Messages, a set of very graphic, brightly colored text-based works on paper. His messages are culled from a variety of sources including news stories, radio reports, t-shirts, posters, graffiti, and bits of overheard conversation.
Joel Ross is an Assistant Professor of Art at UIUC and is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago. Recent exhibitions include solo projects at RARE Gallery in NYC and at Raw + Co in Cleveland, Ohio as well as group shows at the Mills Gallery, BCA in Boston, MA and at Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen, UK.
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Tim Van Laar (Art and Design, U of I)
Postcard Collages
October 23 to December 7
Opening Reception: October 23, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
The exhibition will consist of collage works that combine postcards and other printed materials. The various qualities of postcards – as souvenirs, as paradigmatic, idealized images, and as rhetorical tropes – all contribute to the way these collages examine and critique social relationships and conditions.
Timothy Van Laar is Professor of Art at UIUC School of Art and Design and is currently the chair of the Studio Division of the school. He produces paintings, drawings and installation works that have been exhibited throughout North America and Europe; this past year he has exhibited work in Berlin and in Breda, The Netherlands. He is the co-author of two books and has written numerous reviews and catalog essays.
SPRING 2008
Steven Hudson (Fine and Applied Arts, Parkland College)
Absent the Landscape of Journey
January 22 – February 29
Opening Reception: January 29, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
This exhibit will be a cacophony of images juxtaposed to form artful and contradictory landscapes.
Steven Hudson was born in Taunton, MA. He graduated from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, with an MFA. He is currently an artist in Champaign, and a member of the faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at Parkland College.
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Marc D. Perry (Anthropology and African American Studies, U of I)
¿Que Bola?: Cuban Hip Hop in Motion
March 5 - May 9
Opening Reception: March 5, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
¿Que Bola?: Cuban Hip Hop in Motion offers a series of photographic images shot in Havana, Cuba in summer 2006 celebrating the vibrant energy and creative drive of Cuba's hip hop movement.
Marc D. Perry is an assistant professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His current book project Revolutionizing Blackness: Hip Hop in Late Socialist Cuba draws on over two-and-half years of field work in Cuba among Havana’s hip hop community. |