ArtLab offers our community a format of exhibitions that allow our art students and art classes to display their most recent works, hot out of the studios or out of their heads. Keep tabs on who is showing in the ArtLab by visiting this link often to see whose latest experiment is on view. Of course, the subscribers to our email newsletter are always on top of who is exhibiting in this exciting space. Below is a current listing of artists signed up for this season:
August 28 - September 4, 2009
Visions
A Florida Gulf Coast Digital Photography Student Art Exhibition
Visions is a collection of photos from students of the Spring 2009 Digital Photography course. The artists come from different academic backgrounds, but they have one thing in common: Their love of photography. The course introduces students to the technical aspects of photography, the creative controls of the digital camera and tools in digital darkroom to best create images the express their own ideas, themes and styles.
The following student artists will showcase their creative Visions:
Andrea Delgado
Yunet Holmes
Toni Guidice
September 14 - September 18, 2009
Lauren Baker and Carrell Courtwright
A Florida Gulf Coast Student Art Exhibition
October 8 - October 16 , 2009
I Am Where I Am Because Of The Bridges I Have Crossed
ArtLab Coffee Break with the artists:
Thursday, October 8 • 9:15am - 11:00am
A few members of the Art Club have come together to produce a show composed of varied portraiture. Through illustration, painting, drawing and photography each artist has their own unique style to express the human condition through diverse perspectives.
Past Exhibitions
September 21 - September 30, 2009
Estero Bay Watershed Public Symposium Art Exhibit
Opening reception with the artists: Monday, September 28th • 5:00 - 6:30pm
The Estero Bay Watershed will be the focus of a Fundraiser Art Exhibit at the FGCU artlab from Sept 21 to Oct 2, 2009. Featured art includes work from Megan Kissenger, Carl Schwartz, Perry James Locke, Andy Owen, Carol McArdle, David Hammel, Tricia Fay, Andy Morris, Jeremy Sterk, Lindsey Wollard, Muffy Clark Gill, and Rose Young and Rick Howie. The artists will donate a portion of the proceeds, which will be set aside for land acquisition in the Estero Bay Watershed, to Lee County Conservation 20/20 program. There will be an Artist's reception on September 28th, the evening of the Symposium, from 5:00-6:30 PM. Register for the reception and Symposium at the website: http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/ndemers/EsteroWatershedSymp09/index.htm
For more information contact Nora Demers at ndemers@fgcu.edu or 590-7211
The exhibit is in honor of Artist Ann C Wilson, who passed away from Lymphoma this past June.
October 20 - October 30 , 2009
Matthew Engel: Word!
ArtLab Coffee Break with the artists:
Tuesday, October 20 • 9:15am - 11:00am
November 9 - November 20, 2009
Art & Ecology
ArtLab closing reception with the artists:
Thursday, November 19 • 4pm - 6pm
Art and Ecology Exhibit is a class project to showcase some of the student work and course content to encourage public dialogue about the issues addressed. We have been studying some of the major forms of artistic expression that engage ecological issues. The analysis of ecological perspectives through the lens of the arts is intended to enrich our understanding of current debates and their interpretation through art and design.
December 1 - December 11, 2009
13 Sculptors
13 Sculptors showcases the art of Sculpture Workshop students who worked independently realizing their unique visions beyond the constraints of classroom assignments. Through their personal journey these students identified concepts, techniques and materials, which they explored throughout the semester. This was a time for investigation and exploration of new skills and styles while developing existing abilities. Throughout the course professional practices were emphasized culminating in the student-led production and installation of this exhibition.
13 Sculptors includes works in a wide range of materials from small bronze castings to digital media to large-scale environmental sculptures.
January 14 - January 22, 2010
Outsighter by Vyd
ArtBreak with the artists:
Thursday, January 14 • 3:30pm - 5pm
January 25 - February 4, 2010
Audacity
Expression in the face of oppression
ArtLab opening reception with the artist:
Tuesday, January 26 • 5 - 8pm
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February 16 - February 26, 2010
Dyeing Arts: Batiks and Silks
Works by Muffy Clark and Nuch Owen
Opening reception with the artist:
Thursday, February 18 • 5 - 7pm
February 8 - February 12, 2010
Spring Studies: Painting I and Drawing
ArtBreak coffee reception:
Tuesday, February 9 • 3:30-5pm
March 9 - March 18, 2010
Things I Said In My Sleep
New Works from Joseph Frantz
Opening reception with the artist:
Tuesday, March 9 • 3:30 - 5pm
September 1 - September 23, 2010
Natural Selection
Recent Works by Carrell E. Courtright
September 28 - October 7, 2010
ArtLab Coffee Reception: Tuesday, September 28 • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better:
A Playful Look At Art
Curated by art student, Matthew Engel
Outsighter
October 12 - October 21, 2010
ArtLab Coffee Reception: Tuesday, October 12 • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Experimentations:
on silence & perception
Curated by art student, Philip Heubeck
November 2 - November 9, 2010
ArtLab Coffee Reception: Tuesday, November 2 • 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Museum Practices
Art Faculty member Scott Snyder and Museum Practices students
November 16 - December 2, 2010
ArtLab Coffee Reception: Tuesday, November 2 • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Interpreting The Figure
Art Faculty member Carl Schwartz and Figure Drawing students
February 17 - March 3, 2011
Reception: Thursday, February 17 • 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Yang Jin: It Started One Day
Presented by Art Faculy member Megan C. McShane and the Chinese Contemporary Art students
March 29 - April 7, 2011
ArtLab Coffee Reception: Tuesday, March 29 • 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Making and Collecting: Living With Ceramics
Art Faculty member Patricia Fay and Contemporary Ceramics Art students
ArtLab
October 28 - October 29, 2010
ArtLab Coffee Reception: Thursday, October 28 • 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Sculptures Takes On The Pumpkin!
Art Faculty member Mary Voytek and Sculpture I students
January 11 - January 20, 2011
ArtLab Coffee Reception: Tuesday, January 11 • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Fantasies in Ink: A Collection of Drawings by Alina Eydel
Currently on View
Yang Jin is a recent graduate of the Sichuan Fine Art Academy in China. Since moving to Beijing, he has built a very compelling and cohesive body of work in the past year that concerns current events and the apathy that a news-saturated culture might be tempted to adopt. By keeping these accidents and disasters fresh in a new form, they become silently memorialized. From women voting in Iraqi elections, to the tragedy of the earthquakes or SARS epidemic in China, we witness a subtle depiction of his humanistic view of reality. We too, as viewers, are called to contemplate the significance of these moments. Yang Jin is an artist who silently displays the wound left by the world’s turmoil as it changes on a daily basis in the information age. He takes the social reality of events happening every day in the newspapers, or on the web, and attempts to alleviate all the political standing and social posturing. Then, he re-frames and re-presents the black and white snippets of society’s apathetic attention span in a new contemplative medium, one that calls us to witness his sensitive depictions of humanity, otherwise lost in an age of omnipresent news.
