Kaeley creates small-scale impasto paintings that allude to the idea of painting mediated through digital technologies.   Whilst his work is clearly adopting the conventions of painting, their process of being made draws attention to the relationship between sculpture and painting.  Kaeley chooses not to title the works but simply to refer to the media itself as a label, drawing attention to the materiality and process of the works in a way that revisits Modernism’s media-specific concerns, whilst disrupting this value by asserting the aesthetics of digital production.

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RARE Gallery is pleased to present On Entry, Christine Gray‘s second solo exhibition at the gallery.  Comprised of new paintings and works on paper, the show runs from January 3 through February 7, with an opening night reception on Thursday, January 10.

While traversing the hinterlands of France, Iceland, Scotland, and Spain, Gray drew inspiration from the recumbent stone circles and ancient architecture of early civilizations that punctuate the countryside.  Contemplating whether these sites possess a resonance of spiritual significance or are merely historic ruins, she explores the slow histories and quasi-permanence of rune stones, etched bark, meteorites, stone walls and circles, and other archaic artifacts and monuments.

TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK
4/10 at 2 pm in the Commons Ballroom

Trenton Doyle Hancock is the 2007 Joyce Alexander Wein award winner from The Studio Museum, NY. His work is currently in the exhibitions In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis at the Contemporary Jewish Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, and was recently part of the Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger at the American Folk Art Museum, NY. He is included in the Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennial and in 2009 will produce a site-specific installation at the Olympic Sculpture Park at the Seattle Art Museum, WA. In April 2008, Hancock provided the costume and set design for Cult of Color: Call to Color, a collaboration with choreographer Stephen Mills and composer Graham Reynolds for the Austin Ballet, TX. In 2007, the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, hosted Hancock’s major European solo show, The Wayward Thinker, which traveled to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Hancock was one of the youngest artists ever to be included in the Whitney Biennial, in both 2000 and 2002. Born in Paris, Texas, Hancock currently lives and works in Houston.

Hancock’s work is included in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, NY; The Dallas Museum of Art, TX; The Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, TX; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, Trento, Italy.

WHAT: VIEW FIND: A Group Exhibition
WHEN: FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 from 6:30 TO 9 PM
WHERE: 1625 W. Main St. (Richmond, VA)

Painting + Printmaking Dept. Chair Holly Morrison included in, VIEW FIND: A Group Exhibition which opens tonight at Page Bond Gallery.

JANUARY 20 TO FEBRUARY 25 2012 — Artists In The Exhibition:

VIRGINIA BEAHAN
MICHAEL BOWLES
KIMBERLY BURGESS
REECE CAMP CARTER
RACHEL COBB
STACEY EVANS
WALKER EVANS
ELIJAH GOWIN
EMMET GOWIN
JOHN GRANT
DAVID HALLIDAY
CYNTHIA HENEBRY THURSTON HOWES
LAURA LETINSKY
SALLY MANN
AMANDA MEANS
GLEN MCCLURE
HULLIE MOORE
HOLLY MORRISON
ANSEL OLSON
LEE SALOUTOS
GORDON STETTINIUS
BRIAN ULRICH
WILLIAM WYLIE

GOOD NEWS! The Spring Lecture Series begins the 25th of January with 2011-2012 VCU Fountainhead Fellow Daniela Campins. The artist will discuss her work at 2:30 PM in room 301 of 1000 W. Broad St. (The Fine Arts Building).

Daniela Campins was raised in Maracay, Venezuela and immigrated to the United States in 1995. She holds a BFA from Cal State Long Beach and recently received her MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2011. Campins’ works explores the correlation between representation, abstraction, historical culture and personal memory. For more information visit: http://danielacampins.com/home.html

All lectures are presented by the VCU Department of Painting + Printmaking and take place in the “fishbowl” (room 301) of the Fine Art Building located at 1000 W. Broad St. unless otherwise noted. Please join us for the following lectures as the semester progress:

Jose Lerma, February 9, 3:00 PM

Rh Quaytman, March 1, 11:00 AM (Commons Theatre)

Nicole Eisenman, March 27, 4:00 PM (Commons Theatre)

Trenton Doyle Hancock, April 10, 2:00 PM (Commons Room B)

…stay tuned for more details and updates on our Spring Lecture Series.

The department of Painting + Printmaking presents: Lisi Raskin
Thursday, November 3rd at 3:00 PM
1000 W Broad St in the “fishbowl” (room 301)

Lisi Raskin’s exhbition record includes recent solo shows at The Blanton Museum,
Austin, TX, Riccardo Crespi, Milan Italy, and Guild & Greyshkul, NY. Group show
include Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Fl and PS1 MoMA, Queens, NY.
For more information please visit: http://www.guildgreyshkul.com/

Lisi is the Visiting Artist + MFA Seminar Instructor in the Painting and Printmaking Department for the Fall 2011 semester.