Uncommon Exchanges: Pippin Frisbie-Calder and Jordan Karubian

Uncommon Exchanges: Pippin Frisbie-Calder and Jordan Karubian

Newcomb Art Museum

October 15 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

 

In partnership with A Studio in the Woods, The ByWater Institute at Tulane University, and The New Orleans Center for the Gulf South (Nola Gulf South), Newcomb Art Museum’s interdisciplinary conversation series “Uncommon Exchanges” invites the New Orleans community to interact with diverse experts from Tulane and the Gulf South region. Using the current exhibitions “Flint is Family” and “The American Dream Denied” as a catalyst, Pippin Frisbie-Calder, FATHOM Resident Artist at A Studio in the Woods and Jordan Karubian, Phd, Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Tulane will engage in a unique conversation bridging their different disciplines and expertise to workshop new kinds of questions and establish commonalities.

alumniFree and open to the public, this event takes place inside the museum’s galleries.

Teresa Cole: Imperfect at Callan Contemporary through July 20

Teresa Cole, Infiltrate 2.0, relief printed Japanese paper with dye and bamboo, 72h x 60w in

 

In Imperfect, her fifth solo exhibition at Callan Contemporary, Teresa Cole brings together patterns from disparate traditions in images of startling complexity and beauty. This body of work—a suite of intaglio etchings, woodcuts, and two installations, Black & White Patchwork and Infiltrate 2.0—stems from research the artist conducted last spring in Seville, Cordova, and Granada, Spain. There, in architectural masterpieces such as the Alhambra palace, she studied and documented intricate patterns adorning tilework, carved wood and plaster, wainscoting, stone flooring, and cut glass. Alternately geometric and arabesque (plant- based/organic), these motifs exemplify Moorish aesthetics, in which only the divine is considered perfect and artisans build small flaws into their designs to signify earthly fallibility. Cole has integrated many of these patterns into her existing lexicon of shapes, combining Old World printmaking techniques with digital photography, laser cutters, and CNC routers. “There’s a tension between these perfect, computer-formed lines and the imperfection of the hand,” she observes. “Those imperfections are evidence of our humanity.”

Cole earned a B.F.A. degree from Maryland Institute College of Art and an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art, then continued her studies as a member of Peacock Printmakers in Aberdeen, Scotland. Currently she is full professor at Tulane University, where she teaches all aspects of printmaking. She has conducted research and participated in residencies in India, South Africa, Nepal, Belgium, Spain, and throughout the U.S. and has been commissioned to create large-scale public artworks, most recently a sculptural installation at the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane. Her works are included in prestigious private, corporate, and institutional collections around the world.

Cole’s prints are densely layered, rich with a translucence and texturality that reward close viewing. Their thematic content is also highly layered, sometimes juxtaposing or overlaying Roman and Arabic scripts—as well as symbols from Asia, Africa, and the Americas—into images of poignant cross-cultural mélange. Technically innovative and pictorially opulent, the artworks posit a fluidity between ornamentation and language, visual seduction and conceptual grounding, and pattern as both decorative and narrative devices. One need not speak foreign tongues or be versed in art history to appreciate these pieces, however, for they communicate directly and subliminally with the viewer’s perception and subconscious. “Maybe it’s possible,” Cole suggests, “to learn about something simply by looking at it.”

by Richard Speer
originally published in Country Roads Magazine

IMPERFECT exhibition dates: June 1st - July 20th, 2019

CALLAN CONTEMPORARY 518 JULIA STREET, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130

Saffron by Teresa Cole

Thursday evening, October 26, 2017, Teresa Cole, artist and Professor of Art, will present a lecture titled, "Exchange," at the University of Richmond in conjunction with her solo exhibition, "Saffron," a large-scale installation of dyed, printed, and laser-cut Japanese paper that will cover the gallery walls. The exhibition at the Lora Robbins Gallery of Design from Nature, University of Richmond Museums, will be open from October 27 to December 8, 2017.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Artist Perspective with Teresa Cole

Friday, September 15 at 6pm, Professor Teresa Cole will discuss her work as a printmaker in conjunction with the New Orleans Museum of Art's exhibition Jim Steg: New Work. This Artist Perspective lecture is part of a full evening of events at NOMA.
For more information see:  https://noma.org/event/friday-nights-noma-music-smoke-n-bones-artist-perspective-teresa-cole/

Alumni News: Jan Gilbert at NOMA

 JAN GILBERT TO DISCUSS HER CAREER AND INFLUENCE OF MENTOR JIM STEG AT ARTIST PERSPECTIVE LECTURE

Friday Nights at NOMA, August 11, 6 p.m.

Artist Jan Gilbert (MFA 1982), among many former students of longtime Tulane professor and innovative printmaker Jim Steg, will be featured in an Artist Perspective lecture. Deeply influenced by her native New Orleans, Gilbert employs tools and processes of collaboration to create a host of widely varied projects with wildly diverse partnerships, including her documentary filmmaker husband, Kevin McCaffrey; poet/writers Andrei Codrescu and Yusef Komunyakaa; experimental theater directors Richard Schechner, Julie Hebert, and Kathy Randels; and Swiss cultural psychiatrist/anthropologist Jacques Arpin. 

[via NOMA News]

Pippin Frisbie-Calder awarded $5000 grant to bring 'Cancelled Edition' to ArtPrize Nine

On June 5th with just five minutes and five slides alumna Pippin Frisbie-Calder (MFA 2017) won a $5000 grant to install 'Cancelled Edition' at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  The Pitch Night competition was held at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans.

Frisbie-Calder will use the grant proceeds to re-create 'Cancelled Edition,' an interactive installation first shown at the Carroll Gallery as part of her MFA Thesis exhibition in April. For the installation Frisbie-Calder will create a collection of 400 woodcut prints of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, a bird thought to be extinct. As collectors purchase prints of the birds, the exhibition simulates the process of extinction.

Read more about it at ArtPrize.

Jim Steg: Innovator and Existentialist

The extensive and inventive oeuvre of artist Jim Steg (1922-2001), printmaker and professor at Tulane University's Newcomb Art Department for over forty years, is the subject of a new exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art which will be on view April 7th - October 8th, 2017.

On Wednesday, April 5th at 6:00 pm, the American art critic and historian Donald Kuspit will present a lecture, "Jim Steg: Innovator and Existentialist" at NOMA. Kuspit is professor emeritus of art history and philosophy at State University of New York at Stonybrook.

Art, meet science

by Alicia Duplessis Jasmin

In Phytoplankton: A Studio in the Woods (pictured), Pippin Frisbie-Calder, a graduate student in printmaking in the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane, accomplishes the goal of intertwining the worlds of science and art. Completed through a combined process of pen-and-ink, screenprinting and watercolor, Frisbie-Calder succeeds at uncovering the realm in which microscopic marine plants from the wetlands of Louisiana dwell.

Phytoplankton is a spherical presentation, allowing viewers to observe what a scientist would see under the circular lens of a microscope.

Frisbie-Calder said the process to obtain the microorganisms was quite challenging. Samples were collected from nearby lakes, bayous and ponds and taken to a lab for a magnified view.

[continue reading the article on Tulane New Wave]
 

Teresa Cole exhibits new works at whitespace in Atlanta

Teresa Cole's 3rd solo exhibition, Depth of Surface at whitespace will include handmade paper works and two installations created from hand-printed and hand-dyed Japanese paper. This show contains pieces that utilize paper in two different ways. The first way is through a group of works where the imagery and handmade papers are created at the same time. These works were produced at Dieu Donne´ Paper Mill in New York City where different colored pulps are meshed together to create both image and structure. The second way of working pushes the paper to become structural. This is manifested in installations that use Washi or Japanese paper by printing on each sheet then folding and dying  and finally forming the sheets into their own surface.  All the works employ patterned imagery as a grammar, a dialect, a language of desire.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 19th | 7 - 10 pm
Exhibition Dates: February 19th - March 26th, 2016

Teresa Cole at Callan Contemporary

TERESA COLE 

CLOSING RECEPTION with the ARTIST 

THURSDAY JULY 23rd  6-8 pm 

EXHIBITION ON VIEW UNTIL July 26th, 2015 

Press Release 

Seamless Belonging

Language is the inherent but ultimately partial material of our lived experience. Every traveler knows this, but is reminded afresh when confronted with a dialect beyond her own understanding. In an absence of linguistic comprehension, one's remaining capacities of sensation and understanding are amplified: the traveler moves through foreign lands composed entirely of sight, sound, and scent in a physicality of knowing made manifest through an incapacity for words.

Seamless Belonging, an exhibition by New Orleans-based artist Teresa Cole, explores this phenomenon through installation projects as well as ongoing contributions to this internationally respected artist's growing body of work in handmade paper. Cole, a full professor of printmaking in the art department of Tulane University, has for several years made pattern a subject of her sustained visual scrutiny. Her investigations have lead her research around the globe: to South Africa, Belgium, India, and most recently Japan, where the artist explored traditional papermaking techniques at the Awagami Factory.

Seep, Cole's large-format installation piece, represents not only a culmination of this immersion in a traditional Japanese craft, but explores indigo dye as tool of mark-making and meaning: "My investigation of traditional handicrafts and the impeccable skill in which they are executed exposed me to a grammar of care, expertise, and perfection," Cole writes. "The repetition of an activity until it is second nature but never taken for granted, until it is expected yet novel each time: a meditation, a prayer and a practice all at once." Cole's description of her process could just as easily be applied to the adoption of a new language, a reality that lies at the core of her practice. The patterns, materials, techniques and methods that compose each of her works - in paper, in dye, in ink - function as a visual grammar for the artist, who endlessly recombines her materials to form the utterance of the outsider with the introspection of the solo traveler. "The very task of language," Barthes tells us, "is to give one and the same phrase inflections which will be forever new."

These inflections are further developed in Cole's handmade paper pieces, which draw from her extensive catalogue of collected and manipulated patterns, a language the artist has consistently added to for years. Created at the Dieu Donné papermaking studio in New York City, each work combines pigmented cotton and abaca pulps to extract a unique image from a larger field, crafting an occasion for deep scrutiny and meditation on meaning. The intimacy, transparency and controlled elegance of these works contrasts sharply with the measured intensity of Seep, creating a range of emotional resonances not unlike those of a stranger in a strange land

Absurd Divinations: Ben Fox-McCord

The Carroll Gallery presents:

Newcomb Art Department – Tulane University

MFA Thesis Exhibition

ABSURD DIVINATIONS

BEN FOX-MCCORD

exhibition dates:  April 8 – 17, 2015

reception:  Friday, April 17, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Teresa Cole exhibits in 'Pulp Fictions' at the CAC

Teresa Cole featured in Contemporary American Print Makers

Ellsworth Woodward Professor Teresa Cole is featured in Contemporary American Print Makers, a collection of work by more than seventy print-based artists and thirty print shops from across the United States whose work embraces the history and techniques of traditional printmaking while pushing the bounds of new print media. Traditional techniques of work featured include: lithography, intaglio, screenprint, and relief. While new techniques include; installation based, digital, fiber and other forms of new print media. Contemporary American Print Makers features artists of all career levels, from emerging to professionals and professors and the print shops featured include shops who publish editions for high caliber artists as well as cooperative and community based shops from around the country.

Imen Djouini: "Flutter"

The Carroll Gallery presents:

Newcomb Art Department – Tulane University

MFA Thesis Exhibition

FLUTTER

Imen Djouini

exhibition dates:  March 18 – 27, 2015

closing reception:  Thursday, March 26, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

walkthrough with the artist: 6:00 pm

Gallery hours:  M – F, 9 am – 4 pm

Gallery closed on official Tulane holidays.

Morning light sparks creativity in the Printmaking Studio

Graduate student Imen Djouini creates silk screen prints on Monday morning (Feb. 2) on the third floor of the Woldenberg Art Center on the Tulane University uptown campus. 

Djouini is preparing for her MFA exhibition in March.



[Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano]