Faculty News: Aaron Collier

Two Blocks from Elysian Fields exhibition at the Clemente in New York City.

Following a successful third year review, Assistant Professor Aaron Collier will be spending three weeks in September at an artist residency in Amsterdam.

During the residency, Aaron will delve into the engravings and etchings of Goltzius and Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum in order to generate line-based works on paper in the studio.

Following Amsterdam, Aaron will lead a day-long drawing workshop in Rome with the Tulane School of Architecture Rome Study Abroad Program.

Kristina Knipe & Kevin Brisco Jr. show at Good Children

Kevin Brisco Jr. (left) and Kristina E. Knipe (right)

Alumna Kristina E. Knipe (MFA 2016) and Kevin Brisco Jr. have a joint show at Good Children Gallery opening on Saturday, July 8th from 6-10 p.m. with a walkthrough by both artists at 6 p.m.

Kristina E. Knipe's exhibit of photographs titled, Talisman, explores the relationship between sensuality and spirituality through visual opulence and invites the viewer to peer into intimate scenes. Kevin Brisco Jr.'s exhibit of paintings titled, (For) What Is(s) Worth, addresses worth in a society that places high value on specific objects and routinely undervalues specific people. Good Children Gallery, located at 4037 St. Claude Avenue, is open 12-5pm on Saturdays and Sundays. The show will run from July 8th through August 6th.

Archivist joins architects to discuss modernism in New Orleans

On Thursday July 6th, alumna and archivist Francine J. Stock (MA 1995) joins architects Albert Ledner, Lee Ledbetter and Paula Peer in a panel discussion on mid-century modernism in New Orleans moderated by architect Wayne Troyer.  The discussion takes place at the New Orleans Public Library from 6-7:30pm.

This event is part of the Preservation Resource Center's  Mid Mod NOLA event series, supported by the New Orleans Architecture Foundation and DOCOMOMO US/ Louisiana.

Staple Goods show in New York features Tulane/Newcomb artists

Members of Staple Goods artist collective, based in New Orleans, are showing new work at The Clemente Center, 107 Suffolk Street in the Lower East Side, New York City.  

Two Blocks From Elysian Fields: Recent Work From New Orleans features Aaron Collier, Abdi Farah, Abe Geasland, Anne C. Nelson, Bill DePauw, Jack Niven, Katrina Andry, Norah Lovell and Thomasine Bartlett. The show is on view from June 1-30, 2017. 

The top photo shows current MFA student Abdi Farah's work on the left (Twice Conquered, 2017, tackle twill, fringe, fabric, and Latex paint, 87 x 104") and Assistant Professor Aaron Collier's two pieces on the right (Deep Calls to Deep, 2015, Flashe on canvas, 72 x 72" and Walkin' After Midnight, 2015, Flashe on canvas, 72 x 72").  Pictured in the orange shirt is Norah Lovell, a member at Staple Goods and Program Manager of the Honors Program at Tulane University.

The bottom photos shows Senior Professor of Practice William DePauw's piece in the foreground (Tip of the Tongue, 2016, fired clay and painted panel) and Professor of Practice Anne C. Nelson's piece to the far left (Anxiety of ancestry, 2017, Latex on wall, oil on canvas, oil on panel, 120 x 80").

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.

Kaori Maeyama at Staple Goods

In the Neighborhood, oil on panel, 18″x24″

The Passenger, a solo show of urban landscape paintings by alumna Kaori Maeyama (MFA 2017) will be on view at Staple Goods, 1340 St. Roch Avenue, from June 10 – July 2, 2017. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, June 10, from 6-9pm.

Maeyama's work is also on view at TEN Gallery, 4432 Magazine Street, June 3- June 25. This group exhibition, titled Rassemblés, features current and recent Tulane and LSU graduate students: Andrea Berg, Justin Bryant, Eli Casino, Carolina Casusol, Christopher Gray, Masy Hebert, and Kaori Maeyama.

Student Art Awards

On Thursday April 27th the Newcomb Art Department hosted its annual Student Art Awards ceremony in Stone Auditorium. Dr. Michael Plante, Associate Professor of Art History, presented the Art History Awards and Kevin H. Jones, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, presented the Studio Art Awards. Taylor Hochstin, recipient of the Henry Stern Prize, presented her paper, "Against the Inferiority of Interiority: Carolee Schneemann's 1975 Performance of 'Interior Scroll.'" Following the awards presentation, the celebration moved to the Carroll Gallery for the Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition reception featuring work by Eliza Carey, Marisa Chafetz, Lis Rossi, and Lilith Winkler-Schor.

2017 Student Art Awards 

Outstanding Art History Major Award: Coco Zhang
The Henry Stern Prize Paper: Taylor Hochstin
The Nell Pomeroy O’Brien Award in Art History: Blaze D’Amico
The Alberta “Rusty” Collier Memorial Award for 2D Art: Marisa Chafetz
The Alberta “Rusty” Collier Memorial Award for 3D Art: Lilith Winkler-Schor
The Nell Pomeroy O’Brien Award in Studio Art: Malcolm Kriegel
The Sandy Chism Award in Painting: Adhira Divagaran
The Class of 1914 Prize in Art: Eliza Carey