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Everything is Strange

A Library Gallery exhibition by Anna Lyle

There is a new exhibition in the Library Gallery! You should make some time to visit the MCAD Library to see Anna Lyle's exhibition: Everything is Strange.

Exhibition: Wednesday, January 18–Tuesday, February 7 MCAD Library Gallery

Exhibition Introduction by the artist: Over the past few years, I have been creating work representing fabric and the human figure, intersecting and morphing into each other. This exploration began as small graphite drawings on paper a few years ago. These tiny, intricate, and obscure drawings are very curious to me and led to me branching off into large drawings on paper, large paintings on paper, and then drawings on wood panel. There are many modes that this morphing and intersection has taken in my visual work. In between these drawings on paper, paintings on paper, and drawings on wood panel, I created more formal paintings on wood panel that spoke to a more crisp and clear reality of fabric and figure interacting in the same space (www.annalyle.com/unraveling). These works truly informed my more abstract "anatomical fabric" pieces, mining conceptual inspiration from deconstructing ideologies and learning about place and purpose in the world outside of the Southern Baptist Christian culture in which I grew up.

For this particular exhibition, I am showing my process to final creation; the whole breadth of study. I find that seeing these various scales and modes of abstraction through mark-making intertwining with the figure is intriguing and a deep well of discovery for the viewer.

Recommended library books:

Alison Watt: Fold: New Paintings,1996-97, by Alison Watt

All Wet: Marilyn Minter, by Marilyn Minter, David Desrimais, and Mathieu Cénac

Gender/body/knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo

The Wisdom of Insecurity: a Message for an Age of Anxiety, by Alan Watts

Existential Psychology, by Rollo May

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Everything is Strange

A Library Gallery exhibition by Anna Lyle

There is a new exhibition in the Library Gallery! Please make some time to visit the MCAD Library to see Anna Lyle's exhibition: Everything is Strange. 

Exhibition:  Wednesday, January 18–Tuesday, February 7 MCAD Library Gallery

Exhibition Introduction by the artist: Over the past few years, I have been creating work representing fabric and the human figure, intersecting and morphing into each other. This exploration began as small graphite drawings on paper a few years ago. These tiny, intricate, and obscure drawings are very curious to me and led to me branching off into large drawings on paper, large paintings on paper, and then drawings on wood panel. There are many modes that this morphing and intersection has taken in my visual work. In between these drawings on paper, paintings on paper, and drawings on wood panel, I created more formal paintings on wood panel that spoke to a more crisp and clear reality of fabric and figure interacting in the same space (www.annalyle.com/unraveling). These works truly informed my more abstract "anatomical fabric" pieces, mining conceptual inspiration from deconstructing ideologies and learning about place and purpose in the world outside of the Southern Baptist Christian culture in which I grew up.

For this particular exhibition, I am showing my process to final creation; the whole breadth of study. I find that seeing these various scales and modes of abstraction through mark-making intertwining with the figure is intriguing and a deep well of discovery for the viewer.

Recommended library books:

Alison Watt: Fold: New Paintings,1996-97, by Alison Watt

All Wet: Marilyn Minter, by Marilyn Minter, David Desrimais, and Mathieu Cénac

Gender/body/knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo

The Wisdom of Insecurity: a Message for an Age of Anxiety, by Alan Watts

Existential Psychology, by Rollo May

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Invisible Obstacles

A Library Gallery exhibition by May Ling Kopecky

Exhibition: Saturday, November 13–Friday, December 10 Library Gallery

Introduction to the exhibition by May Ling Kopecky: The Americans with Disabilities Act defines disability as a “physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.” When I was first diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of fifteen, I hesitated to call it a disability. Symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, heat intolerance, double vision, migraines, and muscle weakness can’t be observed by others, and therefore often aren’t acknowledged. Many people told me I “looked fine” or was too young to be sick, which led to impostor syndrome and difficulties with speaking up for myself.

Invisible Obstacles explores my experiences with MS symptoms, as well as the MRI scans that act as “proof” of my chronic illness. Through this exhibition, I hope to prompt others to consider just how much can go unseen when looking at another person, as well as encourage people with invisible illnesses to advocate for themselves.

Reading List:

Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century, edited by Alice Wong

Disability and art history, edited by Ann Millett-Gallant and Elizabeth Howie

Points of contact : disability, art, and culture, edited by Susan Crutchfield and Marcy Epstein

Studying disability arts and culture : an introduction, by Petra Kuppers

Feminist, queer, crip, by Alison Kafer

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update. The Library Gallery is Closed Temporarily during the COVID-19 Outbreak.

Tanvi Kulkarni and Anavi Mullick will be having a reception in the Library Gallery for their exhibition titled: Transitory Stationary.

Reception:      Update from MCAD Library on COVID-19:      The reception for the current show in Library      Gallery has been canceled.

Exhibition:      March 16–April 12

Transitory Stationary consists of work by Tanvi Kulkarni and Anavi Mullick. A combination of paintings and artist's books, the work is an investigation of self and of relationships to people and place, through narrative. While representational art tells the viewer a story from the perspective of the artist, abstract art lets the viewer determine their own story from the artist’s work. A combination of abstract and representational imagery, the work reflects their thoughts and emotions.

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Opening reception: September 27, noon, Library Gallery Snacks will be provided

Connections is a project in which different artists based on Weimar (GER) Minneapolis (USA) and Cali (COL) submitted posters thinking on the idea of connections and how to patchwork imagery from different cultures. Their proposals were displayed and mixed by Andreas Bartolomendi (GER), Camilo Aguirre (COL) and Cesar Garcia (COL) and reprinted in screenprinting and digital formats. The outcome of this mixtures will be displayed from october to november in the Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Bauhaus Universität in Weimar and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

The project was attended by: Jiahao Chen, Yujie Cao, Patrick Sexton, Maria Jose Castillo, Reyn Boyd, Georgia Peaches, Adam Giordano, Alice Gompels, Andreas Bartolomendi, Corina Lobinger, Doi de Luise, Frankie Brown, Josephine Latzlau, Yael Omer, Alejandro Sepulveda, Ana Rosero, Cesar Garcia, Dayana Camacho, Maria Tafur, Nataly Rengifo, Camilo Aguirre, Lorena Tenorio. And was curated by Camilo Aguirre and Andreas Bartolomendi. September 27–October 21, 2019.

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Join us in the library for the opening reception of Jamie Kubat and Kerri Mulcare’s Knowing & Nothing: Seeking Intimacy Through an Absent Presence exhibition.

Opening reception: Tuesday, February 26 MCAD Library Gallery noon–1:00 p.m.

Exhibition will be on display: February 25–March 17, 2019

New work by Jamie Kubat & Kerri Mulcare that explores themes around the body and memory through their experimentation with paper casting, natural dye processes and materials, and the book as both object and installation.

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Now on display in the Library Gallery: Between Places, new works by Cassandra Cook. The exhibition will be on display through Sunday, February 17, 2019. Mark your calendars for the reception on Wednesday, February 13, noon–1:00 p.m. Between Places is new work exploring the ideas around journey, destination, displacement, memory, and place within the mundane. Documentation of video landscape crossing the state​ ​line of Michigan and Ohio is displayed on an iPod. Along with documentation in places with a film camera with scanned in negatives being used for xerox photo transfer ma onto fabric, and paper made into an accordion map book.

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Join us in the library for the opening reception of Eli deVries’s Damn Near curated exhibition of artists’ books.

Opening reception: Tuesday, April 23, at noon MCAD Library Gallery

Exhibition will be on display: April 22–May 14

Damn Near showcases artist​s'​​​ books by makers of differing disciplines side by side. Notions of fragility, intimacy, and gentleness concerning the physical object as tangible form are highlighted in this collection of books. With the detailed subject matter varying between each maker, the viewer will be able to discern and relate to how artist​s’ books are approached differently.

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Now on display in the Library Gallery: Gardening as Critical Practice, new prints and writings by Ian Hanesworth. The exhibition will be on display October 25–November 11, 2018.

Gardening as Critical Practice

This exhibition endeavors to position the act of gardening within the realm of artistic, social and critical practice. A series of relief prints depicting local flora are accompanied by a selection of writings that establish a critical context through poetic meditations and cross-disciplinary research. The craft-oriented processes of natural dyeing, relief printing and woodworking consider attention as a form of gratitude. Reframing gardening as a critical artistic practice encourages a perceptual shift in our understandings of cultural value and the personal dimensions of our relationship to the natural world.

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We’re holding a Call For Art, student competition! Submit your best work and exhibition ideas through April 25th. Exhibiting students will be offered $100.00 stipend. MCAD students fill out a submission here: Library Gallery @MCAD - Call for Art (Fall 2022) 

The form can also be found at the library's web page, the school's News and Events (intranet page), and in the What's Up at MCAD (email newsletter). For more information, contact library@mcad.edu. Poster illustrated by: Yimin Pi (@usagipi)

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Thursday, November 29–Friday, December 14 MCAD Library Gallery

Stop by the Library Gallery to see new prints by Ben Merritt.

Known Body is a selection of prints that revolve around the body in medicine and the ways bodily feeling intersects with language. There are aspects of illness experience that language cannot pierce; yet it is the avenue in which the patient is told to record their experience. How are ill bodies written about in medical texts, and how do patients communicate experiences in the restricted realm of language?