Monday, July 4, 2016

Words and Objectivity 2016




WORDS AND OBJECTIVITY
An Exhibition and Curatorial Workshop with Mireia Sentis

INTRODUCTION
In March of 2016 Kipp Gallery at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania hosted Spanish artist Mireia Sentis for a spring 2016 featured artist exhibition and student workshop. Born in Barcelona, Mireia grew up in Paris and studied at Oxford and in Florence. She is a writer, photographer and curator who has directed and anchored cultural radio and TV programs in Spain and the UK.  Her work spans four decades reaching across multiple disciplines including photography, journalism, visual art, broadcasting and criticism.  She started working at United Nations headquarters in 1972 and since then has been living and working in New York, Barcelona and Madrid. In 1983, she began exhibiting her photographic work throughout Europe, South America and New York, receiving critical acclaim from respected columns in Artnews and The New York Times.  In 2008 Mireia was the recipient of a retrospective exhibition at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid) and at Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona, 2010). Early in her career Mireia directed the Spanish television program Dos en raya (TV2) interviewing primary figures from the arts and culture.  She is the author of Al límite del juego (To the Limit of the Game, 1994), a portrait of SoHo in the 1960’s and 70’s, and En el pico del águila: una introducción a la cultura afroamericana (In the Eagle's Beak: An introduction to African American Culture, 1998). She is also the founder/director of BAAM (Biblioteca Afro Americana in Madrid), which publishes previously untranslated writings in Spanish.   


ABOUT THE PROJECT
WORDS AND OBJECTIVITY is an evolving project that unfolds in two phases.  During phase one from March 17th – 25th Mireia Sentis transformed Kipp Gallery into a classroom where select IUP student artists participated in a concept development and curatorial workshop.   During this workshop, students were asked to consider the contradictory notion of photographic objectivity while investigating collaborative possibilities for their own work.  Ultimately the student artists worked together with Sentis to mount an exhibition of their own work in addition to photographs from Sentis’ series “Words.” Phase two of the project opened on Thursday March 31, 2016. 


STUDENT ARTISTS

Anthony Bookhammer
Ashely Bouton
Cody Bloom
Jen Blalock
Kizan Ayton Green
Rachel Precht
Kyle Reidmiller
Sarah Balough
Sheila Valentin

MIREIA’S BIO

“The work of Mireia Sentis reveals the myriad, crisscrossed paths along which contemporary creation has traveled in recent decades.  From New York to Barcelona and Madrid, Sentis has combined her photographic work with journalism in the press and television, exhibition curation, art criticism and essay writing. She set off on this journey in New York in the 1970s, which provided her with freedom of movement and action, a curiosity for means, themes and formats, cosmopolitanism and an interest in in-depth learning about cultures she never saw as minorities, but rather always as constituent parts of her living environment.”
Mireia Sentis. Photo, Essay, Communication
Curator: Aurora Fernandez Polanco
Arts Santa Monica
















Delicate Membrane 2015





Artworks by Josefina Concha and Daniel DiCaprio
Sept 10 – October 8, 2015
Artist Talk with Daniel DiCaprio Thursday Sept 10, 2015 at 5:00pm in Room 118A
Reception to follow.
Kipp Gallery

This two-person exhibition features the work of fiber artist Josephina Concha and the sculptural jewelry of Daniel DiCaprio.  Both artists draw inspiration from micro and macro elements found in the natural world and their unique creations at once appear synthetic and organic.  DiCaprio’s wearable sculptures employ 3-D printed objects amidst delicate hand-formed metals.  Josephina Concha harnesses the volume of woven and stitched fabric to evoke skin-like formations that appear fungal.  Delicate Membrane brings each of their artworks into a conversation concerning the value of synthesized form and the beauty found in nature.

Josefina Concha
josefinaconchae@gmail.com
www.josefinaconchae.com