Sarah Emerson's Exhibition in Indianapolis

Curious and Curiouser

Curious and Curiouser explores the work of three artists, Casey Millard, Wayne White and Sarah Emerson that use elements of “cute” in their work: homey genre scenes, cartoonish characters and drawing book type illustrations. However, the artists in this exhibition use these elements in a subversive and sometimes abject way.

Curious and Curiouser
Eleanor Prest Reese and Robert B. Berkshire Galleries
January 21–February 24, 2011

OPENING RECEPTION: January 21, 5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
ARTIST TALKS:
Wayne White, 5:30 pm, Wednesday, January 26, Basile Auditorium - 2011 Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Visiting Artist Lecture
Casey Riordan Millard, 12:00 pm, Thursday, February 10, Basile Auditorium
Sarah Emerson, 5:30 pm, Wednesday, February 23, Basile Auditorium

Casey Riordan Millard has developed a unique character, “Shark Girl”, a young woman who has the body of a girl and the head of shark. Depicting in drawings, ceramics and life-size installations, Shark Girl often laments her lot in life to the point where she is frozen into inactivity.

Wayne White overlays subversive and witty text over mass-distributed genre-scene lithographs.

Sarah Emerson uses animal imagery which eerily looks reminiscent of children’s drawings books. However, the imagery is depicted in a dark and sinister way: wolves fighting over food, skulls incorporated into landscapes or animals lying down that could as easily be dead as sleeping. In addition to several paintings, Emerson will also be making a new large-scale mural painting for the exhibition.

All three artists will also present lectures at Herron that will be free and open to the public.
http://www.herron.iupui.edu/galleries

Wayne White
Casey Millard
Sarah Emerson

Dawoud Bey: The Emory Project Unveiled Feb. 1st

The long awaited Visual Arts exhibition by Dawoud Bey will be unveiled at the VA building on February 1 at 5pm. Join us for a talk from Dawoud Bey at 6pm. Taking a year to accomplish, The Emory Project is an exploration of the coexistence of the different people, (races, religion, sexual orientation, personalities) that make up Emory's core. 

View this information online: http://visualarts.emory.edu/events/untoldstories.html#bey

Dawoud Bey: The Emory Project

Emory Visual Arts Gallery

Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 1, 5–8 pm
Gallery Talk by Dawoud Bey, 6 pm

Refreshments will be available.
Directions/Parking: http://visualarts.emory.edu/contact/index.html#directions

Exhibition Dates: February 1–March 5, 2011 

WEBSITE FOR DAWOUD BEY: THE EMORY PROJECT
http://transform.emory.edu/dawouldbey/

In partnership with the Transforming Community Project (TCP), the Emory Visual Arts Department commissioned acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey to develop a series of portraits of the Emory community that demonstrates the university's diversity and celebrates the culmination of TCP's five-year exploration of Emory's historic and current experiences of race, gender, sexuality, and other forms of human difference.  While he was an artist in residence on campus for four weeks in Spring 2010, Bey created thirty-six double portraits, each containing two members of the Emory community from different stations throughout the university.  Each person also contributed a personal statement reflecting their passions and interests.   Bey then selected twenty of the portraits to comprise the final exhibition that will be on view at the Visual Arts Gallery.

Dawoud Bey: The Emory Project is presented in conjunction with Founders Week 2011 at Emory University, which begins a year-long commemoration and celebration of Emory's 175th anniversary.  For a complete list of Founders Week programs, visit http://www.emory.edu/founders/.