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Persian Variations
16th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition: Honor Laureate Exhibition
For immediate release: September 15, 2009
(Fort Collins) The Curfman Gallery proudly hosts the work of Majid Abassi, guest Laureate of the 16th biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE). This year’s laureate, Majid Abassi, represents his country of Iran and the incredible graphic works originating from the region, with a solo exhibition of his work in the Curfman Gallery. This exhibit serves a special role held in conjunction with the larger CIIPE program which includes the laureate lecture and the CIIPE exhibit held at the UCA (University Center for the Arts). The Curfman Gallery’s opening reception for the 16th CIIPE Honor Laureate Exhibition will be held Thursday, October 1, 2009 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Refreshments will be provided.
The entire exhibition, for the first time in its history will be installed in a single location, the University Center for the Arts. Don’t miss the UCA’s main exhibit and poster sale opening Friday, October 2, 2009. The 16th CIIPE features works by artists from more than 35 countries reflecting international perspectives on political, social and cultural issues. With this biennial exhibition, Colorado State University’s Department of Art exhibits outstanding examples of poster design, while bringing an understanding of global visual communication to an American audience. This exhibit prompts international understanding, tolerance, and dialogue through the graphic arts.
The 16th CIIPE Honor Laureate Exhibition will be on display in the Curfman Gallery until December 11, 2009. The Curfman Gallery is located on the south end of the main level of the Lory Student Center, in the heart of Colorado State’s campus. This event is free and open to the public.
Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 9am – 9pm; Friday from 9am – 9:30pm; and Saturday from 12pm – 4pm. The gallery is closed on Sundays.
For more information, contact Nick Croghan Director of the Curfman Gallery, at (970) 491-2810 or e-mail [email protected]. Information about the exhibit and the gallery, including a parking map, can be found at www.curfman.colostate.edu. For more information on the University Center for the Arts go to http://sota.colostate.edu/facilities/uca.html.
For immediate release: September 15, 2009
(Fort Collins) The Curfman Gallery proudly hosts the work of Majid Abassi, guest Laureate of the 16th biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (CIIPE). This year’s laureate, Majid Abassi, represents his country of Iran and the incredible graphic works originating from the region, with a solo exhibition of his work in the Curfman Gallery. This exhibit serves a special role held in conjunction with the larger CIIPE program which includes the laureate lecture and the CIIPE exhibit held at the UCA (University Center for the Arts). The Curfman Gallery’s opening reception for the 16th CIIPE Honor Laureate Exhibition will be held Thursday, October 1, 2009 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Refreshments will be provided.
The entire exhibition, for the first time in its history will be installed in a single location, the University Center for the Arts. Don’t miss the UCA’s main exhibit and poster sale opening Friday, October 2, 2009. The 16th CIIPE features works by artists from more than 35 countries reflecting international perspectives on political, social and cultural issues. With this biennial exhibition, Colorado State University’s Department of Art exhibits outstanding examples of poster design, while bringing an understanding of global visual communication to an American audience. This exhibit prompts international understanding, tolerance, and dialogue through the graphic arts.
The 16th CIIPE Honor Laureate Exhibition will be on display in the Curfman Gallery until December 11, 2009. The Curfman Gallery is located on the south end of the main level of the Lory Student Center, in the heart of Colorado State’s campus. This event is free and open to the public.
Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 9am – 9pm; Friday from 9am – 9:30pm; and Saturday from 12pm – 4pm. The gallery is closed on Sundays.
For more information, contact Nick Croghan Director of the Curfman Gallery, at (970) 491-2810 or e-mail [email protected]. Information about the exhibit and the gallery, including a parking map, can be found at www.curfman.colostate.edu. For more information on the University Center for the Arts go to http://sota.colostate.edu/facilities/uca.html.
5th Annual Art and Science Exhibition
Curfman Gallery’s 5th Annual Art and Science Exhibition
For immediate release: February 2010.
(Fort Collins) We are excited to announce our hosting of CSU’s fifth Art and Science exhibition. CSU students, faculty, and staff come together bringing their creativity and innovation through our doors to make this exhibit possible. The Art and Science exhibition serves to showcase these participant’s experimentation and creation of new knowledge through subjects relating to art and or science, ultimately seeking to bring together these two disciplines.
The Art and Science Exhibition invites faculty, students and staff to submit work that is either science-inspired art or artistically-appreciated science. Works in any medium are welcome in this juried exhibition.
The Curfman Gallery is located on the south end of the main level of the Lory Student Center, in the heart of Colorado State’s campus. This event is free and open to the public
Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 9am – 9pm; Friday from 9adm – 9:30pm; and Saturday from 12pm – 4pm. The gallery is closed on Sundays.
For more information or to request stock photography of a piece from the exhibit, contact Nick Croghan, Director of the Curfman Gallery, at (970) 491-2810 or e-mail [email protected]. Information about the exhibit and the gallery, including a parking map, can be found at www.curfman.colostate.edu
For immediate release: February 2010.
(Fort Collins) We are excited to announce our hosting of CSU’s fifth Art and Science exhibition. CSU students, faculty, and staff come together bringing their creativity and innovation through our doors to make this exhibit possible. The Art and Science exhibition serves to showcase these participant’s experimentation and creation of new knowledge through subjects relating to art and or science, ultimately seeking to bring together these two disciplines.
The Art and Science Exhibition invites faculty, students and staff to submit work that is either science-inspired art or artistically-appreciated science. Works in any medium are welcome in this juried exhibition.
The Curfman Gallery is located on the south end of the main level of the Lory Student Center, in the heart of Colorado State’s campus. This event is free and open to the public
Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 9am – 9pm; Friday from 9adm – 9:30pm; and Saturday from 12pm – 4pm. The gallery is closed on Sundays.
For more information or to request stock photography of a piece from the exhibit, contact Nick Croghan, Director of the Curfman Gallery, at (970) 491-2810 or e-mail [email protected]. Information about the exhibit and the gallery, including a parking map, can be found at www.curfman.colostate.edu
Efflorescence
Efflorescence
Hatton Gallery Spring 2010
One Pick and One Pan by SARAH VAETH on MARCH 13, 2010
Efflorescence, at the Clara Hatton Gallery is my top recommendation for new shows this month. I attended the opening Thursday… but you never really see the art at an opening, so I went back today to really take some time with it. This show of three graduate students from different concentrations reflects the CSU Art Dept’s newfound comfort with interdisciplinary projects (hurray!). It’s a really fresh, conceptually well-integrated show. It hardly matters which artist is the printmaking grad, or the drawing, or the graphic design grad, because all three move confidently outside the traditional parameters of their chosen media. Nick Croghan, Laura Grossett, and Eli Marco Hall intersect artistically in their foregrounding of biological forms. I’m told that they met together extensively in planning this show- and I can tell you it payed off. Each artist is recognizable as a distinct voice, but they harmonize beautifully.
Grossett and Croghan share a similar approach in presenting their multi-media objects as specimens or artifacts. The effect is a framing of the art practice as scientific inquiry, albeit an arcane form of inquiry. These artists describe the minutia of biological systems and propose unlikely contexts for them. Hall’s reference to biology is sometimes more subtle: his stately wood-and-metal sculptures appear as abstract crystalizations of visceral trauma.
Grossett’s drawings depict bird, insect and plant biology in a way reminiscent of naturalist illustration. The endeavor of the naturalist is further echoed in the presentation of some drawings as “slides”, whether scribed on plexiglass disks, or tucked snuggly into a file box. Some of these objects point to a certain antiquatedness, the outmoded implements of collection and classification. Snow Moths, a particularly lovely work, could pass for an eccentric piece of Victoriana: careful drawings of moths are sandwiched between clouded plexi disks, and these disks are held on stems branching from an ornate copper stand, itself an abstraction from botanical forms.
If Grosset’s work suggests the science of a past era, Croghan’s might depict an alien technology. Here too drawing is incorporated within ambiguous objects. Biological forms (plant? animal?) are sampled and repurposed as parts in uncanny mechanisms. Conceal/Reveal is striking: three illustrated disks are arrayed on a sort of turntable, one disk positioned under a lens. what this instrument is meant to discern is anyone’s guess. Croghan’s other object/drawings are no less mysterious. Lenses appear again in Inquiry into Curiosity, suggesting a hidden space behind the seductive watercolor drawing.
Hall’s references to biology are sometimes as direct as the corroded metal heart that appears in Asd. The reference in Fulcrum is more oblique. The red-enameled, shredded metal- hung from the ceiling and tethered to a mean looking hook- evokes the abattoir. At the same time, the form is reassuringly sanitized, at a remove from the implied violence. The same feeling of distance is at play in Champ: An ambiguous form (of hacked and charred wood) releases a spillage of red metal flecks from it’s hollowed core, but the stream is neatly pixelated- tidy squares of metal confetti instead of spatters.
Efflorescence runs through March 24. M-F, 10-4. Free Admission
2010 Annual Undergraduate Exhibition
2010 Annual Undergraduate Exhibition
For immediate release: March 31, 2010
(Fort Collins) Please join us in celebrating the Curfman Gallery and its longest running annual exhibit, the Undergraduate Visual Art Exhibition. This year will be continuing the tradition while honoring the present. This annual exhibition serves to showcase the top talent of CSU undergraduate artists regardless of major. It is no surprise that with the level of student involvement, hard work and peer support that our Undergraduate Exhibit tends to be one of our most popular exhibitions we show. The exhibit seeks to provide the CSU community with a deeper understanding of the arts while celebrating CSU student’s artistic and academic achievements.
Registration is open to all currently enrolled undergraduate students regardless of major. Students that wish to participate in this year’s exhibit should register online by Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by midnight at www.curfman.colostate.edu. Please see website for details and drop-off schedule.
The Undergraduate Exhibition’s opening reception will be held on Friday, April 23, 2010 from 4 to 6pm in the Curfman Gallery. Refreshments will be provided.
The 2009 Undergraduate Exhibition will be on display in the Curfman Gallery until May 14, 2010. The Curfman Gallery is located on the south end of the main level of the Lory Student Center, in the heart of Colorado State’s campus. This event is free and open to the public.
Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 9am – 9pm; Friday from 9am – 9:30pm; and Saturday from 12pm – 4pm. The gallery is closed on Sundays.
For more information, contact Nick Croghan, Director of the Curfman Gallery, at (970) 491-2810 or e-mail [email protected]. Information about the exhibit and the gallery, including a parking map, can be found at www.curfman.colostate.edu
For immediate release: March 31, 2010
(Fort Collins) Please join us in celebrating the Curfman Gallery and its longest running annual exhibit, the Undergraduate Visual Art Exhibition. This year will be continuing the tradition while honoring the present. This annual exhibition serves to showcase the top talent of CSU undergraduate artists regardless of major. It is no surprise that with the level of student involvement, hard work and peer support that our Undergraduate Exhibit tends to be one of our most popular exhibitions we show. The exhibit seeks to provide the CSU community with a deeper understanding of the arts while celebrating CSU student’s artistic and academic achievements.
Registration is open to all currently enrolled undergraduate students regardless of major. Students that wish to participate in this year’s exhibit should register online by Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by midnight at www.curfman.colostate.edu. Please see website for details and drop-off schedule.
The Undergraduate Exhibition’s opening reception will be held on Friday, April 23, 2010 from 4 to 6pm in the Curfman Gallery. Refreshments will be provided.
The 2009 Undergraduate Exhibition will be on display in the Curfman Gallery until May 14, 2010. The Curfman Gallery is located on the south end of the main level of the Lory Student Center, in the heart of Colorado State’s campus. This event is free and open to the public.
Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 9am – 9pm; Friday from 9am – 9:30pm; and Saturday from 12pm – 4pm. The gallery is closed on Sundays.
For more information, contact Nick Croghan, Director of the Curfman Gallery, at (970) 491-2810 or e-mail [email protected]. Information about the exhibit and the gallery, including a parking map, can be found at www.curfman.colostate.edu
A Day Without Art
