2009–2010 Eric Dean Gallery Exhibition Calendar


Eleanor Spiess-Ferris:  Sorrows of Swans
Krista Hoefle:  The girl who stopped being human!
August 31–October 14, 2009
Opening reception for both artists, Monday, August 31, 8–9:30 p.m.

The paintings of Eleanor Spiess-Ferris are surreal narratives layered with visual metaphors depicting her perceptions of the human condition and her concerns with the nature of human existence and the continuance of our earth as we know it. “My ‘swans’ encompass human myth and human reality.”

Krista Hoefle’s installations create viewer-interactive environments of space and forms using “hybridized” methods of combining computer technology with traditional media of sculpture, printmaking, photography, video and design. Themes addressed are (cyber)feminism and the genres of science fiction and horror (the abject, mind-body dichotomy, life extension ethics, and cyborg identity).


Lamidi O. Fakeye:  Africa’s Master Carver
October 26–December 11, 2009
Opening reception, Monday, October 26, 5–7 p.m.

Internationally recognized as one of Africa’s greatest artists of modern times, Lamidi Fakeye’s success is due largely to his keen ability to transcend competing identities. Indeed, his career on four continents is the epitome of cultural hybridity. A practicing Muslim, Lamidi is a fifth-generation Yoruba religious carver best known for his sculptures of Christian and Yoruba religious themes and cultural subjects. His body of work encompasses six decades and addresses these multiple identities. At 81 year of age, he is still active and carves daily.


Richard Koenig: Photographic Prevarications
January 18–Feb 19, 2010
Opening reception, Monday, January 18, 8–9:30 p.m.

In the exhibit Photographic Prevarications, simple subject matter is presented in such a way as to underscore photography’s ability to tell untruths. Richard Koenig usually works with pictures that are re-photographed in some fashion or another. This duplicative tactic is used as a way of exploring the inherent tension that exists within photography—the capacity to both depict and deceive, concurrently. As a result, the viewer is placed at a point where depiction and deception meet, and is left teetering between the two.

 
Jeff Eisenberg:  Drawings and Paintings
March 1–April 9, 2010  
Opening reception, Monday, March 1, 8–9:30 p.m.
(Closed Spring Break:  March 6–14)

Jeff Eisenberg’s drawings and paintings explore issues of abstraction and form, space-shaping and architecture, engineered realities and utopian fantasies, territorializing and the built environment. Eisenberg is interested in how we code and design our spaces, both public and private, and how different agendas and ideologies related to these spaces can commingle to create new and unexpected systems.


The 2010 Senior Art Majors Exhibition
April 19–May 16, 2010
Opening reception, Monday, April 19, 8–9:30 p.m.

The 2010 Senior Art Majors Exhibition will include works in various media by Miguel Aguilar, Juan Diaz, Korey Pazour, David Rosborough, Michael Scott, and Dan Sutton.