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From Your Body Is a Space That Sees, 2016
Lia Halloran
Your Body Is a Space That Sees is a series of large-scale cyanotype works inspired by the fragmented history and contributions of women in astronomy. The series offers a visual account and female-centric astronomical catalog of craters, comets, galaxies, and nebulae, drawing from narrative, visual, and historical accounts of a group of women known as “Pickering’s Harem” or the “Harvard Computers,” who worked at the Harvard Observatory starting in 1879. This little-known group of women made a significant impact in the field of astronomy by using photographic glass plates to catalogue and classify the size, brightness, and chemical content of stars. The key to unlocking the distance of the universe was discovered by one of these women, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, based on her observation of variable stars. Her discoveries provided evidence that subsequently supported Edwin Hubble’s expanding universe theories. The important contributions of these women to the fields of astronomy and astrophotography were compensated with wages less than half of what their male counterparts would have been paid.
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Stalin's Russia: Visions of Happiness, Omens of Terror
Mark Konecny and Wendy Salmond
"In 1970 an American high school teacher began a thirty-year journey into Stalin’s Russia. The items you see here were selected from more than 8,000 artifacts conserved on that journey.
Tom Ferris (the teacher) began collecting early, and he collected just about everything. But in 1970 Tom found a focus for his collecting and a new love and passion – Russia herself...
Tom’s dream was that his collection of Russian memorabilia be preserved, kept safe, and made available for study so people could understand how Stalin came to be; so Soviet history would be real, not abstract; so future generations would appreciate the history and sacrifices of Soviet citizens.
STALIN’S RUSSIA at Chapman University is helping achieve exactly that."
-From the Foreword, by Jeri Chase Ferris
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The Wonder Room
Lia Halloran
"Wunderkammer, or Wonder Rooms were early private cabinets of curiosities, which contained collections of objects, minerals, and taxidermy animals of the natural world which science had yet to categorize. For the exhibition ‘The Wonder Room’ Lia Halloran has created over 30 new works for the SACI gallery based on specimens in the oldest science museum in Europe, La Specola....The result is an image strange in nature because it is not entirely drawing, nor entirely a photograph either. Halloran’s work often uses concepts in science as a bounding point, exploring how perception, time, and scale informs the human desire to understand the world and our emotional and psychological place within it."
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TRANSMEDIATION: A Survey of Contemporary Video Art from the East Coast
Micol Hebron
"Transmediation has been curated by Micol Hebron (of Chapman University) for the ARTspace Media Lounge at the 101st Annual Conference of the College Art Association. Fifty‐two students from ten colleges were selected to screen video art works in Media Lounge at the Hilton Hotel, New York, on February 13th-‐16th, 2013. Conceived to showcase work by top student-‐artists on the east coast, this program introduces vibrant, innovative work by a new genera:on of artists with a fresh perspective and approach to video and digital media."
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Metamorphose
Lia Halloran
An exhibition of ink drawings of crystals at the DCKT Contemporary gallery in New York City.
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Parenthood in the Art World
Micol Hebron, Holly Myers, Andrew Berardini, Ellina Kevorkian, Rebecca Niederlander, and Amir Zaki
"MOCA hosted a Colloquy panel examining how artist parents approach their dual, mutually influential roles (i.e. children serving as the subject or co-creator of a work, raising kids to appreciate art, and the dynamics of exposing them to the art world)."
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Sublimation / Transmutation
Lia Halloran
"With a devoted interest in physics, chemistry and the behavior of natural elements in the guise of contemporary art practices, Lia Halloran stages her solo exhibition Sublimation as a simultaneous investigation into the human form and the passage of time, where flesh undergoes a metamorphosis into crystallized figures."
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Tilt-Shift LA: New Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge
Lia Halloran
Lia Halloran contributed her images of crystal/human hybrids for this group exhibition centered around queer perspectives from the western U.S.
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In Decent Exposure
Micol Hebron
Images from Micol Hebron's exhibition, "In Decent Exposure".
Performance / Photographs / Video Projection (6) 18"X18" photographs Installed at 18th Street Art Center - Santa Monica, CA USTREAM LINK - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/debating-through-the-arts-womd
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Sisterhood is Powerful
Micol Hebron
Images from Micol Hebron's exhibition, "Sisterhood is Powerful", in 2011.
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Universe City
Lia Halloran
"Universe City" was a group video show organized by Jim Ovelmen and Barry Markowitz that featured "over 80 videos being projected in multiple places and situations. A model of the entire CSULA campus will be installed in Gallery A, multiple videos will projected on it. Single-channel videos [were] shown in Gallery B, and selected videos [were played] 3 STORIES TALL outdoors, on an adjacent building. The featured videos [were] from artists from Los Angeles, New York, and all over the world."
Source: http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/art/gallery/graduate-thesis-show-fall-2011.php
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Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance
Lia Halloran
Lia Halloran contributed to this group exhibition centered around the idea that newer art is "haunted" by art of the past, incapable of escaping its influence and often longing for a mythic and idealized history.
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The Only Way Out Is Through
Lia Halloran
"DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present LIA HALLORAN’s third New York solo exhibition. The exhibition includes new paintings of crystal caves and personified icebergs, along with ink on vellum works. HALLORAN uses science and the natural world to map out physical and psychological spaces in her painting and addresses time in ways that stretch our notions of perception."
This exhibition can also be viewed on DCKT's website.
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Ultrasonic International III: Elementary, My Dear Watson
Lia Halloran
The artists "present art making as an investigation of individual obsessions and intent, which deals with theoretical positions but never at the cost of their own cognitive decisions; they prioritize their own interiorized concerns. The results of such introspection range from the abject to the celebratory, but fundamentally these sixteen artists are all detectives of the Self."
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Dark Skate
Lia Halloran
"The ten photographs on view were taken at night in various Los Angeles locations ranging from spaces appropriated by skateboarders, such as the Los Angeles River, to skate parks and backyard ramps.
The works blur the boundaries of photography and become self-portraits and drawings as well as records of performances. Light is used to form the drawing line while HALLORAN skateboards at night through different venues. The resulting images are each a trajectory of the artist’s movements over time. The photographs pair urban environments with lines of light which behave as physical objects or break apart into flurries of abstraction.
The images also have ghost-like connotations, showing action with no trace of a figure and leaving an after-image of where but not of whom. They become memory as well as exaggerations of architecture combined with landscape. The light pollution of the Los Angeles night sky is often heightened by the long exposure time of the camera."
This exhibition can also be viewed on DCKT's website.
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The World is Bound with Secret Knots
Lia Halloran
"DCKT Contemporary is pleased to announce the first New York exhibition of painter Lia HALLORAN. The six figure paintings in the show explore physical forces of nature and the possibilities of how these forces interact with, intersect and fragment the body. HALLORAN’s paintings are inspired by physics and unseen natural forces around us such as light, motion, dissipation, centrifugal forces, gravity and magnetism. Laws of physics that are familiar and observable become just as important as the figures they interact with. The figures lie in an unresolved point between giving in and becoming overtaken, experiential in their environments."
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Not Too Loose, Not Too Tight
Lia Halloran
"The works selected for Not Too Loose and Not Too Tight demonstrate how the real world tends to dissolve into a daydream, as a shadow of today’s ersatz reality. "
Below you may find selected exhibitions from Art faculty in the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
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