"Transmission" opens at Southwest University of Visual Arts’ Florence Quater Gallery
What:  Southwest University of Visual Arts is pleased to announce the opening, "Transmission" in The Florence Quater Gallery.  "Transmission" features the works of nationally recognized and emerging artists working in video.	When: Opening Reception Friday, February 24th, 6 to 8 PM   Exhibition runs February 20th through March 22nd.   Hours: 10am - 5pm, Monday through Friday.	Where: The Florence Quater Gallery at Southwest University of Visual Arts. 2538 N. Country Club Rd. Tucson, AZ 85716

Background:
            "Transmission" surveys diverse approaches which contemporary artists navigate the surging genre of video.  This exhibition includes artists who disregard the everyday and expected use of the medium.  The works consider the experimental, political, and expressionistic capacities of video art.  The exhibition features a large projection looping works while smaller screens intermittently show individual works allowing viewers to intimately engage with all video works.
Participating Artists:

William Lamson is a Brooklyn based artist who works in video, photography, performance and sculpture. His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and a number of private collections.   Since graduating from the Bard MFA program in 2006, his work has been shown at The Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe and featured on NPR’s “The Picture Show.”

 

Ryan Mrozowski presents theatrical spaces filled with rituals, sporting events, reenactments, and public gatherings. He attempts to examine how history is created, through the mutation of symbolism and the abstracting of narrative. The work is an attempt to examine the gaps in our collective knowledge, creating a personal iconography that speaks to a universal condition.  Mrozowski holds a MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute and recently was a Visiting Artist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.  Solo Exhibitions: 2010 – Luminous Fleas, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY. April-May; 2008 – Arm In Arm With the Empty Spirit, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY. January; The Refrain, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

Kate Hampel is a Canadian artist whose work spans media from embroidery to video. She received a BFA in Fibres from Concordia University in Montreal before going to South Korea as a teacher and visiting artist lecturer. Her works deal with everyday systems of interpersonal power and is informed by divisions of gender and class. Currently living in Chicago, Kate received her MFA in 2011 from the School of the Art Institute, where she is currently a Visiting Artist.  Her work is regularly exhibited in throughout the U.S. and is currently included in Momentum: 40 Years of the Women’s Caucus for Art national exhibition on display in Los Angeles.

 

Emma High received her MFA from The University of Arizona in 2011. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including the BF Gallery in Taipei City, Taiwan and the Garden Gallery in Abu Dhabi. She currently is Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona, illustrating children’s picture books and immersing in an intensive yoga practice in Tucson, AZ.

 

John Richey currently lives and works in NYC and has exhibited nationally and internationally along with participating in numerous artist residency programs including the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada.

 

Alexander Diaz is a photo-based artist who merges aspects of documentary photography and conceptual photography. Diaz’s work investigates issues concerning the natural environment, consumerism, identity, and place. Diaz earned a MFA in Photography from the University of Florida and is Assistant Professor at University of North Florida. He has exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, FL.

 

Tobias Fike and Matthew Harris both earned MFA’s from the University of Colorado in Boulder. They met in graduate school and began working together on projects in 2010.  This joint effort has resulted in various videos, photographs, and performances. In their short career together, they have performed/shown at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the Conrad Wilde Gallery in Tucson, Arizona. Separately, their work has been shown also in Texas, California, Wisconsin, and New York, among other places. Currently, they both live and work in Denver and continue to collaborate.

 

Kristin Smith-Skees is a member of the faculty at Christopher Newport University, VA.  She collaborates with her husband, Alan Skees.  Mrs. Skees moved to the desert and attended graduate school at the University of Arizona. She devotes time working on video installations, experimenting with traditional women’s crafts and fibers, and starting to re-discover photography. The Husband Cozy was conceived from a desert-fevered dream in the summer of 2005, and began working on the Cozy Portrait series in late 2008.

 

Adán De La Garza is a Denver based interdisciplinary artist originally from Tucson, Arizona. He is currently pursuing a MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Adán's work has been shown nationally and internationally.

 

Simon Donovan, artist, fool, provocateur, is currently working on his autobiography Cavalcade of Humiliation. He knows he is not necessarily important enough to warrant this memoir, but being self-obsessed—he’s doing it anyway. He is a sometime performer, an object-maker, photo-taker, and general faker. Donovan earned a BFA from RISD and a MFA from Transart Institute at Danube University in Austria.

 

Nika Kaiser is a photographer, video and performance artist from Tucson, Arizona.  Currently she's a MFA candidate in Photography at University of Oregon. Kaiser's work explores notions of displacement and liminal realities through costume and narrative.

 

 

The Florence Quater Gallery at Southwest University of Visual Arts presents exhibitions, lectures, artist talks, workshops, and special projects by local, national, and international artists in the field of art and design, with an emphasis on contemporary modes of practice, individual vision, experimentation, and cultural and intellectual diversity. The Florence Quater Gallery serves as an important teaching instrument and visual resource for students at Southwest University of Visual Arts and the surrounding community.

 

 

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