Terri Saulin @ Tiger Strikes Asteroid, April 1, 2011

Press: Phila Weekly

Catalogue PDF: The Solipsism of an Inverted Cartography by Michael Macfeat

Bill Walton

Fleisher/Ollman is very pleased to announce an exhibition of sculptures by the late artist Bill Walton. The exhibition will survey Walton's wall and floor works made from a spare vocabulary of basic materials and subtle interventions. These intimate investigations, undertaken during a career spanning more than 40 years, are culled from the artist's Estate and several have been loaned by collectors specifically for the exhibition.

Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 24 from 6-8pm. 

Bill Walton (1935-2010) was born in Camden, New Jersey and briefly studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago before moving to Philadelphia in 1964 where he was a commercial printmaker by trade and later an instructor at Moore College of Art and Design (1974-1990). Interested in the materials used for printmaking -- wood, lead, steel -- more than the finished product, Walton began to make sculptures after seeing an exhibition of sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He had his first exhibition in 1971 and over his long career exhibited in galleries nationally and at a variety of institutions including the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.  His work is included in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale University Gallery and Wellesley College.

Week 12: Science

Week 11 - Science Week:
1. Leftovers / The Orienting Stone, D. Graham Burnett, Cabinet Magazine, 2008
2. Art That Transfigures Science, Alan Lightman, The New York Times, 2003.
3. You Can Blame The Bugs, Sharon Begley, Newsweek, 2008
4. Real Rhapsody In Blue, Anne Underwood, Newsweek, 2006
5. The Human Brain: Marvel or Mess, Sharon Begley, Newsweek,2007.
6. Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture (video above)

Optional additional readings on the topic:
1. A Creature of New Habits, New York Times, 2008.
2. A Conversation with TODT: Flexible Logistics, Dominick Lombardi, Sculpture Magazine, 2007.
3. Why Pop Culture Loves the 'Butterfly Effect,' and Gets it Totally Wrong, Peter Dizikes, Boston Globe, 2008. (followed by some comments from Gerard Brown)
4. The Science of Gaydar, David France, New York Magazine, 2007
5. Does Plastic Art Last Forever?, Slate, Kean, 2009
6. Click here to listen to an interesting hypothesis linking artists, cat poop and a rise in cases of Schizophrenia. (and everyone should love Radio Lab anyway!)

Check out one of my favorite spots!
EYE OF SCIENCE

POST INFO FOR LABELS HERE!

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Hello All,
(The above image has nothing to do with this post...but I could not resist.)
Please list any information you have for labels for your exhibition here.
Please submit this info ASAP as Jackie is typing up the labels over the Holiday break.
It should be formatted like this example:
Artist: Terri Saulin
Title of work: Dear Glenn Gould, You Rock. Love Polly Apfelbaum
Date of work: 2008
Medium/Materials: ink, dye, glue, gold leaf, Artur Barrio’s shellac, pins
Dimensions: 42” height x 31.5" width x 2.75“ depth

(below is info can be included in the binder on a separate cover sheet)
Credit line: Courtesy of the artist or Owner's name
Avail for sale: Y
Selling price: $1200.00

A generic form for your future files can be found here.
Something like this would be necessary when sending work to a gallery or shipping work for installation at a distance. I hope it is useful.
Have a restful, peaceful and delicious Thanksgiving break!
Terri

Week 11: Politics

Week 10 - Politics, Required Reading:
1. A Critique of the Activist Scene, Nato Thompson, 2007.
2. JFK: Remarks at Amherst College, Sept., 26, 1963.
3. The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents, Claire Bishop, Artforum, 2006.
Optional additional readings / video on the topic:
1. Culture Wars, Richard Bolton, 1992.
2. Sculpture is a Dying Art Form. Let’s Put it Out of its Misery, Stephen Bayley, The Independent, 2005.
3. Arts and Economy Report from the News Hour (2009)
(video clip above)
4. The Art of Politics, Robert Atkins, Art in America, 2006.
5. Trevor Paglen, an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. In the last few years, Paglen's experimental, interdisciplinary work has uniquely managed to capture the attention of the art world, academia, and mainstream media simultaneously.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Trevor Paglen
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor U.S. Speedskating

Week 10: Art School

Week 9 - Art School:

1. Ten Tips For Those Considering Grad School, Ilana Stanger, TheArtBiz.com
2. Art Schools: A Group Critique, Raphael Rubenstein, Art In America, 2007.
3. Tales From the Crit: For Art Students, May Is the Cruelest Month, Jori Finkel, The New York Times, 2006.
4. Warhols of Tomorrow Are Dealers’Quarry Today, Carol Vogel, The New York Times, 2006.
5. What Should Colleges Teach, Stanley Fish, The New York Times, 2009.

Optional additional readings on the topic:

1. On The Uses of a Liberal Education, Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine, 1997
2. Miami Art Machine, New York magazine, 2008
3. Value of College Tuition is Called Into Question, USAToday, 2008
4. For and expanded version of Stanley Fish's What should Colleges Teach go here.
there are links below for parts 2-3, comments and more.