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SEASON 10 EXHIBITS IN THE GALLERY
September 2013 - August 2014
| December 13 - January 10, 2014 |
main gallery + drawing room
TAPPED 4 The relationship between art students and their professors can be a powerful one. Even when this bond is left unstated, we carry our professors' voices forward in time as we mature as artists and people. We eventually realize that the instruction given by our teachers during our relatively brief careers as students continues to expand within us. We realize that the learning they inspired (or insisted upon) is a chain-reaction process that develops across our lifetime. All of us who have been students carry forward our professors' legacy in one form or another. And those who are, or have been professors, bear witness to the potency of studenthood. Out of respect for this student-teacher bond, and in honor of professors working hard to help their students tap into a higher mind relative to art and life, we offer TAPPED, an annual exhibit that presents works of art by current or former professor/student pairs. For this exhibit 145 artists submitted 305 works for consideration. Sixteen works by the following 16 artists were selected for presentation in the gallery and Manifest Exhibition Annual publication. The artists are listed in pairings to illustrate their teacher/student relationship.
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MARKING TIME
Manifest is proud to showcase an intimate look at this veteran artists's recent work. Navarra's book-sized drawings are reminiscent of Christian and Islamic manuscripts, Indian Mughal painting, and perhaps Medieval cartography. With a nod to graphic design combined with a pinch of postmodern appropriation his works mesmerize, seeming purposeful and systematic, mysterious and whimsical, and at once vandalous and playful.
Of his work Navarra states: "I have always defined drawing as making marks on a surface, which leaves the door open for what is a mark and what is a drawing surface. In my case, I have chosen to work on old 'found paper' documents. Being more than 100 years old, I inherit a history of mark-making circumstance on these found documents in regards to stains, tears, smudges, folds, color of paper, design elements, stamps, gesture, and a narrative, just to name a few. It is a vocabulary of preordained aesthetics that I must react to, develop a relationship with, choose to enhance, delete, adopt, or obliterate, while imposing new layers from my own time and interval of space. In a sense, it becomes a metaphor for how we deal with our past and our collective history, whether we choose to ignore it, change it, embellish it, and/or bring its more important components into the light of day."
Doug Navarra received his BFA from Tyler School of Art in 1976 and an MFA from the University of Minnesota in 1979. His awards as a visual artist include a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship (1980), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1985), two Pollock-Krasner Fellowships (1999 & 2012), and an Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship (2003). He has also been Visiting Artist at The Museum of Art and Design in NYC (2010). His work as been included in exhibits around the U.S. including OK Harris Gallery (New York City), Oktabec Gallery (Los Angeles), Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design (New York City), among many others. His work is featured in the collections of Maine Artists' Space - The Danforth Collection, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Museum of Arts and Design in NYC, Muskegon Museum of Art, Rutgers University, Washington Square Partnership, and the Brooklyn Museum. Navarra lives and works as a visual artist in upstate N.Y.
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ONE 4 $1000 award All of Manifest's calls for entry are competitive. The stiffness of the competition has increased in proportion to Manifest's growing reputation, multi-faceted mission, and international reach. Our mission to stand for quality, to create a system whereby works are judged with objectivity as a primary aim, and assembled with as little subjective curatorial agenda as possible has gained the respect of thousands of artists from all over the world, and a vast following of arts lovers, patrons, and supporters. We respect the creative principle of reduction (the jury process) as it is employed to achieve an essential conclusive statement for each exhibit we produce. This is what has led to the high caliber of each Manifest exhibit, and to the gallery's notable reputation. Competition does breed excellence! With this principle of reduction in mind, we have been inspired by the intensity of jury after jury to narrow down a collection of entries to a suitable end result. Therefore we determined to push the process to the ultimate limit - from among many to select just ONE work. This work will be the recipient of the fourth annual MANIFEST PRIZE, a cash award of $1000 to a single work selected by our rigorous jury process, and presented in a gallery all to itself as the highlight of the competitive process, an honor to the artist, and a poignant statement for gallery visitors. Manifest's jury process for ONE included three levels of jury review of 441 works by 197 artists by a total of 19 different jurors. Each level resulted in fewer works passing on to the next, until a winner was reached. The size and nature of the works considered was not a factor in the jury scoring and selection.
The winning work is a painting entitled "Self-Portrait with Worn Wall" by Erin Wozniak of Canton, Ohio. It will be the recipient of the 4th annual MANIFEST PRIZE, and presented in the Central Gallery from December 13 through January 10, 2014. It will be accompanied by juror statements and the artist's statement. Erin Wozniak was born in 1980 in Canton, Ohio and received a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design where she was named Outstanding Senior in Fine Arts. While pursuing her BFA, she was awarded a summer fellowship to study at Yale University at Norfolk. After graduating, Wozniak continued her studio practice abroad, living in New Zealand where she won the Goldwater National Art Award. She went on to study Art Education after returning to the U.S. and is currently teaching visual art at Alliance High School in Alliance, Ohio. Wozniak is a twotime recipient of The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and has had work included in national and international juried exhibitions. In both 2009 and 2012, she had a painting selected to tour the United Kingdom as part of the National Portrait Gallery’s BP Portrait Award and Exhibition. In 2012 and 2013, Wozniak had work selected for the Art Renewal Center’s International Juried Salon, winning second place in drawing. Her work has also been selected for the 8th International Drawing Annual (INDA 8) and the 4th International Painting Annual (INPA 4) to be published by Manifest Press.
The Manifest Prize is an annual offering, and with anticipated increased sponsorship the prize amount will grow in coming years. Five semi-finalists will also be featured in the season-documenting Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA). These are works by Daniel Dallmann, Matthew Davey, Marshall Harris, Damon Mohl, and Janvier Rollande.
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Self-Portrait with Worn Wall
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north gallery
REGIONAL SHOWCASE:
In 9 seasons Manifest's projects have included works by artists in 49 states and 37 countries. Starting with its 10th season, and as a result of its recent gallery expansion by 66%, Manifest is launching a new ongoing series of exhibits focusing on works by artists living in its own three-state region. This is intended to complement the ordinarily very wide geographical makeup of most Manifest exhibits with a closer look at what's being done here, now, in our own backyard. Manifest was founded, and continues to be operated by regional artists, so it is only fitting that, with more space in which to program, the organization should offer the Regional Showcase series. We feel this is important for the artists and the public living within reasonable driving distance of the gallery. It will give each a chance to show and share, and to gain perspective on our region's creative wealth as it relates to the broader art world. To launch the series, which will change in theme and scope from show to show, with three or four installments planned each season, we opted to survey the region for works on paper. The only criteria beyond being works on paper of excellent quality was that they were made by artists living in Ohio, Kentucky, or Indiana. Manifest's several-member blind jury process reviewed 261 works by 102 artists. Thirteen works by the following 11 artists from all three states were selected for exhibition and will also be featured in the Manifest Exhibition Annual publication (MEA) at the close of the season.
Presenting works by: Kelly Jo Asbury
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Symbiosis 3 by Alice Coulter
Rain by Kim Bissette
Self Portrait by Ron Monsma
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UPCOMING EXHIBIT PERIODS - THROUGH MID-SEPTEMBER
| January 24 - February 21 |
| March 7 - April 4 |
| April 18 - May 16 |
| May 30 – June 27 |
| July 11 - August 8 |
| August 15 – September 12 (SEASON 10 FINALÉ) |
END OF SEASON 10
PREVIOUS SEASON 10 EXHIBITS
| November 8 - December 6 | Opening MANIFEST'S NEW GALLERIES Friday November 8, 6-9 p.m. |
main gallery + central gallery + north gallery
FRESH PAINT
At some point many generations ago society reached a level where ordinary people could spend a lifetime perfecting their ability to mix and apply paint, in extraordinary ways. For only its second time in ten seasons Manifest will present a competitive group exhibition focused exclusively on painting. FRESH PAINT is a gallery exhibit that called for works of painting by artists around the world in order to reveal how they carry the tradition forward, or reform it for another day. Through a complex blind jury process seven jurors from across the U.S. reviewed 940 works by 369 artists. Forty works by the following 32 artists from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and the countries of Canada, China, and Germany were selected for exhibition.
Presenting works by: Margery Amdur Kenneth Batista Donald Beal Evan Boggess Neil Callander Bryan Christie Adrian Cox Timothy Duong Brett Eberhardt Zara Feeney Hans Habeger Kelly Jordan Tim Kennedy Robert Kolomyski Philip LaVelle Eileen MacArthur Nicholas Mancini Susannah Martin Michael McCaffrey Marcus Michels Joe Morzuch Steen Pedersen Jeremy Plunkett Nicholas Raynolds Jerry Schutte Benjamin Shamback David Smith Casey Snyder David Stanger Tana Tapson Joshua Willis Dennis Wojtkiewicz
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Willem by Bryan Christie
Bricks in a Circle by Joe Morzuch
Homunculus Too by Nicholas Raynolds
Pillow by David Stanger
Rathbone by Robert Kolomyski
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drawing room + parallel space
AQUACHROME
Quite possibly the oldest form of painting, watercolor persists today, defying narrow categorization and broad stereotype. Practiced for centuries in concept development preliminary to 'finished' paintings made in oil or other scale-worthy durable media, watercolor also found favor with botanists, illustrators, and portraitists, and was applied to varied and countless surfaces. The nature of the media itself represents a delicate and dictatorial transparency, fluidity, and a potential for expressive spontaneity. This not only makes it an ideal vehicle for contemporary art, but also one of training, intensity, philosophy, and play for any who practice it. Where an artist can easily dominate other painting media, forcing a will through viscous layers into a work of art like taming a wild horse, with watercolor there is dialog, compromise, and undeniable forthrightness. In this way the artist practicing watercolor works with a tiger in the room. Manifest's several-member blind jury process reviewed 335 works by 139 artists. Seventeen works by the following 14 artists from Alaska, California, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and the countries of Belgium and India were selected for exhibition.
Presenting works by:
Carrie Callihan Dhiman Dam Richard Diedrich Alexandra Dooley Melissa Gwyn Nathan Heuer Tim Kennedy Garry Mealor Samantha Mitchell Roberto Osti Christopher St. Leger Diane Szczepaniak Wouter van de Koot
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Deconstruction of a Werewolf by Roberto Osti
Rainbow Bright by Alexandra Dooley
Girl on the Grass by Winnie Sidharta Ambron
From Behind The Stars by Diane Szczepaniak
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| September 27 - October 25, 2013 | Opening Friday September 27, 6-9 p.m. |
main gallery + drawing room
VISTA THIS IS A SPECIAL PROJECT in support of The Nature Conservancy. Manifest will be contributing 33% of its proceeds from any sale of works in VISTA to the Nature Conservancy in an effort to help offset our own, and our patrons', carbon footprint.
"We need nature, and particularly its wilderness strongholds. It is the alien world that gave rise to our species, and the home to which we can safely return. It offers choices our spirit was designed to enjoy." – Edward O. Wilson, The Future of Life
Landscape: It's much more than a pretty picture, a view through a window, a morning sunrise, or a forested hillside. Today landscape has come full circle to encompass humanity despite our attempts to subdue, reform, resist, and conquer it. We are finally realizing the limits of our sphere and our connection to it. What was once a vast sea of natural form grown in place through millennia has now been largely measured, marked, peeled back, and defined by the human race. Like some tolerant hidden giant bearing the weight of one species, the Earth and the land it spawned us from defines us, yet quietly defies us. Landscape is where we come to terms, discover hope, and take a broader view. Inevitably it is also where we recognize that the limitation of our landscape is also probably our own; it is a critical vista. In honor of all the Earth has given and continues to give, Manifest invited artists, designers, architects, and others to submit artwork to this competitive juried exhibit which marks the opening of our 10th season of exhibitions. Manifest is pleased to share this carefully selected collection of works featuring landscape as their common theme, by artists representing an incredibly broad geographical radius. VISTA received a record number of entries for a gallery project at Manifest. Our several-member blind jury process reviewed 1,020 works by 409 artists from 43 states and 18 different countries. Twenty-two works by the following 20 artists from Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and England were selected for exhibition.
Presenting works by: Jonathan Aumen Colin Blakely Judith Brandon Sue Bryan Katherine Cox Meghan Duda Kent Krugh Kevin Kunstadt Bryce Lafferty Philip LaVelle Marc Leone Craig Lloyd Tony McAteer Billy Renkl Chris Segre-Lewis Alexander Solomon David Stanger Kathleen Thum Samantha VanDeman Jenny Wiener
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Perennial by Sue Bryan
New Topographies I by Colin Blakely
Untitled 2 by Alexander Solomon
Monte Soratte from Civita Castellana by David Stanger
The Where of the Here by Philip LaVelle
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Manifest's 10th season is funded in
part by an impact grant from ArtsWave,
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