Rachele Riley: CAA | ARTspace Los Angeles 2009

Rachele Riley will be chairing the panel, "Nerve Impulse: How Graphic Designers Respond to the World," at the 2009 College Art Association Annual Conference in Los Angeles.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
12:30pm - 2:00pm
West Hall Meeting, Room 515A, Level 2
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 S Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA

Panelists:

"The Evolution of Silence: Scars of War and the Atomic Bomb Testing"
Rachele Riley, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Rachele Riley Run Aesthetic

"What's Eating You? The Graphic Language of the Hole: Consumer Culture Vol. 1"
John Jennings, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Eye Trauma Studios

"Warren Lehrer: Responding to the World through Design and Story"
Warren Lehrer, Purchase College, State University of New York; School of the Visual Arts

"Where’s the (Brotherly) Love? Or, a Strange Thing Happened on the Way to the Pro Bono"
Frank Baseman, Philadelphia University

"Sheep Hill Community Tree"
Kim Fleischman, Daemen College

Roy Strassberg: Exhibition

HOLOCAUST BONE STRUCTURES: BLACK ANGELS
Ceramic sculpture by ROY STRASSBERG

Rowe Arts Main Gallery
UNC Charlotte – 9201 Univ. City Blvd.
Department of Art & Art History

January 20th, 2009 – February 15th

“When I started making work referencing the Holocaust in 1992, my greatest challenge was to find an appropriate metaphor for examining mass murder as a subject for artistic expression. Throughout my career I have often returned to imagery that reflected upon my cultural background and my reaction to some of the unfortunate events that have occurred throughout our history, specifically the destruction and murder of the European Jews. When I decided to undertake the series that ultimately became the Holocaust Bone Structures, I was determined to find a simple symbolic language in that the images used were easily identifiable, but placed in contexts that were eccentric and/or peculiar to ordinary experience. The bone image emerged as a way of suggesting that this work, when seen in context, could ultimately be construed as a symbol of death on a gigantic scale; in a word, genocide.”

Roy Strassberg is the current chairman of the Department of Art & Art History at UNC Charlotte. His work can be found in the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, Israel.

For additional information please contact George Kaperonis, Gallery Manager, 704-687-2869, gkaperon@uncc.edu or rstrass@uncc.edu.

Dr. Angela Marie Herren: Journey to Mexico Conference

Dr. Angela Marie Herren is organizing the following conference to take place at UNC Charlotte April 23 – 25, 2009:

Journey to Mexico
An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Travel to Mexico as Reflected in Art and Architecture of the 16th – 21st Centuries

A joint collaboration between the Universidad Iberoamericana and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, this conference brings together an international group of scholars from multiple disciplines to explore physical, mental, and spiritual migration to, from, and within Mexico as recorded in Mexican art and architecture of the 16th to 21st centuries. In different centuries and in different locations, “Mexican” and “Mexico” takes on varied meanings. The name of the present-day country derives from the “Mexica” people who once ruled Central Mexico. Conference participants examine the “Journey to Mexico” in a fluid way that explores early recorded migration histories as well as later ideological journeys.

This conference is supported by: The William Wilson Brown Jr. Conference Fund, Universidad Iberoamericana, UNCC College of Arts + Architecture, UNCC Department of Art and Art History, UNCC Latin American Studies Program, and UNCC Education Abroad.