Bolton, a printmaker, teaches at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where he has been head of the print media department since 2002. Randy Bolton was in residence at the University of Puget Sound from November 3 through November 8, 2013. Birk hopes that others will be inspired to think in broader terms about the Qur’an and what it intrinsically means to be Muslim that it is not a state of “otherness” but instead a shared experience of the world through a lens of different cultures.
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Over the course of his studies, he began to envision an art project that would result in what he calls “a personal Qur’an,” a series of artworks that would explore how this important religious text relates to contemporary American life, and thereby help him and his viewers develop a more nuanced understanding of Islam. Around 2005, as an outgrowth of his travels in Islamic countries and as a response to political events around the world, including the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Birk began to read and closely study the Qur’an to understand Islam better. His most recent project involves a consideration of the Qur’an as relevant to contemporary life in America. In 2007 he was an artist in residence at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2008.
In 1999 he was awarded a Getty Fellowship for painting, followed by a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Fellowship in 2001. He was a recipient of an NEA International Travel Grant to Mexico City in 1995 to study mural painting, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, and a Fulbright Fellowship for a painting to Rio de Janeiro in 1997. With an emphasis on social issues, frequent themes of his past work have included inner-city violence, graffiti, political issues, travel, war, and prisons, as well as surfing and skateboarding. Frequently developed as expansive, multi-media projects, his works have dealt with contemporary life in its entirety. Sandow is a well-traveled graduate of the Otis/Parson’s Art Institute. Sandow Birk was in residence at the University of Puget Sound from April 13 through April 18, 2014. I received a BFA in Fine Art from Ithaca College and went on to study art at The School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design in New York City. I continue to live and work in the New York Area. For me, it’s about the sympathetic reaction the patterns evoke for the viewer, like a meditation on space, color, and form. Subtle, fine details right at the limit of perception are harmonizing visually. I’m using new tools and techniques unique to the work that make this possible.
This is intentional, as the artwork comes alive and is activated in the optical sense when viewed. Other groups of works are built up by hand from lines and geometric shapes. The work oscillates between a sense of the text (a sense that is without a direct reference, since the text can no longer be discerned) and the originality of the shapes. I work by hand without automation, using digital tools to re-purpose the text. Stories, data, news, poetry, anything transcribed can be a starting point. Some artworks are composed of text that is transformed into patterns from the outlines of all the letters. A kind of pre-cognitive knowledge about how things are: I’m interested in experimenting with this. Looking at complex visual abstractions, our minds can know things before names for them are found. Henry Mandell visited the University of Puget Sound from April 9 through April 13, 2018.Ībout the artist: Patterns have their own rationale. She is currently represented by Galleri Urbane Marfa + Dallas. LaFleur received an MFA in Media Art from Emerson College and is an Assistant Professor of New Media Art in the College of Visual Art & Design at the University of North Texas. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including presentations at the TATE Modern, UK Cannes Court Métrage, FR PBS/ POV Digital the Reykjavik Art Museum, IS the Museum of Glass, US Sister Gallery, AU and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea. She is a 20-21 Kennedy Citizen Artist Fellow, and in 2018 she was named an Immersive Scholar by the Andrew W. By merging digital and physical space, she explores queer identity, the future of feminism, and historical narratives. Liss LaFleur is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, new media, and performance. Please see her exhibit in this Walkthrough Video. You can also view her Virtual Artist Talk. Events included her Fruit exhibit in the Kittredge Gallery, an artist talk, and a critique of student work. Liss LaFleur visited the University of Puget Sound virtually in the spring of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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