On display October 22, 2011 - January 3, 2012 |
The Very Queer Portraits of Heyd Fontenot |
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This exhibition showcases two of artist Heyd Fontenot's main avenues of investigation: the genre of portraiture and the nude figure. In his quirky likenesses, Fontenot emphasizes the expressive features of his subjects. Absurdly large heads, visual puns with erotic innuendoes, and the occasional goat foreground Fontenot's highly intentional sense of playfulness in his work. Within this deeply thoughtful and extended investigation into late twentieth-century ideas around human beauty, Fontenot portrays his sitters as they are in real life, with curves, shortcomings, freckles, and most of all, personality. Washington Post art critic Michael O'Sullivan states that "[Fontenot] has real talent. His portrait busts are among the best works in the show. You feel you know his subjects, though you've never met them." " Fontenot’s elegant, distinctive style of caricatured bobbleheads with doe eyes sprouting from scaled-down, black-outlined bodies easily cancels out the shock of the nude—everyone is just too cute to be scandalous," states the recent Christopher Howard review in ArtForum.com. The artist lives in Dallas and is represented by Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas. |
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Heyd Fontenot (b. 1964, American) Heyd Fontenot (b. 1964, American)
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On display October 22, 2011 - January 15, 2012 |
Synchronicity: Studio Faculty Biennial Exhibition 2011 |
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The 2011 edition of the Studio Faculty Biennial will feature new or recent work by five artists: Joshua Almond, Rose Casterline, Dana Hargrove, Dawn Roe, and Rachel Simmons. Read more about the faculty show on Rollins R-Net.
Rose Thome Casterline Rose Thome Casterline
Rachel Simmons (American, b. 1975)
Dana Hargrove (b. 1975, Scottish)
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Kim Russo: Family |
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Head of the fine arts department at the Ringling College of Art and Design, Kim Russo has exhibited her work internationally, receiving residency fellowships from the Lenz Foundation, Caldera, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, NM) and the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum (Lafayette, LA). Russo's drawings usually address contemporary social concerns in off-beat imagery culled from the internet and combined into technically brilliant watercolor renderings (sometimes on a grand scale). For this project, Russo is developing a body of images that represents twenty-first century non-traditional families at life size, employing the techniques of drawing and watercolor. Click here to read a review of this exhibition by Ringling College of Art and Design student, Tracey Keenan. |
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Kim Russo, (b. 1964, American)
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A Room of One's Own: Women Artists from the Permanent Collection |
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Timed to coincide with a major conference on Feminism (sponsored by the Winter Park Institute and featuring Gloria Steinem as a keynote speaker), this exhibition will feature approximately two dozen outstanding works of art from the permanent collection. With the acquisition of an early painting by Lavinia Fontana in the 1930s, Rollins set an important precedent for collecting art by women--long before the National Museum of Women in the Arts was even founded--and this proud tradition continues to the present day. The show will provide an overview of the important art historical contributions women have made, featuring paintings by Grandma Moses and Jennie Augusta Brownscombe; prints by Georgia O'Keeffe, Faith Ringgold and Nancy Graves; and sculpture by Anna H. Huntington. |
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Nancy Graves (1939-1995) Faith Ringgold |
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Contested Object: Ninomiya Kinjiro and Rollins College's Cultural Property Controversy |
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This exhibition is the result of a Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Scholarship awarded in 2009 to Cory Baden (Anthropology, 2012) and Dr. Susan Libby, Professor of Art History at Rollins, for work on the history of the events surrounding the acquisition and repatriation to Okinawa of the college's Ninomiya Kinjiro statue. This enlightening project aims to situate the events surrounding the 1995 return of the sculpture within the context of contemporary cultural property issues. The statue will be displayed in the museum alongside relevant didactic materials and archival documents. |
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Ninomaya Kinjiro, Philosopher |
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