2007

State of Being

January 5th – 26th, 2007

Kenda North is a photographer from Texas who takes underwater images of people in various iconic positions all in swimming pools. A woman in a dress feels the skirt rise over her knees and suddenly she personifies Marilyn Monroe. The cool blue of the pool establishes a dramatic backdrop for players on an aquatic stage. Insoon Ha creates sculpture installations that draw attention to the barbarity that is allowed in the name of progress. Her work combines human and animal images in a graphic display of what can occur when science goes awry. Julie Anand is a photographer/installation artist from Arizona who draws on a background in Ecology and Biology to create organic images and objects that focus on the intersection of matter and meaning.

Physicality

February 2nd – 23rd, 2007

Ronnie Cramer is a multi-media video installation artist from Denver who combines synchronized electronic music with lurid images from paperback novels which morph from one to the next on video screens. Jason Scuilla is a printmaker from Sarasota, FL. He makes intesely passionate, large scale etchings on wood panels dealing with human physical interaction. Boris Shpeizman is a glass artist from New York who defies tradition by using his media in extremely non-glass areas of design and sculptture, such as lingerie.

Prison Art: Inspired by Love

February 16th – 23rd, 2007

An exhibition of artwork created by inmates in North Florida prisons. The works on display in the Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery include pencil drawings on cloth handkerchiefs and illustrations on envelopes dyed from coffee grinds. Alls proceeds from the exhibition go to the non-profit corporation, Inspired by Love of North Florida. Issac Williams, founder of Inspired by Love of North Florida, gives a presentation about the exhibition. FSU professor of Art Therapy, Dave Gussak, discusses the subject of Art Therapy in prisons. Internationally renowed vocalist Pam Laws wraps up the opening with a performance joined by Issac Williams.

Bike-Power

March 2nd – 30th, 2007

Bike-Power is curated by Florida State University’s Associate Professor of Digital Arts, Keith Roberson. An accomplished international artist, Keith is also a daily bike commuter, a mountain bike endurance racer and is in his yard right now, trying to teach his kids to ride. The exhibition features over 50 artists from Tallahassee, across the United States and Canada. Please visit www.bikepower.com for more information. This exhibition is sponsored by locally owned Joe’s Bike Shop & Higher Ground of Tallahassee, SORBA’s FatOfTheLand.org and TallyCat.org.

Southern Exposure: a Dean Gioia exhibition

April 6th – 27th, 2007

A solo exhibit of a prominent Tallahassee painter. Dean Dioia is well known through the region for his pensive paintings of the lush north Florida landscape including images of our canopy roads and freshwater springs.

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Art of Language

May 4th – 25th, 2007

This exhibition is a multi-media environmental performance. David Lobdell, Shereen Lobdell, Ashley Carlisle, David Higginbotham and Todd Christensen are four artists and a poet from New Mexico. These artists create live performances in which a ceremonious burning is conduced to poetry at sunset while numerous sculptures surround.

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Marcella Stasa

May 4th – 25th, 2007

Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery presents Marcella Stasa, a sculptor who uses found objects to explore the beauty she finds in death and decay.

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ANJE II

June 1st – 29th, 2007

In its second year, the All-media National Juried Exhibition (ANJE) features a variety of work from outstanding artists from all over the continental United States. Juror Cynthia Hollis Has hand-selected 25 individuals from the applicant pool to form the exhibition of various media.

Winners:

Best In Show – Anna Druzcz, Landscaping Nature V
First Place – Mehmet Ayanoglu, East Meets West in Istanbul
Second Place – Steven A. Ramsey, A Lecture on Articulation
Third Place – Victoria Goro-Rapoport, Sinking of the Empire
Honorable Mentions – Lauren Cohen, The New Farm | Caryl Gordon, A Matter of Light
Exhibiting Artists: Christie Ashley . Daniel Baird . Kim Beckmann . Dustyn Bork . Mary Becker . Youngsoon Chon . Dale Clifford James Glaser . Betsy Gandy . Dolores Glover Kaufman . Carrie Kersey . Jeemin Kim . Jamie M. Lee . Sean Lyman . Jessie Lovano-Kerr . Melissa McCutcheon . Jill Olm . Michael Reedy . K. Terumi Shorb

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Sugar & Spice

June 1st – 29th, 2007

The Nan Boynton Memorial Gallery features Sugar & Spice, artwork by a group of FSU MFA students: Julie Guyot, Becki Rutta, and Erin ElizabethGainey.

Assemblage

July 6th -27th, 2007

Janis Brothers is a sculptor from Live Oak, FL who uses interactive video installation to deal with the issues of life, death, mourning and healing. Denise Bookwalter is an artist from Cincinnati, OH that combines prints, installations, and animation to address the evolution of high and low technology and their influences on contemporary culture. Ryan Adrick is a photographer, sculptor, and digital artist from Jacksonville, FL whose work deals with relationships formed between artist and subject.

Journeys

September 7th – 29th, 2007

Quickly becoming a tradition of The 621 Gallery, the September exhibition is a time to showcase the work of local art professors. Journeys features the work of three FSU faculty including the Jessie Lovano-Ker Professor of Art Education, Tom Anderson, Art Department Foundations Director, Mary Stewart , and newcomer to the Art Department faculty, Tracy Longly-Cook. Tom Anderson used text and photographs to chronicle the situations he encountered on his expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro. Tracy Longly-Cook’s photographs emphasize the continuous undercurrent of physical and psychological change in our lives. Prints by Mary Stewart explore connections among visual and ecological complexities.

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