HIESTAND GALLERIES

OCT 19–NOV 3

SHAPING FORETHOUGHT

SEP 6-OCT 6

2023 MIAMI UNIVERSITY YOUNG SCULPTORS COMPETITION FOR THE $10,000 WILLIAM AND DOROTHY YECK AWARD

2023 Juror: Terry Berlier has exhibited in solo and group shows in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia including at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Contemporary Art and Spirits in Osaka, Japan, Marc Chagall National Museum in Nice, France, and Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania. She has received numerous residencies and grants including the Creative Work Fund, California Council for Humanities Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation Grant, the Zellerbach Foundation, Clayman Fellowship, and the Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Fellowship. Her work has been reviewed in the Art in America, BBC News Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, is published in the books "Seeing Gertrude Stein" by University of California Press, and "Slant Step Book: The Mysterious Object and The Artworks it Inspired". She received an MFA, in Studio Art from University of California, Davis and a BFA from Miami. Berlier is an Associate Professor of Art, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art Practice, and Director of the Sculpture Lab in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University where she has taught since 2007. She serves as an advisory board member for Recology’s Artist-in-Residence Program in San Francisco [terryberlier.com] highlights the malleable world that is the experience of the second and third year MFA students in the Department of Art at Miami University. "As our studies advance, our daily occurrences as graduate students prove to influence and lead our artwork in unexpected ways. This shapes our future practice, understanding, and ways of thinking in a manner that further anticipates new ideas." Exhibiting Artists: Sabrina J. Barilone, Kelley Booze, Ishita Islam, Ryan Kerr, Libby Morgan, Kelsey Nolin, Brooke Owens, and Sarah-Faith Strait.

Through the generous gift from William ('36) and Dorothy Yeck of Dayton, Ohio, Miami University has a unique opportunity to provide students and the community at large to develop a critical understanding of sculpture in the 21st century. The competition winner will be awarded the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award and the sculpture will become part of Miami University’s permanent collection.

OCT 23 | ARTISTS RECEPTION | 4:30 PM

THU, SEP 14 | JUROR LECTURE | TERRY BERLIER (ART 100) 5:50 PM

FRI, SEP 15 | RECEPTION FOR THE ARTISTS

4:30–5:30 PM, AWARD CEREMONY: 5 PM

NOV 17–DEC 6

BFA CAPSTONE EXHIBITION

Department of Art senior studio majors participating in the semester long Capstone course feature their latest visual investigations in ceramics, printmaking, painting, metals and jewelry, photography, sculpture and digital media.

TUE, NOV 28, | ARTISTS RECEPTION | 4:30 PM

Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri, 9 AM-4:30 PM, Hours may vary with restrictions; other hours available by appointment. (513) 529-1883

All receptions are in the lobby of Hiestand Galleries | Galleries located on 1st level.

SEP 5-OCT 5

PETER MALONE | FICTIONS

Artist statement: The exhibition will be a selection of paintings from a series I began in 2017 titled, Fictions that remains an ongoing project. The fiction I’m referring to can be found in the narrative fragments expressed in text and applied to a region of canvas, typically below the painted image. In most instances, this dedicated region is left unpainted to distinguish it from the traditional idea of a painting as a picture. They are something like picture and caption, but fused in a way that allows more poetic license by tightening the correlation of the two.

A few of the later pictures do not utilize words but are visually consistent with the general theme of dislocation or disruption. Some are Covid inspired, but the series predates the pandemic by several years. I try in the series to avoid references to specific political or social situations. I prefer to focus on the human experience of those caught up in difficult circumstances. One exception to this generic approach is the painting, “Once Upon a Time…”, a canvas I composed with the Trump phenomenon in mind. Strangely, it was completed months before the events of January 6. [petermalone.com]

THU, SEP 28 | RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST: 4:15 –5:15, HIESTAND GALLERIES; ARTIST TALK: 5:50 PM, ART 100

OCT 16–NOV 3

STEVE SNELL | ADVENTURE ART ON THE MIGHTY MO’ Adventure Art on the Mighty Mo’ is a video and painting series about art, adventure, and life along the Missouri River told through the act of painting, storytelling, and paddling all 2,341 miles of it, from Three Forks, Montana to St. Louis, Missouri. In this video series, each episode takes place at a different site, in which a watercolor painting is created. Painting is the vessel through which larger questions are asked, observations made, and river stories told. The intention of this work is to create an updated portrait of the river, challenge some of the stereotypes associated with it, and inspire broader public engagement and appreciation for our local water resources. [steve-snell.com]

THU OR FRI, OCT 26 | RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST: 4:15–5:15 PM, HIESTAND GALLERIES; ARTIST TALK: 5:50 PM (ART 100)

NOV 13 – DEC

BROOKE OWENS | MFA THESIS EXHIBITION

The works in this exhibition are evidence of Brooke Owens' invested exploration into the experience of inhabiting skin. She considers the physical body through its transformations in aging, intimacy, and injury while maintaining an active conversation with the traditions of abstract painting.

RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST: TBD

Hiestand Hall | 401 Maple St., Oxford, OH 45056

Miamioh.edu/hiestand-galleries

ANN TAULBEE, DIRECTOR

(513) 529-1883 | taulbeae@miamioh.edu

Galleries will be closed: During exhibition installation and Sep 4, Oct 13, Nov 21-24, Dec 7-31.