PANEL TALK & RECEPTION
Wednesday October 25, 2017
5:30 PM
Wednesday October 25, 2017
5:30 PM
Event begins in Stewart 310.Reception to follow in the Robert L. Ringel Gallery in Stewart Center.
The reception will feature a live performance by the New Orleans/Belgian cellist, improviser, composer, and singer Helen Gillet.
The reception will feature a live performance by the New Orleans/Belgian cellist, improviser, composer, and singer Helen Gillet.
PANELISTS:Matt Lipps - California-based artist Matt Lipps received his MFA from the University of California, Irvine, in 2004. His works can be found in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA); The Saatchi Gallery (London, UK); and The Pilara Foundation Collection/Pier 24 (San Francisco). Matt Lipps critically examines photographs from both high art and pop culture to reveal how photographic images reflect and shape culture.
Anastasia Samoylova - Anastasia Samoylova is a Russian-born photographer based in the United States. She received an MA from Russian State University for the Humanities, and an MFA from Bradley University. Samoylova has exhibited internationally, including Aperture Foundation in New York, Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, Brussels Photography Festival in Belgium, and Pingyao International Photography Festival in China. Her work is included in the collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and ArtSlant Prize collection in Paris. In 2015 she was granted an artist residency at Latitude Chicago. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker and Foam magazines.
Jessica Labatte - Jessica Labatte is an artist based in the suburbs of Chicago, whose constructed imagery investigates the materiality of photography through light, color, illusion, and paradoxes inherent in photographic representation. Labatte is Assistant Professor of Art and head of Photography at Northern Illinois University. She received her MFA and BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In June 2014 she was an Artist in Residence at Light Work, Syracuse, NY. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, Elmhurst Art Museum, IL South Bend Museum of Art, IN, Hyde Park Art Center, IL Higher Pictures, NYC, Golden Gallery, NYC and Chicago, and Horton Gallery, NYC. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum.com, and Chicago Magazine. She is represented by Western Exhibitions, Chicago.
Jill Greenberg - Jill Greenberg’s work as an artist and photographer is internationally recognized for her personally executed postproduction and mastery of studio lighting. An early adopter of digital effects, Greenberg has developed a world that is more intense, more razorsharp than the one in which we actually reside. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including Wired, Cool Hunting, Blink Magazine, the Huffington Post, and the LA Times, and can be found in many permanent public collections of art throughout the United States.
Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler - Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler recently joined the Department of Art and Design at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor of Design History. Prior to joining Purdue, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design History at Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. Jennifer earned her PhD in Design Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her MA in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and her BA in American Culture from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Jennifer’s research examines the role of objects and spaces in everyday life with an emphasis on the experiences and perspectives of consumers and users.
Indecisive Moment calls together artists who draw upon photography’s rich history within the context of ever-changing and advancing technology to create new understandings of the camera and photograph. This exhibition was made possible thanks to Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts Enhancing Research in the Humanities & the Arts Grant.
Jessica Labatte - Jessica Labatte is an artist based in the suburbs of Chicago, whose constructed imagery investigates the materiality of photography through light, color, illusion, and paradoxes inherent in photographic representation. Labatte is Assistant Professor of Art and head of Photography at Northern Illinois University. She received her MFA and BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In June 2014 she was an Artist in Residence at Light Work, Syracuse, NY. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, Elmhurst Art Museum, IL South Bend Museum of Art, IN, Hyde Park Art Center, IL Higher Pictures, NYC, Golden Gallery, NYC and Chicago, and Horton Gallery, NYC. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum.com, and Chicago Magazine. She is represented by Western Exhibitions, Chicago.
Jill Greenberg - Jill Greenberg’s work as an artist and photographer is internationally recognized for her personally executed postproduction and mastery of studio lighting. An early adopter of digital effects, Greenberg has developed a world that is more intense, more razorsharp than the one in which we actually reside. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including Wired, Cool Hunting, Blink Magazine, the Huffington Post, and the LA Times, and can be found in many permanent public collections of art throughout the United States.
Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler - Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler recently joined the Department of Art and Design at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor of Design History. Prior to joining Purdue, she worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design History at Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. Jennifer earned her PhD in Design Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her MA in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and her BA in American Culture from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Jennifer’s research examines the role of objects and spaces in everyday life with an emphasis on the experiences and perspectives of consumers and users.
Indecisive Moment calls together artists who draw upon photography’s rich history within the context of ever-changing and advancing technology to create new understandings of the camera and photograph. This exhibition was made possible thanks to Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts Enhancing Research in the Humanities & the Arts Grant.
Artists include: ANASTASIA SAMOYLOVA, DELANEY ALLEN, HANNAH WHITAKER, HYOUNSANG YOO, JENNIFER NIEDERHAUSER SCHLUP, JESSICA LABATTE, JILL GREENBERG, LORENZO VITTURI, MATT LIPPS, and VALERIE GREEN.
The exhibition was curated by associate professor Min Kim Park and Purdue Galleries interim director and head curator Liz Erlewine.
Ringel Gallery is located in Stewart Center, 128 Memorial Mall, West Lafayette. Gallery hours are Mon – Sat, 10AM – 5PM, and Thurs 10AM – 8PM.
All Purdue Galleries exhibits & events are free and open to the public.
