16th Annual Juried Student Exhibition

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: MARCH 3rd, 11:00-4:00 pm At the Gallery of Visual Arts

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Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden in 1932 to a middle class family. Like many Germans of his generation, his relatives were involved in the Nazi movement; his mother's brother, Uncle Rudi died a young Nazi officer, while Richter's mentally disabled aunt was imprisoned in a Hitler euthanasia camp. Rigorous ideology and death have haunted Richter since he was just a child, perhaps causing his strong dislike for ideology of any kind and underpinning the attraction that nature, as an indiscriminate force, holds for him.

Support from his mother encouraged him to become an artist during his mid-teens and he embarked on a classical education at the Dresden Art Academy in Communist East Germany. Years later and a few months prior to the erection of the Berlin Wall, he and his wife fled with only a suitcase to Düsseldorf in West Germany. From 1961 to 1964, Richter studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Karl Otto Gotz.

Richter's first exhibition in the U.S. took place at the Reinhard Onnasch Gallery in 1973. Fifteen years later in 1988 he was given his first North American retrospective organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In 2001 the Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibited a retrospective of Richter's paintings called "Forty Years of Painting". Curated by Robert Storr, the exhibition was critically acclaimed.

HE DOES A LOT OF DIFFERENT STYLES OF PAINTING. CLICK HERE TO GO TO HIS WEBSITE.

Sam Baillie

Born and raised in Western Canada, Sam Baillie’s creative talents often reflect the beautiful surroundings in Alberta as well as her love of all animals. Painting is a passion for Sam that began many years ago in high school where her talents were rewarded with top grades in art classes. This led Sam to continue developing her talent in the Fine Arts program at Red Deer College. In the years that followed, her creativity was not limited to painting alone as she explored and excelled in various artistic expressions including ceramics, wood carving, bronze sculptures.

In 2005 Sam broke away from the corporate world to devote her energy full time to painting. She has continued growing her skills working with mentors and various instructors and has become the artist of favour in many homes in Alberta and B.C. She has now expanded her involvement in art by sharing her inspiration and talent with others as an instructor of several painting groups in Calgary.

Sam feels that the environment where she thrives and can be most creative is in the natural world, so it is not without coincidence that she lives in the scenic countryside, tucked in the trees with nature, animals and tranquility. Her current works include watercolours, oils and acrylics that reflect this inviting and peaceful environment.

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Sarah Maple

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Sarah Maple was born in 1985. She completed a BA in Fine Art from Kingston University in 2007, and now lives in her native Sussex. In the same year she also won the ‘4 New Sensations’ competition for emerging artists, run by Charles Saatchi and Channel 4. Sarah's work has been featured as the cover and content of US art/fashion magazine Swindle, and Nylon magazine. She has also worked with Dazed and Confused and Dolce and Gabbana on her film and performance works.

In 2010 she curated an art auction for ‘Feminism in London’ with contributors such as Julian Opie, Julie Verhoeven, Stuart Semple, Susie Orbach and Kate Nash. Sarah’s artwork, films and performances have been displayed on the London Tube and been exhibited in New York, Canada, Ireland, Germany, Italy and throughout Britain.

Much of Maple's inspiration originates from being brought up as a Muslim, with parents of mixed religious and cultural backgrounds. Blurring the lines between popular culture and religious devotion in an unfailingly mischievous manner, Sarah's aesthetic narrative urges the viewer to challenge traditional notions of religion, identity and the societal role of women.

Maple's work often takes on fabricated scenes and situations. She is affected by the art world, as well as from her general surroundings; including friends, family, television and popular culture. She is also greatly moved by music, comedy and literature. She believes these influences are truly woven into her art and provide the platform upon which her work is realised.

Maple states that the aim of her work is 'to give my audience food for thought. I believe comedy is a great tool to achieve this, which is why I choose to portray my conceptual ideas through a light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek approach'.

Interiors

Gustave Caillebotte, "The Floor Scrapers", 1876

Interiors Project Sheet

Interiors Sample Images PART I

Interiors Sample Images PART II

Handouts

Wolf Kahn

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The unique blend of Realism and the formal discipline of Color Field painting sets the work of Wolf Kahn apart. Kahn is an artist who embodies the synthesis of his modern abstract training with Hans Hofmann, with the palette of Matisse, Rothko's sweeping bands of color, and the atmospheric qualities of American Impressionism. It is precisely this fusion of color, spontaneity and representation that has produced such a rich and expressive body of work. Wolf Kahn regularly exhibits at galleries and museums across North America. Selected museum collections include Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA.

Isabel Samaras

Isabel Samaras, "The Madgi"

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Distorted Self Portrait (Project 2)

Work by Casimir Ten Broek

Distorted Self Portrait Project Sheet
Sample Images

Extra Credit Blog option

Artist Jenny Saville

EXTRA CREDIT OPTION:

NOTE: To get extra credit you must submit at least one entry per month. (NOT 4 all at once). You must submit all of the information listed below and you may not submit items/artists already listed on the blog. In order to qualify for extra credit you must submit your first entry no later than February 15^th.

REQUIREMENTS:

It must be a contemporary "Fine Arts" artist working in either acrylics or oils. (NO anime, graphic novels, poster artists, illustrators) Nothing from Deviant Art (I get these every semester). You must find more than just an image. Find a website that has more information on your artist, biography, artists statement and several images.

Email me 1 link and 1 image for your site. I will post the information for you.

You can either download an image from the site directly to your desktop or use “Grab” to get an image. All images must be in jpeg format, and not to exceed 8” in any direction.

Email your images and links to: james.bailey@umontana.edu

You can earn extra credit for developing your own blog. It must be art related. (see me for more information).

Value Studies

Project Sheet

Sample Images

FRESH PAINT OPENING

The gallery is located on the corner of Higgins and Broadway (next to Dana Gallery)

The exhibition will be open December 3 & 4, and December 10 & 11.







Thanks also, to our great install team.

Everybody's getting in on it.

Chicago painter Bruce Elliott has come up with a novel way to get customers into his Old Town Ale House bar in Chicago with his nude Sarah Palin picture. The American vice president hopeful for the republican party is shown in a full frontal nude pose, standing on a polar bear skin rug, clinging to an automatic weapon, with a lucky moose still alive outside the window. The moose looks like it's in a river, but I guess it could also be a pool of oil, so perhaps the moose is stuck and about to die?

from: Art News Blog

MASTER OF LIGHT GOING THROUGH A DARK PERIOD.

Thomas Kinkade Mugshot

Thomas Kinkade DUI, Bankruptcy, Fraud – The ‘Painter of Light’ is apparently in a dark period. He has recently had to file for bankruptcy to escape retribution in relation to fraud charges in which the world-renowned painter was successfully charged with bilking galleries out of millions.

On June 2, 2010, one of Thomas Kinkade’s company,Pacific Metro LLC, filed for bankruptcy protection had to file for bankruptcy protection after art gallery owners successfully pressed fraud charges against the company. They, along with hundreds of other creditors, were said to be owed millions by the famous painter’s art empire. Kinkade is said to beone of the world’s wealthiest artist. He is certainly one of the most collectible artists in the world. He is known for homey landscapes and Christian motifs. Now, it seems, he will be known for a quick succession of legal problems.

Kinkade, 52-years-old is a native of Placerville, California. He was pulled over and arrested on DUI charges on Friday night, June 11, 2010, outside of Carmel, California, where he owns a home. This on the heels of his company’s legal troubles.

A Monterey County sheriff’s deputy stopped Kinkade for a minor traffic violation. According to the California Highway Patrol spokesperson, after an initial conversation about the violation, the deputy gave Kinkade a sobriety test, which he failed.

LA TIMES Article on his DUI. Click here.

Art in Its Own Light (Controversy) article.

The following are excerpts from eHOW on

Value of Thomas Kinkade Prints

Kinkade Prints

Kinkade stopped selling original paintings in 1997, wanting to keep his original collection together. Since 1997, Kinkade has sold lithographic reproductions of his work on canvas in an array of prices ranging from $300 to $15,000. Kinkade employs a team of painters that place highlights on each print, adding an individual touch and a texture more similar to oil on canvas paintings. Kinkade creates around 12 paintings a year as of 2010.

Warning

The mainstream art world does not hold Kinkade in high esteem. Contemporary dealers in the United States and worldwide consider Kinkade's work overly commercialized, appealing to low cultural values and poorly made. This is an opinion exemplified by Joan Didion, who wrote: "A Kinkade painting was typically rendered in slightly surreal pastels. It typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel. Every window was lit, to lurid effect, as if the interior of the structure might be on fire." Accordingly, individuals interested in selling or valuing their Kinkade prints should stay within the Kinkade market.

Makoto Aida

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And click here to see architectural works by Yona Friedman.

Biyaheng Talon

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Themes of magical realism stream through Peter Doig’s work, capturing timeless moments of perfect tranquillity, where photo-album memory flits in and out of waking dream. Drawing from his Canadian childhood, and one of the spookier scenes from Friday the 13th, Peter Doig’s canoes have become a seminal image in his work; their reflection in the water, like a double life, is a fantasy mirror to the unknown. Canoe-Lake is rendered with unsettling perfection: capturing not just a spying view over a fence, but the strange echoing silence of drifting on a lake, the impossible stillness of the current, and the cloying warmth of late-summer air.

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Lee Price

"Snack" by Lee Price, oil on linen

Sarah Bain Gallery

Frank Oriti

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Encasutic painting: John Buckland

John Buckland's landscape images are strongly drawn from the North Wales countryside in which he lives and works. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

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Tom Bund

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