Visiting Artists Fall 2008

All lectures are in held in 5401 Aronoff Center. 5401 Aronoff is located at the University of Cincinnati in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning Building on Clifton Court.

Kambui Olujimi

Thursday, October 9
5:00 PM
5401 Aronoff
Kambui Olujimi was born and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn and received his BFA from Parsons School of Design. Working across an array of mediums, Kambui Olujimi examines the functioning and the creation of iconography, in both historical and contemporary mythological contexts. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the Museum of Modern Art NY, The Smithsonian Institute, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Poland.

Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Monday, October 10
5:00 PM
5401 Aronoff
Amelia Winger-Bearskin received her MFA from the University of Texas in Austin in 2008 and is joining the faculty of Vanderbilt University this Fall 2008. She was classically trained as an Opera Singer in Rochester, NY, at the Eastman conservatory of music, and then finished her BFA at George Mason University. Her mother is a traditional native storyteller from the Seneca Cayuga tribe of the Iroquois nation. Stories of all kinds weave themselves into her works and are re-contextualized to shape her work, unfolding destination, space, and time. Amelia Winger-Bearskin has shown in many countries both collaboratively and in solo works, and she is currently pleased to be working with PAM the Perpetual Art Machine, video database and art collective.

John Henry Blatter

Thursday, October 30
5:00 PM
5401 Aronoff
John Henry Blatter is a media artist working in Audio Installation who earned his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and his BFA from Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. He explores topics ranging from the struggle to define and understand self-identity to anxieties and fears of how others perceive us. In addition to creating work for exhibitions in the US, Canada and Europe, he is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Daily Constitutional. The Daily Con is a semi-annual, submission based, publication that provides a forum for artists to discuss the arts.

Ken Montgomery

Wednesday, November 5
5:00 PM
5401 Aronoff
Gen Ken Montgomery is a creator, producer, and presenter of sound art. His work focuses mostly on the rediscovery or recontextualization of domestic sounds, sounds that surround us in our every-day life, from pets and snorers to radiators and electrical appliances. He is also known for sound installations where the audience is blindfolded and for performances involving many pre-recorded cassettes or CDs being played back simultaneously through an array of loudspeakers. His discography consists mostly of very limited edition albums and hand-made sound objects. The label XI released a comprehensive and more widely accessible 2-CD retrospective of his work in 2002 under the title Pondfloorsample.

Shimon Attie

Thursday, November 13
5:30 PM
5401 Aronoff
Shimon Attie is an internationally renowned installation artist and photographer. He was born and raised in Los Angeles and first studied psychology but then turned to art and photography, enrolling at San Francisco State University, where he earned his MFA. Attie moved to Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall where he began doing public installations and photo projections that recall various aspects of the legacy of World War II and the Holocaust. His work is in many prestigious collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Berlin Museum in Berlin, and the Jewish Museum in New York.