Faculty exhibition and series set for art gallery
Thursday, September 22, 2011
(Photo: Catching Rays, watercolor on paper, Jo Lynch, 2010)
Faculty exhibition and series set for art gallery
The Gardiner Art Gallery will hold an opening reception to launch its annual OSU Department of Art Faculty Exhibition on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 5 p.m. The exhibition, which will run from Sept. 26 – Oct. 7, features recent works from current and retired faculty that represents the full spectrum of studio art and design from traditional drawing, painting, sculpture, metal work, graphic design to video and digital animation. The exhibition, the reception and all related programs are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Saturdays.
The art history faculty will also present a series of roundtable discussions from September 26 through October 14. Students and the public will learn about a wide range of exciting topics as individual faculty members share their recent research and publications. Each roundtable discussion is described below, or visit http://art.okstate.edu/ or www.facebook.com/GardinerArtGallery.
Chinese Print: Past and Present
Shaoqian Zhang, Ph.D.
2 p.m.—3 p.m., Tuesday, September 27
Bartlett Center, Room 104
Dr. Shaoqian Zhang’s research explores the development of print culture in China, with special emphasis on the early twentieth century. Printing technique was highly developed in East Asia by the end of the ninth century. Toward the early twentieth century, greater interest developed in graphic design and print, as new media for political communication and commercial promotion. At the same time, the introduction of lithography as well as foreign artistic and cultural influence added more dimensions to Chinese print production. In her talk, Dr. Zhang will evaluate the complex artistic and cultural dimensions of Chinese print. She will also examine the crucial moments in the modern period when Chinese print was given new missions in promoting political ideologies.
Dr. Zhang recently joined the Department of Art as the Assistant Professor of Art History, after finishing her doctoral study at the Northwestern University. She received her B.A. from Peking University with a concentration on traditional architecture.
Crucifixion Piety in New Mexico: On the Origins and Art of Saint Librada
Cristina Cruz González, Ph.D.
2 p.m. –3 p.m., Thursday, September 29
Bartlett Center, Room 104
Dr. Cristina Cruz González recently works on the project emphasizing the influence of St Librada—an obscure, medieval Spanish saint—on the paraliturgical customs of nineteenth-century New Mexico. Specifically, she links the representation of the saint’s crucified body to the formation and expansion of a community marked by its Christological and imitative piety. Ultimately, Dr. González considers how the representation of the saint and its associated devotion came to symbolize a Catholic and Hispanic identity in the face of Anglo-American occupation (1846-1912). While her research customarily addresses the socio-political landscape of popular religion and unorthodox pious practices, this particular examination of a Spanish devotion in a temporal and geographical space, largely considered to be the periphery of the periphery, also contests Latin American art’s most comfortable epistemological models.
Dr. Cristina Cruz González is the Assistant Professor of Art History and teaches courses on Latin American art and religion. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Chicago and has been the recipient of numerous prestigious prizes and awards.
Medieval Medical Manuscripts: The Régime du corps
Jennifer Borland, Ph.D.
2 p.m. –3 p.m., Tuesday, October 4
Bartlett Center, Room 104
The Régime du corps was a widely popular medieval health guide, a practical handbook written in French in the thirteenth century that advises the reader on topics of good health. The focus of Dr. Jennifer Borland’s book project centers on three illustrated copies from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The likely readership for the illustrated Régime manuscripts – a domestic rather than scholarly elite – promotes a reconsideration of how we understand the role of books in the dissemination of health knowledge in the later Middle Ages. Dr. Borland’s argument about the significance of these books is framed around their audiences, and as such will engage with questions of their production, patronage, and function. These books seem to contradict the position that medicine was the exclusive domain of male scholars at universities, and as a result, they may also lead us toward a more nuanced understanding of the history of health management.
Dr. Borland received her Ph.D. in Art History from Stanford University in 2006, and joined the OSU faculty in 2007. She has been the recipient of awards from numerous leading institutions and foundations across the country.
Manet's At the Cafe: Complex Identities in a Commonplace Scene – Priscilla Schwarz, Ph.D.
2:00 p.m.-3 p.m., Thursday, October 6, Bartlett Center, Room 104
Dr. Schwarz will present her article-in-progress on Manet’s At the Cafe, one of numerous cafe paintings Manet created during the last four years of his life. Where Manet's contemporaries applied popular stereotypes to their anecdotal renderings of cafe patrons, Manet's images addressed changing urban social structures, particularly the mixing of different classes and genders in public places of leisure. Dr. Schwarz will examine how Manet’s portrait-like figures, drawn from the unconventional men and women Manet befriended, represented the city he experienced. Dr. Schwarz will explain how Manet employed an ambiguous and elusive meaning for an otherwise realistic scene, a feature characteristic of his form of modernism.
Dr. Priscilla Schwarz received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Her research focuses on the French Realist and Impressionist periods, including social and gender issues in visual imagery, and the relation of popular imagery to salon-bound and avant-garde art.
The Future of the American Race: Picturing the American Family, 1925-1940.
Louise Siddons, Ph.D.
2:00 p.m. –3 p.m., Tuesday, October 11
Bartlett Center, Room 104
Dr. Louise Siddons’ current book project examines the relationship between representations of reproductive sexuality, nationalist discourse, and racialized discourses of human development in a wide range of images produced during the 1920s and 1930s. Adolescence, one of the central images in Dr. Siddons’ book, represented an entirely new subject to 1930s audiences. Editioned in 1932, Adolescence was an immediate success. In her book, Dr. Siddons argues that the print draws on popular theories of psychoanalysis and adolescent education in order to frame its subject in terms of surveillance and therapeutic control.
As a contemporary art critic and historian, as well as curator of the OSU art collections, Dr. Siddons has extensive experience in curatorial practice, with numerous exhibitions curated by her. She plays a critical leadership role in developing the OSU Museum and has been involved in a few major acquisitions of new collections. Dr. Siddons received her Ph.D. from Stanford University.
Dressing the Part: Fashion and Identity in the Mediterranean
Cristina Stancioiu, Ph.D.
2 p.m. –3 p.m., Thursday, October 13
Bartlett Center, Room 104
Dr. Cristina Stancioiu’s research addresses the issues of cultural identity and cohabitation in the colonies of the Venetian Empire during the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. She will speak about her research on dress that represent the urban and rural residents of the Mediterranean colonies, whether Latin urban settlers or local Orthodox villagers. In her recent article, Dr. Stancioiu focuses on a group of fifteenth century bowls and cups, decorated with profile busts of men and women and exchanged between brides and grooms as wedding gifts. In the article, she addresses the questions regarding portraiture, artistic production, trade, local and foreign aesthetics.
Cristina Stancioiu received her PhD in Art History from UCLA, and teaches courses in Medieval and Early Modern art and architecture. Her research interests in cultural identity and artistic exchange led her to investigate the visual and material culture of Europe and the Mediterranean world, thirteenth-seventeenth centuries, with a focus on clothing and fashion.