Jamey Grimes, “Urchin I,” rapid prototype, 2012.
3D Printing, or Rapid Prototyping, has taken a significant place on The University of Alabama campus and Jamey Grimes is in the thick of it. Arts & Sciences and Engineering are working together to create collaborative workspaces in the curriculum. At Kentuck’s March 7 Art Night Grimes and reps from Engineering demonstrated various products influenced by this approach to building objects. Printers are located in Rodgers Library and the new Engineering 3D Printing Lab in Hardaway.[Sg13]
In February, Pete Schulte had a solo exhibition, A Letter Edged In Black at UAB’s
Visual Arts Gallery. The French artist/blogger Yifat Gat interviewed Schulte for her popular art blog. Schulte’s drawing, Sounds Like Someone Else’s Song, was one of 33 pieces selected out of 1,090 entries from over 300 artists for the Fourth Annual Drawing Discourse Juried Exhibition at UNC-Ashville. The juror was Susan Hauptman. Schulte’s show at Luise Ross (Loupe Fall 2012) was favorably, maybe portentously, reviewed by Carol Diehl in the April Art in America. In part, she wrote, “Yet there is nothing nostalgic about the works; indeed, they could just as easily portend the future. These are studies in energy, with no place in time.” More at http://schulteprojects.com/.[Sg13]
Chris Jordan’s Advanced Digital Photography students have curated and created a Paul R. Jones Collection exhibit titled Call and Response, with PRJ artists and the students’ own creative responses. It opens April 16 in the Sella-Granata Gallery. Jordan also got an in-depth review in the photo-blog, Lenscratch, for “his terrific series,” Suburban Sublime. The series was part of Jordan’s solo show at the Museum of Art at University of Southern Mississippi,and was also recently at the Colvard Union Gallery, Mississippi State University.[Sg13]
Lucy Curzon and Mindy Nancarrow greet keynote speaker Andrew Hottle at the 18th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History.
JERRY LAMME’s digital painting App (Room Series) received a purchase award from the 2013 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition and will be part of the Bradbury Permanent Collection at Arkansas State University. The juror was Anne Coffin, Director of the International Print Center New York. App is the fifth image in Lamme’s Room Series. He writes, “The series consist of narratives taking place in digital zone plate spaces. This softening effect enhances the ethereal quality of the images and adds to their mystery. Viewers will determine their own interpretations as they respond to each narrative.”[Sg13]
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