FALL 2020/SPRING 2021
Press Play
The Tarble鈥檚 outdoor grounds are activated with Press Play, a site-responsive digital exhibition of video and audio artworks by Calvin Arsenia, Zlatko 膯osi膰 and Brad Decker, Addoley Dzegede, Jos茅 Faus, Jana Harper, Megan Kaminski,
Marie Bannerot McInerney, Kyle Mullins, and Raffaela. Groves of trees, architecture,
words, music, movement, and art play together, offering reflections on our sense of
place in relation to both built environments and the natural world.
Press Play QR codes and a call-in phone number are situated throughout the green spaces that surround the building, inviting those passing through to use their phones or smart devices to experience works contributed by artists, poets, dancers, musicians, healers, writers, and creative voices. This exhibition offers the opportunity to encounter art in an open-air, contactless environment.
All faculty, staff, students, and guests on campus must wear appropriate facemasks. Read EIU鈥檚 mask guidelines here.
2021 EIU Undergraduate Art Exhibition
Organized collaboratively by the Tarble Arts Center and EIU鈥檚 Department of Art + Design, the 2021 EIU Undergraduate Art Exhibition will be presented in four chapters to celebrate the debut of the new Glenn Hild Student Art Gallery located in room 1910 in Doudna Fine Arts Center.
You are invited to come by during gallery hours, which are 2鈥5 pm on Monday鈥揟hursday for the following dates:
Chapter 1: Nocturne, March 22鈥25
Chapter 2: Emo Drips, April 5鈥8
Chapter 3: Viewfinders, April 19鈥22
Chapter 4: Color + Form, May 3鈥6
SPRING 2020
Sophia Reed, Mutual Grief, 2019 | Image Courtesy of the Artist
2020 GRADUATE ART EXHIBITION
Alger Saldana, There鈥檚 More To It, 2018, Bronze cast from 3-D print-form | Image Courtesy of the Artist
2020 UNDERGRADUATE ALL STUDENT SHOW
Main Gallery /
Ann Coddington, Mother (detail), Ongoing, Mixed media fibers Image Courtesy of the Artist.
IN CONVERSATION SERIES
CONVERSATION 2
February 29-March 27, 2020
eGallery
David Richardson + Kayla Warner (BFA, 2016)Brainard Gallery
Patricia Belleville, Brad Olson, Debbie Nivens + Casey Wilen (MA. Ed, 2017)
Brendan Fernandes, Tumbler Assembly Drawings (detail), 2019. Image Courtesy of Norman Kelley Architecture & Design, New York & New Orleans.
BRENDAN FERNANDES
INACTION
January 18-March 8 2020
Main Gallery
Ann Coddington, Mother Memory (detail), Ongoing, Mixed media fibers Image Courtesy of the Artist.
IN CONVERSATION SERIES
CONVERSATION 1
January 18-March 8 2020
eGallery
Jaclyn Mednicov (MA, 2012) + Bishal (Bhaikaji) ManandharBrainard Gallery
Justin Henry Miller (BFA, 2002; MA, 2003) +
Amanda Joseph Danielle Mu啪ina (MA, 2014) + Levi Colton
FALL 2019
Rachel Monosov, The Space In-Between (detail), 2018 cacti, earth, copper, brass, plastic
Image Courtesy of Artist
RACHEL MONOSOV WE ARE ALMOST THERE
October 26-January 5, 2020
Main Gallery
Chicago Protest Banner Lending Library, photo by: eedahahm
PROTEST BANNER LENDING LIBRARY
October 26-January 5, 2020
Brainard Gallery
Nicol谩s Guagnini, Hermaphrodite Drawings, 2016, Vitrified glazed ceramic, book
(Mike Kelley Hermaphrodite Drawings, Gagosain Gallery, London [2007], ISBN: 1-932598-44-8)
Image Courtesy of the Artist and Bortolami Gallery, NYC
NICOL脕S GUAGNINI TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS
August 17-December 8
eGallery
Federico Solmi, The Grand Masquerade, 2019 Video painting- Acrylic and gold leaf on Plexiglas, painted wooden frame, LED screens/video loop
FEDERICO SOLMI THE GRAND MASQUERADE
August 17-October 6
Main Gallery
Chris Kahler, Dialumen G1, 2018, Acrylic on panel
漏 Chris Kahler and Bruno David Gallery
IN CONVERSATION
ANNE VIEUX + CHRIS KAHLER
ERIN RICE + MORGAN CALABRESE
August 17-October 6
Brainard Gallery
SPRING 2019
Sue de Beer, The White Wolf (still), 2018 Two-channel HD video 漏 Sue de BeerImage Courtesy of the Artist & Marianne
Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen
SUE DE BEER COME WIND, COME WEATHER
January 26-May 19
Brainard & eGallery
Jade Phillips, Lick, Oil on Board, 2018 | Image Courtesy of the Artist
2019 GRADUATE ART EXHIBITION
April 23-May 19
Main Galleries
Whitney Bradshaw, Adia, 2018 from the series Outcry, Archival Inkjet Print, Image Courtesy of the Artist
WHITNEY BRADSHAW OUTCRY
April 26 - May 19
Gallery 1104
Artist, Whitney Bradshaw, embarked on a feminist social practice project she calls Outcry the night of the Women鈥檚 March in 2018. Outcry provides women with a safe space where they can be heard, supported, and encouraged to speak up and out for themselves and for one another. Bradshaw鈥檚 process involves inviting women who don鈥檛 know one another to her studio, focusing on community building while encouraging participants to support one another as they bravely let out feelings that have often been silenced or dismissed in our culture. To date, Bradshaw has made more than 250 individual portraits of women screaming. on March 21st, 2019 Bradshaw led one of her scream sessions, as she calls them, here at the Tarble. The resulting portraits depict a range of emotions and challenge stereotypes of women while demanding a reconsideration of what beauty looks and power look like. After this exhibition, these pictures of empowered students and staff members made here at the Tarble, will be integrated into Bradshaw鈥檚 Outcry project as it continues to grow and expand.
Kaylee Fuentes, Character, pen and ink, Okaw Valley High School, Grade 10, Bethany, IL Instructor: Jeni Yantis
37th Annual Art from Here
March 23-April 7
Main Galleries
Presented by area school students grades kindergarten through the 12th grade and selected by the schools鈥 art teachers, this annual art exhibition showcases some of the best creations produced in area art programs. Representing approximately 45 area schools programs taught by certified art specialists, this beloved exhibition is a must see during the spring at EIU. The exhibition and reception program are sponsored in part by Consolidated Communications and are presented in cooperation with the participating schools鈥 art teachers.
Alicia Post, Transient, Oil on canvas | Image Courtesy of the Artist
2019 Undergraduate All Student Show
February 9-March 3
Main Galleries
Open to EIU undergraduates that have taken courses in the past year in the Art and Design Department, this competitive exhibition features a diverse array of media: painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, graphic design, digital art, computer animation, metals, and ceramics. Each year, a panel of area-college and university Art faculty and art professionals selects the participants. This program is co-organized by the EIU Art and Design Department and the Tarble Arts Center. This year鈥檚 jurors are: Thad Duhigg, MFA, Professor and Sculpture Area Head Department of Art and Design (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) and Rosalyn D Schwartz, Professor Emeritus in Painting, School of Art and Design (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
窜辞毛&苍产蝉辫;叠耻肠办尘补苍,&苍产蝉辫;Every Curve, 2016, Vintage lingerie slip with rap definition of feminine sewn in, Variable Dimensions | Image courtesy of the Artist and Gavlak Los Angeles/Gavlak Palm Beach
In the Eye of the Beholder
August 18-December 16, 2018
Juxtaposing the work of established and emerging artists of diverse cultural backgrounds, In the Eye of the Beholder is an exhibition featuring the diverse artistic practices of women artists from 1968 to present. The exhibition connects the work of established women artists with the work of contemporary emerging women artists, to create a dialogue about the nature and realization of 鈥渇eminism,鈥 from its past to the present, and the collective expectation for future progress. The work featured within In the Eye of the Beholder displays the achievements and challenges of the roles women have played and continue to perform within our society. The exhibition at times contains provocative imagery and subject matters, but also strives to create dialogue, reflection, and reconciliation about the roles of women in society past, present, and future. In the Eye of the Beholder was co-curated by Rehema Barber, Director and Chief Curator of the Tarble Arts Center and Erin J. Gilbert, Curator of African-American manuscripts, Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Artists included in the exhibition are: Marina Abramovi膰, Laia Abril, Tanya Agui帽iga, Barbara Bloom, Lee Bul, Zo毛 Buckman, Tammy Rae Carland, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Judy Chicago, Bethany Collins, Maureen Connor, Ayan Farah, Jenny Holzer, Sheree Hovsepian, Yoko Ono, Mariu Palacios, Deborah Roberts, Martha Rosler, Amanda Ross-Ho, Berni Searle, and Lorna Simpson.
David Jien, CUBBY CONTROL, 2012, Color pencil, graphite, gouache, abalone veneer, wood veneer, and gold leaf on panel | Image courtesy of the Artist and Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
David Jien Time Will Tell
February 24- May 20, 2018
eGallery
Glenn Hild, Apprehension, 1976, Mixed media collage | Image courtesy of Artist
The Way We Were
February 24- May 20, 2018
Brainard Gallery
Marcos Serafim, Gas Station (still), 2017, HD video, projection on found object | Image courtesy of the Artist.
2018 Graduate Art Exhibition
April 28- May 20, 2018
Main Galleries
Olivia Griffin, Kindergarten, Warhol Hands, Tempera Crestwood School, Paris, Instructor: Millie Arp
36th Art from Here Exhibition
March 31- April 15, 2018
Main Galleries
Margaret Kilbane, Beautiful Illusion (detail), 2016, Screenprint on paper I Image courtesy of the Artist
2018 Undergraduate All Student Show
February 24 - March 18, 2018
Main Gallery
Jiha Moon Double Welcome, Most Everyone's Mad Here
Main Galleries | November 18-February 4, 2017
Jiha Moon, Most Everyone's Mad Here (detail), 2015, Ink and acrylic on Hanji mounted on canvas. | Image courtesy of the Artist.
Chris Cohoon In All Around I See
Brainard Gallery | November 18-February 4, 2017
Chris Cohoon, Documentropy 2 (detail), 2013-2014, Biological residue on unprepared canvas | Image courtesy of Artist
Cream Co. Living Room
eGallery | November 18-February 4, 2017
Cream Co., Living Table (detail), 2016, Mixed media and plants| Image courtesy of Artist
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: Japanese Prints from the Taubman Museum of Art's Permanent Collection
Brainard Gallery | August 26-October 29, 2017
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Heron Maiden (detail), 1898, Woodblock print | Collection of the Taubman Museum of Art: The Peggy Macdowell Thomas
Japanese Print Collection 1996.062
Featuring twenty-three woodcuts by renowned Japanese artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi from
the Taubman Museum of Art鈥檚 permanent collection, this exhibition presents the artist鈥檚
most representative and well-known series: New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts, One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, and Twenty-Eight Famous Murders with Verse. The exhibition highlights the artist鈥檚 unparalleled skill and creativity, as well
as traditional East Asian mythology. Known for his imaginative depictions of Chinese
and Japanese folklore, culture and history, especially Kabuki鈥攁 classical Japanese
art form of dramatic dance and song, Yoshitoshi presented the intensity and height
of action in his woodblock prints.
2017 Art & Design Faculty Biennial
Main Galleries | August 26-October 29, 2017
Alan Pocaro, Friar's Lantern (detail), 2016, Screenprint with torn and pasted screenprints on paper | Image courtesy of Artist
Beginning this fall the Tarble Arts Center will proudly present a bi-annual exhibition
of current works by the studio faculty of 海角大神鈥檚 Department
of Art and Design. Every two-years, this special Tarble exhibition will feature the
diverse styles, talents and media from members of the Art and Design department. Co-curated
by Rehema Barber, Director and Chief Curator and Mike Schuetz, Assistant Director
of the Tarble Arts Center, this biennial presentation was selected during various
studio visits and serves as a reflection of the conversations that took place during
those individual meetings.
No More Mr. Nice Guy: Ben Venom
eGallery | August 26-October 29, 2017
Ben Venom, Fly by Night (detail), 2013, Handmade quilt with recycled fabric | Image courtesy of Artist
On a crash collision course between subculture symbolism and your grandmother鈥檚 sewing
circle, the works of Ben Venom continue to push the boundaries of the gender-based
medium of quilting. Riffing on found imagery from vintage tattoos, the occult, motorcycle
gangs, heavy metal bands, and pop culture, Venom鈥檚 quilts seek to expand and challenge
pre-meditated meanings and associations with craft, low, and popular culture. His
works assault the senses with their jilted and aggressive use of these icons, while
working within traditional quilting methods and materials to underscore the broad
appeal of and fascination with these various subcultures.
35th Children's Art Exhibition
Main Galleries | May 13-May 28, 2017
Belle Shriver, Grade 4, Birds on a branch, Watercolor | Riddle Elementary School, Mattoon, IL | Instructor: Rob Niemerg
Presented by area students grades kindergarten through high school and selected by
the schools鈥 respective art teachers, this is an art exhibition that showcases all
media. This show features some of the best creations produced in area art programs
and represents approximately 45 area school programs taught by certified art specialists.
The exhibition and reception program are sponsored in part by Consolidated Communications
and presented in cooperation with the participating schools鈥 art teachers.
2017 Graduate Art Exhibition
Main Galleries | April 15-May 7, 2017
2016 Graduate Art Exhibition installation view
Each spring, the Tarble Arts Center and the EIU Art Department proudly present the
annual thesis exhibition of work by the current MA candidates in Eastern Illinois
University鈥檚 Studio Art program. Every year a wide range of styles, media, and approaches
to art making are on view.
Mythic Macrocosm: Stewart Goldman Paintings
Brainard Gallery | February 25-May 14, 2017
Stewart Goldman, Splat (detail), 2010, Oil on linen | Image Courtesy of the Artist
Throughout a career that spans over 45 years, Stewart Goldman鈥檚 paintings have depicted
the artist鈥檚 unique perspectives: riffs on Ruben, painstakingly detailed and atmospheric
interiors, or colorfully abstract and bucolic natural settings. Some of these images
come from Goldman鈥檚 world travels and others are of his home, devoid of its furnishings. Mythic Macrocosm displays a combination of the artist鈥檚 natural abstractions from the early 2000s and
a selection of his more recent series of abstract paintings, based off of observed
landscapes in New Zealand, Sicily, and Capri.
BLACKBOX SERIES
Jacco Olivier: Cosmology in Flux
eGallery | February 25-May 14, 2017
Jacco Olivier, Revolution (detail), 2010, HD animation on Hard Disc | Image Courtesy of the Artist & Marianne
Boesky Gallery
In Cosmology in Flux, Dutch painter, Jacco Olivier illustrates the vivacity of painting and his ability
to realize his subject matter in rich animation. The artist paints, photographs, and
collages his abstract and figurative images to create fluid paintings and narratives.
This exhibition will display two of Olivier鈥檚 signature works Landscape and Revolution, both from 2010. While the works show disparate environments, they also allude to
the idea that these ecosystems are constantly in flux, whether we are aware of it
or not.
2017 Undergraduate All-Student Show
Main Galleries | February 25-April 2, 2017
2016 Undergraduate All Student Show installation view
Open to EIU undergraduates; this competitive exhibition features a diverse array of
media: painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, graphic design, digital art, computer
animation, metals, and ceramics. Each year, a panel of area college and university
Art faculty and Art professionals select the participants. This program is presented
by the EIU Art Department and the Tarble Arts Center.
Firelei B谩ez: Vessels of Genealogies
Main Galleries | November 19-February 12, 2016-2017
Firelei B谩ez, Vessel of Genealogies (detail), 2016, Acrylic, graphite and ink on paper | Image Courtesy of the Artist & Gallery Wendi Norris
Vessels of Genealogies presents works by Firelei B谩ez鈥攁n artist known for depicting individuals who move
across regional, national, and racial boundaries and are influenced by a wide range
of imagery from various cultures. B谩ez鈥檚 intricate large-scale works are evidence
of her labor-intensive processes. Her work evokes both the beauty and political implications
of decorative elements and body ornaments such as hairstyles, fashion, textiles, and
tattoos. She employs these signifiers as a means to celebrate cultural prowess and
as a way to assign previously disenfranchised individuals, political agency and authority. Encouraging
new ways of being in the present and the future, Vessels of Genealogiespresents radical, fluid figures that offer alternative realities to those whose cultural
identities have remained traditionally absent from dominant culture. Vessels of Genealogies is co-curated by Perez Art Museum Miami Assistant Curator Mar铆a Elena Ortiz, curator
of B谩ez鈥檚 nationwide traveling exhibition, Bloodlines.
Reaching Into Infinity: Chul Hyun Ahn
Main Galleries | November 19-February 9, 2016-2017
Chul Hyun Ahn, Portal (detail), 2013, Plywood, acrylic, changing LED lights and mirrors | Image Courtesy of the Artist and C. Grimaldis Gallery
In collaboration with the Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Tarble Arts Center will present an exhibition of work by Baltimore-based artist Chul Hyun Ahn called Reaching into Infinity: Chul Hyun Ahn. Ahn uses light, color and illusion to create sculptures that serve as explorations of infinite space. His curiosity about the boundaries between the conscious and unconscious inspire him to build contemplative environments that defy spatial planes. Ahn鈥檚 sculptures urge viewers to ponder the limitlessness of the human capacity for metaphysical growth.
Eli Craven: P.S.
Brainard Gallery | November 19-February 12, 2016-2017
As part of this year鈥檚 Artist in Education Residency, the Tarble Arts Center is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Eli Craven called P.S.. Craven鈥檚 work explores the role of images and objects within the development of identity, memory, and desire. The acts of looking and collecting are central to his process. Each project begins with a search for redeemable sources at estate sales, thrift stores, and other second hand markets. Through various methods of manipulation, the materials brim with new possibilities鈥攅ngaging viewers鈥 senses with the familiar, the bizarre, the mundane or the erotic . Using photography, sculpture, and collage, the reclaimed materials become installations and assemblages intended to provide new narratives.
Eli Craven is an artist born in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He currently lives and works in Champaign, Illinois, where he teaches photography at the University of Illinois. His work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally, most recently at the Capture Photography Festival in Vancouver, BC and in the book Unlocked published by Atopos CVC in Athens, Greece.
Blackbox Series | Phantasmagoria
eGallery | November 19-February 12, 2016-2017
Ranu Mukherjee, Home and the World (still), 2015, Single-channel animation (Hybrid Film) | Image Courtesy of the Artist & Gallery Wendi Norris
The second presentation of Blackbox will be an exhibition entitled Phantasmagoria, an immersive video experience of 鈥渉ybrid films鈥 by Ranu Mukherjee. Mukherjee鈥檚 works layer animation, drawing, found imagery, painting and still photography to produce vibrantly hued, moving collages. This Blackbox presentation corresponds to this year鈥檚 exhibition them of nature as the artist鈥檚 work frequently juxtaposes landscape as both a stage and an activated form.
Ranu Mukherjee is a San Francisco-based artist, who has shown nationally and internationally. She holds an MFA in painting from the Royal College of Art, London and a BFA in painting and film from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. She taught for many years at Goldsmiths College, London. Mukherjee is currently an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts, where she teaches studio art and social practice. Mukherjee is represented by Gallery Wendi Norris, has nine-year-old triplets and almost fully grown tentacles.
A DARK MATTER...
Main Galleries | August 13-October 30, 2016
EPHEMEROS
Brainard Gallery | August 13-October 30, 2016
