The Canary Project
Renowned as innovators in the field of interdisciplinary and activist art, The Canary
Project produces visual media and artworks about the single issue of climate change.
This exhibit brought together works by the principal members of the Canary Project,
Edward Morris and Susannah Sayler, and more than a dozen Canary Project artists.
Collectively these works explore ways in which the prospect of catastrophic climate
change challenges the limits of human comprehension and agency. The exhibition
proposed that these challenges can be a source of inspiration, melancholic beauty,
engagement or defeat.
Dennis Ichiyama
Sept. 4, 2014 | Exhibition in the Laura Mesaros Gallery, Sept. 4 - Oct. 2, 2014
Ichiyama's current research focuses on historic wooden type in America and Italy. His
typographic prints and designs have received national awards from the Type Directors
Club (New York), and The Mohawk Show. He is currently professor in the Visual
Communications Design Program in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue
University, West Lafayette campus.
Joe Galbreath
Oct. 2, 2014 | Exhibition in the Paul Mesaros Gallery Sept. 4 - Oct 2, 2014
Galbreath’s interests in graphic design include exploring and documenting vernacular
design traditions, manual design making processes and independent publishing. His
interest in letterpress technology and new ways of using old things also play an
important role in his current research and form making. His work has been featured
in Print magazine’s Regional Annual, Indie Publishing, and Fingerprint No. 2: The
Evolution of Handmade Elements in Graphic Design.
Jeff Rich: The Watershed Project
Oct. 15, 2014 | Exhibition in the Laura Mesaros Gallery, Oct. 16 - Dec. 9, 2014
Rich’s work focuses on water issues, ranging from recreation and sustainability to
exploitation and abuse. He explores these subjects by using long-term photographic
documentations of very specific regions of the United States. Rich received his
Master of Fine Arts degree in photography from the Savannah College of Art and
Design in Savannah, Georgia.
Tugboat Press
Oct. 23, 2014 | Exhibition in the Paul Mesaros Gallery, Oct. 16 - Dec. 9,
2014
Artists Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth of the Pittsburgh-based Tugboat Press create intricate
woodcuts that celebrate the natural world and mankind’s relationship to it. Lueth
and Roden build idealistic, meticulously patterned worlds with extreme focus on
craft and detail. Rich color is layered in multiple impressions from hand-drawn,
hand-carved and individually printed woodblocks.
How and Nosm
Jan. 22, 2015 | Deem Distinguished Lecture | Exhibition in the Paul Mesaros
Gallery, Jan 22 - Feb. 26, 2015
How and Nosm are identical twin brothers whose graffiti-inspired art has gained
international influence. They produce prints and paintings on canvas, though aerosol
can is dominant in all their works. The pair uses a signature palette of reds,
whites and blacks in complex, detailed designs with geometric patterns and stylized
characters engaged in admittedly dubious activities. The brothers have become
known across the world for redefining what constitutes graffiti and public art.
Adelaide Paul
Feb. 26, 2015 | Exhibition in the Laura Mesaros Gallery
, Jan 22 - Feb. 26, 2015
The main inspiration for her work is animals due to her strong relationship with
and love for them. Paul's sculptures explore what she has referred to as “the
alternately cloying sentimental and brutally callous relationship between humans
and animals, both domesticated and wild.” Paul was the recipient of a PEW Fellowship
in the Arts in 2007.
Roger Crum
August 26, 2015 | J. Bernard Schultz Endowed Lecture in Art History
Crum specializes in Renaissance Florence and modern Italy, but has published as well
on the sculpture of Edgar Degas, the religious imagery of Barnett Newman, the photography
of the Wright brothers, and the future of the book. He received both his bachelor’s
and master’s degrees in art history from the University of Michigan and his doctorate
from the University of Pittsburgh.