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Visiting Artist Lecture: Deborah Aschheim
Residency dates: 10/20/08 – 11/14/08
Lecture: Tuesday, 10/28, noon University Galleries

Deborah Aschheim makes installations based on invisible networks of perception and thought, using light, plastic, video and sound to translate the private, shifting space of memory into a physical space. Her recent work is based on a series of personal experiments that are equal parts science and poetry, and includes collaborations with musician/composer Lisa Mezzacappa, and with Dr. Greg Siegle, director of the Program in Cognitive Affective Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine. Recent exhibitions include "Deborah Aschheim: Reconsider " at Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO (2008); "The Lining of Forgetting" at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC (2008), and "On Memory" at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA (2006-7). "Neural Architecture, " her series of six evolving "nervous systems for buildings," (2003-6) included installations at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and at Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach.

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Anna Schachte
Residency Dates: Feb. 9 - March 6, 2009
Lecture: Tuesday, 2/17, noon University Galleries, Center for Visual Arts

Schachte states that, as a contemporary artist who paints, she is a tourist. The tourist-painter hopes to visit the past, collecting souvenirs to make something new. Schachte interprets and reinvents notions of landscape painting as a way of visiting historical sites in both painting and social histories. In a recent body of work, “The Future is Here,” she takes the premise of an imagined “Great American Road Trip” into the future to improvise on the iconography of the American landscape. This allowed her to imagine a story of painting’s future and include herself in it. Schachte is currently working on a new group of paintings on the theme of “Time Travel & Leisure.” Picturing global vacation destinations of the near future and recent past, she is discovering new and hybridized forms in her painting.

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Jutta Strohmaier
Residency Dates: March 23 - May 1, 2009
Lecture: Tuesday, 3/31, noon University Galleries, Center for Visual Arts

The work of Jutta Strohmaier shifts between many different dimensions of presentation and reality appears to be rather a matter of viewpoint than a fixed idea. Blurring the borders between photography, video and drawings, as well as between analog and digital images, she investigates and deconstructs traditional spatial concepts and depictions.