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September Issue 2000

Weatherspoon Art Gallery in Greensboro, NC, Announces Falk Visiting Artists 2000-2001 Exhibition Schedule

Exhibitions of works by installation artist David Bunn, photographer Richard Ross, and painter Susanna Coffey will be featured at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery as part of the Falk Visiting Artists program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC.

Sponsored by the UNC-G Department of Art, the Falk Visiting Artist program brings nationally and internationally acclaimed artists to the UNC-G campus each year. The program provides art students an opportunity to interact with contemporary artists in residence. Artist exhibitions are scheduled concurrently at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery.

Visiting artists spend three to five days on campus. Their activities include a walk-through of their exhibition and a slide lecture on the development of their work. The program offers students, faculty and the public the opportunity to have contact with some today's leading artists. It also provides a focus for the discussion of ideas, trends and standards of artistic production at the national level.

The exhibition schedule and activities for the 2000-01 Falk Visiting Artists program at the Weatherspoon starts with an exhibition by David Bunn from Sept. 3 through Oct. 15. The recent work of this Los Angeles-based artist focuses upon a nearly archaic system - the library card catalog. Bunn juxtaposes individual cards from the discarded catalogs of various libraries, creating text poems comprising only book titles, bibliographic entries and the like. Deft and conceptually rigorous, his work is tinged with sadness for the passing of these historical bodies of material, now eclipsed by on-line systems. Bunn is a native of Greensboro, NC.

A number of special programs have been scheduled during the David Bunn exhibition. A lecture by Peter Dimock entitled, The Nature of Reading, will be presented on Sept. 6 at 5:30pm. Dimock is a novelist and senior executive editor at Columbia University Press. His lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition and is cosponsored by the UNC-G Departments of Art and English and the College of Arts and Sciences Program Committee. Bunn will lead a gallery walk-through on Oct. 2 at 4pm. The artist will also present a slide lecture on his work Oct. 3 at 5:30pm.

The next Falk Visiting Artists session will be from Oct. 29 through Dec. 23, and present the works of Richard Ross. The exhibition presenting Ross' body of work is entitled Fovea. The installation comprises photographs of friends and family interspersed with selections from some of the artist's other bodies of work, including his Museology and Diver series. Together, they present a kind of photographic journal of Ross' visual concerns. Ross, who lives in Santa Barbara, CA, is a renowned photographer whose work has been seen in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world since the late 1970s. Ross will lead a gallery walk-through on Oct. 30 at 4pm and a slide lecture on Oct. 31 at 5:30pm.

The final Falk Visiting Artists will take place from Jan. 14 through Mar. 4, 2001, and feature works by Susanna Coffey. For nearly twenty years, Coffey has confined her artistic practice to self-portraiture, producing intense psychological studies which position themselves in fascinating ways within the genre's rich historical tradition. Through the expressive application of paint, dramatic cropping and uncanny transposition, Coffey's works convey the rich emotional life of an individual who meets the viewer eye to eye. Coffey leads a gallery walk-through on Feb. 5 at 4pm and will present a slide lecture on Feb. 6 at 5:30pm.

The Herbert and Louise Falk Endowment was established in 1982 to fund the Falk Visiting Artist program. Artists are selected by a committee of UNC-G Art Department faculty and students as well as a Weatherspoon Art Gallery curator. Over 50 painters, performance artists, sculptors, potters, printmakers, photographers, video and inter-media artists have been Falk Visiting Artists. Participating artists have included Robert Longo, Martin Puryear, Laurie Simmons, Peter Agostini, Rackstraw Downes, Nancy Grossman, Grace Hartigan and Mel Chin.

Continuing at the Weatherspoon is the exhibition Dona Nelson: The Stations of the Subway, Octopuses and Arrangements through Oct. 29 in Gallery 7. Other exhibitions on view include Couples, Pairs and Twos: Highlights from the Permanent Collection and Henri Matisse Prints and Bronzes from the Cone Collection.

For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or call 336/334-5770, e-mail at (weatherspoon@uncg.edu) or on the web at (http://www.uncg.edu/wag).

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