Endi Poskovic, Mokronoge (Promise to Hagar)
Endi Poskovic : Crossing Exhibition Opens at Adrian College
Adrian College, Adrian, MI- January 8th, 2018
Valade Gallery at Adrian College announces the opening of Crossing, a solo exhibition by Endi Poskovic. The show is on display and open to the public through February 2nd, with an opening reception on Tuesday, January 23rd from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Poskovic will deliver an artist talk at 6 pm.
Crossing underscores a personal tale of discovery. In 2010, Poskovic returned for the first time to his family ancestral birthplace in Southeastern Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina in the former Yugoslavia). The trip afforded him an encounter with familiar communities and a way of life untouched by time yet devastated by conflict and violent demographic shifts. Crossing attempts to reflect, albeit allegorically, on this experience. Transcending sculpting, drawing, printmaking and animation, Crossing explores the nature of composite narrative, in which visual signifiers, both real and invented, intersect to form imagery suggestive of dichotomies, proposing themes of displacement, transformation and revival.
Born in 1969 in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Endi Poskovic completed his B.F.A. at the University of Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts. Poskovic studied Nynorsk language and culture in Norway on a Norwegian Government sponsored Minnefondet Scholarship. From Norway, Poskovic moved to the United States to study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he earned M.F.A. in 1993.
The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, Poskovic has received prestigious support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the John D. Rockefeller Foundation, and the J. William Fulbright Commission, among others. Poskovic’s graphic works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous international biennials and triennials, including Shanghai Print International Biennial, China, Bienal Internacional de Grabado Caixanova, Spain, and Taichung International Biennial, Taiwan. Comprehensive individual exhibitions of Poskovic’s work have been organized by the Philadelphia Print Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and Interlochen Arts Academy Dow Center for the Arts, among others. Endi Poskovic’s works are represented in numerous public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Royal Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts, Centre National des Arts Plastiques Cairo, Fogg Art Museum-Harvard University, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Endi Poskovic is Professor at the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Associate Faculty in the University of Michigan-Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
Valade Gallery is located in the rear of Shipman Library, on Williams Street on the Adrian College Campus. Free street parking is available. Gallery open hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, with extended hours on Tuesday until 7 pm.
Contact: Elspeth Schulze, Gallery Director : gallery@adrian.edu
Adrian College, Adrian, MI- January 8th, 2018
Valade Gallery at Adrian College announces the opening of Crossing, a solo exhibition by Endi Poskovic. The show is on display and open to the public through February 2nd, with an opening reception on Tuesday, January 23rd from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Poskovic will deliver an artist talk at 6 pm.
Crossing underscores a personal tale of discovery. In 2010, Poskovic returned for the first time to his family ancestral birthplace in Southeastern Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina in the former Yugoslavia). The trip afforded him an encounter with familiar communities and a way of life untouched by time yet devastated by conflict and violent demographic shifts. Crossing attempts to reflect, albeit allegorically, on this experience. Transcending sculpting, drawing, printmaking and animation, Crossing explores the nature of composite narrative, in which visual signifiers, both real and invented, intersect to form imagery suggestive of dichotomies, proposing themes of displacement, transformation and revival.
Born in 1969 in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Endi Poskovic completed his B.F.A. at the University of Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts. Poskovic studied Nynorsk language and culture in Norway on a Norwegian Government sponsored Minnefondet Scholarship. From Norway, Poskovic moved to the United States to study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he earned M.F.A. in 1993.
The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, Poskovic has received prestigious support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the John D. Rockefeller Foundation, and the J. William Fulbright Commission, among others. Poskovic’s graphic works have been exhibited worldwide in numerous international biennials and triennials, including Shanghai Print International Biennial, China, Bienal Internacional de Grabado Caixanova, Spain, and Taichung International Biennial, Taiwan. Comprehensive individual exhibitions of Poskovic’s work have been organized by the Philadelphia Print Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and Interlochen Arts Academy Dow Center for the Arts, among others. Endi Poskovic’s works are represented in numerous public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Royal Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts, Centre National des Arts Plastiques Cairo, Fogg Art Museum-Harvard University, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Endi Poskovic is Professor at the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and Associate Faculty in the University of Michigan-Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.
Valade Gallery is located in the rear of Shipman Library, on Williams Street on the Adrian College Campus. Free street parking is available. Gallery open hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, with extended hours on Tuesday until 7 pm.
Contact: Elspeth Schulze, Gallery Director : gallery@adrian.edu
Image : Jon Verney, Solfatara detail
Jon Verney : Solfatara, Photography Exhibition Opens at Adrian College
Adrian College, Adrian, MI- September 26th, 2017
Valade Gallery at Adrian College announces the opening of Solfatara, a solo exhibition of new work by Jon Verney. The show is on display and open to the public through October 25th, with an opening reception on Tuesday, September 26th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Verney will deliver an artist talk at 6 pm.
Solfatara explores notions of flux, transformation, and transcendence through an engagement with landscape and materiality. The core of Verney’s current work is Thermophile, an ongoing project that explores the possibilities of chemically-altering gelatin silver prints in geothermal springs around the world. By carefully immersing silver-based photos into volcanic hot springs and mud pots, Verney coaxes their imagery through a chaotic transformation; iron, sulfur, copper, aluminum - the atoms of dissolved elements in the waters - bond to the silver in the photographs’ emulsions, fusing and forming new compounds. This mineral abundance, paired with the springs’ acidity and high temperatures, causes each photograph to be redeveloped, altered, and transmuted in a unique manner—no two ever appearing the same. In a parallel studio process, Verney immerses found polaroids into hot water, causing their aged emulsions to steadily unfurl from their acetate bases. Marred by myriad dendritic fractures, the photographs appear to collapse in on themselves, rendering the relative banality of the snapshots into metamorphic abstractions. Some traces of the original imagery remain, connoting an entropic sense of loss and erosion, offering a quiet meditation on the titanic natural forces that shape our world.
Jon Verney is a visual artist working in painting, photography, and video. After earning his BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010, he traveled to Florence, Italy, where he worked for three years at Studio Art Center International. Upon returning to the United States, Verney received his MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan in 2016. During his studies, he received numerous grants to fund his creative research, which included fieldwork in Iceland, the Yellowstone Caldera, and California’s Salton Sea. Verney’s work has been featured on lenscratch.com, and he was a recent artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center. This fall, Verney will serve as a visiting artist at Hiram College in Ohio, and perform at PVDLoop at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island. In November, Verney will travel to Finland to participate in an international symposium on painting at the University of Arts, Helsinki. Verney’s studio practice is currently based in Massachusetts.
Valade Gallery is located in the rear of Shipman Library, on Williams Street on the Adrian College Campus. Free street parking is available. Gallery open hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, with extended hours on Tuesday until 7 pm.
Contact: Elspeth Schulze, Gallery Director : gallery@adrian.edu
Adrian College, Adrian, MI- September 26th, 2017
Valade Gallery at Adrian College announces the opening of Solfatara, a solo exhibition of new work by Jon Verney. The show is on display and open to the public through October 25th, with an opening reception on Tuesday, September 26th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Verney will deliver an artist talk at 6 pm.
Solfatara explores notions of flux, transformation, and transcendence through an engagement with landscape and materiality. The core of Verney’s current work is Thermophile, an ongoing project that explores the possibilities of chemically-altering gelatin silver prints in geothermal springs around the world. By carefully immersing silver-based photos into volcanic hot springs and mud pots, Verney coaxes their imagery through a chaotic transformation; iron, sulfur, copper, aluminum - the atoms of dissolved elements in the waters - bond to the silver in the photographs’ emulsions, fusing and forming new compounds. This mineral abundance, paired with the springs’ acidity and high temperatures, causes each photograph to be redeveloped, altered, and transmuted in a unique manner—no two ever appearing the same. In a parallel studio process, Verney immerses found polaroids into hot water, causing their aged emulsions to steadily unfurl from their acetate bases. Marred by myriad dendritic fractures, the photographs appear to collapse in on themselves, rendering the relative banality of the snapshots into metamorphic abstractions. Some traces of the original imagery remain, connoting an entropic sense of loss and erosion, offering a quiet meditation on the titanic natural forces that shape our world.
Jon Verney is a visual artist working in painting, photography, and video. After earning his BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010, he traveled to Florence, Italy, where he worked for three years at Studio Art Center International. Upon returning to the United States, Verney received his MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan in 2016. During his studies, he received numerous grants to fund his creative research, which included fieldwork in Iceland, the Yellowstone Caldera, and California’s Salton Sea. Verney’s work has been featured on lenscratch.com, and he was a recent artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center. This fall, Verney will serve as a visiting artist at Hiram College in Ohio, and perform at PVDLoop at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island. In November, Verney will travel to Finland to participate in an international symposium on painting at the University of Arts, Helsinki. Verney’s studio practice is currently based in Massachusetts.
Valade Gallery is located in the rear of Shipman Library, on Williams Street on the Adrian College Campus. Free street parking is available. Gallery open hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, with extended hours on Tuesday until 7 pm.
Contact: Elspeth Schulze, Gallery Director : gallery@adrian.edu
Image : Marie T. Hermann, ‘A Gentle Blow to the Rock’
quiet quiet, Ceramics Exhibition Opens at Adrian College
Adrian College, Adrian, MI- August 21st, 2017
Valade Gallery at Adrian College announces the opening of quiet quiet, the first exhibition of the academic year. A showcase of sculptural and installation based ceramic work by contemporary female artists, this exhibition features outstanding pieces by Stephanie Galli, Marie T. Hermann, Jae Won Lee, and Kylie Lockwood.
The show is on display and open to the public through September 15th, with a reception on Tuesday, September 12th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Exhibiting artist Kylie Lockwood will deliver an artist talk at 6 pm.
'quiet quiet' is like a whisper, leading one to lean in, to better see and hear the secrets held . The pieces gathered in this exhibition have a quiet strength, with a presence that lingers long after the work is out of sight. Marie T. Hermann’s objects are at once familiar and strange, simple and manifold. Jae Won Lee’s miniature parts form the hum of a whole; if quiet were a color, it would exist between these shades of blue and white. You can hear the sweep of a broom in Kylie Lockwood’s work, the quick crack of a jar. These sounds echo in the material pull between lightness and weight. Stephanie Galli’s cast forms serve as a coda, reflecting and magnifying the collective presence. In 'quiet quiet' the command of the work is still and strong. Please join us in celebrating these esteemed artists and their exceptional work.
Valade Gallery is located in the rear of Shipman Library, on Williams Street on the Adrian College Campus. Free street parking is available. Gallery open hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, with extended hours on Tuesday until 7 pm.
Contact: Elspeth Schulze, Gallery Director : gallery@adrian.edu
LORE, Painting Exhibition Opens at Adrian College
Adrian College, Adrian, MI- January 10th, 2016
Valade Gallery at Adrian College announces the opening of LORE, a painting and drawing exhibition. This solo show features the striking work of Kreh Mellick, who illustrates fictions inspired by folklore, nostalgia and a time gone by. During the inaugural Valade Artist Residency, Kreh Mellick will create an onsite mural within Valade Gallery.
The show is on display and open to the public from Tuesday, January 10th through Monday, February 6th. The Valade Artist Residency will take place from Monday, January 23rd through Thursday, January 26th. A reception will be held on Tuesday, January 24th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Kreh Mellick will give an artist talk at 6 pm in Valade Gallery.
Kreh Mellick is an artist living and working in the creative community surrounding Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. She has participated in artist residencies from Wyoming to Iceland, and has exhibited her work internationally. Kreh received her BFA in illustration from Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine, and was a CORE Fellow at Penland School of Crafts in Penland, North Carolina. Her illustrations have been featured in New American Paintings, The Oxford American, and The New York Times Magazine.
Valade Gallery is located in Shipman Library, on Williams Street on the Adrian College Campus. Free street parking is available. Gallery open hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, with extended hours on Tuesday until 7 pm.
Contact: Elspeth Schulze, Gallery Director : gallery@adrian.edu
Image : ‘The Garden’ by Shane Darwent
The Matter at Hand, Sculpture Exhibition Opens at Adrian College
Adrian College, Adrian, MI- September 28, 2016
Valade Gallery at Adrian College announces the opening of its sculpture exhibition, The Matter at Hand. The exhibition showcases the work of three regional artists, including Carolyn Clayton, Shane Darwent, and Dylan Spaysky.
The show is on display and open to the public from Wednesday, September 28 through Tuesday, October 25th. A reception will be held on Tuesday, October 4th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The artists will be present, and will participate in a question and answer panel at 6 pm.
The Matter at Hand is a regional show of interdisciplinary work exploring the formal and material aspects of objects and the weight of their lived experience.
The accessible materials that litter our lives can tell us about our attachments, our constructs, and our place. Carolyn Clayton, Shane Darwent, and Dylan Spaysky use similar materials in singular ways, making prescient work about our present time. The ordinary and often overlooked are ripe with potential, waiting to be seen, mined, and celebrated. Carolyn Clayton is the recent recipient of the prestigious Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship. Dylan Spaysky, based in Detroit, was a 2015 CUE Art Foundation exhibiting artist. Shane Darwent recently undertook an international media project, resulting in a solo exhibition in Michoacan, Mexico and film screening at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Please join us in celebrating these esteemed artists and their exciting work.
Valade Gallery is located in Shipman Library, on Williams Street on the Adrian College Campus. Free street parking is available. Gallery open hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, with extended hours on Tuesday until 7 pm. The gallery will be closed during Fall Break at Adrian College, from Friday, 10/7 - Tuesday, 10/11. Regular gallery hours will resume Wednesday, 10/12.
Contact: Elspeth Schulze, Gallery Director : gallery@adrian.edu
