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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update. The Library Gallery is Closed Temporarily during the COVID-19 Outbreak.

Tanvi Kulkarni and Anavi Mullick will be having a reception in the Library Gallery for their exhibition titled: Transitory Stationary.

Reception:      Update from MCAD Library on COVID-19:      The reception for the current show in Library      Gallery has been canceled.

Exhibition:      March 16–April 12

Transitory Stationary consists of work by Tanvi Kulkarni and Anavi Mullick. A combination of paintings and artist's books, the work is an investigation of self and of relationships to people and place, through narrative. While representational art tells the viewer a story from the perspective of the artist, abstract art lets the viewer determine their own story from the artist’s work. A combination of abstract and representational imagery, the work reflects their thoughts and emotions.

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Now on display in the Library Gallery: Gardening as Critical Practice, new prints and writings by Ian Hanesworth. The exhibition will be on display October 25–November 11, 2018.

Gardening as Critical Practice

This exhibition endeavors to position the act of gardening within the realm of artistic, social and critical practice. A series of relief prints depicting local flora are accompanied by a selection of writings that establish a critical context through poetic meditations and cross-disciplinary research. The craft-oriented processes of natural dyeing, relief printing and woodworking consider attention as a form of gratitude. Reframing gardening as a critical artistic practice encourages a perceptual shift in our understandings of cultural value and the personal dimensions of our relationship to the natural world.

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Everything is Strange

A Library Gallery exhibition by Anna Lyle

There is a new exhibition in the Library Gallery! You should make some time to visit the MCAD Library to see Anna Lyle's exhibition: Everything is Strange.

Exhibition: Wednesday, January 18–Tuesday, February 7 MCAD Library Gallery

Exhibition Introduction by the artist: Over the past few years, I have been creating work representing fabric and the human figure, intersecting and morphing into each other. This exploration began as small graphite drawings on paper a few years ago. These tiny, intricate, and obscure drawings are very curious to me and led to me branching off into large drawings on paper, large paintings on paper, and then drawings on wood panel. There are many modes that this morphing and intersection has taken in my visual work. In between these drawings on paper, paintings on paper, and drawings on wood panel, I created more formal paintings on wood panel that spoke to a more crisp and clear reality of fabric and figure interacting in the same space (www.annalyle.com/unraveling). These works truly informed my more abstract "anatomical fabric" pieces, mining conceptual inspiration from deconstructing ideologies and learning about place and purpose in the world outside of the Southern Baptist Christian culture in which I grew up.

For this particular exhibition, I am showing my process to final creation; the whole breadth of study. I find that seeing these various scales and modes of abstraction through mark-making intertwining with the figure is intriguing and a deep well of discovery for the viewer.

Recommended library books:

Alison Watt: Fold: New Paintings,1996-97, by Alison Watt

All Wet: Marilyn Minter, by Marilyn Minter, David Desrimais, and Mathieu Cénac

Gender/body/knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo

The Wisdom of Insecurity: a Message for an Age of Anxiety, by Alan Watts

Existential Psychology, by Rollo May

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Everything is Strange

A Library Gallery exhibition by Anna Lyle

There is a new exhibition in the Library Gallery! Please make some time to visit the MCAD Library to see Anna Lyle's exhibition: Everything is Strange. 

Exhibition:  Wednesday, January 18–Tuesday, February 7 MCAD Library Gallery

Exhibition Introduction by the artist: Over the past few years, I have been creating work representing fabric and the human figure, intersecting and morphing into each other. This exploration began as small graphite drawings on paper a few years ago. These tiny, intricate, and obscure drawings are very curious to me and led to me branching off into large drawings on paper, large paintings on paper, and then drawings on wood panel. There are many modes that this morphing and intersection has taken in my visual work. In between these drawings on paper, paintings on paper, and drawings on wood panel, I created more formal paintings on wood panel that spoke to a more crisp and clear reality of fabric and figure interacting in the same space (www.annalyle.com/unraveling). These works truly informed my more abstract "anatomical fabric" pieces, mining conceptual inspiration from deconstructing ideologies and learning about place and purpose in the world outside of the Southern Baptist Christian culture in which I grew up.

For this particular exhibition, I am showing my process to final creation; the whole breadth of study. I find that seeing these various scales and modes of abstraction through mark-making intertwining with the figure is intriguing and a deep well of discovery for the viewer.

Recommended library books:

Alison Watt: Fold: New Paintings,1996-97, by Alison Watt

All Wet: Marilyn Minter, by Marilyn Minter, David Desrimais, and Mathieu Cénac

Gender/body/knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo

The Wisdom of Insecurity: a Message for an Age of Anxiety, by Alan Watts

Existential Psychology, by Rollo May

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Sometimes the Saratoga library displays art, like these stunning necklaces made by Rachel Maryann Smith. #art #jewelry #jewelryart #libray #librarygallery

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New Show at LIBRARY GALLERY:

"Paper Speak," a group show featuring Jeremy Anderson, Ashley Buxbaum, Zach Collins, Yinfan Huang, AnaLaura Juarez, Sam Lorang, Lucky Nielson and Luisa Rivera opens next Tuesday at noon.

Paper Speak An exhibition to celebrate communication, collaboration, and illustration Communication is social behavior. It is a necessary function of our species and vital to feeling connected and engaged with other people. This communication usually takes place vocally, visually -through text, or now, digitally through social media. We wondered what if communication and the same “connected” feeling could occur through illustrative collaboration? We played a game to find out. Our goal was to push the boundaries of communication into a playful and artistic realm. We attempted this by playing a game with 8 artistic collaborators. The game began with a word: language. The first illustrator uses this prompt to create an image, the next illustrator is delivered this piece and has to make a second piece loosely based on the first piece. The third artist is then given the second illustration and without seeing the first must continue the thread. This produced a linear conversation, an evolution somewhat similar to the exquisite corpse game. The show has two parts. One is the collaborative game which we call Paper Speak, described above. The second includes a collaborative book project between Yinfan Huang and Sam Lorang simply titled Conversation. Conversation visually explores a conversation between Yinfan and Sam through stream of consciousness sketchbook style drawings and notes. There are also individual collaborative collages between both Yinfan and Sam with collage artist Zach Collins.