Navigating Boulder: Connecting with Roland Reiss
NAVIGATING BOULDER: CONNECTING WITH ROLAND REISS
September 12 – October 30, 2010
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 12, noon
Grand Opening Reception: Friday, October 1, 5-9pm
Claremont, CA – Andi Campognone Projects partnered with OBJCT, located at 536 W First Street in Claremont, California is proud to present NAVIGATING BOULDER: CONNECTING WITH ROLAND REISS, an exhibition featuring the work of Joe Clower, Jack Edwards, Merion Estes, Judith Hudson, Connie Jenkins, Tom Jenkins, Joan Moment, Jim Richard, Clark Richert, and William T. Wiley. This exhibition will also include the masterfully crafted conceptual installation The Castle of Perseverance by Roland Reiss.
Artists make themselves. And yet… they do not. When artists name another – an artist or writer, filmmaker or thinker – as an influence, it may have taken years, or it may have taken a moment. No matter the time frame, there is a profound truth in naming an object or an idea that flows from the hands or mouth of another, an object or idea that makes possible an entire universe that had not been possible a moment before. It is a moment of conception that is more real than the physical world.
Artists make themselves within a context of peers – a cohort who exchange ideas, engage in critical discourse, feed energy into a shared enterprise. The struggle to create meaningful work cannot be engaged in a vacuum.
Navigating Boulder proposes to trace a group of artists, removed over decades, and distanced through change, evolved in practice, from a common point in history. At the center of this flux, Roland Reiss fostered an environment with the kind of plurality that is necessary for such a diverse group of artists to work together and thrive. Reiss, who was the head of the graduate art program and the painting programs at the University of Colorado at Boulder (before coming to CGU), was exploring what contemporary artists will recognize as the template for graduate art education across the country: a vibrant visiting artist and critic program, students treated as professionals capable of shaping their own education, and a democratic approach.
This exhibition is presented as part of the Claremont Graduate University’s event titled Familiar Grounds: Celebrating Roland Reiss and Art at CGU, a weekend of events including multiple exhibitions in Claremont and Pomona, panel discussions, Q & A with Roland Reiss and CGU studio tours. For more information www.alumnicommunity.cgu.edu/fa
September 12 – October 30, 2010
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 12, noon
Grand Opening Reception: Friday, October 1, 5-9pm
Claremont, CA – Andi Campognone Projects partnered with OBJCT, located at 536 W First Street in Claremont, California is proud to present NAVIGATING BOULDER: CONNECTING WITH ROLAND REISS, an exhibition featuring the work of Joe Clower, Jack Edwards, Merion Estes, Judith Hudson, Connie Jenkins, Tom Jenkins, Joan Moment, Jim Richard, Clark Richert, and William T. Wiley. This exhibition will also include the masterfully crafted conceptual installation The Castle of Perseverance by Roland Reiss.
Artists make themselves. And yet… they do not. When artists name another – an artist or writer, filmmaker or thinker – as an influence, it may have taken years, or it may have taken a moment. No matter the time frame, there is a profound truth in naming an object or an idea that flows from the hands or mouth of another, an object or idea that makes possible an entire universe that had not been possible a moment before. It is a moment of conception that is more real than the physical world.
Artists make themselves within a context of peers – a cohort who exchange ideas, engage in critical discourse, feed energy into a shared enterprise. The struggle to create meaningful work cannot be engaged in a vacuum.
Navigating Boulder proposes to trace a group of artists, removed over decades, and distanced through change, evolved in practice, from a common point in history. At the center of this flux, Roland Reiss fostered an environment with the kind of plurality that is necessary for such a diverse group of artists to work together and thrive. Reiss, who was the head of the graduate art program and the painting programs at the University of Colorado at Boulder (before coming to CGU), was exploring what contemporary artists will recognize as the template for graduate art education across the country: a vibrant visiting artist and critic program, students treated as professionals capable of shaping their own education, and a democratic approach.
This exhibition is presented as part of the Claremont Graduate University’s event titled Familiar Grounds: Celebrating Roland Reiss and Art at CGU, a weekend of events including multiple exhibitions in Claremont and Pomona, panel discussions, Q & A with Roland Reiss and CGU studio tours. For more information www.alumnicommunity.cgu.edu/fa
