"Material Time" with Will Knipscher at University of Dayton

Material Time with Will Knipscher opens tomorrow at Gallery 249 at the University of Dayton. Here are some photographs of the installation.

Cape Horn, Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho, 2015

Cape Disappointment, Washington, 2015 and a piece from Where the Light Goes by Will

Two more images from Where the Light Goes and Miracle Hot Springs, Buhl, Idaho, 2014

Thunderbird Hotel, Marfa, Texas, 2013 and another work from Where the Light Goes

Kirkham Hot Springs, Idaho, 2015 on the right

Will's three dimensional origami prints showing the process of creating his photograms in the front and Cape Horn... and Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, 2015 in the background.

The opening reception is from 5-7 PM tomorrow night with a gallery talk at 6 PM.

"Sketch: The Art of Study"

Currently on view at Gordy's Fine Art and Framing Company through 2 May 2015, Sketch: The Art of Study (curated and contents organized by Braydee Euliss).

My friend and fellow artist, James Luckett, pressured me into rejoining Instagram in November 2013 after a year’s self-imposed hiatus. This folder contains the successes and failures and sources of inspiration for 3/4 of the photographs found @jacindarussellart. My process is often the antithesis of “instant” where I preplan and collect images for days, weeks or months. The contents seen here show the preliminary steps of the images found on Instagram and those, in turn, are a “sketch” for my greater conceptual practice.

Jacinda Russell 2015

"An Anonymous Inventory of Items Stolen From Art Departments" Part 1

Jacinda Russell, Site specific installation currently on display at the Biennial Faculty exhibition at Ball State University, 2014 - ongoing

Twice a month I photograph new objects as my favorite part of this series is people quietly volunteering to let me borrow something to eventually display over an entire wall. I've deduced that aside from the obvious (tools), chairs and still-life drawing display pieces are the most sought after. I did not take any one of the above, however, I borrowed Mark Sawrie's "Stolen BSU Photo Area" stamp and made sure it was represented on the wall.

"Faux" Featuring "Claimed" and "Nine Fake Cakes and Nine Bodies of Water"

Two years in the making... so happy to have this show with Alexis.

Five Exhibitions, Five Configurations

This is the first time that I let chance play a role in an installation of an artwork. 12 for 7 Years as an Adjunct Professor was exhibited in five locations over the past year (I am fortunate the prints generated that much interest). I was responsible for hanging the grid in Vincennes, Muncie, and Tennessee while someone else installed them in Poland (their method resulted in twelve destroyed prints) and Oregon. There were never any instructions other than an inch apart, at least a foot off the floor, and two rows of six. I have looked forward to assembling these images to see if there were any commonalities and whether or not I could learn from this experience in future installations of my artwork.

12 for 7 Years as an Adjunct Professor, 2000 - 2007, 2012
Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN
September 2012

12 for 7 Years as an Adjunct Professor, 2000 - 2007, 2012
Atrium Gallery, Muncie, IN
October 2012

12 for 7 Years as an Adjunct Professor, 2000 - 2007, 2012

Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art and Design, Wroclaw, Poland

April 2013

12 for 7 Years as an Adjunct Professor, 2000 - 2007, 2012
Downtown Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
September 2013

12 for 7 Years as an Adjunct Professor, 2000 - 2007, 2012
Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis
October 2013

"Two, Nine, and Twelve" at Oregon State University

All photographs by Doug Russell (who also thought of the title: two series, nine cakes, and twelve lunch bags). Regrettably, I am not able to attend the exhibition. I never anticipated having a show at Fairbanks Gallery when I taught at Oregon State ten years ago and am very pleased to return in some form or another.

"Back and Forth: The Art of the Postcard Exchange"

I was fortunate that two friends visited Back and Forth: The Art of Postcard Exchange at the Florence Quarter Gallery at the Southwest University of Visual Art in Tucson, Arizona yesterday. Here are some installation photographs by Cass Fey.

The exhibition is curated by Camden Hardy with works by James Luckett, Cat Lynch, Amelia Morris, Anh-Thuy Nguyen, Jacinda Russell and Kathleen Ryan.

 Anh-Thuy in front of my giant photograph of the Thunderbird Hotel swimming pool in Marfa, Texas.

Detail with water sample.

Anh-Thuy and Cass with the water sample.

Camden's entire Postcard Collective collection spanning four years.

Detail of the collection.




Thank you, Cass, for sending this video and thank you, Nielson (a student at SUVA) for the poetic interpretation.

"Echo of the Object" Installation Photographs from the Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN

Poster courtesy of Hannah Barnes.

"Echo of the Object" Travels to Knoxville, Tennessee

Ken Josephson, Tennessee, 1979

Here are some random pictures of the road trip to Knoxville, Tennessee to install Echo of the Object with David Hannon, Hannah Barnes, and Jennifer Halvorson. The professional (not iPhone) installation images will appear tomorrow.

The exhibition of many, many grids.

David making Hannah's drawings even more crooked.

Wall signage!

In progress installation panoramas.

One more name to add to my growing list (this one was a practical joke but I'm happy it included a "q").

Chairs congregating in the Painting classroom at University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee Art and Architecture Building reminded me Le Centre Georges Pompidou c. 1981.

We stopped at Cumberland Falls, Kentucky on the way back to Indiana (hello brown water).

Hannah's map of Daniel Boone National Forest and the Red River Gorge at Cumberland Falls.