Fall 2023 Community News
Six Landscapes
2024 Artist-in-Residence Daniele Genadry & Matt Saunders; Curated by: Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani
Institute of Arab and Islamic Art
November 7, 2023 - February 18, 2024
The Institute of Arab and Islamic Art is pleased to announce a two-person exhibition of works by Daniele Genadry and Matt Saunders. Featuring six paintings, in addition to a selection of drawings and prints, this exhibition explores the artists’ sustained engagements with photography and film and how these mediums are employed as a way to further evolve the field of painting. Both Genadry and Saunders begin by using images of landscapes that have been generated by camera, and through a detailed meditative process of painting, the works come to life inside a new framework, thus granting them the possibility to conjure their own histories.
Image: Daniele Genadry, Bakssine, 2021 (Image courtesy of the artist & Galerie In Situ).
While at Tusen Takk earlier this year to work with students at Interlochen Arts Academy, Shruthi Rajasekar was at work on a response to William Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus. In her piece Byrd Transubstantiated, Rajasekar draws out heightened emotion and drama from Byrd’s iconic work, particularly exploring the tensions around Byrd’s Catholic faith in Protestant England.
Image: On Byrd Transubstantiated, commissioned by and written for Corvus Consort (director Freddie Crowley) and Music on the Edge. Video by Tom Mungall & John Henry Baker
Nishiki Sugawara-Beda - Kotodama Converse
Leonor R Fuller Gallery, Olympia, WA
October 6 – November 3, 2023
2021 artist-in-residence Nishiki Sugawara-Beda will exhibit Kotodama Converse, a lightweight paper and script sculptural installation, alongside accompanying small Sumi paintings on wood. Her installation “provides a blank canvas that serves as an invitation for the viewer to complete the work, bringing their own emotional state, words, and phrases both physically and metaphorically.”
Image: Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, Kotodama Converse, 12ʹx 10ʹ x 16ʹ, Mesh wire, rice paper, rice glue, fishing line, and seal ink, 2012-2020
Vaune Trachtman at the Michael S Currier Center
Putney, VT
September 8-October 29, 2023
2021 Alumni Vaune Trachtman will show work from her NOW IS ALWAYS and Roaming series alongside work by fellow Vermont-based alternative process photographer Rachel Portesi. Trachtman and Portesi are artists who each use photographic processes that meld historical and contemporary technologies. Trachtman's photogravures bring together cellphone imagery and archival negatives, while Portesi's work ranges from tintypes to Polaroids and includes film, 3D imagery, and sculpture. Thematic similarities in their work include the impact of family, the passage of time, and photography's unrelenting gaze.
Image: (Left) Kindred, 2021 by Vaune Trachtman, Photopolymer gravure with surface roll. 28” X 34” / Edition of 8 (Right) Chandelier Hair (grid), 2019-2022 by Rachel Portesi, Polaroid I-Type B&W, black frame film. 16 ¼” x 17 ¾
Hong Hong Named a 2024-26 Tulsa Artist Fellow
2023 Alumni Hong Hong was named one of ten awardees of the 2024-26 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, selected out of 1000+ applicants. These ten artists will live and work in Tulsa, OK for a three-year period and, in total, receive $1.95 million in support. Congrats, Hong!!
Image: Hong Hong, Exteriors, 2023, Foliage, water, sun, dust, hand-formed paper, approx. 92 in x 130 in. Installation image. Photography by Tom Peckham; Image courtesy of Tusen Takk Foundation
MEN UNTITLED
Henri Cartier-Bresson Fondation, Paris, France
September 19-January 14, 2024
Winner of the 2021 HCB Award, current artist-in-residence Carolyn Drake presents MEN UNTITLED at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, a new series of photographs exploring her relationship to myths of masculinity in American culture. Mixing symbols of virility, self‑portraits, and photographs of men “laid bare,” MEN UNTITLED functions as both introspection and documentary.
Image: Man’s Head, Inside, 2022 © Carolyn Drake / Magnum Photos
The Shape of Time: 16 Photographers and Their Creative Paths
UCross Art Gallery, Clearmont, WY
through January 26, 2024
This exhibition focuses on the overall logic of a life devoted to art. As part of Ucross' 40th anniversary celebration, 16 past residents, including Tusen Takk alumni Barbara Bosworth, were invited to choose two works for display and to craft a short statement on the relationship, or artistic journey, between them. The first of the chosen works represents an earlier style, subject, or approach, and the second exemplifies current concerns, creating a compelling visual dialogue to illuminate something central to each artist’s quest. This presentation points to the essential duality of an artistic career: the idea of growth and change in the service of one’s foundational concerns.
