Faculty News Fall 2009
Architecture
Jason Austin
Architecture faculty member Jason Austin and his partner Alex Mergold, of Austin+Mergold LLC were named as finalistsin the summer of 2009 in the Grand Concourse 100 Ideas Competition Bronx Museum of the Arts. Their submission was entitled, The Grand Resource.
Brooke Harrington
Article and student work, Halit Erin and Amir Pasic, editors. Al-Quds / Jerusalem 2015 Program: 2008 Program Report. Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture. IRCICA:2009. “J. Brooke Harrington, Birket Hamman al-Batrak (Pool of the Bath of the Patriarch), p. 103-127. The publication also featured Temple Architecture student work: Beth Emig, JiWon Park, Justin Matulewicz, Lauren Jones, Mallory Malkasian, Mike Lingo, Michael Sharir, Naomi Canter, Nicholas Musser, Paul Grodziak, Renee Trimarco, Samantha Wood.
Sally Harrison
The Urban Workshop directed by Sally Harrison, AIA in collaboration with Diana Nicholas, AIA and Temple Architecture students has received a Citation of Merit from the American Institute of Architects Pennsylvania in its annual Architectural Excellence Awards Program. The project, “Shared Prosperity and Beyond: A University-Community Partnership”, is on-going since 2004, and comprises urban design, architectural design and design-build work with the Village of Arts and Humanities of North Philadelphia. A jury of distinguished practitioners from the Boston Society of Architects including Lawrence Chang, FAIA, Warren Schwartz, FAIA, and Jane Weinzapfel, FAIA selected the project for this award from a statewide pool of 97 submissions.
Gave a lecture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts entitled "The Urban Workshop: A University-Community Design Collaboration"
Was guest editor (with Susan Davis) of Context IX, Art and the City: Journal of the American Institute of Architects Philadelphia.
Peter Hecht
Architecture faculty member Peter Hecht presented "Communication Technologies and Disengagement in the City". We was invited to give the plenary presentation at the Communicative Cities Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June 26, 2009.
Rashida Ng
Paper presented, Building Technology Educators' Society Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “Research on pedagogical issues with regards design innovation and emerging lighting technologies.” August 2009.
Article, Context: The Journal of the American Institute of Architects, Philadelphia. “Solid-State Lighting Promises a Sustainable Future of Design Innovation” Fall, 2009.
Lecture, Associate AIA Technology Lecture Series at the Center for Architecture " Something Borrowed: Defining an Emerging Covenant between Architecture and Materials." Invited speaker, June 2009.
Eric Oskey
Eric is recipient of 2009 Robert James Eidlitz Traveling Fellowship from Cornell. Travel to Moscow for 10-14 days and documenting Socialist Manufacturing and Municipal Buildings in various states of Adaptive Reuse.
Brian Phillips
Architecture faculty member Brian Phillips, principal of Interface Studio Architects had design work featured in ID Magazine, June 2009, “Loft Repeated: A pair of Philadelphia townhouses bring green building to the masses.”
Interface Studio Architects receided three 2008 AIA Philadelphia Honor Awards, for three projects, “ Supermarket”,
“100K House”, and “Gallery 220”. The firm was also recipient of the 2008 Philadelphia Emerging Architecture Prize.
Dennis Playdon
Architecture faculty member Dennis Playdon took part as a Fulbright Specialist in the Fulbright Specialists Program "Building Institutional Linkages." In June and July 2009 he worked with representatives from Drikung Kagu Institiute in Dera Dun, India, and the Achi Association based in Zurich, Switzerland. They trained youth in architectural documentation and measurement. The project is focused on recording the village of Wanla, Ladakh in the Tibetan Himalayas located in India. The aim of the work is to develop means to revive traditional ways of building through architectural training.
Bob Trempe
During the month of July 2009 Bob Trempe was an Artist-in-Residence with Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SIM) in Reykjavik, Iceland. While in residence two projects were undertaken: The design of a new line of furniture and a series of large-scale photographic documentations of juxtaposed landscapes within south western Iceland.
During the month of August 2009 Bob Trempe had three works featured at the 2009 ACM/SIGGRAPH “Information Aesthetics” showcase. The works included “24X7@PHL: Vectoring,” “Landmark Status,” and “Height Restrictions.” As a part of the ACM/SIGGRAPH conference, Bob also spoke about these works and his continued investigations into information visualization.
Srdjan Weiss and Scott Shall
Two Temple faculty members in the architecture department, Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss with the Normal Architecture Office (NAO) and Scott Shall with the International Design Clinic (IDC), are included in the exhibit FERTILE GROUND, a gathering of "12 of Philadelphia's most innovative design firms" to be mounted in the Ice Box Gallery of the Crane Arts Building. Other participants in the event include:
Austin+Mergold, LLC, DIGSAU, Erdy McHenry Architecture, ISA Interface Studio Architects, LLC, Jibe Design, KBAS Studio, Moto Design Shop Inc., Onion Flats, LLC, Point B Design, and Sabin+Jones LabStudio. The event will run from October 8th to October 25th, with an opening reception on October 13th at 6. A poster and press release for the event are attached. This event is free and open to the public.
Srdjan Weiss
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Assistant Professor in Architecture, had a project included in "10x10", 2009, Phaidon Press. The book presents 100 emerging architects from around the globe selected by ten recognized critics in architectural design.
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss's designs for a house in the new city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, will be exhibited at Haus der Kunst in Munich and at the Ordos Museum of Contemporary Art this Fall 2009.
Srdjan Weiss and Lindsay Bremner
Lindsay Bremner and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, both architecture faculty at Temple, were commissioned by the National Constitution Center and Slought Foundation to design and build a temporary canopy for recycling and for community gathering in the Mantua area of West Philadelphia. Their design were successfully erected on August 22nd 2009 and reported by local and professional media.
Art & Art Education
Pepon Osorio
received the 2009 Fleisher Art Memorial Founder's Award, was
awarded a Barra Foundation grant for a community arts project, was included
in a traveling exhibition organized by the Menil Collection, and had a work
in a show in Paris.
Steven Berkowitz
had a solo exhibition at the Omotesando Gallery in Tokyo. It was entitled, "PYPKPK LEAF, The harder you look the less you see". It featured 7 large scale photo pieces, 4 x 6' each. Pipick is the Yiddish word for belly button. It is also my shorthand for Pennypack Park, where these were shot. The Japanese title is 'heso no hapa', meaning 'bellybutton of leaf'. All Photos have the growth point situated in the top left corner.
Yvonne Lung
did an artist residency at Art Omi International Artists Residency in upstate New York. Here's a link to their website for more info: http://www.artomi.org/
Samantha Simpson
(working this semester in Rome) was included in a show (Le
Main Qui Dessinait Toute Seul) at a gallery in Paris, a summer show at
Gallery Joe and she was a finalist for a Pew Fellowship.
Richard Hricko
was part of an invitational exhibit at the National Academy
Museum in New York and his work became part of the Permanent Prints and
Drawing Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Larry Spaid
has returned from a very fruitful study leave and was part of a
group show at Gallery 128 in New York City.
Marilyn Holsing
was part of a summer exhibition at Gallery Joe and had work
in a show at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington called
Fantastic Imaginings, which also traveled to Maryland Art Place in Baltimore
and Loyola.
Wendy Osterweil
exhibited graphic work in a group show at Columbia College
in Missouri and was part of a print portfolio at Southern Graphics Council.
She taught at Peters Valley and at the Long Beach Island Arts and Sciences
Foundation this past summer and she gave presentations at the National Art
Education Association Conference in Minnesota and lectured at the Michener
Museum. She had an exhibition at the Olivet Chruch Studios in Philadelphia
and she was invted to teach a printmaking workshop to teaching artists
at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jo-Anna Moore
had a rich study leave last year with research about the history of
Tyler, the first thirty years. Most of the interviewees were over 90. She has a
chapter on Museum Education included in a new publication "Conversations in Art" by the
National Art Education Association.
Rebecca Saylor Sack, adjunct professor art
has a solo exhibition at Galleria Glance in Turin, Italy, as part of the Artissima Fair, and has a painting at The Kitchen Benefit Art Auction, in New York City.
Amy Stevens, Adjunct
A U.S. Winner of the Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward 2009 EmergingPhotographer's Competition which includes a published book of all thewinners and a traveling exhibition.
Flash Forward 2009
Introduction by Simon Bainbridge
Hardcover, 288 pages
312 photographs, full color throughout
ISBN: 978-0-0721257-5-7
Exhibition & Book Launch
* Oct 8-25, 2009: Toronto
Lennox Contemporary
12 Ossington Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada
Exhibition Opening & Book Launch: Oct 8, 2009, 7-10pm
* Nov 6-14, 2009: Washington, DC
FotoWeek Central 4
3333 M Street NW, Washington, DC, USA
Exhibition Opening & Book Launch: Nov 6, 2009, 6:30pm to late
Art History
Elizabeth Bolman, Associate Professor
I had one publication appear this Fall, an article entitled:
“The Iconography of the Eucharist? Early Byzantine Painting, the Prothesis, and the
Red Monastery,” Festschrift in Honor of Thomas Mathews (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009): pp. 55-64.
Another article was reprinted:
“Scetis at the Red Sea: Depictions of Monastic Genealogy in the Monastery of St.
Antony,” in: Christianity and Monasticism in Wadi al-Natrun. Essays from the 2002
International Symposium of the Saint Mark Foundation and the Saint Shenouda the
Archimandrite Coptic Society. Eds. Maged S.A. Mikhail and Mark Moussa. A Saint
Mark Foundation Book. First published in Coptica 3, 2004. Cairo: American
University in Cairo Press. 143-158
In addition, I am directing work at two sites in Upper Egypt, called the Red and White Monasteries. The scope of work planned for this fall campaign includes wall painting conservation, archaeology, and the development of a virtual model of the Red Monastery church. I raised funds for the work from the United States Agency for International Development, and the American Research Center in Egypt. One Tyler graduate student will be accompanying me for work at the Red Monastery in December.
Alan C. Braddock, Assistant Professor
• New book, A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History, edited by Alan C. Braddock and Christoph Irmscher, was just released (in October) by the University of Alabama Press.
• Article, "Poaching Pictures: Yellowstone, Buffalo, and the Art of Wildlife Conservation," appears in the November issue of the journal American Art (U. Chicago Press/Smithsonian American Art Museum)
• Graduate art history seminar, "Thomas Eakins and Philadelphia," has taken students on several fieldtrips around the city to learn about the great 19th-century local painter and his world. Among the sites visited have been the Philadelphia Museum of Art Conservation Laboratory (to see Eakins's The Gross Clinic up close), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (where Eakins studied and taught), the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center (to learn about the Schuylkill River, where Eakins rowed), and the Thomas Eakins House at 1712 Mt. Vernon St.
• Delivered a talk titled "Blown Up Flowers: Georgia O'Keeffe, Photography, and the Great War" in the Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series of the Center for Humanities at Temple, Oct. 8
• NEH Core Faculty Award, Summer Institute on "Picturing John James Audubon," Indiana University, Bloomington, July 1-31, 2009
• TU Grant-in-Aid for book Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity, U. California Press, 2009
• Ahmanson Foundation Publication Grant for book Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity, U. California Press, 2009
Tracy Cooper
About to go on-line is a WEB ARTICLE PUBLICATION of :
“Palladio’s Publics,” 8th Annual ‘Baltimore’s Great Architects' symposium, at the Walters Art Museum, to accompany virtual exhibition Harmony to the Eyes: Charting Palladio's Architecture from Rome to Baltimore, Homewood Museum, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Invited to lecture at:
Columbia University, on “What is Left to Study? What Should be Re-studied?,” in An Open Colloquium, The Howard Hibbard Forum, 11/09.
Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza Italy, on “Palladio e Venezia,” in the Incontro con Palladio, 51st Corso sull’architettura palladiana, 8-9/09.
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, England, on “The Place of Music in the Artist’s Home,” in Sound, Space and Object: The Aural, the Visual and the Tactile in Early Modern French and Italian Music Rooms, (abstract published), 7/09.
Interviewed by the media :
For the newspaper Il Giornale di Vicenza 63-237 (29 August 2009),in an article titled “Palladio? Troppo avanti per la Venezia del ‘500,” by Clelia Stefani, on her book, Palladio’s Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic, Yale University Press, New Haven and London (May 2006).
Juried participation in symposia:
“Theatre and the Reformation of Space,” Folger Institute Seminar, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 10/09.
Jane DeRose Evans, Professor
Dept. of Art History, affiliated with Dept of Greek and Roman Classics
My book, The Joint Expeditions to Caesarea Maritima, The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Economy of Palestine (2006) is reviewed in the American Journal of Archaeology (Oct 2009). The AJA is the premier journal for American archaeologists working on Old World archaeology, and is widely read overseas, as well.
You can also find the review online:
http://ajaonline.org/pdfs/book_reviews/113.4/12_Houghtalin.pdf
"Evans has provided site numismatists with another tool for their analytic toolbox, and her volume must now be considered required reading for all numismatists and historians of the ancient economy . . . Evans' work, with its useful catalogue, application of new methods for analyzing site coins, and roadmap of what other work needs to be done, serves as a splendid foundation block for our understanding of Palestine's economy."
Fibers
Pazia Mannella, Adjunct Assistant Professor
will present a lecture of her work ’Fiber Art: Expressions and Aesthetics’, at SOFA (Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art) Chicago on November 6, 2009
Pazia is also featured in the article ”Artists in Residence” in the Fall/Winter 2009 issue, Philadelphia: Home Magazine
Joan Dreyer, Adjunct Assistant Professor
is exhibiting in The Merck 2009 Invitational Exhibit for Union County Artists, Rahway, New Jersey, October 16-November, 2009
Lorraine Glessner, adjunct assistant professor
• exhibited in Asher Neiman Art in the Home, New York, New York , october 2-october 11, 2009
• exhibited in Art of the State Exhibition, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, june 28-september 20, 2009
• exhibited in Second Skin, New Hope Arts, New Hope, Pennsylvania, October 3-October 31, 2009
• presented a lecture on her work for the Textile Art Alliance, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, september 25, 2009
• will exhibit in a 2 person show with ceramist kirsten stingle at Clay Scot Artworks, Birmingham, Alabama, november 20-december 21, 2009
Foundations
Claire Owen
A proposal made to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia in a nation composition was accepted to develop a bookwork on one of 10 titles from their collection. The exhibit "Building by the Book" will be in March and April of 2010, as part of the city wide Philagrafika 2010 project.
Robert Goodman
"Gray Day" is a solo exhibition of my work and on view at Seraphin Gallery in Philadelphia from October 30th - December 15th.
Asuka Goto
Foundation Department
Professor Goto was recently invited to participate in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's 2009/2010 Workspace Residency in New York City. The program began in mid-September and will run through June 1, 2010.
Graphic & Interactive Design
Steven DeCusatis
had 18 logos selected for publication by LogoLounge. They are recognized in LogoLounge 5 and in their Master Series, Volumes 1 and 2. He also has work in Graphis Branding USA No. 3, released in May 2009 and in Rockport's Letterhead & Logo Design 11, edited by Design Army, which releases in November 2009.
Glass
Sharyn O'Mara, Associate Professor
has been awarded a 2010 exhibition at Eastern State Penitentiary. Her proposed video installation "Victim Impact Statement" was selected from a national pool of applicants by a jury that included Ingrid Shaffner, Senior Curator at the ICA. She received a $7500 grant. The exhibition will be on view from March - December, 2010. In the summer, her drawings were included in a group exhibition, "50 Very Small Drawings" at Gallery Joe in Philadephia.
Bohyun Yoon, Adjunct Assistant Professor
installation "The Structure of Shadow" was selected for inclusion in the Cheongju International Craft Biennial in Cheongju, Korea; the exhibition is on view through November 1, 2010. In addition, his installation "Evolution" is included in "Objective Affection" at One Brooklyn Bridge Park Building through October 30. 2009.
Painting & Drawing
Odili Donald Odita, Associate Professor
Work in the exhibition, Wallworks, curated by Betti-Sue Hertz at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. YBCA commissioned local, regional and international artists to use the literal aspects of YBCA’s architectural space, built in 1993 by acclaimed architect Fumihiko Maki, as a starting point to create new large-scale works directly on the walls of both its galleries and its public spaces. Commissioned artists include Makoto Aida, Edgar Arceneaux, Chris Finley, Tillman Kaiser, Odili Donald Odita, Amanda Ross-Ho, Yehudit Sasportas and Leslie Shows. Exhibition dates are July 18 – October 25, 2009.
Commissioned by the Princeton University Architect and Administration Office to produce a wall painting installation for Butler Commons, a new building designed by Pei Cobb Freed Associates. Butler Commons is a four-year residential college--less a dorm than an integrated living/working area for students. Butler Commons will open to students and the campus community at Princeton University this fall 2009.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S25/50/10Q21/index.xml?section=topstories
http://chikaokeke-agulu.blogspot.com/2009/10/odili-donald-oditas-princeton.html
On October 9th, 2009, Odita will give a lecture on his recently commissioned wall painting for Princeton University at Butler College on Princeton's campus.
Odili Donald Odita has been invited to give the keynote address at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art Graduate student symposium on Contemporary African Art in Washington DC on Saturday, December 12th, 2009.
Odili Donald Odita provided a catalogue essay for the exhibition, "Between Two Worlds," by artist, Radcliffe Bailey at the Harvey B.
Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture in Charlotte, NC.
Odili Donald Odita provided a catalogue essay for the artist, El Anatsui, in conjunction with his exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC.
Odili Donald Odita will have an essay, "Color Matters" published in
the online journal, "Glimpse: The Art & Science of Seeing", Autumn
2009, Volume 2.3; http://www.glimpsejournal.com.
Associate Professor, Odili Donald Odita and Professor Emeritus,
Stanley Whitney's paintings are included in the new book, Painting
Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting by independent critic
and curator, Bob Nickas.
Rather than a comprehensive survey, this richly illustrated book presents examples of ambitious and important work by more than 160 African artists since the last 30 years. This list includes Georges Adéagbo, Tayo Adenaike, Ghada Amer, El Anatsui, Kader Attia, Luis Basto, Candice Breitz, Moustapha Dimé, Marlene Dumas, Victor Ekpuk, Lalla Essaydi, Samuel Fosso, Anawana Haloba, Jak Katarikawe, William Kentridge, Rachid Koraichi, Julie Mehretu, Nandipha Mntambo, Hassan Musa, Iba Ndiaye, Odili Donald Odita, Richard Onyango, Ibrahim El Salahi, Issa Samb, Chéri Samba, Yinka Shonibare, Barthélémy Toguo, Obiora Udechukwu, and Sue Williamson.
Dona Nelson, Professor
I was in a group exhibition at Canada Gallery in New York City, "Spaced Out / On Time," from September 11 to October 11. My work was mentioned in a review of the show by Roberta Smith in the New York Times.
I am participating in an exhibition at RISD, which originated at Bard College, called "Affinities Redux," curated by Kate McNamara, and a panel on the exhibition, which will be held on October the 14th at RISD.
Rebecca Saylor Sack
Solo exhibition at Galleria Glance in Turin. Here is the Information:
Omoplata
Galleria Glance
Torino, Italy
November 7- December 17th, 2009
Mark Shetabi, Assistant Professor
HOUSE OF CARS: INNOVATION AND THE PARKING GARAGE, National Building Museum,
Washington D.C., October 15, 2009 - July 11, 2010. (group exhibition)
GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEVER KNEW THEY WANTED, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
July 1 - August 7, 2009 (group exhibition)
UNDERWATER, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, May 21 - August 1, 2009. (group exhibition)
Photography
Mary C. Rhodomoyer, Adjunct Assistant Professor Photography
Silver Medal Winner for professional photography
published in Issue #15 (Summer 2009) of Creative Quarterly Magazine.
Printmaking
Hester Stinnett
The Philadelphia International Airport will be exhibiting Hester Stinnett: Transcriptions A Mother’s Notations / An Author’s Aspirations in Terminal F, Concourse 3 from November 2009-April 2010. Using innovative techniques, Stinnett’s recent prints focus on revisions in handwritten texts as unique moments revealing the mind at work. In the series Transcriptions, her two sources are the crumpled and scribbled notes of a woman of failing faculties trying to keep track of a fading world, placed with author Joseph Conrad’s autograph manuscript* in which he famously sets down a vision of his artistic purpose at a turning point of his career. As exhibition curator Leah Douglas notes in the exhibition's essay, "They both at times struggle, cross-out text, and seem to write hurriedly before their thoughts dissipate. Both are purposefully minimal and cryptic, as Stinnett has severely pared down each. But this heightens their purpose, which is reflected in Conrad’s own words when he implores writers to aspire to be true to the “visible universe,” to use the “power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel…before all, to make you see.” And Stinnett is asking us to do the same." Further information about the exhibition can be found at: http://www.phl.org/art/stinnett.html.
Sculpture
Karyn Olivier
will participate in two group shows this fall-- “Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art” at Real Art Ways in New Hartford, CT and “30 Seconds off an Inch” at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. Olivier will also launch “Inbound: Houston”, a public art project consisting of thirteen billboards on the freeways of Houston, Texas. Olivier will also present a collaborative work at Moores Opera House, University of Houston and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Mitchell Center for the Arts. Additionally, Olivier won the finalist prize for the William H. Johnson Award.