David Wilson: Everything All At Once


September 3-September 26, 2012
Gallery Talk: Wednesday, September 26th, 4pm
followed by
Closing Reception from 5-6:30


Hampshire College’s Main Gallery is proud to announce their September
exhibition, DAVID WILSON: Everything All at Once, which runs from
September 3-26, 2012. David Wilson is Professor of Art and Director
of the Graduate School of Art at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville
and holds an MFA from the University of California, San Diego, where
he studied with Allan Kaprow, Italo Scanga, and Manny Farber.

Using unconventional materials and approaches, including collaboration
and performance, David Wilson creates large temporary artworks,
videos, and drawings. Wilson has shown his work internationally at
Kunsthalle Basel and Kunstlerhaus Boswil in Switzerland, the
Experimental Art Foundation and Performance Space in Australia, the
Robert McDougal Gallery in New Zealand, and the Center for Icelandic
Art, Reykjavik. He has had solo exhibitions in the United States
including at the Southeastern Center For Contemporary Art, Old
Dominion University, Auburn University, the Florida Center for
Contemporary Art, and the Dietrich Jenny Gallery. His group
exhibitions venues include the Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Spaces
Art Gallery, The Mint Museum, Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, the
University of California (San Diego), and Wake Forest University.

Wilson’s videos were selected for the Dallas Video Festival, the
Sydney Underground Film Festival, Australia, the DigiFestival,
Florence, Italy (juror’s special recognition) , and the Alternative
Film and Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia (award of significant
achievement).

Wilson’s artwork has been featured in periodicals such as Schweizer
Kunst and Art Papers and reviewed in newspapers including the Los
Angeles Times and Newsday. Wilson has been artist-in-residence at the
International Artist Exchange, Basel, Switzerland, SIM, Reykjavik,
Iceland, and the Academy of Fine Art, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. He
has also designed sets for the National Theater of the Deaf Children?s
Theater that toured the U.S.

There will be a gallery talk by the artist on Wednesday, September 26,
at 4pm. This will be followed by a closing reception from 5-6:30.
This event is free and open to all. For further information contact
Carolyn Arnold at 413-559-5544
or carnold@hampshire.edu.

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30-4:30 and Sunday, 2-5
Hampshire College is located on Route 116, four miles south of Amherst Center.

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2012 Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Annual Conference
The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education's Fourth Annual Conference, "Contemplative Approaches in the Diverse Academic Community: Inquiry, Connection, Creativity and Insight" will be held Sept. 21-23 in Converse Hall. On Friday night, Rhonda Magee, professor of law at the University of San Francisco School of Law, will give a keynote address, “Contemplating Race, Law and Justice: Some Notes on Pedagogy for Changing the World.”
For more information, see http://www.acmheconference.org.

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Exhibit: A Lovely Horse
22 equine portraits in graphite, pastel, watercolor, and ink, by Erica Damon ’11, at the Science and Engineering Library, in Lederle Lowrise, Floor 2, through January 13, 2013. More info: http://bit.ly/exhibit_horse For full listing of hours visit: http://www.library.umass.edu/hours.html.

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Dialogue with a Collection: Elizabeth Stone -- Embodied/Disembodied
September 6 - October 14, 2012
Opening Reception:  September 5, 2012 5-7pm

This exhibition is part of a series of exhibitions at the University Museum of Contemporary Art in which artists are encouraged to integrate their own works with pieces they select from the museum's works-on-paper collection, which includes over 2600 contemporary prints, drawings, and photographs. In the 1960s, UMass art teacher Walter Kamys started the collection which was shaped and shown over 5 decades by subsequent directors Hugh Davies, Helene Posner, Betsy Siersma, and currently, Loretta Yarlow. Dialogue With a Collection offers the rare opportunity to showcase artworks owned by UMass, and a platform for invited local artists to present their work.

Handicap Accessible
Free and Open to the Public

Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m; Saturday & Sundays 2-5 p.m.

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Smith Chamber Music Society I.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Quintet, Alfred Schnittke String Trio, Antonin Dvorak Piano Quintet. Todd Palmer, clarinet; Joel Pitchon & Sarah Crocker, violins; Ronald Carbone, viola; Volcy Pelletier, cello; Gilles Vonsattel, piano.

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Mass Dance Festival
10am-2pm: Workshops, Totman Building

3pm: Concert of Emerging Companies, Bowker Auditorium
$15: Prior to 9/23 www.massdancefestival.org or 508-429-7577 $20 at the door

For info, Marilyn Kushick at 413-545-0018, mkushick@music.umass.edu or Eric Roth at 413-577-2154, eroth@music.umass.edu

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