Thursday, March 12, 2009
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Posted by: Rob Pasquinucci
Three current/former NKU students have work featured in Covington show News from NKU...
Thursday - March 12, 2009 For immediate release...
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. - Three current and former Northern Kentucky University students are having their artwork featured in a show, titled "Textalgia: Eliciting or Displaying of Nostalgia through the Exploration of Texture," at the Artisans Enterprise Center (25 West Seventh Street) in Covington, Ky.
NKU alumna Emily Casagrande, former student David Michael Rice and current student Dustin Pike are joined by a fourth artist, Paul Tribble. The artists explore the potential of communication through their media with different textures. Clay, found objects, graphic design and digital illustrations are all used to explore the inner workings of technology, relationships and emotions associated with contemporary realities. The exhibition celebrates tactile representations of the "stuff within the stuff" through display of a range of contemporary artistic expressions.
The exhibition is sponsored by Silverlake "The Family Place" and Better Bodies Fitness Center.
On Friday, March 13, NKU Director of Exhibitions and Collections David Knight and associate art professor Steven Finke will mediate an artists panel at 6 p.m. at the Atrtisans Enterprise Center. The event will feature a public talk with the artists about their impetus to create and their influences during the process. The audience is also encouraged to ask questions.
Casagrande's work, titled "The Fragile," is a series of 12 sculptures that record the chronology of her emotions throughout each month of 2008, when she lost her boyfriend to a fatal accident. "The Fragile" debuted last December at the NKU Fine Arts Gallery Senior Show. Casagrande uses ceramic as a way to express and nurture her mental state of being, concentrating on intricate details and how they can change a piece from the ordinary to the extraordinary. She graduated from NKU, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor in Fine Arts and will begin working toward a Masters in Art Education at the University of Cincinnati in September.
Rice, a Covington resident, draws from an endless palette of found objects that centers on frequenting local junk yards. He studied social work, philosophy and aviation at NKU and Eastern Kentucky University. After graduation, he began in social work and gravitated toward art therapy. Rice is owner of Metalworks LLC, a company that creates metal products such as wrought iron fences, gates, arbors, window bars, sculpture, handrails, furniture and ornamentation as well as design fabrication and repair.
Pike is currently enrolled in the NKU BFA program. He takes an aesthetic approach to digital illustration and graphic design. His work illuminates and demonstrates the potential of digital technology. Pike applies a layer process to his work as he manipulates images to fit into an overall collective setting. The process of scanning and repetition to create a textured effect is ritualistic; a desire to achieve a tactile feel to his work in spite of the two dimensional limitations of the technology that serves as his main tool is both a compulsion and obsession.
They are joined by Tribble, a stain glass artist from Wales who is based in Virginia and travels throughout the United States for projects.
The exhibit opened March 6 and runs through April 16. The Artisan Enterprise Center is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is free to the public. Other upcoming events at the Center include "Mr. Farny's Neighborhood," a retrospective lecture on the life of Henry Farny, the foremost painter of the American Indian and the Old West landscape, presented by Elaine Kuhn, Kentucky history services coordinator for the Kenton County Public Library, on March 25; "Transformedia," a look at the media used in visual communication and investigation into how the media shapes the message, culture and society, on March 26; and on March 27, "Art and Healing," by psychologist Dr. Anne Paris, who draws on her extensive experience working with artists to explore the personal fears that thwart creativity. All of these events are at 6 p.m.
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