Exhibitions Schedule

  • gallery view
  • Patricia Villalobos Echeverría's exhibition
  • Rita Grendze's exhibition
  • Marina Abramovic's ehibition
  • Robin O'Neil's exhibition

 2023-24 Exhibition schedule

Photosynthesis II

Curated by Linda Rzoska, Ninth Wave Studio
Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery

August 22 - November 18

Conceived and organized by artist Linda Rzoska, owner of Kalamazoo’s Ninth Wave Studio, The Photosynthesis Project began during the spring of 2018 as a series of workshops. Similar to Kalamazoo-based artist Sydnee Peters’s and poet Elizabeth Kerlikowske’s Alchemy Initiative, this group project invites Kalamazoo-based artists and writers to explore the subject and concept of photosynthesis. In November of 2019, The Photosynthesis Project culminated in a major exhibition in the galleries of the Center for New Media at Kalamazoo Valley Community College’s Arcadia Commons Campus.

Photosynthesis is largely responsible for producing and maintaining the oxygen content of our planet’s atmosphere and supplies all of the organic compounds and most of the energy necessary for life on Earth. Virtually all organic material on planet Earth has been produced by cells that convert energy from the sun into energy-containing macromolecules. This process known as photosynthesis is essential to our planets global carbon cycle.

Sharing individual research and critiques of experimental work, participants strengthen their understanding of this complex subject through discussion, hands-on ideas, and a unique set of active work sessions where participants share and respond to one another’s work. In one sense, the generative process that underpins The Photosynthesis Project recreates the collegial atmosphere or University seminar through close and consistent interactions between professional, working artists.

Participating artists include Lorrie Grainger Abdo, Melody Allen, Susan Badger, Justin Bernhardt, Maryellen Hains, Anna Z. ILL, Alexa Karabin, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Helen Kleczynski, Honore Lee, Dave Middleton, Lynn Pattison, Nichole Riley, Linda Rzoska, Joe Smigiel, Vicki VanAmeyden, and Randy Walker.

 

Artist Talk: Thursday, September 21, 5:30 pm
Richmond Center Auditorium, Room #2008

Reception: Friday, September 22, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Food + drink + free parking in Miller Parking Ramp, next to RCVA

 

  

In Its Place 

Nichole Maury, Professor of Printmedia & Curator of the Print Collection
Rose Netzorg & James Wilfred Kerr Gallery

August 22 - November 18, 2023

Artist Nichole Maury’s work in the exhibition, In Its Place, is a product of a life lived in many different places; different homes, different cities, and different parts of the country. These frequent disruptions have caused her to develop a complicated, sometimes contentious, relationship to the idea of ‘home’ and have left her with a personal history that is often evasive and incomplete. As a way of imposing a sense of order, Maury creates work that re-envisions these fragments of memory into a kind of whole – places where their undefined forms and sharp edges can cohabitate.

Work from In Its Place has been included in exhibitions at The Fine Arts Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago (IL); The Bradbury Art Museum (AR), and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (MI). 

About the artist:
Nichole Maury has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally including The International Print Center New York, the Scuola di Grafica, Venice, Italy, The Chicago Cultural Center, The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, and Taoxichuan Art Museum, Jiangxi City, China. Her work has been featured in the Midwest Edition of New American Paintings (vol. 89) and Printmakers Today (Schiffer Publishing) and can be found in the collections of the Midwest Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Kala Art Institute. Maury received her MFA in printmaking from The University of Iowa and her BFA in Fine Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a professor and the Printmedia Coordinator at the Gwen Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University as well as the curator of the University Print Collection.

Check out Nichole Maury’s website.

This exhibition was supported in part with funding from Western Michigan University’s Faculty Research and Creative Activities Award.

 

Join us for the exhibition reception + artist talk!

Artist Talk: Thursday, September 14, 5:30 pm
Richmond Center Auditorium, Room #2008

Reception: Friday, September 15, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Food + drink + free parking in Miller Parking Ramp, next to RCVA

 

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