Studio Visits: Artist Lecture and Live Interview Show @ Holmes, Fall Semester 2010,

Wednesdays 9 – 11 am
Date Visiting Artist Bio
WEEK 1
8/23 – Sheila Pepe, Visiting Artist Week-long Project
8/27
WEEK 2
9/1/10 No Studio Visits Program
WEEK 3
Wednesd Topic: Desiring le’Con Joshua Bienko’s work combines the style of the Flemish masters with the ironic wit
ay Guest: Joshua Bienko of an astute social critic. His precise execution of technique is more of an authentic
9/8/10 http://www.joshuabienko.com/ mental exercise than an emotionally driven expression. What emerges is a heartfelt
distance from his subject. His videos, photographs, paintings, interactive
sculptures, audio tracks and drawings are nationally and internationally exhibited.
Faculty in the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University.
WEEK 4
Wednesd Topic: Installation, Sculpture Ruth Stanford’s art practice revolves around installation and site-specific sculpture
ay Guest: Ruth Stanford with particular media chosen in service to concept. Her work draws from and
9/15/10 http://web.mac.com/corgiorgi/365_ expands on personal reflection to create broader metaphors relevant to the world at
website/Home.html large. Much of her work explores history and notions of presence/absence,
http://www.mattress.org/index.cfm? permanence/impermanence, fiction/reality, conscious/ unconscious. She views each
eid=70&event=ShowExhibition element of a particular work as an individual data point referencing a complex
phylogeny of personal and collective experience. Stanford is currently an Assistant
Professor of Sculpture at Georgia State University.
WEEK 5
Wednesd Topic: Art + Biology Brian Collier's projects, installations, and public interventions range across a wide
ay Guest: Brian Collier variety of media, including websites, video, sculpture, photography, drawing, artist's
9/22/10 http://briandcollier.com/ books, and performance. Through this diverse practice he focuses on ways in which
elements of the non-human natural world exist, or have reinserted themselves, in
severely human-altered habitats. Through his projects, he disseminates information
about these sites, often proposing strategies to re-evaluate the weedy margins of
the human-dominated landscape. He is founder and president of The Society for a
Re-Natural Environment. Collier's work has appeared widely in the US and abroad.
WEEK 6
Wednesd Topic: Eco Art and Gardens Bob Bingham makes art that incorporates systems of growth, live plants and natural materials with
ay Guest: Bob Bingham mechanical and electronic devices. Through this combination of systems he addresses issues pertaining to
9/29/10 http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~bingha a sustainable future where technology and nature exist in a symbiotic relationship. Bingham’s work has
m/ been widely exhibited in the United States, Italy and Japan.

WEEK 7
Wednesd Topic: Digital Media, Self- Lori Hepner is an interdisciplinary artist who has been working through ideas of
ay Portrait,Twitter translation of code through performance, video, and photography since earning a
10/6/10 Guest: Lori Hepner B.F.A. from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003 and an M.F.A in Digital Media
Lori.Hepner@gmail.com at Rhode Island School of Design in 2005. Lori is a Assistant Professor of Integrative
Arts at Penn State Greater Allegheny in McKeesport, PA
WEEK 8
10/13/10 No Studio Visits Program Chase Angier workshop
WEEK 9
Wednesd Topic: Painting, Pop Culture & After years of studying cultural, dream, mythological and religious symbols, she is beginning to believe
ay Religious Icons that the most interesting signs are the images that appear and keep pressing on one’s mind with no
10/20/10 Guest: Patricia Bellan-Gillen explanation—unexpected images that flash across the brain when phrases like “war by proxy,” “turn to
http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu:16080/~ salt” or “separation of church and state” are heard, or the nascent compositions that appear while
bellangillen/ revisiting the “Spy vs. Spy” pages of vintage Mad Magazine or stumbling across a yellowed photograph
torn from the New York Times. Honoring these puzzling visages maps the direction of her paintings,
prints and drawings.
WEEK 10
Wednesd Topic: Film, Audio, Art Lenka Clayton is an artist and documentary maker. In recent projects she searched
ay Guest: Lenka Clayton for and photographed the 613 people mentioned in a German newspaper, hand-
10/27/10 http://lenkaclayton.co.uk/ numbered 7000 stones, filmed one person of each age from 1 – 100, and re-
organised the 4100 words of President Bush’s Axis of Evil speech into alphabetical
order. Her work has been presented in a medieval tower in Denmark, on Channel 4
Television, at London ‘s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Tehran’s International Documentary
Festival, and in the mailboxes of every home in Polish Hill. She is in the middle of
writing a hand-written letter to every household in the world, with writer Michael
Crowe.
WEEK 11
Wednesd Topic: Puppets, Living Museum Tom Sarver is an artist, puppet-maker, and the creative force behind the acclaimed
ay Guest: Tom Sarver Black Sheep Puppet Festival.
11/3/10 http://www.tommuseum.com/tomm
useum/
http://tomsarver.wordpress.com/
WEEK 12
Wednesd Topic: Collecting Vintage Films, Greg Pierce was a founder of the brilliant radical film collective Orgone Cinema, and
ay Music an equally brilliant musical ensemble with an ever-changing name (originally "The
11/10/10 Guest: Greg Pierce, Assistant Pittsburgh Free Music Society.") A multi-instrumentalist playing saxophone, guitar
Curator of Film, Warhol Museum, and drums equally well, Pierce's music occupies the extreme "sound oriented" end
Pittsburgh of the spectrum, while simultaneously integrating technique influenced by his ability
 to play rock and bluegrass music, and by his conceptual film experiments and
generally experimental disposition. He will be screening selections from his vintage
film collection.
WEEK 13
Wednesd Topic: Portland Stock, Social Katy Asher collaborates on projects such as MOST and Portland Stock, a monthly
ay Practice public dinner event and presentation series that funds artist projects.
11/17/10 Guest: Katy Asher, Portland OR