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ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR

10-15 hours/week
Salary Range: Up to $11.50/hr.

The Administrative Director is responsible for all administrative tasks that facilitate the smooth and successful operation of the Student Union Galleries. The
The Administrative Director isn also expected to support the SUGs galleries
on a more limited basis during the Summer and Winter terms. Strong organizational
and communication skills are essential for the success of this position. The Administrative Director along with the faculty advisor and other directors are responsible for communicating with each other through daily updates via email, phone and meetings when needed.

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR II (Design and Branding)

10-15 hours/week
Salary Range: Up to $11.50/hr.

The Communications Director in charge of design and branding is responsible for designing all visual materials (posters, vinyl, exhibition program, etc.) relevant to SUGs’ exhibitions and programs. A strong graphic vision, ability to meet deadlines, and a commitment to consistent branding are required for this position. The Design and Branding Director works with the PR and Marketing Director to maintain the SUGs website. The Communications Director II is required to attend all staff and committee meetings and participate in each semester’s proposal reviews.

INSTALLATION DIRECTOR

10-15 hours/week
Salary Range: Up to $11.50/hr.

Installation directors must have experience working with power tools and basic construction projects. Prior art handling experience and experience with the installation and set-up of media equipment is strongly preferred. The ability to work under a deadline and manage a production schedule in an organized fashion is crucial to these positions. In addition all Installation directors must be able to lift 50 lbs. and have authorization in the general access wood/metal shops on campus.

AN EXHIBITION ORGANIZED BY AMIKO LI (BFA 2015)

ARTISTS| SOPHIE TIANXIN CHEN, AMIKO LI, ARNDIS Y OTHARSSON

GALLERY X| APRIL 18 – MAY 18, 2013

RECEPTION| THURSDAY, APRIL 18
4:00–6:00 p.m

C Psychology presents a recollection of childhood memories through atmospheric scenes at once ethereal and melancholic. Images draw upon a Romantic 19th century aesthetic, evoking dream-like states through the careful depiction of light. Alluding to the writings of Proust, memory is expressed as mental time travel, a guide to the present, and a voyeuristic reference for future outcomes. Through figurative works and lyrical compositions, each artist allows viewers to explore a weakened and complicated sense of reality.

THE LEROY NEIMAN CENTER GALLERY|MAY 9–JUNE 7

RECEPTION|THURSDAY, MAY 9, 4:00–6:00 p.m.

Engaging with questions of time, history, vision, identity, and the body, Sophie Kahn (MFA 2013) combines digital cutting-edge processes within an archival and historiographic tradition. The resulting sculptures, 3D printed busts fabricated from imperfect data, recall monuments that depict the artist as both an innovator and archeologist. Using museum-style modes of framing, Artifact excavates the still image of the portrait through post-photographic means.

WITHIN AND WITHOUT

Interested in showing your work in a curated exhibition with SUGs? Attend one of our Fall 2013 dates with your portfolio or laptop.

All sessions are currently passed for this semester, but we would still love to see your work.  If you have a studio on campus and would like to arrange a studio visit with the Directors, please email us at sugs@saic.edu or stop by the SUGs Main Office to schedule a meeting time.

All sessions will be held in the SUGs Main Office, 36 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 1405

The Open Review Sessions are different than the usual proposal submissions guidelines, offering an informal way for students to introduce their work to the SUGs Directors as they curate the exhibitions.

AN EXHIBITION CURATED BY TARA PLATH

ARTISTS| ASSAF EVRON, RUSLANA LICHTZIER,
BRANDON SECKLER, V-NELS

OPENING| THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28,
4:00–6:00 p.m.

Within and Without examines the limitations of the frame, citing literal frames found in video and photography, structural devices in architecture, and perceptions of space framed through context and history. Each piece challenges one’s desire to situate him or herself within the frame, disrupting space and accessibility while maintaining a self-conscious understanding of its own limitations.

The frame speaks to the dilemma of access, presenting some information within its confines and deeming other knowledge unattainable. The work included in the exhibition ends not at the frame of the image, but extends beyond its borders, manipulating the space of the gallery and amplifying one’s awareness of its spatial organization. The arrangement of work oscillates between moments of vibration and anxiety and moments of rest, defined by both the careful placement of each piece in the gallery and the duration of the viewer within the space.

Showcasing the work of four artists, Within and Without functions among multiple disciplines, not only through the presence of different media in one space, but in the way each work questions and challenges its own medium.

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Friday, March 8

4:30-5:45, LNC Gallery

Ruslana Lichtzier (MA VCS) & Ryan Coffey (MFA Sculpture)

Tuesday, March 12

4:30-5:45, LNC Flex Space

Anthony Stepter (MA VCS) & Etta Sandry (BFA)

Thursday, March 21

4:30-5:45, LNC Gallery

Danny Floyd (MA VCS) & Mike Rubin (MFA Sculpture)

Thursday, March 28

4:30-5:45, LNC Flex Space

Dasha Filippova (MA VCS) & Hiba Farhat (MFA FVNMA)

Monday, April 1

4:00-5:15, LNC Flex Space

Sarah Hamilton (MA VCS) & Jeremiah Jones (MFA FVNMA)

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Image: Rashayla Marie Brown, The Mountain Pose, 2012

AN EXHIBITION BY RASHAYLA MARIE BROWN
GALLERY X
MARCH 7–APRIL 6

OPENING| THURSDAY, MARCH 7 4:00–6:00 P.M.

ARTIST TALK| THURSDAY, MARCH 21
4:30-5:30 P.M.
UPDATE| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3 4:30-5:30 P.M. IN GALLERY X

Free Mason: Pick Up the Pieces navigates cultural fantasies and icons through their mystical, constructed, and romantic elements. Incorporating performative gestures and personae that hold both direct and esoteric relationships to funk, hip-hop, rock, and blues, Rashayla Marie Brown (BFA 2013) attempts to reimagine signifiers surrounding race, gender, and sexuality connected to these forms.

Masters in the realm of construction, ‘freemasons’ reference a secret society that employs symbols and rituals related to mysticism and craft. Citing this experience of
collective consciousness, Brown’s works present a visual exploration of the expressive
qualities and constructed aesthetics of popular culture. At once familiar and strange,
photographs perform as a metaphor for the constructed nature of identity in modernity and post-modernity, and as a space to redeem, claim, unpack, and reposition icons that relate to cultural consumption.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Brown will host an artist talk featuring SAIC faculty
member Shahrazad Shareef on March 21. The conversation will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Gallery X during the weekly meeting of student group Black at SAIC.

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Image: Assaf Evron, Untitled, 2012

An Exhibition Curated by Tara Plath

Artists | Assaf Evron, Ruslana Lichtzier, v-nels, and Brandon Seckler

The LeRoy Neiman Center Gallery, February 28–March 21

Reception: Thursday, February 28, 4:00–6:00 p.m.

Within and Without explores the phenomena of the frame, its boundlessness and its limitations. Challenging tendencies to desire comfort through an understanding of space via context and personal history, the framing devices in this exhibition speak to the dilemma of access that ends not at the edge of the image, be it printed or spatial, but extends more abstractly beyond the borders of each piece. Heightening awareness through formal and visual echoes drawn out by the installation of photographs and video-based works, perhaps our attention is not guided to image itself, but to its ability to represent ultimately unattainable spaces.