The+Contemporary--+April+14th,+2006

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//April 26, Donna Mintz Artist's Talk, 7 pm talk May 17, Katherine Taylor Artist's Talk, 7 pm talk May 24, “The Human Factor: Influence and Response” a conversation led by Andrea Weyermann, PhD, with Patricia McIntosh and Katherine Taylor, 7 pm
 * Friday April 21 - June 3
 * //Courting Disaster: Katherine Taylor, Hilary Wilder, Donna Mintz

Katherine Taylor** is an artist and educator born in Biloxi, Mississippi. She received her MFA from Georgia State University. Currently, Taylor is an adjunct professor at the Atlanta College of Art where she teaches in the drawing and painting departments. Her work is exhibited and collected nationally and has been included in museum exhibitions in Albany, GA, and Tallahassee, FL. New American Paintings recently featured her work on the back cover of volume #58. Taylor is represented by Marcia Wood Gallery.
 * Hilary Wilder** was born in 1973 in North Conway, New Hampshire and currently lives and works in Houston, Texas. In 2004, she completed a two-year fellowship as both a Visual Artist resident and a Critical Studies resident in the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She has recently exhibited work at the Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston, and the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art. Her videos have been screened at the Chicago International Film Festival, the Art in Motion II festival at the University of Southern California, and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. In addition, she has written catalogue essays for exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Rice University Art Gallery. Wilder received an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 2001.
 * Donna Mintz** was born in Gainesville, GA in 1956. Her evocative paintings are recognized for their contemplative,atmospheric study of anonymous spaces. She is influenced by her naturalist studies and by the convergence of art with poetry, history, and science. Her work is exhibited nationally and is widely collected in private and corporate collections. She lives and works in Atlanta, GA and is represented here by Sandler Hudson Gallery.

During our group visit (KSU) to the Contemporary Art Center we were greeted by staff members who gave us a tour and answered any art related questions that we had. There were three artist in the process of preparing for an opening exhibition titled "Courting Disaster".

These artist were Katherine Taylor, Hillary Wilder and Donna Mintz. //(image on left) //Donna Mintz took time out to describe to us her 3-d installation. Her structure represented man-made disasters such as deliberately flooded landscapes that covered existing burial sites to make a man made lake or resevoir.

Katherine Taylor was in the process of hanging her black and white paintings where the subject was the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Her exhibition consist of over a hundred small 10x10 oil paintings and several large wall size paintings.





We were also given a tour of the individual art studios that are a part of the Art Center complex. Several of the tenants were available to discuss their art projects.

For example we met Shiela Shepree-Bright who is a contemporary photographer. In some of her work she blends plastic societal images such as a Barbie dolls with real human features.

We met Craig Donegoski who explained to us his current project of making art music. He records the sound of the art strokes an artist makes when working on a specific drawing. We also met Jo A. Peterson who considers herself a landscape artist. She was most helpful to those of us who are pursuing a career as a fine artist.

-Tony Quinton //(photos taken by Vivian Lai)//

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