12.19.2010

Edge of Life: Complete Prospectus

Please click on the images to view full size.
For a .pdf of the prospectus, please e-mail Michelle Rozic at rozicmm@sfasu.edu























10.19.2010

Art work arriving!

Art work is arriving with preparations underway for the opening exhibition at SFA in January.





















Museum studies students Richard and Brian filling out condition reports on the art work.





Pathogen specimens
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Lauren McAdams installing her work for photography.













McAdams pathogen, Indian Paint Fungus.

David Lewis' Museum Studies class is collaborating on the project.











Dr. David Lewis and the museum studies class.











Preparator Gary Parker talking with museum studies students.


Chris Talbot is scheduled to begin photographing art work and pathogen specimens next Monday.

9.22.2010

Artist Update

The deadline for receipt of artwork is now extended to October 18. Please send the well packaged work to the following address:

Stephen F. Austin State University
ATTN: SFA Art Galleries, Edge of Life
Central Receiving
2124 Wilson Dr.
Nacogdoches, TX 75962

A contract and inventory form will be emailed in September. Please return a signed copy of the contract and filled out inventory form with your work.

Please remember to include a professional quality, large format digital image of your work. These may be emailed to rozicmm@sfasu.edu, size permitting. Here are general guidelines:

-Uncompressed, high quality TIFF or RAW files.
-All files must be cross-platform compatible.
-24-bit RGB color
-3000 minimum pixels on the long side of the image
-300 ppi minimum

If possible, include an image that has a ColorChecker Grey Scale card in it for the most accurate color reproduction. Do not color correct or manipulate the image unless you are trained to do so.

Contact Michelle Rozic with any questions at either 936.468.4491 or rozicmm@sfasu.edu.

5.04.2010

Artists & Their Diseases


Peter Andrew


Landscape
Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, 2006



Zonate Leaf Spot



Marsha Blount

Birch conk Piptoporus betulinus



Elaine Bradford

Mongolian Knotted Deer
Taxidermy Mongolian spotted deer, crocheted yarn, fabric, fiberfil, 96 x 36 x 28 inches, 2007.

Strangling vine

Amy Chan

Mossbow (detail)
Gouache and acrylic on paper, 22 x 32 inches, 2009



Japanese dodder




Neal Cox





Untitled (Pecan Park)
Pinhole photograph, 24 x 24 inches, 2009



Phellinus fungus

Chad Curtis






















Random Seed (Orange Conifers), 2008


















Dog vomit slime mold





Dornith Doherty



Archiving Eden, Corncockle, 36.5 x 36.5 inches


Chad Erpelding







Embassies: Washington DC

Acrylic on wood, 84 x 72 inches, 2009



Dutch elm disease Ophiostoma ulmi


Piero Fenci























Gray Etruscan Pouring Vessel

Earthenware, 24 x 28 x 11 inches



Eastern pine gall rust Cronartium quercuum


Lari Gibbons























Herbarium

Intaglio, relief, chine collé, 11 x 8 inches, 2010



Mistletoe Phoradendron sp.


M aki Hajikano





Silent Fear
Cast glass and mixed media, 28 feet x 10 feet






















Fusiform rust Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme

Charles Jones




Samuel Becket
Wood cut, 20 x 20 inches



Fasciation

Corinne Jones












Diving Raven

Colored pastels and charcoal, 38 x 50 inches, 2009
















Turkey tail Trametes versicolor


Kir
a Kalondy
















Frustration
Ceramics earthenware, 8 x 12 x 10 1/2 inches, 2009
















Artist's conk Ganoderma applanatum


Bob Kinsell





Migration
Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches, 2009























Yellow cap fungus Pholiota sp.


Aloma Marquis

Ganoderma root rot


Lauren McAdams























Indian paint fungus Echinodontium tinctorium



Gary Parker





Palace in the Wild
Mixed media on canvas, 84 x 96 inches, 2009










Lion's mane Hericium erinaceus


Marguerite Perret




The Commons, University of Kansas installation, Curtains, unique digital textile, 152 x 692 inches






















Pine Drops

Joseph Philips




Alpine Terrain
18 x 24 inches, 2009























Red heart Phellinus pini





Amy Ross



Fairy Ring
Collage on paper, 15 x 22 inches, 2008
















Fairy ring Fruiting bodies


Michelle Rozic
















The Birds and the Bees
(detail)
Koolaid dyed wool, wet and needle felted, taxidermy eyes, fly tying wings, insect pins, fake flower parts, Dimensions variable, elements life size, 2009
















Schweinitzii root and butt rot Phaeolus schweinitzii


Scott Runnels























Quinine conk


Jeff Schmuki



Chia Enhancements for Woodland Intervention, Recycled materials, chia, 2009 performance

Ballmoss

Joshua Smith




From The
Suburbs of the Emerald City series, Emerald Basin Phase 1
Monopoly houses cast in crystal resin, 2008

Poria
cocos

James Snyder














White Mountain in Winter, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches

Matthew Sutherlin







X-disease Phytoplasma MLO


Chris Talbot
















Oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus


Jennifer Trask























Fructus Plumbum
Frame and encaustic panel, brooch, set with moonstones, lead leaves, snake vertebrae, and aquamarine, 2008.








Exobasidium


Joni Younkins-Herzog



Lust and Anxiety

Cast hydrocal, each piece 40 x 45 x 22 inches

























Octopus Stinkhorn, Photograph by Steve Reekie



Keith Yurdana



The Trinity of Demise: Exposure (Abevolparen barbatus - panel #3)
Mixed media on wood panel, 71 x 82 3/4 inches, 2008


Gnarled root


Pathogen images from bugwood.org, except as noted. Artwork images courtesy the artists, copyright the artists. No artwork images may be copied without express written permission of the artist.