Within State Lines II - Jennifer Onofrio Fornes

Within State Lines II

Exhibition dates: October 9, 2010 - January 8, 2011

Featuring: Jennifer Onofrio Fornes (Augusta), Stefanie Jackson (Athens), Marcus Kenney (Savannah), Kwan Young Lee (Alpharetta) & Philip Morsberger (Augusta)

ABOUT Within State Lines II

To further MOCA GA's mission to support contemporary artists from the entire state of Georgia, Director, Annette Cone-Skelton traveled to four cities: Alpharetta, Athens, Augusta, & Savannah, in order to curate an exhibition of artists from those cities, most have never shown at MOCA GA. A number of these artists were recommended by arts leaders in their communities, including Bill Eiland at The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens; Kevin Grogan at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta; and Steven High, at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.

ABOUT Jennifer Onofrio Fornes

Jennifer Onofrio Fornes is a mixed media artist based out of a primary studio in Augusta, GA. She received her MFA from the University of California and her BFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She currently teaches at Augusta State University, where she has also been the recipient of several Faculty Research and Development Grants. A selection of her solo exhibitions to date have been at The Arts Center in St. Petersburg, FL; The Mary Pauline Gallery and The Gertrude Herbert Instiutute of Art in Augusta, GA; and Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO. The work in this exhibition was recently featured as part of a two-person exhibition, “Arabesque” with her mother at the Flaten Art Museum at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.

Within State Lines II - Kwan Young Lee

Within State Lines II

Exhibition dates: October 9, 2010 - January 8, 2011

Featuring: Jennifer Onofrio Fornes (Augusta), Stefanie Jackson (Athens), Marcus Kenney (Savannah), Kwan Young Lee (Alpharetta) & Philip Morsberger (Augusta)

ABOUT Within State Lines II

To further MOCA GA's mission to support contemporary artists from the entire state of Georgia, Director, Annette Cone-Skelton traveled to four cities: Alpharetta, Athens, Augusta, & Savannah, in order to curate an exhibition of artists from those cities, most have never shown at MOCA GA. A number of these artists were recommended by arts leaders in their communities, including Bill Eiland at The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens; Kevin Grogan at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta; and Steven High, at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.

ABOUT Kwan Young Lee

Kwan Young Lee is a painter working in Alpharetta, GA. He received his MFA from California State University in Painting and Drawing, and his BFA from Hong-lk Univeristy in Seoul, Korea. Lee has been included in numerous group exhibitions in throughout California and in Seoul. He paints primarily in black and white, representing individuals through emotionally ambiguous awareness of existence and the uncertainty of life. The scenes depicted are captured as he says, “like aiming my camera at inner perceptions.”

Within State Lines II - Philip Morsberger

Within State Lines II

Exhibition dates: October 9, 2010 - January 8, 2011

Featuring: Jennifer Onofrio Fornes (Augusta), Stefanie Jackson (Athens), Marcus Kenney (Savannah), Kwan Young Lee (Alpharetta) & Philip Morsberger (Augusta)

ABOUT Within State Lines II

To further MOCA GA's mission to support contemporary artists from the entire state of Georgia, Director, Annette Cone-Skelton traveled to four cities: Alpharetta, Athens, Augusta, & Savannah, in order to curate an exhibition of artists from those cities, most have never shown at MOCA GA. A number of these artists were recommended by arts leaders in their communities, including Bill Eiland at The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens; Kevin Grogan at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta; and Steven High, at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.

ABOUT Philip Morsberger

Philip Morsberger is a painter working in Augusta, GA. He has previously held the William S. Morris Eminent Scholar Emeritus in Art, a prestigious appointment at August State University. Other appointment have included Harvard, Dartmouth, and Berkeley, as well as the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he was the President' Fellow in Painting and Drawing. Morsberger has also had a long association with Oxford University, where he studied in the mid 1950s and subsequently served as the Ruskin Master of Drawing (1971-1984). Morsberger's work is in major collections on both sides of the Atlantic.

Artist website

http://philipmorsberger.blogspot.com

Within State Lines II - Stefanie Jackson

Within State Lines II

Exhibition dates: October 9, 2010 - January 8, 2011

Featuring: Jennifer Onofrio Fornes (Augusta), Stefanie Jackson (Athens), Marcus Kenney (Savannah), Kwan Young Lee (Alpharetta) & Philip Morsberger (Augusta)

ABOUT Within State Lines II

To further MOCA GA's mission to support contemporary artists from the entire state of Georgia, Director, Annette Cone-Skelton traveled to four cities: Alpharetta, Athens, Augusta, & Savannah, in order to curate an exhibition of artists from those cities, most have never shown at MOCA GA. A number of these artists were recommended by arts leaders in their communities, including Bill Eiland at The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens; Kevin Grogan at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta; and Steven High, at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.

ABOUT Stefanie Jackson

Stefanie Jackson is an artist working in Athens, GA. She received her BFA from Parsons School of design in 1979 and her MFA from Cornell University in 1988. She currently teaches drawing and painting in the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. Jackson’s dramatic paintings speak of the hardships of African Americans through her distinctive voice. Her work references European traditions, African American music and literature, surrealism, social issues around race, and her life’s own narrative. Jackson has been the recipient of several individual grants from Georgia Council for the Arts and a Special Projects Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. In 2002 Jackson became a recipient of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award in recognition of her life’s dedication developing artistic goals, regardless of other personal or financial responsibilities.

Within State Lines II - Marcus Kenney

Within State Lines II

Exhibition dates: October 9, 2010 - January 8, 2011

Featuring: Jennifer Onofrio Fornes (Augusta), Stefanie Jackson (Athens), Marcus Kenney (Savannah), Kwan Young Lee (Alpharetta) & Philip Morsberger (Augusta)

ABOUT Within State Lines II

To further MOCA GA's mission to support contemporary artists from the entire state of Georgia, Director, Annette Cone-Skelton traveled to four cities: Alpharetta, Athens, Augusta, & Savannah, in order to curate an exhibition of artists from those cities, most have never shown at MOCA GA. A number of these artists were recommended by arts leaders in their communities, including Bill Eiland at The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens; Kevin Grogan at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta; and Steven High, at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.

ABOUT Marcus Kenney

Marcus Kenney is originally from rural Louisiana, and has lived and worked in Savannah, GA for the last 15 years. He earned a MFA from the Savannah College of Art And Design. Kenney works in many mediums including collage, sculpture, paint, photography and installation. His work has been exhibited in cities all over the world. He has been included in numerous group shows, art fairs, and solo exhibitions including a major ten year survey featuring nearly 50 works. His work rests in many private and public collections throughout the world. Kenney has been featured in numerous publications.

Artist Website

http://www.marcuskenney.com

Off-the-Wall Pin-Up Show + Sale 2010

Discursive Documents: Performing the Catalogue, by John Q

In the MOCA GA Education/Resource Center

exhibition dates: Oct. 2, 2010 - Jan. 8, 2011

opening reception: Sat., Oct. 2, 6:30 - 8:30pm

(artist talks & topics listed below)

ABOUT Discursive Documents: Performing the Catalogue

This project is a catalogue. Earlier this year, John Q proposed that memorials could be public happenings. Presented on April 3, 2010, Memory Flash consisted of four installations in different public spaces, each addressing a specific event in Atlanta queer history in the space where it originally happened. The events were drawn from oral histories, news stories, and other archival sources. As memorials, the only public upkeep was in the remembering or the forgetting. Similarly, the catalogue for this work exists in a place and for a time.

Discursive Documents includes artifacts and sound recordings from Memory Flash, as well as works and ephemera produced by others in response: murals, photographs, documentations, course syllabi, and other texts. A resource table includes these items as well as references and books used in our research. After expanding the archives into the public space for Memory Flash, we are now attempting to expand the catalogue for the event into the space of the museum (and specifically into this museum’s dedicated archival/research space – so, in a sense, Memory Flashreturns to the archives).

This catalogue process still has written components. Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta’s Public Spaces was published by Emory’s online journal, Southern Spaces. As for printed matter, John Q has guest curated a special issue of the JOSH (the Journal of Sexual Homos) published by Arts and Sciences PROJECTS, NY. This issue includes images from the four movements of Memory Flash along with works by other artists from the U.S., Mexico, and England concerned with queer memory and place. The JOSH, Issue #3 launches November 2010.

Finally, our individual essays for this catalogue take the form of programming. We hope you will be able to join us and participate in them.

Artist Talks - 6:30pm Receptions, 7pm Talks

''The Place of Archives in Theory and Practice"

Artist Talk: Wesley Chenault

Wednesday, October 20

"Art in Research, Research in Art"

Panel Discussion: Moderated by Joey Orr

Panelists: Joey Orr, Teresa Bramlette-Reeves, Anna Grimshaw, and Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier

Thursday, November 4

"Memory, Sound, Performance"

Artist Talk: Andy Ditzler

Thursday, December 9

ABOUT John Q

John Q is an artist collective whose name references “John Q. Public.” The “public” is left understood, though the work is considered a kind of public scholarship, and the “Q” is left hanging to reference the group’s interest in queer history and politics.