Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor
Fall 2007 Exhibitions

Visiting Artists/Lecturers Exhibition

Wednesday, September 19th – Friday, September 28th

Reception and Artists' Introduction: Monday, September 24th, 5–7pm

Welcoming Joel O’Dorisio, glass; as a visiting artists for the academic year; and Hannah Barnes, LaTriece Branson, C. Grant Fletcher, Kate Shannon, Kisha Swift, Colleen Oakes, Berry van Boekel, Bradley Olson, Ryan Agnew, Ginny Baer, Louise Captein, Ian Cross, Mary Fahy, John S. Lathram III, Michael Litzau, Katie Niewierski, Katie Parker, Ian Ruffino, and others as visiting lecturers in the Department of Art.

Milton Caniff: American Master +
School of Caniff

Monday, October 8th – Sunday, October 28th

Opening Reception: Friday, October 26th, 4 –7pm
Special Event: Friday, October 12th and 19th at 12pm; Informal Gallery Talk with the Curators

Milton Caniff is known as the “Rembrandt of the Comic Strip” for his work on Terry and the Pirates, Male Call, and Steve Canyon, is one of the most honored cartoonists in history. 2007 marks the centennial of the birth of this master storyteller—Ohio native and OSU graduate (1930)—whose papers and art formed the founding collection of OSU’s Cartoon Research Library. Curated from this extraordinary collection by Lucy Shelton Caswell, “Milton Caniff: American Master” is presented in conjunction with the ninth triennial Festival of Cartoon Art, Oct 26 – 27, hosted by OSU. The conference, focusing on the art of graphic storytelling, begins with this exhibition’s celebration of Caniff’s life and legacy.

Caniff’s sense of design and composition are legendary; few, if any, cartoonists have so heavily influenced their contemporaries and successors. He had more imitators than any other comic strip artist in history. In recognition of Caniff’s influence, Jenny Robb, associate curator of the Cartoon Library, presents “School of Caniff” featuring works by cartoonists Noel Sickles (Scorchy Smith), Alfred Andriola and Charles Raab (Charlie Chan), Bert Christman (Scorchy Smith), George Wunder (Terry and the Pirates), and Mel Graff (The Adventures of Patsy and Secret Agent X-9), among others.

Sponsored by The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library with support from Wolfe Associates.
For more information see http://cartoons.osu.edu/FCA2007/site/

Florence Knoll Bassett:
Defining Modern

Thursday, November 1st – Friday, November 9th

Opening Reception: Monday, November 5th, 5–7pm
Special Event: Monday, November 5th, 3:30–7 pm;
"Knoll Branding" with David Bright, Vice President of Communications of Knoll Furniture.

Since its founding by Hans G. Knoll in 1938, Knoll Furniture has collaborated with designers and architects including Eero Saarinen,
Mies van der Rohe, Robert Venturi, Isamu Noguchi, Frank Gehry,
George Nakashima, Anni Albers, and Franco Albini and of course, Florence Knoll Basset, to form some of its most classically acclaimed designs. Knoll products are exhibited in major art museums worldwide, with more than 40 pieces in the permanent Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This exhibition, an excerpt from Florence Knoll Bassett: Defining Modern that premiered at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2005, highlights some of the extraordinary designs of Florence Knoll Basset and celebrates her accomplishments throughout her career.

Florence Knoll Bassett (née Schust) studied architecture at Cranbrook, was a protegée of Eero Saarinen; and studied with van der Rohe while at the Armour Institute (Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago) and worked briefly for Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Wallace K. Harrison. She married Hans Knoll, formed Knoll Associates and assumed the presidency on Hans Knoll’s death in 1955. Knoll Basset’s belief in “total design”—embracing architecture, manufacturing, interior design, textiles, graphics, advertising and presentation—and her application of design principles in solving space problems were radical departures from the standard practice in the 1950s, but were quickly adopted and remain widely used today. For her extraordinary contributions to architecture and design, Florence Knoll was accorded the National Endowment for the Arts’ prestigious 2002 National Medal of Arts (http://www.knoll.com)

Sponsored by Knoll Associates and co-hosted by the Department of Design and Hopkins Hall Gallery + Corridor.

Department of Art Faculty Exhibitions

Monday, November 13th – Friday, November 30th

Artists Introductions and Reception: Thursday, November 15th, 4–7pm

This year’s New Works faculty exhibition features the work of Carmel Buckley, sculpture; Robert Ladislas Derr, photography; and Ardine Nelson, photography; who each completed a research assignment last year.

On view simultaneously is “Thoughts on Color,” an exhibition by the Department of Art faculty that reveals their individual approaches and relationships to color: Terry Barrett, Mary Jo Bole, Carmel Buckley, Alison Crocetta, Alan Crockett, Malcolm Cochran, Robert Ladislas Derr, Sean Foley, Ann Hamilton, Richard Harned, Rebecca Harvey, Harris Kagan, Scot Kaplan, Michael Mercil, Laura Lisbon, Charles Massey, Jr., Tony Mendoza, Ardine Nelson, Ken Rinaldo, Dan Shellanbarger, Suzzane Silver, Sergio Soave, Todd Slaughter, John Thrasher, Steve Thurston, Ed Valentine, Pheoris West, and Amy Youngs.