UNLOADED curator Susanne Slavick will contextualize the exhibition currently on view at the Handwerker GalleryUNLOADED curator Susanne Slavick will contextualize the exhibition currently on view at the Handwerker Gallery
Thursday, February 18, 6 p.m.
Handwerker Gallery, Gannett Center
Exhibition synopsis:
UNLOADED examines the historical and social issues surrounding the availability, use, and impact of guns in our lives from a number of perspectives, though none endorse them as a means to an end. Its artists shed light on the challenging and divisive issues surrounding firearms in America today, deploying art to develop critical dialogue and response.
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Biography:
Susanne Slavick is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon where she joined the faculty in 1984 and served as Head of the School of Art between 2000 and 2006. Graduating summa cum laude from Yale University in 1978, she subsequently studied at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Tyler School of Art in Rome. In 1980, she completed her MFA at Tyler in Philadelphia where she began exhibiting through Jeffrey Fuller Fine Art.
Her first faculty position at Kutztown State College in Pennsylvania was followed by three years as assistant professor at University of Wisconsin at Madison. While in Wisconsin, she began showing nationally through the Struve Gallery in Chicago. She has been an artist-in-residence at The MacDowell Colony, Mt. Desert Island through the Four Seals Foundation, and in Skoki, Poland through the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. In 1997, she held an exchange faculty position at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
Slavick has exhibited in museums and galleries in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis as well as in Europe and Asia. Her paintings have been recognized through an artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and four awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Honored as 2008 “Artist of the Year” by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Slavick premiered “R&R&R,” a series of works on paper that convert our military expression for “rest and recuperation” to images of “revelation, regret, and restoration.”
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