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Karen Gunderson | “Grounding the Clouds,” The Journal Times

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From Michael Burke’s article for The Journal Times:

Racine native Karen Gunderson pulled the clouds down this week and packed them up for a trip to New York.

Gunderson is the artist who created the large cloud paintings that had hung in the sanctuary at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 2219 Washington Ave., since the mid-1990s. But no longer.

Back then Gunderson, now a New York resident, went to Our Savior Lutheran Church with her mother after her father died. She remembers seeing “ugly brown acoustic cloth” and unattractive green stucco on the sanctuary walls. “It was awful; it was so depressing,” she said.

“I thought, ‘These people need something nicer to look at.’ ”

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Work by Adam Ekberg on exhibit in Michigan

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Work by Adam Ekberg on exhibit in MichiganImage: Artist Adam Ekberg standing next to his photograph “Arrangement #2.”

Work by Adam Ekberg is currently on display at the University Gallery and Ford Gallery at Eastern Michigan University as part of the exhibition “Atmosphere”:

Co-curated by Profs. Amy Sacksteder and Jason DeMarte, “Atmosphere” examines the work of 14 artists whose work engages spaces and surroundings in an effort to create new conversation around space, its use, and its effect upon us. Artists included in the show straddle discussions of landscape and land use, interior and exterior spaces, mapping and location, site specificity, community and environmental needs, and metaphysical and surreal environs.

“Atmosphere”
October 26 – December 11, 2015

Eastern Michigan University/University Gallery, EMU Student Center
900 Oakwood Street
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
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Blog post by:
Andrew Kurczak, Gallery Assistant

Jesse Burke | “Wild & Precious,” Lenscratch

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From Aline Smithson’s article for Lenscratch:

Jesse Burke is so much more than a celebrated photographer–he is a husband, father, storyteller, and champion of the natural world. His new monograph, Wild & Precious, published by Daylight Books, elevates his five-year personal narrative of fatherhood to a poetic collection of small stories that reveal the complexity and fragility of childhood and importance of a relationship with nature. The book is accompanied by an essay by Karen Irvine, Curator and associate director, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago, an essay by Ben Hewitt, Author of Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World, a poem by Dallas Clayton and letters by Jesse and Clover Burke.

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Mark Morrisroe | “Rafael Sanchez on Untitled,” Visual AIDS

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Artist Rafael Sanchez was selected to present a talk on Untitled by Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989) at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

From Visual AIDS:

Rafael Sánchez and Mark Morrisroe met as neighbors moving into the same building in Jersey City in 1985 when Morrisroe arrived in the NY area from Boston. They helped each other as young artists and confidants. Sánchez became a caregiver to Morrisroe in his last years; the complex nature of that experience is poetically chronicled in Sánchez’s essay “Panorama With Hood Ornament” in the influential Boston School exhibition catalogue (ICA, Boston, 1995). Sánchez discussed his personal recollections of Morrisroe, Morrisroe’s artistic process, and the Whitney Museum’s Morrisroe work “Untitled.”

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Jesse Burke | “Q-and-A,” Rhode Island Monthly

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From Grace Kelly’s interview with Jesse Burke in the Rhode Island Monthly:

“Wild and Precious,” by local photographer Jesse Burke (who also contributes to “Rhode Island Monthly”), is an exploration of Burke’s time with his daughter, nine-year-old Clover, on the grandest stage of all: the natural world. Burke took Clover on a road trip through New England and beyond, snapping photos of her interacting with her surroundings.

The photos are poignant, simple and quiet, displaying Clover’s curiosity for the world around her as Burke captures the moments. The photos show her snuggling up to a raccoon, lying in a motel bed with pillow marks on her cheek and tracing the circles in cut wood stumps.

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Jesse Burke | “The photographic chronicle,” 20minutos

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From Jose Ángel González’s article for 20minutos:

When Clover was four years old, Burke began to take her as a companion when he traveled from Rhode Island, his family’s home, to work sites where he was hired as the photographer. Travel included rest stops, exploring for traces of animals, hidden places, or environments of natural perfection. Their tradition quickly became habit and every trip an opportunity to better know the world we live in.

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John Arsenault | “How AIDS changed American Art,” The Seattle Times

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From Michael Upchurch’s article for The Seattle Times:

“Arts AIDS America,” a moving new show at the Tacoma Art Museum, charts cultural responses to the HIV crisis—beginning with an artist’s 1981 rendering of Kaposi sarcoma lesions before anyone had realized their significance.

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Tribute to artist Robert de Michiell

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Tribute to artist Robert de Michiell

ClampArt was proud to mount a tribute exhibition to artist Robert de Michiell on Tuesday, October 13, 2015. Sadly, de Michiell passed away far too young at the age of 57 the day before the show.

The exhibition featured 22 of de Michiell’s watercolors painted from 1998 to 2015, all inspired by Fire Island Pines, New York’s iconic gay beach resort. The show marked the first time that all 22 of de Michiell’s Fire Island paintings were displayed collectively, along with a 10-foot mural completed just a few months past. The work portrays Fire Island as “a whimsical, sexy, candy-colored Shangri-La, full of pumped-up beach boys frolicking in the waves and finding love beneath the setting sun.”

Best known for his pop culture illustrations and Broadway poster art, de Michiell’s work has been seen regularly in such publications as Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

Robert de Michiell was a wonderful person and artist, and will be greatly missed.

Jesse Burke | “At ClampArt,” F-Stop Magazine

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From F-Stop Magazine’s coverage of Jesse Burke’s exhibition “Wild & Precious”:

For five years, Burke and his daughter team traveled to locations throughout their native New England, as well as to the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, the Southwestern Sonoran Desert, and the beaches of North Carolina and Florida. They studied the trees, the land, the sky, and the animals they encountered during their hikes through woods and meadows, climbs up hills and mountains, and treks along rugged shorelines and rivers. They documented the routes they drove, the landscapes they discovered, and the creatures they met along the way—from elks to eagles to raccoons. They even charted the quirky roadside motels they slept in when not camping outdoors. In each location, they collected artifacts that they would bring back home to catalog, study, and photograph.

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