Artist: Oscar Palacio

I think that Oscar palacio's work is amazingly well thought out, and it explores many of the ideas that I'm interested in pursuing in my own work. The ideas of History and monuments and how they affect the people of the present is really interesting to me. In a way he's doing the work that I want to do on a smaller scale, in relation to Virginia.









Artist Bio:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010	American Places, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
2009	Re-represented, FP3 Gallery, Boston, MA
2007	History Re-visited, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA (PDF)
2005	Unfamiliar Territory, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Awards

2008	Artist-in-Residence, Light Work, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2005	Artist-in-Residence, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
2004	Artist-in-Residence, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
2003	Best Show of an Emerging/Unknown Artist 2001 - 2002 (Second Place), International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Boston Chapter, Boston, MA
	HCP Photography Fellowship, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2002	The St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant-in-Aid, St Botolph Club Foundation, Boston, MA
	Juror Award, Photographic Resource Center, 2002 Members’ Exhibition, Boston, MA
1999	Jurgen Thieck Memorial Award for Photography, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1997	Ernst Haas Photography Student of the Year Award, Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, ME
1995	Fine Arts Council Scholarship, Florida International University, Miami, FL

Quotes:

"While photographing such iconic places as Plymouth Rock, Hoover Dam, and most recently, Gettysburg National Military Park and Underground Railroad sites, Palacio considers the function of these revered memorials: What narratives do they posit and perpetuate? Who or what is celebrated or excluded at such sites?" ~Allison N. Kemmerer

"These photographs suggest that history is an ongoing dialogue between past and present, between traditional interpretations of events and the emergence of alternative perspectives, between the keepers of the eternal flame and those who wonder what other fires are burning underground, just outside the frame." ~Allison N. Kemmerer

Review:

http://photography.cdmhost.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/p4023coll6&CISOPTR=3562&CISOBOX=1&REC=6

Gallery Representation:

Howard Yezerski Gallery: http://www.howardyezerskigallery.com

Artist Website:

http://www.oscarpalacio.net/

Idea: Battlefields

Virginia has a lot of battlefields. I can remember going to a bunch of them as a kid. I don't want my project to become all about documenting battlefields but I think they are something to look into. They act as a good historical marker for major events from Virginia's past. I think I'm going to start with some of the battlefields I haven't been to, then if they seem to be working out I may return to the ones I visited as a child.

Colonial National Historical Park - Yorktown Battlefield

On October 19, 1781, a British army under General Charles Lord Cornwallis was forced to surrender to General Washington’s combined American and French army. Upon hearing of their defeat, British Prime Minister Frederick Lord North is reputed to have said, "Oh God, it's all over." And it was. The victory secured independence for the United States and significantly changed the course of world history. ~National Park Service

Petersburg Civil War Sites

After months of fighting in the late spring of 1864, Union forces backed Robert E. Lee's Confederate army into defensive lines around Petersburg. For more than nine months the city endured a siege. ~Civil War Traveler

Text: The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide.

S., John. The official Virginia Civil War battlefield guide. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. Print.

Artist: Kehinde Wiley

I'm interested in Kehinde Wiley for his use of art history in his studio practice. While he uses the poses and visual cues to inform his compositions, the historical aspects of the original portrait subject are also important to the work as a whole. With my work concentrating on this area where there is so much history to draw from I think that I should be using this to my advantage. I am currently starting to research many aspects of Virginia's history in hopes that I can use what I find to give my work more continuity.







Bio:

EDUCATION
2001 MFA, Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, CT
1999 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 The World Stage: Brazil, Museu de Arte Moderna, June-August, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008 Down, Deitch Projects, November-December, New York, NY
The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar, Studio Museum in Harlem, July 16 – October 26, New
York, NY
FOCUS: Kehinde Wiley, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, April 20-May 25, Fort Worth, TX
2007 Kehinde Wiley, Portland Art Museum, May 5-August 19, Portland, OR
The World Stage: China, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, February 11-May 6, Sheboygan, WI
2006 Scenic, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, September 9 – October 14, Chicago, IL
Columbus, Roberts & Tilton, June 3 - July 8, Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art, September 8 - January 7, Columbus, OH
Kehinde Wiley, Sorry We’re Closed, June - August, Belgium, Brussels

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, December 3, 2008 - May 30, 2009, Miami, FL
Recognize: Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture, Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait
Gallery, Feb 8-October 26, Washington, D.C.
2007 New York States of Mind, Queens Museum, December 16-March 23, Queens, NY
Commemorating 30 Years 1976-2007, Part Three 1991-2007, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, May 18-
June 16, 2007, Chicago, IL
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The Blake Byrne Collection, The Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, Duke University, April
19-September 30, Durham, North Carolina,
Crossing the Line: African American Artists in the Jacqueline Bradley and Clarence Otis, Jr.
Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, January 19-May 20, Orlando, FL,
2006 Black Alphabet – contexts of contemporary African-American art, Zacheta National Gallery of
Art, September 23–November 19, Warsaw, Poland
Hangar–7 Edition 4, Salzburg Airport, July 8–August 25, Salzburg, Austria
Down By Law, Wrong Gallery at the Sondra Gilman Gallery, Whitney Museum, January 21 - May
15, New York, NY
Redifined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC

AWARDS & HONORS
2008 Americans for the Arts, Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence
2002 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Recipient

LECTURES/SYMPOSIA
2009 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2008 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2007 Here and Now: African and African American Art and Film Conference, New York, NY
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheyboygan, WI
2006 Symposium on Contemporary Portraiture, Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, DC
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

Review:
http://www.kehindewiley.com/press/2009/wsj.html

Artist Website:
http://www.kehindewiley.com

Gallery:
http://www.deitch.com/index.php

Idea: Historical Documents

Now, whenever you read any historical document, you always evaluate it in light of the historical context. ~Josh McDowell

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. ~Walter Scott

I want to go treasure hunting! One of the things that has been feeding into this project is that I feel like I really don't know my surrounding as intimately as I would like despite having lived here my whole life. Virginia has an over abundance of history in the state and I feel like that should be a resource I am drawing from. Up to now I haven't felt like I had much to tie my ideas of regionalism and history together. I'm hoping that finding historical documents about different places could be a key to making this work more cohesive.


Text:
Johnson, Michael P. Reading the American Past, Volume I: To 1877: Selected Historical Documents. New York, NY: BedfordSt. Martin, 2008. Print.

Johnson, Michael P. Reading the American Past, Volume II: From 1865: Selected Historical Documents. New York, NY: BedfordSt. Martin, 2008. Print.