UPCOMING Ascherman Artist Lecture

To accompany the What is a Hero? photography exhibition, a visiting artist lecture will be presented by Herbert Ascherman Jr. on Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. in Ronk Lecture Hall in the Dwight Schar College of Education on the Ashland University campus. The artist talk is free and open to the public. Ascherman has been creating fine art portraiture for more than 30 years, specializing in stunning black and white and the resurgent art of platinum photography. Internationally recognized for his photographs of people in creative, commercial and social settings, his work has been exhibited and commercially published throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Japan and India.

Visit us on the weekends now !

First week of the gallery being open on Saturday & Sunday- we had the AU Center for Nonviolence here on Saturday and I hope the artwork sparked some interesting conversations.

Photos from the What is a Hero? Opening Reception

HERO Opening Reception TODAY !!

The reception for What is a Hero? photography exhibition is today from 4:30pm-6:30pm. Please join us for this powerful photographic exploration of what is a hero. Featured artists: Honey Lazar, Steve Stone, Herbert Ascherman, Jr., and Steve Cagan. Reception photos should be posted by Monday 9/14.

What is Hero? photography exhibition installation has began !

It was a productive day at the gallery- how exciting to unpack the photographs for this powerful HERO exhibition. Counting the days until the opening reception on Thursday Sept 10th from 4:30pm-6:30pm. Hope y0u will join us on Thursday. Mark your calendars for TH September 24th Herbert Ascherman, Jr. visiting artist lecture at 7pm.

OH+5 Exhibition opportunity for Ohio artists

Artist Opportunity: The Dairy Barn Arts center OH+5

Discover some of our region’s most talented artists at The Dairy Barn Arts Center’s OH+5 exhibition. OH+5 is The Dairy Barn’s seventh biennial, all-media, juried art exhibition featuring artists from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. OH+5 was created with the goal of featuring a wide array of contemporary art that varies in size, style, and media. This year’s OH+5 exhibition will expand viewers’ awareness and appreciation of the variety of media, techniques and innovative trends in contemporary art.

Click here for a printable entry form and rules

Jurors include:

Brian Harper (IN) is an Assistant Professor of Fine Art and Ceramics Area Head at Indiana University Southeast. He received his B.F.A from Northern Arizona University and his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been included in over 50 exhibitions in 23 states including 8 solo exhibitions. Additionally, he is the founder of Artaxis.org, an online network of artists that showcases the work of over 150 artists influential in the current development of contemporary ceramic art.

Dennis Harrington (OH) director of the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, earned a bachelor of fine arts in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, in 1976. Harrington completed his master of fine arts in painting and drawing at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Art & Architecture in 1979. From 1979-95 he was assistant to the director of the Toni Birckhead Gallery, a commercial venue in Cincinnati. Prior to his appointment as director of the Weston Art Gallery in June of 1998, he served as exhibition preparator for founding gallery director Salli LoveLarkin.

Simone Osthoff (PA) is Associate Professor of Critical Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Media and Communications from the European Graduate School in Switzerland, an M.A. degree in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an M.F.A. degree from the University of Maryland. She is a member of the Leonardo Reviews panel since 2000. Her many interviews, essays, and book chapters focusing upon contemporary art have been translated into eight languages and included in among others, various MIT Press and Routledge books as well as in international art magazines and web publications. She is a Fulbright Fellow and a frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad having participated in dozens of conferences worldwide. Osthoff is the author of Performing the Archive, Atropos Press, forthcoming 2009.

The fall exhibition season is almost here ...

The Coburn Gallery fall exhibition season is almost here.......the students will be back on Monday July 24th. As gallery director I have been in the process of reviewing proposals packages for the 2010-2011 exhibition schedule. We have had 88 submissions and the postmark deadline is Friday August 14th, and they are still coming in daily.

Our first exhibition of the fall semester is entitled What is a Hero? which opens on September 10th.
It is a photography exhibition featuring Honey Lazar, Steve Cagan, Herbert Ascherman, Jr. and Steve Stone. More information will be posted in the following weeks.