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The Newsletter of the City of Upper Arlington’s Cultural Arts Division
FALL 2012
on view:
IN THE CONCOURSE GALLERY
WHAT
FOOLS
NOW–10.26.2012
A solo show featuring
works by Lee Csuri through
October 26, 2012.
Lee Csuri was born in 1927 in Dothan,
Alabama. She received a degree in Fine
Arts from The Ohio State University
where she studied with Robert King,
Sidney Chafetz, Roy Lichtenstein and
Charles Csuri.
She has exhibited in numerous local
and regional shows including several
exhibitions at the Upper Arlington
Cultural Arts Center. Lee had a one person
show in New York City and her paintings
and sculptures are in private collections
in Italy, Canada, England and Spain.
She is married to well known computer
graphics artist Charles Csuri and has two
children Steven and Caroline and two
granddaughters
Hannah and Emily
Reagh.
“I did painted wooden
sculptures for more than 20
years, but I needed to accept that my
age was making such effort painful and
so I have gone back to my original love of
painting to continue to produce my own
“meaningful structures.” My current work
is based on my long term interest in “The
Fool” as a theme for my design and poetic
organizing abilities. The fool is both idiot
and genius, buffoon and entertainer—
opposites. We all seem to embody in our
characters—a visual manifestation of
coming soon:
IN THE CONCOURSE GALLERY
THREE ROOMS OF KIOKU
profound and trivial
qualities we all deal with
daily. I suppose most of all I
want people to experience the
fun and playfulness sandwiched in
with the daily sorrow and desperation—
What does it all mean? Exit smiling!!”
This program is financially supported
by The Ohio Arts Council who helped fund
this program with state tax dollars to
encourage economic growth, educational
excellence and cultural enrichment for
all Ohioans and UA Arts.
Artworks, left to right: Lee Csuri, Family of Fools;
Lee Csuri, Fool with Friends; Migiwa Orimo, House
Visit project/Mapping.
INSTALLATION BY
MIGIWA ORIMO
NOVEMBER 1–30
RECEPTION: NOVEMBER 8, 5–7PM
Our annual installation exhibit features
artist Migiwa Orimo. Installation Arts
is an artistic genre of site-specific,
three-dimensional works designed to
transform the perception of a space. The
genre incorporates a very broad range of
everyday and natural materials, which are
often chosen for their evocative qualities,
as well as new media such as video, sound,
performance, immersive virtual reality
and the internet. Many installations are
site-specific in that they are designed to
exist only in the space for which they
were created.
In co-sponsorship with the East
Asian Studies Center we are pleased to
present this new work by artist Migiwa
Orimo. Orimo will create three roomsize-installation areas on the Concourse
gallery’s carpeted floor. The measurement
of each area is roughly the size of a
typical small Japanese room—which
is determined by four and half tatami
(grass) mats. In this three-component
installation, viewers will encounter
three different approaches to the
notion of memory: historical,
personal and collective. In
each room this notion will
be explored in many forms:
concocted, dissected, failed,
rebuilt, re-collected, re-
imagined, and re-presented.
Using various materials—that include
furniture, objects, drawings, recordings,
and written text—the installations
within these rooms will establish tension
and relationship between the elements.
Some elements of the installation will be
interactive and will provide participants
a space of contemplation, conflict and
discovery—just as we negotiate many
forms of memories in our daily lives.
Orimo, a Tokyo native, is the
recipient of numerous awards for her
work including: Individual Creativity
Excellence Award (Ohio Arts Council,
2008); Individual Artist Fellowship Grant
(Ohio Arts Council, 1996, 2004); and the
Headlands Center for the Arts Residency
Program (summer, 2012). She resides and
works in Yellow Springs, OH.
isms
We continue to examine isms, an exploration of many of the isms which
have formed the history of Western art from the early Renaissance to
the present day. Some isms are defined by artists, some are identified
retrospectively by historians, others encompass broad artistic trends and
some are part of wider movements that extend through and beyond the
arts into other areas of culture. Use these isms for further exploration of
art. This edition finds us exploring surrealism.
Surrealism was “founded in Paris, in 1924, by the poet Andre Breton and continued
Dadaism’s exploration of everything irrational and subversive in art.” More explicitly
preoccupied with spiritualism, Surrealism also included Freudian psychoanalysis
and Marxism aiming to create art which was automatically emerged directly from
the unconscious without being shaped by reason, morality or aesthetic judgments.
Surrealists valued the unconscious as a vast storehouse of astonishing creativity.
They embraced many different techniques used to unlock the unconscious including
utilizing dream imagery. Artists of note in this ism include Hans Arp, Salvador Dali,
Max Ernst, Frida Kahlo, Joan Miro and Paul Klee.
OTHER VISUAL ARTS NEWS
Elusive Nature
elusive |I’loo’ siv| adjective
1 Difficult to find, catch, or achieve:
success will become ever more elusive.
• difficult to remember or recall: the
elusive thought he had had moments
before.
nature |na’ CH r| noun
1 The phenomena of the physical world
collectively, including plants, animals,
the landscape, and other features
and products of the earth, as opposed
to humans or human creations:
the breathtaking beauty of nature.
• the physical force regarded as causing
and regulating these phenomena.
A CALL FOR WORKS exploring the
ephemeral qualities of the natural world,
through observation, memory, nostalgia,
and longing. We ask artists to submit
work in all medias which reflect upon the
relationship we have with Nature.
The Concourse Gallery is located at
3600 Tremont Road, Upper Arlington in
the Municipal Services Center. The
gallery has 181 linear feet and 3500
square feet in which to install two and
three-dimensional works of art. The
Cultural Arts Commission will publicize
the exhibit, print exhibition postcards
that reach over 4000 households, and
provide an opening reception.
Proposals must include the following:
Please take pains to adhere to these parameters,
otherwise excellent work may be passed over.
• A digital image of work proposed. Digital
format requirements: Baseline JPG, 960 pixels
horizontal/960 pixels vertical, 300 dpi, image
file size must be less than 1.8 MBs
• Image information including title, medium,
dimensions, and date completed
• Contact information including: Name, Date,
Address, Phone, E-mail, Web site, Media
• A resume’ including a listing of previous
exhibitions
• An artist statement and brief description
of artwork
Are you interested providing gallery talks,
lectures, and/or workshops in conjunction with
your exhibition? If yes, please describe.
Please email the required materials to arts@uaoh.net
Or mail to:
City of Upper Arlington
Cultural Arts Division
3600 Tremont Rd.
Upper Arlington, OH 43221
BEHIND THE SCENES
LABOR DAY
ARTS FESTIVAL
THANK YOU!
I know that you will agree with me that
enjoying the arts in a beautiful setting,
close to home, is one of the wonderful
benefits of living in Upper Arlington.
I would like to thank our sponsors; their
generous support makes community
events like this possible. Please support
those that support the arts!
And, thank you to all of our wonderful
2012 Volunteers! Your energy and time
was appreciated immensely. Thank you for
being a part of the art at Upper Arlington’s
Labor Day Arts Festival!
Thank you to our sponsors who generously
support the Upper Arlington Labor Day
Arts Festival and make community events
like this possible.
Thank you
FESTIVAL HOST:
City of Upper
Arlington’s Cultural
Arts Division
PRESENTING
SPONSOR:
Farmers Citizens Bank
ARTISTS’ SPONSOR:
The Ohio Arts Council
Giant Eagle
VOLUNTEER
SPONSOR:
Powell Prints
ART ACTIVITIES
AREA SUPPORTERS:
Dewey’s Pizza
Columbus Clay
Columbus Alive!
PERFORMANCE
SPONSORS:
90.5 WCBE
CD102.5
MEDIA SPONSOR:
The Columbus Dispatch
FESTIVAL
SUPPORTERS:
Chase Bank
Columbus Arts Festival
Golf Cart Co.
John Quint Treboni
Funeral Home
Kroger
Porta Kleen
St. Agatha
Zettler Hardware
First Class
U.S. Postage
3600 Tremont Road, Upper Arlington, Ohio 43221
phone: 614-583-5310, fax: 614-437-8656, email: arts@uaoh.net
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PAID
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Columbus, OH
UPPER ARLINGTON CULTURAL ARTS DIVISION ARTSLINK FALL 2012
CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION
Missy Donovan, Chair
Alicia McGinty, Vice-Chair
Michele Hoyle
William Kenworthy
Kira Kirk
Duncan Snyder
Lori Trent
Jerry Weekly
Karen Yassenoff
STAFF
Lynette Santoro-Au, Arts Manager
Amy McQuillin, Arts Coordinator
Krista Fylling, Special Project Intern
MISSION STATEMENT
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In an effort to be greener and trim the costs of printing and mailing in
2012, we’re going to be using more e-communications. Please send your
email address to arts@uaoh.net so you can keep up with all that’s going
on in the arts. We’ll be mailing gallery postcards twice a year instead
of eight times per year and they will be 4" x 6" rather than 8.5" x 5.5".
By doing this we’ll save $2,000 in printing and $6,000 in mailing costs.
We’ll still be printing ArtsLinK quarterly.
Cover Image: Lee Csuri, Lady in the Mirror
The mission of the Upper Arlington Cultural Arts
Commission is to provide and promote a diverse,
lively, accessible arts environment that advances
the cultural assets and enriches the quality of
life of the community.