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The Arts Council of Princeton Announces New Exhibition Selections From Lewis Center Visual Arts Faculty

(Princeton, NJ) On Thursday May 21, 2009, from 5 – 7 pm, the Arts Council of Princeton celebrates the opening of the new exhibition Selections From Lewis Center Visual Arts Faculty. The exhibition features instructors from Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts including: Ann Agee, Kip Deeds, Su Friedrich, John O'Connor, Gary Schneider, and James Seawright. The exhibition will be on display in the Peg and Frank Taplin Gallery from May 14 through July 3, 2009. The Taplin Gallery is located in the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts at 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. Visit www.artscouncilofprinceton.org <https://www.artscouncilofprinceton.org/>  or call 609-924-8777 for more information.
 
About the Artists:
 
Ann Agee received an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art in 1986 and a B.F.A. in 1981 from The Cooper Union School of Art. Agee has had several one-person exhibitions in NYC, San Francisco, and elsewhere, most recently Boxing in the Kitchen at the PPOW Gallery in NYC, in 2005. Additionally, her work has been included in many group exhibitions between 1991 and 2006 including Bad Girls at the New Museum, 1993, Family Ties at the Peabody Essex Museum, and On the Wall at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 2003.
 
In addition to her exhibitions, Ann Agee has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including: Artists invite Artists Residency, Watershed Center for Ceramic Art (2006); The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1997); the New York Foundation for the Arts, Felissimo Design Award (1997); and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
 
 
Kip Deeds grew up in Newtown, Pennsylvania, attended art school at Temple University, and completed graduate studies in painting and printmaking at the University of Illinois. Deeds had two solo exhibitions in 2004, the first titled A little Sugar Goes a Long Way, comprised of recent paintings, drawings and prints at the Sykes Gallery of Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania. The second exhibition, 100 Drawings and Related Artist's book, occurred at the Wakeley Gallery of Illinois Wesleyan University.
 
In 2004, Deeds also presented work in nine group exhibitions including American Impressions: Contemporary American Printmaking at the Ben Shahn Gallery of William Patterson University. In 2005, he had a solo exhibit at the Hunt Gallery of Webster University in St. Louis, where he also presented a lecture about his work. In the summer of 2005, Deeds was a printmaker in residence at Frans Masereel Centre in Belgium.
 
Su Friedrich has produced and directed fourteen 16mm films and videos, including Seeing Red (2006), The Head of a Pin (2004), The Odds of Recovery (2002), Hide and Seek (1996), Rules of the Road (1993), First Comes Love (1991), Sink or Swim (1990), Damned If You Don't (1987), The Ties That Bind (1984), Gently Down the Stream (1981), and Cool Hands, Warm Heart (1979). With the exception of Hide and Seek, Friedrich is the writer, director, cinematographer, sound recordist and editor of all her films.
 
Friedrich's films have won many awards, including BEST NARRATIVE FILM AWARD at the Athens International Film Festival, OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY FEATURE at Outfest '97 in Los Angeles, SPECIAL JURY AWARD at the New York Gay Lesbian Film Festival, GRAND PRIX at the Melbourne Film Festival, the GOLDEN GATE AWARD at the San Francisco Film Festival, BEST EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE AWARD at the Atlanta Film Festival.
 
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John J. O'Connor received a Master of Fine Arts and Master of Art History from Pratt Institute in 2000.  He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2000) and was a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2007).  Mr. Connor was a resident artist at the Farpath Foundation in Dijon France (2007), and visiting printmaker at the Flying Horse Press in Orlando, FL (2003).  He recently presented work and conducted studio visits at both the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and at the Maryland Institute College of Art.  Mr. Connor has taught art and art history at Pratt Institute, NYU, and Adelphi University.
 
John O’Connor is represented by Pierogi gallery in Brooklyn and had a solo show there in September of 2008.  Mr. Connor’s work was included in the Greater New York exhibition at PS1/MOMA (2005), and the Queens Biennial in 2004.  He has exhibited at numerous galleries in the US and Europe, including Andrea Rosen (NYC), Rodolphe Janssen (Belgium), Ronald Feldman (NYC), Bernard Toale (Boston), and White Columns (NYC).  His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, the Village Voice, and the New Yorker.  Mr. Connor’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), Southern Methodist University (TX), and New Museum of Contemporary Art (NY).
 
Gary Schneider, born in South Africa in 1954, has a B.F.A. from the University of Cape Town and an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in New York, where he continues to live. He worked in the theatre of Richard Foreman and Robert Wilson in the 1970’s also making films through the early 1980’s. He has been exhibiting his photography since 1991. His Genetic Self-Portrait installation, completed in 1998 was exhibited in the U.S. at Mass MoCCA and The International Center of Photography. It has also been exhibited internationally and continues to travel. In 2000 it received an Eisenstadt award. The Genetic Self Portrait book was published by Light Work. In 2004 a survey, Gary Schneider: Portraits was mounted at the Sackler Museum, Harvard, Boston and received an NEA grant. The catalog was published by Yale University Press and HUAM. In 2005 he received the Lou Stoumen Award. His Nudes was published by Aperture as a book and exhibited there in November 2005. His Nudes are at present in The Naked Portrait exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery Scotland. In 2008 MoPA in San Diego will mount a solo exhibition. Some collections which include his work are: The Whitney Museum, The Guggenheim Museum and The Metropolitan Museum, New York; The National Gallery of Canada; The Musée de Elysée, Lausanne; The MFA, Boston and The Art Institute of Chicago.
 
James Seawright, born in 1936 in Jackson, Mississippi, was for many years Director of Visual Arts at Princeton University. Recognized as one of the foremost technological artists since the late 1960s, his works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim Museum of New York, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the New Jersey State Museum at Trenton, and other museums throughout the world.
 
 
About the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts
 
The Program in Visual Arts, part of the newly established Lewis Center for the Arts, allows interested undergraduates to explore the modes of thought and practice of visual media and to develop their creative skills in connection with a general program of humanistic education. Courses are offered in ceramics, digital and analog photography, drawing, film and video production, film history and criticism, painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation art, and a seminar in contemporary art.
 
Students who are interested in concentrating in Visual Arts can do thesis shows as Art and Archaeology Program 2 majors, or work toward a Visual Arts Certificate or the new Certificate in Film and Video (which includes both production and theory). All students concentrating in Visual Arts are allocated individual studio spaces. Throughout the year student work is exhibited in the Lucas Gallery and in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater.
 
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Every year a practicing art critic arranges visits to artists' studios and galleries in New York as part of the contemporary art seminar. Major artists, including Chuck Close, Martin Scorsese, Richard Serra, Nancy Graves and Frank Stella, have lectured at the University and have given critiques to Visual Arts Program students in their campus studios.
 
About the Arts Council of Princeton
 
The Arts Council of Princeton, founded in 1967, has a mission of “building community through the arts.” A multidisciplinary organization housed in the newly expanded and renovated Paul Robeson Center for the Arts in downtown Princeton, the Arts Council’s high quality exhibition, performing arts, arts education and community arts programs serve the diverse population of greater Princeton/Central New Jersey region. The Robeson Center, designed by renowned architect Michael Graves, includes exhibition space for contemporary art, a state of the art performing arts theater, studios for traditional and digital photography, ceramics, painting and drawing, and dance and performing arts. Classes and workshops are offered for children, teens and adults. In addition, the Arts Council produces a wide range of community events including free summer concerts, Communiversity Festival of the Arts each spring, the annual Hometown Halloween Parade and cultural celebrations including Black History Month, Cinco de Mayo and much more.