MICA Animation

Neph Madhere

Ang Buerano

Grace Ciccone

Korben Dennis, Damon Stallman, and Lucas Valensa

Christina Fidler

Isaac Garrett

Emeka Perkins-Johnson

Erin Chaeyeon Kim

Sung Youn Kim

CK Korleski

Ben Lefferts

Jon Leydon

Rebecca Luo

Sara Lyons

Tyriq Murphy

Terri Ogwulumba

Chris Oliversen

Jess Peterson

Alexa Quito

Elizabeth Saylor

Jasmine Soompholphakdy

Anya Vaughn

Tyler Washington

Left Out in the Patterning
MICA Animation Department 2020 Thesis Exhibition

May 16 – June 12, 2020

In partnership with the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Animation Department, Hillyer is honored to present Left Out in the Patterning, an online exhibition featuring the year-long thesis projects of the graduating class of 2020. Animation emerges from the arduous accumulation of small moments. Animators work frame by frame through measured outlines of movement trajectories that mix extemporaneous improvisation with pattern making in order to build a world’s interior logic. These projects unpack the importance of storytelling and reinvest in the power of voice during the obstacles of the present moment, itself unpredictable in its patterning. Students investigate themes ranging from the effects of microaggressions upon young women of color, nostalgia for natural habitats, to the ungodly awesomeness of rock and roll.

Participating Artists:

Ang Buerano
Grace Ciccone
Korben Dennis
Christina Fidler
Isaac Garrett
Emeka Perkins-Johnson
Erin Chaeyeon Kim
Sung Youn Kim
CK Korleski
Ben Lefferts
Jon Leydon
Rebecca Luo
Sara Lyons
Neph Madhere
Tyriq Murphy
Terri Ogwulumba
Chris Oliversen
Jess Peterson
Alexa Quito
Elizabeth Saylor
Jasmine Soompholphakdy
Damon Stallman
Lucas Valensa
Anya Vaughn
Tyler Washington

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To watch the films, visit vimeo.com/micaanimation

Learn more about MICA’s Animation Department at www.mica.edu

Beyond Kafka

March 6 – 29, 2020

Time flies by and swirls in the twists of human fates. It leaves its marks on building walls, its footprints on cobblestones, and its traces in our hearts. The city of Prague, its stories and personalities: author Franz Kafka, monarch Charles IV, presidents Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Václav Havel. Come in and enter Prague through the illustrations of author and visual artist Renáta Fučíková.

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Originally an artist and illustrator, Renáta Fučíková has gradually devoted more time to writing books. She has won many awards, including several Golden Ribbons, first prize at the Biennial of Illustration in Tehran in 1997, and the Grand Prix at the Biennial of Illustrations in Zagreb, Croatia in 2018. She was nominated for the Czech literature award Magnesia Litera as well as for the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times. Her magnum opus is a five-hundred-page illustrated History of Europe, in collaboration with author Daniela Krolupperová. The book was three years in the making and was published by Práh in 2011. Fučíková has also worked with the Czech postal service, which has produced six of her stamp designs. Fučíková teaches students of Media and Didactic Illustration at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

Presented in partnership with the Embassy of the Czech Republic

www.renatafucikova.cz

Pathways

March 6 – 29, 2020

Stephanie Garmey creates imagery inspired by her collection of natural objects, materials, and taxidermy animals. Her meditations on nature explore a variety of media: constructions and installations, book arts, painting, cut paper, embroidery, encaustics, wood, glass, drawing, and light. In Pathways, Garmey creates tableaus of animals’ habitats from around the globe, inspired by these animals’ instinctual flow with the rhythms of their ecosystem. Each tableau incorporates a book structure that suggests the innate encyclopedic knowledge of nature (migratory maps, daily paths, flora, and other fauna) that guides each animal’s place in the world. All of these animals are impacted by humans’ lack of reverence for the balance of nature and (indeed) for our planet. By contrast, these extraordinary animal tableaus link artifacts of human origin with the animals’ natural worlds, reminding us viscerally of our ancient roots—a positive, fruitful acknowledgement of animal power and our own harmony with nature.

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Stephanie Garmey has received individual artist’s grants from the Maryland State Arts Council in Crafts and Painting and the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Arts and Culture in Painting. Garmey teaches in the Drawing and General Fine Arts Departments at the Maryland Institute College of Art, teaching Mixed Media Book Arts, Nature Drawing, and Cut Paper 2D to 3D. She received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Hoffberger School of Painting, in 1995, where she studied with Grace Hartigan. She has an MA in Painting from Purdue University in Indiana and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Garmey lives and works in Baltimore, MD.

Outliers

March 6 – 29, 2020

Emily Campbell’s Outliers presents an installation of smaller gouache paintings and colorful ceramic sculptures that depict imagined landscapes populated by groups of fictional figures, often female. Each work evokes an individual’s relationship, interactions, and experiences with their surrounding environment—whether scenes of ritual and hedonism or quiet moments where traditional hierarchies are suspended.

“An outlier is defined as a person who is detached from the main body of a system or is atypical within a particular group; I am intrigued by the ways in which remote, precarious, or claustrophobic environments can influence and shape an outlier’s thoughts and actions. In my work, I use landscape features to suggest the inner thoughts of figures. Through distortion of form, exaggeration of color, and spatial incongruities, the environments in my paintings often reveal hidden aspects of the inhabitants’ motives, thoughts, and desires—more so than the facial expressions or body gestures of the figures themselves.

Inspired by botanical illustrations, ancient mythologies, science fiction, and historical imagery, I juxtapose seemingly disparate bits of imagery to create immersive work about desires, memories, and psychological states. In the exhibition, sculptures will be visually linked to the painted images through color, form, or recurring characters. My sequencing of images and arrangement of sculptures will playfully invoke the visual language of comics to generate an open-ended, nonlinear narrative, immersing the viewer in a heterotopic world that blurs the line between fact and fiction.”

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Emily Campbell is a visual artist and educator working in Baltimore, MD. She holds an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA in visual arts from Mercyhurst University. Previous solo and group exhibitions include those at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Baltimore, MD), Maryland Art Place (Baltimore, MD), St, Johns College (Annapolis, MD), Gallery CA (Baltimore, MD), Push Gallery (Asheville, NC), The Delaware Contemporary (Wilmington, DE), School 33 (Baltimore, MD), and Arlington Art Center (Arlington, VA). She has participated in residencies at Can Serrat (Barcelona, Spain), the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center (Nebraska City, NE), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild (Woodstock, NY). Campbell currently teaches at Maryland Institute College of Art and Anne Arundel Community College.

emilycampbell.net

Welcome?

February 7 – March 1, 2020

Spanish duo Amarist presents Welcome?, a comprehensive exhibition of their most recent body of work and a vivid critique of today’s international social, cultural, and economic issues. Created within a framework of reaction, the duo’s artworks transform a series of everyday objects and symbols into one-of-a-kind sculptures that unveil the consequences of our actions and interests as a society—stimulating our consciousness and transfiguring our inherited notions and rote ideals. Amarist’s intent in creating these visually powerful works is to goad us into querying our beliefs and seeing other sides to some of the most pressing issues of our time.

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Amarist is a creative studio based in Barcelona, Spain, founded by artists and designers Arán Lozano and Clara Campo. Childhood friends in a small village in the Pyrenees, Lozano and Campo grew up surrounded by nature and a craftsmanship ethos. Soon they began sharing creative concepts and ideas, and eventually formed an artistic partnership. Amarist Studio enjoys blurring the boundaries between contemporary art, design, and craft, with singular works that are both richly evocative and functional. In 2018, they were featured in Forbes’ “30 Under 30” Arts & Culture Europe edition. They were finalists for the 2018 Global Art Awards and the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, and were honored with a Silver award and an Iron award at the A’Design Competition. In 2018, they were selected to exhibit at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and in 2019 they exhibited at the Priveekollektie Gallery in Heusden, Netherlands. Welcome? is Amarist’s first solo exhibition in the United States.

amarist.com