CURIOUSLY ALIGNED: CONTEMPORARY DRAWING PRACTICES
Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, October 21 - December 12, 2011
"Curated by Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, MaLynda Poulsen, Curiously Aligned: Contemporary Drawing Practices is an exhibition featuring Kris Hargis, Angela Katona-Batchelor, Scott Kolbo, MaLynda Poulsen, CHERYL SHURTLEFF, and Charles Timm-Ballard: six Northwest artists investigating the process of drawing in the course of their artistic production. Whether it is the lush charcoal surfaces created by Shurtleff and Poulsen, the minutely detailed etchings of Katona-Batchelor, the meticulous renderings of Kolbo, the expressive surreal strokes of Hargis, or the subtle imagined spaces of Timm-Ballard, all of these artists’ works share a tremendous sincerity and sensitivity in the making of their marks.
The artists represented in Curiously Aligned are masters in their creation of moving visual tensions. Each piece, whether partially concealed, contained, or projected is rich with elements of personal narrative. Beyond this, however, the work expands to explore with humor, honesty, and poignancy, the complexities of human experience. There is also an undercurrent of anxiety or a quest for peace and resolution present in many of the pieces in this exhibition that is evocative of the larger struggles individuals encounter as they seek to locate themselves within the complicated frameworks of our time."
Dawn M. Forbes
Director of the Donald H. Sheehan Gallery
Whitman College
"Curated by Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, MaLynda Poulsen, Curiously Aligned: Contemporary Drawing Practices is an exhibition featuring Kris Hargis, Angela Katona-Batchelor, Scott Kolbo, MaLynda Poulsen, CHERYL SHURTLEFF, and Charles Timm-Ballard: six Northwest artists investigating the process of drawing in the course of their artistic production. Whether it is the lush charcoal surfaces created by Shurtleff and Poulsen, the minutely detailed etchings of Katona-Batchelor, the meticulous renderings of Kolbo, the expressive surreal strokes of Hargis, or the subtle imagined spaces of Timm-Ballard, all of these artists’ works share a tremendous sincerity and sensitivity in the making of their marks.
The artists represented in Curiously Aligned are masters in their creation of moving visual tensions. Each piece, whether partially concealed, contained, or projected is rich with elements of personal narrative. Beyond this, however, the work expands to explore with humor, honesty, and poignancy, the complexities of human experience. There is also an undercurrent of anxiety or a quest for peace and resolution present in many of the pieces in this exhibition that is evocative of the larger struggles individuals encounter as they seek to locate themselves within the complicated frameworks of our time."
Dawn M. Forbes
Director of the Donald H. Sheehan Gallery
Whitman College
THE AGENCY OF UNREALIZED PROJECTS
Shurtleff Cat Hair Project Proposal Submitted to The Agency of Unrealized Projects
A description of the AUP project states:
"Architects often exhibit their ideas, in the absence of any construction, in the form of design plans and models. Why shouldn’t artists enjoy a similar freedom to display art that is unrealized, and perhaps unrealizable? The AUP seeks to honor and document the artistic agency inherent in the incomplete idea, the partial expression, even the mere intention. The AUP believes that 'whether censored, forgotten, postponed, impossible, or rejected, unrealized projects form a unique testament to the speculative power of non-action.'
The collection of Unrealized Projects will be on display at a temporary AUP office in Basel this June. AUP is a project of e-flux in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery devised by Julieta Aranda, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones and Anton Vidokle."
A description of the AUP project states:
"Architects often exhibit their ideas, in the absence of any construction, in the form of design plans and models. Why shouldn’t artists enjoy a similar freedom to display art that is unrealized, and perhaps unrealizable? The AUP seeks to honor and document the artistic agency inherent in the incomplete idea, the partial expression, even the mere intention. The AUP believes that 'whether censored, forgotten, postponed, impossible, or rejected, unrealized projects form a unique testament to the speculative power of non-action.'
The collection of Unrealized Projects will be on display at a temporary AUP office in Basel this June. AUP is a project of e-flux in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery devised by Julieta Aranda, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones and Anton Vidokle."
CONGRESS OF CURIOUS PEOPLES
Shurtleff showed her work April 15-17 in the "Colonnade of Curiosities" at Coney Island, part of the Congress of Curious Peoples held April 8-17, 2011.
The Congress of Curious Peoples featured a two-day symposium, described as an intellectual investigation of "immersive amusements, human anatomy on display from fairground to museum, science for public amusement, dime museums and their place in the 21st Century imagination, and schlarship as artistic medium, featuring a variety of inspiring scholars, collectors, authors, artists and practitioners." Shurtleff's work was cited in the April 4 edition of the New York Times magazine Time Out as one of "Five Things to See at the Congress of Curious Peoples."
The Congress of Curious Peoples featured a two-day symposium, described as an intellectual investigation of "immersive amusements, human anatomy on display from fairground to museum, science for public amusement, dime museums and their place in the 21st Century imagination, and schlarship as artistic medium, featuring a variety of inspiring scholars, collectors, authors, artists and practitioners." Shurtleff's work was cited in the April 4 edition of the New York Times magazine Time Out as one of "Five Things to See at the Congress of Curious Peoples."
BOISE ART MUSEUM TWENTY TEN IDAHO TRIENNIAL sustain + expand
Organized every three years, the 2010 Idaho Triennial juried exhibition brought together exemplary works of art created by 45 Idaho artists who were selected by Seattle curator Beth Sellars.
Cheryl Shurtleff presented a public art talk on her work in the triennial on November 4, 2010.
Exhibited works: Bird and Rabbit; Bird and Piglet; Dog and Bird.
Cheryl Shurtleff presented a public art talk on her work in the triennial on November 4, 2010.
Exhibited works: Bird and Rabbit; Bird and Piglet; Dog and Bird.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER at Boise Art Museum, June 12 - October 3, 2010
Birds of a Feather featured work selected from the permanent collection of the Boise Art Museum, the Driek and Michael Zirinsky Collection and from other community lenders. It coincided with BAM's John James Audubon exhibition. Included in Birds of a Feather was Shurtleff's work, MINER.
BIOGRAPHY: CHERYL K. SHURTLEFF
Born 1947 in Oregon
Resides in Boise, Idaho
MA in Modern Art History: University of Oregon, 1988
MA in Art Education: Boise State University, 1978
BFA in Art, Drawing and Painting: Boise State College, 1973
Professor of Art, Boise State University: 1978 - Present
Cheryl K. Shurtleff's work has been placed in exhibitions by recognized artists and critics, including Lucy Lippard, Dennis Barrie, Dave Hickey, Ed Paschke and Jay DeFeo. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and received a Faculty Recognition Award for Outstanding Creative Research from the Boise State University College of Arts and Sciences, and a University Foundation Scholar Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boise State.
Resides in Boise, Idaho
MA in Modern Art History: University of Oregon, 1988
MA in Art Education: Boise State University, 1978
BFA in Art, Drawing and Painting: Boise State College, 1973
Professor of Art, Boise State University: 1978 - Present
Cheryl K. Shurtleff's work has been placed in exhibitions by recognized artists and critics, including Lucy Lippard, Dennis Barrie, Dave Hickey, Ed Paschke and Jay DeFeo. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and received a Faculty Recognition Award for Outstanding Creative Research from the Boise State University College of Arts and Sciences, and a University Foundation Scholar Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boise State.
