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225º F: Encaustic Encounters
November 6, 2009 - February 6, 2010
Main Gallery, East Wing
Organized by the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Curator: Brook Bower
225° F: Encaustic Encounters is the first exhibition focused entirely on encaustic painting to be featured in the TVCA’s galleries. This curated, invitational exhibition explores naturalistic themes
from the work of exceptional, encaustic artists who challenge the established traditions of the media by expressing innovation in the utilization of encaustic techniques.
This exhibition features encaustic painters working with many different techniques of encaustic painting. The artists include: Tracey Adams (Carmel, CA),
Jhina Alvarado (San Francisco, CA), Margaret Berry (Lincoln, NE), Mary Black (Sebastopol, CA), Mary Farmer (Asheville, NC), Eileen P. Goldenberg (San Francisco, CA),
Jane Harrison (Lenior, NC), Cari Hernandez (San Francisco, CA), Molly Cliff Hilts (Portland, OR), Jeff Juhlin (Salt Lake City, UT), Jane Allen Nodine (Spartanburg, SC),
Gay Patterson (Santa Fe, NM), Paula Roland (Santa Fe, NM), and Marsh Scott (Laguna Beach, CA).
More information on this exhibition will be coming soon. This exhibition will be available for travel.
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Installation View, Photo Credit: Troy Tuttle, 2008 |
Installation View, Photo Credit: Troy Tuttle, 2008 |
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Installation View, Photo Credit: Troy Tuttle, 2008 |
Installation View, Photo Credit: Troy Tuttle, 2008 |
Capturing a Transient World: A Contemporary Look at Louisiana
April 4 - August 2, 2008
Galleries A & Carroll
Organized by the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
An Exhibition Organized by Co-Curators Karin Eberhardt & Brook Bower
Karin Eberhardt, Assistant Professor of Design, Southeastern Louisiana
University, joined TCVA Assistant Curator Brook Bower to curate this powerful exhibition
focused on the coastal lands of Louisiana. Every action initiates a reaction. In the case
of the Barrier Islands, the safeguard of Louisiana, the marshes and estuaries are
diminishing so rapidly that researchers and artists can do little but document its imminent
disappearance. As levees are built and rebuilt, the Mississippi is redirected, and
storms come and go, so does the landmass that makes up the magnificent and endangered Louisiana
coast. Capturing a Transient World features eleven artists who present an interpretative, multi-media
response to the multiplicity of ideas and complex issues surrounding coastal Louisiana.
Through the eyes of contemporary artists employing this theme in their art, this collective body
of work captures the ecological tension between man and nature and investigates the adverse effects
of coastal erosion on the rich Louisianan culture and way of life. Participating artists include:
Matthew Brazier, Chuck Broussard, Karin Eberhardt, Yvonne James, Daniel Kariko,
Delaina LeBlanc, Scott Ludwig, F. Tobias Morriss, Caesendra Seawell, Michael Wyshock,
and Dennis Sipiorski.
This exhibition is presented in conjunction with IN Black & White, an exhibition that presents
photographs investigating Louisiana's coastline from Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium's
Permanent Collection.
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Installation View, Photo Credit: Troy Tuttle, 2008 |
Installation View, Photo Credit: Troy Tuttle, 2008 |
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Installation View, Photo Credit: Troy Tuttle, 2008 |
Installation View, Photo Credit: Troy Tuttle, 2008 |
IN Black & White
Louisiana's Retreating Coast and Communities
Works from LUMCON's Permanent Collection
April 4 - August 2, 2008
Galleries B & Mayer Gallery
Organized by Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and
the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Curator: Brook Bower along with representatives from LUMCON
Representatives from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium join together with TCVA
Assistant Curator Brook Bower for an important exhibition. Over the past eight years, Louisiana
Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON), in Chauvin, LA has offered a unique educational
course that utilizes the magnificent and endangered backdrop of Louisiana estuaries to introduce
students to black and white photography. The Coastal Landscape Photography is a week long
intensive course which offers training in camera operation, subject composition, darkroom chemistry,
as well as, gallery presentation. This exhibition presents a selection of photographic works from
LUMCON's Permanent Collection while offering a cross-disciplinary educational experience through a
visual conversation about Louisiana's precious coastline and its rapid disappearance along
with the culture, and the biological life it sustains. The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
(LUMCON) was formed in 1979 to coordinate and stimulate Louisiana's activities in marine
research and education. LUMCON provides coastal laboratory facilities to Louisiana
universities, and conducts research and educational programs in the marine sciences.
This exhibition is presented in conjunction with Capturing a Transient World, an exhibition that investigates
the adverse effects the disappearance of the coastline and
estuaries are having on the rich Louisianan culture and way of life,
through the eyes of contemporary artists.
Brook Bower serves as the Assistant Curator for the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (TCVA) located at Appalachian State University (ASU) in Boone, NC. Bower’s professional activities include
curating exhibitions, lecturing, consulting on competition management, serving as a juror for local competitions, mentoring future art management students and managing several national art
competitions including the Rosen Sculpture Competition, the Halpert Biennial and the Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition. Bower also serves as the Acting Registrar, providing collections
management support for the TCVA’s Permanent Collection containing 1,090+ objects and managing the Intra-Campus Loan Program.
While serving as the Assistant Curator, Bower has curated, organized and assisted in over 150 exhibition. The exhibitions on this page serve as an example of the types of projects she is interested in.