Through Dec. 5, the Rice University Art Gallery will feature an architectural installation, D-17 by Sarah Oppenheimer, a wing-like form soaring up and out of the gallery’s glass wall.
Sarah Oppenheimer, D-17, 2010
Commission, Rice University Art Gallery
Photos: Nash Baker © nashbaker.com
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Guyton\Walker, the combined talents of New York artists Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker, have an untitled installation in the Turk Gallery of Arizona State University Art Museum, up until Jan. 22. The installation is made from paint, silkscreen, inkjet print on canvas, inkjet print on drywall, digital inkjet prints on paint cans, and crates with printed drywall.
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Margarita L., photo by Alexandra Regalado
Photographer Alejandra Regalado’s portraits of Mexican immigrants, for her thesis project at New York’s School of Visual Arts, will be on view through Nov. 13 as part of the “Optic Nerve” exhibition at the SVA Gallery, 209 East 23 Street. More info.
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On Nov. 9 at 5 p.m., Wellesley College will screen a woman like that, filmmaker Ellen Weissbrod’s documentary merging “her own coming-of-middle-age story with her pursuit of the truths behind the legends of 17th-century female painter Artemisia Gentileschi’s meaningful art and dramatic life.” More info.: www.awomanlikethatfilm.com; www.wellesley.edu/Art; (781) 283-2042.
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The Texas Christian University Jazz Ensemble will be the only American band performing at the Havana International Jazz Festival, to be held Dec. 15-20.
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The American Dance Festival in Durham, N.C., has announced that James Frazier and Gerri Houlihan will be co-deans of the festival’s 2011 school, sharing the position for one to two years, after which Frazier will assume the deanship. Frazier chairs the department of dance and choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he is a tenured associate professor. Houlihan is a professor of dance at Florida State University.
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Eric Segal, former assistant professor of art history at the University of Florida, has been appointed curator of academic programs at the university’s Harn Museum of Art. The newly created position is “designed to enhance the Museum’s rich relationship with UF, and to continue to strengthen educational programming at the museum.”
Arts briefs are compiled from news releases. Please e-mail alexander.kafka[at]chronicle.com.
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