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Item Encountering the Rare Book(Oakland University, 2018-09-06) Eis, Andrea; Spunaugle, Emily; Daniel, Dominique; Greer, Katie; Roth, Brad; Barry, Meaghan; Walwema, Josephine; Hartsock, Katie; Payette, Jessica; Navin, Mark; Barlow, Gania; Spagnuolo, Anna; Campoy-Cubillo, Adolfo; Hahn, Stacey; Miller, Karen; Rigstad, Mark; Cassano, Graham; Peiser, Meghan; Reger, Jo; Lewis, Mary; Donahue, Timothy; Palmer-Mehta, ValerieExcerpt from essay by Andrea Eis: The palpability of book form, as a corporeal container for human thought, is distinctive from the reading of a book. The encounter with a book’s content happens in a reader’s mind; with a tangible book, that encounter is physical as well—it becomes matter for the senses. To hold a book that was printed in 1605, to touch a page that may not have been touched in hundreds of years, is a visceral experience that cannot be replicated in the digital realm.Item Employees Only(Oakland University, 2015-09-11) Goody, Dick; Lashbrook, DebraEmployees Only features the work of Oakland University’s Department of Art and Art History full-time studio art and graphic design faculty.Item Fundamental(ist)(Oakland University, 2007) Goody, Dick; Lashbrook, Debra; Jones, Dennis MichaelExcerpt from artist's statement: The words we use in daily conversations enable us to navigate the world. Words (texts) are ubiquitous, but the language of painting (syntax), for most, is something forgotten in early childhood. Paintings operate in the interchangeable region between thinking (language/text) and image (object).Item Subverting the (un)Conventional(Oakland University, 2011-01-07) Goody, Dick; Lashbrook, Debra; Greig, Cynthia; Van Der Tol, MichaelExcerpt from essay by Dick Goody: We always make assumptions about the objectivity of photography, just as we make assumptions about what we think the subject matter might be. Work that covers certain genres like gender, sexuality, identity, etc., may appear to be outwardly political in nature, but in Greig’s oeuvre, even when these things are present, even when they are dialectical, the personal takes precedence over the ontological.Item Contemporary Flânerie: Reconfiguring Cities(Oakland University, 2009-03-07) Whitehead, VagnerExcerpt from essay: Contemporary Flânerie: Reconfiguring Cities presents a new generation of transnational artists who respond to cities with the gusto of originary flânerie, so a brief history of flânerie’s aesthetic and intellectual dimensions is in order. Flâneurs of artistic or scholarly pursuits have long been considered iconic figures of modernism who processed newly industrializing cities of the west in subjective terms by aimlessly wandering through them, absorbing startling, contradictory novelties, and translating their experiences into art that was as radically modern as the fleeting moments it attempted to capture.Item The Commonwealth of Carlos Rolón/Dzine(Oakland University, 2016-01-16) Goody, Dick; Lashbrook, DebraExcerpt from essay by Dick Goody: Carlos Rolón was born in Chicago of Puerto Rican parents in 1970, and the tendency has been to alight upon this fact as the single denominating characteristic of his work – like a headlining brand, if you will – but this identification does not fully capture the artist’s almost psychic ability to synthesize and fuse genres from a multitude of extant cultural sources. The potentiality, particularity and lushness of the subject matter he employs are drawn from a variety of experiences and places.Item Terrestial Celestial(Oakland University, 2017-03-03) Goody, Dick; Lashbrook, DebraExcerpt from essay by Dick Goody: The traces left by Cody VanderKaay’s oeuvre do not so much reach backward to an initial idea; rather the lineage beams forward into subsequent potentialities. Therefore, to understand his work is to see it as an expanding network.Item Domestified Angst : Second Recording(Oakland University, 2008-10-18) Goody, Dick; Lashbrook, DebraExcerpt from essay by Dick Goody: To say that Johnson’s identity is wrapped up in himself, that is, in his image, is an idiotic aphorism. Yet, the image of his face is often present in his work. His self-depictions channel the simulacra of a saccharine TV announcer. The face becomes a target at which to aim scorn. If it is self-flagellation, it also serves as a signifier of Johnson’s tortured layered identities. However, at the same time, it is symbolic of his personal thick-skinned resilience, survival and scorn: the distorted idiotic face taunts, as if the artist is mocking his personal anxieties stirred up by concerns over the authenticity of his own warped identity.Item Nostalgia & Outrage(Oakland University, 2024-01-13) Goody, Dick; Lashbrook, DebraExcerpt from essay by Dick Goody: “Nostalgia and outrage” is a state of mind. On the one hand, we long to bask in the memories of a gilded childhood. On the other, we see ourselves on a threshold, walking toward an unknowable, often alarming future. But, really, in all of this, how far do we ever stray from the path of our childhood? As Aristotle said: “Give me the child until he is seven and I will show you the foundation of the man.”Item Borders and Frontiers: Collage and Appropriation in the Contemporary Image(Oakland University, 2011-03-05) Goody, Dick; Lashbrook, DebraExcerpt from essay by Dick Goody: It is paradoxical in the context of the lushness of this exhibition that the above statement, thirty years on, might appear celebratory rather than pejorative. Artists appropriate materials of their time and place, and rapidly the destiny of these “tissues of quotations” becomes the reflective and reflexive visual record of their given epoch. Borders and Frontiers presents a collection of artists that demonstrates both a specialized appetite for the digital and contemporary, yet, at the same time, a blend of quotations from an image bank of the past, and in doing so they build a bridge between historicism, the contextual present, and a conjectural tomorrow.Item Oakland University Biennial Faculty Exhibition, 2010-11(Oakland University, 2010-10-22) Eis, Andrea; Goody, Dick; Lashbrook, DebraExcerpt from introduction by Andrea Eis: The art faculty at Oakland University are exceptionally diverse. Our artworks span a wide range of formal and conceptual interests varying in visual style, physical media, and theoretical practice. This richness of approach is one of our strengths, as a teaching faculty composed of working artists. Our students gain from the multiple perspectives we bring to the studio environment and to aesthetic critique.Item The Berding Memorandum(Oakland University, 2016-10-15) Goody, Dick; Lashbrook, DebraExcerpt from essay by Dick Goody: Since the 1980s, the most challenging aspect of contemporary abstract painting has been to make something that we never anticipated seeing before, which does not resemble another’s visual abstract language. Thomas Berding’s uniquely distinct paintings overcome this challenge with brio and inventiveness.Item The Art of the Artist's Book(Oakland University, 2010-01-08) Goody, Dick; Lashbrook, DebraExcerpt from essay by Dick Goody: Artists’ books, produced as an ancillary form are often more privately subversive than an artist’s primary oeuvre. This is because they are not generally meant for public scrutiny. Their scale and personal nature makes them the exclusive domain of one pair of eyes at a time. With works by more than thirty artists, including Matthew Barney, Anthony Caro, R.B. Kitaj, Donald Lipski, Kiki Smith, and Kara Walker, this survey, chiefly of one-of-a-kind books, features contemporary artists’ books from the last two decades, a time when the artist’s book has come of age. Books by artists are no longer viewed as eccentric oddities; they are a genre all their own.Item Writing an Image: Chinese Literati Art(Oakland University Art Gallery, 2009) Yu, ShuishanPublication from Oakland University Art Gallery exhibit September 11-November 22, 2009.Item Retrofit(Meadow Brook Art Gallery, 2003-09-06) Que, SharonCatalog of an exhibition of sculpture. Includes essay "Landscape, metaphor, memory and machinery by Dick Goody (p. 2-3) Interview with Sharon Que 9 (p. 4-6, 19-22) List of exhibitions and bibliography (p. 23)Item Personal favorites : fine prints from the collection of Carl F. Barnes and Anna M. Barnes : [exhibition] Meadow Brook Art Gallery, January 14 - April 2, 2000(Oakland University, 2000)Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Meadow Brook Art Gallery January 14 - April 2, 2000. Photograph images of the prints are accompanied by descriptions. Includes forwards by Gary D. Russi, David J. Downing, Janice G. Schimmelman, and Bonnie J.K. Hart. An introductory essay by Carl F. Barnes, Jr. is also included.Item Magic in the mind's eye : [exhibition] featuring the collection of Kempf Hogan : part I October 4-November 8, 1987, part II November 22- December 27, 1987(Oakland University, 1987)Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Meadow Brook Art Gallery October 4 - November 8, 1987 and November 22 - December 27, 1987. Curated by Kiichi Usui. Includes essays by Kiichi Usui, Richard P. Wunder, Kris Jefferson, and Suzanne Stroh. Original photographs are in both color and black and white.Item Imaging a shattering earth : contemporary photography and the environmental debate(Co-published by Oakland University and CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival, 2005) Baillargeon, Claude; Kennedy, Robert F., Jr; Sutnik, Maia-Mari; McCormick, KatyCatalogue of an exhibition held at the Meadow Brook Art Gallery, October 29-December 18, 2005. Includes essays by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Maia-Mari Sutnik, and Claude Baillargeon. Original book contains color photographs.Item New Generation Detroit : in celebration of the Detroit tercentennial : an exhibition of new art from the metropolitan area(Oakland University, 2001) Goody, Dick; Schimmelman, Janice G.Catalogue of an exhibition held at Meadow Brook Art Gallery September 7 - October 7, 2001. Includes bibliographical references. Includes essays on the history of art in Detroit and emerging Detroit artists.Item Interior particular [Jane Lackey] / essay: Dick Goody(Oakland University, 2003) Lackey, Jane; Goody, DickCatalogue of an exhibition held at Meadow Brook Art Gallery 22 November-21 December 2003. Includes bibliographical references. Includes a selected biography and bibliography of Jane Lackey.