Alethea Maguire-Cruz Questioning ‘Placehood’
In my experience, multiple excursions into remote landscapes, that are sparsely dissimilar from each other, have inspired attempts to uncover perceived and felt connections between land, sea and sky as one living thing. In search of ‘placehood,’ the collisions of shared elements that can be seen as nature repeating itself, translate into a rendered meeting point of diversified terrain: edge vs. atmosphere: an energetic ‘event horizon’. By increasingly altering my point of reference or orientation, unique spaces begin to collapse into one another: a composite memory or ‘singularity’ of making ‘sense’. For me, the transient enigma of place lies within the paroxysm between loci and event. I find juxtaposing, layering or combining the sequential narratives of a recorded journey to be that event. Only through the limitlessness of place within the landscape have I been able to distill a cohesive earthbound understanding of an observed reality.
EDUCATION
1995 MFA, GTA Fellow, University of Delaware, DE, Concentration: Printmaking
1994 MFA Candidate, Julin Scholar, University of Iowa, IA, Concentration: Printmaking
1993 BFA, SUNY @ Purchase, College of Art, NY, Concentration: Fine + Graphic Arts and Design
1992 BFA Foreign Exchange Student, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Academie
voor Beeldende Vorming, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Concentration: Painting
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Trapezoids: Olsen Gallery, Madrid, NM (pending)
2006
Stratospheres: A Body of Watercolors, PaperWorks Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
Loci: The Set of All Points Whose Location is Determined by Stated Conditions,
Art Reach of Mid-Michigan, Mt. Pleasant, MI
2004
Salt Quarries, Mistretta Galleries, Locust Valley, NY
2003
Coves and Canyons, Delta College Galleria, University Center, MI
2002
Excavations, Mistretta Galleries, Locust Valley, NY
2001
Visiting Artist/Honorarium/Exhibition, Robert A. Peck Art Gallery, Central Wyoming College, Riverton, WY
Recent Work, Tryptics, Mistretta Galleries, Locust Valley, NY
1999
Recent Work, Gallery K, Real Form Girdle Factory, Brooklyn, NY
1997
Recent Work, Portfolio Gallery, NY, NY |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Art of the Print, PaperWorks Gallery LLC, Grand Rapids, MI
New Paintings: Wilbert Fobbs and Alethea Maguire-Cruz, Hankins Gallery, E. Lansing, MI
Eastern Michigan University Great Lakes Drawing Biennial 2006, Ford Gallery, EMU, Ypsilanti, MI
Alma College 25th Annual Statewide Print Competition/Traveling Exhibition, MI
South Haven Center for the Arts; South Haven, MI
2005
Off Off Art, Robert Morris Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Cantor Set, Resurrected Vintage Gallery, Saginaw, MI
Coupled, Robert A. Peck Art Gallery, Riverton, WY
2004
Dialect of Place: Alethea Maguire-Cruz and Carlos Cruz, Hankins Gallery, E. Lansing, MI
The Print, Greater Michigan Juried Art Exhibition, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Barn Again/Barn Nation, Robert A. Peck Gallery, Central Wyoming College, Riverton, WY
2003
Statewide Multi-Media Juried Exhibition, Saginaw Art Museum, MI
2001
Apparitions: Sign of the Four, Mistretta Galleries LLC, Locust Valley, NY
2000
Autumn Art, Mistretta Galleries LLC, Locust Valley, NY
Common Ground, The Language of Printmaking, Esopus Art Gallery, Woodstock, NY
1999
Artists in Residence, Vermont Studio Center Gallery, Johnson, VT
1997
Invitational Print Exhibition, S.U.N.Y. @ Brooklyn College Visual Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1996
Regional Artists, New Castle Arts Limited, New Castle Gallery, DE
1994
Annual Print Exhibition, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1992
Neuberger Museum of Art Presents the Alumni of Antonio Frasconi, NMA, Purchase, NY |
