Annual Gretchen Hupfel Symposium

SUPERstructure:
city/building/interior/object

Related Exhibitions 2012

Image: Susie Brandt Five Stumps, 2011	*Five Stumps* E. Avery Draper Gallery October 21, 2011 - February 19, 2012 In her stump series, Brandt examines the city environment through a group of hand-hooked wool rugs made from recycled thrift store clothing and blankets. Their designs are based on rubbings taken directly from tree stumps in Baltimore City. Brandt’s exploration of the city through the metaphor of the tree stump suggests the relationship of rus in urbe (the garden within the city).
Image: Amanda Burnham Walkshed, 2011	Amanda Burnham *Walkshed* Beckler Family Members’ Gallery December 16, 2011 – February 26, 2012 Creating an installation of drawings based on her explorations and encounters with the city, Burnham works on site, producing drawings either in the out-of-doors or sitting in her car. She says that she “reads the landscape for found fragments of language and records the poetics of vacant lots, movable type signs, billboards, and row houses with ink and water and other media on paper.”
Image: Joe Netta, 2010	Under Construction: Part I Curated by J. Susan Isaacs Carole Bieber and Marc Ham Gallery February 4 – June 3, 2012 Artists Leah Bailis, Anthony Cervino, Robert Guevara, Joe Netta, and Adam Weir explore the intersection between construction, architecture, design, and sculpture. Utilizing ordinary building materials like cement, electrical tape and wire, plywood, drywall, PVC tubes, insulation, and fastenings, they create works that address issues related to the urban experience, rus in urbe, suburbia, consumption, liminality, memory and nostalgia, and states of reality.
Image: The Dufala Brothers, 2011 Courtesy of the artists and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia.	*New Work by the Dufala Brothers* Curated by Maiza Hixson Constance S. and Robert J. Hennessy Project Space February 10 – May 13, 2012 Considering ideas of space and efficiency, the Dufalas create an original, site-specific sculptural installation that responds to the concept of a compact domestic dwelling. Taking resourcefulness to an extreme level, these two Philadelphia-based artists will build a highly contradictory design for survival and household comfort.
Image: Ron Longsdorf, 2011	Under Construction: Part II Curated by J. Susan Isaacs DuPont II Gallery February 17 – June 10, 2012 Artists in Part II: Alexis Granwell, Ron Longsdorf, Michael Jones McKean, and Yoonmi Nam.
Image: C. Grant Cox, III, 2011	Contraption: Devices in Art Curated by Maiza Hixson DuPont I Gallery February 17 – June 24, 2012 Contraption is a thematic exhibit featuring ingeniously playful sculptural works that invite interactivity. Wearable, audible, and usable, these works encourage audience participation. Artists: Tim Eads, Tracy Featherstone, C. Grant Cox, III, Tyler Held, Cynthia Norton, Lauren Ruth, and Joanie Turbek.
Image: Rebecca Murtaugh, 2012	Rebecca Murtaugh *Intimate Constructions* E. Avery Draper Gallery February 28 – May 20, 2012 Intimate Constructions seeks to create a sense of of ethereality through the use of repurposed Styrofoam packaging and discarded house paints. The insular nature of Styrofoam is used both metaphorically and literally. The installation places the viewer in a position to question scale, the nature of structures, and our place within our environment.
Image: Erin Murray, 2012	Erin Murray *Municipalia* Beckler Family Members’ Gallery March 2 – June 3, 2012 In her paintings and drawings, Murray investigates the architecture of bureaucracy through the stripped down buildings of odernism’s municipal structures, revealing the protocols of officialdom by careful observation and interpretation of what she believes to be the underappreciated beauty of buildings of authority and procedure. Working with flat planes of color and contrasting textures, the artist creates powerful images of the American architectural scene, revealing an architecture that exclaims its purpose.

2012 Gretchen Hupfel Symposium

SUPERstructure: city/building/interior/object

March 23 – 24, 2012

Keynote Speaker: Marshall Brown
Professor of Architecture
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Friday, March 23, 2012: 7 - 9 pm

Saturday, March 24, 2012: 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

SUPERstructure serves as the larger theme for seven individual but interrelated DCCA exhibitions taking place in Spring 2012. The symposium will present interdisciplinary scholarship and examine artistic/architectural practice as a platform for discussion of the built environment, including the urban and domestic, the environmentally sustainable and unsustainable, the beautiful and repellant, and the permeable boundaries between design, craft, and fine art.

A catalogue will be available for purchase at the symposium.

Download full schedule of events here.

Two-day symposium - $85 Members, $100 Future Members, $45 Students

Friday evening only - $35 Members, $40 Future Members, $15 Students

Saturday only - $60 Members, $70 Future Members, $35 Students

Teachers can receive credit for the Symposium through the Delaware Teacher Center.

Register online here or Call 302-656-6466 x7101 for further information.

The Gretchen Hupfel Symposium is named for Gretchen Hupfel, a conceptually oriented artist who worked in many different disciplines. She passed away in 2002 at the age of thirty-nine. This named lecture furthers the legacy of a passionate and remarkably talented artist and will not only commemorate her death, but celebrate her life.

For more information on the Gretchen Hupfel Endowment Fund visit: http://thedcca.org/content/gretchen-hupfel-endowment-fund.

This program is partially funded by a grant from the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

DCCA Education Programs are made possible, in part, by individual contributions; member support; and by major grants from Bank of America, Borgenicht Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, DuPont, ING DIRECT, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware in partnership with National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by the Delaware Humanities Forum, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities; United Way of Delaware; The First State Gridiron Board; The Gilliam Foundation; I Could Do Great Things Foundation; Puffin Foundation; Wilmington Flower Market; The Christmas Shop Foundation; Walmart; and by Amtrak – Official Transportation Provider for the DCCA.

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