Film Lingual II
July 17 - August 16, 2008
MK Foltz
The editor of Photo-Art magazine in Korea is fascinated by the American pampering of dogs since dogs for all of Asia are a menu item.
When Koreans view this piece in Photo-Art magazine they will probably question how in the world could Americans be so foolish.
MK
Culture-shots (artist statement):
Nineteenth century Romanticism experienced the sublime in the power and vastness of nature. Our new sublime is technology, whose globalized variations are present everywhere. Photographic technologies, too, have everywhere cross-bred aesthetically with other media, constituting a kind of visual DNA, while at the same time retaining a documentary anchor in reality. Technological consciousness has thus eclipsed the traditional mytho-poetic vision of pre-modern sensibilities.
Culture-shots employs digital technologies to contextualize my own photographs in ways that tease new meanings from Western cultural traditions, and those of others, by juxtaposing them with images drawn from our current technological consciousness. This work focuses on setting up an interplay that is intended to stimulate an awareness of the inner realities that once characterized the pre-modern.
© M. K. Foltz a.k.a. SIMQU
4 June 2008
Education
The Rhode Island School of Art and Design
Master of Fine Arts Degree: Photography
* Mentored by masters of the modernist tradition: Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind,
with critiques by visiting artists: Frederick Sommer, Lisette Model, Gary Winogrand and Lee Friedlander.
School of Visual Arts at Penn State University
Bachelor of Fine Arts: Photography
* Encouraged to pursue a career in photography by visiting artist, Diane Arbus.
Carnegie-Mellon University
Associate of Fine Arts: Drawing, Painting and Design.
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Honors:
2008 Asian Institute for Cultural Exchanges/Visiting Artist, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
2008 Pinellas County Cultural Affairs: Individual Artist Grant
2007 Florida Division of Cultural Affairs: Finalist
2007 Florida Division of Cultural Affairs: Artist Enhancement Grant
2006 Fulbright Fellowship/Artist-in-Residency: Yildiz Art Academy, Istanbul, Turkey
2005 Fulbright Fellowship/Artist-in-Residency: Vilnius Art Academy, Vilnius, Lithuania
2004 Fulbright Fellowship/Artist-in-Residency: School of Design, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic
2003 Fulbright Fellowship/ Artist-in-Residency: Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Budapest, Hungary
2003 Florida Division of Cultural Affairs: Finalist
2003 Pinellas County Cultural Affairs: Artists Resource Grant
2002 Atlantic Center for the Arts - Mexican Cultural Exchange: Associate Artist-in-Residency w/ Graciela Iturbide
1997 Pinellas County Cultural Affairs: Artists Resource Grant
1992 Florida Division of Cultural Affairs: Honorable Mention: Finalist
1984 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.: Photography Fellowship
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Selected exhibitions / artist’s talks + portfolio presentations / symposia:
2008 Film Lingua II (exhibition): C.E. Emerson Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida.
2008 Artist talk + portfolio presentation + critiques: College of Fine Arts Gallery: Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of South Korea.
2008-89 Annual Ringling College of Art and Design Faculty Exhibitions: Selby Gallery, Sarasota, Florida.
2007 Photography Image Biennial + catalogue: (Juried by Mark Klett) Wellington B. Gray Gallery, Greenville, North Carolina.
2006 Artist’s talk: Fotografevi (Istanbul House of Photography), Istanbul, Turkey.
2006 Artist’s talk + portfolio presentation + critiques: Yildiz Art Academy at Sarayi (Star Palace), Istanbul, Turkey.
2005 Lecture for docents and curators: Picturing What Matters, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida.
(Traveling exhibition curated by the George Eastman House of Photography, Rochester, N. Y.), Sarasota, Florida.
2005 Embracing Our Differences (exhibition + catalogue -16 X 11 ft banners, public art project - funded by the Holocaust Museum of Florida), Island Park, Sarasota, Florida.
2004 Artist’s talk + critiques of portfolios: Istanbul Fotograf Merkezi (Photography Centre Istanbul), Turkey.
2004 The Faceless Figure: Photographs from the Collection (exhibition): Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania.
2004 Artist’s lectures (series of) + portfolio presentation: Foto Atelier: School of Design, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic.
2003 Reality of Illusions: (exhibition + catalogue) Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2003 Artist’s talk + portfolio presentation: The History of Bathing Photography: Roman Baths of Budapest and Bath Carriages (19th C) of England to present day + Bathers and Waters: Mai Mano Haz (Hungarian House of Photography), Budapest, Hungary.
2003 Gallery talk: The Invented Photograph: Leepa-Ratner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, Florida.
2002 Light Works (exhibition): 531 Central Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida.
2001 Gallery talk: Landscape / Land Use: Photography and Ecology: Visual Interpretations of the Social History of Place: Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida.
2000 Panelist: Artist Dialogues: Creating the Continuum: The Artist as Educator, Ringling Museum of Art.
2000 Panelist: Artist Dialogues: Creating the Continuum: Issues and Ideas, Ringling Museum of Art.
2001 Inaugural Preview (exhibition): Tampa Gallery of Photographic Arts, Tampa, Florida.
2001 The Pictures of Texas Monthly: 25 Years (exhibition + book): Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
2000 Gallery talk + exhibition + catalog: Under CURRENT / Over VIEW IV Biennial, Tampa Museum of Art, Florida.
2000 Artist’s talk + portfolio presentation: Parallel Cultures series: Fine & Performing Arts Academy, Prague, Czech Republic.
2001 Digital Fusion (exhibition): The Art Center, St. Petersburg, Florida.
2000 Sarasota Biennial [statewide] (exhibition + catalog): Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida.
2000 49th Annual All Florida Exhibition: Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida.
2000 Images of Women: Reprise: Photographs from the Collection: Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine.
2000 Digital Age Art (exhibition): Venice Art Center, Venice, Florida.
2000 Conflict in Society: Eyes Wide Open (exhibition): Center for the Arts, The University of Buffalo, New York.
1999 Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts (exhibition), Elliott Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida.
1998 A Discerning Eye: A Selection of Fine Art, Historical Prints and Photographs from the Permanent Collection of The Free Library of Philadelphia (exhibition), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1998 Dangerous Beauty: Photogenic drawings (exhibition): The Leiberman Gallery, Sarasota, Florida.
1998 Invitational (three–person exhibition): The Art Center of St. Petersburg, Florida, 1998.
1997 Photo Americas: Contemporary Photography of the Western Hemisphere: Biennial / Photography Festival (exhibition + catalog): Juried by photo critic Peter Hay Alpert, Adams Mark Hotel, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1996 Fields of Vision (exhibition + catalog), Albin O. Kuhn Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland.
1995 Spectrum Biennial (exhibition): Light Impressions Gallery: Curated by photo critic Vicki Goldberg, Rochester, New York.
1995 Photography Redefined (exhibition): Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1994 FOTOFEST International (exhibition + catalog): Convention Center, Houston, Texas.
1994 Traditions of Looking (exhibition): Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1993 Invitacion Fotografia (exhibition) : Palacio de Las Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
1993 105 Degrees (exhibition): May Photography Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri.
1992 A Historical Preview: 30 Women Photographers (exhibition): The Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, Washington.
1992 Ways and Means: Six Contemporary Photographers (exhibition + catalog), Springfield Art Museum, Missouri.
1991 The Best: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Afterimage Photograph Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
1990 Fact and Fiction (exhibition + catalog), Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida.
1989 The Upham Collection of Photography (exhibition): Ransom Visual Arts Center, Saint Petersburg, Florida.
1989 Water Music series (exhibition): Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Belleair, Florida.
1989 Southern Women Photographers (exhibition): Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
1990 SWIMMERS: Seventy International Photographers (exhibition + book), Aperture Gallery, New York City.
1987 Recent Acquisitions: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania. (Curated by Michael Hoffman, publisher of Aperture).
1986 Kinetic States (exhibition): Afterimage Photograph Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
1986 Recent Acquisitions (exhibition): Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio.
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Permanent and Private Collections (in chronological order):
Tampa Museum of Art
The Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum, Oregon.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas.
Galerie Pennings Photography Collection, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.
Trenam, Kemker law firm, Tampa, Florida.
Saint Petersburg Museum of Art, Florida.
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio.
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania.
The Free Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
Portland Museum of Art, Maine.
International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York.
Fred Woodward, Art Director, Rolling Stone Magazine, NYC.
Dominique Browning, Editor, Newsweek, NYC.
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Professional Experience:
Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida:
Professor: Photography and Digital Imaging Department,
1989 – to present (founded the photo major in 1995).
Previously taught for the Creative Arts Collegium, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida;
College of Arts & Sciences, The University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida;
Department of Art, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas;
School of Visual Arts, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania;
Began my teaching career as an Assistant Professor of Photography (founded the photo program), College of Media Arts & Design, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Portfolio Reviewer:
Multiple reviews for FOTOFEST BIENNIAL at the International Meeting Place, Houston, Texas.
