706 Highland Ave.
Roger & Marsa Connor, hosts
Matt Morris, curator
Carmel Buckley, artist
Carmel Buckley is Full Professor in the Department of Art at the Ohio State University and teaches in the sculpture and foundations programs. She received a BA (sculpture) from Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic and continued her post-graduate studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes, Madrid University, Madrid, Spain and the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, Mexico City on a Mexican Government Scholarship. She received a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from the School of Visual Arts, New York as a Fulbright Fellow. She has exhibited her work nationally at The Drawing Center, NY, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus and the Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati. She has shown internationally at venues including the Economist Building, London and the Center For Recent Drawing, London, England. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Sculpture Award and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Award.
Matt Morris is an artist, writer, and sometimes curator based in Chicago. He has presented artwork at Queer Thoughts, peregrineprogram, The Bike Room, Gallery 400, Sector 2337, and The Franklin in Chicago, IL; Fjord and Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA; The Contemporary Arts Center, U·turn Art Space, Aisle, and semantics in Cincinnati, OH; Clough-Hanson Gallery and Beige in Memphis, TN; with additional projects in Reims, France; Greencastle, IN; Lincoln, NE; and Baton Rouge, LA. Morris is a transplant from southern Louisiana who holds a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and earned an MFA in Art Theory + Practice from Northwestern University, as well as a Certificate in Gender + Sexuality Studies. Recent curatorial efforts have been presented at Western Exhibitions and The Hills Esthetic Center in Chicago, IL. He is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who teaches in the Sculpture as well as the Painting and Drawing departments. He is a contributor to Artforum.com, Art Papers, Flash Art, Newcity, and Sculpture; and his writing appears in numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs.
Coming off of a recent course intensive in gardening at London's Regent's Park, Carmel Buckley's current sculptures respond to her own backyard property as a precondition, working primarily with materials salvaged from her home and garden. The assemblages quote forms from twentieth century sculpture, with particular attention to outdoor monuments of the Modernist period, considered in relation to the repetition and minutiae of housework and chores.
