Oso Bay Biennial – TAMUCC ART AND DESIGN

OSO BAY BIENNIAL XXI: A 2020 VISION – Symposium

Online Symposium Dates: September 23-26, 2020

*Each and Every,* Beili Liu
photo credit Amos Morgan

Beginning 42 years ago, the faculty of the Department of Art + Design at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi have coordinated the Oso Bay Biennial, representing the various disciplines practiced in the department.

For 2020, Oso Bay Biennial XXI will focus on artworks and techniques that connect and contribute to the interdisciplinary nexus of Sculpture and three-dimensional artmaking, including installation and ceramics.

On Wednesday – Saturday, September 23-26, the Oso Bay Biennial XXI: A 2020 Vision – Symposium will feature an online series of three panel discussions, gallery talks, a talk by Houston-based curator and Oso Bay Biennial XXI exhibition juror Dr. Volker Eisele, and a keynote address by artist and UT Austin Professor Beili Liu.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
online via Facebook Live at TAMU-CC College of Liberal Arts FB page

Wednesday, September 23, 6:30-8:00pm
PANEL SESSION: MATTER MATTERS
A panel presentation and discussion with artists who explore an interdisciplinary approach to media, craft, and engagement.

Panelists:
Jennifer Ling Datchuk
Liss Lafleur
Josephine Durkin

Moderator: Richard W. James, Assistant Professor of Sculpture/Ceramics, TAMU-CC

Thursday, September 24th – 6:30-8:00pm
ONLINE RECEPTION with gallery talks and tours

This evening of art bursts and gallery talks will be moderated by:
Joshua Duttweiler, Assistant Professor of Art Graphic Design, TAMU-CC
Leticia R. Bajuyo, Associate Professor of Sculpture, TAMU-CC

This evening will include:

A presentation by, Joshua Duttweiler, the newest addition to the TAMU-CC Art and Design Faculty.
A discussion about the history of the Oso Bay Biennial between Louis Katz, Professor of Ceramics and Greg Reuter, Professor Emeritus of Sculpture.
Gallery talk videos by artists exhibiting in the Oso Bay Biennial Juried Exhibition in TAMU-CC’s Weil Gallery. Beginning Sculpture students selected these artists to respond to their inquiries about works in the exhibition.
Art bursts and gallery talks from arts institutions in Corpus Christi and Rockport as we visit exhibitions and learn more about their programming in our art community.

Friday, September 25, 4-5:30pm
KEYNOTE SPEAKER – BEILI LIU

Beili Liu, Professor of Art at the University of Texas at Austin
MFA in Mixed Media/Sculpture/Installation from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
BA in Graphic Design from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Assoc. B.A. in Chinese Literature and Communication from Shenzhen University, China

Beili Liu is a visual artist who creates material-and-process-driven, site-responsive installations. Oftentimes embodying transience, fragility, and the passage of time, Liu’s immersive installations are engaged with multifaceted dichotomies: lightness contrasted with heft; fierceness countered by resilience; and chaos balanced by quiet order. Working with commonplace materials and elements such as thread, scissors, paper, stone, fire, and water, Liu manipulates their intrinsic qualities to extrapolate complex cultural narratives. Janet Koplos spoke of Liu’s works as “materially simple but metaphorically rich” (Art in America Review, April 2009).

Moderator: Dr. Laura Petican, Associate Professor and Director of University Galleries

Friday, September 25, 6:00-7:30pm
PANEL SESSION: FOUNDATION MATTERS
A panel presentation and discussion about 3D teaching philosophies, approaches, and goals emphasizing teaching experience at community colleges in South Texas.

Panelists:
Jill Bedgood
Amorette Garza
Jessica F. Kreutter
Moderator: David Hill, Professional Assistant Professor and Galleries Manager, TAMU-CC

Saturday, September 26, noon-1:30pm
PANEL SESSION: NETWORK MATTERS
A panel presentation and discussion about opportunities for connecting, exhibiting, and developing by seeking communities and collaboration locally, regionally, and nationally.

Panelists:
Matt Manalo, Founder at Filipinx Artists of Houston
Sabine Senft, president of Texas Sculpture Group
Kristen Tordella-Williams, vice president of Midsouth Sculpture Alliance
Moderator: Leticia R. Bajuyo, Associate Professor of Sculpture, TAMU-CC

Saturday, September 26, 2:00-3:30pm
PRESENTATION FROM THE VIEW AS A CURATOR, DIRECTOR, AND JUROR

Dr. Eisele is the director and founder of ArtScan and directs the Rudolph Blume Fine Art/ArtScan Gallery at 1836 Richmond Avenue, Houston, Texas. In 2016, Dr. Eisele co-founded the city-wide festival Sculpture Month Houston.
http://sculpturemonthhouston.org
https://www.rudolphblume.com
During this presentation, Dr Eisele will be presenting and sharing about his experience with Sculpture Month Houston and then about his work jurying the exhibition Oso Bay Biennial XXI: Matter Matters. In this presentation, he will be announcing awards (1st, 2nd, and 3rd place awards along with three honorable mentions). Additionally, he will be sharing curatorial responses about these recipients’ work and about seven additional selected artists’ artworks.

Co-Moderators:
Leticia R. Bajuyo, Associate Professor of Sculpture, TAMU-CC
Dr. Laura Petican, Associate Professor and Director of University Galleries, TAMU-CC
Plus, some special guests during the last 30 minutes of the event!

The symposium and all related events are open to the public.

For more information, please visit the Department of Art + Design website at: http://cla.tamucc.edu/art/Events.html

OSO BAY BIENNIAL XXI: MATTER MATTERS – Juried Exhibition, September, 2020

Weil Art Gallery
August 28-September 26, 2020

A primary component of this year’s biennial was a national juried exhibition at the TAMU-CC Weil Art Gallery, co-sponsored by TAMU-CC, Texas Sculpture Group and Mid-South Sculpture Alliance. This show was juried and curated by Sculpture Month Houston founder, Dr. Volker Eisele. In addition to his work with SMH, he was the director and founder of ArtScan and directs the Rudolph Blume Fine Art/ArtScan Gallery at 1836 Richmond Avenue, Houston, Texas.

To see images of the full exhibition installed, please visit: Oso Bay Biennial XXI: Matter Matters – Juried Show and to check out a full list of the selected artworks with images the artists submitted for Dr. Eisele to review: Oso Bay Biennial Juried Show – April, 2020.

During his Curator’s Talk on Saturday, September 26 at 2pm, Dr Eisele will be presenting and sharing about his experience with Sculpture Month Houston and then about his work jurying the exhibition Oso Bay Biennial XXI: Matter Matters. In this presentation, he will be announcing awards (1st, 2nd, and 3rd place awards along with three honorable mentions). Additionally, he will be sharing curatorial responses about these recipients’ work and about seven additional selected artists’ artworks.

Curator’s Statement

When I was first asked to jury this competition, I was excited, but when I saw the ambition and the energy of the works that were submitted, I was thrilled. As a juror, this experience had one advantage over other open-call competitions – it had a stated focus on three-dimensional arts, specifically sculpture. This way, one could compare apples to apples.
The variety, the sometimes-brazen inventiveness, the re-purposing of materials of so many works gives this exhibition the feeling of a validating survey of what is going on in sculpture in Texas and across the country in response to this national call for submission. It certainly is not encyclopedic, but the visitor is treated to a lively platform of artistic ideas that is percolating not only through this particular locus, but throughout a vast, instantaneously connected art world. Art again proves to be an important communication medium, one that informs emotional states or social connectivity.
My own bias veers towards sculptural art that is unapologetically progressive, exuberant, and ambitious in scale. Being influenced by my curatorial experiences with installation art at the “Silos” for Sculpture Month Houston, I am partial to three-dimensional art that uses space itself as just another material like clay in order to create palpable structures and textures. These structures can then build a framework that supports a vast universe of ideas or even entire visions.
There are so many creative positions in this show that I can highlight just a few of them. Right away I was struck, in a positive way, by how many accomplished artists, some of them I knew, chose to enter the competition and how well the younger artists at the beginning of their careers were measuring up and holding their own. They, no doubt, brought a measure of freshness and quirkiness to the table.
Art that is environmentally sensitive and stimulates awareness of this looming environmental threat is represented in surprising numbers. The sculpture/installation Despeciation Study about the commercial habitat destruction of the Kemp Ridley sea turtles is a truly engaging piece that reflects on the fate and possible extinction of this species. It is a work that transforms the cold scientific facts into images of a new symbolism that can engage the visitors’ and the public’s long-term emotions rather than effect a burst of short-lived activism.
Another great feature of this exhibition is the almost endless variety of materials that has been used. That in itself can send complex messages about the nature of objects and how we experience and memorize them. I cherish the tactile qualities of the many individual pieces that are enhanced by their juxtaposition of classical and non-traditional materials.
So many works stood out as they were crafted with great finesse; some were outright funny or subtly ironic, some forged new aesthetic paths or created structures with delicate equilibrium and fluidity. I was also glad to see that a few interesting figurative pieces were submitted among the many conceptual works and made it into the final selection.
All of the works in this exhibition were created with great zeal and often come from deeply personal places. They seem to ask the viewer to engage in an existential discourse in our times of cultural upheaval and social volatility.
Volker Eisele, 2020

To join us for this online Curator’s Talk, please meet us live
online via Facebook Live at TAMU-CC College of Liberal Arts FB page

OSO BAY BIENNIAL XXI: MATTER MATTERS – Juried Exhibition, April, 2020

RESCHEDULED Juried Exhibition:
Weil Art Gallery
August 28-September 26, 2020

Originally, this exhibition was scheduled to be on display in April of 2020 leading up to a symposium and closing reception on April 25, 2020.

In respect of TAMU-CC COVID 19 guidelines, the exhibition was rescheduled. Additionally, for in-person viewing, the gallery is open to members of the TAMU-CC community (faculty, staff, and students) and is only available by appointment Monday-Friday 10am-5pm. To schedule a visit, contact the SAMC Events Coordinator, Wes Jones via email James.Jones@tamucc.edu, or phone (361) 825-3756.

A primary component of this year’s biennial will be a national juried exhibition at the Weil Art Gallery, co-sponsored by TAMU-CC, Texas Sculpture Group and Midsouth Sculpture Alliance, and juried and curated by Sculpture Month Houston founder, Dr. Volker Eisele.

Postcard images: (top row) Amelia Key, Deidre Argyle;
(bottom row) Christyn Overstake, Jason Makepeace, and James Wade

The Weil Gallery invited artwork that utilizes traditional and/or contemporary methods of creating objects. Entries considered a third dimension (even if a narrow or variable one) and were created in a manner that the matter, materials, and techniques used matter to the concept, experience, and outcome of the artwork. Artwork selected by juror Dr. Volker Eisele will be on exhibit in the Islander Gallery August 28-September 26, 2020.

Below are the artists’ names and images of their artworks that were selected by juror Dr. Volker Eisele to be included in this juried exhibition. Several of these artworks will be on display during the upcoming rescheduled exhibition in the TAMU-CC Islander Art Gallery.

**Artist: Deidre Argyle**
**Title:** *Temporal Landscape 3*
**Dimensions:** 18inW x 14inD x 18inH
**Media:** porcelain, acrylic, light, baltic birch plywood
**Year:** 2019

**Artist: Deidre Argyle**
**Title:** *Recomposed*
**Dimensions:** 72
**Media:** porcelain, thread, steel
**Year:** 2018

**Artist: Jill Bedgood**
**Title:** *Soliloquy*
**Dimensions:** 8 ft x 10 ft x 10 inches
**Media:** Mixed Media: cast plater, hair, watercolor
**Year:** 2015

**Artist: Silas Breaux**
**Title:** *Construct #3*
**Dimensions:** 50in x 52in x 9in
**Media:** Relief Prints, Beeswax, and Wood
**Year:** 2018

**Artist: Silas Breaux**
**Title:** *Construct #6*
**Dimensions:** 25inx35inx5in
**Media:** Relief Prints, Beeswax, and Wood
**Year:** 2018

**Artist: Geofffrey Broderick**
**Title:** *Oceanic*
**Dimensions:** 12in x 24in x 9in
**Media:** Cast Iron

**Artist: Jason Brown**
**Title:** *Survey*
**Description:** A triangulated landscape set atop a tripod, this object combines a surveyor’s tripod with a fragment of a mountainous landscape. It was motivated by reclamation projects on abandoned mining sites.
**Dimensions:** 48 x 18 x 8 inches
**Media:** cast iron, steel, flocking, paint
**Year:** 2020

**Artist**: **Susan Budge**
**Title:** *Bronze Bird*
**Dimensions:** 24in x 8in x 5in
**Media:** stoneware
**Year**: 2019

**Artist**: **Green A Studios Collaborative**
**Title:** *Despeciation Study: Bearded Saki Habitat Fragmentation Aluminum Smelting Plant*
**Description:** Cast aluminum tree stump, cast bronze replica of a Bearded Saki skull from a 3D print of a digital scan.
**Dimensions:** 36in x 6in x 6in
**Media:** Cast Aluminum, Cast Bronze
**Year**: 2019

**Artist**: **Green A Studios Collaborative**
**Title:** Conservation Study: Kemps Ridley Sea Turtle USDFW Hatchling Program Padre Island
**Description:** Styrofoam coolers containing local Texas beach sand and cast porcelain egg forms.
**Dimensions:** 42inx17inx12in
**Media:** Styrofoam, spray paint, local sand, porcelain.
**Year**: 2019

**Artist**: **Green A Studios Collaborative**
**Title:** *Despeciation Study: Kemps Ridley Sea Turtle Commercial Fishing/Habitat Destruction*
**Description:** Wall mounted aluminum frame, with fishing net, cast bronze object from a 3D printed digital scan of a Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle skull.
**Dimensions:** 42in x 12in x 30 in
**Media:** Aluminum, Net, Bronze.
**Year**: 2019

**Artist: Caroline Covington**
**Title:** *Vincible: Roach*
**Dimensions:** *3in x 2in x 2in*
**Media:** fabric and shelf

**Artist**: **Jennifer Crescuillo**
**Title:** *Calcified Panasonic*
**Description:** made from recycled factory glass
**Dimensions:**12in x 16 in x 7in
**Media:** kiln cast glass
**Year**: 2019

**Artist**: **Jennifer Crescuillo**
**Title:** *Cassette Impression*
**Dimensions:**3in x 5in x 2in
**Media:** kiln cast glass
**Year**: 2019

**Artist**: **Kelly Curtiss**
**Title:** *Surmount*
**Dimensions:**19in x 12in x 12.5in
**Media:** Cast Aluminum
**Year**: 2018

**Artist**: **Kelly Curtiss**
**Title:** Iron Knot
**Dimensions:** 5.5in x 5in x 7in
**Media:** Cast Iron
**Year**: 2017

**Artist**: **Kelly Curtiss**
**Title:** *Knot 3*
**Dimensions:** 6in x 6.5in x 4in
**Media:** Raku Ceramic
**Year**: 2018

**Artist**: **Josie Del Castillo**
**Title:** *Healing, Learning, and Growing*
**Dimensions:** 40 1/2 in x 48 in
**Media:** Oil on cut wood panels
**Year**: 2020

**Artist**: **Janye Duryea**
**Title:** *Memory*
**Dimensions:** 16in diameter X 8in wide
**Media:** Hot sculptured glass
**Year:** 2018

**Artist: Kurt Dyrhaug**
**Title:**Small Vertical Wing
**Dimensions:** 218in x 8in x 7.5in
**Media:** 3d print and metal coating
**Year:** 2019

**Artist: Jeff Foster**
**Title:** *Antiquated Apparatus*
**Dimensions:** 26in x 19in x 29in
**Media:** Ceramic
**Year:** 2019

**Artist: Jack Gron**
**Title:** *Hard Rain 1*
**Dimensions:** 13in X 5in X 8in
**Media:** laminated red oak
**Year:** 2019

**Artist: Jack Gron**
**Title:** *The Great Sphinx and the Endless Enigma*
**Dimensions:** 13in X 6in X 16in
**Media:** mixed woods, laminated and charred
**Year:** 2019

**Artist: Stephen Hawks**
**Title:** *I too am in America*
**Dimensions:** 33 in X 12 in X 7 in
**Media:** ceramic
**Year:** 2019

Artist: Meghan Hendley
Title: Requiem for the Corals
Description: This is a video of the sculpture signifying the haunting coloration of coral that is dying. The silicone acts as the fading structure while the lights show the life that once was there. By being on a female body, the connection between mother and mother earth is made.
Dimensions: 3 ft x 2 ft x 1 ft
Media: LED Lights, Mannequin, Silicone
Year: 2020

**Artist: Haley Inyart**
**Title:** *Meat Table*
**Description**: This piece started as a kitchen table and was transformed into the shape of a steak referencing the act of being more in tune with the food we are buying and eating. Each chair has an image of a cow hand carved on them. Two cows are dead, while the other two are alive.
**Dimensions:** 78 in. x 78 in. x 43 in
**Media:** wood
**Year:** 2019

**Artist**: **Norman Kary**
**Title:** *We work the Black seam together*
**Dimensions:** 9 x 6 x 6
**Media:** cast figures and threat and wood
**Year:** 2019

**Artist: Amelia Key**
**Title:** *Bloom*
**Dimensions:** 5ft 4in x 8ft 4in x 10in
**Media:** mixed media
**Year:** 2018

**Artist: Felipe Lopez**
**Title:** *Purification System*
**Description:** During The duration of the exhibition this piece a will grow a plant through the top of the sculpture using dyed water, over time the water will loose its coloration due to the purification process thus changing the nature of the plant.
**Dimensions:**10 ft x 4in x 6in
**Media:** acrylic pipe, wood, rocks, water pump, sand, metal, soil, flowers, organic cotton, charcoal

**Artist: Jason Makepeace**
**Title:** *Deeply Embedded Aquamarine Kayak*
**Description:** Sculpture is carved from one single log of Oak and then painted.
**Dimensions:** 22in x 14.5in x 15in
**Media:** Single Carved Log of Oak and Paint
**Year:** 2019

**Artist: Jason Makepeace**
**Title:** *Tandem*
**Description:** Sculpture is carved from one single log of Oak and then painted.
**Dimensions:** 32in x 9in x 9in
**Media:** Single Carved Log of Oak and Paint
**Year:** 2019

**Artist: Peter Mangan**
**Title:** *Still Standing*
**Description:** Abstracted figurative sculpture.
**Dimensions:** 36in x 16in x 11in
**Media:** steel, glass, copper, brass, and juniper wood
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**Artist: Wells Mason**
**Title:** *Umasi Sculpture (‘Chopsticks’)*
**Description:** This is ‘Chopsticks’ from The Umasi Collection. This is one of three pieces that are part of this installation. Since this installation suggests that art can’t be contained – it bursts out and enters your mind – this is the only piece of the installation that is wall-mounted.
**Dimensions:** 36in x 27in x 13in
**Media:** wood, metal, paint

**Artist: Wells Mason**
**Title:** *Umasi Sculpture (‘Chaos’)*
**Description:** This is ‘Chaos’ from The Umasi Collection. This is one of three pieces that are part of this installation. Since this installation suggests that art can’t be contained – it bursts out and enters your mind – this piece of the installation rests at an angle on the floor against the wall.
**Dimensions:** 25in x 23in x 11in
**Media:** wood, metal, paint

**Artist: Wells Mason**
**Title:** *Umasi Sculpture (‘Spine’)*
**Description:** This is ‘Spine’ from The Umasi Collection. This is one of three pieces that are part of this installation. Since this installation suggests that art can’t be contained – it bursts out and enters your mind – this piece of the installation rests on the floor.
**Dimensions:** 25in x 23in x 11in
**Media:** wood, metal, paint

**Artist: Christopher McNulty**
**Title:** *Thirty Pieces (Exhuming Charles Kettering)*
**Description:** This sculpture of 30 lead teeth commemorates the mark left on our blood and bones by Charles Kettering and other executives at GM during the 60-year period in which tetra-ethyl lead was added to gasoline.
**Dimensions:** 8.5″ x 6.5″ x 6.5″
**Media:** Lead, plexiglas, wood
**Year:** 2012

**Artist: Steve Murphy**
**Title:** *Remembers Everything*
**Description**: free standing sculpture.
**Dimensions:** 22in x 32in x 18in
**Media:** oxidized steel
**Year:** 2016

**Artist:** Joseph Ovalle
**Title:** Talk To Your State Representative
**Description**: This piece references local society. It questions acts of violence, as a mean to influence a change.
**Dimensions:** 96in x 48in x 6in
**Media:** wood
**Year:** 2019

*Artist: Christyn Over*stake
**Title:** *#73. 41.6764 N, 86.2520 W. Cherry.*
**Description**: Small iron sphere with fabricated components.
**Dimensions:** 6in x 6in x 4in
**Media:** Cast Iron, Silicon Bronze, Steel
**Year:** 2019

*Artist: Christyn Over*stake
**Title:** #66. 39.0834 N, 86.7561 W. Lady D.
**Description**: Iron column with fabricated steel and bronze elements.
**Dimensions:** 30in x 18in x 6in
**Media:** Cast Iron, Bronze, Steel
**Year:** 2018

**Artist: Bill Raney**
**Title:** *The Legend of Johnny Onetoebro*
**Description**: Contemplative Vessel
**Dimensions:** 17in x 7in x 7in
**Media:** 3D printed plastic (PLA) and wood fired stoneware
**Year:** 2020

**Artist: Bill Raney**
**Title:** *Dusty Too*
**Description**: Contemplative Vessel
**Dimensions:** 9in x 6in x 5in
**Media:** Steel, cast bronze, cast iron and wood fired b-mix
**Year:** 2019

**Artist: Greg Reuter**
**Title:** *Black and Blue*
**Description**: One country map hanging, one country map on floor
**Dimensions:** 84in x 96in x 7in
**Media:** Cast Iron and School Map
**Year:** 2015

Artist: Kristen Tordella-Williams
Description: Burnt reference book pages embedded in cotton paper
**Dimensions:** 10′ x 8′ x 16″
**Media:** Artist made cotton paper, burnt book pages, wood, clothespins
**Year:** 2018

**Artist: James Wade**
**Title:** *Incoming!*
**Description:** Laser drawing on powder coated cast iron from digital drawing
**Dimensions:** 18 x 10.5 x 0.75
**Material:** cast iron, powder coat
**Year:** 2018

OSO BAY BIENNIAL XXI: TAPPED – Student Invitational Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: March 30-July 1, 2020
Due to COVID-19 protocols and university guidelines, this exhibition was installed in the Weil Gallery but was not open to the public. It is available online below.

For more information, please visit TAMU-CC updated frequently asked questions.

Special Thanks to all the faculty and academic institutions who TAPPED recent students and these specific artworks to be included in this exhibition.

Austin Community College – Jill Bedgood
Baba Yaga, Kaylixan McAuley
Sodom, Paul Schuster
Interconnected, Sienna Stolte

Houston Community College – Jessica F. Kreutter
Los Diablos de Teloloapan, Bryan Lagunas
An Empty Seat and Lost Traditions, Mellany Medina
I’m Not Allowed To, Yolanda Osagie
You Want Some Drugs?, Janell Pesquera

Del Mar College – Amorette V. Garza
Sweet Tooth, Rianna Kirkham
Succulent, Rianna Kirkham
Masterstudy of Cellini’s Head of Medusa, Kyana Gallaher
Mastersudy of Chinard’s Jeanne de L’Orrne de L’Isle, Victoria Gibbons

Texas A&M University – Commerce – Josephine Durkin
Lib, Jane Cornish Smith
Hive, Jareth Arcane
Modified, Katie H. Ritche
TBA, David Namaksy

Texas State University – Jennifer Ling Datchuk
Serpent, God of Wind (Serpiente, Dios Del Viento), Joel Nieto
Everyday Joys, Theresa Sawczyn
Lucy, Karly Schlievert
I am Broken Down Again , Hentan Stevenson

University of North Texas – Liss Lafluer
Sirens of Memory, Sean Lopez
Ni la Vida, Ni la Muerte, Diana Rojas-Ponce
Broken and Bruised #2, Stephanie Gerhart

University of Texas at San Antonio – Buster Graybill
Lineage, Omar Gonzales
Santa Sebastiana, Gabi Magaly
Nocturnal Observation #1, Chris Moncivias
22 ways to wear a belt, Eric Ryberg

Nocturnal Observation #1, Chris Moncivias

Victoria College – Debra Chronister
Holy Nature, Erica Estrada
Windows of Perception, Renee Raven
Crocheted Fossils, Renee Raven
Pent, Ben Sartor
POP Art, Ben Sartor, Natalie Brown, and Design II students