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<\/a><\/p>\n| (Hamilton, NY \u2013 Jan. 2015) Colgate University welcomes internationally acclaimed artist Mark Dion, as this year’s\u00a0Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist in Residence. Related events and exhibitions are organized by Colgate’s Department of Art and Art History, in partnership with the university’s Picker Art Gallery.<\/p>\n Dion will give a public lecture Feb. 11 at 4:30 p.m.\u00a0in\u00a0Colgate University’s Golden Auditorium, inaugurating\u00a0work on a new\u00a0artistic project in the Department of Art and Art History’s Clifford Gallery that will combine the efforts of students, faculty, staff, and the community at large.<\/p>\n Following the artist’s lecture, the Picker Art Gallery will host an opening reception for a companion exhibition of more than 40 works by Dion–including sculpture, prints, and artist books–spanning from the early 1990s to the present day. Objects on view in the Picker Art Gallery will serve as a touchstone for the artist’s work as his collaborative project is underway in the nearby Clifford Gallery. The events related to\u00a0Mark Dion: The Phantom Museum-Wonder Workshop\u00a0will culminate in the unveiling of the newly completed installation in the Clifford Gallery on\u00a0March 25, a gallery talk with the artist, and a reception.<\/p>\n Throughout his artistic career, Dion has consistently interrogated the ways in which knowledge–particularly our understanding of nature, science, and history–is and has been\u00a0constructed and presented in academic and public institutions across time and place. Engaging in projects that frequently involve various sites and community collaborations–from his pseudo-archaeological excavations along the banks of the Thames River to his re-installation of museum collections in unconventional ways–Dion employs aspects of museum practice and scientific study to engage dominant narratives about topics including the environment, politics, activism, and consumer culture. Infusing wit and irony into his art, Dion charges his viewers to think critically about the objective and subjective ways in which information is created, interpreted, and distributed.<\/p>\n Dion’s interest in cabinets of curiosities\u00a0(Wunderkammern)\u00a0is at the core of the new installation to be created in the Clifford Gallery, a space that will be transformed into the artist’s “Wonder Workshop.” From\u00a0Feb. 11 to March 23\u00a0during designated hours, the community at large\u00a0is invited to create three-dimensional objects based on illustrations of 16th- and 17th-century cabinets of curiosities. Upon their completion in the workshop area of the Clifford Gallery, the objects will be moved to a large cabinet, specially built for the project. The finished cabinet installation will be on view in the Clifford Gallery from<\/p>\n March 25-April 10, 2015. The Picker Art Gallery’s exhibition will be on view\u00a0January 22-May 17, 2015. A concertina-style brochure designed by artists Mark Dion and Jeffrey Jenkins will accompany\u00a0Mark Dion: The Phantom Museum-Wonder Workshop\u00a0and will include a foreword by Anja Ch\u00e1vez, director of university museums, Colgate University, and Lynette Stephenson, professor of art and art history, Colgate University; an introduction by Jill Shaw, senior curator of collections, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University; and an essay by Carolyn C. Guile, assistant professor of art and art history, Colgate University.<\/p>\n Dion was born in New Bedford, Mass. in 1961 and lives in New York City. He received his BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford School of Art in Connecticut and also studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1982-84) and in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (1984-85).<\/p>\n The recipient of many awards, Dion has undertaken numerous public commissions and has been the subject of solo exhibitions in major international institutions including:\u00a0Mark Dion: The Academy of Things\u00a0(2014, Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, Germany);\u00a0The Macabre Treasury\u00a0(2013, Museum Het Domein in Sittard, The Netherlands); Oceanomania: Souvenirs of Mysterious Seas\u00a0(2011, Mus\u00e9e Oc\u00e9anographique de Monaco and Nouveau Mus\u00e9e National de Monaco \/ Villa Paloma in Monaco);\u00a0The Marvelous Museum: A Mark Dion Project (2010-11, Oakland Museum of California);\u00a0Systema Metropolis\u00a0(2007, Natural History Museum, London);\u00a0The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit\u00a0(2006, Miami Art Museum);\u00a0Rescue Archaeology\u00a0(2004 project for the Museum of Modern Art); and his\u00a0Tate Thames Dig\u00a0(1999,\u00a0Tate Gallery, London).\u00a0His work has also been included in major group exhibitions including documenta 13 (2012).<\/p>\n A mentor at Columbia University, he works and exhibits worldwide and is co-director of Mildred’s Lane, an innovative art residency program in northeastern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n All related events are free and open to the public.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Hamilton, NY \u2013 Jan. 2015) Colgate University welcomes internationally acclaimed artist Mark Dion, as this year’s\u00a0Christian A. 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