Zoe S. Saldana
www.artistsspace.org/webspace/2003/november03

Zoe Sheehan Saldana is a professor of art in Paramus, New Jersey who has also worked as a visiting artist at University of California at Riverside and Light Work Gallery in Syracuse, New York. She uses photography, drawing, and craft processes, in conjunction with digital inflections and structures, to make objects and images that shift between clarity and dissolution.

“I am interested in exploring the shared ground of virtual and actual, mechanical and manual, new and traditional, domestic and obsessive,” she explained.
Much of her work is related to the traditional needle arts and digital media.

Jeff Weiss
www.laurencemillergallery.com/weissexhibition.htm

Jeff Weiss, a recipient of two National Endowment of the Arts fellowships, teaches at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Jeff Weiss uses a computer to produce large-scale works combining photography and painting. His pieces often combine humor and horror in a traditional painterly space. For instance, Weiss’s work, “Excursion”, is a 15-foot wide triptych with whitewater rafters, black smoke billowing out of the distant landscape reminiscent of Kuwait, an absurd but real dolphin-shaped aircraft, and a wide assortment of contemporary details.

Lecture:
“A Truckload of Art from New York City”
Wednesday, March 24 at 12:30 p.m. in Langford C105

Saldana and Weiss offer insight into their work.

Workshop:
Landscaping

The workshop will make use of participants’ powers of observation, conceptualization and production to design interventions in the everyday landscape/environment of College Station. Workshop participants will be asked to choose a “place,” study it, and document it with sketches, photographs, videos, sounds, notes, and artifacts. The artists will use slide lectures, critiques and a field trip to Houston to inspire students imaginations.