Selected curatorial projects
Cinitia Alejendra Segovia
solo-exhibition at University of Dayton’s Radial Gallery, January-February 2019
“Cintia Alejandra Segovia’s multi-media artwork uses critical humor and sharp wit to reveal issues around identity, capitalism, language and gender. She visits us at a critical time in the national climate, when art can serve to both dissipate and intensify conversations around citizenship and belonging. Her curious devices and comical images collide within a participatory installation that offers a space for reflection on specific cultural stereotypes that converge over, around, and across the world’s busiest international border. ”- Glenna Jennings, curator
The Americans: Constructive Deconstructions
@Index Project Space, April 2017
Over 50 years after Robert Frank’s seminal photo book, The Americans, changed the landscape of documentary photography, this student exhibition aims to reflect, analyze and re-construct The American Dream through an array of interrelated art works. History and Studio courses from the University of Dayton Department of Art and Design have worked in tandem using multiple photo-based techniques to question our national identity in these difficult times. Using Swiss-born Robert Frank and the work of other influential American photographers as a source material, the exhibit aims to highlight multiple cultures, individuals and institutions that continue to shape visual culture. The exhibit also employs aesthetic play and creative lenses, such as science fiction, to blur the boundaries between fact and reality. As a collaboration among art, engineering and humanities majors, this group show reflects diverse perspectives from both US and international students. We encourage the public to both visit and participate in the installations by offering your unique views on The American Dream as currently defined, perceived and lived.
In 1959, Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank forced US citizens to see themselves through a different lens with the publication of his controversial series of photographs, The Americans. Over half a century later, we see a society that is still divided, but determined as ever to seek resolution and celebrate diversity. The multiple student works presented in The Americans: Constructive Deconstructions celebrate Frank’s vision. We take on his role as an outsider, looking more deeply into both the past and present to deconstruct myths and reconstruct material works that ask yet further questions about the state of our troubled but tenacious nation.
The Americans: Constructive Deconstructions is curated by Assistant Professor Glenna Jennings in conjunction with University of Dayton photography majors Zahra Alwhaimed, Annie Denten, Sara Frederick and Sylvia Stahl. @Index Project Space at Front Street Warehouses is made possible by The University of Dayton Department of Art and Design.
The One and the Many: Art & Human Rights
Exhibiting Artists: Isabel Avila, Juan Si Gonzalez, Merve Kayan, Issa Randall, Sheryl Oring
September-October, 2013
From a bustling beach on the Turkish coast to the somber interiors of abandoned schools on an Oklahoma Seminole reservation, The One and the Many examines notions of Human Dignity from multiple perspectives. Are Human Rights pre-political or are they the artifacts of laws and institutions? Do they belong only to individuals or also to groups? How can we re-vision and de-center human rights to more broadly address the human condition for both the self and the community? This exhibition brings together an international roster of artists whose works speak, each in its own idiom, to human capability and the pursuit of both happiness and social justice.