University of Kansas Printmaking Department invited by Yoonmi Nam

VISITING ARTIST // NOV 18-22 >PUBLIC LECTURE November 19, 2024 // 6:30pm // Osher Hall // 522 Congress St. Portland, ME 

I finished fabricating the final two sculptures in this series of five, large scale wall mounted sculptures. It has been a long time coming. Lets blame the pandemic. It feels good to have these works complete and taking up less floor space in my studio. In 2018, I started cutting parts for this new series, based on the inverse of five universal box geometries. DROP UNIT 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 and I are looking for an exhibition venue.  All TBD. ~May  (sneak peek- two detail shots from some of the new works ) June 2024

Cosmic Geometries: The Prairie’s Edge is a group exhibition of intergenerational and intersectional artists either based in the Midwest and adjacent to it, that examines the spiritual and aesthetic functions of abstract painting and geometry in art. The artists deploy a range of painterly devices to create cosmic and transcendental visions that combine esoteric world traditions with the language of Modernism. Their motifs are inspired by sources as divergent as Islamic architecture, Buddhist mandalas, Hindu yantras, medieval Christian stained-glass windows, and quantum mechanics, rendering formal devices that range from optical illusions to elaborate ornamentation techniques.

These artists primarily work with the language of painting, but also draw from languages and materials adapted from sculpture, installation, craft, textiles, and ceramics. Within these works lies a rich affection for color, shape, and compositional elements, which reveal the daring sensibilities that artists are bringing to the historically overlooked arena of the spiritual in art. These artists’ practices build upon palimpsest legacies of alternative power structures that are constantly being erased.

Featuring:

Candida Alvarez, Elijah Burgher, Holly Cahill, Mike Cloud, Gianna Commito, Edie Fake, Vanessa Filley, Julia Fish, Beverly Fishman, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Azadeh Gholizadeh, Michelle Grabner, Christina Haglid, Rachel Hayes, Gina Hunt, Michiko Itatani, Miyoko Ito, Anna Kunz, Alice Lauffer, Aya Nakamura, Deb Sokolow, May Tveit, Georgina Valverde, Susan C. White, Amy Yoes and Jade Yumang.

MAY TVEIT // From Left to Right: The Window, 2017-18, corrugated cardboard, 68 x 55 x 5.5 inches // All is well, 2023, monoprint, ink on Rives BFK, Framed: 48 x 34 inches // The Road, 2017-18, corrugated cardboard, 68 x 29.5 x 4 inches

EXPO 2024 in Booth 305

Thursday, April 11 | 6:00–9:00pm (opening preview)
Friday, April 12 | 11:00am – 7:00pm
Saturday, April 13 | 11:00am – 7:00pm

Sunday, April 14 | 11:00am – 6:00pm

Appearing for the first time at an art fair as with their new name and Chicago location, for EXPO Chicago, SECRIST | BEACH will present a curated installation featuring new works by represented artists Hilma’s Ghost, Stephen Eichhorn, Anne Lindberg and Liliana Porter. 

Also on view will be works by artists who will be featured in concurrent invitational salon curations at SECRIST | BEACH’s new Chicago location: Kristoffer McAfee, Jacqueline Surdell and May Tveit. Thematically, this presentation will showcase materiality as a principal means of artistic communication, while investigating conceptual ideas such as the spirituality of abstraction, our common connection to nature and the conceptual necessities of the human condition.

Say Yes

2017

corrugated cardboard

85 x 68 x 2.5 inches

Multi-dimensional thinker and maker, artist May Tveit, will discuss her almost a decade-long, unofficial artist-in-residence status at a cardboard box factory in Kansas, along with previous collaborations with industry. Come listen and see how this relates to her current print work on view at farmprojects. Free and open to the public. 

PRINT NIGHT COLE BARASH + MAY TVEIT

JULY 22, 2022 // Farm Projects // Wellfleet, MA.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021 // AVANTIKA BAWA & MAY TVEIT // 6-7P // PRESENTED VIA ZOOM  

UK Art Museum // Lexington, KY

OCTOBER 7, 2021 // Anderson Ranch Arts Center // Snowmass, CO.

OCTOBER 5 - DECEMBER 15, 2021 // Printmaking  // Snowmass, CO.

AUGUST 10- DECEMBER 11, 2021 // University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY

AUGUST 4, 2021 // Haystack // Mountain School of Crafts // Deere island, Maine

AUGUST 2021 // Haystack, Mountain School of Crafts, Deere  Island, Maine

H&R Block Artspace

JULY 24- OCTOBER 14, 2021 Kansas City, MO.

JULY 24 - NOVEMBER 27, 2021 // Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina

JULY 17 - AUGUST 2, 2020 // Solo Exhibition, Farm Projects // Wellfleet MA. 

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30 - SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3, 2019 // University North Texas, Printmaking Department,  Denton, Texas

FRIDAY OCTOBER 11, 2019 // Rhode Island School of Design, Printmaking Department // Providence, Rhode Island