Christine E. Alfery - Artist

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Curriculum & Instruction, A.B.D.

Thesis: A Cartography of Different Spaces in Aesthetics in the discipline of studio visual art education. The Utopian Labyrinth and Baroque Heterotopias. This dissertation has two parts. First, it examines particular exemplars important to the aesthetic imaginaries of today's visual cultures in studio art education. The significance of these aesthetic imaginaries as exemplars is that they embody complex pathways within the labyrinth of visual culture. The exemplars are the aesthetic theories of both Kant and Hegel. The pathways these exemplars embody move toward a core focal point that universalized aesthetics and the processes that lead out of the labyrinth to a ‘pure' experience of art. The second part of this dissertation analyzes alternative imaginaries that create heterotopic discursive spaces with multiple focal points. The analysis of the labyrinth and heterotopian discursive space will be linked to temporal aesthetic discourses of art and artist in the art studio, which in turn will be linked to the foundational discipline of teaching. This thesis will investigate the following question: how might we think about the aesthetics within the various networked discourses that exist in the digital technologies of studio art.

• Ph.D., Minor completed:Art History, contemporary issues and concepts.
• M.F.A. Art, UW-Madison, Spring 1996.

Title Master of Fine Arts Exhibition: Christine's Chaos.

With this exhibition I analyzed how people of all cultures have come to look at a peaceful balanced state as the only desirable one to strive for. Therefore we organize, categorize and sort all that which does not represent this state. We organize the chaotic. By organizing the chaotic, the flavoring of diversity has been removed. The show was one of chaos. It demonstrated the state of chaos and how that state can be just as powerful and illuminating as the state of peace and harmony. The art works in this exhibition welcomed all experiences, all states of being as equal, including the states of differences.

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• M.A. Art Education, UW-Madison, 1994.

Thesis: An Artist's Perspective: Reestablishing The Parameters For Fine Art. How one studio artist responded to the traditional historical forces that challenged her very authority to be an artist and also challenged the authenticity of her artwork. Emphasis was on the occupation of studio artist. The thesis provides awareness to educators of the various occupations studio artists can pursue and how they might incorporate them into their classroom teaching.

• B.A. Art/Art Education, UW-Madison.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Docent, 1994 to present. Elvehjem Museum of Art, UW-Madison. Volunteer tour guide for all age groups.
• Docent, 1994 to present. Madison Art Center, Madison, WI. Volunteer tour guide for all age groups.
• University teaching and supervising, 1994-2002 - University of Wisconsin-Madison.

EXHIBITIONS and CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE

Represented in Group and Solo Exhibitions yearly for the past 20 years including exhibitions in designer showrooms in High Point North Carolina and Chicago. Below is a summary of exhibitions for the past 10 years.

2007 Solo Exhibition - Fall - Rubies Ryder - Gallery 3. Evansville, WI.

2007 Solo Exhibition - Spring - Perpetual Motion - Gallery 3. Evansville, WI.

2006 Solo Exhibition - Fall - Motley Spaces - Gallery 3. Evansville, WI.

2006 Solo Exhibition - Spring - Azure Series - Gallery 3. Evansville, WI.

2005 Solo Exhibition - Fall - Amber Series - Gallery 3. Evansville, WI.

2005 Solo Exhibition - Spring - Transforming Alchemy - Gallery 210 CIMC. UW- Madison .

2004 Solo Exhibition - October - Current watercolors - XEL Gallery, High Point, North Carolina.

2004 Solo Exhibition - Current watercolors - Gallery 210 CIMC. UW-Madison.

2004 Virtual Exhibition - Aesthetic Tapestries - christinealfery.com

2004 Solo Exhibition - Photo exhibition - Butterflies - Gallery 210 CIMC. UW-Madison

2003 Solo Exhibition - Things with Wings - Gallery 210 CIMC. UW-Madison.

2003 Solo Exhibition - Going with the Winds - Gallery 210 CIMC. UW-Madison.

2002 Solo Exhibition - Fire and Ice - Spring - Gallery 210 CIMC, UW-Madison.

2002 Solo Exhibition - Rethinking Origins - Fall - Gallery 210 CIMC, UW-Madison.

2002 Solo Exhibition - The Process - Spring - Gallery 210 CIMC, UW-Madison.

2001 Solo Exhibition - The Play of the Abstract - Fall - Gallery 210 CIMC, UW-Madison.

2001 Solo Exhibition - Greenland - Spring - Gallery 210 CIMC, UW-Madison.

2000 Solo Exhibition - Kaleidoscopic Terrains - Motley Space - Fall - Gallery 210 CIMC, UW‑Madison.

1999 Solo Exhibition - Crumpled Time/Space - Spring - Gallery 210 CIMC, UW- Madison.

1999 Curator - Spring Group Show, Gallery 210, UW-Madison.

1999 Group Show - Installation, performance and visual discourse. Women's

Blood. Bergamo Conference, Dayton, OH.

1999 Group Show - Beloit and Vicinity Exhibition, Beloit, WI.

1998 Curator - Fall Group Show - Gallery 210, UW-Madison.

1998 Group Show - Dean Clinic-Internal Medicine, Madison, WI.

1998 Group Show - Gallery 210, UW-Madison.

1998 Group Show - DeKalb Area Women's Center, DeKalb, IL.

1997 Group Show - Beloit and Vicinity, Beloit, WI.

1997 One Person Exhibition - Student Health Services, Madison, WI.

1997 One Person Installation - 7th Floor Gallery, Humanities Building, UW-Madison.

1997 Curator - Group Show, 7th Floor Gallery, UW-Madison.

1996 One Person Exhibition - 7th Floor Gallery, Humanities Building, UW-Madison.

1996 Group Show - Signature Gallery, Stoughton, WI

1996-1968 - Various Group Shows Bi- Annually through out the United States.

PRESENTATIONS

2007 Fall. Madison Art Center. Madison, WI.

Topic: Foundational language for the visual arts. Introduction to touring techniques

2006 Fall. Chasen Museum of Art.

Topic: Elements and Principles From the Classical to the Post Modern.

2005 Fall. Madison Art Center. Madison, WI.

Topic: Foundational language for the visual arts. Introduction to touring techniques.

2004 Spring. Advanced Educational Research Association (AERA).

Topic: The Baroque Gaze: The forces of the spectator and the forces of the Spectacle.

2003 Spring. Advanced Educational Research Association (AERA).

Topic: The Matrix - Aesthetics of the red pill versus the blue pill.

2002 Spring. Advanced Educational Research Association (AERA).

Topic: The Labyrinth and Heterotopias Aesthetic Spaces.

2001 Spring. Advanced Educational Research Association (AERA).

Topic: Motley Language.
Topic: Visual Image as a Second Language.

2000 Spring. Foucault Conference. New Orleans, LA.

Topic: A Visual Discourse of Dangerous Youth. Visual discourse, text and performance.

2000 Spring. Advanced Educational Research Association (AERA). New Orleans, LA.

Topic: Crumpled time crumpled space: There is no free time there is no free space. A critical history of gendered discourse within the visual arts.

1999 Fall. Madison Art Center. Madison, WI.

Topic: Foundational language for the visual arts. Introduction to touring techniques.

1998 Fall. Bergamo. Dayton, OH.

Topic: Women's Blood. Visual discourse and performance. Joint presentation with Mary Bauman, UW-Madison.

1988Fall. Madison Art Center. Madison, WI.

Topic: The Postmodern in the Visual Arts. A critical history.

1998 Spring. Museum of Art. UW-Madison.

Topic: Introduction to Madison Public Schools curriculum: How to integrate school curriculum with art objects in permanent collection. (Five sessions).

1998 Spring. AERA. Chicago, IL.

Topic: Governmentality in the visual arts.

1997 Fall. Madison Art Center. Madison, WI.

Topic: But is it real?

1996 Fall. Madison Art Center. Madison, WI.

Topic: Design elements and principles in relationship to the permanent collection.

1996 Fall. Elvehjem Museum of Art. UW-Madison.

Topic: Historical review of line, color, design elements within the collection of art at the Elvehjem Museum of Art. (Three sessions).

1996 Fall. Elvehjem Museum of Art. UW-Madison.

Topic: Contemporary issues of 'real': Emphasis on the collection from the Elvehjem Museum of Art.

PUBLICATIONS

2001 Cover Design - Cultural History and Education - Critical Essays on Knowledge and Schooling.New York: Routledgefalmer.

1999 Cover Design - Educational Knowledge - Changing Relationships between the State, Civil Society, and the Educational Community. Albany: State University of New York Press.

1999 Cover Design - Struggling for the Soul - The Politics of Schooling and the Construction of the Teacher. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University.

1998 Cover Design - Foucault's Challenge Discourse, Knowledge and Power in Education. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University.