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Gary Setzer

Professor, Art

Art Bldg, Room 119 A
520-621-8277

MFA Ohio University; BFA University of Akron

 

Gary Setzer’s transdisciplinary practice incorporates performance art, video art, sound, and installation. Enlisting familiar landmarks like the body, the landscape, minimalism, and humor as entry points, Setzer lures his audience into his conceptual framework—a theoretical space centered on our compulsory entanglements with language.

Setzer's artwork has been included in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. He has performed, exhibited, and screened work in venues such as the Arsenale in Venice, The Today Art Museum in Beijing, Tribeca Film Center, The National Art Center Tokyo, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Ars Electronica, Mobile Museum of Art, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Boston Center for the Arts, Tucson Museum of Art, and The Cincinnati Art Museum. In 2012, Setzer released the soundtrack for his performance, Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, on the independent label Pretend Records. In recognition of his outstanding performance in research and teaching, Setzer was awarded the Louise Foucar Marshall endowed professorship from 2010 until 2015. He currently lives and works in Tucson where he is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Arizona. He designed and leads the School of Art’s forward-thinking First Year Experience Division.

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Recent Work

Mesopotamia Megalomania

Artist: Gary Setzer

Performance Art

Mesopotamia Megalomania

Artist: Gary Setzer

Performance Art

Ineffable (I Did Not Know the Green)

Artist: Gary Setzer

Performance Art

Generator

Artist: Gary Setzer

Performance Art

Respiration (Underwater)

Artist: Gary Setzer

Performance Art

Battery (WORDS/SWORD)

Artist: Gary Setzer

Performance Art

Wait / Weight

Artist: Gary Setzer

Performance Art

Confusion of Tongues (Rebuilding the Tower of Babel Horizontally Out of Water)

Artist: Gary Setzer

Performance Art

Panphonemic Mover II

Artist: Gary Setzer

Performance Art

The Ghost Eater and the Stilt Rattler

Artist: Gary Setzer

Performance Art

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University of Arizona School of Art
2 days ago
University of Arizona School of Art

Great oil painting by Galadriel Gross who is currently studying studio art and is working on her portfolio for an illustration emphasis!
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"Self Portrait After Rain"
This was my first self portrait, and it was a real joy to paint. Knowing there is a version of myself in this painting that is always at rest, always breathing fresh air after a rain, and always in close proximity to the mud is self-affirming and grants strength to my active, living self. While I really love visual drama and tension, these quieter and calmer pieces always resonate with me for a long time.
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Great oil painting by Galadriel Gross who is currently studying studio art and is working on her portfolio for an illustration emphasis! 
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Self Portrait After Rain
This was my first self portrait, and it was a real joy to paint.  Knowing there is a version of myself in this painting that is always at rest, always breathing fresh air after a rain, and always in close proximity to the mud is self-affirming and grants strength to my active, living self.  While I really love visual drama and tension, these quieter and calmer pieces always resonate with me for a long time.
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Currently on display in the Lionel Rombach Gallery is After America Day by Day: A Counter-cartography by Mariel Miranda. Mariel is co-founder and director of the International Festival of Photography Tijuana (FiFT) a self-organized and feminist platform created for the undisciplined reflection on the image and its current modes of production. This great exhibition is compiled of evidence of Mariel’s counter-cartographic response to the 1947 road trip that Simone De Beauvoir took through the American Southwest. Link in bio!! ... See MoreSee Less

Currently on display in the Lionel Rombach Gallery is After America Day by Day: A Counter-cartography by Mariel Miranda. Mariel is co-founder and director of the International Festival of Photography Tijuana (FiFT) a self-organized and feminist platform created for the undisciplined reflection on the image and its current modes of production. This great exhibition is compiled of evidence of Mariel’s counter-cartographic response to the 1947 road trip that Simone De Beauvoir took through the American Southwest. Link in bio!!Image attachmentImage attachment+5Image attachment
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University of Arizona School of Art
6 days ago
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Here are more of our amazing student artists currently featured in the Lionel Rombach Gallery. Link in bio!!
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The School of Art and Art Advisory Board are celebrating the works of our accomplished scholars at the 2020-2021 School of Art Scholarship Exhibition in the Lionel Rombach Gallery. Congratulations to our scholarship recipients and thank you for representing the breadth of visual art making, teaching, and scholarship here at the School of Art.
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Artists featured are Alice Qinghui Chen with American Gothic, Perla Segovia with Transcendent Hope, and Danielle Jones with Rising Systems.
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The School of Art and Art Advisory Board are celebrating the works of our accomplished scholars at the 2020-2021 School of Art Scholarship Exhibition in the Lionel Rombach Gallery. Congratulations to our scholarship recipients and thank you for representing the breadth of visual art making, teaching, and scholarship here at the School of Art.
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Mark your calendars, the UArizona Art History Graduate Student Association is hosting their 31st Annual Symposium! Tune into this free Zoom event on March 5, 2021 from 9am-5pm to listen to an amazing group of student speakers as well as our keynote speaker, Dr. Nicole Fleetwood discuss art in the era of mass incarceration. ... See MoreSee Less

Mark your calendars, the UArizona Art History Graduate Student Association is hosting their 31st Annual Symposium! Tune into this free Zoom event on March 5, 2021 from 9am-5pm to listen to an amazing group of student speakers as well as our keynote speaker, Dr. Nicole Fleetwood discuss art in the era of mass incarceration.Image attachment
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2 weeks ago
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This amazing sculpture is titled “Temporary Structures” by Marisa Lewon and is currently in the Alumni Exhibition in the Joseph Gross Gallery— link in bio!!
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Temporary structures is an amalgamation of sand, skin, self-understanding and time. I use personal history to understand how the experience of where and how we are raised can alter reactions and perceptions of new landscapes as adults. In this work, my perception of, and aversion to, ideas of home are echoed through exploration of personal memory.
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This amazing sculpture is titled “Temporary Structures” by Marisa Lewon and is currently in the Alumni Exhibition in the Joseph Gross Gallery— link in bio!! 
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Temporary structures is an amalgamation of sand, skin, self-understanding and time. I use personal history to understand how the experience of where and how we are raised can alter reactions and perceptions of new landscapes as adults. In this work, my perception of, and aversion to, ideas of home are echoed through exploration of personal memory.Image attachmentImage attachment+2Image attachment
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The School of Art and Art Advisory Board are celebrating the works of our accomplished scholars at the 2020-2021 School of Art Scholarship Exhibition in the Lionel Rombach Gallery. Congratulations to our scholarship recipients and thank you for representing the breadth of visual art making, teaching, and scholarship here at the School of Art.
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Artists featured are Tehan Ketema with Netsela, Dan Newman with iusedtothinkthatway, and Ada Smith with Twelve Breakfasts.
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The School of Art and Art Advisory Board are celebrating the works of our accomplished scholars at the 2020-2021 School of Art Scholarship Exhibition in the Lionel Rombach Gallery. Congratulations to our scholarship recipients and thank you for representing the breadth of visual art making, teaching, and scholarship here at the School of Art.
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