Student Curated Art Exhibition -- Tuesday 2/23 at 5:30 in the Isabella Cannon Room

Lovers of Art, listen up!

Many of you are interested in museum studies and curatorial projects so I know you will be excited about Tuesday’s student curated art exhibition, which opens to the Elon community on Tuesday at 5:30 in Isabella Cannon Room (Fine Arts Center). Erin Day, Nichole Rawlings and Travis Butler have curated (and created art) to accompany William Chapman’s Nyaho’s visit to Elon this coming week. Nyaho is a pianist who plays and collects Diaspora composers.

Don’t know that Diaspora means?

Come to his piano recital on Monday at 7:30 in Whitely Auditorium...
Or, come to the creative workshop with Nayho on Tuesday at 4;15 in Whitley Auditorium...
And, come to the art opening on Tuesday at 5:30 in Isabella Cannon Room.

Have questions or need more information, contact Dr. Evan Gatti at: egatti@elon.edu

Reception and gallery talk for current Arts West Gallery exhibition

Please plan on starting the semester right by joining the art department in welcoming visiting artist Brant Schuller on Monday, Feb. 8th at 12:30 in Arts West Gallery. Brant is an interesting printmaker/installation artist that will have his work on display for the month of February. At the reception he will be giving a brief lecture on his work.

The exhibition of Schuller's work focuses on making the often passive role of the observer into an active one. Schuller has been exploring ways to capture time through drawing, more specifically tracing as a means to map or document the experience of looking. The images in the exhibition include tracings of the landscape as it sped by from automobiles, trains, buses and planes. These “Travel Tracings” were than hand colored with acrylic paint using the colors found in the landscape. Many of these images take the shape of the car window and reinforce the viewer’s position in the documented place. Other tracings have Schuller gazing out windows from banal and famous locations such as the bedroom of Charles Demuth. In “Exterior Tracings” he documents not only the activity outside, but also his constantly changing viewpoints. These flattened images compress the space into imagery that often reinforces the sites he chooses to work.

Time Arts class installations

Students in ART 114 Time Arts constructed installations in the display cases of the Arts West foyer. Exploring various issues surrounding material culture, students gathered objects found at thrift stores and other assorted places to transform the cases, pushing the boundaries of the display case's usual format. From top to bottom: Emma McGregor, Maggie Nolan, and Maria Papa; Joanna Patterson; Blair Foster and Mollie Hunter; Dean Coots and Ryan Cousins; Nick Seckerson and Rob Shapiro; Brent Edwards, Dan Enders, and Greg Gentile.