Linda Weintraub

Golan Levin

Arts West Gallery
through April 5

Levin has spent more than 20 years as an artist immersed in high-technology research environments, including the MIT Media Laboratory, Ars Electronica Futrelab and the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology. His work is concerned with the "medium of response," the revelatory potential of information visualization, and the conditions that enable sustained creative feedback with reactive system. Levin will speak at Elon on March 31.

Art student challenges ownership

"Senior Joanna Patterson has an eclectic collection of stuff and she wants the Elon population to borrow almost everything.

For her senior exhibition, Patterson, a BFA artsenior, is exploring the conventional notions of property and ownership by allowing people to "shop" at a permanent location at 201 W. Trollinger, a gallery space and home to the Arts and Letters Learning Community, as well as pop-up displays all over campus and a catalogue". 

Read the full article here:
http://www.elon.edu/pendulum/Story.aspx?id=5000

Toplu: Landscapes of New Turkish Suburbia

Isabella Canon Room, Center for the Arts, through March

Reception and artist lecture:  Monday March 7, 5:30 PM

"I have a long-standing interest in the cultural landscape of residential areas.  My previous work includes an extended project on the suburban landscapes of Midwestern America.  I looked at delineations and borders - how residents and planners defined their spaces against the perceived chaos of the outside world.

I first traveled to Turkey in 2003 and have returned many times since. In this landscape, I began to see many parallels to my previous work played out on an exaggerated scale. In 2008, I began photographing the rapidly changing landscape of these far-flung, densely populated regions on the suburban outskirts.  

I was initially struck by the Toplu Konut, developments of large scale mass-residences.  In these photographs, many are still under construction - plopped down into empty fields at a startling pace.  Others are tidy high-rise condominium clusters that are self-contained with their own restaurants, schools, shops, swimming pools, tennis courts, and playgrounds. Within their walls they are meticulously landscaped and manicured.  Toplu, the title of the exhibition, has the dual meaning of 1. mass, common; as well as 2. tidy or neat.