Composed Construct
Upper Traylor GallerySusan Beiner Artist Statement The most recent concerns in my work deal with making what is organic synthetic. In todays’ world, most everything is manufactured of artificial materials. This extends to what was once all natural. Genetically altered foods, cloned animals and the hybridization of everything. Clay and ceramic materials for the most [...]
Made for Use
Rogers GalleryCurated by Philip Wiggs
Dragonslayer by Alexander Hanson
Alexander Hanson I want to know how we think we can ascertain anything optimistic about the world when we insist on looking through dirty glasses. My creative research focuses on the use of objects, constructed and found, as a way to ask pointed questions related to faith; and the use or abuse of it in [...]
“Openings” by Melanie Johnson
Lower Traylor GalleryAbout the Artist: Melanie Johnson received her MFA in Painting from Indiana University. She is Associate Professor of Art & Design and co-coordinator of the Foundations Program at the University of Central Missouri. She lives in Kansas City. Artist Statement: I make large scale figurative drawings and paintings using imagery derived from observation and composite sources. Narrative is employed loosely in [...]
“This is Not Pretty” by Margaret Leininger
Rogers GalleryArtist Statement: Cloth and its and complex history inspires my work. Using this common everyday utilitarian material that provides shelter and comfort, I explore cloth’s social and cultural impact on society. Fascinated by cloth’s associations with industrialization, colonialism, globalization, appropriation, cultural displacement, labor, and gender, I am particularly interested in my personal intersection of this [...]
“Seeing the Air Bend” by Gail D. Panske
Upper Traylor GalleryArtist Talk: October 25, 4:30pm Artist Statement: My work is about the experience of place and time and how those experiences come together. For the work in this series, I used two books as inspiration, the novel, Forgotten Country, by Catherine Chung; and Difficult Fruit by poet Lauren Alleyne. My goal was, to paraphrase the artist [...]
“Figure Narratives” by David Hicks
Lower Traylor GalleryArtist Talk: Thursday, November 1, 4:30pm Artist Statement: My work re-examines the grand metaphorical narrative as a way of exploring both personal content and universal themes within the contemporary human experience. I do this through creating large scale multi-figure drawings and paintings. My narratives present a mixed cast of mythical, iconic, historical, and modern-day [...]
“Aesthetics of Influence: David Leach, Berea College, and the Mingei Movement” – Curated by Molly Baker
Rogers GalleryAesthetics of Influence is an exhibition project that celebrates how ideas and inspirations are explored, embraced, and transformed as they flow from one source to another. First, this exhibition highlights a very special time in Berea College history. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the famed English studio potter David Leach made two visits [...]
Fall, 2018 – Senior Exhibition
Upper Traylor GalleryJoin is in the Doris Ulmann Galleries for the opening of our Mid-Year Graduation Exhibition for Art Majors. In this special show, four graduating Studio Art students will publicly present their work to the Berea campus and community at large. On November 15 at 4:30pm, participants will deliver talks about their pieces, giving visitors an [...]
“Bogus Boutique” by David Bogus
Rogers GalleryExhibition Run: January 8 - February 8, 2019 About the Exhibition: The Bogus Boutique is a lifestyle brand featuring unique brightly colored ceramic objects and status symbols. These everyday objects foretell the ironic codification of consumer culture as it embodies our current society. In The Bogus Boutique, high heel shoes, punk rock lock necklaces, [...]