The Sweet Life Revisited
Lower Traylor GalleryAll experience involves both space and time, as does most representation, in one way or another. For me, at least, reality always comes down to stories. In painting descriptive, outward realities, I am also describing people and places as human situations that carry implied narratives, which stretch out beyond the moment shown. Mostly, the situations [...]
Overcoming Discouragement: Frank Long’s WPA-Era Works
Upper Traylor Gallery
To Wonder & Wander
Rogers GalleryI am a person in love with a thing called fiction. A story that is invented to entertain or deceive. This passion for invented stories, for mythology, informs my work. For a narrative to be convincing, a narrative that engages and enthralls there must be layers, there must be detail or I won’t believe. My [...]
The Helmet Project
Upper Traylor GalleryAt 8am on September 11, 2001, it was easy to perceive our lives as serene; we were safe. Even while Bernie Madoff’s crimes were being exposed, most saw our economy, our country, as prosperous; we led the world. And while the scientific community embraces a vision of quantum mechanics and string theory, shattering our basic understanding [...]
The Arts of Mexico
Rogers GalleryOrganized to help kick off the Center for International Education’s Focus on Latin America, this exhibit features objects from the Berea College Art Collection that were made in Mexico.