Eddy López: verso(s)
Upper Traylor GalleryVerso is the reverse of something, a coin, a painting, a photograph. Verso, in Spanish, is a conjunction of words that make up a poem. Eddy López: verso(s) is a print media exploration on the dangers of nostalgia and representation using photographs and writings from the Nicaraguan revolution and civil war of the 1970s and [...]
Artist Talk with Eddy López
Upper Traylor GalleryPrintmaker Eddy López will give an artist talk coinciding with the opening reception of Eddy López: verso(s) at 12:00pm (noon) on Friday, November 8, in the Upper Traylor Gallery. Born in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, in the midst of the Sandinista revolution, López creates work that combines archives and memories of war into abstractions of vibrant colors, [...]
Relief Printing as Social Practice: Artist Workshop with Eddy López
Rogers-Traylor Art Building Room 211Led by visiting artist Eddy López, participants will be guided in relief printing techniques to create a collaborative, hand-printed letterpress alphabet that will be used to print posters featuring lines of poetry by Central American authors. This workshop is free and open to the public; all supplies are provided. The workshop will take place in [...]
The Illustrated Memoir Project
Tredennick GalleryOn view in the Dorothy Tredennick Student Gallery are memoirs produced as part of The Illustrated Memoir Project, a nonprofit organization based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Illustrated Memoir Project engages refugee and immigrant youth to write and illustrate true stories from their lives. The goal of this project is to foment intellectual self-trust in the [...]
Artist Talk with Kate Currie and Enock Sadiki
Tredennick GalleryJoin us on Wednesday, January 15, at 4:30pm to hear about the memoirs on view in a special, short-term exhibition showcasing works made as part of The Illustrated Memoir Project, a nonprofit organization based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Kate Currie, Director of The Illustrated Memoir Project, and Enock Sadiki, Board Member and former Intern at [...]
Laura Colomb: Sinkhole
Upper Traylor GalleryLaura Colomb’s painting practice focuses on historic sites and preserve land within Florida, a place she sees as one of many dualities. For Colomb, the sinkhole embodies this duality. Sinkholes create crystal clear natural springs for swimming and diving, but they can also destroy lives and property within seconds, holding both intense wonder and terror [...]
Liz Ensz: Ground Truthing
Lower Traylor GalleryLiz Ensz: Ground Truthing features works of textiles and sculpture that explore the semblance of place as understood through cartographic measurements, embodied experiences, and technological mediations. Responding to the Lower Traylor Gallery’s architecture, and informed by the stratigraphy of the geological record, this exhibition embraces spatial and temporal disorientation as a device for shifting perspective [...]
Artist Talk with Liz Ensz
Lower Traylor GalleryInterdisciplinary artist Liz Ensz will give a talk focusing on the works in their solo exhibition, Liz Ensz: Ground Truthing, which will be on view in the Lower Traylor Gallery from January 29 through March 14. This event is free and open to the public; no RSVP required. Refreshments and snacks will be available after [...]
Artist Talk with Laura Colomb
Upper Traylor GalleryFlorida-based painter Laura Colomb will give an artist talk related to her current exhibition, Laura Colomb: Sinkhole, on Wednesday, February 5, at 4:30pm in the Upper Traylor Gallery. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and snacks will be available after the talk. No RSVP necessary. Colomb’s painting practice focuses on historic [...]
Isaac Couch: Occupied
Tredennick GalleryOccupied features a collection of work shirts and tarps that textile artist and designer Isaac Couch calls Ghosts. These Ghosts refer to embodiments of energies from the past that manifest themselves in the present. As Couch says, "At the current political and economic moment, we are reminded yet again that history repeats itself if we [...]