Private Sanctuaries by Lisa Kriner
Upper Traylor GalleryAn exhibition of new work by Lisa L. Kriner, Berea College Professor of fibers and Printmaking.
The Department of Human Capital
Rogers GallerySarah Irvin Artist Statement My practice is enabled by and exists within the context of motherhood as both a lived experience and social construct. By responding to the biological act of bearing an infant and the discipline of care-taking that is the commitment to “mother” a child, I seek to open up a dialog [...]
The Art of Collaboration
Lower Traylor Gallerycurated by Sheridan Bischoff, '18 A solitary artist is not a stereotype for a printmaker. Printmaking is a medium with a long history of collaboration. Great printmakers often were the heads of workshops where apprentices would learn the skills of the trade in exchange for their contribution to the art. In contemporary art, collaboration is [...]
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 [...]