“Going Against the Grain: Wooden Quilts” by Laura Petrovich-Cheney
Upper Traylor GalleryExhibition Run: January 14 - February 15, 2019 Artist Talk: February 7, 4:30pm About the Artist: Using traditional and contemporary patchwork quilt patterns, Laura Petrovich-Cheney creates complex and vibrant sculptures from debris that was collected after natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy (2013), Gatlinburg, TN Fires (2015), and a series of nor’easters that pounded [...]
“Residue of a Lived Experience” by Ryan Schroeder
Lower Traylor GalleryArtist Statement: My paintings are relics that reflect reality. Through paint, I am exploring space as a phenomenological experience in that the subject matter is assembled through firsthand exploration. I paint abandoned spaces that resonate with me. Some paintings are made perceptually, and others from photographs. However, my main focus is finding a means to [...]
“From Sabbatical” by Kevin Gardner
Upper Traylor GalleryExhibition run: February 25 - March 29, 2019 From Sabbatical Kevin Neal Gardner Art is, at its best, more beautiful, better crafted, and more interesting than the reality we think influences it. However illusionistic it may or may not be, art is, in the end, purposefully unreal. These drawings and paintings were created in [...]
“Cataclysmic Microcosm” by Jave Yoshimoto
Lower Traylor GalleryCataclysmic Microcosm Jave Yoshimoto My work takes on the ephemerality of news and information and how the emotions we bring to each tragedy in the news cycle are swept away by the wave of information that floods the media. I address this social amnesia through my art with the work acting as a social memory [...]
“Visions of the Dharma: Buddhist Art from the Berea College Art Collection”
Rogers GalleryVisions of the Dharma: Buddhist Art from the Berea College Art Collection Exhibition run: February 25 - May 3, 2019 Gathered together over the course of several decades through the generosity of many donors, the Berea College Art Collection includes numerous objects associated with Buddhism. The works of art in this exhibition showcase significant aspects [...]
Graduation Exhibition for Art Majors
Upper & Lower Trayor GalleryExhibition run: April 11 - May 5, 2019 Artist talk and Opening Reception: April 11, 4:30pm
Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra
Lower Traylor GalleryArrangement for a Silent Orchestra Julie Comnick Arrangement for a Silent Orchestra is a painting and video project that explores the gradual dissolution of culture in contemporary society through the symbolic ruin of a personal and cultural icon, the violin. Using the violin as a metaphor, I raise questions about the relationship between advancing technology [...]
Biopathies
Rogers GalleryBiopathies Carrie Longley The driving force behind my sculpture is the relationship of science and art. Collections, categories, labels, frames, and display cases are all devices used by science and art to encourage the view to carefully examine precious objects and artifacts. My intention as an artist is to create a playful shifting back and [...]
Placed & Displaced
Upper Traylor GalleryPlaced and Displaced Amanda Maciuba My work is concerned with how the effects of purposeful human actions, alongside uncontrollable factors of time and nature, alter both the current landscape and human agency within that landscape. The accrual of our past modifications in combination with what evolves over those remnants leaves us with physical traces of [...]
Feathers Fall, Grass Grows
Rogers GalleryFeathers Fall, Grass Grows by Andréa Connell Figurines come into one’s possession to celebrate a birth, a death, an anniversary, or any other numerous or commemorative moment. They become a stand-in for a story, stories often held privately by the collector. Through my work I explore the complex narratives that lay dormant, forgotten, and suppressed [...]