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April Issue 2010
Western Carolina
University in Cullowhee, NC, Offers Faculty Biennial
Western Carolina University
in Cullowhee, NC, is presenting the exhibit, System + Structure,
featuring the School of Art and Design biennial faculty exhibition,
on view through May 8, 2010.
The exhibit will feature the work of 17 WCU faculty members, all
teaching artists, who work in a wide range of media including
ceramics, sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, installation,
book art, photography, graphic design, new media and video.
Claire Van der Plas
Faculty participants
are Cathryn Griffin, Claire Van der Plas, Erin Tapley, George
Rector, Greg McPherson, James Kirkpatrick, Joan Byrd, Jon Jicha,
Kelly Popoff, Marie Cochran, Martin DeWitt, Mary Anna Lafratta,
Marya Roland, Matthew Liddle, Ramonray Menze, Richard Tichich
and Susan Martin.
"The exhibit is intended to demonstrate not only the diversity
of the School of Art and Design, but also the creative innovation
and conviction of its faculty members, who teach and exhibit their
work nationally and internationally," said Martin DeWitt,
director of WCU's Fine Art Museum.
"The 'system and
structure' concept revolves around each faculty member's art-making
process. The exhibit reveals the dynamic mode of expression, process
and creative conviction of each artist," said DeWitt.
Cathryn Griffin
The exhibit includes
four works by Griffin, a photographer and professor in the School
of Art and Design, that capture vacation complexes near the ocean
built during the housing boom that now stand empty.
"My photographs attempt to describe the enormity of this
endeavor, and hope to suggest the abject alienation that is sure
to follow. There were no people there, and almost every unit was
empty. It was very quiet, as if a disaster had just happened,"
said Griffin.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call 828/227-2553 or visit (www.wcu.edu/fapac/galleries).
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