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October Issue
2008
USC in Columbia, SC, Features Works
by Sara Schneckloth
The
University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, will present the
exhibition, Open Gestures: (Re)Active Drawings, featuring
works by Sara Schneckloth, on view at McMaster Gallery, in the
Department of Art of the University of South Carolina, from Oct.
14 through Nov. 18, 2008.
In Schneckloth's Open Gestures: (Re)Active Drawings, participants are invited to interact with both the visual imagery and physical principles of science. Playing with the basic physics of magnetisim, air, and optics, each drawing offers a unique opportunity for viewers to engage in making and remaking the image with their own bodily touch. Whether shifting magnifying lenses over a drawing's grainy surface, using magnets to manipulate an image, or activating a field of drawings floating on a bed of air, viewers have the opportunity to leave their own gestured mark on the artwork. In their exploration of the visual culture of science, each drawing evokes a natural system in flux, from asteroid fields to neurological structures.
Schneckloth works in a variety of media as a way to explore the potential of contemporary drawing practice. Currently residing in South Carolina, Schneckloth holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and has lived and worked in Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, and Cape Town, South Africa. Her drawings have been shown throughout the US and South Africa, and were recently featured in the 2007 Wisconsin Triennial and the 2008 Columbus Biennial (GA). Drawing on the visual culture of science, Schneckloth creates images that speak to the physical and emotional processes of remembering. The notion of "the gesture" factors strongly into her work, figuring as both the mark on the page and as an invitation for viewers to intimately interact with her drawings. Schneckloth teaches Drawing at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
In addition to the interactive drawings, the exhibition features stop-action animation, large-scale works on paper, and an original ambient composition by sound artist Nathan Halverson.
This exhibition is funded in part by the USC Research Opportunity Program.
For further info check our SC Institutional
Gallery listings, call Mana Hewitt at 803/777-7480, or e-mail
at (mana@sc.edu).
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