Derek Coté and Nicole Baumann (Richmond, VA) team up to examine the concept of the gallery as a “Mega Space” and its impact on the artist’s and viewer’s experience. Coté and Baumman deconstruct and rebuild structural elements of the contemporary art gallery into models to demonstrate the role of architecture in the art experience.
Sarah FitzSimons (Athens, OH) builds large-scale outdoor sculptures that mirror the aesthetics of natural landscapes. In a more recent series Tents, the artist uses mountainous terrain as a muse to explore wider patterns found in nature and how we adapt, function and often idealize it.
Drawing from her own migration from Eastern to Western culture, Xia Gao (Lincoln, NE) uses the interplay of textile and space to explore how memories, narratives, and contemplations can emerge through layering and pattern of representational images.
Using satellite images from Google Earth as preliminary maps for drawings and watercolors, Greg Murr (Granville, OH) examines the gradual transformation of our natural environment through the recorded evolutions of lakes, rivers, lagoons and other bodies of water.
Susken Rosenthal (Baitz, Land Brandenburg, Germany) creates “portraits” of live soccer games. Through active line drawings created within the standard 90-minute game, the artist creates seismographic, as well as abstract, line drawings that record patterns of movement, energy, and strategy.
44 x 64 cm
Also capitalizing on everyday technology, Michael Sherwin (Morgantown, WV) uses video and photography to present what he terms a “visual geography” emerging from the vast observations and recordings present online and taken from “artists, amateurs, and armchair cartographers.”
By capturing practice and place simultaneously through a long, extended photographic exposure, Eric Sung (Hammond, LA) creates still images that reveal movement and transformation producing a deeply ephemeral result.