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Artist brings botanical prints to Georgia Southern Statesboro Campus
Master printmaker Donald Martin will bring his exhibition, “Sanctuary,” to the Contemporary Gallery at the Center for Art & Theatre on the Statesboro Campus.
Martin, who has exhibited extensively throughout the country and painted murals for the Barcardi Corporation and the Jacksonville International Airport,depicts botanical forms using close-up views that appear at once highly realistic and detailed, yet also abstract and dynamic. Working with the graphic intensity of relief block printing, “Sanctuary” reveals a view of nature as a complex and tangled mesh of forms, twisting and overlapping as they compete for space and light.
“I particularly enjoy the rituals and craft of printmaking processes, and it is through these processes that much of my imagery evolves,” Martin said in an artist statement. “I seldom start out with a complete image in mind; I start with the fragment of an idea or image and then allow the process to engage in a dialog between the image and the idea.”
He said his personal experience with wildlife influences both the content of his work and the techniques used to create it.
“Donald Martin is a greatly celebrated artist of the southeast,” Gallery Director Jason Hoelscher said. “Given the power of his prints and the wealth of knowledge and ideas he brings, I believe his exhibition and campus visit will have impact on our students.”
The exhibition will be on view at the University Gallery from Feb. 18 through March 14. A reception and an artist talk will be held Feb. 28 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the gallery. Read more…
Artist combines science, art in exhibition on Statesboro Campus
Artist and urban explorer Marie Lorenz has spent her life working on a project that has merged the tools of science and art, while underlining the relational nature between the environmental elements of the river (currents, ecology, flotsam and pollution) as well as the people who live, work and play in that environment.
Lorenz’ multimedia installation, “Ash Heap/Landfill,” will be exhibited at the Center for Art & Theatre University Gallery at Georgia Southern University’s Statesboro Campus from Feb. 18 to March 14.
“Several years ago I recognized a bridge between science and art in the work of a long time friend and colleague, Marie Lorenz,” Associate Professor Elsie Hill said. “Lorenz’s artwork does not fit in one discipline. Her art processes come from disciplines as diverse as social science, traditional craft boat building, biology and geography.”
“Ash Heap/Landfill” evokes beaches, creek beds and landfills with a constructed landslide of unfired clay riddled with fired ceramic objects, in order to explore shifting perceptions of scale between the fluid and the particular as objects become removed from their functions.
“Lorenz’s work poses just the kinds of questions crucial to our era,” said Jason Hoelscher, Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art gallery director. “As disciplines blend and combine, it’s important to see where we are and where we’re going, and Lorenz’s combination of approaches offers a look at paths and possibilities.”
Lorenz will give two talks as part of the Center for Sustainability’s “Sustainability Seminar Series.” The first will be held on the Armstrong Campus on Monday, March 11 at 10:30 a.m. in Fine Arts Hall, room 131. The second will be held on the Statesboro Campus on Tuesday, March 12 at 5 p.m. in Arts Building, room 2071. A reception will follow at 6 p.m. at the Center for Art & Theatre.
Lorenz’s visit also coincides with Georgia Southern’s participation in RecycleMania, a competition between university recycling programs from the U.S. and Canada.
This exhibition was made possible in part with funding from the Campus Life Enrichment Committee and Student Sustainability Fees. Read more…
Writer, naturalist blends poetry, art in exhibition on Statesboro Campus
Naturalist and poet Elizabeth Bradfield is on a mission to bring art and literature to the streets. As founder and editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press, Bradfield has published numerous poetry and art collaborations on utility poles, bathroom stall walls and notice boards around the world, showcasing the power of art as a way to transform public spaces.
Bradfield will present her work on Georgia Southern University’s Statesboro Campus Jan. 14 through Feb. 8 at the Center for Art and Theatre’s University Gallery.
“Field Work,” a collection of photographs and writings from Bradfield’s fieldwork as a naturalist in Antarctica, offers an insider’s view of one of the globe’s iconic wild places. Bradfield will talk about her work in a lecture on Jan. 18 from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. in room 2071 of the arts building. A reception will follow at the gallery from 5 to 7 p.m.
“I’m very much looking forward to Bradfield’s visit and exhibition,” said Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art Statesboro Gallery Director Jason Hoelscher. “The range of approaches and insights she brings to her work, whether text, photo or image, is inspirational in and of itself. Add that her work involves such a range of locations from the mundane to the rarified and spectacular, and it shows the power of word and image to capture and modify a full spectrum of experience across all manners of context.”
Bradfield is an associate professor and co-director of creative writing at Brandeis University. A contributing editor at the Alaska Quarterly Review, her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic, among others. Her fourth book, Toward Alaska, will be published in May 2019.
Bradfield’s visit is made possible with generous contributions from Campus Life Enrichment Committee, the Departments of Art, Writing and Linguistics, and Sociology and Anthropology, as well as the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program. Read more…
Artist brings unique collection to Georgia Southern Statesboro Campus
STATESBORO—Multimedia artist Lily Kuonen’s work has never been described as conventional. Her playntings, a combination of a play and a painting, are an end-result of her varied and playful approaches to contradiction, opposition, integration and connection. Some of Kuonen’s playntings will be on view at the Center for Art and Theatre’s Contemporary Gallery on the Georgia Southern University Statesboro Campus starting Jan. 14.
Kuonen’s work aims to redirect the viewers’ focus from the material object itself to the importance of the relations it embodies. Her most recent exhibition, “Playntings: —> —>,” shows the latest results of her explorations into artistic synthesis and repurposing.
“I’ve been aware of Kuonen’s work for close to a decade now, and it never ceases to amaze and intrigue me,” Gallery Director Jason Hoelscher said. “Lily has a great ability to take elements and objects we’ve all seen before and arrange, combine or layer them into weird new combinations that simultaneously seem perfectly logical yet strangely absurd and weird. Her playntings evoke a response that’s part ‘what a weird idea!’ and part ‘that’s so obvious, why didn’t I think of that?’”
Kuonen received her Master of Fine Arts in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of Central Arkansas. She is currently foundations coordinator and associate professor of art at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida. She serves as SECAC affiliate representative for the board of Foundations in Art: Theory and Education, and she is president of the Integrative Teaching International board. Kuonen also regularly contributes exhibition reviews and interviews for BURNAWAY Magazine in Atlanta. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally.
The exhibition will be on view from Jan. 14 to Feb. 8. A gallery talk with the artist and a closing reception will be held at the Contemporary Gallery on Feb. 7 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Auditions for Spring Shows Nov. 27
(callbacks Nov. 28)
Auditions are open to all students. The two shows are Bug by Tracey Letts (2W/3M) this show contains strong language, violence, and drug use.
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (a cast of 20) Performance is over the Easter weekend – no performance on Easter.