March 1, 2005
Purdue Galleries to launch two new exhibits
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Images in new art media, the products of creative minds and digital tools, will be featured in a pair of new Purdue University Galleries art exhibits opening on Monday (March 7).
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Digital Concentrate, an exhibit that reveals a broad intersection of art and technology, will be on display from Monday (March 7) through April 24 in the Purdue Memorial Union's Robert L. Ringel Gallery. The show will include computer-generated images and digital prints, animations and digital videos on monitor displays, interactive installations, video projections, digital weavings, and one piece located on the internet.
An artistic installation and various works by Brazilian conceptual artist Fabiano Gonper, entitled Gonper Museum — Work in Progress, also will be on display from Monday (March 7) through April 24. That exhibit will be in the Stewart Center Gallery.
To celebrate the new exhibits, Purdue Galleries will sponsor receptions in both the Ringel and Stewart Center galleries from 5-7 p.m. on March 10. The curators for both exhibits, contemporary art historian Elizabeth K. Menon and digital artist Petronio Bendito, will make comments at 5:30 p.m. during the Stewart Center Gallery reception. Menon and Bendito are faculty members in the Art and Design Division of the Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts.
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Both Purdue Galleries exhibits are free and open to the public.
"In the fall of 2002, Professor Bendito presented an exhibit of his computer-based interactive works in the Ralph G. Beelke Memorial Gallery," said Craig Martin, director of Purdue Galleries. "The Digital Concentrate exhibit follows Bendito's theme by presenting to our audience a vision of what is possible in new media art through the advent of technological applications."
To assemble the Digital Concentrate exhibit, a call for artists was sent out last summer. Menon, Bendito and Martin then reviewed approximately 500 entries from 174 individual artists, and 21 works of art from 15 different artists ultimately were selected for display.
Included in the exhibit are works by Kathy Marmor, Roberto Bocci, Terry Calen, Thomas Canale, Heather D. Freeman, Ronald Geibert, Kurt Gohde, Gerald Guthrie, Anni Holm, Luke Lamborn, Stephan Larson, Justyna Latek, Patrick M. Madigan, Aliyah Marr and Ruth McCorrison.
Marmor, whose installation piece "Kitchen Science — Origins of Life," is featured in Digital Concentrate, will mark the opening of the exhibit with a brown bag lecture at noon Monday (March 7) in the Union's Anniversary Drawing Room. The event is free and open to the public.
The Gonper Museum — Work in Progress exhibit features a linear spatial projection created from computer-generated adhesive lines that suggests to viewers that the shape of the gallery itself has changed. A series of "secret drawings" then will be "hung" on the imaginary walls of the projected "new" gallery, with photographic documentations of early Gonper exhibitions also on display.
"The Gonper Museum show in Stewart Center Gallery really is not a separate place," Martin said. "Rather, the exhibit exists as an idea that is enacted temporarily in a gallery space. It should be very interesting."
All galleries are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, until 8 p.m. on Thursday and from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday. For class or group visits, contact Mary Ann Anderson of Purdue Galleries at (765) 496-7899.
Writer: Aaron Martin, (765) 496-3133, martinac@purdue.edu
Source: Craig Martin, (765) 494-3061, cdmartin@cla.purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
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"0406," an inkjet print by digital artist Terry Calen of Burien, Wash., is one of several works and artistic installations featured in Digital Concentrate, a new art exhibit opening Monday (March 7) at Purdue. The exhibit, which reveals a broad intersection of art and technology through works by several artists, will be on display through April 24 at the Purdue Memorial Union's Robert L. Ringel Gallery.
A publication-quality photo is available at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/+2005/martinart.jpg
PHOTO CAPTION
"A Fuga," a drawing in acrylic and graphite on voile by conceptual artist Fabiano Gonper of Brazil, is one of several Gonper works and artistic installations featured in Gonper Museum – Work in Progress, a new art exhibit opening Monday (March 7) at Purdue. The exhibit will be on display through April 24 at the Stewart Center Gallery.
A publication-quality photo is available at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/images/+2005/martinart2.jpg
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