In the atrium we have a show from one of UWM’s Digital Art class curated by Amelia Hernandez. Here are some samples from the show, be sure to stop by if you happen to be in Milwaukee.
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The current Atrium show in the UW-Milwaukee Union will be up for only a couple more days so if you haven’t seen some of this awesome student work yet be sure to stop through. A description of the work is below and beyond that is a portion of the work in the show:
The works reference mass media visual culture in the manner of contemporary painter Johannes Kahrs: the students were to appropriate from any form of televisual, be it movies, television shows, videos, etc. They then had to remove the original context and supply a new one by combining these varying images. They also had to share their televisual pictures through my Classroom without Walls wiki, doubling the theme of ecology and collective constructs. Issues dealt with also involve Roland Barthes’ essay on the Death of the Author, whereby the original intentions of the depicted films or shows were reinterpreted and recontextualized. A full project description is posted on the Atrium Space’s walls.
The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Union Art Gallery is starting the semester right with an intense, brutal, and beautiful exhibit with artists Kako Ueda and Roxanne Jackson. Details Below:
Flora/Fauna
Work by Kako Ueda and Roxanne Jackson
January 29-February 26, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, January 29, 5-8pm
Gallery talk with artists: 4pm
Kako Ueda and Roxanne Jackson focus on physical nature and human nature in abstract and inventive ways. They share an interest in dualities, such as nature and culture, light and dark. In their work, the natural world is intricate, fascinating, grotesque, frightening – something to be drawn deeply into and sometimes shocked by.
New York artist Kako Ueda constructs her work from intricate hand-cut paper which references, in part, paper cutting from Japan where she was born. Minneapolis-based Roxanne Jackson works three-dimensionally with clay to form large compositions of human/animal hybrids.
UWM Union Art Gallery
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Campus level
414-229-6310
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