Artists for 2005-06 Exhibition Season
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Justin Hahn
A melding of engineering and art are found in the work of Justin Hahn. While fascinated in the scientific foundations of plastics and polymers, Hahn also employs a sensitive eye to the aesthetic qualities of the material. In his installation at the gallery, Hahn will explore a new body of work which will combine both his background in engineering and his sculptural sensibilites.
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Andrew Kaufman
Andrew Kaufman received an M.F.A from the University of South Florida. He was recently featured in “The Fragile Species-New Art Nashville” and had a solo exhibition at the TAC Gallery in Tennessee this year. He has presented lectures at The Frist Center for the Visual Arts and the University of South Florida.
www.ajkaufman.com/information.htm
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Steven Miller
Steven Miller’s new works are a candid display of our innermost desires and fears. The lush sweeping landscapes often are a stage for the characters within each image. The artist has several resources he draws upon including myths and history, which create a subtle narrative element to his depictions. Miller’s photographs pushes our comfort level and redirects preconceived expectations. A series of the artist’s new works will be on display in large format photography.
www.stevenmillerphotography.com
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Eugene Parnell
Eugene Parnell is currently exploring the link between animal imagery and early childhood experience. He creates installations and interactive works that navigate the mental geographies of childhood and the politics of Natural History displays. He holds an MFA from the University of Hawaii. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, Bellevue Art Museum, Soil Gallery in Seattle, and the University of Wisconsin.
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Chauney Peck
Observations of nature are transformed into abstractions in Chauney Peck’s work. Living and plant forms emerge from simple sculptural shapes. A playful sensibility inhabits and enlivens the minimal constructions. The environment has continued to be a source of inspiration for Peck's sculptures including her new structures cut from wood and painted.
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Donna Stack
Donna Stack is a sculpture professor at Central Washington University. Her multimedia works and installations provide an entry point to discuss the dualistic nature and authenticity of self as individual or self as part of a collective whole. Her work engages the viewer in an effort to create a collective memory and/or response. Gender roles and her ethnicity are also investigated by exploring stereotype and cultural conditioning. In Stack’s work, such as “Smile” the artist videotaped herself trying to hold a smile for 11 minutes. In another work, “Handsewn” the artist is show sewing black threads into her hand, then pulling them out. In both works, a performative quality is evident and also connects the viewer to enter her work on an emotional and psychological level.
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Randy Wood
Randy Wood's landscape drawings on paper seem banal and dreamy, yet a closer inspection reveals humorous or unsettling elements that catch the viewer unexpectedly. The serene atmosphere he depicts is shaken by a stray boot and tire or a ghostly shape arising from a rock formation. In “Ghost Rocks” Wood turns towards sculpture by arranging several of his miniature drawings, mimicking a landscape and the uneven terrain. His installation at ice box invites the viewer inside one of his drawings, creating a dynamic visual experience.
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