Low Road Gallery

Elke Pessl: Light Fall

jessica — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:00:36 +0000

Wednesday, April 25

Doors open at 7 pm

Artist talk and audience q&a at 730 pm

This is a punchcard event for DePauw students!

Bio and artist statement:

Elke Pessl is a mixed media artist working in abstract photography, drawing, printmaking, and digital methods. She has exhibited at venues such as Gopalan Contemporary Art, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Columbia College Chicago, Richmond International Airport, and the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy. She earned a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Indiana University-Bloomington. Her awards include an Individual Artist Grant from the Indiana Art Commission and the Clowes Fellowship for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She currently lives and works in Bloomington, IN.

From Elke:
My artistic practice taps into human kind’s unbridled drive towards scientific discovery and knowledge of the physical world. The work serves as a visualization of how we confront the impact of technology on our understanding of material as well as immaterial space in an age where rovers traverse the surface of neighboring planets
and radio telescopes capture signals billions of light-years away, leading to discoveries of new galaxies. With emphasis on structure and luminosity, the visualizations strive to give definition to something that is otherwise invisible, a frontier landscape only
recently mapped or a phenomenon at the edge of our comprehension. Forms found in contemporary architecture, the sciences, and the mechanical world are captured with
camera-less photography, supplying the inherent logic for the abstract visual language. Their residual traces combined with diagrammatic vocabulary provide a tension between the intangible and the quantifiable.

http://www.elkepessl.com/

Violent Fun: Curated by Jerry Bates

jessica — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:31:31 +0000

Friday, March 16 at 7:00 pm

A presentation of the preoccupation of violence in preadolescent boys.

Jerry Bates is intrigued by how motivated his kids are by violence and gore and how this energy is made manifest. Like many others they spend time drawing cataclysmic comic scenes of war often depicting deadly weapons and fates. They also love to split wood with hand tools which gives them great satisfaction smashing wood apart. These are common activities of many male youth and it makes Jerry rethink how we channel and display violence as a child.

What happens when you weave these two activities into an art setting? How does it change the activity and force new meaning into their work?

The audience will see a combination of a performance and drawings created by Abel and Ray Bates — Jerry’s children.

This opening includes:

• A performance piece by Jack Daddy Sunrise
• A performance by Jerry’s children, Abel and Ray
• A poetry reading by Joe Heithaus

On The Parallels of Latitude with Shu-Mei Chan

jessica — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:10:34 +0000

Friday, May 11:

On The Parallels of Latitude will be a show of drawings – both two and three-dimensional – utilizing a range of materials including paper, graphite, string, clay and ceramics. Ostensibly it is inspired by cartography and will involve research into the history of maps. Shu-Mei will also borrow some formal elements of historical maps. But her main interest in them is not their beauty (although she does think they are amazing). Instead, she is concerned with the problem or challenge of trying to make the untamed three-dimensional world fit into our highly ordered, mathematical, and conceptual systems. She is ultimately interested in the fact that our “will to order” inevitably distorts. This leads her to think that anything that the mind projects is a gross distortion of what really is. This bittersweet exhibition will consist of musings about the reality that we will never and can never know.

(Re)figured: New Photography

jessica — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:53:54 +0000

Opening Friday, February 17 at 7 p.m.

Featuring work by:

Kelsey Floyd

Sean Hoisington

Andrea Hutchinson

Kris Schmelzer