Fall art exhibits at the Kennedy Art Museum, including two new ones curated by faculty, are honored at the fall exhibition.
The current exhibits at the Kennedy Museum of Art, including two new faculty-created pieces, were celebrated at its fall exhibition Friday night.
Current exhibitions include: Art as Information; Two Grey Hills: Navajo Weavings; Creating Visual Meaning; and Insights: The School of Art and Design Faculty Collection.
The Art as Information exhibit, curated by Jakub Zdebik, shows the way art conveys information through data, maps, diagrams and other media of communication, according to the Kennedy Museum website.
“I really liked the Art as Information exhibit. It showed a relationship through art and things like data and diagrams that I never realized,” Cameron MacRae, a senior studying business, said.
An original collection of the museum, the Navajo weavings were donated by Edward Kennedy, and continue to make appearances in seasonal exhibits of the museum, Edward Pauley, director the Kennedy Museum, said. There are currently around 700 total textiles that were donated, and rotate throughout the year, he said.
On Sept. 25, two new exhibits opened showcasing faculty art.
Insights: The School of Art and Design Faculty Collection was curated for more than two years. Letters were sent out to faculty asking to send in work for a special collection. After the Collections Committee approved the collection, the work was compiled and the exhibit was established, Pauley said.
“I think the exhibit really embodies the vision and talent of the faculty here (at OU),” Melanie Waldman, a senior studying studio art, said. “The wide array of mediums and diversity of the work really shows what the art school is about.”
The art in the exhibit features faculty who have retired, or who have received tenure.
The art includes many media, from acrylic and oil paint to mixed media and aquatint.
The other new exhibit, Creating Visual Meaning, is meant to stimulate conversations on visual literacy.
The exhibit asks, “How do we create meaning, both individually and collectively, from visual images?”
Ron Kroutel’s "Striding Man" features a running man in a southeastern Ohio landscape. Julie Dummermuth’s "Angels in the Rain" shows a colorful, almost pop art like carousel. Both paintings are meant to stir thinking and philosophical conversation with the viewers, the pieces’ description said.
“This exhibit was made so viewers can grasp the exceptional work the faculty is doing,” Pauley, said. “People can appreciate the art being done in Athens instead of somewhere else or on someone’s wall.”
Both faculty exhibits run until April 27, 2016.
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