Wednesday, November 13, 2024 2pm to 6pm
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Free EventTwo exhibitions open at the Tyler Art Gallery featuring art faculty Renqian Yang and Cara Brewer Thompson. Each artist will present an exhibition of new work that was created during their sabbaticals. The exhibitions are on view Oct. 15- Nov. 15, 2024, with an opening reception Oct. 18 from 5-7pm.
Professor Renqian Yang's exhibition Folding Time Between Worlds was created during her 2023 sabbatical where she traveled back to her home country, China, and created this body of work that focuses on reconnecting themes she was exploring before she immigrated to the US to her current method of making. Her art explores the dance between opposing forces— restraint and liberation, pessimism and optimism. Rooted in her migration and survival experiences, she molds clay to embody vulnerabilities, desires, and emotions, capturing time and space within each piece. In Yang's hands, clay becomes a medium for both liberation and fluidity.
Professor Cara Brewer Thompson’s exhibit, Based on Actual Events, will feature work from her Fall 2019 sabbatical (whose exhibition was canceled due to Covid). The work centers around her time spent on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia in November 2019 titled. Additional prints and animations from Pond, a Portrait (an ongoing project inspired by the farm pond on the acreage behind her house) are also on display. Her current work is focused on the natural world and half-invented, half-remembered landscapes. Thompson has a passion for 3d modeling and animation and a secret love of cheesy Hollywood sets, particularly low budget science fiction of the early 1970s. She loves merging the digital and natural worlds and embraces the use of technology in her work.
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