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 2021 DSU ANNUAL Kinesthesia EXHIBITION

Delta Country University's Fine art Department presents its annual faculty exhibition in the Fielding Wright Fine art Gallery on campus from September 30 to October 28. DSU'due south art faculty are practicing artists, designers, and filmmakers who regularly exhibit in venues across the nation, in fact, three of our faculty members are included in the 2021 Mississippi Museum of Fine art's Invitational exhibition.  The almanac faculty exhibition offers us the opportunity to show work created by these artists over the past twelvemonth.  The artwork on view reflects the diverse interests of DSU'due south art faculty.

Participating artists are Korkut M. Akacik, Jesse Ryan Brown, Ted Fisher, Ky Johnston, Michaela Merryday, Cetin Oguz, Nathan Pietrykowski, Kayla Selby, Michael Stanley, and Robyn Wall.

As one would wait, a recurring theme in this year's faculty exhibition is the pandemic. Ted Fisher, a film manager specializing in arts and culture documentaries, produced a curt moving picture that reflects on the realities of artmaking amongst a pandemic. Cetin Oguz contributed a serial of drawings that explore how COVID-19 has redefined our personal and physical spaces with personal interactions mediated through electronic media. The drawings were created during virtual meetings with his students. Their multiple layers mimic the emotional turmoil many of the states experienced in the last year.

Although not straight related to the pandemic, the theme of Kayla Selby'south work takes on new relevance nether current circumstances. Selby uses unpredictable processes to simulate the complexities and potential clumsiness of human interactions, especially those that are overthought.

Nathan Pietrykowski'due south work documents his ramblings nigh boondocks through photographs, notes, and drawings which he after collages together to construct narratives that examine the psychogeography of place. Pietrykowski eventually developed a zine to let others to experience their environs in the same manner. The zine contains instructions on what to wait at, how to interact with the environment, and how to leave a marker on that place.

Robyn Wall is a printmaker whose piece of work likewise focuses on her surroundings. Wall is interested in the narratives we construct about neighborhoods based on the structures and remnants nosotros run into at that place – pizza boxes that reveal a neighbor's favorite pizza brand, discarded toys that betray the age of children living there, or abased furniture that announces a neighbor'south move.

Jesse Ryan Brown explores the relationship betwixt objects and the passing of fourth dimension in a different manner. His Cipher, Having Arrived, Will Stay uses appropriated 35mm slides equally a meditation on the cyclical nature of fourth dimension.

Michael Stanley'south large-calibration steel and LED sculpture is a commentary on the pressures imposed upon us and our responses to them.

Korkut Akacik works in digital and new media. His piece of work addresses political and social bug. He is trying to appoint his viewers through unexpected encounters with seductively beautiful imagery or, alternately, with agonizing images and sounds. Often, Akacik projects these images onto crumpled surfaces, the resulting distortion serves as a metaphor for the distortion of facts.

Ky Johnston'due south new work presents a reflection on his roots in pottery and a continued try to blend influences from various sources into functional pottery. The work shown here is based  on functional forms which have been contradistinct or stretched, sometimes cut or faceted. The glazes use common materials including various clays, woods ash, and some raw pigments, and are fired with gas. His goal is to permit the materials, processes, and long history of the craft to inform the finish result.

Michaela Merryday's research interests focus on sustainability and the part of culture in promoting sustainability. The jewelry shown here was fashioned from forest waste produced by article of furniture making and sculpture classes at DSU.

DSU'due south Annual Faculty Exhibition will exist on view until Oct 28. A closing reception will exist held on Thursday, October 28 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. The gallery is open up Monday through Thursday 8:00 a.m. to five:00 p.m. and Friday 8:00 a.1000. to 4:00 p.g. The gallery is closed on weekends, holidays, and during semester breaks. Masks are required in all DSU facilities.

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Source: https://www.deltastate.edu/art/wright-center-art-gallery/

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