UMF Artwork Gallery kicks off new tutorial yr with ‘JUXTAPOSE: the UMF Artwork College Exhibition’

FARMINGTON — The UMF Artwork Gallery kicks off the brand new tutorial yr with a celebration of the visually and conceptually various creative voices of the artwork school on the College of Maine at Farmington. “JUXTAPOSE: the UMF Artwork College Exhibition,” will likely be featured on campus from Sept. 7 to Oct. 8. A public reception will likely be held Thursday, Sept. 7 from 4-7 p.m. All occasions are free and open to the general public.
Ann Bartges teaches 2D design, digital pictures and video. Her experimental strategy to digital media offsets the intimate home and even every day moments in life her photographs and installations doc.
Tom Jessen is a minimalist multimedia artist impressed by the vernacular of on a regular basis discarded objects. Countering the excessive seriousness of historic minimal artwork, Jessen’s work makes use of humor, playfulness and irreverence to disclose a game-like dynamic between paintings and viewer.
Daybreak Nye teaches graphic design, internet design and animation. Her experimental movies discover deep private and historic recollections via conversations with individuals in her group.
Elizabeth Olbert is a painter whose work ranges from giant surreal photographs of grotesque creatures to lyrical research of clouds within the sky. She teaches programs in drawing open air and portray.
In his installations, sculptor Jesse Potts makes use of altered objects and development supplies to create narratives in regards to the human situation. He makes use of startling juxtapositions of those parts to play with the viewer’s notion of gravity, emotions of bodily and psychological disconnection from house and floor, in the end calling to thoughts notions of mortality.
Painter/sculptor Katrazyna Randall works in mixed media to create installations that reveal the seductive great thing about nature as a commodity. In her work the pure surroundings turns into a stage for a capitalist danse macabre through which animal varieties each blossom and mutate as objects of need.
The UMF Artwork Gallery is devoted to bringing up to date artwork to the campus and regional communities. artgalleryumf.org The gallery is situated at 246 Principal Road, behind the Admissions Workplace. Gallery hours are Tuesdays-Sundays 12-4 p.m., and by appointment. Please contact Sarah at [email protected] or 207-778-1062 for extra data or to make an appointment.