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Reception and Performance: Wednesday, February 3, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Guilford College Art Gallery, Hege Library
The reception includes a performance of Mark Dixon’s Rhythm 1001, a mixed media sound installation, at 7 p.m. Both the reception and the performance are free, and the public is cordially invited to attend.
Mark Dixon, Rhythm 1001, mixed media sound installation.
Panel Discussion: Wednesday, February 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the Guilford College Art Gallery, Hege Library
This student-moderated panel discussion with the art faculty will offer a fresh perspective on the faculty members’ art, their lives and teaching, and provide an opportunity to get to know our artist colleagues at a deeper level.
Guilford College Art Faculty Exhibition
Main Gallery, Hege Library
February 3 – March 27, 2016
The 2016 Art Department Faculty Exhibition is a sampling of the recent creative research undertaken by the faculty, including both traditional and nontraditional approaches. Highlighting the diversity of ideas, materials and imagery these artists explore, the exhibition includes painting, collage, sculpture, photography, a mixed media sound installation and collaborative ceramics.
The exhibition also serves to introduce the work of the Art department’s newest tenure-track assistant professor, Antoine Williams, who arrived to teach painting, 2-D design and drawing in the fall semester 2015. Other faculty exhibitors include Maia Dery (photography), Mark Dixon ’96 (mixed media sound installation), Roy Nydorf (sculpture), Charles Tefft ’97 and Phil Haralam ’02 (collaborative ceramics), and art historian M. Kathryn Shields, who will present a lecture on her research as an element of the exhibition.
Antoine Williams, 8: Cause You are the Son of Slaves, Your Daddy was a Bastard, mixed media on found paper on canvas, 89”x90”, 2014.
Lecture: February 29, at 7:00 p.m. in the Guilford College Art Gallery, Hege Library
Associate Professor of Art History Kathryn Shields will present a talk, "Behind the Mask: A Genealogy of Persona, Construction, and Parafiction in Contemporary Photography."
Roy Nydorf, Diver (detail), boxwood, paint,
22” x 2.5” x 2.5”, 2014.