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Built Forged Faked

(The text below was copied from the UNC Art Department website)

Allcott Gallery Exhibition: Built Forged Faked


UNC-Chapel Hill First Year MFA Exhibition

January 10 – February 7, 2012
Exhibition reception: Jan. 10, 6-8 pm

Artists are the modern soothsayers and builders who seek insight into a complex society. They are a visual narrative. They are the cultural products they inhabit. They are the culture they critique. They are the culture they create. They are studies of space in-between, the nostalgia of places they have never been and memories of the places they want to go.

In Built Forged Faked the first year MFA students of UNC-Chapel Hill investigate unraveling narratives of identity, race, gender, geography, ritual and constructed spaces. These narratives hang from string to object, object to material, material to surface using seemingly incongruent bits of information, erasing, blurring lines of memory and emotions that cannot be jettisoned but are too cumbersome to carry. Though distinctly different in style and process each artist forges a new narrative dissolving barriers, bringing into dialogue issues of place and belonging.

From January 10th to February 7th the John and June Allcott gallery will be inhabited with string landscapes, shimmering blankets, old barns, altered and investigated bodies, natural environments, haunting lullabies, ghosts of the Great Plains, and not-so-functional objects.

Lauren Salazar transforms a section of the gallery space with her three-dimensional drawings of string. Michael Iauch’s videos explore his relationship with his environment. William Thomas examines a personal relationship with race through painting. Damian Stamer also uses paint to capture sites of rural childhood exploration. Stephen Taylor looks at the human physical and metaphysical relationship to nature through the juxtaposition of geology and transcendental philosophy. Ali Halperin investigates digital dissemination and consumption as it relates to contemporary sociological issues of gender and performance. Nicole Bauguss constructs objects from weathered parts of historical structures to address issues of accessibility and social responsibility in art making. Julia Gootzeit interprets nature, landscape, and human intervention in her two-dimensional work. George Jenne uses video to capture the illicit pleasures of adolescent quests and ruses.

Admission: Free

Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 8 am-5 pm

UNC Art Department: http://art.unc.edu/index.htm

Contact: Hong-An Truong, hatruong@email.unc.edu