Arts
Campus
The Harry Krug Gallery is open 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday. The University Gallery is open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.
All exhibits and receptions are free and open to the public. For more information, call 620-235-4302.
Artist: Kathryn Combs
Location: Harry Krug Gallery
Reception: 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 19, with remarks by the artist at 5:30 p.m.
This solo exhibition explores the ways in which society and individual experience intersect with technology, social media, and the internet.
Kathryn Combs is an American artist and educator who works as the studio manager at the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, Kansas. Trained as a printmaker, she explores a range of techniques and approaches including screen printing, laser engraving, weaving, and installation art to explore relationships between technology, society, and individuals.
Her most recent works investigate the huge quantities of consumer data used to train generative AI and algorithms used in social media. Creating a visual representation of these constantly growing volumes, the work serves as a jumping off point for viewers to get engaged with digital literacy and public policy.
Her work has been shown across the Midwest and American South, at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, and internationally at Spazio SV in Venice and the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea.
Artist: Reni Gower
Location: University Gallery
Reception: 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 23
Since ancient times, perfect forms (circles, squares, and triangles) have been thought to convey sacred and universal truths by reflecting the fractal interconnections of the natural world. One finds these similarities embedded in decorative patterns of diverse cultures all around the globe.
Gower believes adapting such designs and incorporating them into contemporary artwork promotes empathy and understanding through a shared perspective that reinforces cross-cultural bonds.
As a solo exhibition, "GEOmatrix" is a combination of large and small "papercuts” and tessellations that rotate, slide, and mirror the motifs to generate new interlaced patterns, shadows, and reflected colors. The exhibit uses various mediums including Myar, silk, pulped paintings, Gelli prints, hand-polished aluminum, paper, and vinyl.
Its creator, Reni Gower, received a 2023 Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship for Works on Paper, and is a recipient of the SECAC’s Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement and the College Art Association’s Distinguished Teacher of Art Award.
Her work is represented in many prestigious collections and has been exhibited at international and national venues for more than 40 years. She is a professor emerita from Virginia Commonwealth University and is represented by Chroma Projects in Charlottesville.
Artist: Ann Marie Greenberg
Location: Harry Krug Gallery
Reception: 5 to 7 p.m. March 26, with remarks by the artist at 5:30 p.m.
This exhibition will explore questions surrounding the infiltration of man-made materials seeping into our natural world.
Ann Marie Greenberg is an artist and educator based in the neighborhood of Mayfair, Chicago. She uses plastics as a base and as an inspiration. Most recently, she has been creating bioplastic and adding light to create stained plastic collages.
She was a recent artist in residence at Mothers Milk Residency in Kansas and Incahoots Residency in California.
Artist: Brooks Dierdorff
Location: University Gallery
Reception: 5 to 7 p.m. March 26, with remarks by the artist at 5:30 p.m.
In this exhibit, Brooks Dierdorff explores the ways that photography shapes our ideas of nature, climate disasters, and environmental collapse.
Dierdorff’s work includes a range of methodologies such as photo-based sculptures, installation, video, appropriating images from commercial and archival sources, and experimental documentary filmmaking.
He has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally at galleries that include Amos Eno in Brooklyn, New York; The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art; The Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle; High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, California; The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art at The Orlando Museum of Art; the Ulrike Hamm Gallery in Bissendorf, Germany; the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in South Korea; and The New Gallery in Calgary, Canada.
His work has been collected by the Nevada Museum of Art, the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Ely Center for Contemporary Art. He is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Location: Harry Krug Gallery
A senior exhibit featuring works by Savannah Guillory and Meranda Belew is planned. The title and reception times are to be determined.
