Interburden: Art Installation by Shawn Edrington
Interburden, an art installation by Shawn Edrington will be on display in the Compartment Gallery room 408 on the fourth floor of the Fine Arts Building from 9/6 through 9/23. The gallery is opened to the public Monday through Friday from 12 until 6:00pm.
2021 Graduate Art Exhibition
The 2021 Graduate Art Exhibiton will be on display in the John B. Davis Gallery from 9/6 through 9/23. This exhibition showcases the artwork of Jihae Jang, Yidan Guo, Collete Stosich, and Steve Oberg. The John B. Davis Gallery is located on the main floor of the Fine Arts Building room 105. The Gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday from 12 until 6:00pm.
2021 Graduate Art Exhibition
Mediagerie: ART3310 Professional Practice and Display Art Exhibition
Mediagerie: ART3310 Professional Practice and Display Art Exhibition will be on display in the Compartment Gallery from October 4th through the 14th. The Compartment Gallery is located on the 4th floor of the Fine Arts Building #11 RM408 and is opened to the public from noon to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday.
Visibility Annual Art Exhibition 2021
The Visibility annual art exhibition will be on display in the John B. Davis Gallery from October 4th through the 14th. The John B. Davis Gallery is located on the main floor of the Fine Arts Building #11 RM105 and is opened to the public from noon to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday.
Hiding: Kate Brown's B.F.A. Senior Thesis Exhibition
Hiding will be on display in the John B. Davis and CompARTment Galleries from October 18th through October 28th. Both galleries are located in the Fine Arts Building #11 on the 1st and 4th floors. This exhibition is open to the public from 12-6 pm, Monday through Friday.
Kate's Artist Statement
"Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
-Homer, The Iliad
My work examines the intersection of mortality and memory through gesturally based charcoal drawing, as well as acrylic and gouache painting on paper. Within humanity is an overwhelming desire to retain the finite- which I believe denotes the eternalnature of the spirit. Picture-taking, journaling, scrapbooking, sentimental objects and mementos: all these activities and objects signify a deep yearning to remember the feelings associated with the finite events of inherently finite mortal existences. The faded 80’s wedding photo on a bedside table was once a tangible, physical moment- plucked from the limitations of memory and made immortal for repeated.Most recently I’ve focused on the boundaries of individual memory as they relate to relationships with others. The awareness that every person has a story as complicated and multifaceted as one’s own is easily forgotten in the haze of adultish responsibilities; so I have engaged in regularly welcoming modelsinto my studio who have allowed me to create a visual biography. While I work from a reference image, my model tells me their life story. To paint the portrait of a person is nothing new, but now, to me, the image of each person is a living record of the time we spent together and I remember who travelled the world, who is getting ready to have a baby, who is obsessed with dinosaurs, all the devastating losses and unspeakable joys. Each piece is imbued with a deep love, taking the feelings related to the memory of each person and creating a work which will condense those feelings into an immortalizing object. The paper substrate I use is unconventional for painting- the viewer might notice a warping effect onsome of the work displayed, made more obvious by the white border around a majority of the pieces. I use these techniques to mundanize the piece. The viewer should not forget that the work they are observing is a material object; it is a temporal representation of an intangible memory.
The First Annual Pocatello Art Council Members Group Art Exhibition
The First Annual Pocatello Art Center Members Group Art Exhibition will be on display in the John B. Davis Gallery from 11/8 through 11/18. This exhibition showcases paintings, sculpture, and photography created by active members of the Pocatello Art Center. The John B. Davis Gallery is located on the main floor of the Fine Arts Building room 105. The Gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday from 12 until 6:00pm.
Vigilance: Veterans Art Exhibition 2021
Vigilance: Veterans Art Exhibition 2021 will be on display in the Compartment Gallery from 11/8 through the 11/18. This exhibition showcases paintings, sculpture, and photography created by local veterans. The Compartment Gallery is located on the 4th floor of the Fine Arts Building #11 RM408 and is opened to the public Monday through Friday from noon to 6:00 pm.
2021 Faculty Art Exhibition
The 2021 Faculty Art Exhibition 2020 will be on display in the John B. Davis Gallery from December 6th through the 16th. The John B. Davis Gallery is in room 105 on the main floor of the Fine Arts Building #11. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from noon to 6:00pm. A gallery reception for this exhibition was held Tuesday, December 7th from 6:00 to 7:00pm.