The combination of traditional draftsmanship and innovative formal and technical artistry will be on display when the Wright State University Art Galleries hosts Layered Inventions. The exhibit begins Tuesday, March 28, and continues through Sunday, April 30, in the University Art Galleries, A132 Creative Arts Center (CAC) on the Wright State campus. Other events include an artist’s lecture and reception on Friday, April 14, at 5:30 p.m. and a printmaking demonstration by Sean Caulfield and Akiko Taniguchi on Friday, April 14, at 10 a.m. in A026 CAC.

This exhibition highlights six printmakers whose unique visual vocabularies both transform personal content and transcend their chosen print media. They share a love of printmaking and a unique manner of visual poetry that unifies their art. They represent a segment of artists whose distinct and innovative visual inclinations present a departure from common definitions of abstraction, realism and non-objectivity. The title “Layered Inventions” refers to these shared aesthetic tendencies.

The artists included in the exhibition are: Kim Bauer, associate professor of art at the University of Texas at El Paso; Sean Caulfield, junior Canadian research chair at the University of Alberta in Alberta, Canada; Tom Christison, instructor/technician at the University of Tennessee; Laurie Sloan, associate professor of art at the University of Connecticut at Storrs; Akiko Taniguchi, a professional artist residing in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and Judy Youngblood, professor emeritus at the University of North Texas.

By means of traditional print processes, each artist exploits the medium’s inherent capacity to layer information in unconventional sequences, creating links between familiar forms and unfamiliar environs. These relationships are activated within skillfully positioned layers of woodcut, lithography, etching and serigraphy, producing fertile surfaces that serve as habitat for a language of organic, figurative and industrial fabrications.

This exhibition is supported by the College of Liberal Arts, the Ohio Arts Council and the Friends of the Galleries.

Highlights

Friday, April 14
10am-2:00pm
A026 CAC
Workshop with Sean Caulfield and Akiko Taniguchi
Photos

5:30 pm
M252 CAC
Lecture by Sean Caulfield, followed by a reception in the Galleries

Curator
Jon Swindler

About the Artists

Kim Bauer
Sean Caulfield
Tom Christison
Laurie Sloan
Akiko Taniguchi
Judy Youngblood

The Galleries will be CLOSED Sunday, April 16th.