Contemporary Dance Ensemble will perform a variety of jazz, modern, pointe pieces in its final show
Posted on March 27, 2008
Three students have their artwork on display at the West Grace Street Gallery, artWorks: Tim Skirven, Katie Scoops and Matt Leech. Their work will be on display until March 28.
“I had no inclination of how I would hang my show before I got into the gallery,” said Skirven, a senior art major. “My show — hanging right now — came together as a visual collage of my everyday life in conjunction with the art I create.”
Collage is the perfect word to describe Skirven’s installation, a mix of sticky notes, Polaroids, personal belongings, a skateboard, yellow rope, paintings and a screen-printing squeegee. The most interesting piece Skirven showcased was a painting of a long thumb against a background of vibrant colors.
A combination of eerie alleyways and unsightly night scenes, which revolves around the idea of dreams as a way to work through problems because of their ability to not be influenced by reality, exemplifies Katie Scoops’s display. Think Jack the Ripper stumbles upon the paparazzi at 3 a.m. in Harlem.
Matt Leech’s installation, a grouping of screen prints and acrylic paintings, is the third. “I like to illustrate my reality in the sense that I deal with subject matter very close to me and around me,” said Leech a senior art major. “In hopes that others viewing my work can identify with the situations I present.” Leech’s show comprised a five-part series entitled “More Years,” dealing with age, the accumulation of knowledge and how one disperses knowledge throughout his or her lifetime.
