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Members Mornings: Ungrounded

Name: Members Mornings: Ungrounded
Start: 2024-04-17T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-04-17T11:00:00-04:00

April 17 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Free

Members Mornings

April 17, 2024 | 10:00AM | William King Museum of Art
PRIVATE EVENT FOR WKMA MEMBERS ONLY

Members are cordially invited to join WKMA staff and special guests, Wednesday, March 20th, tour of the exhibit “Ungrounded: The Paper Art of Eric Standley”

Join our Curator of Contemporary Art Anna Buchanan for a behind the scenes look and guided tour of this exhibit.

Coffee and Croissants provided by:

Click Here to RSVP or email Laura Harris at lharris@wkmuseum.org or (276) 628-5005 ext. 115

Exhibit Details

Paper artist Eric Standley is a Professor of Studio Art at Virginia Tech. He received his B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art, and his M.F.A from Savannah College of Art and Design. Eric is represented by Dinner Gallery of New York City, the Marta Hewett Gallery of Cincinnati, Ohio and Media Force of Tokyo Japan. He has exhibited in over one hundred and thirty museums and galleries around the world. His artworks are a part of the permanent collections of the Palace of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, the Scherenschnitt Museum, Vreden, Germany and The Zupi Collection, in São Paulo, Brazil.

Standley explains, “Shifting paper’s function from a 2D platform for information to a seemingly impractical building material for cut 3D compositions is not an act of rebellion, but more an accurate reflection of my tendency to over complicate things. Likewise, the efficiencies gained from the tools I use in the studio are exchanged for an obsessive method of conceptualizing with overt intentionality. I cut paper using a laser to create dimensional-crossing layered compositions. Thousands of details for each layer are drawn with a gaming mouse using CAD software the same way key-frame animations are created, only instead of time, I am negotiating space. The compositions I create are informed by pattern-based interpretations of the intricacy, fragility, and vulnerability shared across all forms. Translating these patterns into tangible objects without specific cultural or illusive familiarity is a compulsion toward transcendental otherworldliness.”

Eric Standley’s exhibition “Ungrounded” will be on display in William King Museum of Art’s Contemporary Regional Gallery from February 22, 2024 – June 23, 2024.

Join us on March 3, 2024 at 2pm for a FREE public tour of this exhibition.

To see more of Standey’s work, check out his website at www.eric-standley.com

Details

Date:: April 17
Time:: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Cost:: Free
Event Category:: Members Events

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