University Art Gallery
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Laken Bridges 鈥� an | other
January 16 - February 16, 2018 Second Floor Gallery Reception: Tuesday, January 30, 4:30-6:00 http://lakenbridges.weebly.com "Bridges' work includes prints, drawings, installation, and found objects, or "readymades". It is driven by an exploration of labor, economic class, and social stigmas in the working class or blue collar sector.聽She is particularly interested in where the personal and the political intersect and seeks to address these interests through works that are at times sobering, celebratory, or satirical. Everyday objects act as metaphors for people, creating symbolic portraits sometimes intimate, sometimes monumental. Bridges' goal in this work is to聽encourage a questioning of assumptions, to examine deep-seated biases, and to establish a critique of who and what society values."聽 
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Dustin London - Inside Out
January 16 鈥� February 22, 2018 First Floor Galleries Reception: Thursday, February 22, 4:30-6:00 "I think of pictorial space as something malleable, something that is shifting and subversive. In my paintings I am looking for a finely calibrated balance of idiosyncratic elements that creates a new, oftentimes paradoxical, spatial proposition. Space is not the stage for an event; it is the event itself. "Compositions begin as digital drawings where long periods of time in front of a monitor induces a disembodied state; a total immersion where a sense of the tangible world is lost in a digital space that is weightless, without surface, consisting only of light. This world is then translated into the tactile reality of painting. Multiple underlayers of contrasting color amplify and complicate chromatic relationships on the surface, and create an internal luminosity reminiscent of the screen, as painting chases the digital aura of the original image." 
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Eun-Kyung Suh - Yearning for Lost Heritage
February 26 鈥� April 5, 2018 Second Floor Gallery Reception: Tuesday, March 6, 4:30-6:00 "I have investigated the experiences of Korean adoptees in the United States. I focused on their transracial adoption experiences to examine the complex identities of race, ethnicity and culture through a diasporic lens. Particularly, being adopted from Asia unveils the transracial adoption paradox; the contradictory experiences of being raised by Caucasian adoptive parents and perceived by family and friends as a Caucasian and later being viewed by society as an Asian. Their involuntary displacement from their birth country creates a disconnection from their birth family and a yearning for lost heritage. As a result, they often confront identity conflicts in their adoptive society by facing stereotypes and feelings of alienation." 
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Annual Juried Student Exhibition
March 1 鈥� April 6, 2018 First Floor Galleries Reception: Thursday, March 1, 4:30-6:00 |
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Ian Shelly and Jacob Salazar 鈥� High Plains Jamboree
April 16 鈥� April 27, 2018 First Floor Galleries Reception: Tuesday, April 17, 4:30-6:00 "Singer/songwriter and sculptor, Terry Allen's seminal album from 1979, Lubbock on Everything, paints a vivid picture of a place and time that is at the heart of any Lubbockite's ancestry and culture. While in it's 38th year of print, this music's reverent and irreverent spirit is something that Salazar and Shelly have sought to emulate in their upcoming exhibition, High Plains Jamboree. "This work is both serious and playful, sarcastic and sincere, and a dutiful nod to a bygone era of West Texas strength, prestige, and southern hospitality. All of which fell into noticeable decay during the late 80's through today. This exhibition will serve to reflect the duality seen in West Texas landscapes and landmarks. It is an account by two artists raised in a Lubbock, TX miasma - two artists raised in a culture and landscape of both recessive austerity and expansive beauty." 
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High School Invitational
April 23 - May 11, 2018 Second Floor Gallery Reception: Tuesday, April 24, 5:00-7:00 Featuring artwork by students from: Abingdon-Avon, Monmouth-Roseville, Spoon River Valley, Illini West, Astoria, West Central 
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BFA Exhibition: Jake Miller
May 1 - May 11, 2018 First Floor Galleries Reception: Tuesday, May 1, 4:30-6:00 
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