Exhibit Notes
The Augsburg College Art Galleries are proud to be
inaugurating an emerging artist series this summer. In an effort to provide
professional gallery space to emerging artists, the Gage Family Art Gallery
and the Christensen Center Gallery will feature the work of four new talents
who have recently completed their BFA degrees or are currently MFA students:
Mark Carlson, Nate Christopherson, Natasha Dikareva, and Liz Miller.
Liz Miller is the first artist to be featured in the
Christensen Center Gallery. Her mixed media installation, "the failure
of an eloquent defense," opens on Friday, May 21. Currently a MFA
student at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Miller received her
BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1999 and has won several
painting awards and grants for her work.
Miller's vividly drawn, painted, and collaged artworks
are not contained by their Plexiglas, Mylar, or paper supports, but rather
expand to encompass the particularities of the viewing space. A bright
array of nontraditional art materials such as foam and felt give depth
to planar surfaces as she emphasizes the ambiguous play between structure
and chaos. For Miller, "Bold, synthetic color speaks to our appetite
for sensory overload, exploring the territory
between that which is seductive and that which is sickening. In contrast
to the hard, smooth surfaces of the computer monitor and television screen,
my work offers a tactile map of contemporary life through the materials
employed."
The public opening reception for Miller's exhibition
is Friday, May 21, from 5-7 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view until
Sunday, July 11. The Christensen Center Gallery is located on the main
level of Christensen Center on the Augsburg College campus. Regular hours
are Monday-Sunday, 8-5 p.m., with limited hours over holiday weekends.
There is no admission charge.
Reviews
Transfigured Dreck: Liz Miller
Michael Fallon
Liz Miller's show at Augsburg, "Failure of an Eloquent Defense," caught
Michael Fallon's eye, and he describes it here. The show is up through
July 11, and you can see more of Liz Miller's work at Soo VAC in"Untitled 3."
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