Galleries and Exhibits - Superimpositions: Recent work by Shannon Collis and Erik Waterkotte
Christensen Center Art Gallery
Main floor, Christensen Center
Augsburg College
November 7 – December 18, 2008
Friday, November 21, 5:30 p.m.
Marshall Room, main floor, Christensen Center
Artist roundtable with Shannon Collis, Erik Waterkotte, and Nick Conbere with moderator Joanne Price, Studio Manager, Highpoint Center for Printmaking.
Artist receptions to follow, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
By combining printmaking, photography, and digital technology, Shannon Collis and Erik Waterkotte interrogate how imagery is produced. They both create complex, layered spaces that have been reworked numerous times. The traces of these efforts are key parts of the artworks’ meaning. For Collis these traces are like memory fragments that appear as confetti-like explosions or atmospheric layering of abstract forms. In Waterkotte’s work the traces are the layers of the media screen through which the contemporary world operates—layers that his printed images purport to be and question at the same time.
Collis and Erik Waterkotte are both MFA graduates from the University of Alberta, Edmonton. Collis has previously taught at the Sam Fox School of Visual Art and Design at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and is currently a graduate student in the Design and Computation Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Waterkotte is assistant professor of printmaking at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Both artists have had their work exhibited both nationally and internationally.
All events are free and open to the public.
Christensen Center Art Gallery
22nd Ave. at 7 ½ Street
Minneapolis, MN 55454
www.augsburg.edu/galleries
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
