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Please join us for an artist talk and exhibition reception for our current exhibition site_midnight_sun>>orangegreengrey, on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, from 5-8 p.m. at the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery. The artist talk will be held in the Art Auditorium of the Haggerty Art Village and begins at 5 p.m. the reception follows directly after in the Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery and Thompson Loggia Foyer at 6 p.m.
Photo Credit: Drone Beuys (Nick Bontrager/Adam Fung), "Sleipnir's footprint", digital photograph, 2017
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery proudly announces a new collaborative exhibition, site_midnight_sun>>orangegreengrey, featuring the dynamic “Drone Beuys” Nick Bontrager and Adam Fung. Both artists will share details of their latest Icelandic expedition during an artist talk on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, at 5 p.m. in the Haggar Auditorium in the Art Village on the University of Dallas campus, followed by a reception in the gallery.
The exhibition site_midnight_sun>>orangegreengrey takes its inspiration from the unique color palette created by the light phenomena and unique landscapes of Iceland. Their exhibition is available for viewing through Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018.
Bontrager and Fung arrived at the artist residency Herhús (known as the “Armyhouse”) in Siglufjördur, Iceland on the first day of the midnight sun. While there, the artists experienced 24 hours of daylight for nearly the entire duration of their three-week stay, allowing them seemingly endless opportunities for exploration and study of the landscape as well as time spent painting, drawing, shooting aerial videos, laser-scanning the landscape and taking photographs.
The exhibition affords gallery viewers the unique opportunity to witness how these artists engage with nearly every element of their environment (water, land, and sky) to offer new perspectives by utilizing technology and capturing aerial drone footage. A central gallery installation is staged in a darkened space with large moving images alongside sculptures and photographic work on gold foil paper. Also, following in the tradition of an artist expedition (with a nod to the German performing artist Joseph Beuys), materials and imagery are incorporated into multifaceted field sketches to suggest open-ended, ongoing possibilities.
The artistic “Drone Beuys” duo operates at the intersection of art, science, and technology and often engages with unfamiliar environments to produce unexpected results. Bontrager and Fung both are currently serving as assistant professors of art at Texas Christian University and have exhibited widely in the region.
The Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery is proud to host this exhibition in conjunction with a partnering show presented by Collin College, “site_fjord_fjall>>blueblackgreen,” which is available for viewing now through Dec. 8, 2017, at The Arts Gallery in Plano.
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Rebecca Bogie's, DBA ’19, career trajectory changed when she picked up a magazine as she waited for a job interview.
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