Campus Happenings
Six MIU art faculty to show their work in the Wege Gallery, reception on Friday, September 6, 6:60 – 8:30 pm
Presenting a range of expression and experimentation in painting, sculpture, ceramics, and installation, MIU’s Wege Gallery will display the work of the six full-time faculty in MIU’s Art, Consciousness, and Creative Practice department.
The opening reception is Friday, September 6, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, in the Wege Gallery, and the show runs from September 6 to October 18, 2024.
Faculty showing their work are Sean Downey, Genevra Daley, Gyan Shrosbree, Susan Metrican, Hilary Nelson, and Jim Shrosbree.
“The group exhibition demonstrates the artists’ commitment to their own practices alongside their teaching at MIU, as well as an on-going dialogue between the artists as colleagues,” Susan Metrican said.
“My recent work is sourced mainly from spaces built in virtual reality,” Sean says. “Using 3d scanning, photogrammetry, and open-source models from museum collections and the internet, I collage disparate sources from my daily life, history, and culture into staged, virtual scenarios.”
Sean is the Department Co-Chair, Associate Professor of Art, and Director of the Low-Residency MFA in Visual Art at MIU.
“I am interested in the everyday, mundane rituals and objects of domestic life and how they speak of the body behind them,” Genevra says.
She is Assistant Professor of Art, Director of the BA in Art Program, and Co-Director of the distance education Art Therapy Specialization at MIU.
“I find my power in clothing,” Gyan says. “My emotional landscape has always manifested in dress. I arrange things in the language of outfits: dressing the canvas/dressing the body.”
Gyan is Associate Professor of Art and Director of the BFA in Visual Art at MIU.
“I am drawn to images and objects that resonate across seemingly disparate cultures and time periods,” Susan says. “As a Thai American raised mostly in the midwest, I am interested in imagery that is “culturally familiar” through its connection to folktales and shared traditions, particularly imagery that evokes a reverence for rural life.”
She is Assistant Professor of Art and Director of the Wege Gallery at MIU.
“My work is built from stuff that probably used to be other stuff,” Hilary says. “Now it looks like it could be something you think you know, but you just aren’t sure. I think about the pieces like b-roll, or like a score to a movie — you listen and all the wonder and melodrama are halfway there.”
She is an Assistant Professor at MIU.
“I work between sculpture and painting, using various materials to navigate the play of an interior landscape with a language of form,” Jim says. “Conditions of working — space, tools, materials, and a visual vocabulary — fluctuate to become an extension of who I am at the moment.”
He is MIU Art Department Co-Chair and Professor of Art.